you have 3 more difficulties, the game does not end there. you continue with the same character onto the next difficulty. thats how you're supposed to play.
In Diablo 1, you really need to use the dungeon layout itself as a shield, and as a weapon. Using doorways to bottleneck large groups, hide behind corners and pillars to break line of sight and reduce the number of angles attacks and projectiles can come from, kite enemies away from groups, reduce your light radius and use Infravision scrolls to cheese enemies, and make sure to clear hallways before opening a new room in order to avoid facing too much traffic in the neighborhood. You only want enemies to be able to come from one direction whenever possible.
You literally just stand in a doorway and 300 Battle of Thermopylae that $#&+ all game. It's actually quite repetitive, so I'd check out other classes.
The warrior should max magic and get some +magic items to use so you can learn Stone Curse and Teleport (iirc you don't want to learn too high level of them because it just raises the mana cost though. But you need like lvl 2-3 so a shrine can't make you forget it). Then it's a lot more fun against ranged enemies who would otherwise kite you forever
The first time I beat Diablo, my character was already dead - but I'd summoned a Golem beforehand, and I noticed all the enemies carried on attacking my corpse while the Golem kept smacking Diablo. I let it run for a while, just to see how long the Golem would last, and he eventually killed Diablo and gave me the ending cinamatics.
@vespenegas261 I didn't move it at all - when I died it was attacking Diablo, and because Diablo just continued attacking my corpse, it didn't need to move.
Diablo 1 was the miraculous game of my generation. Being able to go through the dungeons with friends was not a regular thing then. It was special and we played for hours and hours…then we played the mods.
It’s my fav Diablo. Going down into an unknown dungeon beneath a church that leads to hell was such an intense experience as an 8 year old (and scary). It has the best atmosphere. While Diablo 2 increased the gameplay tech, running around the world chasing Prime evils trivialized that feeling of wonder and unkown terror that I got from Diablo 1
@@cavetroll666 On rooftops? You have no idea. As someone who was part of the hacking community in D1 it was the wild wild west. The game had no dedicated servers. This meant i could send any data i want from my pc to yours. Directly. We had every town npc standing in a row for ease of access. We had our characters teleport to the location we clicked. Pressing V on my keyboard turned your game off. Placing my cursor on your character killed you. F10 on my keyboard activated code for a shrine that gave me + to a random state and you - to a random stat. It happened at the rate of 255 times per second. Spiraling your stats so far into the negative it corrupted your save file. Standing on the roof of a building was nothing.
@TravisHowrish I remember hearing something at Blizzcon or where back in the revealing days, that Diablo was always the last boss, then expansions came, therefore, Diablo wasn't the last boss anymore or the hardest, but the title still goes to the demon's name. So, they might do it backwards, Diablo will be the boss of the last expansion. After 'Vessel of Hatred', we might get something of a 'Destruction', followed by some 'Terror'. I hope my memory serves me well and will be like that. 😏
Interesting thing about the ending of Diablo 1 when you slam the Soulstone into your own head - it wasn't planned by Blizzard. They had a separate team doing cinematics from the design team, and they were pretty wild-westing a lot of stuff. So they come up with that ending and everyone was like "WTF?!" and it caused a LOT of debate internally. But in the end they went with it because it was unexpected and super weird and memorable. And it also paved the way for all of the sequels and the idea of the wanderer leaving Hell in their wake. You can look up the interview with David Brevik (designer) on it.
Another little known fact. D1 was originally going to be turn based. Many on the team wanted live action. They held a vote on a Friday and live action won. David Brevik kept working through the weekend, and on Monday when the rest of the team got back to work, Brevik had written all the code necessary and it was now a live action game. One weekend.
The look back history recaps on some of these early dev efforts on platform and PC are some of the most inspirational "just keep at it until breakthrough" stories ever. Love it!!
Fun fact: Diablo is probably the only aRPG where the Warrior actually wears his full plate's armour helmet in his hands while in town and equips it inside the dungeon.
Brings back so memories from hours upon hours of playing this. Just hearing the voices instantly transported me back to playing this into the wee hours. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
@@messire9837 it was from 'moria'. which itself was from rogue. Old school ascii characters, with random dungeon layout. The end boss was the balrog, denoted by a capital B. you were the @ symbol.
Imagine playing this for the first time when you're 9 years old.. you venture down the cathedral and you don't know about the mini-map and that place is terrifying but you HAVE to go deeper... my NOSTALGIA RETURNS
diablo 1.. starcraft.. age of empires.. played them all like crack when i was 9-12 funny watching this stream.. i remember diablo 1 feeling soo much longer... and who can forget the duping gold in town.. diablo 1 felt like world of warcraft to me back then.. its crazy how tiny the game is by todays standards..
The comment at around 22:30 about there being a library of sounds games used is actually right. There was a general library that a lot of companies used, especially when working on smaller projects. I know for a fact that the noises of bats in Diablo 1 are the same sound effects as the bats in Daggerfall. Its always cool to hear the sounds and think of another game from the same era
the sound of the dragons is Warcraft 2 is also used in many other things, I can't even name one single thing in particular, I sometimes just randomly hear it when watching stuff.
