Diablo II or PSO

[Tempest]

I've been thinking of taking up an on-line roleplaying game because I enjoy wasting my life away. Anyway...

I'm not quite sure what to start up again. I used to play Diablo II like mad, but stopped shortly after the expansion pack was released because cheating was out of control and the game had grown boring. However I hear Blizzard is finally releasing a new patch that might make the game exciting again. I also have a few friends who still play that have been bugging me to start again.

On the other hand I played PSO for awhile and I liked it. The problems were that there was no keyboard (solved that problem), and the $10 a month fee was annoying me (not that I couldn't pay it, but I felt it was too high). I also got the feeling that I had seen pretty much all there was to see in the game, and all I'd be doing now is mass leveling and trying to find a slightly better weapon.

I don't know which to choose. Diablo II is calling me, but PSO is much more recent and slightly "fresher" to me (I only played it for a few months). What does everyone here think? Anyone play both?

Tempest

[digitalpress]

Well if you get back into PSO you've got an instant teammate: ME.

[Sylentwulf]

I haven't played PSO, but lemme tell ya, Diablo 2 sucks.

[tynstar]

Well if you get back into PSO you've got an instant teammate: ME.


Me to.


I have never played Diablo II. I played Diablo 1 for awhile but it got boring to me.

In PSO it does becoming all about leveling and finding rares. But there are a lot of rares plus Sonic Team puts up new quest every couple of months.

[digitalpress]

@Tynstar: we gonna get together online Saturday? When are you playing and what ship/block?

[Tempest]

but lemme tell ya, Diablo 2 sucks.


Just out of curiosity why do you say that? Have you been playing online lately? I have no idea what the current state of things are on Battlenet.

Tempest

[Sylentwulf]

I never played the second one online. We all know how well the first one was online. I just meant the game itself. I thought it was boring and VERY drab.

[Starcade]

Tempest, no question about it, get Everquest Online Adventures for the PS2. It is wonderful, I will help you through the early levels, and teach you what you need to know if you get it:)

[tynstar]

I would say stay away from EQ. There is no warning on the box and you could become addicted and lose you job, friends, family or kill yourself.

@Starcade Why do you think EG is good? Ever time I hear people talk about it i sounds really boring. They talk about walking for 10-20 minutes just to get some where. You cant switch servers. The magic points take a day to regenerate. I watched my cousin play it some time ago and it looked like crap and was really slow paced.

@Digitalpress What time can you play? I could play before noon AZ time or after 10PM AZ time. What about Sunday? I play almost every night on Antares block 10 lobby 1. I use one of the characters in my signature.

[MyNameIsBoB]

Try out xenimus. www.xenimus.com A decent RPG with new updates every month or so. Although most people are asses and will kill the newbs for some shit gear, I always have more you could use and kill the newb killers for you. You should check it out.

[digitalpress]

@Digitalpress What time can you play? I could play before noon AZ time or after 10PM AZ time. What about Sunday? I play almost every night on Antares block 10 lobby 1. I use one of the characters in my signature.

Let's 'officialize' it. Two hours enough? If so let's meet on Antares Block 10, lobby 1 at 10am your time (which unless you're in one of those weird anti-daylight-savings time zones should be 1pm EDT).

Good?

[tynstar]

which unless you're in one of those weird anti-daylight-savings time zones


Hey my whole state is one of those zones.

10am sounds good. I will have to get on all my characters so I can give you some goodies.

See you there.

[digitalpress]

If you're not doing daylight savings then your 10am is my 12pm and that's cutting close a morning commitment I have. I can play at 1pm EDT. Yes?

[Starcade]

@ Tynestar Why, because it is the funnest online game I have ever played (let alone PS2 game), it is fun to talk to your buddys, do quests together, find rare items, sell items, help noobies, it is just all around fun, I love it, currently, I am putting in 7+ hours a day into eqoa. :D

[tynstar]

@Starcade You can do all that stuff for less money a month on PSO.

