Diablo + Hellfire

Thanks so much GoG for upgrading all original D1 owners to Hellfire without making us a pay more for it. This game is truly amazing and I've spent countless hours on it in my youth. The Hellfire expansion adds a lot more stuff and an extra playable class and if you can look past the dated graphics it is an extremely fun game to get into.

Not as polished as 2, but still a classic in it's own right! Made in a time when Blizzard was young, hungry and actually cared, the game has a legendary soundtrack (just the first few notes of "Tristram" transports me back everytime!), great atmosphere, especially for a pixal game, and if you've never played before, your first run in with the Butcher! Ah, fresh meat!

Diablo is a fantastic title, I played hundreds of hours if not thousands of hours as a kid. I played Diablo 2 almost religiously when that came out too. Battle.net was the creme d'la creme of gameplay experiences. For nostalgia reasons alone I gladly pay the $13. It's nice to see that GOG and Blizzard have worked together to get Diablo 1 working on modern OSes, I hope they do the same for Warcraft 1 and 2. I can't say enough good about the game, but there's already hundreds of reviews on the internet, so I won't bother. However... This version of Diablo has two gameplay modes. There's Diablo and Diablo (Classic). In order to connect to B.Net to play Diablo you must play using Diablo (Classic). Part of that means you're playing in the 640x480 resolution of 1996. There is a renderer that works to display at 1080p, 1440p, 4k, has AA, AF, etc, etc... But to play multiplayer you have to give that all up and play in a faux SVGA mode. While the modernized version does have a multiplayer option, it's options that no one is going to be using. IPX (LAN), Modem, and Direct Cable Connection. I suppose with Hamachi or some such you can connect to people over the internet, but for the B.Net features you have to play the game in an intentionally inferior state. For that reason, I deduct 1 star. I hope that whomever was in charge reconsiders this awful decision.

Whereas the original game version doesn't because of the well known blank (black) main menu. But i had to tweak a few things. i had to activate the virtual desktop and set the ddraw.dll to native. i had to set resolution to 1024 * 768 (or higher) in the launcher options because : - this option affects the main men (the game ramains at 640 * 480) - anything less than 640 * 480 pixels is blackened (blank main menu bug ?) Once the actual game is running, it seems to work perfectly fine.

Yes, it's old. Yes, it's clunky. But it still has that dark, captivating atmosphere that made it famous. Descent to Hell is as chilling experience as it was years ago, when I played it in high scholl. And now it comes with Hellfire expansion too (which is a great feat by GOG, Hellfire is published by Sierra and it's a strange beast). For even better experience, install the Beelzebub mod and start your descent into madness...