Diablo 1
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windwingwind
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Are you sure about the quote??? I'm pretty sure that it's "Rest well Leoric, I'll find your son." :wink2:
Hellfire if I remember correctly wasn't even a Blizzard product didn't another software company make it.
There used to be quite a few mods for Diablo I as well, we played a couple of them and they were fun, I seem to remember a middle earth one, Long before the movies.
Alas I lost my characters in a computer crash, but had lot of fun with them.
Remember Windforce and Eagle Horne bows. they were awsome.
Alas hacking and duping was out of control even back then, probably is worse now.
(anyone remember Godly Plate of the Whale)
Seaskye.
There used to be quite a few mods for Diablo I as well, we played a couple of them and they were fun, I seem to remember a middle earth one, Long before the movies.
Alas I lost my characters in a computer crash, but had lot of fun with them.
Remember Windforce and Eagle Horne bows. they were awsome.
Alas hacking and duping was out of control even back then, probably is worse now.
(anyone remember Godly Plate of the Whale)
Seaskye.
Best thing about diablo 1 is definitely the atmosphere of the areas.
This closely followed by better randomization of the areas. The dungeon levels 9-12 were the absolute best in the whole game. Caverns with glowing lava flows that meandered all over the place. No level was the same, that is what I loved the most about the game.
If you play it now, after playing diablo2 for any length of time the walking of diablo1 will drive you crazy.
Thynqikan
This closely followed by better randomization of the areas. The dungeon levels 9-12 were the absolute best in the whole game. Caverns with glowing lava flows that meandered all over the place. No level was the same, that is what I loved the most about the game.
If you play it now, after playing diablo2 for any length of time the walking of diablo1 will drive you crazy.
Thynqikan
Funny y'all brought this up...a few months back I was sidelined from gaming by a DSL-less weekend and a bout of the flu that had the whole family housebound. I amused myself by playing D1 for the first time in...forever. It was funny to see my old friend Gharbad still pleading for his life. :laugh:
And Snotspill..."Hey, you that one that kill all!....you give, you get!"
I think that Diablo was a lot tougher than the D2 Diablo...his Armageddon could hit you from any distance, and he'd keep right up with your racewalking character. Of course, he didn't have a cool spiked tail...
Tanith :grin:
And Snotspill..."Hey, you that one that kill all!....you give, you get!"
I think that Diablo was a lot tougher than the D2 Diablo...his Armageddon could hit you from any distance, and he'd keep right up with your racewalking character. Of course, he didn't have a cool spiked tail...
Tanith :grin:
Fists of War
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This is great! The memories... The countless hours spent hunched at my computer actually kind of scared at what I'd find next... I just wish I'd got into this thread a little earlier. When I first got Diablo 1 I was so hooked on it, now it's diablo 2, and the same kind of addiction.
Great things about diablo 1 was probably the atmosphere, although when I first played it I thought it was just kind of spooky, but now that I think about it and compare it to areas in D2 like the A2 deserts/A1 blood moor etc I realise how cool they were. Worst thing was the SLOW walking, when I was over D2 for a while I went back and was appalled at the walking speeds...I used to hate going to the witch and used to postpone it for hours.
It's also so quotable as you guys have demonstrated...anyone remember the halls of the blind poem? Something like: I can see what you see not, vision milky then eyes rot...those were the days, diablo was actually semi-scary, at least for me back then
. I never got to play online, I got connections problems then automatically assumed that Bnet didnt support D1 anymore...so I'd love to start playing again...I have my lvl25 warrior with demonspike coat, veil of steel etc in singleplayer, pity I didnt make him online...
Great things about diablo 1 was probably the atmosphere, although when I first played it I thought it was just kind of spooky, but now that I think about it and compare it to areas in D2 like the A2 deserts/A1 blood moor etc I realise how cool they were. Worst thing was the SLOW walking, when I was over D2 for a while I went back and was appalled at the walking speeds...I used to hate going to the witch and used to postpone it for hours.
It's also so quotable as you guys have demonstrated...anyone remember the halls of the blind poem? Something like: I can see what you see not, vision milky then eyes rot...those were the days, diablo was actually semi-scary, at least for me back then
. I never got to play online, I got connections problems then automatically assumed that Bnet didnt support D1 anymore...so I'd love to start playing again...I have my lvl25 warrior with demonspike coat, veil of steel etc in singleplayer, pity I didnt make him online...Eilo Rytyj
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I can see what you see not,
Vision milky then eyes rot.
