Someone really needs to figure out why Diablo 1 was so amazing. Its true power is still not fully understood. Instead of a world, instead of a complicated lore, you had a single Cathedral that went down, down, down, down -- all the way down to Hell. Every time you decided to head back into that endless Cathedral, you were scared. Genuinely scared.
suejak1 The theme was dark/gothic, everything was.. well dark, you couldnt see that far, even in d2 you can see further than you can in d1. The sounds were twisted and demonic/distorted, the music was evil and twisted. I think the dark did allot for the feel of the game. Even though the later levels of D1 was relativley bright, diablo 2 was allot brighter with its outdoor enviroments. Diablo 1 just feels more evil and scarry than its followers do. Gameplay wise though, diablo 1 has allot of flaws he he.
suejak1 I recall the feeling of fear when I was in Hell. I knew that around every corner were going to be more knights, and that they very well could kill me.More games should feel like that.
Love the use of whispers, laughing, crying, etc he used to make the player feel like his character was slowly descending into madness. Going deeper into the cathedral was just as much a mental battle as it was a physical one; the hero constantly having to fight his own fear and paranoia (was that a baby I heard crying in the pits of Hell?) Matt Uelman captures this experience perfectly with the soundtrack. I also love the use of electric guitar. Something that at first glance doesn’t seem to fit with the fantasy genre, but he makes it work, and to great effect. Diablo 1 is simply a masterpiece.
I love when electronic music features in fantasy settings: it is the perfect kind of sound to associate with the magical/mystical/otherworldly. In a sword and sandals kind of world, the Caves Electric Guitar would not be out of place to accompany demons.
Imagine a player character just thinking away, to hear someone laughing and crying. Except they had tears in their eyes, so they basically heard them selves and only now noticed.
Diablo 2 and 3 tried to make the game more dramatic and cinematic instead of letting the atmosphere tell the story. You get to level 5 and the game just got darker. No explanation, no lore. Storytelling via atmosphere, more questions than answers. Every monster was either dangerous or menacing. Creepy and fear inducing monsters, quests that open up even more questions.
Both Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 soundtracks are amazing, but first one is even more unique. It has kind of a psychedelic vibe to it, perfectly fitting seeing how claustrophobic Diablo 1 could be.
I remember playing this game and actually having a sense of fear. The music was actually frightening. This is something the other Diablo games haven't been able to capture and it is somewhat disappointing. You are fighting the forces of hell. It should be scary.
Yea I remember playing this game with my brother when we were 8 years old, and even looking at the game nowadays, it looks pretty pixelated (even worse then with monitors from that time) but with the music and everything, my brother and I were afraid to play. We were young, so we never got past the Butcher, and we had such bad nightmares we couldn't sleep for 3 days, and my mom yelled at my dad, lol. To me, Diablo 1 was more scary because you could only go down, whereas Diablo 2 had more surface-roaming. And the farther down the cathedral you went, the more terrifying and worse it got. More blood, more bodies, more dark and distorted creatures... and then you entered Hell itself.
Mingho Le Oh my god, maaan, I have the exact same memories :D although I got past the butcher since I kinda knew what I should do cause I was watching my dad play all the time. The music is freaking terrifying
Rick Wolford Yes. It was extremely scary. I think the recent games are too soft, and most importantly, they do not emphasize the real-world religious element. Diablo 1 really felt like it was dealing with Christian themes. Diablo 2 and especially 3 are more generic fantasy, like Warcraft. I think everyone was terrified of the Butcher. His room was full of impaled naked bodies. It was horrific and he was fast as fuck.
Diablo 1 struck a perfect balance between action and horror, and the soundtrack was perfect. There was never too much on the screen at once. You walked into an empty tomb with eery music with no clue what awaited you. You ran into zombies, they were freaky, but not too tough. You thought you can handle this. Then you opened that door... "ahhh fresh meat". The game didn't need jump scares like so many horror games rely on these days. All it needed was that one sentence with a room full of blood and a demon with a huge cleaver walking towards you at a brisk pace. There wasn't much going on. It was just you, and this demon, in an empty desolated tomb where no one could hear you scream, and you had to fight for your life. It was scary! He was actually tough, unlike first bosses in games these days, which helped increase the tension as well. It was that uncertainty of what awaited you next that made the game so great. I remember this bit where you first walk into the caves, and you're not sure what kind of demons await you there... then you hear this horrible roar and you see a horned demon charging across the screen towards you and your reaction is shiiiiiitttt! Diablo 2 was similar to this to some extent, there were some really great eery levels in that game... however Diablo 3 threw that all away. They made the game so boring that you had to play 50 hours to get the final difficulty level to play anything even remotely challenging. Plus the art style was terrible, it went from being horror themed to being Cartoony, and there were simply too many enemies on the screen at once. It was no longer about survival, it was about spamming spells to kill things that appear over and over. Such a shame. I hope they make another Diablo themed game in the same style of Diablo 1 and 2.
dont keep ur hopes up because people these days find things like diablo 1 boring, i bet they all will say things like: "cant run", "game doenst have open world, only cathedral", "too hard", "cant customize character", "music is bad", etc... world population become dumb by the day with shit tastes and games industry has to do what they like to make money of it (cant blame the industry for this as they do games for living)
@@MatheusHenrique-qh8qe You are very right, unfortunately. I look at modern people, and, to be honest, I see more and more disgusting. It feels like people are mired in comfort and pleasure, turning from people into something different and strange, alien to this world. In fact, despite all the so-called "technical progress", it seems to me that humanity is gradually approaching its semantic end. "Silent Apocalypse"
It's not just that the butcher was terrifying, it's that most people's first experience of the butcher was getting killed almost INSTANTLY. If you don't know he's coming, you just open a door and within a second you're dead before you even realize what's going on. You don't yet know to clear the whole floor first, you don't know how FAST this fucker is and how much damage he does. You die before you even realize it and that's the terror of the butcher. It perfectly simulates the terror that the mob led by Lazarus felt when THEY encountered him. Brilliant design.
I liked when Blizzard transfered these phrases to starcraft. You could click on protoss observer to hear "I sence your soul in search of answers." and other stuff
I agree. Folks who played burning crusade will recognize a lot of the themes here, particularly catacombs/caves. I find Auchindoun very similar to parts of those.
@@deficineirondeficineiron5306 Fuck, caves is just chilling at the moaning part. Fighting with that playing was so stressful. What a soundtrack, i forgot how fucking good it was beyond just the tristram theme.
"Diablo did so well that they eventually came out with something called Warcraft based on similar code." WAT. Maybe you should check the release dates on Warcraft 1 and Diablo 1, then come back to this conversation.
I read most of the comments here about Diablo being creepy and the soundtrack being creepy because we were all too young when we played it. But damn, listening to this a decade later still gives me goosebumps. The sounds of tortured souls mixed with christianity themes that have been discussed here is genius. And scary. Good'ol days...
it wont be matched anymore.. cant be more demon like and scarier than this. new technology just makes us less creative and makes things more artificial or something. this is the top of the top:)
Same here my friend, I'm played this game when it came out 20 years ago, and when I played D3 a week ago on PS4 and heard that creepy voice, I about shit myself lol
I never played Diablo as a kid, and while I wouldn't say it's "scary," it certainly has a dark, gloomy, uneasiness about it, especially when playing it for the first time.
