Diablo + Hellfire

In a way, this was Dark Souls before people knew it existed. Unless I was playing a Warrior, I typicly die in the first level. Three skeletons will mess you up if you arn't careful! Welcome to Diablo, where if you get froggy, you'll die a painful death...hope you saved... cuz you don't get respanws. If you want to experience where the great adventure started, don't even restrain yourself and come adventure into the layberenth. With Hellfire you got four classes (Warrior, Rouge, Wizard, Monk) new spells (Like Search, something you get for free in D2/D3 by pressing tab or whatever) and buffs like increase accuracy or damage potions. Even tho its not an official expantion, its definatly in the same vein and light. I played and beat the original back in the day. I never knew of Hellfire. So I jumped in, and after playing for a few minutes it's feeling like days of old. I can tell the town interactions were improved, mainly walking around town. You gotta get used to the combat a bit, like clicking for attacks, but its solid. Theres enough lore in the game and manual to keep it going. Why people liked D1 and D2 so much, and kinda didn't like D3 as much. This is what started the whole genra for a lot of people. It was just known as hack n slash back then. Even now, people compare hack n slashes to Diablo. In ways, this game does better then some today...but that is DEFINATLY nostalga talking. Its a tight, polished game, and if you like challenges, then get this. Maybe GoG can get D2 DRM free, that would be great. :D

loved this game for a long time, but it crashes on win10 almost everytime.

It's so awesome to see this finally released after all these years, especially since I've been playing it after fixing it to play on Windows 10 but I would have liked to see the networking code upgraded to play in the current security environment.

In it's time, Diablo was groundbreaking. It MADE the genre. Obviously, as a pioneer, it has it's failings. Later games were smoother, better designed, more polished. But Diablo was there first, and just for that - it deserves a bit of your time. If not for the still enjoyable (though - by today standards - EXTREMELY clunky) gameplay, then for the huge chunk of gaming history that this game is. The game's lore - while not very original - is still entertaining and well delivered. Just a small tip: if you don't care for lore or various events, but want to just focus on the gameplay, you might want to play multiplayer (even if alone). Single player has random quests, more lore and has some special items you might find, but - unlike multi - you can get through everything only once (i.e. after you cleared a location, it stays clear forever). Multi is nearly lore-free, you get the same quests always (Butcher, Skeleton King, Lazarus, Diablo), but you can replay levels all you want and grind (and go into higher difficulties).

Total classic. The atmosphere is toned just right.