[Vinesauce] Joel - Diablo 2 ( Part 1 )

[@AlexW58]

"I do think Diablo 2 is the better game than Diablo 2" - Joel

[@jed4110]

Joel......

[@Zen17h]

He's got a point though

[@childOFtengu]

Everyone knows that Diablo 2 was complete garbage, compared to Diablo 2, the perfect sequel.

[@sorlag110]

I do think Diablo 2 is the better game than Diablo 2. There's a little bit of that atmosphere in Diablo 2 that is still the best, even though Diablo 2 has great atmosphere on it's own, the music, the vibe, the mood and all that stuff. Did I say Diablo 2 is better than Diablo 2? Well, I mean Diablo 1. Diablo 2 is obviously better than Diablo 2, but, you know what I mean.

[@gordemn]

I had to go back and listen 'cause I thought I was having a stroke. Still don't know which game he thinks is better.

[@MinchPlayer]

00:00 - Intro. 03:47 - Opening the game. 04:46 - Character Creation. 09:30 - Game Start. 14:22 - Joel explains Diablo. 18:29 - Let's go out to raise some bones: leaving the camp. 23:50 - Entering the Den of Evil. 29:54 - Den of Evil Cleared. 30:42 - Back to the encampment. 34:12 - Shopping. 36:40 - Let's go boys, Leaving the encampment. 43:50 - Beware! The evil is strong ahead - Entering the Cold Plains. 48:38 - Town Portal. 52:09 - Back to the Cold Plains. 53:15 - Joel talks about cheating in Diablo 2. 59:10 - Bishibosh encounter. 1:02:23 - Fowl maggot the sharp encounter. 1:03:45 - Town Portal. 1:09:39 - Back to the Stony Fields. 1:11:06 - Rakanishu Encounter. 1:12:53 - Town Portal. 1:15:09 - Back to the Stony Fields. 1:16:11 - Joel drinks a rare Fanta. 1:20:33 - Back to gameplay. 1:28:19 - Joel talks about Konami, and John Konami appears. 1:30:44 - Joel makes a horrendous joke. 1:33:42 - Entering the underground passage level 1. 1:45:50 - Entering the underground passage level 2. 1:46:55 - Mind Eater the Impaler encounter and Town Portal. 1:48:59 - Vinesauce cook off Idea. 1:51:12 - Back to the underground passage level 2. 1:52:23 - Entering the Dark Wood. 1:59:24 - Treehead woodfist encounter. 2:01:27 - Obtaining Scroll of Inifuss and Town Portal. 2:05:43 - Waypoint to Stonefield. 2:07:11 - Entering Tristram. 2:10:27 - Obtaining Wirt's Leg and explanation. 2:13:14 - Freeing Deckart Cain. 2:14:28 - Town Portal. 2:18:44 - We are going to Vegas! Gambling starts Here. 2:25:57 - Back to the Dark Wood. 2:30:32 - Entering the black Marsh. 2:37:48 - Joel Explains One Piece. 2:41:00 - Where is borneu? 2:58:38 - Town Portal. 3:08:41 - Back to the Cold Planes. 3:10:17 - Entering the Burial Grounds + Blood Raven encounter right after. 3:12:33 - Town Portal. 3:16:03 - Back to the Black Marsh and Joel get's reminded about Vargfriend's birthday. 3:18:54 - Entering the Monastery Gate. 3:28:12 - Raise Skeletal Mage Skill Unlocked. 3:32:18 - Moonhawk Encounter. 3:34:15 - The Smith Encounter. 3:35:51 - Town Portal and poor business decisions. 3:44:47 - Entering the Jail Level 1. 3:47:41 - Sweden is anti social - Swedish Bus Stops. FINAL EDIT: I didn't know that editing this comment would unpin this. If I update this again it will be commented within this comment. That was a fun procastination side project during lunch breaks. Thanks a lot for the upvotes.