@@BelialTnTn it's this sound th-cam.com/video/SB2V9OKY9dg/w-d-xo.html right? I remember it from Mortal Kombat 3 as a Motaro sound th-cam.com/video/XHJGxc_NfoA/w-d-xo.html
It’s funny when my 8 year old hears me hum a 40 year old tune he only knows from some game he plays now and he’s all shocked I know that music or reference…that he doesn’t actually know is an even deeper one
The fun part about OG Diablo was that it was different every time. The Butcher wasn't always a quest you'd get. There were a few quests per section, but you could only get a certain number.
@@Weremoogle IF you were given the quest. The dying man outside the cathedral doesn't always show up. If he does, you get The Butcher. If he doesn't, there's no Butcher to fight.
@@AstroNerdBoy Sounds like you're more certain than I am, so I'm inclined to believe you. I remember him always being there, but I definitely could be remembering wrong. Been decades since I last played.
@@Weremoogle You're remembering wrong because you're remembering multiplayer where you only and always get two quests, Butcher and Leoric. Look up Jarulf's guide chapter 8.1 on how singleplayer quests are picked.
I played this game to death in single player as all 3 characters. The game was a test of your determination, beating it was suitably hard. Though you really need to use magic for all characters because the spells rock; it seems you're playing as an Int 1 Warrior lol. I've never had a piece of gear break, this is a novel experience for me. Mage>rogue>warrior from easiest to hardest. The story still hits me in the feels. "Diablo" was in the possessed body of the benevolent king's missing son (the child was noted as being weak and frail from birth). The sons kidnapping (by Lazarus), with verbal nudging from Lazarus, made the king go insane with rage and that is how he was turned into the Skeleton King. As for the ending, it's jarring to be sure. My best understanding is that being in the dungeons so long near Diablos influence allowed him to suggest ideas to the hero. Going into this the hero didn't know the nature of the enemy let alone that they had to guard their minds The narration you hear from the enemies could be seen as loose evidence of it. It works for Diablo as he gets a much stronger host, while the hero believed they could contain the monster, in a similar vein to Tal Rasha. At the time hackers were everywhere ruining the online experience by PKing and sometimes even stealing the dead players gear. It was bad for me but compelling to me was watching lots of others being taken advantage of. So I got mad and made a rogue character to kill the hackers. I never hacked and the worst thing I did was dupe dex stat potions. Turns out when you do about 70dmg it causes stun on hit. I farmed the Needler and maxed my teleport spell (to avoid 1million dmg fireballs) I could keep anyone stun locked for as long I cared to until they gave up (Mana Shield with 1million mana and an inventory of potions, they can't be "killed") and either returned the items stolen or left the server. Hell I chased someone once through 12 servers to get someone armor back. Proud times. The game had a M rating I believe, so nudity was okay(ish) as it also adds to the graphic horror. At the risk of offending someone, nothing perceptively offensive gets made. Which makes me a sad gamer.
Huuuuge nostalgia factor. This is the first PC game that I ever played. I think it's the fourth game I've played in my life after Zelda on snes, FF4, FF6 and Megaman X. Man this was the golden age of retro gaming.
Yes, I believe this was the first real PC game I played too besides the ones that came on the computer when you bought it like snake and the mine blaster one. This is the game that locked me into this franchise as a permanent fan. It's sad the teams working on it have changed so much over the years and it lost a lot of its scary suspense...
The Spitter Boss. What a classic. There's still things in Diablo 1 that are better than later versions. See how he uses terrain to his advantage. How he can't deal with being overrun by enemies. Later on there's techniques to dealing with enemies that run as a warrior like Teleport-Strike. Building heavy Magic instead of Vitality of using Mana Shield. All sorts of fun little tricks you kinda figure out yourself to overcome what just becomes more and more brutal with difficulty tiers.
been decades since I've played this game. The first time I found the Butcher I spent more time running. Opening that door and hearing "fresh meat" was enough to send me packing. One of my most Iconic moments in gaming.
Glad you enjoyed it. Was my favourite for Soooo long also D-1 maps are actually random PC generated. So nobody actually said put 20 ranged dogs at the end of a hallway.
Those really painful hallways full of acid fiends are where D1's INCREDIBLY powerful consumables really come in handy. Don't want to get stunned? Hit a scroll of mana shield. Just want them all dead? Staff of Armageddon. Warrior bro can just cast nuke.
DM, if you are interested in playing the game more extensively, I suggest using the DevilutionX port, it greatly helps for speedfarming and has the expansion content. Also some basic pro tips I can give you for Warrior: 1. Never use a 2h weapon, sword and board is king. 2. When fighting projectile spammer champs, either reset the dungeon or use magic if desperate. 3. In single player, beware of shrines, some cause negative permanent effects to your character. Look up the shrines online, if they are bad, reload and avoid. In multiplayer, avoid altogether. 4. If you come across a zombie called the Black Death, (bright yellow, looks radioactive) save before you fight it, use ranged attacks, or avoid it altogether. Each hit from the zombie can permanently reduce your max HP PER HIT.
Godly plate of the whale and other godly pieces were fun to search for haha its crazy though some of the items like stormshield and griswolds edge in d1 carried into other sequels its so nostalgic when companies do that
Oh, u should know that magic here is so good and multi functional for all classes. Warrior with teleport, turning monsters to stone for more physical dammage etc. This game has HD mode with added difficulty and levels, hotkeys. It's a great thing to play, though torment difficulty is HARD to beat. Diablo level is so full of monsters and u got only 15 or 30 minutes timer to finish it.