@D A S K The entire dungeon music, especially 08:18 onwards was what inspired true horror for me in this game. With demons, zombies, skeletons and rabid animals roaming all around you.. but you can't see them because of your low light radius. I think D2 killed the suspense because its more of an open world thing with only few caves and dungeons to give you scares. Even then you can run away but in D1, you can only walk, which means enemies can catch up!
@@FiggsNeughton Probably one of the games that I never skipped the dialogue even on the 5th+ play through. No offense to Bethesda but you just need more voice actors so they all sound special. In D2 I can't wait to reach act 3 so the medicine man can give me respect as a necromancer. What are a few souls or trinkets between bros.
Smokeweed D Bear you and me both bro. Bought a tear to my eye in fact. I remember sitting there on my our first computer getting through this game. Then, our pc crashed and when it got returned there was no save game file 😭 I was up to the last few levels too. Vowed never to play it again because it was so magical that I could never recreate it.
I think i was 8 when i first played this; i can still remember my heart pounding with adrenaline when i found The Butchers lair with all the blood and dead bodies and him rushing out shouting "Ahh, FRESH MEAT". The most heart wrenching moment in it for me is talking to Farnham about The Butcher, the voice actor absolutely nailed it. Have a look for the Belzebub mod, shits tight if you ever want to play it again. Sinwar mod for d1 is pretty good too, but it was a while back i played it not sure how hard it is to find.
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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I truly remembered by myself and I'm fucking glad of it)
It's not only a descent into darkness, it's a descent into insanity. A perfect mirror of the game. This soundtrack is not "just there", its presence enhances Diablo. IMO Matt Uelmen's best and a hallmark for a superb videogame soundtrack even to this day.
Thief 1/2/3 OST is similar creepy ambient horror style, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines has very creepy music too (example: track Disturbed and Twisted).
For me one of the scariest parts was confronting archbishop Lazarus; the cinematic scene with the music at 6:23 showing him with demonic red eyes, then appearing on his lair, unable to move, seeing the slaughtered boy and his succubi bodyguards, full of adrenaline, just listening to his speech and then, the final line "...now you will join him, in hell." and havoc begins!
@@MrHaaaj 2 especially could have had that most of their levels were that long then hell was only like 3-4 levels. In D1 it's only like 15 levels total so that would be harder I do like the concept though.
Sounds like i'm venturing down the catacombs again, each song representing the progression downwards to hell, very spooky ass music for a child, now...pure nostalgia..
Diablo ruins the ARPG genre for me, it started it, it ended it. All these years, I tried to love another ARPG, searched high and low, they may try to create better mechanics, gameplay, higher resolution, but when it came to atmosphere, music, voice acting, aesthetic design, nothing could even come close to Diablo, it nailed it.
One year later but just wanted to say that I get ya. Nothing will leave such a mark as diablo, it nailed it. It nailed the fuck out of it in all the aspects you mentioned. Now its just fucking numbers, stats and multiplayer shit.
When looking up the album to find guitarist credit for the song called "Town" I could not find it, Further searching revealed that on later collections it is listed as "Tristram"- by the way, thank you for the track and time stamp listing-
Aah, man i have to thank my uncle for getting me into this series! Him and I used to play a lot and then my family moved but i still kept playing. We used to play a lot of 3 but then my little brain exploded once i found out that "Oh, WOW there must be more games in the series if this is the 3rd one!" so one day i bought this game and started playing it. Lets just say it became a crazy addiction! i would stay up playing this game constantly trying to get better gear, countless runs. That same year my uncle came to our house for thanksgiving and we were talking and i told him "Yo i got diablo 1 on my computer!" and he just froze. i was worried if i did something wrong and he just said "Really?" and i told him "Uhh yeah if you want i can show you.". I started up the game and selected my character and the tristram theme started playing. He just sat there in pure nostalgia. I didnt understand until that moment how much the diablo series meant to him and it was awesome. He told me a ton of stories of him playing this game in his youth and how much trouble he would get in from skipping school to play this! If youre reading this, i really appreciate you for being a sick uncle! Much love.
+Taglemec Tagle Sorry you feel that way about it. I'd much rather play the original than the abomination that we have with D3. I too did a LAN a few years ago with a friend with the original Diablo, and we had a blast. Your mileage may vary, it seems.
I would be happy even if they were released with DOSBox, as Commander Keen games did for Steam. I wanna throw Blizzard money for those games so badly. I don't care about WoW, I just want Warcraft II.
Las Des Diablo I and WCII can be played easily on newer versions of Windows. For WCII specifically you need to get the Bnet edition which comes with Beyond the Dark Portal.
And so the hero ventured down into the dungeon, having no idea what may lie before him. The atmosphere was filled with darkness and cold and the hallways seemed endless. It quickly becomes hard to beleive that this church could have been constructed by mankind. It seems almost as if the powers of hell have warped and transformed this place into a brand new - a mere shadow of its former self. The hero had no idea what horrors would be bestown upon him in this horrible bastion of hell.
Man I loved the soundtrack when I played this the first time on PC back in 1998 when it first came out and thank you for bringing the soundtrack in TH-cam since Spotify doesn’t have this there. ❤
i was a teen, winter night, and i'm ready to play diablo 1, when i entered the cathedral ... omg, i'll never forget this feeling of awe and fear, unrepeatable and unforgettable
12:55 Such a simple theme, so many emotions. Catacombs is definitely my favourite zone. Very little light, claustrophobia-inducing aisles and rooms, and that music - this, this is Diablo. And, oh, the quests ... Chamber of Bone, Halls of the Blind, Arkaine's Valor. Fantastic delivery through the tomes.
Beyond the halls of the heroes lies the Chamber of bone... So speaks the Lord of Terror, and so it is written... I can see what you see not, vision milky then eyes rot... - Still remember most of them by heart, starting from the very first "Thank goodness you've returned! Much has changed since you lived here, my friewnd... " up to the last lines "... perhaps there, beyond the dessolate sands of Far East you'll find an answer. Or, perhaps, salvation."
Diablo was a real badass game, still is a badass game, the atmosphere, the music, everything was perfect and balanced with the world, it had the creepy hellish feeling. Diablo 2 couldn't give back the wibe of Diablo 1 and I don't want to talk about Diablo 3, because I bought it, I played it thorugh, but in deep levels of my heart I hated, because Diablo 3 isn't a real Diablo...
So i have a very vivid memory of playing this game in my childhood, sneaking into my brothers room and using his pc. this game was on it and i remember having actual fear, but i did it. i remember the dark melodies that were so frightening but enchanting at the sametime and only memories of entering that cathedral and not coming back out.
Mine was was Dungeon keeper. But the one that i enjoyed the most was Heroes of Might and magic 3, played the shit out of that and later everything related to it... until the last ones which were kind meh...
It was almost night, I was in my room, in an apartment building (Eastern Europe shithole), I could see a big tower burning coal outside on my window, back then used to live in the worst polluted part of the city due to the fact that my father passed away due to cancer. This game made me teleport in another world, a confortable universe, I was a knight fighting against the darkness that took over my life. Diablo and Warcraft 2 wore some amazing gems, later on World of Warcraft. I don't regret a minute spent in these worlds. Thank you Blizzard !
