Diablo 1 was my introduction to the genre, I still remember the feeling when the first sword dropped, equiping it and feeling stronger. The rest is history and I've been hooked for 25+ years since.
Same. There was really nothing like it at the time. I first experienced Diablo 1 on my PS1 - which prompted me to get my parents to purchase our first PC so I could play the better version there. Core memories of me and my cousins co-op'ing the story via dial-up connection...I've been hooked ever since and I've loved them all.
Seeing the Butcher for the first time scared the absolute crap out of me. I ran for the stairs just so I could calm down and then proceeded to die cause I was completely unprepared.
Sure, but let's not forget that they bought the bones of D1 from another developer, Condor, then polished & finished it off under the Blizzard North label. Vivendi was the beginning of the end of course.
@@TinariKao Yes & no: "The company was purchased and renamed as Blizzard North by Blizzard Entertainment's former owner Davidson & Associates about nine months before the release of their hit PC game Diablo in 1997". So even though they supposedly had complete autonomy, the final product & say was still influenced by the new owner no doubt. Just saying that they had already changed from a passionate 3-man indy dev team to a corporate owned big business effectively.
1000% agree, that's what I listened to in D3/D4 to make them more bearable. D4 was a huge improvement musically over D3 but still doesn't hit like 2/1 IMO.
I regularly play through act 1 after putting the toddler to bed just for the amazing 12 string guitar. Something about it is both relaxing and nostalgic.
As someone who was there to play them both in the moment, Diablo 1 is still my favorite. From the town music to the difficulty making you question every step you make the deeper you go, the game is just perfect to me.
Yeah, it's a tough choice, but everyone talks about D2, and few give D1 the credit it deserves. I'm glad he points out the small things, like the helmet coming off in town. The dungeon music, while unpleasant, is so atmospheric and unique. The monsters survived long enough to have memorable animations and sounds. The game has some big flaws, but nothing comes close to the atmosphere.
I remember farming the first 3 levels of the Shareware version as a kid because my parents didn't buy the full version. I played those first 3 levels so many times it was unreal. Lol.
I too LOVE diablo 1. And the music in Tristram is soooo good. The atmosphere in that game is just amazing. I never played single player though. I was on the edge of my seat in every dungeon. I remember that if you died you lost all of your stuff in the dungeon. I actually thought that was a pretty cool idea.
For me, Diablo 2 is the best. It is just the overall best package of all Diablo games. Diablo 1 had too many balance issues with certain classes and was pretty forgettable in terms of replayability. I played through it once and forgot it. But I invested thousands of hours in Diablo 2. Making multiple characters and finding interesting builds and possibilities with unique items.
@@uUuWolf16uUu I agree. I definitely put more hours into Diablo 2. I enjoyed playing it over and over and over. I also replayed diablo 1 a lot. But i guess it was because i never really played single player. I played LAN all the time. I was always leveling my character and looking for good stuff. I remember "Obsidian Ring of Zodiac" that gave + to all skills was almost impossible to find. I even played the beta version of diablo 1 over and over and I know much of the dialog by heart. Such good memories. I know people don't really like the expansion - but I enjoyed that too. That said - I played Diablo 2 way too much also. Man if I could have all those hours back I might have been rich today.
D1 has always been my GOAT because it was the only one where I genuinely felt dread and the looming anxiety as you travel down through the levels. The Cathedral was particularly haunting. And then there is the Butcher. That is the scariest experience in the whole series.
The butcher is super iconic. D1 was scary b/c you really feel like a level 1 newb getting in way over his head. i love D2, but the tension is different because your character seems so much more competent. Diablo was the only horror game in the series. Maybe I watched too many horror movies as a kid, but the Butcher always made me think of Leatherface brutally hanging a woman on a meat hook.
D2 really had a chokehold on me when I was a young. The memories of getting ur first Shako Enigma IK set War travelers Oculous Windforce etc The music of Tristram is just soo nostalgic.
Remember Uber farming the skeletons :D Quickly lvling several chars up to 85 in a few hours. Ahh... I used to be a Hdin for those runs, payment was usually a torch, but I really didn't mind payment as long as the hosts were kind. I often invited a few noobs as my payment, then had them level up and try their 2nd or 3rd character quickly. They eventually patched it out though, they now no longer offer experience, so that "exploit" was removed.
The dopest memory I have of D2 was when my brother and I first played online with my dad and he had the most powerful weapons on his barbarian. He came to help us with Andariel because we were afraid of her. He legit came in, bulldozed through all of the levels and then HULK JUMPED over all the enemies and one shot her! Ever since then, I fell in love with the game
When you start hiding behind corners to slowly clear out a huge pack and a rare monster, sweating because you know how easy it is to mess it all up. You start to understand the masterpiece that was Diablo 1 at the time
As someone who, as a 16 year old, went 50km by train, to buy the 2 level demo cd for D1 only to get absorbed by the Diablo - world up until now, it's awesome, to hear, how much your enjoy the 2 old ones. :)
Damn that’s crazy dedication. Where did you live you had to travel that far just for a demo? Mongolia? Did you have to take a boat to purchase the actual game 😂
@@TheAoalec14 😄 Germany. But my parents had no interest in getting internet connection. So, i had to get it done that way. But yeah, rereading it, i see how it must sound like living in the outer rim. 😄
I also had the demo. I will never forget it. Now DM understands why D3 and D4 are such a disappointment. Those people that designed the games never even played the first two.
When Diablo came out, I was 21. I had been PC gaming since 82, and “Ahhhhh, FRESH MEAT!” was the first time I had seen a PC game be that immersive. It made me feel it. It may be the top gaming moment of my life. Plenty of games are good (I think my all-time is Star Control 2 which came out when I was in high school) but before Diablo, they were just games. Diablo raised that bar.
That was the first time I really got my heart racing in a video game. Like getting hacked up on level 2 by a boss so clearly above you when you first find him... Man, it's the feeling you chase the rest of your life.
D1 town music is the most nostalgic feeling I've ever felt in my life. When I hear that music, words do not exist to explain that feeling. Been hooked since D1.
I spent so many years playing D2 before WoW came out, it was not just the game experience, it was also the closed battle net, the countless trading sessions, the hunt for the best item for your character...the simplicity of the game allowed it to be replayed countless of times even if it felt repetitive. A true masterpiece and time sink.
D2 was amazing and what got me into playing video games. I had so much fun trying different builds, doing ladder, cow level and magic find runs, etc., that my friends had to nag me into trying World of Warcraft with them when it first came out (and played WoW for a long time as well). I spent enough hours on D2 while I was pregnant I joke with my son that he was a gamer before he was even born. The fact that people still play D2R and WoW Classic shows the impact they had on the gaming industry, IMO.
The original Diablo kept me up literally until dawn on many occasions when I was in graduate school - it probably added months to my getting my doctorate. It is still my favorite.