Since monsters stay dead permanently, you can choose new game and select your current hero, the monsters will be back, will be a new game but with your saved char, gear, gold etc
@@armando6574 yeah I'm pretty sure your meant to go like half way down or until it starts getting rough and then start a new game with the same toon and go a little further each time, it's actually kind of impressive how he still beat the game considering he was kinda playing horribly and missing A LOT lol
This was a truly fun video to watch… this was the game the started it all, I’m glad you recognized it being great… to even better understand, you have to remember this was 1996… and it all just blew our minds back then. My only tip, even as a Warrior… gotta use some more magic to freeze or rang e attack those mages/succubi.
I have fond memories of Diablo, it was my very first online gaming experience, I was blown away especially by the music...so atmospheric and dark. Good times.
Honestly impressed he only died 5 times. Maybe it seemed way harder for me because I was 11 and this genre of game had literally never existed before. Also the friendly fire in multiplayer didn't help
As the warrior, the spell “phasing” is your friend, to escape when surrounded. Use a bow to thin out hard to reach enemies and runners! Such a fun nostalgic game. Played when I was a kid.
Love seeing this. It's still a little bizarre that, as an ARPG enthusiast, DM has still never dipped into Grim Dawn. It's top two for me, but I would imagine top 5 for most people. At least it's still going to be there whenever he finally gets to it!
When we got Diablo 1 back in the day, my brother beat it as a sword & shield warrior. I played a sorcerer and didn’t finish the game for several years. Stone Curse and Golem were hugely helpful.
My first time playing this was actually right before D2R came out. My OG disc was broken when I bought the battle chest back in the day. It felt like an achievement after finishing this game. Lol
The OG of RPGs, the original. This is one of the best things I've ever seen on YT. Could watch this over and over. Makes me want to revisit the classic.
@tomoliver2961 ARPG is a marketing ploy. There was no ARPG when it came out, thus it's an rpg game. The acronym, ARPG, didn't come about till after the fact. Regardless, RPG covers all whether more combat based or not. It's like calling the Grateful Dead a the father of jambands, but the term didn't exist in their hayday. D1s gameplay was tied and limited to the story; they're contingent on one another. I'd say its not much of a stretch but exactly what RPGs were, because it was the only one at the time. With time, yes, it could be classified as ARPG, thus the coining of "Hack n Slash" which it often was called. D1 is definitely a Role Playing Game. A game I could put myself into and fantasy.
@tomoliver2961 however, it's debatable and relatively inconsequential. I do want to say, D1 wasn't the first RPG as I did say. I forgot about Ultima, that game was incredible!!
Yeah, it’s it an RPG game but I’m only enough to remember many in the genre prior to Diablo. I’d say Diablo might have been the first RPG to bring the style to the masses. It’s in my top 5 games all time so I’m not knocking the game.
@tomoliver2961 I'd agree. Top 5, for sure; definitely brought that genre to the publics eye. Sorry, I wasn't trying to be harsh or be condescending or anything like that. You're definitely entitled to your opinion. I find it interesting how the genre has so many different playstyles now and is basically incorporated into other genres that are bestselling.
Fully voice acted characters in 1997 feels pretty impressive. I guess it was a post-DOOM world at that point, but we were still sort of working with sticks and rocks as far as computing is concerned.
How he always ignored the red armor sign on the right. He got 3 or more items destroyed because he didnt get them repaired. This is what I call learning resistant You would have made your life much easier if you had fought in bottlenecks. Doorways, or those narrow passages in the Lava realms, the demons kept you in the stun lock. Diablo 1 was much more tactical than the sequels.
Yeah in D1 if items broke they disappeared. Not sure if he was repairing uniques with the warrior repair skill or not, but that lowers max durability each time it's used. Only really useful early on with trash items you need to keep around a bit longer before replacing.
@@AdhinJT he was literally slamming repair skill at lvl 20+ on his unique gear ... never realizing he permanently damages the gear every time he uses that nonsensical starter skill
Man I remember playing this on the PS1 and I couldn't push myself to even get through the first act because I was so scared. The atmosphere is absolutely amazing.
For warrior u should start with max dex (60 point). Then Str/Vit. In early game -late game you need hit chance and dodge chance. Max Dex asap will make you through the game very easily. You may want to keep a good bow in your inventory to counter range monster, keep distance and shoot them instead of running and catching them.
used to play this on COAX lan with the boys at Uni, a huge part of this game was loading into a level which had a pile of mobs sitting at the bottom of hte stairs and tonnes of deaths trying to inch them away, and telekenising your gear back
ah yes using telekinesis to ninja your gear back from the other size of the wall... and zooming in the screen to find all the individual pieces as there was no "alt mode" with item labels to help locate the items on the ground. good times.
Pro tip- Use the bow as a swappable weapon to kill the mages and succubi that run away. Even as a Warrior you will hit them at a decent rate and do good damage. Chasing after them is infuriating.