Back when being a Demon Lord meant a pure evil monster: no personal charm, no "I am not that bad" thing, no being misunderstood in wickedness. Just an embodiment of pure terror and evil meant to spread its dark influence to everyone, even its fellow kind (who are all beneath it) and enjoy every second of it until there is nothing left to laugh about.
nothing ... not one thing in the gaming world EVER! scared me - as much as; "FRESH MEAT" ho-ly FUCK !!! Almost threw my monitor out the window first time that sound entered my ears !!! epic ... FUCKING win of a game !!! God damn LEGENDARY !!!
this "antiHero" Butcher was so scary to me but also some kind of fascinating.....and that fakin voice and FRESH MEAT sentence......love it now :D :D :D good old days ^^
please don't joke, it didn't fall that low seriously? after the third they should have tried to make the leap back to a serious and horror/satanic themed game. Lots of modern games have shown it possible to be authentic and interesting, not being generic and kissing up to every consumer possible while still making great sales. Quality and originality is lacking so much that any project gambling on being itself (and not everything else) should immediately alert every potential buyer, given they are made aware.
Well...think about it...if what you say is true....(wich it will propably be) then Diablo just became one of those game franchices who companies just stick the series logo just to sell even more... A fine example is C&C 4 (although I do not like calling it C&C but for the purpose of comment I'll let it be...) Anyway in my case I stick with Diablo I and II...
@@kestrelky4027 Well I could not agree more with you...I think these are lessons that some companies need to learn...For instance entering the mobile game industry with a maybe I'll call it stupid game with a franchize's name plastered all over the place does not mean that the fans are going to like this...Same thing happened with C&C Rivals wich still sits in a 3\5 overall rating and the fans hated it...now in Diablo's case It seems that I can't find in the Playstore but I can see where this is going...
Was in my early 20's when this came out i remember days on end me and my buddy coming home from work, getting baked and playing this all night. Good times.
Can anyone remember the lore behind "Hell" in this game? I remember this tale about an army (with a marching band) venturing into the depths of hell to make things right. When I hear the optimistic whistle and marching drums playing on the track "Hell", and then fading away on the wrong note, I instantly think that they met their match in the terrible demons down there and the marching band stopped playing in terror! Then they were all slain. It was kind of the humans pathetic intent to challenge the great evil "way back then", and now it's your turn! Does anyone understand what I'm ranting about? :D (the musical segment I'm talking about starts at 23:55). I love that narrative music!
um I think your spot on, that is my interpretation as well. It is so well done, and the part you refer to is my favorite. Such patriotic optimism goes to hell :), and the flute just says "uhh whatever, fuck this"
They may have had a shot at winning if they weren't being led into a trap by Lazarus. Diablo has been beaten by mortals before in the lore, that's how he got trapped in the soulstone to begin with.
Dark, hard, scary. Sure, "slow" compared to today's standards. But that's how fast you go when death lurks around every corner. I really miss this game. D2 was a good followup. D3, well, feels like fireworks are blasting everywhere and I'm invincible (not scared).
Could Dablio have been as popular without its music ? I doubt it. Reading the comments here, a lot were scared of the butcher, i was more afraid of the acid dogs in the caves . their fire rate was so high, getting hit and seeing the life of my hero lowering to extremes was so confusing . the corpse runs after were also sometimes an adventure within the adventure ! But the guitar part of the music in the caves, oh my ... i spent hours in those caves with my archer, switching amulets rings and spells to survive through them with the music as sidekick ! The hive theme is also very pleasing . i miss the thrill of all this .
Just decided to install this game, and 5 seconds on the autorun program i'm hooked.. by the music, the theme, the font. And later by the gameplay, i felt nostalgia for something i've never experienced!
This is actually the last game i bought a physical copy of. On release day, and boy was i blown away... good times. I must have heard "i sense a soul in search of answers.." 100.000 times.
If even today Diablo's songs are simply incredible and convey that atmosphere of tension, suspense and fear, imagine when you were a child and had contact with him for the first time. The atmosphere of Diablo is unsurpassed to this day!!
Yes I don't want to hate on music back then we had a lot of cool music in the mid 1990s but this was some truly incredible stuff. Now you can find lots of strange things. Back then? As a kid? This was the craziest stuff I got to hear other then of course C&C Frank Lepaki or whoever them and this Matt guy sorry I never knew his name Uelman he changed my life both of them did. If anything I see it as the best rivalry. These 2 companies blizzard and westworld did so much to help me grow as a kid and I know that sounds goofy but music and art and just anything kids can grasp onto when they're feeling down I guess. Sounds so silly but I remember being there reaching out for anything. Poor youngin's. You're going to make it. Hopefully. Today is pretty crazy though can't deny that.
I played Diablo 1 the very first time 10 years ago when I was 18 during hot summer afternoons. I was genuenly scared even back then. Can´t imagine playing this even younger during stormy night. One must remain traumatized after that.
The Cathedral (Levels 1-4) and the Catacombs (Level 5-8) music are the best in the game. When I first played the game, listening to the music on those levels, especially when you're inexperience makes it all more terrifying...I LOVE IT!!!
They did an amazing job making you feel uneasy with the soundtrack. The strained violin. The choppy sounds. The tribal drums. The random screams. The white noise that never makes you feel comfortable with your surroundings. Add the stunning environments, gripping gameplay and compelling story - and you have an Atmospheric Masterpiece.
Partly why i believe old games were so much better and memorable is because 1) in the 90s, games were new, we were not spoilt with choices. 2) there is a sense of mystery, there is no benchmark or games that we could compare to. 3) we played these games when we were kids, experiences during childhood / teenage years tend to be more memorable as these experiences are "new" to us. i think games nowadays need to keep it mysterious and stop revealing every darn thing. Games nowadays tease you constantly prior to release, what doesnt help is that we could already picture the gameplay and mechanics... maybe the next groundbreaking games would be in VR format, once VR tech matures.
The sound. The darkness in the dungeons. Traps. And of course monsters. Yet to find anything scarier than what I experienced when I didn't even know what this game was about. Trailer also scared me a lot. Great creepy music
This game came out when I was 12, I got it for my Birthday it was overwhelmingly awesome. The music is nostalgic and it triggers that part of your heart and soul. good times.
Oh my god ... i remember back in the days , that game was so sick ..... still cant compare it with recent rpg games. The atmosphere , the music , the enviroment was dope ...... best rpg game ever ....
I actually just realized. The catacombs music was reused in WoW, almost unchanged for the Auchindoun dungeons in Outland. Shadow Labyrinth, Mana-Tombs, and such ...
This game had such a big impact on my child myself that sometimes I still have nightmares in which I'm going down under the earth, and wandering in endless labyrinth-like catacombs. Fear lingering around me, I try to evade encounters with the unimaginable monsters below there, but sometimes I have to fight or I have to escape and run behind thick wooden doors, but the monsters want to push it and get me. I have to push back with my full strenght. I think that a big part of that nightmaris atmosphere that still hunting me was the music.
“Please... listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus... He lead us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard lead us into a trap... now everyone is dead, killed by a demon he called the Butcher... Avenge us! Find this Butcher and slay him, so that our souls may finally rest... “
I like this jumpscare pipe organ part in the menu theme. It sort of reflects recurring theme of eternal fight between forces of hell and heaven in the franchise. Pipe organs being the heaven while the rest, more ominous part of the song clearly reminds one of hell.
More game soundtracks need to be this atmospheric. Oh, man. Those first few Tristram chords send me on a nostalgia trip for sure. And the tracks for the different levels of the labyrinth? Actually creepy, even as an adult. Best game in the franchise. Absolutely a timeless classic.