Diablo 1 and 2 were my childhood - local Gaming shop had PC's linked together to play D1, there was a battle for the first one to call and book up the PC's for the day on a Saturday as people didnt have networked PC's at that point. By the time D2 came out this is where it changed, friends coming round with their PC's and playing multiplayer locally
Diablo2 is the gold standard when it comes to loot in any video game, period. Which conveniently enough, it’s a game about the loot. But it has never been replicated since that or anything lateral to that. The execution, hierarchy and reward is just right.
Diablo II taught me now to network PCs together. We actually set up a three PC LAN in my small apartment so friends could come over and we would play together. I am not on the hardware IT support side today, but I am a computer programmer
There's one hugely important strength that Diablo 2 has which you didn't talk about. The creature variety is simply incredible, I think it's the best creature variety in any game, period. Maybe it didn't occur to you all that much because you played Holy Fire paladin, but your gameplay changes significantly depending on which part of the game you're at. Every new act's monsters are masterfully crafted to make you feel like you've truly gone somewhere new. It's not just the same creatures with different skins, whose only features are their small/medium/large health pools depending on how large they are like in newer ARPGS. Every mob's attack patterns and abilities feel unique to play against, from Fallen shamans in act 1 to the tiny skeletons in act 3 to the invisible souls that shoot lightning in act 4... it cannot be accused of being repetitive at all. It's in stark contrast to Diablo 4 where every dungeon has the same gameplay.
Basically grew up playing games like Doom, D1, Blood, Heroes of Might and Magic, Gothic etc. Nothing can beat the 90's, nowadays games are drowned in all kinds of shit, from microtransactions, early access, preorder bonuses etc. etc. I can't seem to be able to enjoy a game and whenever I go back to replay one of the classics -- I instantly get reminded why.
@@Berigan725 Well said. D3 & D4 on the other hand... I wish I could say the same. Patiently waiting for POE2, but that too is full of overpriced microtransactions. At least the excuse there is that it's a F2P game.
@@swampsect D3 and d4 are totaly different games and should belong to a different franchise imo. Yea, I'm also patiently waiting for poe2. Hoping that it can somewhat scratch my ever itching longing for a d2 successor. Hope the microtransactions and live service aspects of the game don't play to big of a role.
@@Azarath26 POE's complexity is a double-edged sword^^ Yes you can do nearly anything, but the knowledge required to do any of it is immense, along with the grind required for it. I'm personally waiting for POE2, I've put a few hundred hours in POE, yet I barely understand some of the core mechanics, I definitely can't make a character able to clear any endgame content. - I can of course copy another build, but that takes 90% of the enjoyment away from me... I have done in the past, but it really gets boring just following a basic recipe. What makes D1 and D2 different, is the relative lack of grind for a fairly strong character, even without much understanding, most people can build a fairly successful character to finish the game. The real grind happens at Ubers in D2, but that was never meant to be for everyone, nor does the game even tell you it exists or how to get there.
@@Fiirow1 but poe is easy. Just cap res and build one archetype at a time and you're good. You can imagine I wanna play minions and search for minion nodes go there and put rest points in life and defences.
@@Azarath26 I know you are trying to be nice and all, but POE really isn't that great. I'll give it the respect it deserves by calling it the second best ARPG ever made and the spiritual successor to D2. However, the game really turns off a lot of people due to its terrible story and insane complexity. They nailed the gameplay and RPG elements, but everything else is lacking.
I remember when D1 came out, and what I liked a lot about it was its mood, yes it was yet another fantasy setting but with a dark (very cliché) and baroque (not so cliché) tone to it. it was technologically advanced too, although the pseudo-procedural levels needed a lot of time to load, more than five minutes depending on the PC. And the butcher room was specially memorable because they managed to generate a very gruesome and unsettling scene with a bunch of pixels tailored for a tiny resolution, it's a level of maturity in art design that the recent games are lacking.
Diablo 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm still playing it all these years later with over 2k hours in the remastered version.. that said, you explained exactly why it's my favorite better than I could have. I also wasn't allowed to play it growing up due to "Diablo" being the title in a religious household. So I'd have to stay up in the middle of the night and sneak onto the computer to play. I love that you finally got into it for all it's glory. Its kinda crazy as much as I love you DM that you're finally getting into it and I'm happy you get to show everyone what's so good about D2
I still remember the absolute MAGIC of playing the D1 demo (up to the Butcher), then immediately going to the store to buy the installation CDs for the full game!! And bringing my computer to a friend's house for LAN parties. I consider myself lucky for having experienced that kind of wonder. Windforce was my first GOOD item in any Diablo game...
My friends and i had lan partys every time we where allowed and Diablo 1 - 2 was some of the games we would play. Miss the old day when gaming was really social.
My Diablo memory (as a 37yo): Other kids in my school bus are talking about Diablo. I am around 12-13yo. I get a cloned copy of the game from the sketchy kid on the bus. My friend got the actual legit game. We both install it that weekend, at our separate houses. It's Dial-Up Modem internet, so we call each other instead of trying the online thing. We're talking and separately playing for 2-4 hours, but then... he goes silent. The next morning, I walk 2 blocks away, over to his house. I don't remember how or why, but I walk into his living room, and he's half asleep on the ground and he goes "oh, yeah, I fell asleep while playing on the floor, sorry". Fond memory.
I still have a brand new disc version of the original diablo with pamplet on PS1. Will never forget hearing "FRESH MEAT" for the first time, duplicating stat elixirs or hunting the Bloodstar skill books.
The great thing about D1's simplicity is how much it enraptures the imagination with its story telling. Learning about places like the chamber of bone sound so arcane and mysterious like there's much more than you can comprehend going on. Stuff like that gets lost when the series starts showing how everything comes together.
I'm just watching this because I love hearing someone new to this game speak so positively about it. I literally feel proud even though I did not make the game, i just played it since 2000 hehe.
What you said about the replayability of D2 being essentially running the campaign on New Game + and then New Game ++ and how it's still EXTREMELY satisfying to do so is actually I think where almost all ARPG's that came after went wrong that barely gets mentioned. It was essentially the last time where people weren't obsessed with "Endgame Content" in ARPGs, which I think has taken up so much importance in devs' minds that they've sacrificed depth and quality of the WHOLE game and gamers' minds that they don't even know what they're looking to get out of it anymore. In short, everything you mentioned is why D2 is still used (by those who know) as the benchmark by which all other ARPGs continue to be weighed against - for that to be the case for such an old game is truly a feat.
I think it is a grave mistake to design a game so that the campaign is only played once. When you play it over and over again, you get to know every little detail of the story by heart, and that is a core element of why you will buy the next installment.
Diablo 1 is in fact my fav even now. I love the pace, the sense of danger, the oppressive nature of it. None of the sequels really captured the feeling of descending into hell like og diablo.
I recently just played through D2 having become pretty obsessed with ARPGs this year. I’m 29 so was sort of too young to have caught it at the time, but I’m so glad I did. It’s honestly so much fun seeing your character change as you advance with the different gear and abilities, more so than the more modern ones I have played.
I just started playing D2R again and am planning on doing a FoHdin build. As soon as I started up the game in the rogue encampment the music always gives me shivers it's that good.
