who is skilled at D2 and was granted an Alpha testing? I see the D3 player Rhykker was given access, but he is genuinely horrible at game and I’d like to see a pro play the game.
The game looks fantastic, but I’m falling asleep watching Rhykker pretend he knows what he is doing.
got a key, been playing but will not stream … think of it only as a graphics test, it is not much and will not tell you much, I mean, you ain’t gonna go 200 fcr meteorb jumping across the screen bombing things in a2 normal
or have a caster party take the throne apart
etc
Not that I know of, Blizzard gave the alpha testing mostly to people who actually have a big following, which is usually not the case for D2 streamers
I watched his stream too, he didn’t pretend to know what he’s doing, he actually kept claiming that he hasn’t played vanilla D2 in a long time, is used to mods, etc. He seems to be completely aware and transparent that he’s not a D2 player and is just enjoying the game as best as he can.
Anyway, the alpha is only the first 2 acts on normal difficulty, so I just watch pretty much anyone that’s playing to see the graphical differences, since we won’t be seeing any sort of high level gameplay anyway.
MrLLama (whether you consider him skilled or not) actually tested every single spell to see how it looks visually on the remaster so I enjoyed that. Sorceress’ lightning skills look absolutely underwhelming btw. Hope they change that.
Mostly I’ve been preferring to watch complete beginners who either never played D2 before or only played as a kid, because it’s wholesome to me to see they struggle and discover the game like I did.
I know of at least 12 big D2 streamers/youtubers of the top off my head.
I didn’t watch past him going to town after leaving the DoE. In that time I watched him call Corpsefire a monster name that doesn’t exist which to me is pretending he knew the monsters name.
He just… Forgot the monster’s name and thought it was something else? I’m terrible with names, I do that all the time. Basically the 3 things I’m terrible at remembering is names, faces, and conversations I had with people, and I often mix up random gibberish and my brain is completely convinced that’s the right name 
There was one time when my brain had a big dumb moment and I called Ganondorf “Sephiroth”. Two villains from completely different games.
Fair. The ones I watched playing were some youtubers I follow who have almost a million subs, and the ones that popped on my notifications on Twitch were PoE, D3 or WoW streamers who got access. But I don’t follow a lot of streamers, especially not streamers that focus on only one game (I’m a variety person), so I don’t know.
I’ve been following him for years, I genuinely like him and admire what he’s done professionally “in the online gaming community” (said in my Dr dr Disrespect spect voice). He constantly pretends that he is an authority on D2.
Despite my hit job on Rhykker, which I respect you for stand up for, I’m fishing for channels to watch. My hope is to find steamers/youtubers I’m unaware of that don’t play the modded versions of the game.
Ok, I’ve never seen it that way, but I respect your opinion.
I like his content because he tries out pretty much every ARPG in the market, and while not being particularly a specialist in any of them (his D3 guides are good, but he researchs that information that is also available in many other places, it’s not like he comes up with those builds), he has a good understanding of the whole market and the differences between the games, which is something I like seeing. Basically, if a D2 specialist that makes amazing and detailed D2 content was a F1 driver, Rhykker would be more of a motorsports caster who casts races of F1, DTM, Indycar, etc, but obviously isn’t a F1 driver or even someone capable of managing an F1 team. So I’d forgive an F1 caster for saying something dumb about the F1 cars, but obviously wouldn’t forgive a F1 driver for that.
I agree with you, and though I’m literally 2 decades more advanced at the game than he is, he certainly has done more for the game than I have, except maybe when my D2 youtube channel was up for a year, which him and Brevik help boost and make some of my vids viral.
Are you the guy who killed Diablo with throwing pots? I think I remember Brevik mentioning that in an interview.
Yes, but I didn’t actually kill him with the potions. I got him down to 10% and then ran out of potions and so killed him with throwing knives. My channel also repopularized the barbarian and awoke the new player base (at the time) to the lvl 85 areas and how to farm them.
Seems a roundabout way of complaining that people you feel better represent the Diablo 2 community did not get invited.
That or I’m looking for exactly what I asked for.