When you turn they will be gone,
Whispering their hidden song.
Then you see what cannot be,
Shadows move where light should be.
Out of darkness, out of mind,
Cast down into the Halls of the Blind...
Yup, memorised it. Sad, no?
I used to play it SP a lot back in the day. I remember massive bouts of "shopping", where I'd re-roll Griswold's magic item menu over and over with a full inventory of Gold, in the hopes of finding something "godly". Probably my best find was an Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac, 34% res all, +20 stats. Two of them... tres nice.
Vision milky then eyes rot.
When you turn they will be gone,
Whispering their hidden song.
Then you see what cannot be,
Shadows move where light should be.
Out of darkness, out of mind,
Cast down into the Halls of the Blind...
Yup, memorised it. Sad, no?
I used to play it SP a lot back in the day. I remember massive bouts of "shopping", where I'd re-roll Griswold's magic item menu over and over with a full inventory of Gold, in the hopes of finding something "godly". Probably my best find was an Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac, 34% res all, +20 stats. Two of them... tres nice.
I'm playing through D1 again atm and the music is also superior to D2's. The walking still drives me nuts though.
The music was absolutely better in Diablo1. It is exactly what I meant when I say the atmosphere was better.
If you hate the walking, try playing a Warrior and have to walk after those annoying blood witches! Eventually I got pretty good at it and managed to "work" them into a corner so I could whack them. But there was always a few that got away.
Is why any solidly built warrior had just enough magic/mana to cast at least one Stone Curse.
Thynqikan
I think my all time favourite memory of Diablo 1, was playing a warrior one time and I was doing well but it was starting to get alot harder and I arrived on level 13. It was filled with the Knights, and the stairs down was of course guarded by the fearsome warrior of blood. I say fearsome, because while I could handle 1 on 1 fights with his Knight flunkys, 2 of them would own me and the Warrior of Blood could one hit kill me. The best armor I had obtained was Arkaines Valor at that point, and it just wasnt cutting it. Thing is, I knew the Warrior of Blood's room always had some armor stands in it, and I was hoping one of those armors would help me, anything is better than the 25 AC Arkaines Valor offered at this point. If there wasnt any armor there I was going to have to abandon this game...my warrior couldnt cut it on lvl 13. So, here is what I did, I reloaded my saved game from before I went down to level 13, and I ran to the Warrior of Bloods chamber towing all the Knights and Drakes that were along the way. Once I found the switch to open his room, I opened the chamber to the Warrior of Bloods room, and ran for my life with literally 20-30 Knights on me chasing me all over. I made a big loop and ran right back into his room to click the stands to make the armor drop. I didnt have enough time to pick any of them up as the knights were still chasing me. So I kept making these running loops to avoid them all and kept going back into the room to pick up the 3 armors that dropped.
I eventually got them all after some very Hairy and narrow escapes and managed to make it back to the stairs to level 12. I cast a port went to town and one of the suits I got was an Awesome Plate of the Stars. It was like 90 AC. I put it on, went back down and suddenly I could handle 4-5 of the Knights on me at once, and completed the rest of the game.
This is the kind of stuff that Diablo2 lacked as well. The "on the edge of your seat " excitement that came from moments like the above. Why was this event so harrowing? Remember: in Diablo 1 there was no such thing as corpse recovery. If you died, you had to go back down and get your stuff by hovering the mouse over the items on the ground and picking them up. They also didnt auto equip: they went into your inventory and you had to put them on. Often picking up your items was not easily done if you had monsters nearby. It was way more challenging.
Thynqikan
I eventually got them all after some very Hairy and narrow escapes and managed to make it back to the stairs to level 12. I cast a port went to town and one of the suits I got was an Awesome Plate of the Stars. It was like 90 AC. I put it on, went back down and suddenly I could handle 4-5 of the Knights on me at once, and completed the rest of the game.
This is the kind of stuff that Diablo2 lacked as well. The "on the edge of your seat " excitement that came from moments like the above. Why was this event so harrowing? Remember: in Diablo 1 there was no such thing as corpse recovery. If you died, you had to go back down and get your stuff by hovering the mouse over the items on the ground and picking them up. They also didnt auto equip: they went into your inventory and you had to put them on. Often picking up your items was not easily done if you had monsters nearby. It was way more challenging.