Thanks DM, I'm so glad more people are bringing these gems to light. These games are phenomenal and this video brings new players closer to this experience. These games hook you with satisfying progression, dark atmosphere and story and addictive itemization. Wish everyone picks it up and just give it a good try, you won't be disappointed.
The word I would use to describe Diablo 1 is pure. Purity of gameplay and purity of tone. Not even Diablo 2 managed to capture the simple dark horror. Definitely recommend.
Playing Diablo I online, in 1997, over aol dial-up was a super break through experience. Half of the game is the single player, one time play through...the other half was going into the chat rooms and putting groups together to do the hardest content and build your character up to level 50. Getting someone to drop a Staff of the Apocalypse with 255 charges, in a chat room, was so awesome.
Diablo 2 is still the only ARPG that I can just run all the difficulties back to back and not get tired of it. The item hunt and difficulty of leveling up is perfectly balanced and it doesn't get old until you have best in slot items (which if you're playing self found can take a very long time).
as someone who has spent 20+ years OBSESSED with diablo1&2, it makes me happy to see the joy the game still brings to new players. Playing diablo for the first time when I was younger was such a core memory for me, I used to go to a LAN center and just play for hours spending all my money I saved for the week. Nothing could be the time I spent on that game.
Playing Diablo 1 on the PS1 in co-op with my little brother when I was 10 was IT. My first ARPG and I'm still in love 24 years later. Absolutely timeless classic.
Use to play D1 as a kid, late into the night alone, lights off. It was something else. It was a good sort of creepy, almost cool. Made you feel like a badass.
Spot on. D1 and D2 are both masterpieces. D3 and D4 can't compete, they just don't have the right balance in the loot, and I don't think D4 ever will.. set items and runes need to come back, for a start.
One of my favorite elements of D1 is when you would switch areas. You had no idea when it would happen but the excitement of going deeper and deeper into the monastery built so much anticipation.
Been following you play these during the mini series and I’ve wanted to try D2. Finally installed and I’m loving it. Only on act 2 but I’m hooked. Might have to try OG diablo just to say I played them all.
Watching you try to kill a fire immune with holy fire put a big smile on my face lol. Glad you got to finally experience these games Diablo is my favorite franchise of all time and the envy I feel that you get to have that first time experience is insurmountable. Love the content as always DM
Diablo 1 was my first video game my dad bought it for me when I was 11. We use to play it together when he would come home from work, he never played he would just watch the screen and point at the monsters for me to kill lol. LOVED this game, played it for years and have fond memories of it became a full video game addict from this game alone and I'm sure that's not what my Dad wanted but hey that's how it goes xD
I had Diablo 1 on Playstation, not only getting to enjoy that game for what it was, but being able to build memories playing with my dad was amazing and can't be replicated.
Glad to see this, me and bros grew up on d2, era of lan parties and getting your laptops all around a folding table, running each other through hell, power leveling. Good times.
If you never played WC3 I highly suggest it. If you think the cinematics for D2 were great (which they were), you will be absolutely dumbfounded at how top tier they are in WC3. They might be slightly pixelated now, but they still hold up EXTREMELY well. The thing people miss about games from back in the day is the actual passion that went into the games being made. People can call it nostalgia, but it really isn't. In Today's age where everything is mostly playing it safe, or being cookie cutter, we LONG for the days when game after game was an absolute banger because of the passion being put into the games. Even if some games are your cup of tea, you see it when one of these passion projects comes along on how many people are loving it. Witcher 3, BG3 (I loved their divinity series, but BG3 REALLY put Larian on the map), Elden Ring (not my cup of tea, but I can still see the passion in the game I don't see in many), and a few others, but you get the picture. All of these investors who flooded the market need to take a step back and let the Devs cook. I know it's risky for them, but it would also show you which studios are being held back by Investors who don't know shit about what gamers actually want, and which are being held back by devs with seemingly no passion, on top of Investors.
This is an excellent summary that captures the many aspects of what truly makes d2 and d1 such immortal classics. Many games today are just as you said so well, "huge puddles, only an inch deep". I played d2 a lot when it came out. It replaced d1 in a respectable way with tons of improvements without feeling like a totally different franchise, sadly d3/d4 did the opposite. How ever, even though i played it more than anything at that time I only scratched the surface. I never tried runewords, I never really experimented with items outside of uniques, never crafted anything and I never tried trading. So when d2r released I got to experience the whole package and boy did it capture me again! D2 was great back in the days but to me it became clear only recently that it's the greatest arpg ever!
I was a straight arrow highschool nerd who never missed a class until Diablo. I missed so many classes because I would stay up so late playing that game. It's one of my fondest gaming memories as a teenager.
Absolutely favorite PC games of mine. Started playing from D1 back in the 90s. I (from Asia) learned most of my English from these games too as there weren’t translated version back then. My classmates were always surprised by the number of vocabularies I knew and I always aced the English exams ,lmao.
So many memories of Diablo 2 but my biggest was how I obtained it. Asian mother against violence and blood so she wasn't going to let me buy it. Halo was about all she accepted because the blood wasn't red and we were shooting aliens. BUT there was this one employee at Tower Records who I was pretty familiar with as I went there often and chatted. Asked him if it was possible to buy it for me or come as my brother/guardian. He was just about to go to lunch so he said he was down for it since he was also a gamer.
I grew up playing D1. I still play D2. Crazy thing about D2 is I still haven't found every item in the game and haven't played every character build, never mind there's still theory craft builds on top of that. I bet if blizzard added more content or more end game, D2 would blow up again. I would pay for another expansion for D2. Only if they kept it to the original game though.
Good takes. I grew up with D2 and later D2 LoD. Played it on 56k dial up modem, lol. If the phone rang at home, i screamed ”DONT PICK UP!!!!!” Because if someone did, i got disconnected from the internet lol. Good times. Awesome games.
The difference between designing a game with the sole purpose of creating an experience for the love of gaming. Versus creating a game for the sole purpose of extracting the most amount of money possible in several different ways is what the difference between D2 to D4 was. Just look at the itemization on how there are 6+ affixes on items with so many options vs what D4 has. The thought that went into D2 is not even close to comparison to D4. This is why new gamers have to experience D2 and really dive deep into it to finally see why D4 gets so many complaints, and hopefully start raising their standards because we have become numb to what games are these days. Aside from a select few games that still are made for the love of the gaming. DM said going through the campaign 3 times doing the same thing is still enjoyable with every hour that passes being better then the last is the sum of why it’s an iconic gem to this day. D4 people wanted to never see the campaign again right off the bat of release. It’s got to tell you something right there. So much more to say but who’s going to read it all anyways lol. “Hello my friend, stay awhile and listen”
One reason old school games were so iconic is it was just you vs the game. Much of the time there weren't any guides, tips...nothing to show you a build or how to solve a puzzle. You either figured it out or the game didn't get finished. Stuff that people now look up in 10 seconds on the internet might have taken you days or weeks. I remember playing a game, Dungeons of Daggorath. You had to figure out the secret name of a magic ring if you wanted to use it. I got a ring called a vulcan ring. I tried to figure out its secret name for hours and hours. Eventually I found an encyclopedia and learned Vulcan was the god of fire, so I guessed it was a Fire Ring. Yup, that worked.
now imagine if you had the pirate version, so no manual, and the games are in English, and you barely know any English at all. It was challenging, to say the least :).
