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How is this not 57k likes

😂😂😂😂

Awesome

Get out. Just kidding

Agree

remember the soundtrack - the deep drums when entering first level, voes on lvl 5, echoing and intense drumming of lava caves, thunder and bells and voices-whispers in hell feel the mold, the cold, the heat, the terror

I have played other games that had a similar sense of foreboding, but this game is certainly up there with the best of them. One that comes to my mind is Risen. It managed to keep me very immersed in the first 2 acts by having a very non-linear difficulty distribution and realistic lighting system. If there was no light, then you listerally couldn't see anything, meaning you had to carry torches at night and in dungeons, and there were enemies that could one-shot you around every corner. My most fond memory in that regard is when I was ambushed by a pack of wolves at night, dropped my torch to draw my shield and then had to fight in the circle of light that the torch cast. But probably the game that scared my the most was Amnesia. It gave me an actual panic attack. PS: But you could actually give Diablo 1 the top spot, because the other games I mentioned were much newer and had way more knowledge and better creation tools to draw from. Diablo 1 basically made a truly immersive game with almost nothing compared to today.

@@BasileusDudek I got the soundtrack on the playlist in my car

Play Hellblade: Senuas Sacrifice. Use surround sound or headphones.

Lol right there with you

Might as well join you two

Literally me rn

Did anyone bring cards?

Good point save it for the morning

When my appendix was taken out, Pokemon on the Gameboy was just releases and I got it :)

hmmm I think I need to get my appendix removed just so I have two weeks off for when D2 remastered comes out.

My recovery was 1 week from appendix surgery. Not that i didn't want another week.. My employer really needed me and actually drove me to work while i was still walking on crutches 😂

@@Boris82 I was 15 and still in school, was told to take 2 weeks, I took 2 weeks :)

@@C4nn15 I absolutely believe people need two weeks recovery from it. For sure. I couldn't even walk straight after a week.

Yes, the murder rate frees up lots of housing.

I will send all the Californians that way👍

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Ikr. People complain about anything

"Please, listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus, he led us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard led 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..."

It really holds a place near & dear to the heart!

I would have preferred an update to Diablo over D2.

The sanctity of my trousers has been fouled.

@@drewroberts9488 same here dude

It is why I don't like mixing the d1 lore with the sequels (as in this video). Takes away much of the mystery and especially after d2 the story unfortunately is plain cliché and flat...

Indeed

Absolutely

glad to know im not the only one who sat at their stash playing Loot Tetris for what felt like an eternity lol

@@aurawolf664 by stash I hope you mean pile of shit in the center of town

I thought that was pretty much implied ? Who knows great minds think alike I suppose

that IS his modus operandi

My words exactly. The Lord of Terror feeds of the fear and terror he and his minions causes. The constant reminder that every moment could be your last and the uncertainty if the dark riders kill you or not if you try to leave the town is what gives him power.

can confirm the nightmares

I first played it at 6 years old... In the middle of the night when my parents were asleep. Wasn't scared of it at all, and didn't really have nightmares of it. I just thought it was cool with all the stuff going on. Childish naivite saved my ass on that one...

bc of the screaming humans and also monster sounds in the background, combined with the atmospheric music. i loved that

Played it with 9 and it was and still is amazing till this day and all to come. Awesome game, really looking forward to D IV and a great atmosphere

For me.. the one game that had a similiar eerie atmosphere was Ecstatica. Even the setup was kind of familiar with the cursed village, religion being a theme and the chaotic, unpredictable nature of the creatures living there.

It's fate, then

Probably GUUGLE phone was listening XD

It knows.

Stay a while and listen : D2 remastered is out

Funnily enough, Ogden casts shade on him saying: " Pepin is a good man - and certainly the most generous in the village. He is always attending to the needs of others, but trouble of some sort or another does seem to follow him wherever he goes..."

@@DarkLOREDash How do you always this those "lore nuggets"?, really impressed. At least there was no gripe about not being healed enough.

@@AlessandroRodriguez that's because they haven't realised yet that Pepin is secretly implanting microchips in his patients that allow Diablo to observe the going ons in Tristam without being too overt about it. In return, Diablo provides Pepin with a steady source of income by leaving a couple of people alive to be treated. The party must surely have spent a fortune on Pepin. It's suspicious how he never runs out of materials for his potions, no? I'm telling you, big pharma is run by the devil.