Thynqikan
Fists of War
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He He that was like my fave diablo poem back in the day :azn:. All I ever got from grissy was a warriors long sword of the giants and an obsidian ring :smiley:. Playing in singleplayer was especially nerve-wracking at times, especially as I was insanely into the game, then got to a point where I couldn't get past this area, and was saved just at this group of them teleporting monsters. I felt SO bad when I thought all my effort had gone to waste just cos I couldn't get past them. Diablo II never manages to be quite that challenging, just TP out and re-run a lvl if you get stuck...
And it still gives me chills...
However, I just can't seem to remember one thing anymore... wheever I opened the tome in the Dark Woods I remember recognising something from Diablo1
"And so..."
Anyone? It was the same voice, but what was it?
Fists of War
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The tome for the countess quest?? Yeah, reminds me of...(scratches head)..."And so, it came to pass that the curse of King Leoric was brought forth..." or something to the tune of that? I think it was a main quest intro from some NPC in town, one of those long ones that you never feel like listening to much :azn:
Yeah, the countess tome has the same voice from some of the tomes in Diablo 1. Some were read by your own character, and some were read by this narrator (which I thought was Archbishop Lazarus, but it was just a narrator).
I was happy to see some items from D1 return in D2, now much more powerful, like Arkaine's Valor, Harlequin Crest, Stormshield, the Grandfather.. And Naj's Puzzler and Light Plate, that came back as set items.. I also expected to see Griswold's Edge in his set, but it's just an unique..
I was happy to see some items from D1 return in D2, now much more powerful, like Arkaine's Valor, Harlequin Crest, Stormshield, the Grandfather.. And Naj's Puzzler and Light Plate, that came back as set items.. I also expected to see Griswold's Edge in his set, but it's just an unique..
The guy who voiced the Countess quest in D2 and some of the tomes in D1 also voiced Judicator Aldaris in Starcraft. If you've played the original SC Protoss campaign, you'll remember how annoying and arrogant Aldaris was. :grin:
I also agree with everyone who says D1's ambience is far superior to D2's. The music was also very haunting and gloomy, especially the Catacombs one...
I also agree with everyone who says D1's ambience is far superior to D2's. The music was also very haunting and gloomy, especially the Catacombs one...
MysticDragon
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I played Diablo 1 back like 2 weeks ago and got a friend that was playing Diablo 2 into number 1. Very challenging. We took our party of 3 to try and kill the Skeleton King when we were level 6. It took over 45 minutes and we still couldn't kill him. Diablo 1 is a very good single player with more quests. It wasn't very multiplayer friendly because you could hit your friends with arrows or spells if they got in the way.
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kingdryland1
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" Take heed and bear witness to the truths that lie herein, for they
are the last legacy of the Horadrim. There is a war that rages on even
now, beyond the fields that we know - between the utopian kingdoms of the
High Heavens and the chaotic pits of the Burning Hells. This war is known
as the Great Conflict, and it has raged and burned longer than any of the
stars in the sky. Neither side ever gains sway for long as the forces of
Light and Darkness constantly vie for control over all creation."
When you find this tome, you really know that the plot thickens. This is really important part of the Diablo saga. D3 will be related to the whole concept.
Dungeons,catacombs and caves still haunt me. Percussion that simulates footsteps, bell chimes, baby cries, moanings, absolutely sick. The caves could easily be a NIN piece, while catacombs put most "atmospheric" black metal bands to shame.
are the last legacy of the Horadrim. There is a war that rages on even
now, beyond the fields that we know - between the utopian kingdoms of the
High Heavens and the chaotic pits of the Burning Hells. This war is known
as the Great Conflict, and it has raged and burned longer than any of the
stars in the sky. Neither side ever gains sway for long as the forces of
Light and Darkness constantly vie for control over all creation."
When you find this tome, you really know that the plot thickens. This is really important part of the Diablo saga. D3 will be related to the whole concept.
Dungeons,catacombs and caves still haunt me. Percussion that simulates footsteps, bell chimes, baby cries, moanings, absolutely sick. The caves could easily be a NIN piece, while catacombs put most "atmospheric" black metal bands to shame.
Fists of War
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Yeah, all of those screams of souls trapped under the labyrinth rally added to the atmosphere... and if you read the manual (in PDF on my cd) it gives a whole background to the whole horadrim vs darkness plot...
@ kingdryland: With all due respect, whether or not the site in your link has any right to freely distribute the Diablo soundtrack is questionable. The legalese there is dubious. The link has been deleted. Feel free to send me a private message if you have any concerns.
