When Blizzard announced the hardcore game mode for its dungeon crawling sequel, Diablo 3, many considered it quite a daunting prospect to take on a game that was such a time sink, with the possibility of losing everything if you die even once. That means the longer you play, the higher your chances of losing everything, which makes Nokieka's achievement even greater than most, as they managed to hit level 1,000 on the game's Paragon ranking system, without dying once.
Blizzard introduced Paragon levelling shortly after the game was released back in 2012, to give the end game players something to work away at. What it did, is add infinite levelling opportunities beyond the game's 70 stock levels, but considering each Paragon level required a lot more experience than the previous one, getting up just a few was quite an achievement.
Let alone 1,000.
Of course people have hit 1,000 Paragon before now, but this is the first time - as far as we know - that someone has managed it on hardcore mode, presumably because nobody else would risk losing the many thousands of hours it must have taken to reach this point.
Noikeka did and they aren't stopping there. Purportedly, they've already hit level 1,002.
As impressive as these sorts of stories are though, I can't help but think of all the awesome games that this person is missing out on because they're so obsessed with the one title.
How do you guys feel about it?