Ya know...as a TH-cam regular, really the only app i have on my phone besides the one game i have downloaded for shit sessions, i really wish you would/could post your twitch vods here or perhaps also stream simultaneously here on YT? Idk wish i could see the whole playthrough 😂 glad you enjoyed it!!! One of my favorites
Makes me wanna play again. My first character was a warrior, too, the running of ranged was a big problem, and to some extent, it still is. P.S. Griswold's Edge is *the* weapon to use against Diablo, but on my first playthrough, I never got that quest, because it's random, but I found a two-handed sword of haste, which also did the job. I found that you need a weapon with "faster" or "fastest" attack to handle him. I only found Griswold's edge on my second playthrough, and it worked great, too.
Shrines were such a pain in this game. Having to save before each one as it could remove stats or change weapon damage at the cost of buffing armor class. Wish they would remaster this.
hours and hours of playing D1 with my dad in the PS1. Never was able to beat the game because of a corrupted disc not being able to save. D1 will always hold a special place in my heart.
this game + a child's imagination was like playing a 4k horror game with 3D glasses on. took me years to get to hell without cheats, I think I finally beat it at age 9
damn Fresh Meat wasn't nearly as surprising as it should've been. Such a nostalgia trip seeing this played again. Pretty sure this was before "builds" so people probably carried a bow with them for those range dogs :P maybe you'll realize that later in the video.
Great game. The voice acting, sounds, music and the feel of dread etc is so good in D1. D2 is great too. D1/2 and broodwar had great sounds and feel tbh. Art is good
It pretty much already has. Check out Mordor's Diablo The Hell 3 mod. He's currently still working on it, but TH1 (non-HD) is still amazing and my favorite. TH3 beta is out though, and it's already pretty good. But the full release is supposed to come out next year in the fall! You will NOT be disappointed, I've been playing his D1 mods since 2017!
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Bro ultima online exists, the mmo you described is the grand daddy of mmos and the father of pking
shoulda picked the rogue girl.
You spent thousands on repairs when you're starting ability repairs 😂
@@airiakizuki5592 Small bow of the bear with knockback breaks the game ;)
you have 3 more difficulties, the game does not end there. you continue with the same character onto the next difficulty. thats how you're supposed to play.
I'll never get sick of that Tristam sound track.
the D1 ost is both terrifying and badass. i remember '96/'97...crazy time for pc gaming (what there was)
Stay a while and listen.
Underrated Matt Uelmen: he is from another world.
For me it's on equal footing with the Chrono Cross theme.
In Diablo 1, you really need to use the dungeon layout itself as a shield, and as a weapon.
Using doorways to bottleneck large groups, hide behind corners and pillars to break line of sight and reduce the number of angles attacks and projectiles can come from, kite enemies away from groups, reduce your light radius and use Infravision scrolls to cheese enemies, and make sure to clear hallways before opening a new room in order to avoid facing too much traffic in the neighborhood. You only want enemies to be able to come from one direction whenever possible.
You literally just stand in a doorway and 300 Battle of Thermopylae that $#&+ all game. It's actually quite repetitive, so I'd check out other classes.
@@DavidLewis-v4mIt's the same for other classes to. Being careful is important in d1
@@davidhujik3422 I discovered that Rogue is all about kiting. VS standing in a doorway and swinging until your mouse expires.
@@DavidLewis-v4m rogue has always been kiting same with sorcerer.
The warrior should max magic and get some +magic items to use so you can learn Stone Curse and Teleport (iirc you don't want to learn too high level of them because it just raises the mana cost though. But you need like lvl 2-3 so a shrine can't make you forget it). Then it's a lot more fun against ranged enemies who would otherwise kite you forever
the sanctity of this place has been fouled...
You said titty ha!
Its getting hot down here
@@drachenschanze1 I must be getting close!
Now THAT is a BIG mushroom! - sadly i don't think he found it :(
This is a place of great power! (Hellfire only)
The first time I beat Diablo, my character was already dead - but I'd summoned a Golem beforehand, and I noticed all the enemies carried on attacking my corpse while the Golem kept smacking Diablo. I let it run for a while, just to see how long the Golem would last, and he eventually killed Diablo and gave me the ending cinamatics.
How did you move move your golem if you were dead? If I remember correctly it does same moves as you do
@vespenegas261 I didn't move it at all - when I died it was attacking Diablo, and because Diablo just continued attacking my corpse, it didn't need to move.
@@lordofthenight Holy sh*t. You just created the ulternate universe where the Dark Wanderer is an automaton who stuck a Soul Stone in its forehead!
He got stuck moving east in Diablo 2.
that´s a lie...golem explode when you die..
Diablo 1 was the miraculous game of my generation. Being able to go through the dungeons with friends was not a regular thing then. It was special and we played for hours and hours…then we played the mods.
i remember people i think being on top of rooftops in Tristrim?
It’s my fav Diablo. Going down into an unknown dungeon beneath a church that leads to hell was such an intense experience as an 8 year old (and scary). It has the best atmosphere. While Diablo 2 increased the gameplay tech, running around the world chasing Prime evils trivialized that feeling of wonder and unkown terror that I got from Diablo 1
@@cavetroll666 On rooftops? You have no idea. As someone who was part of the hacking community in D1 it was the wild wild west. The game had no dedicated servers. This meant i could send any data i want from my pc to yours. Directly. We had every town npc standing in a row for ease of access. We had our characters teleport to the location we clicked. Pressing V on my keyboard turned your game off. Placing my cursor on your character killed you. F10 on my keyboard activated code for a shrine that gave me + to a random state and you - to a random stat. It happened at the rate of 255 times per second. Spiraling your stats so far into the negative it corrupted your save file.