I’ve spoken with the composer of Diablo 2’s music, Matt Uelmen on multiple occasions over the years and he is a genuine great guy and loves that his music was able to impact an entire generation of PC gamers.
I was 19 when Diablo was released and easily lost half of my summer break to it. Stayed in slaying away when I could have been playing outside and I loved it.
That’s a hell of a mustache brotha! Paired with the Dave Mustaine hairstyle 👍. D1 was amazing back in the day and still brings back memories, glad you enjoyed it.
Yes! Diablo II is objectively the best of the series, but Diablo I will always hold an extra-special place in my heart. The atmosphere is incomparable.
agreed only thing id say is musical award goes to Might and Magic 6-8 +Heroes of Might and Magic 2 - and you can have a warrior that does magic in dab 1 or a wizard that can swing a battle axe...love that
Played D2 when it came out and remember it looking like D2R :D It was so much fun ... all summer of 2004 coming back from the pub playing all night, sleeping all day ... rinse and repeat for two months ... D1 was also fun back in 1997 when I played it
I have 16 level 89-92 characters on d2r. You are 100% correct that there are so many build options with each class, that’s exactly why it’s so fun. Once you pick a build you want to try it’s all about leveling quickly by doing trist runs, tomb runs and Baal runs to wear the godly gear you found, crafted, made or traded for. The grind for levels and gear is a great experience. Best game ever imo, I still play it today from time to time.
this is what i've been saying. I dont mind grinding runs from D2 versus the chores i have to do in D4. It's almost no point grinding in D3 and D4 as it's essentially, the items just arent as good as d2. Anything that drops in D2 is important especially after runewords were introduced. ie: Whites, blue, yellow, etc
Man i must have put 1000s of hours into D2 and the expansion in my teenage years. No other game has even come close to getting me hooked like D2. Absolute masterpiece and as you said, I wish I could whipe my memory and start all over again.
Diablo 2 was SO MUCH FUN! Never played anything like it. Remember getting the collectors edition at Electronics Boutique at the mall, and the manager pointing it out, and deciding to give it a try. Miss the cow level.
Diablo 1 is my Core Memory for Gaming. I didn’t have a PC but my best friend had one. And he got Diablo as a gift and introduced it to me. We played it together even, he did all the keyboard stuff and i managed the mouse. It was hilarious. And of course i played all 4 diablos and the first is my favorite.
Have fun^^ D1 might be a bit slow, D2 starts a bit slow compared to modern games, but it does eventually ramp up to be more what you'd expect from an ARPG.
@@Fiirow1 that is why you play devilutionx and literally set the game to 200% game speed. You get better fps, a more challenging game and it takes less time to play, win win win :).
Collecting Ears in Diablo 1 to level up ranks in my clan/guild was so crazy. When you were able to kill a hacker who was ya know hacking like you was also amazing. Bone Spirit!
I have like 30k hours into D2 (my favorite game of all time) and only like 3 hours in Diablo 1 lol. I could never kill the Butcher but this makes me want to finally play it through.
Diablo 1 is also how the cow level idea was born since people including me the 3 cows had some secret and the developers were so intrigued by it that well… come Diablo 2….
I've played through all the versions and I really really really love two and three. That was why at least for me I was so disappointed and D4. Expectations are everything when it comes to games. My son still plays D1
it is actually wild how good they are/were. If you look at his stream on twitch, you'll notice how incapable he is at playing d1 because the game doesn't hold his hand through the entirety of it. He is literally just selling and intentionally leaving superior loot on the ground.
About replaying D2 on other difficulties - I think the game opens up in a big way during nightmare and hell not only with monsters being stronger and you having more skill points to make interesting builds, but also the whole systems like runewords come into play, the high level uniqs and set items are so crazy compared to what you see during normal, it creates a whole new experience and probably this is where the power creep has begun. And nowadays there are also uber bosses to really test your build.
Are your playthroughs recorded? Can't seem to find them on your YT channel. Very happy to hear that you liked D1 and D2 - Right after Heroes of Might And Magic, which was my first video game on pc, I discovered and absolutely loved D1 and later D2 - best memories and I still play all 4 Diablo games 🙂 Kind regards - love your videos
I first played diablo 1 while i was in my 2nd year of being in the army. Had just saved enough money to buy my first pc and oddly enough a chaplain assistant recommended it to me. Was hooked from there on.
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Diablo 1 was my introduction to the genre, I still remember the feeling when the first sword dropped, equiping it and feeling stronger. The rest is history and I've been hooked for 25+ years since.
Same. There was really nothing like it at the time. I first experienced Diablo 1 on my PS1 - which prompted me to get my parents to purchase our first PC so I could play the better version there. Core memories of me and my cousins co-op'ing the story via dial-up connection...I've been hooked ever since and I've loved them all.
I still remember the "King's sword of Haste"😄
D1 was how the genre was created, it was everyone's introduction :)
@@sirgorasheckley clearly didn't watch the video
Seeing the Butcher for the first time scared the absolute crap out of me. I ran for the stairs just so I could calm down and then proceeded to die cause I was completely unprepared.
R.I.P. Blizzard North.
Arise moonbeast studios!
Sure, but let's not forget that they bought the bones of D1 from another developer, Condor, then polished & finished it off under the Blizzard North label. Vivendi was the beginning of the end of course.
@@Nostromo2144 Blizzard North WAS Condor.
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@@TinariKao Yes & no:
"The company was purchased and renamed as Blizzard North by Blizzard Entertainment's former owner Davidson & Associates about nine months before the release of their hit PC game Diablo in 1997".
So even though they supposedly had complete autonomy, the final product & say was still influenced by the new owner no doubt. Just saying that they had already changed from a passionate 3-man indy dev team to a corporate owned big business effectively.
D2 music still the GOAT
1000% agree, that's what I listened to in D3/D4 to make them more bearable. D4 was a huge improvement musically over D3 but still doesn't hit like 2/1 IMO.
I regularly play through act 1 after putting the toddler to bed just for the amazing 12 string guitar. Something about it is both relaxing and nostalgic.
Id argue D1 music is just as good
@@Archaeologist89 True :)
💯% the soundtrack!!! Best ever!!
The original Tristram theme from Diablo 1 is such a masterpiece.
Chills every time I hear it.
As someone who was there to play them both in the moment, Diablo 1 is still my favorite. From the town music to the difficulty making you question every step you make the deeper you go, the game is just perfect to me.
Yeah, it's a tough choice, but everyone talks about D2, and few give D1 the credit it deserves. I'm glad he points out the small things, like the helmet coming off in town. The dungeon music, while unpleasant, is so atmospheric and unique. The monsters survived long enough to have memorable animations and sounds. The game has some big flaws, but nothing comes close to the atmosphere.
