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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > A man, a plan, a pink bathrobe: Diablo. Let's play beyond naked!
 
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Kaboom Dragoon
May 7, 2010

The greatest of feasts

Aces High posted:

everyone loves the first Diablo, there's a certain charm to it (like walking in town)

I remember playing it on the PS1 and a friend saying it looked like the most boring thing he'd ever seen.

"Don't worry," I said, "I'm sure it'll pick up enough for you once we reach the second town!"

To be fair, all I really knew about the game at the time was that it was a dungeon crawling ARPG. Which was all I needed, really. The ending still surprised the hell out of me, and that was definitely for the best.

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Kaboom Dragoon
May 7, 2010

The greatest of feasts

Random_Username posted:

Ah, memories. My gramps would play this (still does, incidentally) and I'd just watch as a kid. I wasn't really good enough to properly play it, and Diablo II was out by the time I really got into the first one, so I only did a few runs.

I never touched the multiplayer, so I'm actually surprised how apparently common the cursed items are. You actually had a much better chance of getting uniques in the single player than you did getting a bent club of the fool or whatever. One in a standard run was rare, two was almost unthinkable.

Also, I was always kind of curious about the win condition for the Sorcerer. Rouges and Warriors could just get bigger weapons, but I always had a hard time with Sorcerer unless I got either Fireball or Golem. Could you really beat Diablo with just Firebolt if you had to?

The current WR speedrun for Diablow (last time I checked at least) is just over three minutes, and while it requires insane amounts of luck manipulation (and a glitch or six), he does indeed beat Diablo with Firebolts. Really though, gimmick runs of D1&2 have been the lifeblood of the community for years. If you think 'can it be done', odds are someone's already done it.

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