Standing on the roof of a building was nothing.
Man i loved this game as a kid, remember playing the demo then begging my dad to get the full game. Good memories.
@TravisHowrish I remember hearing something at Blizzcon or where back in the revealing days, that Diablo was always the last boss, then expansions came, therefore, Diablo wasn't the last boss anymore or the hardest, but the title still goes to the demon's name. So, they might do it backwards, Diablo will be the boss of the last expansion. After 'Vessel of Hatred', we might get something of a 'Destruction', followed by some 'Terror'. I hope my memory serves me well and will be like that. 😏
I'm so old I forget there are people who didn't grow up playing the original, was a great game to play after school. Dial up internet.
RIP Blizzard North. So much know-how and talent lost.
they tried there hand after diablo 2 with hellgate but they fucked that up hard, sad it had so much potential
@@dakrusha Agreed, Hellgate could have been so much more, but unfortunately it's not.
Marvel Heroes was goated though, too bad about its EoS and how it came way too soon
Interesting thing about the ending of Diablo 1 when you slam the Soulstone into your own head - it wasn't planned by Blizzard. They had a separate team doing cinematics from the design team, and they were pretty wild-westing a lot of stuff. So they come up with that ending and everyone was like "WTF?!" and it caused a LOT of debate internally. But in the end they went with it because it was unexpected and super weird and memorable. And it also paved the way for all of the sequels and the idea of the wanderer leaving Hell in their wake. You can look up the interview with David Brevik (designer) on it.
Another little known fact. D1 was originally going to be turn based. Many on the team wanted live action. They held a vote on a Friday and live action won.
David Brevik kept working through the weekend, and on Monday when the rest of the team got back to work, Brevik had written all the code necessary and it was now a live action game.
One weekend.
@@MrVvulf They reduced the turn timer to zero and everything clicked.
The look back history recaps on some of these early dev efforts on platform and PC are some of the most inspirational "just keep at it until breakthrough" stories ever. Love it!!
Fun fact:
Diablo is probably the only aRPG where the Warrior actually wears his full plate's armour helmet in his hands while in town and equips it inside the dungeon.
Brings back so memories from hours upon hours of playing this. Just hearing the voices instantly transported me back to playing this into the wee hours. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
how about the sound a ring dropping
@@nznige it is funny how a thing like not have alt to show loot on ground immerses you into the game.
What's with the music and sound effects in this game omg. The ambience is unreal, wish games had this kind of immersion nowadays.
This game was way ahead of it's time. I remember playing it when it came out. I had nightmares for days
Ahead of its time? You do realize it was a 3D isometric Gauntlet remake mixed up with the Ultima VIII fighting routine, right?
@@messire9837 It literally spawned an entire genre of gaming, yes it was way ahead of it's time 🤣
@messire9837 you're absolutely clueless
@@messire9837 it was from 'moria'. which itself was from rogue. Old school ascii characters, with random dungeon layout. The end boss was the balrog, denoted by a capital B. you were the @ symbol.
Imagine playing this for the first time when you're 9 years old..
you venture down the cathedral and you don't know about the mini-map and that place is terrifying but you HAVE to go deeper... my NOSTALGIA RETURNS
i played when i was 9 years old, more or less
the butcher was the scariest part of this game lol
diablo 1.. starcraft.. age of empires.. played them all like crack when i was 9-12 funny watching this stream.. i remember diablo 1 feeling soo much longer... and who can forget the duping gold in town.. diablo 1 felt like world of warcraft to me back then.. its crazy how tiny the game is by todays standards..
Bro never equipped his godly plate of whale.
Dude missed so much. I'm five hours into the stream and he hasn't bought anything from the shop And I don't believe he knows he scroll through it
The comment at around 22:30 about there being a library of sounds games used is actually right. There was a general library that a lot of companies used, especially when working on smaller projects. I know for a fact that the noises of bats in Diablo 1 are the same sound effects as the bats in Daggerfall. Its always cool to hear the sounds and think of another game from the same era
Movies are the same way, the wilhelm scream and star wars blasters come to mind.
the sound of the dragons is Warcraft 2 is also used in many other things, I can't even name one single thing in particular, I sometimes just randomly hear it when watching stuff.
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It’s funny when my 8 year old hears me hum a 40 year old tune he only knows from some game he plays now and he’s all shocked I know that music or reference…that he doesn’t actually know is an even deeper one
The portal sound is in so much shit
The fun part about OG Diablo was that it was different every time. The Butcher wasn't always a quest you'd get. There were a few quests per section, but you could only get a certain number.
The Butcher was always on level 2. You're remembering wrong.
@@Weremoogle IF you were given the quest. The dying man outside the cathedral doesn't always show up. If he does, you get The Butcher. If he doesn't, there's no Butcher to fight.
@@AstroNerdBoy Sounds like you're more certain than I am, so I'm inclined to believe you. I remember him always being there, but I definitely could be remembering wrong. Been decades since I last played.
@@Weremoogle You're remembering wrong because you're remembering multiplayer where you only and always get two quests, Butcher and Leoric. Look up Jarulf's guide chapter 8.1 on how singleplayer quests are picked.
crazy to me that you're my age, main ARPGS, yet never played diablo 1... glad to see you getting to the OG
I was around during the D1 hype, never cared to play it either. That isn't strange at all, people have different takes on what games to play.
