Diablo + Hellfire

This game holds up well. It has everything that I remember: - Unforgiving enemies. - Long walks back to town because I forgot to carry a scroll of town portal. - Inventory management that has all the fun of packing your luggage, complete with the Wizard's audio of "Where would I put this?" - The clickings. THE CLICKING. I've been playing lots of Diablo III lately. It's a game that gives you infinite scrolls of town portal, health potions that refill magically in a short time, and inventory management that doesn't require memorizing the shape of each item. Those are all things that help the game flow into a thrilling animated picture where monsters fear you, and you can rush back to town any time you want. This game is much different. It's slower. It's harder. It forces you to make decisions and backtrack through levels. It builds patience and rewards you slowly. You fear monsters and death takes you back to your last save point. The save button is the only redeeming factor of this game: you are allowed to save, and it will be the most often used game mechanic. There are lots of games on GOG that don't work as well on modern machines due to changes in computers over time. Not so with this game. You get everything the game had using the original mechanics. I loved it then and I love it now. The only thing that would make this better is if GOG would drop the Hellfire expansion.

Diablo is one of the first action RPG games I think I ever played. I had no idea what it was about, but the more I played the more I became "addicted" to the fast paced action gameplay. The formula is really simple. You go around killing hordes of monsters in real-time through randomly generated dungeons and level up using a very simple stat system. Oh and you buy and sell various items that ultimately help you defeat tougher enemies. Is it worth the asking price? I would have to say yes, because you also get the very well done soundtrack by Matt Uelman which is utterly unique and fits the game well. It might not be as good as Its successor Diablo II however it is still fun and worth a play through to the end if you enjoy this genre of game.

23 years since it came out... Back in the '90s I was an Amiga user, and I had it all - flippers, races, crazy platform games, strategies, fighting games... All that with great graphics, fantastic music and gameplay nonexistent in most of todays games. My colleagues who had PCs were looking at it all with envy, having only DOS games with clunky graphics and PC-Speaker beeps. Until 3 game series came out: Warcraft, HoM&M and Diablo. Along came better hardware - external GFX and MSX cards. After I bought my first PC, I've spent countless hours on all 3. It's been over 15 years since I played Diablo 1, so I hesitated much wether to buy it in 2019. Especially it was missing the expansion at that time. But I did, at a full price. Yes, it's an old game. Yes, I didn't like the Hellfire locations much (expansion came along as a free addition - great job!). Yes, I almost destroyed my mouse due to extreme amount of clicking. Yes, aiming sucks big time. Yes, inventory is way too small and I'm unable to highlight items (Hellfire brought a spell(!) to do so). Yesterday I've slain Diablo with my Rogue. I am now complete :) For me, it was well worth it. I don't care who remastered it. I'd buy it again, because it still has that feeling, atmosphere and awesome music. A time well spent - sincerely recommend.

Really love this game, the GoG version works fine.

While still undeniably fun it more than shows it's age with graphics that haven't held up too well and gameplay that moves at a slow pace, but there is still plenty to enjoy and saying this as someone whose only just played this for the first time, it's atmosphere is top notch and genuinely creepy. Well worth grabbing for both fans and newcomers looking to see how Diablo started out.