Hell has all the best tunes! Caves is still so fuckin good....man, I used rock that shit back in the day. One of my all-time favourite games. It just had it all
diablo 1, broodwar, warcraft 2 were simple, brutal games. And they had a real atmosphere, even if the game design was uncomplete sometimes. Now we have over sophisticated games with ultra bad ass heroes and complicated stories, but we have to face it : the real magic is DEAD; but we have overwatch and heroes of the storm now : the zombie Disney version..
Probably the best game soundtrack I've ever heard. Since the first play on release day to now, I can place myself in so many different places both in the game but also in my life. Thank you for sharing.
I remember getting PS1 from my parents on christmas,first games we got were UEFA Champions league or something like that,NHL 98,then later i got Resident Evil 1,Rainbow Six and R6 Rogue Spear and this,this game which was something i didnt experience till then,and when i first tried it even my dad was watching me play it,i remember dying on level 1 or 2 cause i didnt know it yet,and after that hed join me,this was the first and only game we played together,i was always playing as the mage and he was the warrior,we finished the game together and i have alot of happy memories for it,i lost my PS1 long time ago so i cant really play it with him anymore,it hurts me especially since he was diagnosed with cancer a year or so ago,but every now and then when i play this on an emulator my dad watches me,sometimes even plays it himself,trully a great game
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Someone really needs to figure out why Diablo 1 was so amazing. Its true power is still not fully understood.
Instead of a world, instead of a complicated lore,
you had a single Cathedral that went down, down, down, down -- all the way down to Hell.
Every time you decided to head back into that endless Cathedral, you were scared.
Genuinely scared.
suejak1 i think its pretty clear: the game was a straight descent into hell - executed brilliantly.
suejak1 Blizzard North power
suejak1 The theme was dark/gothic, everything was.. well dark, you couldnt see that far, even in d2 you can see further than you can in d1. The sounds were twisted and demonic/distorted, the music was evil and twisted.
I think the dark did allot for the feel of the game. Even though the later levels of D1 was relativley bright, diablo 2 was allot brighter with its outdoor enviroments.
Diablo 1 just feels more evil and scarry than its followers do. Gameplay wise though, diablo 1 has allot of flaws he he.
suejak1 I recall the feeling of fear when I was in Hell. I knew that around every corner were going to be more knights, and that they very well could kill me.More games should feel like that.
Crovaxx2 Tried POE but it didnt have the feel and quallity i want from those kinds of games so, not for me.
First encounter with the Butcher, scared me shitless..
"AHHH FRESH MEAT" i remember the jump scare today!
so this is the first appearance of Pudge from dota :)
Even SSJ3 Goku is scared from The Butcher. Such a tremendous foe.
I´m kinda glad they went with the "safer" version of the butcher scene in the game. If I think back on it.
+Constrick no kidding man, Diablo is the real deal. I actually thought that the makers were from hell lol.
Love the use of whispers, laughing, crying, etc he used to make the player feel like his character was slowly descending into madness. Going deeper into the cathedral was just as much a mental battle as it was a physical one; the hero constantly having to fight his own fear and paranoia (was that a baby I heard crying in the pits of Hell?) Matt Uelman captures this experience perfectly with the soundtrack. I also love the use of electric guitar. Something that at first glance doesn’t seem to fit with the fantasy genre, but he makes it work, and to great effect. Diablo 1 is simply a masterpiece.
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I love when electronic music features in fantasy settings: it is the perfect kind of sound to associate with the magical/mystical/otherworldly. In a sword and sandals kind of world, the Caves Electric Guitar would not be out of place to accompany demons.
Imagine a player character just thinking away, to hear someone laughing and crying. Except they had tears in their eyes, so they basically heard them selves and only now noticed.
Diablo 2 and 3 tried to make the game more dramatic and cinematic instead of letting the atmosphere tell the story. You get to level 5 and the game just got darker. No explanation, no lore. Storytelling via atmosphere, more questions than answers. Every monster was either dangerous or menacing. Creepy and fear inducing monsters, quests that open up even more questions.
Both Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 soundtracks are amazing, but first one is even more unique. It has kind of a psychedelic vibe to it, perfectly fitting seeing how claustrophobic Diablo 1 could be.
Playing Diablo in PS1 without a Memory Card was Fear itself in those times
even more with a second player with no friendly fire haha, never went pass lvl 4 I think lol
14 slots to savegame. 1 slot for character...I'll never forger this
I still play the PS1 version. I've beaten PC version many times but PS1 version is a different brand of fun.
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More like a different brand of hell 😉
@@JeeanODasch yeah dude
I remember playing this game and actually having a sense of fear. The music was actually frightening. This is something the other Diablo games haven't been able to capture and it is somewhat disappointing. You are fighting the forces of hell. It should be scary.
In my opinion Diablo 2 created a comparable image of fear with its usage of music, but in case of Diablo 3 I totally agree with you
I don't think D2 had a soundtrack near as fearful as D1, but that's just me.
Yea I remember playing this game with my brother when we were 8 years old, and even looking at the game nowadays, it looks pretty pixelated (even worse then with monitors from that time) but with the music and everything, my brother and I were afraid to play. We were young, so we never got past the Butcher, and we had such bad nightmares we couldn't sleep for 3 days, and my mom yelled at my dad, lol.
To me, Diablo 1 was more scary because you could only go down, whereas Diablo 2 had more surface-roaming. And the farther down the cathedral you went, the more terrifying and worse it got. More blood, more bodies, more dark and distorted creatures... and then you entered Hell itself.
Mingho Le Oh my god, maaan, I have the exact same memories :D although I got past the butcher since I kinda knew what I should do cause I was watching my dad play all the time.
The music is freaking terrifying
Rick Wolford Yes. It was extremely scary. I think the recent games are too soft, and most importantly, they do not emphasize the real-world religious element. Diablo 1 really felt like it was dealing with Christian themes. Diablo 2 and especially 3 are more generic fantasy, like Warcraft.
I think everyone was terrified of the Butcher. His room was full of impaled naked bodies. It was horrific and he was fast as fuck.
Diablo 1 struck a perfect balance between action and horror, and the soundtrack was perfect. There was never too much on the screen at once. You walked into an empty tomb with eery music with no clue what awaited you. You ran into zombies, they were freaky, but not too tough. You thought you can handle this. Then you opened that door... "ahhh fresh meat". The game didn't need jump scares like so many horror games rely on these days. All it needed was that one sentence with a room full of blood and a demon with a huge cleaver walking towards you at a brisk pace. There wasn't much going on. It was just you, and this demon, in an empty desolated tomb where no one could hear you scream, and you had to fight for your life. It was scary! He was actually tough, unlike first bosses in games these days, which helped increase the tension as well. It was that uncertainty of what awaited you next that made the game so great. I remember this bit where you first walk into the caves, and you're not sure what kind of demons await you there... then you hear this horrible roar and you see a horned demon charging across the screen towards you and your reaction is shiiiiiitttt! Diablo 2 was similar to this to some extent, there were some really great eery levels in that game... however Diablo 3 threw that all away. They made the game so boring that you had to play 50 hours to get the final difficulty level to play anything even remotely challenging. Plus the art style was terrible, it went from being horror themed to being Cartoony, and there were simply too many enemies on the screen at once. It was no longer about survival, it was about spamming spells to kill things that appear over and over. Such a shame. I hope they make another Diablo themed game in the same style of Diablo 1 and 2.
dont keep ur hopes up because people these days find things like diablo 1 boring, i bet they all will say things like: "cant run", "game doenst have open world, only cathedral", "too hard", "cant customize character", "music is bad", etc...
world population become dumb by the day with shit tastes and games industry has to do what they like to make money of it (cant blame the industry for this as they do games for living)
@@MatheusHenrique-qh8qe You are very right, unfortunately. I look at modern people, and, to be honest, I see more and more disgusting. It feels like people are mired in comfort and pleasure, turning from people into something different and strange, alien to this world. In fact, despite all the so-called "technical progress", it seems to me that humanity is gradually approaching its semantic end. "Silent Apocalypse"
Duriel was probably the only like "oh shit" encounter I had in Diablo 2. And the ancients on hell mode solo. Haven't played in a few months.