[@ColorfulHelices]

Bless up for this handy guide

[@orangecreme222]

What about the one piece explained

[@MinchPlayer]

@@orangecreme222 it's just something that caught my attention and it is kind of a landmark for this part since the exploring segment is kind of long, I update this while I watch the video

[@Meowcat-15]

Thank you

[@Thinzy]

Kudos timestamp Tony

[@divinecircularflow]

this is my comfort stream. I come back here every now and then when I need some background noise while reading or trying to sleep. ty jobel

[@tertiaritus]

I slept to Jobel streams for years now (usually rewatching the ones I watched already) and today I had this vid playing & passed out at work

[@bottlebeard]

How do people read with background noise of a guy talking?

[@coaiemandushman1079]

I WASN'T AWARE THAT THE NUMPAD WAS VOICELINES. thanks a lot for this

[@tristantinethegreat]

I'm still fairly new to Joel's channel, but boy is this a comfy stream. Makes me want to play Diablo II and actually beat it this time. My dad never was into video games, but he loved playing Diablo and Diablo II with his work buddies. Now that he's recently passed, I feel I owe it to finally finish it in his honor. Of course, I'll need to be a druid - just like he was.

[@Iyasenu]

3:16:03 It wasn't until this part where chat mentioned Fren's birthday being soon and on August 10th that I looked at the description and saw this stream's original date was months ago. Threw me off for a moment there.

[@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.]

BY THE LIGHT, I KNOW THIS VILE DEMON (2)

[@brendantheawesome1]

"what was the last thing Blood Raven said before falling to Diablo?" "SPESS MEHREENS"

[@feorge2073]

TODAE DA ENEMEH IS AT AOUAH DOOAH

[@HellishSpoon]

BLOB FOR BLOBGAR SKELL FOR SKELL TRON

[@feb4252]

BRUTHA AY AM HEET

[@OverwatchSniper]

IT IS THE BAAAAAAANEBLAAAAAAAADE

[@JeanMarceaux]

GRANATA

[@wolcamophone4783]

This overworld music is amazing. I love the spooky baselines with the distant steel guitar like Marooned or Hylics.

[@kissshotheartunderblade655]

27:10 Bro... i'm so glad Joel admitted having trouble with Duriel and basically needing an IV drip and teleport spam in Act 2, I thought it was just me being a scrub and I always felt really bad about not being able to kill that boss ten years ago (I kept dying and it was embarrassing so I gave up-- I only beat Duriel like two years ago as an hybrid summon/elemental druid). There's a lot of hardcore players who know all the strats but man I can't get into the technical stuff, I tried, it just sucked the fun out of the game for me, listen, i just wanted to collect gold and gems with the horadric cube and summon a bunch of wolves. im a simple person, casual is fine for me. thank you for saying that on stream man

[@kissshotheartunderblade655]

also i did eventually learn duriel's mechanics and why i kept getting dunked on but like i really appreciate a streamer saying that about diablo ii

[@cherboka4856]

"I thought it was just me being a scrub and I always felt really bad about not being able to kill that boss" Same here That boss stopped my first playthrough completely, I only returned to the game again years later Diablo 2 has some really weird enemy encounters, lol

[@DrErikNefarious]

Duriel is definitely a huge step up from Andariel in difficulty. The bastard hits like a freight train and has his cold aura. Additionally, the boss room is very small compared to all the others, so no matter what class fights him, a bad time is sure to ensue.

[@MunkeyBeans1082]

Chugging Cold resist potions before fighting him makes him very beatable cause that's all he really has that's a threat.

[@JeanMarceaux]

Everyone I knew, myself included, recognizes Durkel as a meat wall more or less. Like, the point where you decide if you're motivated enough to finish the game or not.

[@mistereclypto]

Coming in a bit late to this vid, but... when Joel was talking about having embarrassing sounds coming from your speakers... I remember the Mistresses in Dungeon Keeper, and my mom and grandmother were sitting down the hall and they heard the wailing and screaming from the Mistresses being tortured... fun day that was...

[@vahlok1426]

Of course Joel picked the Necromancer. And I approve. My favorite class ever is the Diablo Necromancer, because they defy all the tropes. They're not evil, but instead value the balance between life and death, they openly wish to help others and seek evil to destroy, and they are considered more legitimately good than even Paladins since they're more of zealous warriors who force others to worship their gods. Love Diablo Necros.