He did say his parents didn't allow him to play it. Christian household and it had Diablo in the name.
I played this game to death in single player as all 3 characters. The game was a test of your determination, beating it was suitably hard. Though you really need to use magic for all characters because the spells rock; it seems you're playing as an Int 1 Warrior lol. I've never had a piece of gear break, this is a novel experience for me. Mage>rogue>warrior from easiest to hardest.
The story still hits me in the feels. "Diablo" was in the possessed body of the benevolent king's missing son (the child was noted as being weak and frail from birth). The sons kidnapping (by Lazarus), with verbal nudging from Lazarus, made the king go insane with rage and that is how he was turned into the Skeleton King. As for the ending, it's jarring to be sure. My best understanding is that being in the dungeons so long near Diablos influence allowed him to suggest ideas to the hero. Going into this the hero didn't know the nature of the enemy let alone that they had to guard their minds The narration you hear from the enemies could be seen as loose evidence of it. It works for Diablo as he gets a much stronger host, while the hero believed they could contain the monster, in a similar vein to Tal Rasha.
At the time hackers were everywhere ruining the online experience by PKing and sometimes even stealing the dead players gear. It was bad for me but compelling to me was watching lots of others being taken advantage of. So I got mad and made a rogue character to kill the hackers. I never hacked and the worst thing I did was dupe dex stat potions. Turns out when you do about 70dmg it causes stun on hit. I farmed the Needler and maxed my teleport spell (to avoid 1million dmg fireballs) I could keep anyone stun locked for as long I cared to until they gave up (Mana Shield with 1million mana and an inventory of potions, they can't be "killed") and either returned the items stolen or left the server. Hell I chased someone once through 12 servers to get someone armor back. Proud times.
The game had a M rating I believe, so nudity was okay(ish) as it also adds to the graphic horror. At the risk of offending someone, nothing perceptively offensive gets made. Which makes me a sad gamer.
Memories. Beauty. Thanks for trying it out and sharing it!
DM - "Do you want to stop being a bad evil kitty?"
Cat - "Nah... I'm just waiting for you to die and I'll start eating you after an hour"
The succubus... the acid spitters... the goatmen... alll firing and running away aginst WARRIOR?!
...good times! Good Times!
You leave a decent bow on the town and kill the crap out of them when you get map that have their layout.
It is so crazy to see someone play this game for the first time in 2024 when I played it so many times when it was launched.. hahaha!!!
Once the Acid Beast spitters in the Catacombs showed up I was like "RIP DM.".
Huuuuge nostalgia factor. This is the first PC game that I ever played. I think it's the fourth game I've played in my life after Zelda on snes, FF4, FF6 and Megaman X. Man this was the golden age of retro gaming.
Yes, I believe this was the first real PC game I played too besides the ones that came on the computer when you bought it like snake and the mine blaster one. This is the game that locked me into this franchise as a permanent fan. It's sad the teams working on it have changed so much over the years and it lost a lot of its scary suspense...
@@SaneMillennial It was my first pc game as well... it was a legend. on my 24 mb compaq computer lol
The Spitter Boss. What a classic.
There's still things in Diablo 1 that are better than later versions. See how he uses terrain to his advantage. How he can't deal with being overrun by enemies.
Later on there's techniques to dealing with enemies that run as a warrior like Teleport-Strike. Building heavy Magic instead of Vitality of using Mana Shield.
All sorts of fun little tricks you kinda figure out yourself to overcome what just becomes more and more brutal with difficulty tiers.
been decades since I've played this game. The first time I found the Butcher I spent more time running. Opening that door and hearing "fresh meat" was enough to send me packing. One of my most Iconic moments in gaming.
Glad you enjoyed it. Was my favourite for Soooo long also D-1 maps are actually random PC generated. So nobody actually said put 20 ranged dogs at the end of a hallway.
nothing beats diablo 1 atmosphere
Those really painful hallways full of acid fiends are where D1's INCREDIBLY powerful consumables really come in handy. Don't want to get stunned? Hit a scroll of mana shield. Just want them all dead? Staff of Armageddon. Warrior bro can just cast nuke.
i played this when it came out on ps1. huge nostalgia
Haha same here!
fun fact, the spitting dogs are outranged by bows
@wandering.minstrel especially with a fast block shield.
*diablo casts apocalypse
*block
"There must be a library of sound effects all the companies were using." Yes it's called Sound Ideas and you can still buy it.
DM, if you are interested in playing the game more extensively, I suggest using the DevilutionX port, it greatly helps for speedfarming and has the expansion content.
Also some basic pro tips I can give you for Warrior:
1. Never use a 2h weapon, sword and board is king.
2. When fighting projectile spammer champs, either reset the dungeon or use magic if desperate.
3. In single player, beware of shrines, some cause negative permanent effects to your character. Look up the shrines online, if they are bad, reload and avoid. In multiplayer, avoid altogether.
4. If you come across a zombie called the Black Death, (bright yellow, looks radioactive) save before you fight it, use ranged attacks, or avoid it altogether. Each hit from the zombie can permanently reduce your max HP PER HIT.
