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Believe it or not but I've NEVER played Diablo 1 and 2 back in the days and I'm going to do it for the first time. What I'm in for? I also wanna know if there are any significant differences between D1 and D2

inb4 mindless slasher

>> No.5592715

I've tried both on pc, and I didn't play it a lot back at their days as well. 2bh both didn't age that well, particularly 1.

>> No.5592740

i wish Diablo 2 was ported to the PS2 like Diablo 1 was on the PS1. It would have made the PS2 the perfect console.

>> No.5592757

>>5592676
Diablo 1 is the most basic hack'n'slash ever because it was the first one in the genre. Play it if you give a fuck or just to gawk at it, it's super short anyway (sub 10 hours).

Diablo 2 is a huge time sink and you might want to spend those hundreds of hours on some other game, especially considering you've no nostalgia glasses for it. Try Path of Exile maybe?

>> No.5592879

>>5592676
When you play d2 try it on the battlenet, even if you dont like it, it's Part of the experience. And it doesn't take 1000s of hours, although it has a learning curve of what is valuable and what not

>> No.5593372

>>5592676
There are other Diablo threads up
Next time check the catalog before starting a new one

>> No.5593518

I would unironically recommend you to play Diablo 3 instead. Enjoy that game, learn to love it, and throw hundreds of hours on it. Then play Diablo 2.

>> No.5593524

>>5593518
disgusting

>> No.5593557

>>5592676
They're both awesome. D1 has the better soundtrack and atmosphere. D2 is more fast paced with a bigger selection of classes.

>> No.5593574

All of the games are different and worth playing.

3 is a lot rougher around the edges because of its story content that you have to sit through, but the game itself is great.

2 is the gold standard for a reason. I can't say anything that hasn't been said already.

1 is a pseudo-rougelike and plays way, way differently than most other things in the genre. It's very short, very obfuscated, and 'build' is up to chance since spells aren't locked to any class, the only difference each meaningfully has is different animation speeds for casting and attacking and different stat caps, which can be broken with magic items anyway.

>> No.5593604
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5593604

Here's a protip for D1. Play as a sorcerer with the Hellfire expansion and you'll become completely god damn unstoppable once you get a book of Apocalypse.

>> No.5594062

Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 are both worth playing if you are going to go through them. They have similarities as Mario does with Sonic. They have a different focus with the same genre.

>> No.5594063

>>5593574
>3 is great

born after 2000 detected

>> No.5594073

>>5592676
Diablo is one of the greatest games ever.
Diablo 2 is retarded shit for casuals who didn't play the first game; don't waste your time with D2.

>> No.5594102

>>5594063

The core gameplay is good though, it's all of the surrounding horseshit like the story and auction house that drags it down. One of the best things 1 and 2 do is have the story stuff be in the background and only explained really through books, it made everything seem way more mysterious and interesting, like the world was way bigger than what was going on with you.

>> No.5594123

Diablo is a 10/10 in atmosphere and setting, but a 3/10 in gameplay.
Enemies always fucking permastun you, except for when you're at <10% health, where you're immune to stuns but then you just die. You can exploit this by using mana shield when you're low health. It takes like 5 full minutes to buy and sell your loot because you can only walk at snails pace, even in tristram, and you have to throw gold on the ground because it takes up inventory space. Playing as a full melee warrior is straight up retarded, hope you enjoy slow speed chasing ranged enemies all across the level. Also the game runs at like 20(or 24?) fps. This would be whatever I guess, except for the fact that as theres no item highlighting with Alt like in later games, the only way to check if theres an item on the ground is by flailing your cursor across the screen, and doing this at such low framerate makes it that more tedious and imprecise. The fact that enemies death sounds mask the "item dropped" sound doesnt help either. So the looting part of the game is a huge chore. Theres a couple more big flaws in the gameplay, but you get the idea. Just play as a sorcerer for your first run, its a bit less tedious.
Now, D2 makes gameplay much better but takes a hit in the atmosphere. Play version 1.09 of lord of destruction or vanilla (whirlwind barbarian or ice orb sorc are pretty good) for the OG D2 feel. Versions 1.10 and later shift the game to a rune farming clown fiesta, complete with powercreep. Those are okay I guess, a newbie wont even tell the difference probably, much less if you just plan to play once for the story.
Diablo 3 is just like any other game released in the 2010's, a soulless gameplay loop designed to squeeze the most money out of the customer

>> No.5594138

>>5593604
As if Sorcerer wasn't unstoppable enough with just Mana Shield, Chain Lightning, and Fire Wall

>> No.5594146

>>5594063
I was born in 1981 and I had a lot of fun with d3. I'm not sure what are you on about.

>> No.5594156

1 is leagues better than 2 and we don't speak of 3

>> No.5594205

>>5593518
Disgusting retard.

>> No.5594206

>>5594156
D1 is the prototype that gave us the perfection known as D2.

>> No.5594286

>>5594123
>you can only walk at snails pace, even in tristram
>theres no item highlighting

The Hellfire expansion fixes both of those problems.

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>>5593518

>> No.5595792

>>5592676
If you have any interest in playing D1 start with it, even though I love both D1 and D2 and have probably more hours than I would care to admit across both of them, once you play D2 it is hard to go back to D1 just because of QoL changes. But D1 is absolutely worth a play through

>> No.5595814

D1 is world's better for atmosphere, lore, and the game is a lot more difficult and fun.

That said, it came out in 1996 so walkings slow as shit and 20fps sucks.

D2 was a fun game for online play and loot grinding, but not the great game the original was.

3 I beat once and dropped.

The original invented a genre. It can be played as a great rougelike by just not going back to town. 4 player online matchmaking with servers was fantastic for 96.

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5595831

>get raped by succubi who run away from you and lead you into mages, balrogs, and blood knights.
>finally a book of teleport spawns in the store
>mace or haste drops
>now I can just teleport on top of them and bash their fucking skulls in using stun lock

D1s difficulty makes getting good a lot more rewarding. Never really found a good way to deal with acid spitters at mid level though. They basically always fuck your shit up.

>> No.5595912

>>5592740
It had Champions: Return to Arms which was pretty fun

>> No.5596728

Diablo 1 is the first and the pinnacle of the genre. After that it just became loot grinding games.