Diablo 2 is an Evil Game

staghein: when I was a kid, teachers thought I had mental issues, because I kept drawing pentagrams, demons and gory things. But I was just a massive fan of Diablo 2 lmao
Genghis_of_Swans: “Okay Angel it’s just a thumbnail no need to go hard on it, got it?”

“Got it!”
myleft9397: The most hellish and evil thing is what Blizzard became. Great video.
Ryecrash617: Diablo 2’s brilliance is that it disguises a shopping simulator as a dark, gothic ARPG. It’s consumerism by way of Hellfire.
FlyingTurtleLP: Okay... usually I do not comment the thumbnails... but damn... spot on.
Katzegrin: Diablo 2 robbed me of my teenage years. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't change a thing.
Roland3ld: Those lightning scarabs are evil.
Attack them? Die from lightning orbs.
Don't attack them? Die from bug mauling.
littlezero6399: Time is our most valuable resource. And Diablo 2 has taken an evil amount of mine. :)
JavierSalcedoC: Diablo 2 is basically in every top10 games of all time list
rhystracey8938: As a 32 year old man, I return to D2 LOD every year for a new play through. Absolutely love this game.
Fuf021: my father called me once to have a "talk" when i was a kid. we are catholic. he was concerned cause he saw my monitor which says Diablo 2 and thought i was playing something demonic. i explained to him that diablo is the enemy and we are helping angels to kill him.
Omegalux: Angelika, you ACED the thumbnail for this. It fits perfectly, and as always excellent content. Dark, moody, and that certain....ambiance.
DaveD94: *sigh*.... (install Diablo 2 again)
bs123-u3h: A couple years back exilecon (for Path of Exile) happened and one of the guests was David Brevik. You guys know who David Brevik is. So he was telling some stories about D1 and D2 and one of them was about how videogames have changed during the years. So r-e-c-e-n-t-l-y he started Diablo 1, he went into the cathedral and the very first room contained the Butcher demon. The Butcher of course kicked his ass with the iconic "FRESH MEAT" and he thought to himself "oh my god, that was someone's first impression of the game!?". This was no longer acceptable - being confronted with an unsurmountable foe just because of chance. I am a bit ashamed to admit that this moment brought tears to my eyes and made me cry a little (you are not supposed to cry over videogames right, RIGHT? ), because that was my E-X-A-C-T experience the first time I put on the demo for Diablo 1 when I was 6 or 7 years old. That moment right there made me fall in love with the game. The game was so good that even though I died in a completely unfair manner I WANTED to try again. The game was so good I WANTED to play it - imagine that. Imagine playing a game because it was good, not because it has some sort of fake reward behind your game time. It was such a dear memory for me - I wanted to yell at the screen that what he did was amazing and he shouldn't give it up. The dark atmosphere. The feeling of REAL danger. The sounds. The music - that twelve string guitar is forever embedded in my mind. They don't make them like that anymore and that IS a sad fact.

Also Angelika - with that outfit you should be holding the health orb and you know that!
knottheory79220: Seriously Diablo II RUINED a lot of future games for me. Diablo I was already great. I thought future games would be even more amazing. I thought Blizzard was the greatest game company ever. It was a good time to a PC gamer.
anon1999-h5j: Diablo 2 is a great example of what you described - developing a setting to its full potential - the style, gritty graphics, music, toned-down fantasy. Diablo 1 and 2 feel realistic - items look like something out of an encyclopedia, characters are human, monsters look beliavable, story is not over the top fantasy. The soundtrack is one of the best ever made, it takes elements from so many cultures and sounds like something you could hear in a local tavern if the Diablo universe was real. Most other games sound like epic hollywood cinema pieces, it just doesn't feel authentic. And the mechanics are varied enough, not a baby game like D3 where numbers go up and not a PhD coursework like Path of Exile.
thenjry: Matt Uelmen's music will endure as quintessential menacing evil atmosphere.
michaelmechex: I love Diablo 1&2. I have yet to experience a piece of media that depicts the dread of immensely powerful evil and utter hopelessness of fighting against literal hell so intensely. I can't believe they nailed it down so well almost 30 years ago.
lokinya: I remember playing the demo, way back when. There was just something about the whole atmosphere that sucked me right in and had to buy it and played it for years, and still do with resurrected. I was sooo disappointed with D3. The colors were just wrong, loot was bad, no more trading. The devs (not Blizzard North) just... didn't get it.
lorvaton: Great video!
liamdawson6129: "Why did I follow him...? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams? All I know is that, when he beckoned... I had to follow him. From that moment, we traveled together, East. Always... into the East."
Digital-Scriptorium: My struggles having a computer that could barely run Diablo 2 when it first released made me into the IT person I am today :)
bucketoffroad9073: Awesome video.
Played this game when I was 11. Almost everything else since then has been missing something. Nothing has scratched the itch stirred by this game.
skaruts: It's most likely that Elisabeth Bathory was entirely a victim of political conspiracy. Over time people found no hard evidence of her crimes. She was very well connected, even related to a king, iirc, so she was probably influential and inconvenient to some. Back then, if enough people claimed to have witnessed you murdering people, you would be sentenced for it. She lived in house-arrest until she died.

It's one of the most fascinating historical figures, though. The myths have inspired a ton of cool stuff.
casaroli: Props for using the original graphics for the video.
Francois424: Act3 always had a "Cambodia" or Thailand setting for me. It portrayed a fictional similar country very very well !
Also no game has beaten D2 to this day. D2R removed TCP/IP without giving an alternative, which makes it ALMOST as good.
One day maybe a proper successor will pop.