[@MorePecans]

5.5 hour cozy time here we goooooooo

[@GamayObera]

*¡SATANAS!* II - Doña Clotilde, the Witch of 71

[@srcheddar]

-Ñoño, have you seen *Satanas* around here? -No, and I hope I never see him.

[@patata6868]

Is that a motherfucking El Chavo del Ocho reference?

[@liltich6312]

Respect the elder ones! Its Clotilde... of the 71

[@jotheusu]

Revenge is never fulfilling

[@ale_schneider]

@@jotheusu It kills the soul and poisons it.

[@dariusfadavi7188]

Nailed it Joel, Diablo II stopped being fun for me when people went too hardcore. I loved this game and played it over and over. But I never got too deep into all the technical stuff. Quality stream, and it doesn't hurt that the Necro was my fav character.

[@freecomkcf]

"Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game." - Soren Johnson, one of Civilization IV's game designers

[@JeanMarceaux]

@@freecomkcf high level Monster Hunter gameplay in a nutshell, from what I've heard.

[@TubbyJ420]

Diablo 2 was how i learned about beta tests and server queues. My friends older brother was in queue, and my mind was blown how he was not only part of a small number of people invited to test an unfinished game, but he had to wait in line for hours to play it.

[@Da_ComputerMonster]

"Everyone has played this game" "📢EVERYONE has 📢PLAYED this game" … *Slowly raising hand*

[@IamRyanLPs]

Ive never played any Diablo

[@freecomkcf]

does modding in troll items on open bnet count as "playing" diablo 2? because that's what i did back when i was a little shit

[@raphael8951]

@@IamRyanLPs I mean they are really fun and addicting games if youre into these kind of games, they're evem bether with friends

[@magusperde365]

Get out.

[@majinsama7076]

Still completing diablo 1 and i love it

[@feorge2073]

I still love playing Diablo 2 from time to time. The nostalgia is too strong and the gameplay never became old to me. Joel's chaotic but fun streams seems perfect for this.

[@mr.thompson856]

The way he speaks makes me feel like this is gonna be another ＳＯＵＬ ＣＡＬＩＢＵＲ ＩＩＩ joke.

[@JustinKoenigSilica]

Thanks for uploading this in full, Joel. Am sick right now and appreciate it.

[@PrismTheKid]

Since it was briefly brought up about halfway through the stream, remember not to form parasocial relationships with popular streamers! They are usually charismatic and good at keeping a flow of conversation and happy to entertain you while you're working out or doing the dishes, but they have their own lives and their own friends. In the same sense, you are not friends with movie actors just because you've seen their work. Befriend other 'regular' people in your own life, it's much healthier in the long run.

[@dartoney]

I agree with you but why give life advice in a funny internet skeletor man stream vod?

[@kondaresto]

@@dartoney you never know whos gonna need it

[@CraneoHR]

joel streams diablo 2, i have ascended, my favorite game ever

[@PlastiGomi]

also its better then vinnys because hes playing in sp praise cpt.bones

[@raphael8951]

My toughts exactly, I've dreamed of this dat

[@memberofchat2825]

True story: before i watched joel stream the first diablo i hadn't even seen the game because my mom was one of those religious people that said diablo was evil Edit: last week i played diablo 1 for the first time and i instantly feel in love with the game and after beating i dived right in to diablo 2

[@SamHintz]

I love this game. To me, all the characters look like little blood-filled action figures. Blizzard's art direction is some of the best in the business undeniably, but it's kind of sad we won't ever see a game that looks like this again. Glad I was around when it came out.

[@Sonlirain]

In older versions of Diablo 2 you could easily have 40 skeletons alone since the skill gave you 1 more skeleton per level (On more recent patches it's 1 skeleton per level for the first 3 levels and 1 skeleton per 3 levels afterwards.). But those skeletons were disgustingly weak so if you tried fighting any boss... or even elite mob with an AoE they'd just melt instantly leaving you alone against whatever wiped out your skeletons. And since you are probably minmaxed into summoning you better run and rebuild that army. Thankfully that was patched out and skeletons had their quality-quantity slider moved towards quality.

