Diablo + Hellfire

We buy old games, not because they have the best graphics and the best UI. We buy them because this is our time machine back 10, 20, 30 years. Diablo is such a time machine, and is just as great as it was in 1996. Poor graphics....Well, to that I say use your imagination to fill in the holes. Poor UI...it's not that bad once you get use to it. So glad GOG put this on their store. Can't wait until they get Warcraft 1, Warcraft 2....definitely an instant buys for me.

Great game. Saw the most "helpful" review say something like it's expensive for a game "you might quit after a few minutes". Well, you might quit any game after a few minutes. I'm 13 hours into this game and about to play on Hell difficulty. Anyway. I don't remember it being this easy; I remember playing a looooooooot.. for years, before, completing the game (well, I completed it many times over).. but this time I've only had this for some days, and my char is really jacked. I have almost all my inventory full of 5k stacks of gold, which I have to leave in town when I fight, because I need my inventory to store mana bottles. I guess I'm a better player now than in 98 or whenever.. back when I was 16.. <3

This game is absolutely worth spending $10 for even today, it's a small price to pay for a readily available copy that works without fuss on modern Windows and doesn't require you to keep a CD in your optical drive (or to skirt ethical computing if you want to play on a laptop lacking an optical drive..) If you are open minded about the fact that this game was released in 1996 and can put aside any expectations based on Diablo II you'll find a game that is not only well ahead of its time and ground breaking, but one that is worth your time. The levels are randomly generated, the quests you get are are randomly chosen from a pool, the mobs and enemies you'll encounter are randomly chosen as well. I have replayed this game at least once or twice a year since the late 1990s and still find things that surprise me at times. The only thing that would have made this release better is if it included the Hellfire expansion.. but I'm willing to bet the rights/licensing to that old expansion pack is well.. in hell.

I was almost 9 when this came out and I still remember when my father brought it home. Everything from the dark gritty atmosphere, soundtrack and visuals still hold up today if you ask me. Sure the game is a couple decades hold but don't let that keep you from playing a great classic whether new to the series or wanting to revisit Tristram. This is still my favorite game of the series even over D2 for the reasons stated above, it just hasn't came close since. Of course the age shows by how clunky it can feel, the controls aren't exactly great but you get used to them and it'll become second nature in no time. It warrants a few playthroughs worth till you may get burnt out on it as it doesn't have as much packed into it as D2 or D3 but it's still worth to go through it even once. The multiplayer is even better if you have a friend or two to play with. Just don't do what I accidentally did and chain lightning your friends to oblivion over and over...friend's don't let friend's chain lightning...He won't play with me no more hahahaha.

The game is great and I am glad to see it rereleased, but I wish I could download it on mac. This is the only diablo game I cannot get on my mac. I just would like to be able to play the entire series in one place. The original disk worked with mac.