I remember farming the first 3 levels of the Shareware version as a kid because my parents didn't buy the full version. I played those first 3 levels so many times it was unreal. Lol.
I too LOVE diablo 1. And the music in Tristram is soooo good. The atmosphere in that game is just amazing. I never played single player though. I was on the edge of my seat in every dungeon. I remember that if you died you lost all of your stuff in the dungeon. I actually thought that was a pretty cool idea.
For me, Diablo 2 is the best. It is just the overall best package of all Diablo games.
Diablo 1 had too many balance issues with certain classes and was pretty forgettable in terms of replayability. I played through it once and forgot it.
But I invested thousands of hours in Diablo 2. Making multiple characters and finding interesting builds and possibilities with unique items.
@@uUuWolf16uUu I agree. I definitely put more hours into Diablo 2. I enjoyed playing it over and over and over. I also replayed diablo 1 a lot. But i guess it was because i never really played single player. I played LAN all the time. I was always leveling my character and looking for good stuff. I remember "Obsidian Ring of Zodiac" that gave + to all skills was almost impossible to find. I even played the beta version of diablo 1 over and over and I know much of the dialog by heart. Such good memories. I know people don't really like the expansion - but I enjoyed that too. That said - I played Diablo 2 way too much also. Man if I could have all those hours back I might have been rich today.
D1 has always been my GOAT because it was the only one where I genuinely felt dread and the looming anxiety as you travel down through the levels. The Cathedral was particularly haunting.
And then there is the Butcher. That is the scariest experience in the whole series.
The butcher is super iconic. D1 was scary b/c you really feel like a level 1 newb getting in way over his head.
i love D2, but the tension is different because your character seems so much more competent.
Diablo was the only horror game in the series.
Maybe I watched too many horror movies as a kid, but the Butcher always made me think of Leatherface brutally hanging a woman on a meat hook.
@@efg-smcagive props to an age of static and linear gameplay. Go figure that was immensely fun, a game with soul. Hmmm?
@@efg-smca the butcher still makes me jump when he says "Ahh , fresh meat". I know its coming but...
And not only the butcher but the drunk guy in tristram when you ask him about the butcher. The horror and dread in his voice
The feel of dread and despair was so good in d1, d2 good too. The others are to cartoony
D2 really had a chokehold on me when I was a young. The memories of getting ur first Shako Enigma IK set War travelers Oculous Windforce etc The music of Tristram is just soo nostalgic.
Remember Uber farming the skeletons :D Quickly lvling several chars up to 85 in a few hours.
Ahh... I used to be a Hdin for those runs, payment was usually a torch, but I really didn't mind payment as long as the hosts were kind.
I often invited a few noobs as my payment, then had them level up and try their 2nd or 3rd character quickly.
They eventually patched it out though, they now no longer offer experience, so that "exploit" was removed.
Humm those are all expansion items. Did you play original pre-expansion at all?
As someone who has played Diablo 2 for 24 years, you couldn’t have said it any better. Awesome video.
The dopest memory I have of D2 was when my brother and I first played online with my dad and he had the most powerful weapons on his barbarian. He came to help us with Andariel because we were afraid of her. He legit came in, bulldozed through all of the levels and then HULK JUMPED over all the enemies and one shot her! Ever since then, I fell in love with the game
d2 has the best itemisation ever
i have over 2000 hours and i still have builds ive never done and items ive never found.
You never had your paladin hammerdin in bots mode running by himself like everybody else? I was able to gear up all my class pretty quick
When you start hiding behind corners to slowly clear out a huge pack and a rare monster, sweating because you know how easy it is to mess it all up. You start to understand the masterpiece that was Diablo 1 at the time
As someone who, as a 16 year old, went 50km by train, to buy the 2 level demo cd for D1 only to get absorbed by the Diablo - world up until now, it's awesome, to hear, how much your enjoy the 2 old ones. :)
Damn that’s crazy dedication. Where did you live you had to travel that far just for a demo? Mongolia? Did you have to take a boat to purchase the actual game 😂
@@TheAoalec14 😄 Germany. But my parents had no interest in getting internet connection. So, i had to get it done that way. But yeah, rereading it, i see how it must sound like living in the outer rim. 😄
I also had the demo. I will never forget it. Now DM understands why D3 and D4 are such a disappointment. Those people that designed the games never even played the first two.
@@Siphr0diasPC Games Abo?😂
@@snyderson1828 Nope.
When Diablo came out, I was 21. I had been PC gaming since 82, and “Ahhhhh, FRESH MEAT!” was the first time I had seen a PC game be that immersive. It made me feel it. It may be the top gaming moment of my life.
Plenty of games are good (I think my all-time is Star Control 2 which came out when I was in high school) but before Diablo, they were just games. Diablo raised that bar.
SC2 is amazing! I grew up playing ZX Spectrum games from '82 and still play to this day. Currently waiting for POE2 to arrive!
The butcher was nightmare inducing for real
That was the first time I really got my heart racing in a video game.
Like getting hacked up on level 2 by a boss so clearly above you when you first find him... Man, it's the feeling you chase the rest of your life.
@@lennon7978 Seriously, I was like 8 watching my older brother play the first time. Scared the bejesus out of me.
Yeah meeting the butcher made my blood run cold, I was vibing and did not expect that to happen
D1 town music is the most nostalgic feeling I've ever felt in my life. When I hear that music, words do not exist to explain that feeling. Been hooked since D1.
I spent so many years playing D2 before WoW came out, it was not just the game experience, it was also the closed battle net, the countless trading sessions, the hunt for the best item for your character...the simplicity of the game allowed it to be replayed countless of times even if it felt repetitive. A true masterpiece and time sink.
D2 was amazing and what got me into playing video games. I had so much fun trying different builds, doing ladder, cow level and magic find runs, etc., that my friends had to nag me into trying World of Warcraft with them when it first came out (and played WoW for a long time as well). I spent enough hours on D2 while I was pregnant I joke with my son that he was a gamer before he was even born. The fact that people still play D2R and WoW Classic shows the impact they had on the gaming industry, IMO.
The original Diablo kept me up literally until dawn on many occasions when I was in graduate school - it probably added months to my getting my doctorate. It is still my favorite.
Diablo 1 and 2 were my childhood - local Gaming shop had PC's linked together to play D1, there was a battle for the first one to call and book up the PC's for the day on a Saturday as people didnt have networked PC's at that point. By the time D2 came out this is where it changed, friends coming round with their PC's and playing multiplayer locally
Diablo2 is the gold standard when it comes to loot in any video game, period.
Which conveniently enough, it’s a game about the loot.
But it has never been replicated since that or anything lateral to that. The execution, hierarchy and reward is just right.
