Musopticon?

You do realize that you're living in one of the most weapon dense countries in the world, right? Yeah, but there's difference between owning/having fired an assault weapon and a hunting rifle. And that density really doesn't show, I wouldn't actually be aware of it without reading about it from the Internet, since the odd hunting rifle or range pistol is never on show. Guns are not a culture here, even the laws are very strict despite guns being plentiful and gun-related crime on low.

Barbecue, you know, flambeing things and drinking too much.

So your girlfriend has a broken limb or something? The test is supposed to buff the stats by 2 and that would leave her with a normal of 7, pretty pitiful. That would explain my above average constitution score! Or perhaps it's just a test.

Shift-clicking! How could I forget? It's the way real men play Diablo! Well, real men who can't do 12 Fire Walls inside the Chamber of Bones and laugh at the sweet sound of necks popping. Anyways, wasn't Windforce the best bow in the game? I think they even brought it back in Duablo, though it wasn't as imbalanced. And I really need to play again, I can't even remember the name of the mage armor. I think the name of the Halls of the Blind(great song btw) artifact was Optical Amulet, but it's as if the names of every other pieces of equipment I felt absolutely essential for my characters back then have escaped me. I can't even remember the name of the goblin who gives you the banner quest("Giv' uz banna o we ATTACK!"). I'll borrow the game off my friend and start a new game soon as I can!

The Butcher isn't ment to be won at the character level you meet him. The stairs are accessible without killing him and the weapon he drops(Butcher's Cleaver, iirc) would unbalance any warrior character at that point. Instead, what you do is to go to level up and especially find better equipment a couple levels lower(and try not to mess with Leoric, he's way beyond anyone's skill at that point) and come back for another match! The butcher is doable at a low level, but requires either a bucketload of points invested in health or a ranged weapon and endless patience. Neither is recommended. And he's not really "a boss" as such, since the guy is optional and(iirc) does not even necessarily appear thanks to the random nature of the game's quests. By the by, I loved that feature, even though the rewards usually weren't worthwhile for my character. There was only one Sorcerer of mine that happened to come across both the Halls of the Blind and the Mage Armor quests(best quest rewards for a mage). And freaking poisoned well to boot!

lolwut, seriously. What the hell kinda forum am I in? I mean, just about the most weapon-involving thing I've ever done(besides shooting once in a range and a couple of times with a sports bow) was beating a guy with a chair. And that's only if office chairs count as lethal implements. I'd have to ask the guy, but he hasn't talked to me since the swelling stopped. Besides that...well, fistfightin? A lot of fistfighting? I know, I try to come up with weapon related stuff, but I guess it's living in a different culture. Well, I bet going to the army in two years time will change that.

The only way I could play Diablo 1 was with a Sorcerer. Warrior felt very simple and restricted and Rogue was tricky to play on a relatively fast computer. But the Sorcerer...freaking powerful spellcaster and could still defend himself in melee. Well, up until Caves, that is. Really, the single best thing about Diablo was that skills weren't restricted, every character could just about anything and that made specialization in spells feel so rewarding, since the other two classes' specialties were the uneventful melee and trap sense, making the Sorcerer the most versatile combatant in the game. Acquiring new spells and upgrading previous ones was a real pleasure. Thinking about that, one of the greatest joys in gaming for me was finding unlooted libraries. Diablo is the only game where the rewards had so much permanence. The spellbooks and stat books are one of my top ten hopes for Triablo, there's nothing like loot that upgrades your character and there's nothing cooler than lost demonic/Horadric libraries. Duablo was a letdown in that regard, sure it was great that bookshelves gave out free town portal tomes, but that's about it.

