Here you can speak to most of the game’s NPCs and get your bearings and find out what’s happening. After choosing your preferred character class and difficulty the game wastes no time to plop you onto the game’s main hub, the town of Tristram. Upon launching the game you’re greeted with a dated yet ominous and creepy intro that serves as a pretty good way to set the tone for what you’re about to play. Starting the Journey Tristram in Diablo 1 However, that doesn’t matter (okay it might but not in this instance) I want to, for now, talk only about Diablo 1 and how it captured my attention. I still haven’t played Diablo 2, but I would certainly like to when I am able to afford it. At that moment I was hooked, eagerly awaiting the remaster of Diablo 2 so I could immediately jump into the second game. In one moment I was deliberating on even entering the dungeon and in the next I had the blood of Diablo staining the metal of my blade. I blazed through it in the span of a weekend with barely any hesitation. I would end up being so wrong.ĭiablo 1 ended up as one of my favorite games of 2021. So I thought it would end up being yet another sad casualty of my backlog, a game that I’d say I respect but never really get around to finishing it. I knew I was playing an old game, the very progenitor of a series I was not super interested in. What I did not have were any high expectations. Now, as I’ve said, I had very little prior experience with the Diablo franchise up to this point, but I did have a bunch of experience playing ARPGs so it wasn’t like jumping into something entirely foreign. This was of course as you can surmise from the title, Diablo 1. One of the rare exceptions to this rule was when I played the first entry of a series I had never really played before. I’ve personally done that with a lot of series I’ve loved, Demon’s Souls, Yakuza, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and many others. I think something most players should do when they have a series they really enjoy or are passionate about is to go back and see the roots. The impending release of Diablo IV makes this the best possible time for both Diablo and ARPG fans to take a look into the game that started it all.Diablo 1 is the progenitor of the ARPG genre and is the first game from Blizzard’s highly beloved Dark-Fantasy RPG series.
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