Diablo + Hellfire

So if you've never played Diablo but you have played 2 to 4, and you are asking "Should I try this?" The answer is yes. First, this is an old game. There is no run button so your character slogs slowly through the dungeon. And if you don't play the hellfire version, you will slog slowly through town. You won't have a deep inventory and selling stuff is through text menus. So to give the game a fair shake, go in with that understanding. Now if you don't know, the Hellfire part is an unoffical buy offical expansion. This...is very meh. The big problem comes from the ranged units. See if you play as a big burly melee character with very little range weapons, you are going to have a bad time. Why? because the ranged unit s will run away. At the same speed you run. So you can't ever catch up and tap them with the sharp end of your sword. You have to coral them and then tap away. The problem comes with the fact that there are usualy 5 or more (one group I swear i ran into was like 20) blasting you. If you skip the hellfire version or dive into it till you are board its fun. But only in a meh way.

Nice to have an old game run on new hardware without issues

I bought this game at release and its still as fun as it was 1996

Diablo is able to contain quite a large amount of depth and variety into it's single town, handful of NPCs, and three character classes. You will quickly learn that mashing the mouse button over and over again only works for so long until you will have to learn how to juke enemy attacks and zig-zag to dodge projectiles. No two play throughs of this game are going to be the same, because Diablo randomly generates the quests, items, and enemy spawns at the start of each new game. Replaying the game over and over again is actually encouraged, as you can continue playing with the same character in a new save file, looking to find better loot drops and grind more experience points, which will help you if you want to play the game on a higher difficulty setting. I played through this twice recently, once as a warrior, and then again as a rogue. My warrior play through was done on vanilla Diablo. For the rogue, I played on Hellfire. Hellfire has a mixed reception from some people, but I really liked it. The second area, the crypt, felt a lot more in line with the atmosphere of the original game. The first area is this giant insect nest, which is cool but it feels like it belongs in a different game. The addition of more dungeon levels, more enemies, more items, and another character class were all cool. It's arguable that its sequels, alongside other games in the ARPG genre, have made the original Diablo obselete and irrelevant in the modern age, but I still think that this game is a cool experience. In some ways, the lack of quality-of-life features like loot stashes, highlighted loot, character re-specs, kinda adds to the more hardcore and challenging aspects of this original game. I still find it extremely addicting and satisfying to grow my character in levels, get more and more powerful with each new piece of gear or stat boost that I acquire. A really easy game to just sit down and get lost in for a few hours. Classic, absolutely recommended.

Best action RPG for my money. The music, the atmosphere, the ability it has to suck down hours of your free time are unparalleled.