Diablo II taught me now to network PCs together. We actually set up a three PC LAN in my small apartment so friends could come over and we would play together. I am not on the hardware IT support side today, but I am a computer programmer
There's one hugely important strength that Diablo 2 has which you didn't talk about. The creature variety is simply incredible, I think it's the best creature variety in any game, period. Maybe it didn't occur to you all that much because you played Holy Fire paladin, but your gameplay changes significantly depending on which part of the game you're at. Every new act's monsters are masterfully crafted to make you feel like you've truly gone somewhere new. It's not just the same creatures with different skins, whose only features are their small/medium/large health pools depending on how large they are like in newer ARPGS. Every mob's attack patterns and abilities feel unique to play against, from Fallen shamans in act 1 to the tiny skeletons in act 3 to the invisible souls that shoot lightning in act 4... it cannot be accused of being repetitive at all. It's in stark contrast to Diablo 4 where every dungeon has the same gameplay.
Basically grew up playing games like Doom, D1, Blood, Heroes of Might and Magic, Gothic etc. Nothing can beat the 90's, nowadays games are drowned in all kinds of shit, from microtransactions, early access, preorder bonuses etc. etc. I can't seem to be able to enjoy a game and whenever I go back to replay one of the classics -- I instantly get reminded why.
Homm 2 true banger
@@fliw7114 HELL YEAH! It's my favorite, homm 3 & horns of the abyss a close second, 5 was also very good, rest was quite trash.
@@swampsect to me homm 3 is like d2 was to d1. A respectable and honorable improvement that did not loose its soul. Both golden!
@@Berigan725 Well said. D3 & D4 on the other hand... I wish I could say the same. Patiently waiting for POE2, but that too is full of overpriced microtransactions. At least the excuse there is that it's a F2P game.
@@swampsect D3 and d4 are totaly different games and should belong to a different franchise imo. Yea, I'm also patiently waiting for poe2. Hoping that it can somewhat scratch my ever itching longing for a d2 successor. Hope the microtransactions and live service aspects of the game don't play to big of a role.
So many years have passed, still nothing beats thrill when i hear, "Ahhh, frsh meat....".
Best Feature at the trade side is, that you can activate this as sound for new messanges.
I liked that you could be a warrior mage in Diablo. Or, maybe not mage, but you now, a sorcerer's apprentice warrior.
Come see whet the Path of Exile offers in this matter :)
@@Azarath26 We know dude
@@Azarath26 POE's complexity is a double-edged sword^^
Yes you can do nearly anything, but the knowledge required to do any of it is immense, along with the grind required for it.
I'm personally waiting for POE2, I've put a few hundred hours in POE, yet I barely understand some of the core mechanics, I definitely can't make a character able to clear any endgame content.
- I can of course copy another build, but that takes 90% of the enjoyment away from me... I have done in the past, but it really gets boring just following a basic recipe.
What makes D1 and D2 different, is the relative lack of grind for a fairly strong character, even without much understanding, most people can build a fairly successful character to finish the game.
The real grind happens at Ubers in D2, but that was never meant to be for everyone, nor does the game even tell you it exists or how to get there.
@@Fiirow1 but poe is easy. Just cap res and build one archetype at a time and you're good. You can imagine I wanna play minions and search for minion nodes go there and put rest points in life and defences.
@@Azarath26 I know you are trying to be nice and all, but POE really isn't that great. I'll give it the respect it deserves by calling it the second best ARPG ever made and the spiritual successor to D2. However, the game really turns off a lot of people due to its terrible story and insane complexity. They nailed the gameplay and RPG elements, but everything else is lacking.
I'm getting into Grim Dawn, I'm happy to replay on the various difficulty levels, because it is a great game. And each replay more opens up
I remember when D1 came out, and what I liked a lot about it was its mood, yes it was yet another fantasy setting but with a dark (very cliché) and baroque (not so cliché) tone to it. it was technologically advanced too, although the pseudo-procedural levels needed a lot of time to load, more than five minutes depending on the PC. And the butcher room was specially memorable because they managed to generate a very gruesome and unsettling scene with a bunch of pixels tailored for a tiny resolution, it's a level of maturity in art design that the recent games are lacking.
Diablo 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm still playing it all these years later with over 2k hours in the remastered version.. that said, you explained exactly why it's my favorite better than I could have. I also wasn't allowed to play it growing up due to "Diablo" being the title in a religious household. So I'd have to stay up in the middle of the night and sneak onto the computer to play. I love that you finally got into it for all it's glory. Its kinda crazy as much as I love you DM that you're finally getting into it and I'm happy you get to show everyone what's so good about D2
I still remember the absolute MAGIC of playing the D1 demo (up to the Butcher), then immediately going to the store to buy the installation CDs for the full game!! And bringing my computer to a friend's house for LAN parties. I consider myself lucky for having experienced that kind of wonder. Windforce was my first GOOD item in any Diablo game...
Atmosphere in D1 is just out of this world
My friends and i had lan partys every time we where allowed and Diablo 1 - 2 was some of the games we would play. Miss the old day when gaming was really social.
My Diablo memory (as a 37yo):
Other kids in my school bus are talking about Diablo. I am around 12-13yo. I get a cloned copy of the game from the sketchy kid on the bus. My friend got the actual legit game. We both install it that weekend, at our separate houses. It's Dial-Up Modem internet, so we call each other instead of trying the online thing. We're talking and separately playing for 2-4 hours, but then... he goes silent.
The next morning, I walk 2 blocks away, over to his house. I don't remember how or why, but I walk into his living room, and he's half asleep on the ground and he goes "oh, yeah, I fell asleep while playing on the floor, sorry". Fond memory.
I still have a brand new disc version of the original diablo with pamplet on PS1. Will never forget hearing "FRESH MEAT" for the first time, duplicating stat elixirs or hunting the Bloodstar skill books.
With the 15 blocks memory card saves 😂 (if i remember correctly)
Blizzard really make good cinematics. It was mind blowing the jump between 1 and 2
Every time I see a new Bliz cinematic, I shake my head and say "Man, Blizzard knows how to tell a f0c4ing story!!"
@@Sure0Foot back then*.. just look at the bs they are shipping now, I’m looking at you anduin crybaby.
People forget that voice acting in games coming out in 1996 is absolutely insane.
Love it! Looking forward to watching the full playthrough on RUclips 🙏
The great thing about D1's simplicity is how much it enraptures the imagination with its story telling. Learning about places like the chamber of bone sound so arcane and mysterious like there's much more than you can comprehend going on.
Stuff like that gets lost when the series starts showing how everything comes together.
well said.
I'm just watching this because I love hearing someone new to this game speak so positively about it. I literally feel proud even though I did not make the game, i just played it since 2000 hehe.
What you said about the replayability of D2 being essentially running the campaign on New Game + and then New Game ++ and how it's still EXTREMELY satisfying to do so is actually I think where almost all ARPG's that came after went wrong that barely gets mentioned. It was essentially the last time where people weren't obsessed with "Endgame Content" in ARPGs, which I think has taken up so much importance in devs' minds that they've sacrificed depth and quality of the WHOLE game and gamers' minds that they don't even know what they're looking to get out of it anymore.
In short, everything you mentioned is why D2 is still used (by those who know) as the benchmark by which all other ARPGs continue to be weighed against - for that to be the case for such an old game is truly a feat.
I think it is a grave mistake to design a game so that the campaign is only played once. When you play it over and over again, you get to know every little detail of the story by heart, and that is a core element of why you will buy the next installment.
