Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 Expansion head on

[jinglingxl]

Diablo II: Lord of Destruction set out 6/28
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal set out 6/24

considering both are similar games, and both had great success... who will win this time?

 

[kami]

lord give me the strength to not buy the diablo 2 expansion. last june when i bought diablo2 it sucked up all my free time for almost the entire summer.

 

[Celstar]

I dont consider them similiar, part of the same genre of games. I would say Diablo II will do better.

 

[Rand]

Personally I don't consider Diablo and BG all that similar.

As for which is better, I've never cared for Diablo 2 very much. But I LOVE BG1 and 2. And I'm definitely buying the expansion pack.

 

[Raspewtin]

i don't know how much the diablo 2 one is but 30 bucks for the bg2 is too much money. 20 bucks is all i will spend on an expansion pack with that much gameplay.

 

[jinglingxl]

not similar? both are action RPG, both has a medievil fantasy setting, both somewhat has a similar game play (althought different interface).. no? and if you noticed both expansion(storyline/character)involve the name Bhaal !!

sounds similar to me
D2 wasted my whole summer last year...hope I wont be attached to the expansion this summer... I hope I hope I hope

 

[Aquaman]

D2 expansion lets you have the option of running the game at 800*600

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[randypj]

I will satiate my hunger with the D2 expansion.
--Randy

 

[pen^2]

haha when you all leave for the xpack i will be reigning supreme on classic d2 servers

 

[BruinGuy]

No Baldur's Gate 2 and Diablo 2 are not that similar, they are both great games, but they are almost too different to compare, they have similar concepts but are very different

 

[Zoe]

They are not very similar at all. BG holds true to the role-playing genre while D2 is best described as an action game with rpg-elements.

 

[pen^2]

enough talk already... off to find some goldy -40 exec now

 

[Staver]

D2 is a Fantasy Shooter not a true rpg. It's fun though like D1.
BG2 and expansion is the stuff, and I must have it.
The idea of taking my lvl 1 characters from BG1 and developing them to lvl 40 over 4 seperate games is like a personal experience. I don't get that with D2 at all, and I have too many chars there. Gets tedious after lvl 75 - 81, so I make another and another and ...

 

[Chad]

Diablo II Exp. for me boys!

 

[Shy]

<< lord give me the strength to not buy the diablo 2 expansion. last june when i bought diablo2 it sucked up all my free time for almost the entire summer. >>



you're stronger than i was

it sucked up all my free time for ALL of my summer

and a few days ago, I decided to play through again... needless to say, history is repeating itself...

-Shy

 

[pac1085]

<< i don't know how much the diablo 2 one is but 30 bucks for the bg2 is too much money. 20 bucks is all i will spend on an expansion pack with that much gameplay. >>


D2: LOD is going to be $40 I believe...what a rip.

 

[duragezic]

I heard $40 a couple months ago but I really doubt it. I expect $30 which is the preorder price of most places. But I don't know if I even want the xpac (will at least have to wait a while) or even if it is good I might be playing WW2 Online too much if it's good.

But I will get D2 xpac over BG2 because I don't even have BG2 because I'm not much of a fan of RPGs just D2 isn't much of an RPG so I like it.

 

[richleader]

I like BG2 and D2, but I'm only getting the D2 exp--don't feel like installing all 4 discs of BG2 and editing characters back to recreate my old save games just to play one tower quest and a beefed up ending.

 

[MrBond]

Definalty going for d2. Gonna whoop some Baal Tail with my Paladin, and maybe my Barbarian. I can't WAIT for the cutscenes, they're supposed to be longer then D2 IIRC. After watching the d2 cutscenes, it was like &quot;Alrighty then, lets find some clean pants&quot;

 

[jinglingxl]

Actually you can preorder D2 expension @ $29
BG2 expension @ $24
both at http://www.compuexpert.com

but of course, extra shipping cost may apply