Diablo Redux: The player teams up with Satan against the Evil of Pepin the Healer

Fighter: But I'm the prince :| That NPC: No, you asshole! Your brother went missing! Did you even read the script?? Fighter: Oh yeah, I'm forget, my brain has a short circuit

This is burned into my memory as of the last 15 years

Please, li-

AHHHHHH~ FRESH MEAT!~

I'll never forget the amount of poos I did when I heard "ahhh fresh meat" the first time when I was a kid.

That's a great thought, although maybe theres levels. He certainly had victims below the labrynth... but what if he needed some more subtle terror, too

Diablo feeding on the terror of the townsfolk does seem in line with his aspect, perhaps it made him stronger too.

Different tastes of fear. Like a buffet.

Nah, people always assume that the forces of hell are on on the same side. But they aren't. None of the demon lords trust each-other. And they really REALLY don't want Diablo back out and in charge potentially to take away their own fiefdom. Most likely, they knew Diablo was there, and they were hoping everyone dies there and no one lets the lord of terror escape. Like any disease, you just quarantine the town, and wait it out. They either succeed and get rid of their problem, or they all die. Either way no more problem.

@@Juan-Dering You are right about the Lords of Hell being pitted against each other. There are constantly-shifting alliances and betrayals. Specifically, Hell's political situation at the time was like this: The Prime Evils (Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal) were concentrating their efforts heavily on the world of Sanctuary, and not paying as much attention to fighting the forces of Heaven. So the Lesser Evils organized a civil war in Hell, resulting in the defeat of the Prime Evils and their ultimate exile to Sanctuary. Once there, the Archangel Tyrael formed the Horadrim to hunt down their spirits and imprison each of them in soulstones. They succeeded in doing this. But all of it was part of Mephisto's evil plan. All of it. He and the other Prime Evils meant to lose the civil war. They planned on getting imprisoned in Soulstones. In the next stage of the plan, Mephisto used his malevolent influence to corrupt the priesthood that was guarding him. One priest in particular, Lazarus, was singled out by Mephisto for a special task. Mephisto inspired Lazarus to travel West to the kingdom of Khanduras, as a missionary. Once there, he secured a position as a trusted advisor to King Leoric. He then convinced Leoric to move the seat of his Kingdom to Tristram. And when Leoric got to Tristram, Diablo was able to get inside his mind and use him to do all manner of evil things. But Diablo was not quite able to use Leoric as a vessel. So Lazarus prepared the young prince to be possessed, instead. Diablo's intention was to possess the prince, free his brothers, then attack Mount Arreat and take control of the Worldstone. So at that point in time, Hell was divided into four parts, each of which was ruled by one of the four lesser evils. They were all quite content to let the Prime evils stay in exile, and fight the forces of Heaven on their own. Meanwhile, on Sanctuary, the Prime Evils had formed an alliance among themselves. If the Prime Evils' plan had worked, they would have assaulted Mount Arreat, corrupted the Worldstone and turned all humanity evil. Then, with the combined might of Hell and corrupted humanity, they would have finally obtained victory over Heaven. Good thing we were there to shut 'em down!

Indeed. A noble man who dared try to contain evil. Despite being strong, it wasn't enough...

That happens when you waste skill points on mana.

Anyone who fights evil, will sooner or later become the evil itself. So the only guy who can contain Diablo within himself, would probably be a very non-attached dude like the Buddha or something, lol. With nothing but the pure void in his consciousness, no terror, no fear.

@@zanaros2606 sooner or later.

@@Ludanc0 "But telekill on witches is so handy!... gaahhh"

Death was almost a release 😔

That it was, R.I.P Old Tristrim.

Enabler

lol

You contributed to his problems

He appeared to let a bit too much out in his performance at 11:43...

I didn’t even know he was in Tristam. I completed the game (3 times), lol, and never had a conversation with this mystery priest. Although, Fleshdoom did sound familiar.

@@txmetalhead82xk nah he wasn’t in the original game, this is with a mod

LOL

Wher me can you find this mod with Tremain? Man Diablo 1 is such a masterpiece i'm literally salivating for additional new content.