[@yahyamusseb]

It was crazy dude

[@OverlordParadox]

Ah, that reminds me of the good ol' days of Lagomancer- maxing skeletons (and steel golem), hiring act 2 mercenary and equiping items with auras/battlecries Some old computers couldn't handle 40+ skeletons, let alone constantly swapping aura effects and curses being spammed 24/7 It was so bad people actually were kicking Necromancers as soon as they joined the game

[@Sonlirain]

@@OverlordParadox Ye olde dial-up modems and rattle me bones just didn't mix sadly.

[@JeanMarceaux]

I have a feeling that 1.09 D2 had the quality-quantity slider sitting right in the middle: not nearly enough in numbers to overwhelm enemies, not strong enough to withstand the punishment. At least, my D2 necro experience was rather miserable on bosses.

[@spitefulraven]

21:19 Almost made me choke on my coffee, derpy ass skeleton flipping the bird.

[@ToastyRoyale]

Glad Joel mentioned how charming the graphics are. I always felt the sprite art had a certain level of eerieness that I've never really felt with 3D graphics outside of the PS1/N64 era.

[@leonardogsperin]

One of mine favorite games, I have the original cds from 2001 with keys on blizz

[@sirvictorfeathersworth5081]

5:03:26 everyone was so hyped up for this moment, can't believe the man actually showed up

[@videogamenoob100]

My favorite game from my childhood!! Thanks for playing it

[@identityzeroce]

You keep apologizing for telling people 'how to breathe'. As someone who frequently has to refresh themselves on information - never feel bad about tutorial-moding a general audience. I appreciate it so much as it makes it easier for me to get into things I'm unfamiliar with; it gives me more connection with what I'm watching on the screen. TL;DR Thanks for explaining shit.

[@SeruraRenge11]

Doubt Joel is going to read this but the Clay Golem is the only one worth using. They all do garbage damage (unless you're dumb enough to sacrifice a good item to make an iron golem) but the Clay Golem has the most life and it has a slowing effect on its hits with no real downside unlike the other golems' secondary effects.

[@discipleofdagon8195]

Joel said before he doesn't really care about the metagame so I doubt if he does read this that he'll actually care. Just let the man have his fun :)

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@discipleofdagon8195 Well he did ask if the golems are worth using.

[@TheRaiko777]

I mean. Iron Golem also has Thorns and gets a buff from any item used to make it, so it can get some good effects from cheap items right?

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@TheRaiko777 Yes but unless you're using a drop mod which means you're getting rare and set items every 5 minutes, it's generally not worth it.

[@TheRaiko777]

@@SeruraRenge11 what effects does the iron golem actually benefit from? I think I recall them nerfing it getting the Indestructible buff, but is it only magical effects or will it get like a flat defense buff from using plate mail to summon it?

[@VyxentheFox]

I remember getting Diablo 3 and playing it so much with my dad on our Xbox One that we got the Necromancer DLC, and I saw how good it was compared to all the other classes. Then, when I got so good at the game, I made a character out of all the classes, eventually got all the green challenges perfect, got the emerald dragon wings, and was so powerful that on certain higher difficulties I killed everything from just walking into a room. Diablo as a whole makes you feel like you're making progress no matter how many times you go through the game.

[@UFOToaster]

This stream brings me back to the old days of when i visited my friend and watched him play Diablo 2 for literal hours...good memories :'D Too bad i could never get into D2,but after watching this,i might give it a try,looks pretty fun!

[@DarkArtistKaiser]

"They lost the source code and what they did have was broken" Which is a lie, because the original game is still on GOG which implies they could easily get it from that, but choose not to in hopes to monetize it.

[@sbh_tx]

I have never played Diablo II but Joels casual approach to it has made me want to play it more than anything. i wouldnt even think of playing it if it wasn't for this stream EDIT: i literally just started downloading it

[@raphael8951]

I played it in 2012 with my friends, its really fun and we ended up staying late for many many nights

[@TheNoNoNo1]

Diablo 2. Oh GOD this game. I LOVE THIS GAME. The nostalgia flowing through my body. Looking forward to more of this absolutely.