Also 7+ hours a day!!!!! Damn!!!!! I thought I had no life :-D


@Digitalpress 11am my time no problem see you on Anteras block 10 lobby 1

[Sylentwulf]

7+ hours a day is average for EQ players :)

When I was in prime AC1 and UO Playing time, I logged at LEAST 10-15 hours per day. I didn't SLEEP much, but boy did I play a lot. I still have nightmares about killing hundreds and hundreds of tuskers in a dungeon with my Life mage <shudder>

[DarkSoul]

I personally think that EQ is crap, and you should stay away from it. I'm not worried you'll get addicted and strangle your dog or whatever, but more that it's like Diablo, only thirty thousand times slower. The game consists entirely of waiting for a specific monster to spawn, fighting it (And don't die, that does quite suck), and then sitting for 30 minutes to recharge yourself. It's just not fun. It's really not fun. It's DEFINITELY not role playing, if that's what you were interested in doing...

Diablo II is amusing enough, but I look at it more as a 'quickie' type game.. I'm surprised many people actually play online heavily. To me, the gameplay isn't quite in depth enough to really warrent continuous attention (though a frenzied dungeon crawl now and then is plenty fun, and I encourage one for anyone).

I personally would go PSO, if I was looking for an online game, though I'm not. I used to manage a subsite of www.stratics.com for some several years, as well as before that working in their Everquest unit... It's not a stretch to say I'm completely burned out on current online games. They aren't strong enough products to stand up on their own offline (with the exception of Diablo, I find it about equally compelling both ways... but, then, it's also not a normal MMORPG), which implies that the online aspect, the people, your fellow man is what makes it worth playing- Well, in my humble experience, it doesn't. As far as I can tell, my fellow man is generally an idiot with gland problems of some sort. I want to love online gaming, but I think it has a way to go, a longer way than most give it credit for.


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[tynstar]

I personally think that EQ is crap, and you should stay away from it. I'm not worried you'll get addicted and strangle your dog or whatever, but more that it's like Diablo, only thirty thousand times slower. The game consists entirely of waiting for a specific monster to spawn, fighiting it (And don't die, that does quite suck), and then sitting for 30 minutes to recharge yourself. It's just not fun. It's really not fun. It's DEFINITELY not role playing, if that's what you were interested in doing...


That is what I have gathered from talking to people. Some other people i have talked to say it is the most overrated game around.

@Sylentwulf: 10-15 hours a day. Job? Family? Friends? Other hobbies? House work? What did you do about all that stuff?

[Starcade]

I personally think that EQ is crap, and you should stay away from it. I'm not worried you'll get addicted and strangle your dog or whatever, but more that it's like Diablo, only thirty thousand times slower. The game consists entirely of waiting for a specific monster to spawn, fighting it (And don't die, that does quite suck), and then sitting for 30 minutes to recharge yourself. It's just not fun. It's really not fun. It's DEFINITELY not role playing, if that's what you were interested in doing...

Diablo II is amusing enough, but I look at it more as a 'quickie' type game.. I'm surprised many people actually play online heavily. To me, the gameplay isn't quite in depth enough to really warrent continuous attention (though a frenzied dungeon crawl now and then is plenty fun, and I encourage one for anyone)

I personally would go PSO, if I was looking for an online game, though I'm not. I used to manage a subsite of www.stratics.com for some several years, as well as before that working in their Everquest unit... It's not a stretch to say I'm completely burned out on current online games. They aren't strong enough products to stand up on their own offline (with the exception of Diablo, I find it about equally compelling both ways... but, then, it's also not a normal MMORPG), which implies that the online aspect, the people, your fellow man is what makes it worth playing- Well, in my humble experience, it doesn't. As far as I can tell, my fellow man is generally an idiot with gland problems of some sort. I want to love online gaming, but I think it has a way to go, a longer way than most give it credit for.


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All I can say to you eqoa haters out there is, just try it, get to level 20 and see what you think, I made it to level 19 in 6 days, so it shouldn't take too long if you don't have a life (like me). Keep in mind this was playing 7+ hours a day.

[tynstar]

All I can say to you eqoa haters out there is, just try it, get to level 20 and see what you think, I made it to level 19 in 6 days, so it shouldn't take too long if you don't have a life (like me). Keep in mind this was playing 7+ hours a day.

If we don't like EQ how do you expect us to play it for 40+ hours. If a game is good it should hook you right away not 40 hour into it.