Same.. was 11 yo when started. 1997...

I was 4 or 5 lol spooky af, remember those drums so clearly... fresh meat!

"Please, listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus, he led us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard led 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..."

True and Wirt dont leave because he want make money till he leaves

pork fingers!

Just very poor writing overall in D3.

@@kurzackd you kidding? it was absolutely atrocious and so poorly done. play diablo 1 again, listen to all the tomes, ask adria for all her lore. she literally does everything she can to help you, and there is zero foreshadowing that she has anything but good intentions. piss poor writing in d3.

@@natemonroe2559 what are you on about? This video goes into detail about how finding a new, strong host, and falling to him, was essential to Diablo's plan(in Diablo 2) of tracking down and releasing his brothers. Having an agent in Tristram to find the perfect vessel and help get them to the Lord of Terror is an excellent plot twist, and it wouldn't surprise me if that were Blizzard's intention for Adria from the very beginning.

@@jasonexplosion154 Adria has absolutely no way of knowing or ensuring that the hero is gonna stick a demon crystal into his face. What if he'd just taken it to the hellforge and destroyed it? Stupid plan is stupid.

Or the chests in town

Decard's voice read that in my head, with his vocal quirks, pauses and all..

also, 69th like. Yeah yeah yeah...

I liked D2 better. D3 is where it all went to shit. It focused mainly on cosmetics...

D&D kept changing. RPGs and Diablo kept changing with it. Diablo 3 was shit because that entire era of the genre was shit. But "it's what the players wanted".

@@phillipmitchell2254 Grim Dawn was a good CRPG. I enjoyed it. The devs did well so who cares about THQ?

@@pwnmeisterage Grim Dawn is good but the art style is so shitty it doesn't keep me hooked at all. Way too cartoony. If they went with more of a classic aesthetic the game would've been way better.

@@phillipmitchell2254 I dunno. I love all of them... Diablo, THQ, and Grim Dawn.

Thank you!

You can also try the Belzebub mod. HD, nee classes and some quality of life improvements

Exactly what I was thinking! Hopefully they'll do that once D2 is out.

I agree only if the Diablo II remaster is as phenomenal as it seems to be becoming. If it takes a bad turn like the WCIII remaster, then I might be okay with it staying as is.

I would agree except WarCraft 3: Reforged came out. Or to give it its proper name: WarCraft: Refunded.

Please no , we have a lot on our hands now , and we all adult with responsibilities , no time to invest as 20 years before... Need i also remind you that Diablo 4 is coming soon

Meh...never heard of it. Lol

Maybe dont watch before sleep. D1 had the horror 😈

Aww that's awesome!!!

Have fun. My brother in law bought me a copy 14 years ago and it's since become one of my favorite games of all time.

You should wait for the remastered Diablo 2: Resurrected.

@@peterzimsek2510 Nah, if anything it'd be wiser to get the classic experience first, in case D2R goes the way of WC Reforged. After that disaster, I don't trust Blizzard enough not to have a contingency plan...

Thank you!!

try the diablo 1 hell 2 mod

"Please, listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus, he led us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard led 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..."

You know it. Chris Metzen was originally an artist. Amazing storyteller & talent. Love his picture of Izual

Yeap. Metzen's style was prevalent in the first games and what with his GW pedigree, it was cool to see a minor glimpse of what Warhammer / 40k games could have been. Remember the Chaos Undivided brandings on orcs on WC2 artwork?

"Please, listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus, he led us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard led 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..."

a game theory?

@@yashuastryfe125 No. It's "a gAmE tHeORizIng"

no? that's the payoff for her setup

@@mrosskne looks like people agree with me, so yes. They retconned her setup because they had no idea what to do with her. Same with Cain, they killed him off because they wrote themselves into a corner.

Source?

@@asfaltignitor4865 look up diablo post mortem speech by the original creator

@@asfaltignitor4865 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntuAeZZ4zsqbdHk.html - Diablo 1 was based on loot, not lore kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNmTl7Nym9m5m5c.html - game cinematics were not align with the design team. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aqqPlbmY1dLNpGQ.html - more about the game cinematics You're welcome

Haha good call

@Acácio Brito they would definitely have to retcon D1 if they were to remake it.

