eXputer: Diablo 1 is the purest, most condensed experience of the ARPG genre, and I think every Diablo fan owes it to themselves to play this one.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "This is a collection of short Late Looks picking up on some of the games I meant to write a full article for but was too busy to do at the time. This time the games in question are the original Diablo, Balatro, and Kingdom Hearts III - a perfectly natural combination of games that you definitely expected to see grouped together. Not quite review and not quite rant, it’s more a casual assessment of what I – the gamer of the future – consider to be each game’s strengths and weaknesses in retrospect."
i get the “weird combo” angle, but i’m curious what you think holds up best: diablo’s atmosphere, balatro’s loop, or kh3’s combat. i bounced off kh3 hard after seeing casino junk shoved into a fan discord, including https://monopolybigballerli... and it soured my mood for anything with flashy “chance” mechanics. balatro still feels clever to me since the randomness is the point and you’re making real decisions around it. also had a similar spam wave on a retro forum with https://red-baron.org/ and https://dream-catcher-game.... and it’s annoying how it derails game talk.
Blizzard reveals plans to speed up Diablo releases with more frequent expansions and updates as the franchise moves toward a live-service future.
All I want is a physical disc release of remastered D2 that doesn't require online check-ins.
I've lost complete interest. Too much FOMO with seasons as it is, now it's expansions? No thanks.
what fomo? everything gets reset each season and you start new characters unless you're playing on the regular servers and then you're already maxxed anway and just need to participate in the new season stuff.
i played only during launch and i found the ones in that battlepass to be absolute dogwater, the only ones that looked somewhat cool were the paid ones in the store and i wont bother with either. The game itself was just so hollow, there were no cool builds cause every synergy was just "x or y skills does more dmg or has this extra effect" almost no experimentation needed, couldnt give a rats ass about armor if the core of the game is boring af.
From the classic RPG to its mobile adaptation, let's rank every Diablo game from worst to best.
Finally some love for diablo 3, I completely agree with its placing! Very nice coop on the ps3 back in the day, but solo was a good grind as well, very enjoyable.
The only thing that irked me was buying the complete or ultimate edition or whatever and suddenly introducing a dlc that's not included.
Diablo 3 > Diablo 2. I tried D2 after playing D3 many times and didn't like that nearly as much as 3.
IMO Diablo 2 captured what is great about Diablo 1 and expanded on it. Diablo 1 is a great game, don't get me wrong. I just don't have much desire to play it when there is Diablo 2.
Ahh here it is -- author hasn't played Diablo 2.
"I still haven’t played Diablo 2, but I would certainly like to when I am able to afford it."
Compared to 2, it's unplayable. But I recently installed D1 off of my old cd-rom, tried it out for a few hours, got down to The Butcher and felt that old familiar "this is just an honest to goodness good game" feeling.
3 is a bad a game and 4 looks like to be a reskin of 3, so if you want more Diablo, you only have 1 and 2 to play.
You should play Diablo 1 again, to experience its biggest invention at that time: the randomized map & side missions! You already know that Diablo 1 was divided into 4 major story points, each story contain 4 levels of dragons. Each time you start a gaming sections, the map & side mission would be generated randomly. So in some play thru you may meet The Butcher, sometime you didn't. Sometime you may meet the Skeleton King, sometimes you don't. So each play thru you won't see & do all the side missions & fight every mini boss.