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Happy 19th Anniversary to the One that Started It All!
SBFord
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Happy 19th Anniversary to the One that Started It All!
It was on this day in 1996 that we first learned the travails of Tristram and the danger it faced from one of the Prime Evils, Diablo!
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~ Italian proverb
Also vastly enjoyed playing the PSX version with a friend on the same TV in couch co-op mode, lead to many arguments and dealings with who got what items and created a best friend friendship to conquer the beast of a game.
They just don't make them like this anymore.
The music, the design, the combat - it was a beautiful thing. Hours to get those characters their 3 dots on the icon so you could be the badass that completed hell mode.
While Diablo 2 just perfected Diablo and could be consider the best, you can't give enough praise to the game that first gave us Battle Net and a quest to defeat the Devil.
While Blizz has enough money to pump into games now and make the "good" - I still feel they have severely lost what made their games unique, that old Blizzard polish lost in the hopes of more cash.
Remember when the beta for D2 was released? It was Act 1 up to the Den of Evil -- 98Mb download that took ALL NIGHT on dial-up! :chuffed:
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Diablo in hell mode is also the only game I've ever died in with god mode on. They don't make 'em like they used to.
I'll wait to the day's end when the moon is high
And then I'll rise with the tide with a lust for life, I'll
Amass an army, and we'll harness a horde
And then we'll limp across the land until we stand at the shore
Umm I think your memory is messed up a bit there. Diablo and Diablo II both came out before NWN. But it was Diablo II that was the huge internet success which set the stage for WOW.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
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John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
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I also remember all the money I made on Ebay selling rare runes and green armor pieces. Good times good times.
But even then I was in my late 20s and playing video games, so sadly I have never ever been a 'kid' in any MMO although I have been called one more than a few times.
I still have the first Diablo box, I was a late comer I think I got in in Feb or so of 97, Also have diablo II and all the books, got that day it game out I might even have the 5 dollar pre pay for the pre order from Gamestop, and the battlechest box that had everything in it. I dont have a Hellfire box but I remember thinking Serra made this so it will be awesome because Sierra was had some pretty awesome games then. Also Blizzard didnt make Diablo either they got it from a company they bought up. Cant remember the name of that one.
But I do remember that that Diablo release sort of started the whole midnight release parties but on New Years Eve you had to be a real dork to be there and not out doing the 'normal thing'.
Xeno.phon said:
Sorry but the original NWN was the "gateway to it all" diablo was just a copycat, a good copycat, but not the the original for a vast majority of people from that gaming generation.
Umm I think your memory is messed up a bit there. Diablo and Diablo II both came out before NWN. But it was Diablo II that was the huge internet success which set the stage for WOW.
You couldnt be more wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_%281991_video_game%29
No. Neverwinter Nights the online game came out in 1991.
Kids these days eh?
Anyways, gratz.
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