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[IbizaPocholo]

In 1997 (technically on December 31, 1996!). Blizzard North released Diablo, from the creative vision of the game -David Brevik. And 28 years later the game still holds up. The game features randomized dungeons, loot, 3 classes with their own skill trees and a dark story. This formula is still very much popular to this day. Diablo was the first. In today's episode we take a look at the game that birthed an entire genre - the Action Role Playing Game.


Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
00:51 - Before Diablo
02:19 - The Game
05:48 - The Butcher
06:53 - Difficulty
10:54 - GOG and Source Ports
12:43 - Outro

 

[ReyBrujo]

The other day I was listening a dungeon crawler oriented podcast where they mention that they didn't like Diablo (nor Baldur's Gate) because the dungeon crawler genre suddenly switched from turn-based grid movement to real time isometric. One could be said it started the dark ages of blobbers (no pun intended).

 

[Closer]

Still my favorite Diablo to this day. Something about how stiff everything is draws me in.

 

[diffusionx]

What a game. Not just the SP but the totally great MP with the duped items like Godly Plate of Whale. Loved this shit.