"...Not survival.., ...but spamming spells...". Thank you for this definition, I could not say better
It's not just that the butcher was terrifying, it's that most people's first experience of the butcher was getting killed almost INSTANTLY. If you don't know he's coming, you just open a door and within a second you're dead before you even realize what's going on. You don't yet know to clear the whole floor first, you don't know how FAST this fucker is and how much damage he does. You die before you even realize it and that's the terror of the butcher. It perfectly simulates the terror that the mob led by Lazarus felt when THEY encountered him. Brilliant design.
Hello, my friend. Stay awhile and listen.
When I heard town again, even after long years, it was the first thing that came into my mind!
Deckard Cain the elder!
Tender sa djinken GEESE
I liked when Blizzard transfered these phrases to starcraft. You could click on protoss observer to hear "I sence your soul in search of answers." and other stuff
I agree with the unknown
Matt Uelmen is a genius video game music composer...
I agree. Folks who played burning crusade will recognize a lot of the themes here, particularly catacombs/caves. I find Auchindoun very similar to parts of those.
@@deficineirondeficineiron5306 Fuck, caves is just chilling at the moaning part. Fighting with that playing was so stressful. What a soundtrack, i forgot how fucking good it was beyond just the tristram theme.
Agreed. He's so good. He's a master as creating an extremely immersive atmosphere.
back when blizzard had the magic touch
I think like you said it´s intresting. The story that happend within the development team between this game and the second one is intresting.
and sad :'( how i wish for a current diablo with this atmosphere... omg
Matias Presta we all did
Tarek!! :D
"Diablo did so well that they eventually came out with something called Warcraft based on similar code." WAT. Maybe you should check the release dates on Warcraft 1 and Diablo 1, then come back to this conversation.
I read most of the comments here about Diablo being creepy and the soundtrack being creepy because we were all too young when we played it. But damn, listening to this a decade later still gives me goosebumps. The sounds of tortured souls mixed with christianity themes that have been discussed here is genius. And scary. Good'ol days...
it wont be matched anymore.. cant be more demon like and scarier than this. new technology just makes us less creative and makes things more artificial or something. this is the top of the top:)
Same here my friend, I'm played this game when it came out 20 years ago, and when I played D3 a week ago on PS4 and heard that creepy voice, I about shit myself lol
I never played Diablo as a kid, and while I wouldn't say it's "scary," it certainly has a dark, gloomy, uneasiness about it, especially when playing it for the first time.
D1 and re2 were scary AF as a kid. Really the only game that ever brought me back to that fear was re2 remake.
6:54 when the 1996 game music is x10 times scarier than any modern AAA horror game.
creepy violins...awsome
also this 18:55. I'm not even sure if developers these days would even dare to add something like this to their game anymore
@D A S K The entire dungeon music, especially 08:18 onwards was what inspired true horror for me in this game. With demons, zombies, skeletons and rabid animals roaming all around you.. but you can't see them because of your low light radius. I think D2 killed the suspense because its more of an open world thing with only few caves and dungeons to give you scares. Even then you can run away but in D1, you can only walk, which means enemies can catch up!
I use this for Halloween. Give kids real music to be scared about when the come to my door trick or treating
I think its because its recordings of real sounds, no digital fabrications of pitch
The Tristram theme holds a special place in my heart. What a beautiful masterpiece in a otherwise so grim game.
Hello my friend! Stay a while and listen!
Did you stay a while? Did you listen???
@@FiggsNeughton Some of us never left.
@@FiggsNeughton Probably one of the games that I never skipped the dialogue even on the 5th+ play through. No offense to Bethesda but you just need more voice actors so they all sound special. In D2 I can't wait to reach act 3 so the medicine man can give me respect as a necromancer. What are a few souls or trinkets between bros.
this game is 20 years old. Holy shit, I remember playing this when I was 14 :(
Smokeweed D Bear you and me both bro. Bought a tear to my eye in fact. I remember sitting there on my our first computer getting through this game.
Then, our pc crashed and when it got returned there was no save game file 😭 I was up to the last few levels too. Vowed never to play it again because it was so magical that I could never recreate it.
I think i was 8 when i first played this; i can still remember my heart pounding with adrenaline when i found The Butchers lair with all the blood and dead bodies and him rushing out shouting "Ahh, FRESH MEAT". The most heart wrenching moment in it for me is talking to Farnham about The Butcher, the voice actor absolutely nailed it. Have a look for the Belzebub mod, shits tight if you ever want to play it again. Sinwar mod for d1 is pretty good too, but it was a while back i played it not sure how hard it is to find.
@@benruegg you should totally play it then mod it.
I can see, what you see not
Vision milky, then eyes rot
When you turn, they will be gone
Whispering their hidding 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
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I truly remembered by myself and I'm fucking glad of it)
Good for you! I only remember "Ahhhh, fresh MEAT!"
And only beacuse it scared the shit out of me, mouse went flying.
@@sferrazgabriel Yeah that poem stuck in the head even 20 years later. That shows how deep you was connected to the game
That voice actor was incredible.
This is why I started writing poetry in my college days :D
HOW DARE GOOGLE INTERRUPT THIS DIVINE STUFF WITH ADS.
Divine devil music. lol
The sanctity of this music has been fouled...
install adblock in your browser
@@izaktaylor4246 Lucifer (aka, the devil) was an angel before the humanity first appeared.
Google listened to you. No ads in his anthem music. Enjoy!
It's not only a descent into darkness, it's a descent into insanity. A perfect mirror of the game. This soundtrack is not "just there", its presence enhances Diablo. IMO Matt Uelmen's best and a hallmark for a superb videogame soundtrack even to this day.
Yes, it's darkness and insanity. Probably explains why the protagonist did what he did at the end of the game.
The music of the town has been sending chills through me since 1998!
6:23 The sanctity of this place has been fouled.
+mtman318 "Please, listen to me, the archbishop Lazarus..."
+Andres Contreras in my ld pc was "please help, i have scape from the butcher, he killed mi wife, my children..."
mtman318 ...with Diablo 3
That's where my favorite part starts :D
Yep.. that's a cow alright...
Very underrated soundtrack. The town music is brilliant! It’s like a strange mix of serenity and eeriness. Parts of the soundtrack feels psychedelic.
Is it? I might just be in a D1 bubble, but I think this is often mentioned as one of the best computer game soundtracks ever.
Underrated? Everybody believes it is one of the best and most iconic soundtracks of all times
underrated just means "i like it" now i guess lol
That Caves theme always gave me the chills. Especially the part with the breathing. Catacombs is creepy too.
