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Droigan · Oct 3, 2025

For story, Planescape Torment. Still regarded as one of the best in the genre. (30-50 hours)

For combat, Divinity 1 and 2. I would play them in order though, because 2 is better than 1 (which is still good), but hard to go back to 1 from 2. I played both on tactician just for more combat and enemies use more skills. I love the turn based combat in these games. (both are 70-100+ hours long)

Since Deus Ex might be getting a remaster/remake ish type, maybe wait for that? Fantastic game though. (25ish hours)

Rajaah · Sunday at 2:20 AM

Early totals:

Planescape - 3
Diablo 2 - 2
Divinity 1 - 2
Divinity 2 - 2
Pillars of Eternity - 1
Arcanum - 1

Write-Ins:
Ultima 7 - 1
Underrail - 1

Cast any further votes and I'll check back later. Since it's far away, I might start this before Jan 1st if I end up with a hole in the schedule and if there's a clear winner.

Hateyou · Thursday at 11:32 AM

Diablo 2 as a crpg option? What?

Tuco · Thursday at 11:55 AM

Diablo 2 would be a crpg if a few hours of unskippable dialog and a combat autoresolve feature were added.

Rajaah · Thursday at 3:58 PM

Hateyou said:
Diablo 2 as a crpg option? What?

It's a computer game, it's an RPG of sorts, and I missed out on it, that gets it on the list. Warcraft 3 is on the list too.

If anything shouldn't be on the list it's the two System Shocks, which I think I'm gonna bump off. Tried to get into the remake of the first one and couldn't for some reason. That and Neverwinter pretty much ended my first swing at the CRPG fest, after I knocked out a bunch of other things.

Talos · Thursday at 4:46 PM

Diablo 2 should really be a priority. That's like a rite of passage for all pc gamers.

Rhanyn · Thursday at 4:53 PM

Talos said:
Diablo 2 should really be a priority. That's like a rite of passage for all pc gamers.

I missed Diablo 2 for whatever reason, until the day my friends and I went to a local gaming shop that had 4 PC's you rent to LAN play that they had setup with things like StarCraft and Diablo 2. We were initially just looking at dice and some other stuff, until I dropped that I had never played Diablo 2, and they instantly said "nope, we are educating you" and we spent the next 9 hours playing it together. Was an amazing day trucking around on the Necromancer, still probably my favorite class from Diablo 2.

Talos · Thursday at 6:00 PM

Rhanyn said:
I missed Diablo 2 for whatever reason, until the day my friends and I went to a local gaming shop that had 4 PC's you rent to LAN play that they had setup with things like StarCraft and Diablo 2. We were initially just looking at dice and some other stuff, until I dropped that I had never played Diablo 2, and they instantly said "nope, we are educating you" and we spent the next 9 hours playing it together. Was an amazing day trucking around on the Necromancer, still probably my favorite class from Diablo 2.

My best friend in 9th grade let me borrow his copy. I was hooked instantly. He and his older brother got caught huffing shortly after. They had super religious parents so I never saw them again. His mom came over to talk to my mom and she blamed me for some reason even though I never did any of that shit.

Anyway, that's how I got my copy of D2. I still have it.

Kajiimagi · Thursday at 7:55 PM

Talos said:
My best friend in 9th grade let me borrow his copy. I was hooked instantly. He and his older brother got caught huffing shortly after. They had super religious parents so I never saw them again. His mom came over to talk to my mom and she blamed me for some reason even though I never did any of that shit.

Anyway, that's how I got my copy of D2. I still have it.

Slight derail. I had a friend in high school who's parents were uptight religious nutters. They didn't really like me cuz they were sure I was a Satan worshiper. I did nothing to dissuade them and everything I could to corrupt their son and daughter. Their proof of my Satan worship? Tie die Master of puppets , ride the lightning , all the Eddie Iron Maiden shirts, etc. I did a lot of shopping at the 'head shop'.

Rajaah · 2025-10-17T00:53:39-0400

Rhanyn said:
I missed Diablo 2 for whatever reason, until the day my friends and I went to a local gaming shop that had 4 PC's you rent to LAN play that they had setup with things like StarCraft and Diablo 2. We were initially just looking at dice and some other stuff, until I dropped that I had never played Diablo 2, and they instantly said "nope, we are educating you" and we spent the next 9 hours playing it together. Was an amazing day trucking around on the Necromancer, still probably my favorite class from Diablo 2.

Necromancer is the main thing I know about with Diablo 2. When it came out I was playing a Necro in EQ, and a lot of people were saying Diablo 2 was going to be an "EQ killer" (for some reason). So once EQ inevitably started annoying me, I nearly "jumped ship" to Diablo 2. I remember spending a bunch of time studying the Diablo 2 guide, tables, charts, etc, to learn all the Necromancer abilities.

If I play Diablo 2 it'll 100% be as a Necro. Sounds good to me, let's get some more votes for Diablo 2 in here. Planescape/Diablo 2/Fallout 2 would be a pretty good haul for the winter break. I might end up just limiting it to 3 things altogether and drop the runner-up until later, depending on what the finalists are, and I'll vote for a tiebreaker. Idea here is to get this thing moving, not to get buried and stall it out again.

Tuco · 2025-10-17T09:21:58-0400

Rajaah said:
Necromancer is the main thing I know about with Diablo 2. When it came out I was playing a Necro in EQ, and a lot of people were saying Diablo 2 was going to be an "EQ killer" (for some reason). So once EQ inevitably started annoying me, I nearly "jumped ship" to Diablo 2. I remember spending a bunch of time studying the Diablo 2 guide, tables, charts, etc, to learn all the Necromancer abilities.

If I play Diablo 2 it'll 100% be as a Necro. Sounds good to me, let's get some more votes for Diablo 2 in here. Planescape/Diablo 2/Fallout 2 would be a pretty good haul for the winter break. I might end up just limiting it to 3 things altogether and drop the runner-up until later, depending on what the finalists are, and I'll vote for a tiebreaker. Idea here is to get this thing moving, not to get buried and stall it out again.

I dunno about D2 Resurrected, but in the original game depending on your build, D2's necromancer is also one of the few games where you feel like you're raising a literal army of the dead. You can defeat content off-screen while you're just raising skeletons, zombies and a golem to do your bidding.

Rajaah · 2025-10-18T21:58:34-0400

Tuco said:
I dunno about D2 Resurrected, but in the original game depending on your build, D2's necromancer is also one of the few games where you feel like you're raising a literal army of the dead. You can defeat content off-screen while you're just raising skeletons, zombies and a golem to do your bidding.

When I D2, it'll be the original version, not Resurrected. I think there might even be an HD port of the original now, not sure. I still have the guide:

Soured on remakes a bit after some of the debacles we've gotten so I'm more inclined to go with the original versions of things whenever possible, unless it's a basic upscaling / HD texture situation.

Tuco · 2025-10-18T22:24:59-0400

Rajaah said:
When I D2, it'll be the original version, not Resurrected. I think there might even be an HD port of the original now, not sure. I still have the guide:

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Soured on remakes a bit after some of the debacles we've gotten so I'm more inclined to go with the original versions of things whenever possible, unless it's a basic upscaling / HD texture situation.

From a quick read of

Resurrected seems like an HD remaster with some QOL, so I'd recommend that.

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