Godly plate of the whale and other godly pieces were fun to search for haha its crazy though some of the items like stormshield and griswolds edge in d1 carried into other sequels its so nostalgic when companies do that
Haha thanks for this mate! You brought back a lot of fun memories and that wonderful aol dialup noise lol
Oh, u should know that magic here is so good and multi functional for all classes. Warrior with teleport, turning monsters to stone for more physical dammage etc. This game has HD mode with added difficulty and levels, hotkeys. It's a great thing to play, though torment difficulty is HARD to beat. Diablo level is so full of monsters and u got only 15 or 30 minutes timer to finish it.
Since monsters stay dead permanently, you can choose new game and select your current hero, the monsters will be back, will be a new game but with your saved char, gear, gold etc
really? that's sick, never played d1 so idk
@@armando6574 yeah I'm pretty sure your meant to go like half way down or until it starts getting rough and then start a new game with the same toon and go a little further each time, it's actually kind of impressive how he still beat the game considering he was kinda playing horribly and missing A LOT lol
Played this at my place with mates every single day when it came out, massive nostalgia!
This was a truly fun video to watch… this was the game the started it all, I’m glad you recognized it being great… to even better understand, you have to remember this was 1996… and it all just blew our minds back then. My only tip, even as a Warrior… gotta use some more magic to freeze or rang e attack those mages/succubi.
I have fond memories of Diablo, it was my very first online gaming experience, I was blown away especially by the music...so atmospheric and dark. Good times.
Honestly impressed he only died 5 times. Maybe it seemed way harder for me because I was 11 and this genre of game had literally never existed before. Also the friendly fire in multiplayer didn't help
As the warrior, the spell “phasing” is your friend, to escape when surrounded. Use a bow to thin out hard to reach enemies and runners! Such a fun nostalgic game. Played when I was a kid.
Guy with 4 potions in his belt: this game is impossible
1:00 caine most famous line !
That acid mob though - loughed so hard to see you get hammered and I'll never forget getting wrecked by him back in the days ;)
I still remember the music of Diablo 1 like its yesterday... my first game I played on my 24 mb compaq computer... never forget this legend!!!
Wonderful to see you play that game - so many good memories - hundreds of hours in that true game gem. We need more of those true games :)
Love seeing this. It's still a little bizarre that, as an ARPG enthusiast, DM has still never dipped into Grim Dawn. It's top two for me, but I would imagine top 5 for most people. At least it's still going to be there whenever he finally gets to it!
Can't wait for the new expansion.
When we got Diablo 1 back in the day, my brother beat it as a sword & shield warrior. I played a sorcerer and didn’t finish the game for several years. Stone Curse and Golem were hugely helpful.
About to get some of that "I SENSE A SOUL IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS" at 3 in the morning.
My first time playing this was actually right before D2R came out. My OG disc was broken when I bought the battle chest back in the day. It felt like an achievement after finishing this game. Lol
12:43 kitty has a deal with Diablo himself 😭
we called them "the machinegun dogs"
The OG of RPGs, the original. This is one of the best things I've ever seen on YT. Could watch this over and over. Makes me want to revisit the classic.
The OG of ARPG. Not RPG by any stretch. But an absolute banger of a game .
@tomoliver2961 ARPG is a marketing ploy. There was no ARPG when it came out, thus it's an rpg game. The acronym, ARPG, didn't come about till after the fact. Regardless, RPG covers all whether more combat based or not. It's like calling the Grateful Dead a the father of jambands, but the term didn't exist in their hayday. D1s gameplay was tied and limited to the story; they're contingent on one another. I'd say its not much of a stretch but exactly what RPGs were, because it was the only one at the time. With time, yes, it could be classified as ARPG, thus the coining of "Hack n Slash" which it often was called. D1 is definitely a Role Playing Game. A game I could put myself into and fantasy.
@tomoliver2961 however, it's debatable and relatively inconsequential. I do want to say, D1 wasn't the first RPG as I did say. I forgot about Ultima, that game was incredible!!
Yeah, it’s it an RPG game but I’m only enough to remember many in the genre prior to Diablo. I’d say Diablo might have been the first RPG to bring the style to the masses. It’s in my top 5 games all time so I’m not knocking the game.
@tomoliver2961 I'd agree. Top 5, for sure; definitely brought that genre to the publics eye. Sorry, I wasn't trying to be harsh or be condescending or anything like that. You're definitely entitled to your opinion. I find it interesting how the genre has so many different playstyles now and is basically incorporated into other genres that are bestselling.
I've always liked cranking dex for hit chance in the first game in first few levels.
Been playing a lot of Devilutionx recently so this was a real treat.
watching this i just realized i hadn't got that crazy feeling of an NPC talking to me in a game in so long, but the elden ring DLC had it.
Watched it just to see how your reaction to the acid spitters was haha...they were the worsttt
6:14 lol suddenly you have an epic dwarf beard
Fully voice acted characters in 1997 feels pretty impressive. I guess it was a post-DOOM world at that point, but we were still sort of working with sticks and rocks as far as computing is concerned.
thanks man 🎉🎉🎉
When I was ai kid I though Sean Connery voiced Cain
Funny how recent games made us think that an Archdemon would fight fair and square.
How he always ignored the red armor sign on the right. He got 3 or more items destroyed because he didnt get them repaired. This is what I call learning resistant
You would have made your life much easier if you had fought in bottlenecks. Doorways, or those narrow passages in the Lava realms, the demons kept you in the stun lock.
Diablo 1 was much more tactical than the sequels.