[@topshelfscrublords8595]

Diablo 2 is reason I spend as little time around computers as possible. If I have access to the Internet I will try to download Diablo 2. It’s a real problem

[@Litepaw]

2:06:44 holy fucking shit! I do remember that lmao. Got it from a cereal box, might still have the cd somewhere actually

[@BiggaMyMan]

Holy shit he finally did it After years of waiting

[@Hecktor_]

It kills me how long he takes to spawn all his skeletons

[@evanlikesbagelz]

OH MY GOD YESSSI I'VE BEEN CLAMMERING FOR THIS

[@danmanx2]

Joel, great to see you doing Diablo 2. It's so funny how many games you've played in your childhood and it is like a mirror of mine. Keep up the good work!

[@rodolfocampanatres3862]

Joel made me get my shit together and revisit my 10 year old save file. And try for actually beating the game this time

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Joel was talking about a cow level... but... There is no cow level *_Cheat Enabled._*

[@dasmause5682]

"I like it when an enemy looks at me funny, a million lightning bolts blast out of my ass" boy he'd like PoE

[@Lazarus_Sol]

Years of playing d2 myself and also watching MrLama speedruns makes this hurt. But a good funny diarrhea brain hurt

[@turn.103]

A good ol' Mr FecalFunny brain hurt, the good one

[@wilcoxandrew88]

4:44:29 - Rapskelethor Joel

[@CrimsonSkyLine]

Is it just me or is Joel more calm and collective than usual? I kinda love it actually,gives the whole stream a sense of relaxation

[@kinnikuboneman]

How is he more calm? Joel's always been chill

[@Lethargy514]

@@kinnikuboneman Agga

[@sunbeames]

Never played or watched a playthrough before. I'm hyped to see how it goes down.

[@Spungery]

This stream is so cozy

[@MDK-fo7jw]

2:34:50 - Apparently it started out as a porn mag or something.

[@unconscious7219]

Thai's deep fried banana (Kluai Todd) is in every Thais childhood memory. Ripe bananas are even better when you deep fry them. Also, Tom Yum Koong(spicy shrimps soup with coconut milk) may be listed as Thai national food, but we rarely eat it. It's actually Pad Kaprao (spicy fried rice with basil leaves) that we eat on daily basis (almost every teens love them to the point that their mothers yell at them to stop asking for it.) . Give Pad Kaprao a try if you want to get authentic Thai cuisine.

[@lordtak00]

5:28:00 Weapon Knowledge IRL about Kris

[@kip258]

Joel is he only guy I know who can have fun playing Diablo 2... *FOR FIVE HOURS*

[@SeruraRenge11]

That was everyone when D2 was the big Blizz game.

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

That's pretty believable

[@ElShogoso]

I used to play this thing 8 hours a day, at least. It's one of the most soul consuming games of my life ... It does seem painful when he's spending 5 hours in act 1 normal, tbh the pacing of the game is normally way better than this. Doesn't help that he picked the slowest starting class/build in the game too

[@Siggorillo]

This is the most binge friendly game ever made, what are you talking about?

[@kip258]

R.S It's usually full of rage and frustration at the harder levels, but Joel seems to just be having a good time. :P

[@MoonwalkMonster]

My cousin used to play this all the time, but he would only use cheats to make the most overpowered character and just blast through the game several times a day

[@hpalpha7323]

Classic, the music in this game is so fucking good

[@SheepUndefined]

Joel's impersonation of Solid Snake sounds more like Colonel Cambell's glitch voice.

[@Slimurgical]

Joel if you want to, try checking out Path of Diablo, it's Diablo 2 but all the skills are rebalanced to be more viable. Basically every single build is viable with it, and some characters have some extra skills, some have skills replaced. Example: Necro has a teleport that works on cooldown and a mana cost, isn't spammable unless you max it out, Sorceress' first Cold Shield spell is replaced with a level 1 cold version of Enchant/Enflame, that imbues normal attacks with cold damage, and reduce enemy defense called Fridgerate. Also it has more endgame content, basically gigantic levels with super powerful items, basically designed as an alternative to Uber Tristram, among a bunch of other additions. It's basically Diablo 2.1

[@imustbeames3727]

Does it still work though?

[@sparrowthesissy2186]

This really makes me want to find a way to play this game again. I would love if they upscaled the old art and ported this to modern systems.

