07-09-2003, 08:51 PM
My answer to that is the same as it has always been.
Oh well.
The game is designed as multiplayer. It's still better than the original Diablo where without tricks single player only had one difficulty to it.
The only part of the game that should be balanced for single player is normal difficulty. Blizzard should come out and just say that. If you are good enough or lucky enough you can play NM and Hell, but the only portion of the game intended for single player is Hell.
Blizzard said from the release of the game (and several times since then) that Hell is supposed to be party only. So from the start the design intent seems that normal can be done by just about anyone, playing anything. Nightmare is for good single player players, to give them some challenge, and Hell is the challenge for party players, or for those single player players who like to try and take on the impossible. Heck even the rarity of some items (if you take away duping) is designed for large numbers of players and trading.
As other have pointed out, games like Doom have difficulty levels that you just can't really beat but they are there. Why should D2 be any different? I don't care if it is slightly different style of game. It seems pretty clear that Blizzard didn't intend to make the game for people to play single player in Hell. They screwed up several times. With single player you always have the option of early patch versions and mods to adjust that stuff. Blizzard really shouldn't worry about single player at all except for normal in my opinion.
Oh well.
The game is designed as multiplayer. It's still better than the original Diablo where without tricks single player only had one difficulty to it.
The only part of the game that should be balanced for single player is normal difficulty. Blizzard should come out and just say that. If you are good enough or lucky enough you can play NM and Hell, but the only portion of the game intended for single player is Hell.
Blizzard said from the release of the game (and several times since then) that Hell is supposed to be party only. So from the start the design intent seems that normal can be done by just about anyone, playing anything. Nightmare is for good single player players, to give them some challenge, and Hell is the challenge for party players, or for those single player players who like to try and take on the impossible. Heck even the rarity of some items (if you take away duping) is designed for large numbers of players and trading.
As other have pointed out, games like Doom have difficulty levels that you just can't really beat but they are there. Why should D2 be any different? I don't care if it is slightly different style of game. It seems pretty clear that Blizzard didn't intend to make the game for people to play single player in Hell. They screwed up several times. With single player you always have the option of early patch versions and mods to adjust that stuff. Blizzard really shouldn't worry about single player at all except for normal in my opinion.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.