Holy shit, this took me back to the good ole days!
Funny seeing your comment here. Quite unexpected.
If it wasn't for this and Baldur's Gate I probably would have gone to Harvard.
HUEAHEAUHUAEHUEAHUAEUHUAEHUAEHUAUEHUAEHU
You made the right choice
@@LetsGo6009 You think? It sounds bad.
@@voiavictor college isn't everything, often overrated on its worth.
Hahaha you made me laugh!.... Thank you! 😂
I still can hear in my mind the small chats whit the town people.
still the darkest soundtrack for gaming. the best ever!
Thief 1/2/3 OST is similar creepy ambient horror style, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines has very creepy music too (example: track Disturbed and Twisted).
3:15 oh my lord.
amazing
Hit me right in the nostalgia
So good memorys :‘(
Waking up at 5am just to get a couple of hours of Diablo in before having to go to school. The Tristam music is ingrained in my memory.
Stay awhile, and listen.
I stayed awhile and listened.
Deckard Cain was a pal in helping us identify weapons and equipment so we could use them!
@@JReed1985 : A shame he charged 100 gold pieces per item though.
@@greypilgrim2028 that's chicken feed compared to a lot of the other items that cost money in the village.
@@JReed1985 No shit!
For me one of the scariest parts was confronting archbishop Lazarus; the cinematic scene with the music at 6:23 showing him with demonic red eyes, then appearing on his lair, unable to move, seeing the slaughtered boy and his succubi bodyguards, full of adrenaline, just listening to his speech and then, the final line "...now you will join him, in hell." and havoc begins!
Took me 10 or so years to muster up some courage to face the butcher. I never got past him back when the game was new.
Fernando Rosas: Naaah, Lazarus was a wuss.
Favorite piece of dialogue in the game. Followed closely by the "I'm sorry, did I break your concentration" Pulp Fiction reference. XD
Your treachery ends here, vile betrayer!
i have to agree it was really fucked
Listening to this soundtrack + reading Dante's inferno at night by yourself = not the best sleep I've had.
Sounds like an epic combo. The game should have had 9 levels of hell :p
@@MrHaaaj 2 especially could have had that most of their levels were that long then hell was only like 3-4 levels. In D1 it's only like 15 levels total so that would be harder I do like the concept though.
Sounds like i'm venturing down the catacombs again, each song representing the progression downwards to hell, very spooky ass music for a child, now...pure nostalgia..
That town theme is magical.
Diablo ruins the ARPG genre for me, it started it, it ended it. All these years, I tried to love another ARPG, searched high and low, they may try to create better mechanics, gameplay, higher resolution, but when it came to atmosphere, music, voice acting, aesthetic design, nothing could even come close to Diablo, it nailed it.
+1
Try Dark Souls mate
Chris Peng 666 thumbs up.
Path of Exile is an alternate you can try out. It's not bad.
One year later but just wanted to say that I get ya.
Nothing will leave such a mark as diablo, it nailed it. It nailed the fuck out of it in all the aspects you mentioned.
Now its just fucking numbers, stats and multiplayer shit.
0:00 Diablo Theme Menu
1:34 Town
6:23 Dungeon
10:48 Catacombs
16:40 Caves
21:39 Hell
V HELLFIRE
25:55 HellFire Intro
26:08 Hive
30:09 The Crypts
*_YOU'RE WELCOME_*
[Helto ] t h a n k y o u
When looking up the album to find guitarist credit for the song called "Town" I could not find it, Further searching revealed that on later collections it is listed as "Tristram"- by the way, thank you for the track and time stamp listing-
Aah, man i have to thank my uncle for getting me into this series! Him and I used to play a lot and then my family moved but i still kept playing. We used to play a lot of 3 but then my little brain exploded once i found out that "Oh, WOW there must be more games in the series if this is the 3rd one!" so one day i bought this game and started playing it. Lets just say it became a crazy addiction! i would stay up playing this game constantly trying to get better gear, countless runs. That same year my uncle came to our house for thanksgiving and we were talking and i told him "Yo i got diablo 1 on my computer!" and he just froze. i was worried if i did something wrong and he just said "Really?" and i told him "Uhh yeah if you want i can show you.". I started up the game and selected my character and the tristram theme started playing. He just sat there in pure nostalgia. I didnt understand until that moment how much the diablo series meant to him and it was awesome. He told me a ton of stories of him playing this game in his youth and how much trouble he would get in from skipping school to play this! If youre reading this, i really appreciate you for being a sick uncle! Much love.
That is so heartwarming haha, you gave him the classic throwback, what a chad
What a great uncle you have
Big big cleaver, Killing all my friends. Couldn't stop Him, had to run. Trapped in a room with so many bodies, So much Blood. Nooooo.
I would love it if Blizzard rereleased optimized versions of Diablo and Warcraft II for modern OSs
+Taglemec Tagle Sorry you feel that way about it. I'd much rather play the original than the abomination that we have with D3. I too did a LAN a few years ago with a friend with the original Diablo, and we had a blast. Your mileage may vary, it seems.
You have your wish today for Diablo.
I would be happy even if they were released with DOSBox, as Commander Keen games did for Steam.
I wanna throw Blizzard money for those games so badly. I don't care about WoW, I just want Warcraft II.
I would throw money at Remastered versions of D1 and Warcraft2: Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal!
Las Des
Diablo I and WCII can be played easily on newer versions of Windows.
For WCII specifically you need to get the Bnet edition which comes with Beyond the Dark Portal.
And so the hero ventured down into the dungeon, having no idea what may lie before him. The atmosphere was filled with darkness and cold and the hallways seemed endless. It quickly becomes hard to beleive that this church could have been constructed by mankind. It seems almost as if the powers of hell have warped and transformed this place into a brand new - a mere shadow of its former self. The hero had no idea what horrors would be bestown upon him in this horrible bastion of hell.
who wrote this?
***** me derp
oh wow...why u call me things like that? just asking...duhhh
Derp means duh l0l
okay. as u noticed, i am not native english speaking, so i misunderstood ur post..so peace...bye
Man I loved the soundtrack when I played this the first time on PC back in 1998 when it first came out and thank you for bringing the soundtrack in TH-cam since Spotify doesn’t have this there. ❤
I sense a soul in search of answers.
Oi, whet ken I do fer ya!
This sentence has so much magic in it, i get shivers every time.
omg buying potions was a pain ...
Pssst, over here!
They really fucked up Adria's character in Diablo 3
i was a teen, winter night, and i'm ready to play diablo 1, when i entered the cathedral ... omg, i'll never forget this feeling of awe and fear, unrepeatable and unforgettable
12:55 Such a simple theme, so many emotions. Catacombs is definitely my favourite zone. Very little light, claustrophobia-inducing aisles and rooms, and that music - this, this is Diablo.
And, oh, the quests ... Chamber of Bone, Halls of the Blind, Arkaine's Valor. Fantastic delivery through the tomes.
Paul Eiding really delivered his lines there
Beyond the halls of the heroes lies the Chamber of bone... So speaks the Lord of Terror, and so it is written... I can see what you see not, vision milky then eyes rot... - Still remember most of them by heart, starting from the very first "Thank goodness you've returned! Much has changed since you lived here, my friewnd... " up to the last lines "... perhaps there, beyond the dessolate sands of Far East you'll find an answer. Or, perhaps, salvation."
