I love that in Diablo 1 you can start a mage on hell difficulty and then just defeat one enemy who happens to be not immune against fire, which gives you like 10 levels. Can I do the same in D2?
D1 is fantastic because it paved the way for D2, but D2 went in to perfect the genre. Everything after D2 doesn’t need to exist (I’ll give D2R a pass cause they are adding content and that gives me a boner)
I never understood why Diablo was seen as a good game, even back in the day. It's genuinely a brainless and superficial experience, 90% of what people make out of it appears to come straight from imagination rather than what the game actually provides.
Mephisto's laugh is cool, I guess.
Granted I feel like most games don't rely on most of the job being done by your imagination, either you care for what it is or don't, but Diablo seems to somehow have overridden that by basically making people imagine more of it than the game actually ever gives.
It's just an odd happening.
You're not entirely wrong, but here some factors to consider:
- lots of people have nostalgia for the game, being kids aged 8 to 15 when it came out. For many it was the first game in that genre and format
- the art direction (music, color palette, baked in assets, etc.) is truly exceptional, and was peak comfy of that short isometric era before games went full 3D. Act 1 in particular is one of the most memorable gaming experience of those days, and if you happened to see someone play, you couldn't help look over their shoulder. Your brain told you "wait, this looks interesting"
- The gameplay is indeed repetitive, especially the whole online play, which is what people spent thousands of hours on. But I guess there was something addictive in farming for gear and runes, spending time and resources achieving the perfect builds, etc.
Affliction Necromancer > Everything else.
There's no hope for D4 too. Seasonal content will probably be locked behind the battlepass.
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it was shit, that was Lord of Destruction that made it classic. also Diablo 1 is much better.
wrong about everything as always
shut your bias, bruh. D2 improved on the slog that was D1. Don't get me wrong though, D1 is great but D2 is just better.
The only people who say Diablo 1 is better are those who never played it
I love that in Diablo 1 you can start a mage on hell difficulty and then just defeat one enemy who happens to be not immune against fire, which gives you like 10 levels. Can I do the same in D2?
D1 is fantastic because it paved the way for D2, but D2 went in to perfect the genre. Everything after D2 doesn’t need to exist (I’ll give D2R a pass cause they are adding content and that gives me a boner)
unpopular opinion: Rogue Encampment and Wilderness are both better tracks than Tristram
Lut Gholein was sick too
also
I never understood why Diablo was seen as a good game, even back in the day. It's genuinely a brainless and superficial experience, 90% of what people make out of it appears to come straight from imagination rather than what the game actually provides.
Mephisto's laugh is cool, I guess.
Like every other game, your imagination enhances the experience
Granted I feel like most games don't rely on most of the job being done by your imagination, either you care for what it is or don't, but Diablo seems to somehow have overridden that by basically making people imagine more of it than the game actually ever gives.
It's just an odd happening.
nah modern action games are just hyper detailed, leaves less for the imagination but it's still there.
You're not entirely wrong, but here some factors to consider:
- lots of people have nostalgia for the game, being kids aged 8 to 15 when it came out. For many it was the first game in that genre and format
- the art direction (music, color palette, baked in assets, etc.) is truly exceptional, and was peak comfy of that short isometric era before games went full 3D. Act 1 in particular is one of the most memorable gaming experience of those days, and if you happened to see someone play, you couldn't help look over their shoulder. Your brain told you "wait, this looks interesting"
- The gameplay is indeed repetitive, especially the whole online play, which is what people spent thousands of hours on. But I guess there was something addictive in farming for gear and runes, spending time and resources achieving the perfect builds, etc.
the fact it's a great game is lost on you, imagine looking at a gamey-game like Diablo and saying "bruh i dont get it, i cannot comprehend"
are you 15
people really like grindig and clicking boxes. i never really got it either.
Not RPG, but a very good game. Superior gamefeel and presentation. Sui generis.
stupid Black person developers took that out in d2r. homosexuals.
Literally just installed D2R