MrLlama Reacts: A New Player's Thought on Diablo 2

[Mangs]

6:35 - I could not agree more with this statement. Diablo 2 combat has an "Impact" to it that the latter games simply failed to replicate. When you smack that Fallen with your mace, you can hear the impact of the mace hitting bones, and the scream of the Fallen crying out in pain. This has not felt anywhere near as satisfying to me in the other games. I think it has something to do with Diablo 2's "meaty" sound effects, they deserve a lot of credit.

[clintbeastwood]

Ah. I remember when I was a youngin' beginner. I used to think that investing a single point into every skill was how you make a good character.

[MagpieMcGraw]

I watched this guys vods back when he was playing D2. He really went through it with Duriel. He started with a scuffed paladin build, and he wasted his respec. But eventually he found his way to blessed hammer. He got to experience the whole journey of Diablo 2.

[jakenaylor]

Ive played d2 for the last 12 years on and off again, and back in the day, i learned everything through strangers. Not a lot of wikis back then. And when d2r came out i played singleplayer seriously for the first time. Singleplayer is a completely different beast. I love it.

[fifthofascalante]

Mr Llama! That’s a great idea. I think you should watch some of these blind playthroughs and give your commentary. I’ve watched a lot of them, including this video, because I also can’t imagine my life without this game and I’m curious how unfamiliar people feel about it. And I get second hand excitement from experiencing it for the first time.

[Steph]

16:50 to me this is the main thing that sets D2 apart from every other game: somehow every single play through feels fresh. Even on the fifth wolf druid and the seventh lightning sorc, it just feels fresh and exciting.
Somehow no other game gives me this

[megamastah]

Normally I don't care about the reaction videos, but am happy I've watched this one. This guy is smart, and his take on D2R was spot on, especially for a newcomer. I only blame his chat for making him go with the lamest build of all time, hammerdin ;)

[wilcovandermerwe]

Hallo MrLlamaSC,

I completed my first Holy Grail Yesterday (15/07/23). I am playing for almost 3 years now but lost all my items at the end of last year (2022 - Long story...), but restarted and started all over and finally got them all. I used an Blizzard Sorc and sadly my last item was the Death's Fathom. I was very luck to find 2 Tyrael's might in the progress. I stopped playing D2R when D4 started but I was so close to the end that I had to finish what I started. I love Diablo 2 and my plan now is to cheep playing D2R and not D4 because D2R is the better game and a lot more fun and casual. My fist Diablo game I played was Diablo 1 (Demo - Act 1 -2) and after that I played all other Diablo games besides Diablo Immortal .I have my own business (Plumbing) so my time to play is very limited so when I do have the time to relax Diablo 2 is the best.

Thank you MrLlamaSC for all the time and effort you put in with Diablo 2 and the community because the passion what I see in you give me more motivation to cheep playing this great game (Diablo 2).

Love from South Africa.

Greetings,
Wilco.

[pedrocosta]

Definitely agree on the things are not explained part. I would love to have like a compendium in the game where stuff that you come across gets added while you progress through the game. Imagine something like: you killed a spectre, than that spectre gets added to the book and you can check his resistances, attacks etc. Or you could only see his fire res if u hit him with fire at least once and killed him, something like this i feel could be interesting instead of just going to the wiki and check everything.

[LucasMagriniRigo]

The one thing that MrLlama teached me is what to look on those blue items in a playthrough. It's insane how many good items I found either on monsters or on Charsi.

[jtb]

Went to Sloads channel and he seems super wholesome and eloquent in his descriptions. Hope you do more “colab”, it’s really fun to get a newcomers perspective.😊

[denlo]

If runewords weren't available until hell mode, I think it would ease some of the pain. You play through the campaign twice with none, then you unlock hell mode, and a whole new world of amazing gear opens up to you.

[Tyrael]

I like the idea about the cube recipe book or finding runeword recipes in the world when killing ennemies, as long as finding the runeword or cube recipes are NOT a prerequisite.

[Kongschlong]

34:52 this is such an interesting point to me. When Asmongold played Dark Souls 1 for the first time he got stuck and he wanted to stop the game and quit it. Then the chat helped him and he got through Sen's Fortress and completed the game and it is one of the best game he ever played. So it is so important to overcome this barrier and when you do it can become the best game you ever played.

[allysinlombard]

Hypnosload is a good dude and his play-through is highly satisfying…would love to see more first time D2R player reacts content as well as more Uniques and Sets only play throughs.

[SteveJensen-cz]

Great video. Very interesting to see a new player's experience after 20 yrs. I remember when I was new player, I thought D2 was super-hard. I was talking to a friend about it and was complaining that the resistance penalty in Hell made survival too hard. And he said, "Get a 3 OS shield and put three perfect diamonds in it." I replied, "How do you even get perfect diamonds? I've only found 2 flawless so far?" He said, "Kill the Travincal Council. I usually get one regular gem each time I fight them." It was a mind expanding epiphany for me--I didn't even realize you could replay a part you'd played before. It had never occurred to me that you might want to target attack a certain area just to get loot, not to complete a quest. "Farm" wasn't even in my vocabulary back then. Oh how far I have come since then! LOL

[peterkilkelly]

i didn't realize runes were added after some point. when i was young and struggling with hell, i didn't know much but i also didn't have runes as an option. good review, good video here.

[MFMagnus]

I'm new to this game as well. Just started about 2 weeks ago. Although, I have quite a bit of ARPG experience under my belt. The amount of tabs I have open, guides I've watched, and even what my friend has told me, this game has a lot of stuff to take in. Definitely has been a huge sense of reward learning everything as I've been going.

[ggallin]

one thing d2 always did right was giving you rewards for quests that aren't just experience or items. lots of quests give you a skill point, stats or resistances. helps you build your character along the way. you can ignore liam's tome quest BUT you'll be running around whit -15 stats in hell. items FEELS right and i often check white or blue items as i playthrough.

the formula was perfected whit diablo 2 but was completely forgotten in diablo 3 and 4.

[daviddaniels]

You picked a cool dude to give a shout-out to Mrllama. Love your videos! Been watching for a long time. Sload is a bit newer but his streams are a blast to be a part of. Him playing through for the first time. A lot of his viewers bit their tongues like crazy avoiding helping him very much. Sload wanted to experience it blind for awhile and even after beating nornal he didnt want help anywhere except advise till he beat hell baal.
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