Diablo was a real badass game, still is a badass game, the atmosphere, the music, everything was perfect and balanced with the world, it had the creepy hellish feeling. Diablo 2 couldn't give back the wibe of Diablo 1 and I don't want to talk about Diablo 3, because I bought it, I played it thorugh, but in deep levels of my heart I hated, because Diablo 3 isn't a real Diablo...
Diablo 2 was really good game I played years...
There is no Diablo 3, it died with Blizzard North. Blizzard didn't know shit about Diablo.
Fans asked for D3 .. but they got a League of Legends looking game lmao
I love D2 man, still rollin' on battle.net with my Necro 88 lol
If only he knew what Diablo 4 was going to be like...
So i have a very vivid memory of playing this game in my childhood, sneaking into my brothers room and using his pc. this game was on it and i remember having actual fear, but i did it. i remember the dark melodies that were so frightening but enchanting at the sametime and only memories of entering that cathedral and not coming back out.
This was the third game I ever bought. First one being Warcraft 2 and second being Heroes of Might and Magic 2.
My first pc Game was Heroes of Might and Magic...the 1st one. Then played 2 then 3 ect. 3 was probably the best of the old classic types.
Good choice for the first 3 starters. Mine were the same and then I added Age of Empires, Disciples and Starcraft to the mix soon after.
Mine was was Dungeon keeper. But the one that i enjoyed the most was Heroes of Might and magic 3, played the shit out of that and later everything related to it... until the last ones which were kind meh...
3 is absolutely the best
Heroes 3 fuckin epic I used to go to my mates house just to play, Diablo first game I ever bought and WC3 came not long after :P
Props to Sierra for going balls to wall trying to capture the same quality and atmosphere in Hellfire that Matt Uelmen created with OG Diablo.
It was almost night, I was in my room, in an apartment building (Eastern Europe shithole), I could see a big tower burning coal outside on my window, back then used to live in the worst polluted part of the city due to the fact that my father passed away due to cancer. This game made me teleport in another world, a confortable universe, I was a knight fighting against the darkness that took over my life. Diablo and Warcraft 2 wore some amazing gems, later on World of Warcraft. I don't regret a minute spent in these worlds. Thank you Blizzard !
Back when being a Demon Lord meant a pure evil monster: no personal charm, no "I am not that bad" thing, no being misunderstood in wickedness. Just an embodiment of pure terror and evil meant to spread its dark influence to everyone, even its fellow kind (who are all beneath it) and enjoy every second of it until there is nothing left to laugh about.
It's the 1st of Jan 2022 and I'm still jamming to D1 and D2 soundtracks. Forever classics.
I feel Diablo 1 and Doom had a fair amount in common thematically. Both sinister and pretty dark. I was 11 when Diablo came out. It was scary to play.
I think Diablo is far more atmospheric.
nothing ... not one thing in the gaming world EVER! scared me - as much as;
"FRESH MEAT"
ho-ly FUCK !!!
Almost threw my monitor out the window first time that sound entered my ears !!!
epic ... FUCKING win of a game !!!
God damn LEGENDARY !!!
"Trapped in a room with so many bodies.. so many friends Noooooooooooo!!!!" ....Pure nightmare fuel
this "antiHero" Butcher was so scary to me but also some kind of fascinating.....and that fakin voice and FRESH MEAT sentence......love it now :D :D :D good old days ^^
"The warmth of life has entered my tomb, prepare yourself mortal to serve my master for eternity"
How did Diablo 1 go from being a horror game to a mobile game for the whole family (Diablo:Immortal)?
1 word: profit...
please don't joke, it didn't fall that low seriously?
after the third they should have tried to make the leap back to a serious and horror/satanic themed game. Lots of modern games have shown it possible to be authentic and interesting, not being generic and kissing up to every consumer possible while still making great sales. Quality and originality is lacking so much that any project gambling on being itself (and not everything else) should immediately alert every potential buyer, given they are made aware.
Well...think about it...if what you say is true....(wich it will propably be) then Diablo just became one of those game franchices who companies just stick the series logo just to sell even more... A fine example is C&C 4 (although I do not like calling it C&C but for the purpose of comment I'll let it be...)
Anyway in my case I stick with Diablo I and II...
it tried to go after a larger volume of audience and failed in losing its core audience in the process
@@kestrelky4027 Well I could not agree more with you...I think these are lessons that some companies need to learn...For instance entering the mobile game industry with a maybe I'll call it stupid game with a franchize's name plastered all over the place does not mean that the fans are going to like this...Same thing happened with C&C Rivals wich still sits in a 3\5 overall rating and the fans hated it...now in Diablo's case It seems that I can't find in the Playstore but I can see where this is going...
Save game at PS1.
15 slots of memory card is gone.
Nugo Sebil too much badass can not be compressed into 1 slot
+Ironwill oe repeated in the history. there´s only one diablo, lord of destruction
diablo is the lord of terror though
17:45, i've always been all about that bass.
Even before i knew it was one.
Was in my early 20's when this came out i remember days on end me and my buddy coming home from work, getting baked and playing this all night.
Good times.
DIablo is just the game that still touches my heart after so many years. Just the music pushes my nostalgia level to another planet!
D1 was scary and creepy
:(
So, you mean it was Diablo?
f* yes .. and not the lame jumpscare horror of today but actual atmospheric horror that had you tight in your seat for hours ...
it was arguably the very first survival horror video game
Still is creepy to me
I've never even played Diablo 1 but that town theme is an absolute classic.
8:38, that scream always scared me in D1 and D2!!
where was in in d2?
@@NagyerdeiKorisok I thought I remembered it being in D2, in the barracks, jail or catacombs, but I seem to have been wrong.
Can anyone remember the lore behind "Hell" in this game? I remember this tale about an army (with a marching band) venturing into the depths of hell to make things right. When I hear the optimistic whistle and marching drums playing on the track "Hell", and then fading away on the wrong note, I instantly think that they met their match in the terrible demons down there and the marching band stopped playing in terror! Then they were all slain. It was kind of the humans pathetic intent to challenge the great evil "way back then", and now it's your turn! Does anyone understand what I'm ranting about? :D (the musical segment I'm talking about starts at 23:55). I love that narrative music!
um I think your spot on, that is my interpretation as well. It is so well done, and the part you refer to is my favorite. Such patriotic optimism goes to hell :), and the flute just says "uhh whatever, fuck this"
thank you, thats very interesting!
They may have had a shot at winning if they weren't being led into a trap by Lazarus. Diablo has been beaten by mortals before in the lore, that's how he got trapped in the soulstone to begin with.
@@QueekHeadtaker Dude i've always wondered that, never thought about it from that angle, that's awesome if true!
Dark, hard, scary. Sure, "slow" compared to today's standards. But that's how fast you go when death lurks around every corner. I really miss this game. D2 was a good followup. D3, well, feels like fireworks are blasting everywhere and I'm invincible (not scared).
Could Dablio have been as popular without its music ? I doubt it. Reading the comments here, a lot were scared of the butcher, i was more afraid of the acid dogs in the caves . their fire rate was so high, getting hit and seeing the life of my hero lowering to extremes was so confusing . the corpse runs after were also sometimes an adventure within the adventure ! But the guitar part of the music in the caves, oh my ... i spent hours in those caves with my archer, switching amulets rings and spells to survive through them with the music as sidekick !