Diablo 1 is in fact my fav even now.
I love the pace, the sense of danger, the oppressive nature of it.
None of the sequels really captured the feeling of descending into hell like og diablo.
I recently just played through D2 having become pretty obsessed with ARPGs this year. I’m 29 so was sort of too young to have caught it at the time, but I’m so glad I did. It’s honestly so much fun seeing your character change as you advance with the different gear and abilities, more so than the more modern ones I have played.
I just started playing D2R again and am planning on doing a FoHdin build. As soon as I started up the game in the rogue encampment the music always gives me shivers it's that good.
Thanks DM, I'm so glad more people are bringing these gems to light. These games are phenomenal and this video brings new players closer to this experience. These games hook you with satisfying progression, dark atmosphere and story and addictive itemization. Wish everyone picks it up and just give it a good try, you won't be disappointed.
The word I would use to describe Diablo 1 is pure. Purity of gameplay and purity of tone. Not even Diablo 2 managed to capture the simple dark horror. Definitely recommend.
6:30 Skyrim Soundtrack is also insane.
Playing Diablo I online, in 1997, over aol dial-up was a super break through experience. Half of the game is the single player, one time play through...the other half was going into the chat rooms and putting groups together to do the hardest content and build your character up to level 50. Getting someone to drop a Staff of the Apocalypse with 255 charges, in a chat room, was so awesome.
Diablo 2 is still the only ARPG that I can just run all the difficulties back to back and not get tired of it. The item hunt and difficulty of leveling up is perfectly balanced and it doesn't get old until you have best in slot items (which if you're playing self found can take a very long time).
as someone who has spent 20+ years OBSESSED with diablo1&2, it makes me happy to see the joy the game still brings to new players. Playing diablo for the first time when I was younger was such a core memory for me, I used to go to a LAN center and just play for hours spending all my money I saved for the week. Nothing could be the time I spent on that game.
Playing Diablo 1 on the PS1 in co-op with my little brother when I was 10 was IT. My first ARPG and I'm still in love 24 years later. Absolutely timeless classic.
Bless you for understanding
Use to play D1 as a kid, late into the night alone, lights off. It was something else. It was a good sort of creepy, almost cool. Made you feel like a badass.
Spot on. D1 and D2 are both masterpieces. D3 and D4 can't compete, they just don't have the right balance in the loot, and I don't think D4 ever will.. set items and runes need to come back, for a start.
A very good and intelligent breakdown from you and you're mustache. D1 and 2 are masterpieces,. and STILL holds up.
Bliz north was their better team
One of my favorite elements of D1 is when you would switch areas. You had no idea when it would happen but the excitement of going deeper and deeper into the monastery built so much anticipation.
Been following you play these during the mini series and I’ve wanted to try D2. Finally installed and I’m loving it. Only on act 2 but I’m hooked. Might have to try OG diablo just to say I played them all.
Watching you try to kill a fire immune with holy fire put a big smile on my face lol. Glad you got to finally experience these games Diablo is my favorite franchise of all time and the envy I feel that you get to have that first time experience is insurmountable. Love the content as always DM
Diablo 1 was my first video game my dad bought it for me when I was 11. We use to play it together when he would come home from work, he never played he would just watch the screen and point at the monsters for me to kill lol.
LOVED this game, played it for years and have fond memories of it became a full video game addict from this game alone and I'm sure that's not what my Dad wanted but hey that's how it goes xD
I had Diablo 1 on Playstation, not only getting to enjoy that game for what it was, but being able to build memories playing with my dad was amazing and can't be replicated.
Glad to see this, me and bros grew up on d2, era of lan parties and getting your laptops all around a folding table, running each other through hell, power leveling. Good times.
Diablo 1&2 and Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance 1&2 are my favorite dungeon crawler soundtracks, and I haven't found anything that comes close.
If you never played WC3 I highly suggest it. If you think the cinematics for D2 were great (which they were), you will be absolutely dumbfounded at how top tier they are in WC3. They might be slightly pixelated now, but they still hold up EXTREMELY well.
The thing people miss about games from back in the day is the actual passion that went into the games being made. People can call it nostalgia, but it really isn't. In Today's age where everything is mostly playing it safe, or being cookie cutter, we LONG for the days when game after game was an absolute banger because of the passion being put into the games.
Even if some games are your cup of tea, you see it when one of these passion projects comes along on how many people are loving it. Witcher 3, BG3 (I loved their divinity series, but BG3 REALLY put Larian on the map), Elden Ring (not my cup of tea, but I can still see the passion in the game I don't see in many), and a few others, but you get the picture.
All of these investors who flooded the market need to take a step back and let the Devs cook. I know it's risky for them, but it would also show you which studios are being held back by Investors who don't know shit about what gamers actually want, and which are being held back by devs with seemingly no passion, on top of Investors.
This is an excellent summary that captures the many aspects of what truly makes d2 and d1 such immortal classics. Many games today are just as you said so well, "huge puddles, only an inch deep". I played d2 a lot when it came out. It replaced d1 in a respectable way with tons of improvements without feeling like a totally different franchise, sadly d3/d4 did the opposite. How ever, even though i played it more than anything at that time I only scratched the surface. I never tried runewords, I never really experimented with items outside of uniques, never crafted anything and I never tried trading. So when d2r released I got to experience the whole package and boy did it capture me again! D2 was great back in the days but to me it became clear only recently that it's the greatest arpg ever!
I was a straight arrow highschool nerd who never missed a class until Diablo. I missed so many classes because I would stay up so late playing that game. It's one of my fondest gaming memories as a teenager.
Absolutely favorite PC games of mine. Started playing from D1 back in the 90s. I (from Asia) learned most of my English from these games too as there weren’t translated version back then. My classmates were always surprised by the number of vocabularies I knew and I always aced the English exams ,lmao.
that's the best
I still have a vivid memory of the
accept
reject
dialogue option from civ1 :D
So many memories of Diablo 2 but my biggest was how I obtained it. Asian mother against violence and blood so she wasn't going to let me buy it. Halo was about all she accepted because the blood wasn't red and we were shooting aliens.
BUT there was this one employee at Tower Records who I was pretty familiar with as I went there often and chatted. Asked him if it was possible to buy it for me or come as my brother/guardian. He was just about to go to lunch so he said he was down for it since he was also a gamer.
I grew up playing D1. I still play D2. Crazy thing about D2 is I still haven't found every item in the game and haven't played every character build, never mind there's still theory craft builds on top of that. I bet if blizzard added more content or more end game, D2 would blow up again. I would pay for another expansion for D2. Only if they kept it to the original game though.
This is the first time I see your Channel and I must say I agree with every word spot on🎉 Diablo is one of the greatest! and the music, pure love
Glad you tried it! Most played game for me ever. Play it sine 24 years now, with some breaks in between. It's a masterpiece.
Good takes. I grew up with D2 and later D2 LoD. Played it on 56k dial up modem, lol. If the phone rang at home, i screamed ”DONT PICK UP!!!!!” Because if someone did, i got disconnected from the internet lol. Good times. Awesome games.
