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Best Hack'n'Slash game?
AngelofVengeance
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For me it'd be Diablo II. The great gameplay, interesting yet simple storyline and the five player classes made it my favourite. It defines the dungeon-crawler genre. And I loved my Paladin character, he was about lvl 40 last I played, with a fire+lightning enchanted longsword, a very good towershield and some sweet armour. Also had an assload of skill points put into Thorns, which made bossfights a great deal easier. Yeah, that game kicked ass.
The new Champions of Norrath games are pretty good too, my character is a level 12 Shadowknight.
The new Champions of Norrath games are pretty good too, my character is a level 12 Shadowknight.
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I guess a large part of what makes a hack'n'slash work for me is its replayability, and without the random levels, loot, and monster placements that were staple features in Blizzard's design, just about everything ends up falling short.
D2 is addictive, but lacks the atmosphere of the original. Then again, at least you can run...
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There just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of competition!
Besides Diablo, really, what is there for the hardcore types?
I will admit that making the trip to Adria and back was a royal pain in the ass, though.
The restrictions could be a royal pain in the Diablo series.
Pic from my favourite console hack n' slash.
I found the Baldur's Gate console game to be mindnumbing, so avoided all other D&D console offerings.
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They were a cool mindless slash em up.
I really liked Return of the King, but never managed to finish it. I got stuck on two levels that were just insanely hard. One was defending the towers as Gandalf, and the other was as Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas fighting siege engines or somesuch.
I heard TTT was much better.
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I feel the same way, though it's because I threw my disks out when I was hard obsessed with the game. I've wanted to play it agian for years but I just can't drop the money on it.
they are outstanding. I lost the box to my ROTK tho which really pisses me off..
I love the console ones as well. Those four games (two towers and ROTK for consoles and gba) is all I played for like, 2 or 3 months a few years back. Love those games.
I remember almost getting this game several times. Didn't really know what it was.
I wish I would have realized years ago how much I like this genre instead of investing as much as I did into RPGs and moreso SRPGs.
hakandslash appeal to the same part of me as platformers, they feel classic, and a special kind of challenging that basically makes you get better as you play in a very cool way.
I finally found it around a year ago at a flea market. $20, because it was being sold by someone who knew what he had.
I never got very far into it, but I'm a sucker for rare Dreamcast games. It's definitely unique.
Good times.
I didn't even finish ROTK.
I didn't play the GBA ones extensively, but the same little brother did. He had both of them. I guess he enjoyed them.
Wizardry 8 yo.
Titan Quest was pretty shitty too. I wish I hadn't bought it. I played it for a good 5 hours and really tried to get into it but it seemed like every character class/skill combination was a remix of "you now do more damage with X weapon type or X spell that might as well be a bow."
D1 and D2 were really the only good hack and slash games, in my opinion. D1 is still the best.
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yeah I was trying to hit on that in my post (tried very weakly admittedly haha). It doesn't make sense and I like them almost more than I wish I did... but it's easily in my top 3 favorite genres.
Also I thought ROTK was like TTT but better. I don't know what there is not to like about it. More characters, more levels, more challenge.
Diablo 2 on the other hand held me for a few years. I bought Titan Quest after loving the demo and hoping it would at least copy D2 but with a new plot and was sadly disappointed. The biggest fault for me (in TQ) was probably the item system. There were countless items that dropped, virtually all useless. I used the same gear for my character from the end of the first act to near the middle of the first act in the next difficulty level. I made very minor changes (i.e. +15 to energy instead of +14--those numbers are random but the change is accurate) but nothing even remotely drastic.
D2 had the items and characters and monsters balanced perfectly (once it had been patched up somewhat).
That level should have been easy, but Legolas and Gimli are legally retarted. When the witch king needs to be shot at, you have to do it since neither of them will. Fair enough, but then they'll stand right next to you and watch as orcs rape you in the ass.
I love that the main character's identity is a really big secret. Except if you've watched the anime it's based on. And if you haven't then his identity won't mean anything to you.
Then I tried the demo and read some reviews. The game didn't really pan out, so I was dissapointed. But what REALLY ticked me off was that there were plenty enough bugs in the game and the developers actually closed down the main forums so that they didn't have to deal with the complaints. I suppose I can understand that a small team can't do much, but that really was saying "screw you" to the fanbase after taking their money.
Also, as Variant signals, Gauntlet (Legends and Dark Legacy particularly, but not that putzy new one that came out recently) is effin' awesome concentrated. Valkyrie for life, "yo".
I enjoyed DW5: Empires but am not sure about SW since it's apparently "exactly the same".
I think I could put up with similarities as long as the maps, tactics, and characters have a different feel about them. 2 Player Coop is always a huge selling point.