Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Here's where I decided I didn't like Diablo 2

[quote name="Wacky Willy"]So I'm playing a Paladin and I get some skill points and it lets be buy a passive aura that fuckin BURNS demons just for standing close to me. Kickass! I put everything into that ability. Then I read some online guides and they say "Don't waste your points on that kickass aura ability! You need to save them until you're something like level 40 and then dump them all in this boring sounding Fanatic ability where you just bonk something with your sword, but have all sorts of stat bonuses behind that bonk. Besides, everything in the late game is fire-proof anyway." Then I start a multiplayer game with some OMM dudes and I'm playing a necromancer for the first time and I get the animate skeleton ability and I'm having fun exploding enemy corpses and surrounding myself with a disposable team of undead minions. ANd the other players say, "no no no! Those skeletons are useless against the lategame physical immune enemies! Save your points!" Seriously, why give the player a development choice, then fuck them for it down the road? Why divvy out levelups and skill points if I'm not supposed to touch them until Act 4? Fuck Diablo 2.[/quote]