Just beat Act 1 of this damn thing. It's honestly kinda

>>376485770
this game is not an RPG.

>the highest difficulty I can do right now (that /players8 thing.)

don't do this yet or ever, you idiot. Of course it's going to feel like an unfun slog if enemies have 4 times the HP and double the damage.

>it seems that there's minimal story/setting content
It's not minimal just because you're not reading things or talking to people.
>with most of the work done towards getting loot
Yeah, that's pretty much what this game is.

For the first time playing, I'd recommend playing it normally instead of players8.

>>376486658
Nah man, this game is about watching your skeleton horde grow larger and larger and the radius of your corpse explosion grow longer and longer until you are a true lich king!

>>376486003
Not in a "you role play shit" kinda way it isn't. But in a number crunching, crawl dungeons kinda way it is. Probably the only thing going for it.

>>376486136
>>376486851
I know. I changed it partway through, hoping for a less braindead experience. Nothing changed except things take a couple more hits to die and I got better loot so things still don't take that long if at all to die. players1 or 8, my problems with the game so far are still there either way.

>>376486658
>It's not minimal just because you're not reading things or talking to people.
But I have read everything and talked to everyone so far. This bit is the disappointing one! Seeing how all the talkable NPCs have both a gossip option and one where they give their own comments on quests they didn't even give me was so cool, only to be let down with what limited information they say. Not helpful in expanding the setting, nor from a "it's near this place" gameplay perspective either, it's some form or another of "getting this shit done, PC."

>>376486975
Ah, my mistake.

>>376485770
I don't want to make it sound like that one WoW argument where "you haven't gotten to level X yet" but it's true that the meat of Diablo II is building your character through all of normal and into nightmare. That means having some nice rares or uniques, plus chasing after those runewords according to your to-do list that you theorycrafted (or googled) among other things.

>>376486854
I always took bone wall just so I could trap my buddy in a billion walls. I could create them as fast as his berserker could destroy them. Shit was fun.

It hasn't aged well, pick up a more recent game of the genre like Path of Exile.

It's also kinda retarded to judge the game after one act and use that experience to paint the entire game as a skinner box.

its probably pretty shit if you play it for the first time today, apart from the awesome music and charming sprites.

if you aren't looking forward to that 1% string of ears dropping or whatever there's no buzz or anticipation.

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>>376485770
>MMORPGs

>>376485770
>play ONE act
>start complaining and analyzing the whole game
holyshit. Do you watch 15 minutes of a movie and then assume the rest? Do you not understand character progression and that the good stuff comes lv30+? Is this your first arpg?

Millenials; The Thread.

>>376485770
>plays arpg
>is surprised it's loot-centric

sort yaself