The difference between designing a game with the sole purpose of creating an experience for the love of gaming. Versus creating a game for the sole purpose of extracting the most amount of money possible in several different ways is what the difference between D2 to D4 was.
Just look at the itemization on how there are 6+ affixes on items with so many options vs what D4 has. The thought that went into D2 is not even close to comparison to D4. This is why new gamers have to experience D2 and really dive deep into it to finally see why D4 gets so many complaints, and hopefully start raising their standards because we have become numb to what games are these days. Aside from a select few games that still are made for the love of the gaming.
DM said going through the campaign 3 times doing the same thing is still enjoyable with every hour that passes being better then the last is the sum of why it’s an iconic gem to this day. D4 people wanted to never see the campaign again right off the bat of release. It’s got to tell you something right there. So much more to say but who’s going to read it all anyways lol.
“Hello my friend, stay awhile and listen”
One reason old school games were so iconic is it was just you vs the game. Much of the time there weren't any guides, tips...nothing to show you a build or how to solve a puzzle. You either figured it out or the game didn't get finished. Stuff that people now look up in 10 seconds on the internet might have taken you days or weeks. I remember playing a game, Dungeons of Daggorath. You had to figure out the secret name of a magic ring if you wanted to use it. I got a ring called a vulcan ring. I tried to figure out its secret name for hours and hours. Eventually I found an encyclopedia and learned Vulcan was the god of fire, so I guessed it was a Fire Ring. Yup, that worked.
now imagine if you had the pirate version, so no manual, and the games are in English, and you barely know any English at all. It was challenging, to say the least :).
I’ve spoken with the composer of Diablo 2’s music, Matt Uelmen on multiple occasions over the years and he is a genuine great guy and loves that his music was able to impact an entire generation of PC gamers.
Oh man D1 couch co-op on ps1 was awesome played this so much when i was like 15 good times.
I jumped back in to play some D2 and wow it's still good!
Dude I love D2, enjoy coming back to it every few years and enjoying the linear campaign. Have been blasting it for the last month.
I think you've managed to articulate what made D1 and D2 so special very well here. Not easy to do. Bravo.
I was 19 when Diablo was released and easily lost half of my summer break to it. Stayed in slaying away when I could have been playing outside and I loved it.
Sounds aweful
That’s a hell of a mustache brotha! Paired with the Dave Mustaine hairstyle 👍. D1 was amazing back in the day and still brings back memories, glad you enjoyed it.
Playing Diablo 1 online back in the day with my friend via a dial-up connection was a magical experience.
Yes! Diablo II is objectively the best of the series, but Diablo I will always hold an extra-special place in my heart. The atmosphere is incomparable.
agreed only thing id say is musical award goes to Might and Magic 6-8 +Heroes of Might and Magic 2 - and you can have a warrior that does magic in dab 1 or a wizard that can swing a battle axe...love that
Played D2 when it came out and remember it looking like D2R :D It was so much fun ... all summer of 2004 coming back from the pub playing all night, sleeping all day ... rinse and repeat for two months ... D1 was also fun back in 1997 when I played it
Watching people react to our favorite content is us getting to experience them for the first time agsin by proxy. I love it.
I have 16 level 89-92 characters on d2r. You are 100% correct that there are so many build options with each class, that’s exactly why it’s so fun.
Once you pick a build you want to try it’s all about leveling quickly by doing trist runs, tomb runs and Baal runs to wear the godly gear you found, crafted, made or traded for. The grind for levels and gear is a great experience.
Best game ever imo, I still play it today from time to time.
this is what i've been saying. I dont mind grinding runs from D2 versus the chores i have to do in D4. It's almost no point grinding in D3 and D4 as it's essentially, the items just arent as good as d2. Anything that drops in D2 is important especially after runewords were introduced. ie: Whites, blue, yellow, etc
I never actually played the OG Diablo. After watching your video, definitely going to do a playthrough this week.
Man i must have put 1000s of hours into D2 and the expansion in my teenage years. No other game has even come close to getting me hooked like D2. Absolute masterpiece and as you said, I wish I could whipe my memory and start all over again.
Diablo 2 was SO MUCH FUN!
Never played anything like it. Remember getting the collectors edition at Electronics Boutique at the mall, and the manager pointing it out, and deciding to give it a try.
Miss the cow level.
Diablo 1 is my Core Memory for Gaming. I didn’t have a PC but my best friend had one. And he got Diablo as a gift and introduced it to me. We played it together even, he did all the keyboard stuff and i managed the mouse. It was hilarious. And of course i played all 4 diablos and the first is my favorite.
Since you've been branching out into other games like Elden Ring, D1, and D2, I'm curious if you've ever played a Monster Hunter game?
I thought there was zero chance I would ever touch these ancient games. But you talked me into it, dude.
Have fun^^
D1 might be a bit slow, D2 starts a bit slow compared to modern games, but it does eventually ramp up to be more what you'd expect from an ARPG.
@@Fiirow1 that is why you play devilutionx and literally set the game to 200% game speed. You get better fps, a more challenging game and it takes less time to play, win win win :).
Collecting Ears in Diablo 1 to level up ranks in my clan/guild was so crazy. When you were able to kill a hacker who was ya know hacking like you was also amazing. Bone Spirit!
Glad to hear you enjoyed Diablo 1!
I have like 30k hours into D2 (my favorite game of all time) and only like 3 hours in Diablo 1 lol. I could never kill the Butcher but this makes me want to finally play it through.
Diablo 1 is also how the cow level idea was born since people including me the 3 cows had some secret and the developers were so intrigued by it that well… come Diablo 2….
I've played through all the versions and I really really really love two and three. That was why at least for me I was so disappointed and D4. Expectations are everything when it comes to games. My son still plays D1
Playing these games in the 90s was somthing special. Take me back, take me baaaaaacccckk!!!!!
it is actually wild how good they are/were. If you look at his stream on twitch, you'll notice how incapable he is at playing d1 because the game doesn't hold his hand through the entirety of it. He is literally just selling and intentionally leaving superior loot on the ground.
Dude you're SPOT ON with the D2 soundtrack comment. 100%!
Mr.Llama would be proud.
About replaying D2 on other difficulties - I think the game opens up in a big way during nightmare and hell not only with monsters being stronger and you having more skill points to make interesting builds, but also the whole systems like runewords come into play, the high level uniqs and set items are so crazy compared to what you see during normal, it creates a whole new experience and probably this is where the power creep has begun. And nowadays there are also uber bosses to really test your build.
Are your playthroughs recorded? Can't seem to find them on your YT channel. Very happy to hear that you liked D1 and D2 - Right after Heroes of Might And Magic, which was my first video game on pc, I discovered and absolutely loved D1 and later D2 - best memories and I still play all 4 Diablo games 🙂
Kind regards - love your videos
I first played diablo 1 while i was in my 2nd year of being in the army. Had just saved enough money to buy my first pc and oddly enough a chaplain assistant recommended it to me. Was hooked from there on.