Default Prime's Charles Battersby writes: "On my game shelf I still have the original manuals from both Diablo games. Made back in the days when PC games came in big boxes with thick instruction books, they proudly proclaim that you can “Compete FREE over the internet”. The first Diablo appeared in 1996, when dial-up modems were astonishing technological marvels, and playing over that new-fangled internet was genuinely a new experience for many gamers. It defined its own genre of cooperative hack & slash gaming, and millions of players spent hundreds of hours clicking away at the Lord of Terror and his minions. I was one of them, and I devoted even more time to playing the sequel. While there was only a four-year wait between Diablo and Diablo II, it’s been over twelve years since Diablo II released and I haven’t played either game in over a decade. With the third installment in the series arriving soon, I reinstalled these old friends to see if other players are still online battling Diablo after sixteen years."
Diablo III Season 38 launched with Ethereals back, but players are reporting Error 395002, disconnects, and server trouble.
Diablo 3 Season 38 starts March 27. Here’s what to finish before Ethereal Memory begins, from class choice and stash cleanup to Conquests and Ethereal
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.