I forget, does he have to repair stuff to not lose it to durability? I don't remember ever losing gear as a sorceror/wizard/mage
Yeah in D1 if items broke they disappeared. Not sure if he was repairing uniques with the warrior repair skill or not, but that lowers max durability each time it's used. Only really useful early on with trash items you need to keep around a bit longer before replacing.
@@AdhinJT he was literally slamming repair skill at lvl 20+ on his unique gear ... never realizing he permanently damages the gear every time he uses that nonsensical starter skill
@@AdhinJT The best use for the repair skill is increasing the value of stuff you sell
I just want D1 and Warcraft 2 to be remastered
Man I remember playing this on the PS1 and I couldn't push myself to even get through the first act because I was so scared. The atmosphere is absolutely amazing.
Also starting on a sorc, a barrel can kill you. Also chance to hit really stuffs you up
10 minutes in and my boy is losing all his gear by not repairing it...
This game changed everything! And that soundtrack... just (chef's kiss)!
this was great hahah loved this
For warrior u should start with max dex (60 point). Then Str/Vit.
In early game -late game you need hit chance and dodge chance. Max Dex asap will make you through the game very easily.
You may want to keep a good bow in your inventory to counter range monster, keep distance and shoot them instead of running and catching them.
used to play this on COAX lan with the boys at Uni, a huge part of this game was loading into a level which had a pile of mobs sitting at the bottom of hte stairs and tonnes of deaths trying to inch them away, and telekenising your gear back
ah yes using telekinesis to ninja your gear back from the other size of the wall... and zooming in the screen to find all the individual pieces as there was no "alt mode" with item labels to help locate the items on the ground. good times.
Those acid spitters lol
Man, Diablo 1 still has the coolest looking gear out of all the Diablo's when it comes to the design especially in the inventory screen.
Pro tip- Use the bow as a swappable weapon to kill the mages and succubi that run away. Even as a Warrior you will hit them at a decent rate and do good damage. Chasing after them is infuriating.
Ya know...as a TH-cam regular, really the only app i have on my phone besides the one game i have downloaded for shit sessions, i really wish you would/could post your twitch vods here or perhaps also stream simultaneously here on YT? Idk wish i could see the whole playthrough 😂 glad you enjoyed it!!! One of my favorites
Makes me wanna play again. My first character was a warrior, too, the running of ranged was a big problem, and to some extent, it still is. P.S. Griswold's Edge is *the* weapon to use against Diablo, but on my first playthrough, I never got that quest, because it's random, but I found a two-handed sword of haste, which also did the job. I found that you need a weapon with "faster" or "fastest" attack to handle him. I only found Griswold's edge on my second playthrough, and it worked great, too.
"I gotta pawn some of this stuff !" Classic.
I played this when it came out, I love the nostalgia. One thing you learn is monsters have resist and immunity
Some of this I don’t remember at all. The looks of some of the armor for example. Is it all original?
Shrines were such a pain in this game. Having to save before each one as it could remove stats or change weapon damage at the cost of buffing armor class. Wish they would remaster this.
Pleeeease, no hurt, no kill, keep aliiiveee 🐐
lol i remember doing the potion dupe method for my dad in 98 😂
97?
I used potion dupe on PS one, and the best part of it is that I found the exploit by myself 😅
You have to imagine playing this game when you were like 10 years old. Honestly this is probably THE game that made me love PC gaming!
hours and hours of playing D1 with my dad in the PS1. Never was able to beat the game because of a corrupted disc not being able to save. D1 will always hold a special place in my heart.
No running back to get your corpse? That was the hardest part of the game.
this game + a child's imagination was like playing a 4k horror game with 3D glasses on. took me years to get to hell without cheats, I think I finally beat it at age 9
I remember playing this on dialup, warrior was a good starter. I stayed up a many a nights losing sleep to this game and playing online
"Do I have to walk my ass out of here" holy shittles that broke me
damn Fresh Meat wasn't nearly as surprising as it should've been. Such a nostalgia trip seeing this played again. Pretty sure this was before "builds" so people probably carried a bow with them for those range dogs :P maybe you'll realize that later in the video.
I was like 9 or 10 when I watched my dad beat diablo and the scene where he slammed the soulstone into his head haunted me for so many years
The caves music is my favorite from the entire franchise. They nailed it with that one.
Great game. The voice acting, sounds, music and the feel of dread etc is so good in D1. D2 is great too. D1/2 and broodwar had great sounds and feel tbh. Art is good
Wish D1 would get an HD upgrade
It pretty much already has.
Check out Mordor's Diablo The Hell 3 mod.
He's currently still working on it, but TH1 (non-HD) is still amazing and my favorite.
TH3 beta is out though, and it's already pretty good.
But the full release is supposed to come out next year in the fall!
You will NOT be disappointed, I've been playing his D1 mods since 2017!
It's really nice to see some modern gamer paying homage to the OG, in this particular game you just die until you learn to live with it.
light radius is a neat stat in this game, it also controls your agro range, you can turn the lights down so low you wont agro stuff
"Yo, hellooo there" Got me XD
Oh man, my all the time fav. game. This game was hard and scary and fun. I still play the Belzebub version from time to time.
This game, made in the 90's, was the start of my gaming addiction. Some people have heroin, cocaine, or pills... I have Diablo.