05-26-2003, 02:42 AM
Hi,
As to single player, in a sense, the game ends when you kill Diablo. You can repeat that on the normal and nightmare level. Since, in single player, you have to work your way down through the whole dungeon to get to Diablo, doing it a second time at the same difficulty is pretty well a waste of time. Especially since you are getting stronger all the time and the monsters on a given difficulty stay the same. Once you've done it on each difficulty with each character one time, there isn't a whole lot left worth doing.
And, really, except as a stunt, it isn't worth playing SP past normal (where you'll finish the game at level 25 give or take one). If you do do all three difficulties you'll end up around 37 (thanks to no XP cap). You could take a SP character to level 50, but it hardly seems worth the effort.
In multi, OTOH, there are a lot of reasons to play in addition to killing Diablo. And all the openings to the Dungeon are open when you enter the game. Thus, playing multi is a lot more open ended. Even if a level 50 character isn't your goal, you could get one just from playing with friends, etc.
Sp, you see the level 25 to go through the SP game and the level 50 you can get to are two very different things. One is a reasonable stopping point for SP, the other is the absolute max for both SP and MP, but only really makes sense getting to in MP.
--Pete
As to single player, in a sense, the game ends when you kill Diablo. You can repeat that on the normal and nightmare level. Since, in single player, you have to work your way down through the whole dungeon to get to Diablo, doing it a second time at the same difficulty is pretty well a waste of time. Especially since you are getting stronger all the time and the monsters on a given difficulty stay the same. Once you've done it on each difficulty with each character one time, there isn't a whole lot left worth doing.
And, really, except as a stunt, it isn't worth playing SP past normal (where you'll finish the game at level 25 give or take one). If you do do all three difficulties you'll end up around 37 (thanks to no XP cap). You could take a SP character to level 50, but it hardly seems worth the effort.
In multi, OTOH, there are a lot of reasons to play in addition to killing Diablo. And all the openings to the Dungeon are open when you enter the game. Thus, playing multi is a lot more open ended. Even if a level 50 character isn't your goal, you could get one just from playing with friends, etc.
Sp, you see the level 25 to go through the SP game and the level 50 you can get to are two very different things. One is a reasonable stopping point for SP, the other is the absolute max for both SP and MP, but only really makes sense getting to in MP.
--Pete
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