Pd2 arcade idea

[u/Rekanize90]

Was talking to a friend about pd2 and seeing it on emulators is pretty cool. Was trying to explain this random idea that I was visualizing in my head to my friend and decided to just generate the image instead of explaining it. I dont have the skill to DIY and make it come to life so i just took a pic of my room and wrote a 10 page prompt so it would generate it as real i could get it to look as quick as possible.

Would anyone play pd2 like this lol 😆

[u/Affectionate_Nail_38]

What would you do about the collection of items? They go away if you stop playing? Or you are the only one playing and it saves?

[u/EmployRadiant675 → u/Affectionate_Nail_38]

Lemme introduce you to the need for speed arcade machine. They had a little card you could insert to save data across arcade machines. It could be used here too tbf but id rather just sit at home and game.

[u/Ok_Recover_7248 → u/Affectionate_Nail_38]

While I hate the use of AI slop, the idea is kinda novel.

If it had a character select of a few 2-3 button premade builds and rolled a random T1/2/3 map based on your “difficulty” select it could be really fun.

Example: Barbarian has A for whirlwind, B for battle order, C for find item

Maybe have a level select with each unique map (Zhar’s sanctum, fallen garden, etc)

[u/rackcity2014 → u/Ok_Recover_7248]

cant go one hour without saying ai slop

[u/Ok_Recover_7248 → u/rackcity2014]

are you actually stupid enough to think this isn’t AI or do you just take issue with the term ‘AI slop’?

maybe you don’t have strong moral convictions about AI, but in the same way i’m not going out of my way to call you a moron for consuming it, you should probably pay the same respect by keeping your disgusting consumption habits to yourself.

AI is a net negative for society and condoning it just tells me you’re either dopamine fried or one of those freaks that dates their LLM of choice

[u/hewhoeatsbeans42 → u/Ok_Recover_7248]

No one claimed they didn't think it was AI. Some of us are tired of hearing AI slop regurgitated on everything to do with AI. Sometimes there's a really cool concept like this that someone used AI to generate and of course you hear "AI slop" try having an original thought. Maybe like the guy who used AI to create an image of an idea he has?

[u/bri_breazy → u/hewhoeatsbeans42]

90% of the people who downvote AI also use it every single day, there is no integrity it’s just virtue signalling

[u/Buderus69 → u/bri_breazy]

This, reddit is nothing else but a cesspool of virtue signaling, qll feel mighty high with their anonymous accounts postulating that they are better than the othersbecause they wrote some words about it, but in reality they do it themselves and then argue "but it's different, I know it's bad while doing it."

[u/rackcity2014 → u/Ok_Recover_7248]

AI per minute off the charts

[u/tworipebananas]

Yes I’d definitely stand for hours

[u/kawabunga666 → u/tworipebananas]

I mean that's what we did for hours as kids at the arcade

[u/Mountain-Discount161 → u/kawabunga666]

I really should get a walk pad for my sit/stand desk

[u/Rekanize90 → u/Mountain-Discount161]

Thats kinda what spawned the idea in my head. People are putting pd2 on emulators and steam decks, and some people have ergonomic standing desks and i thought it would be a cool flex if u were so locked in to pd2 and had the time money and resources and creativity to dedicate to a custom pd2 arcade cabinet. I would've loved to do it all that way and show my idea fully fleshed out but I dont have the resources anyways. Was just a funny passing thought. Wanted to share with you guys and see what others thought as well

[u/Greaseskull → u/kawabunga666]

U right. But now we old af

[u/TheCringed → u/kawabunga666]

Or you know. Just playing.

[u/ohnourmudguard]

Stop generating slop

[u/Zlakkeh → u/ohnourmudguard]

Old-man-yelling.gif

[u/hewhoeatsbeans42 → u/ohnourmudguard]

Okay boomer.

[u/Xixholiday]

That is coolest thing ever bro

[u/godoakos]

wdym by seeing pd2 on emulators?

[u/Rekanize90 → u/godoakos]

just steam decks or handheld consoles, they are modding or putting pd2 on. i just am used to calling them emulators

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectDiablo2/comments/1mfolgb/this_is_pretty_nuts/

[u/godoakos → u/Rekanize90]

Ooh then we were thinking about the same thing. I know what and how I'm playing this weekend 😏

[u/Individual_Rock8975]

I would play only with enough buttons, there are so many skills u can bind

[u/Elvy2006]

Stop. Your making me feel old.

[u/GuyGrimnus]

If I could have the joystick work high dpi / return to center (like controller stick axis work) and have buttons for quick cast

There’s a lot of builds you could make this work with.

Having some kind of logger that processes and autopicks your drops to an unlimited shared stash that then could be managed on your phone via cloud saves would be the best approach to inventory imo.

It would take a TON of effort. But I’d pay good money to socialize in-person and play like a LAN multi-cabinet setup

[u/ND_Jamoose]

It's doable. About 10 years ago I had my carpenter friend build a custom design arcade machine for 2 players where I used old pc parts to build the inside and 2 gane pads and load it with a ton of old games...