I absolutely loved playing Diablo back in the day. But, I find it quite funny of people who say things like, "the game controls are clunky" They've ALWAYS been clunky!!! The game is software, it doesn't age!! Yes, I will agree, the game is many years old, but it's the same game all those years ago. So if the game controls of Diablo are clunky now, then they've always been clunky. The only thing that HAS changed, are how today's games have better control setups, SO, it might make Diablo's controls feel "clunky" or different. If you love old games like I do, and can easily conform to that game and the way it was many years ago, you will love Diablo. I never beat the game, so now I get a second chance to take a stab at it. If you're looking for a game that has sparkly graphics and glitter and HD and more of the same bull crap of today's games, then this definitely isn't the game for you. If you love a game where you can get involved in the story, and the graphics that are presented, and just feel the different moods, then this game IS for you.
WOW. I can't believe this game has been added to GOG. I still own all of the original 3 1/2" floppy disks, and I did install it on my new PC. For me, the original version does run, but getting sound to work was sort of a problem, so hoping this has been fixed with the GOG release. I even still own the original manual, which you needed at the time to get past the copy protection. I made Back to the future parts 4, 5 and 6 in Stunt Island aaaaaaaaaall those years ago, back in the 90's. Just used subtitles to show what each character was saying. Good times with this game.
I grew up with Wolf 3D as a kid, and even today I'll still sit here and play full, entire episodes. I will say that, yes, it is a much older game, movement can be awkward at times, but you know something, this game helped pave the way for FPS games as we know them today, and without this game, I don't think the FPS genre would be so great. Second of all, it's never always about the graphics alone, or just game play. And I can say that, graphics wise, for a game this old, the graphics are to be expected and shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. The game play, is fairly straight forward. Shoot enemy soldiers, some levels contain dogs that you have to shoot and kill. One big note, you cannot walk backwards and pick up items. If you aren't facing the item when you want to pick it up, you won't pick it up. At level 9 of each episode is a boss you have to kill, and in each end level there is a secret that contains ammo and health. If a dev company could take these levels and then modernize all of them, including the bosses into a format like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I think new fondness for the game could be found. It's a great game to this day, and in my eyes, it has aged pretty darn well, along with its other FPS games, Doom and Doom 2.
I own the original CD of Swat 3 CQB, and it doesn't work with Windows 7 Pro x64. So I purchased the GOG version, it doesn't work either. I went back and forth for nearly a month with GOG in e-mails, trying to get it to work. All of the fixes on the internet, everything GOG told me to do, did not make the GOG version of Swat 3 work properly. It's a great game, but it will not work with Windows 7 x64.
