Growing up in the 80's and 90's, I didn't really get into PC gaming until I moved back in with my mom and stepfather, while living with my dad and stepmother, I only played on the classic NES. My stepfather was always in the middle of either upgrading his own computer or building other PCs, and one day when I came home from School, my stepfather had me try out a game called Commander Keen, and the rest was history. I never played the Catacombs series as a kid, but one day while browsing older Id games for fun, found that John Romero, John Carmack, Tom Hall, and Adrian Carmack had also worked on some games for Softdisk known as Catacomb, and I found a website to enjoy the games on way back in the 00's. Naturally when I saw the series for sale on GOG, my heart did a double flip and I purchased the games. Don't get me wrong, I love some modern games, but anytime I notice Catacomb, or Dangerous Dave, or Commander Keen, you can bet I'll spend hours reliving the classic games that have brought me so much enjoyment! If you're looking for modern games with fluid controls and smooth graphics, I'd keep walking, but if you need a throwback to simpler times with gaming, absolutely buy this game!
"What the hell, why aren't the fallen items outlined up? I'm pressing alt, where's the items? Where's my hotkeys for the skills? Where are my skill trees? What do you mean there's no overly elaborate builds? WHY CAN'T I SEE ANYTHING?" Ah, 1996 was a good year for PC gaming, we had Quake, Duke Nukem, and Diablo. I recall my mother begrudgingly allowing me to buy this game from CompUSA back in the day, and upon hearing the demonic greeting "Ah, fresh meat!", I knew I was hooked. Let's be honest, Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction will always be a rare example of a sequel being superior to the original, but Diablo laid out the framework for modern day ARPG games, and when companies like Crate Entertainment, who made Grim Dawn, think of ways to make games "less" frustrating, they always think back to Diablo. Diablo was grueling, difficult, and rewarding. I hope you'll stay awhile, and play this game.
This game was great, even though it was presented as a carbon copy of Wolfenstein 3D, it had it's own improvements that can't be overlooked or negated. There was much more fluidity in this game than in Wolfenstein 3D, and even better, you could backtrack in the game! Sadly, there was one problem this game faced upon release: Doom was less than 2 weeks away from official release. It's an often forgotten gem, but Jam Software did the best job they could inproducing this masterpiece! Besides, for six episodes of sixty levels total of wasting aliens and challenging Dr. Pyrus Goldfire to save the world, you really can't go wrong! Buy this game!