Kingston Wall - Get rid of your fears

True Neutral Human Ranger/Cleric (1st/1st Level) Ability Scores: Strength- 13 Dexterity- 14 Constitution- 14 Intelligence- 12 Wisdom- 14 Charisma- 13 That's actually a fairly good starting character and about what I expected. Fortunately the only score that would keep me down with those stats - strength - is trainable. Also, that was a great questionary, very in depth and there were no "click this and you'll be a mage/tremere/black dragon" questions. Edit: Gf's character: Chaotic Good Human Bard / Wizard Ability Scores: Strength- 13 Dexterity- 9 Constitution- 11 Intelligence- 16 Wisdom- 15 Charisma- 13

I bought a Creative Zen 4gigs and am frenzying to add music! Torchbearer - Blunted weapon

In any case(they still suck, lol), it'd be quite jawsome to face a corrupted Spearazon in combat, not to mention a corrupted Necro, who are thought to be almost incorruptible. Excluding Nihlathlak, hehheh.

Amazon and Necromancer, because they suck! asadfllaskjlkasf

Thanks to this Red Alert 3 just decided to hop along to my "Must have right ****ing now" list!

Frank Klepacki - Act on Invasion Because of this, fecking awesome.

Oh, right. Well, ammo might as well have been infinite, since only when opting for the high-end weapons were you forced to be stingy with it, as the consumption rose. I don't really mind it either way, if the limitlessness feels cheesy, I just won't use it. I'm a stealth player anyhow. And I still think there'll be consequences for just blasting your way through the levels. Maybe they respawn enemies and limit health items, maybe there's a roleplaying consequence or perhaps alarming everyone is just a Very Bad Idea, but I doubt Obsidian will just give you the "You win!" button by making spewing out more bullets the answer to all dangers. And as for Xard, how would you go about the hacking? Just a skill check or something? Even SS2 had a minigame and it's usually held as a paragon for the fps/rpg genre.

^That usually works fine. If it doesn't, yell more!

Well, Invisible War got something right - it really made people wary of infinite ammo. I'm gonna wait for a gameplay video or a demo to set my mind at rest about this.

It's incredibly fun with a bunch of friends, but can be completely awful if you are playing with complete strangers. The game gets tedious and repetitive sooner or later if you just play the single player campaign alone. Don't misunderstand, it'll get repetitive online as well, but there's always the teamplay element in play there and the loot is a lot more unique once you leave the normal difficulty.

Did you buy the expansion as well? It has 800x600 mode at least. My current monitor doesn't support any of the resolutions Duablo uses, which means that the screen is either bent from the corners or stretches and heightens randomly ever so often.

So, anyone else thinking that they'll tell the Amazon to buy the farm and opt for a general "Rogue" or perhaps "Assassin" class? Since Amazon society does not train men as soldiers, making an Amazon class is out of the question. I can imagine a class that bears passing resemblance to the LoD Assassin with some abilities, mainly traps and stealth, but has bows as the main weapons and is generally outlined after the D1 rogue. So, ranged support and stealth abilities in co-op. Lockpicks doors and chests, kills an enemy champion from far away and whisks away, that sort stuff.

Dargaard - Fires Dominion

So far, it's everything I've hoped and then some. I particularly like the new class and how they've dared to change some of the bread and butter features of the series, like the making the inventory slot-based and the combat more dynamic. My friend(lev 69 IceSorc, lev 87 FrenBarb) complained about losing the inventory Tetris, but I don't really mind. It's great that they aren't cloning their own games. The art, of course, is beyond splendid. There's consistency with the earlier look of the series and they haven't tried to opt any of the saturated and comic Warcraft look. Lore remains rather good and there is a general spirit of improvement wafting over the game. Triablo easily became the top game in my buy list. They really can't fubar it at this point and the only thing that might tarnish it from now on is the early net coding of Battle.net 2. I remember when Duablo came out, the servers were atrocious.

Went on a date yesterday, sun was glorious and yet the weather stayed relatively mild. I showed her my home town, went to a restaurant, etc. I think it was all rather splendid.

Triablo!

Cro-Magnons lived about 45-10 thousand years ago, by the 7th millenium BC, we already had pastoral and nomadic civilizations.