The hive theme is also very pleasing . i miss the thrill of all this .
Just decided to install this game, and 5 seconds on the autorun program i'm hooked.. by the music, the theme, the font. And later by the gameplay, i felt nostalgia for something i've never experienced!
The music that was expertly crafted for this title does NOT GET ENOUGH RESPECT!
I never had the chance to play diablo but man listening to this soundtrack is simply amazing
Never to late to play 🙂
This is actually the last game i bought a physical copy of. On release day, and boy was i blown away... good times. I must have heard "i sense a soul in search of answers.." 100.000 times.
It was so long ago, but Diablo is forever in my heart...
Anyone else fall asleep to this track? What a classic game. I've played it since 1997 or so. I love everything about this game. It is a master piece.
Will always go down as one of the all time greats!
If even today Diablo's songs are simply incredible and convey that atmosphere of tension, suspense and fear, imagine when you were a child and had contact with him for the first time. The atmosphere of Diablo is unsurpassed to this day!!
Yes I don't want to hate on music back then we had a lot of cool music in the mid 1990s but this was some truly incredible stuff. Now you can find lots of strange things. Back then? As a kid? This was the craziest stuff I got to hear other then of course C&C Frank Lepaki or whoever them and this Matt guy sorry I never knew his name Uelman he changed my life both of them did. If anything I see it as the best rivalry. These 2 companies blizzard and westworld did so much to help me grow as a kid and I know that sounds goofy but music and art and just anything kids can grasp onto when they're feeling down I guess. Sounds so silly but I remember being there reaching out for anything. Poor youngin's. You're going to make it. Hopefully. Today is pretty crazy though can't deny that.
As soon as 1:33 starts I'm transported back in time and am a 10 year old kid again discovering what will be become my favorite game again.
I played Diablo 1 the very first time 10 years ago when I was 18 during hot summer afternoons. I was genuenly scared even back then. Can´t imagine playing this even younger during stormy night. One must remain traumatized after that.
This composer is the heart of the Diablo franchise, which was sadly missing from D3... Hopefully that will be remedied in D4.
Matt Uelmen...yep, he made a great score.
The Cathedral (Levels 1-4) and the Catacombs (Level 5-8) music are the best in the game. When I first played the game, listening to the music on those levels, especially when you're inexperience makes it all more terrifying...I LOVE IT!!!
They did an amazing job making you feel uneasy with the soundtrack. The strained violin. The choppy sounds. The tribal drums. The random screams. The white noise that never makes you feel comfortable with your surroundings. Add the stunning environments, gripping gameplay and compelling story - and you have an Atmospheric Masterpiece.
16:40
It's hot down here.
Partly why i believe old games were so much better and memorable is because
1) in the 90s, games were new, we were not spoilt with choices.
2) there is a sense of mystery, there is no benchmark or games that we could compare to.
3) we played these games when we were kids, experiences during childhood / teenage years tend to be more memorable as these experiences are "new" to us.
i think games nowadays need to keep it mysterious and stop revealing every darn thing. Games nowadays tease you constantly prior to release, what doesnt help is that we could already picture the gameplay and mechanics... maybe the next groundbreaking games would be in VR format, once VR tech matures.
Best game soundtrack ever. Even after all these years - pure genius.
The sound. The darkness in the dungeons. Traps. And of course monsters. Yet to find anything scarier than what I experienced when I didn't even know what this game was about. Trailer also scared me a lot. Great creepy music
For me, the best soundtrack of all time.
This game came out when I was 12, I got it for my Birthday it was overwhelmingly awesome. The music is nostalgic and it triggers that part of your heart and soul. good times.
Oh my god ... i remember back in the days , that game was so sick ..... still cant compare it with recent rpg games. The atmosphere , the music , the enviroment was dope ......
best rpg game ever ....
I actually just realized.
The catacombs music was reused in WoW, almost unchanged for the Auchindoun dungeons in Outland. Shadow Labyrinth, Mana-Tombs, and such ...
I used to play this game when I was kid ...Love the town music !! Nostalgia
now that you known is real live what do you think of it!
This game had such a big impact on my child myself that sometimes I still have nightmares in which I'm going down under the earth, and wandering in endless labyrinth-like catacombs. Fear lingering around me, I try to evade encounters with the unimaginable monsters below there, but sometimes I have to fight or I have to escape and run behind thick wooden doors, but the monsters want to push it and get me. I have to push back with my full strenght. I think that a big part of that nightmaris atmosphere that still hunting me was the music.
“Please... listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus... He lead us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard lead us into a trap... now everyone is dead, killed by a demon he called the Butcher... Avenge us! Find this Butcher and slay him, so that our souls may finally rest... “
"Your death will be avenged."
Your death will be AVENGED !
I like this jumpscare pipe organ part in the menu theme. It sort of reflects recurring theme of eternal fight between forces of hell and heaven in the franchise. Pipe organs being the heaven while the rest, more ominous part of the song clearly reminds one of hell.
Wow, 20 years ago this video game music masterpiece was born!
More game soundtracks need to be this atmospheric. Oh, man. Those first few Tristram chords send me on a nostalgia trip for sure. And the tracks for the different levels of the labyrinth? Actually creepy, even as an adult.
Best game in the franchise. Absolutely a timeless classic.
2021 still loving it. Brings back good "old" memories.
Hell has all the best tunes!
Caves is still so fuckin good....man, I used rock that shit back in the day. One of my all-time favourite games. It just had it all
diablo 1, broodwar, warcraft 2 were simple, brutal games. And they had a real atmosphere, even if the game design was uncomplete sometimes.
Now we have over sophisticated games with ultra bad ass heroes and complicated stories, but we have to face it : the real magic is DEAD;
but we have overwatch and heroes of the storm now : the zombie Disney version..
Try Darksouls if you want real atmosphere in a modern game , with some sense of dread on top :)
Don't forget the atmosphere of Warcraft 1!
1) diablo theme 0:00
2) town 1:34
3) dungeon 6:23
4) catacombs 10:48
5) caves 16:40
6) hell 21:39
7) hellfire intro 25:55
8) the hive 26:08
9) the crypts 30:09
Very nostalgic!!
An now the night of day never has lite becuse you Played with the Bevil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably the best game soundtrack I've ever heard. Since the first play on release day to now, I can place myself in so many different places both in the game but also in my life. Thank you for sharing.
That transition 10:05 - 10:10 is so friggin' eerie, sends goosebumps. Then there's that glimmer of hope at 10:32.
i still remeber when i was so scared playing this game
Oh man I needed to hear this again, what an awesome soundtrack!
I remember getting PS1 from my parents on christmas,first games we got were UEFA Champions league or something like that,NHL 98,then later i got Resident Evil 1,Rainbow Six and R6 Rogue Spear and this,this game which was something i didnt experience till then,and when i first tried it even my dad was watching me play it,i remember dying on level 1 or 2 cause i didnt know it yet,and after that hed join me,this was the first and only game we played together,i was always playing as the mage and he was the warrior,we finished the game together and i have alot of happy memories for it,i lost my PS1 long time ago so i cant really play it with him anymore,it hurts me especially since he was diagnosed with cancer a year or so ago,but every now and then when i play this on an emulator my dad watches me,sometimes even plays it himself,trully a great game
Nice story bro, this game brings many good memories..
2024 still listening
we are never getting back the feeling of entering your first dungeon in diablo