[@legacy2355]

It's still compatible with Windows 10, and you can get it from the Blizzard website for like 20 bucks

[@sneezebiscuits7239]

@@legacy2355 And it's on steam

[@LordAndHighMasterOfExcellency.]

diablo still addict material after all this time. amazed he's never messed with path of exile, though he'd probably forget to eat if he got into that.

[@Chocolate83Bunny]

based and dwarfpilled as well

[@MrLizardDB]

Reminds me that I need to do yearly hardcore werebear fireclaw druid run.

[@jonathanwarrdddedcxddeecec4787]

Someone should get a replica made of the hotbed helmet for joel

[@Stoic_Lizard]

Why'd you have to start talking thai food. I moved from a big city with lots of good Thai food to a smaller town in another state and now I have no thai food places around here. It's the one thing I miss the most from living in a big city and I've been craving Thai food for over a year now.

[@cowboi61]

2:06:45 i actually felt chills go down my spine i played that game for hours when i was 6

[@JeanMarceaux]

Joel got ratmaned Oh no it's murder

[@scrapinator8910]

BY THE LIGHT, I KNOW OF THIS VILE DEMON!

[@Hyake]

I’m so hyped excited, my childhood was so hardcore lol

[@motorbichael]

I never played diablo 2, but I did watch my dad play it back in the day when computer rooms were still a thing. Man, I'm old.

[@motorbichael]

@Qimodis back in the 90s/early 2000s desktop computers and all their addons were so ridiculously big and clunky they'd just have their own room in the house to be in bc they wouldn't fit anywhere else lmao, or well at least my dad did! I have seen other people talk about 'computer rooms' as a concept though.

[@sneezebiscuits7239]

@@motorbichael And now...my rig fits into a tiny tower that's not even 20 cm high. Technology man

[@RobotMasterSplash]

People would still have computer rooms except nobody can afford it now.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

90's era blizzard gameplay and its art/sound/music was peak, especially SC1 and WC1, I feel like Warcraft kept getting more and more kid friendly with every installment, and don't even get me started on the tragedy that's SC and its awful sequel.

[@intergalacticspacewizard1966]

You'd think summoner necro build would be the best solo class but he's pretty hard to finish the game with solo in my opinion, skeletons die too easily, especially against bosses because most of them have hard hitting aoe abilities that will decimate your skelly buddies and your resources to create more skellies is relying on there being corpses around, which is a limited resource in itself. Too often you end up relying on your golem since he's a free summon without much restrictions but without skeletons to support you, your damage is pretty low and bosses can be a massive slog

[@TheRaiko777]

Yeah, skeles way too squishy without investing a crap ton into which still falters against bosses and leave you without much to fight with. Golem with bone magic and Amp Damage is the easiest way I know to play him, even though early game mana consumption is still a chore.

[@kinnikuboneman]

Jerma did it

[@AlluMan96]

Necromancer is the single best class in the game in my opinion. I love em', it's so silly having a million tweaked-out skeletons spazzing all over the stage. They're also the best fit for singleplayer, I feel. Like Joel mentioned with the Duriel fight, the game gets way too insane in terms of just hammering you down in nanoseconds, having at least a slight ability to throw around skellies to draw aggro is immensely helpful. Spells like confusion and blind are also invaluable tools for some of the mobs in the second half of the game as well. Just overall, if you're flying solo, Necromancer just does so much to help alleviate that. So much so that I haven't actually tried the other classes to any serious degree. I suppose it's high time I tried that at some point. Even though I have never seen Diablo 2 to completion, I do understand and whole-heartedly agree with Joel on some of the latter half of the game getting stupid in a slightly unfun way. I may not have gotten there with Diablo 2 yet, but I feel that with my experiences of beating Diablo 1 earlier this year. By the time I finally reached Hell in D1, it took me almost half the time I had spent on the game before that just trying to get through what really was a short romp, because holy shit does the game lose it's damn mind at that stage. The entire time I spent in Hell was just this endless cycle of abusing A.I, warping back to town after every mob and save scumming every time I sneezed. Pussyfooting my way through hell was among the more arguous tasks I've done in a video game since the days of filling out achievements for Binding of Isaac, but it was nice to finally cap off that nearly decade-long project.

