$12 for the Halflings and 3 Scenarios -Just one of the MORE THAN HALF of the races that are now removed . It's absurd for the majority of playable races to be removed from the series, and insulting to have them offered as DLC I would give negative stars for this sort of greedy behavior producing inferior overpriced products if I could
The sale price is an incredible deal-get it. The physics are a lot of fun-moving in three dimensions with inertia! The varied weapon types are more than just skins unlike so many games these days, and there are more meta abilities gained from the ancients. It is a very linear game in some ways but open world in others. For instance choosing the next area to go to will not have many options, but once you are in an area you can go anywhere in it and do whatever you want. It is a roguelite type of game, you will die, buy upgrades and start another run. The couple graphical issues I have had seem to come from my ancient GPU, I don't recall any bugs, haven't had crashes. Someone who hadn't played the game complained about not enough player ship types...but each ship is completely different and they have hundreds of upgrades. It's taken me many many hours to fully upgrade a single ship. Space is beautiful.
...Since my playstation disc got too scratched to run. Sadly, this is a cheap but unusable port of the game, as the "controls" are the invincible enemy you will face here. I miss this game, it was fun on the playstation, but this just isn't playable.
It had the potential to be an actual competitor to the Total War series, but the constant crashes with practically every single battle and then a few extra crashes thrown in make this essentially unplayable. I've tried a handful of times to get it to work, because I have been able to play just enough to want to play more. I can't understand how a program that doesn't even work has this high a rating. Avoid this, buy something you can play instead.
It was enjoyable enough that I put time into trying to fix it. Sadly the game just doesn't save and it seems to be a well known issue. If you can get it free and want to try to fix this game, go for it. I'm not masochistic enough to spend any more time trying to get it to work.
Personally, I don't think "game" quite fits, but then I'm not one to play point and click adventure/detective games. Very nice rendering of an HP Lovecraft story. It was not hard to find the informative extras, and they were a welcome addition as I enjoy learning more about the background and context. There were a few times that the voice actor/narrator guy doesn't get the words right, but nothing major.
That said, it's a bit hard to understand how they are charging $10 for a game over 20 years old without even including the Hellfire expansion(which added the monk class(and also the hidden Bard and Barbarian classes) and new spells+dungeons). On Diablo itself, it probably looks a little worse on modern HD monitors. It did have the very fun feature of any class being able to learn spells if the hero could get their stats high enough. It is a flexibility most games ever do not have. This game introduced the multi-part name system for enchanted weapons, such as "The Lord's Axe of the Moon" and had many fun and cool unique items such as the sword "The Grandfather". The point and click combat system works well, with blocking and hits reasonably animated. Exploring is more important than in the sequel, and there is no grinding like for gems/runes in Diablo 2. Unless you want to keep restarting your game I suppose, as enemies do not respawn. I was still finding games online in I think it was 2013, and with the game on GOG perhaps there will be a surge in online play, I do not know. A few tips: Carry some kind of ranged weapon/attack for enemies behind barred openings or across water/lava. Use choke points such as doors. Be aware that different kinds of enemies have different resistances. Buy stat elixirs. There is a simple duplication cheat for those that like to cheat. Fire wall in a room full of enemies is great. All in all it's a great game said by critics to be one of the best of all time, and a great snapshot in gaming evolution. However I have an old disc copy and so I will not consider buying it until the Hellfire expansion is included. I hope that either we can still unlock the hidden classes or GoG or Sierra unlocks them. To the person who thinks someone might quit after a few minutes, I have two suggestions. GOG's satisfaction guarantee firstly.
