Diablo + Hellfire

Because it's not working, even though they use it as a selling point.

It is hard to talk about a game as old, yet important as this. We're not playing this in 1997, we're playing it today. I propose a simple test. Suppose the Diablo series, and only the Diablo series somehow didn't exist, and a version of it only came out today. Would you have a reason to play it? This might seem an unfair test to a retro game, but I think it really is not. Fallout, Castlevania, a great many older Final Fantasies; all games that pass it in my eyes. Even with endless sequels and successors, they have enough to them to draw a gamer back to the source. Diablo does not. But Diablo is Diablo. Not many game can claim to have launched an entire subgenre. This is not to say that playing it today is without value. It's still a playable game that manages to hit some notes that its successors could not. Playing through it for the first time recently, the relative simplicity endeared the game to me. No fussing about with 13% crit rates and 34.5% health on every seventh kill: there's not a lot of gear and not a lot of stats, but what you do get matters more for it. The relatively slow pace also appealed to me, even if the methods by which it was attained sometimes did not. But it's still an old, rough game, outdone by its progeny over the last couple of decades. Good for the time, yet iterated upon thousandfold, even with newer improvements like DevilutionX. Diablo set the stage for the ARPG, but it didn't start the performance. That honor belonged to its sequel.

How long I've waited for this :D. Funny fact - Diablo I is GOG exclusive !

This game was awesome when it came out and if you really want to sink deep into nostalgia you can still enjoy it for what it was. However, its successors have rendered this game pretty obsolete. While the graphics are still beautiful to look at, what really grinds my gears are the combat and movement mechanics. You'll hit multiple hits on enemies right in front of you even though your only job is clicking on them. You will move sluggishly through the levels ... (really, that is the worst thing about it, the movement speed is atrocious; once you go Diablo 2 sprinting you never go back).

Ok, so it's Diablo, straight, I'm not sure what they mean with supporting modern screen resolution. When I read that, I expect widescreen at the very least... Well no. A couple quality of life improvements would have been nice, too (hold LMB to attack, crtl to reveal items on the ground), while they were at it. 5 stars for the original game (I don't agree that it has badly aged really), -2 for the quasi-lie of the modern resolution support.