[@EnderCrypt]

3:48:10 you know.. it may be a meme, but i live in sweden and i was thinking of this meme while at a bus stop it doesent always happen, but you'd be suprised how accurate it is though distances between people is usually not as extreme ofcourse, but maybe half? something like that isnt rare

[@hikoregaming5606]

I don't really have time to watch the streams, so I watch joel streams on youtube

[@punishedbung4902]

I've never played D2, and im scared that if i buy it, blizzard will steal it from me before i can finish it.

[@DiabolicCrusher]

That's why you pirate and play on unofficial servers if you want multiplayer, that's still an option.

[@punishedbung4902]

@@DiabolicCrusher if activison blizzard goes out of buisness tommorow, they'll know who to blame. I don't have the guts to STEAL from Kotik's retirement fund like that.

[@DiabolicCrusher]

@@punishedbung4902 Would be a good riddance at this point, honestly.

[@feorge2073]

So far, the last patch didn't do much to give Blizzard too much control, but it did break a couple of good mods. If you can get a pirated version of Diablo 2 1.4d version, you should be all set.

[@accountwontlastlong1]

@@punishedbung4902 What's a Kotik?

[@mrsdragonite]

I was LITERALLY just talking about wanting to play this again. I played an Assassin myself.

[@tertiaritus]

Fond memories of finding Diablo 2 on my uncle's computer, gambling away all of his maxed-out cash in the first area and constantly taking his character out for a stroll, dying and reloading. It's been nearly two decades and our relationship is still extremely strained.

[@trevorfranklin280]

Don't tell Joel, but The Rock was actually in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

[@Nekochan456]

ah yes... Vinny took memology 101.

[@CombineHgrunt]

when the wanderer turns himself into a pickle...

[@hypethekomodo6495]

Man, the countless hours during my high school days playing on bnet with my brother, grinding SoJs to buy a cool Hellslayer for my Barbarian, doing Pindleskin/Baal runs for rare stuff...Never got into the more complex things they added later, but easily one of my favorite games. Kinda want to boot it up again...

[@ruben7420]

1:45:00 Joel has ADHD confirmed xD

[@光の女神パルテナ-n2x]

Now, maybe I'm later to this, but the time this was aired is much more longer!

[@edenbeats.8569]

Have you ever missed a Joel video?

[@patbone1990]

I have been waiting for this. There's one other game I really want to see Joel play.

[@paumol972]

3:56:44 "The game is too dark, I can't see"

[@mw-kg7nv]

+1 to Iron Maiden

[@MsGhoulz]

When a game is so good that you compare it to itself. Why do you think Diablo 2 is better than Diablo 2? Share your thoughts.

[@LV_8989]

Oh i played this a lot when i was younger but never finished it lol. How nostalgic.

[@bea3558]

man the music in this game really reminds me of worlds.com, and im not really sure why. something about its prerendered setting, and moody guitar riffs reminds me of the oddly retro-dystopian world of late 90s virtual worlds. Or i could just be a fucking stupid lol

[@missteak7576]

Nah u aint stupid. I totaly get what you mean. It has a great mood

[@FubbleSmurf]

Which Diablo is better?? I still don't get it!!

[@ROCKMANDRONIAN]

BY THE LIGHT I KNOW THIS VILE DEMON

[@KantiDono]

The age of Blizzard is over. Path of Exile is the superior skeleton army simulator.

[@Cefre]

Shit, got called out by Joel for alttabbing while watching

[@ZeroWiseman]

I keep thinking I have the speed at 1.25 but it's just Joel high off Diablo

[@bobbobber4810]

My childhood. I played it so much.

[@x54xHantamachine]

Ive never met someone irl who has played diablo 2, but i am aware that it is a supposedly legendary rpg from a bit before my time. Im 25 in case anyones curious

[@shadowmaster452]

I only know two so far and both are almost 40. I'm 18.

[@manurecaok]

I just reinstalled it. Played it upside down 999549985 times /,,/

[@Masupups]

*How does it feel to get owned, Joel?*

[@gloopin9748]

Tbh I loved this game when I was young lol

[@MelleagranT]

This upload made me buy for me and for a friend, so we can play together like we used to do about 14 years ago.

[@MelleagranT]

Come to Brazil we have Fanta Grape, tastes like purple awesomeness.