@Radical Reviews I'm sorry who are you and why aren't you leading Blizzard or at least the Diablo storyboard team right now?! The game you describe would be an instant buy for me. Honestly, I don't understand why Blizzard isn't re-releasing Diablo for consoles/PC right now while we wait for Diablo II: Resurrection...I'd buy it. They don't even have to update it and could just port the original as is. Maybe for a cool 20 bucks on XBLA/PSN/Steam. Your idea would fit so well with Resurrection and what's more the new engine is finished. It really shouldn't take much more than what they've already done to make it happen. They could release Duablo II: Resurrection as planned, release Diablo IV as a prequel (your excellent suggestion), and lead us back to the first game where it all started. I personally would love to watch the fall of Tristram and in that new 3d engine, Hell yes! Unfortunately, that makes too much sense and as we all know that simply won't do at Blizzard Land. ;)

That should've been hellfire the expansion for D1.

I longed for a world of Diablo after d1&2, but i knew it would never happen because it would be so dark and terrifying, so the audience would have to be adults only, and it would take players away from WoW.

"Please, listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus, he led us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard led 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..."

@@VaL-yb1wb Haa, fresh meat!

It just can't be. It would be too simple for modern games. Now developers try too much to make games popular. But i dont like 99,99% of these games, they are too overcomplicated. Simplicity is the key for me

Agree

But the guy who made the music, on his own, never really appeared to have made anything else o.0

A*sterpiece

"Please, listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus, he led us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard led 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..."

Thank you! He's a solid dude

98 E3 D2 trailer.

That was my first time seeing that cinematic too, how cool. It being narrated from the dark wanderer's perspective.

Hd mod, adds gheed the merchant & players move around

@@DarkLOREDash ok. I also was wondering what this version was. It looked a mix of pc&ps1 quests with d2 item drop colour rarity and character animations

@@Yroko play it. its a whole lot better. the modder of the HD mod or belzebub mod restored so much from the game files. it´s worth it!

@@Njordin2010 if u have links plz send them. Just played the d2 remastered over the weekend. New graphics same bugs, lol

It´s interesting how many quests were cut from the game and some content of them even used in the Diablo 2. Like Andariel, Pandemonium and the Izual imprisoned in the demon, these things were already supposed to be in Diablo 1. I think that there is a website, Diablo evolution, which describes it. I think that they cut the quests probably due the reason that originally they didn´t plan to add much multiplayer content to the game aside of randomly generated PVP arenas, but as Blizzard then forced them to add more multiplayer stuff and the Battle.net support, they had to spend the rest months of the development on the multiplayer instead on the single player. That would explain why the majority of the quests aren´t in the multiplayer or are cut down just to a boss on a level, which had their separate levels. And also it would explain these cut quests from the single player. The only quest they told that they chose to cut due design reasons was the Map of the stars one, due it would force player to play a certain game style, which they didn´t want to do.

Considering the final product is considered a masterpiece, I’d say it worked out for the best. Yeah, it makes it feel a bit light on content but I prefer it when developers take time to provide a tighter focus to their game than have millions of branches/assets that don’t go anywhere.

Thanks mate!

Wouldn't this theory be disproven by some of the story bits in D3, though? We know Gillian and Adria definitely lived there for a while and Aiden met Adria, otherwise Leah wouldn't have been conceived.

@@Sakisasvictorianmask In D3 some if not even a lot of lore was retconed, so we dont know the truth, we can only speculate.

​@@rohenthar8449It still wouldn't make any sense regarding the theory. Remember, Cain said he saw and witnessed everything. And wouldn't it be stupid that all lore and quests be provided by mere hallucinations and Cain who's screaming for help is identifying items for the player whilst in a gibbet.

Yeah unfortunately, we have a second witness to the events of the first game, which was Cain. His dialogue in 2 disproves much of this theory.

@@danielgeronimo5538 That's why I said, we can only speculate. Example, look at Baldur's Gate where events and story are a lot different than an official canon, which was retconed a few times trough this 20 years.

Much love 😍

FYI the warrior character being the Prince is retconned.

The game he is playing is actually the fairly new "remaster", not the original game. The remaster adds all(?) of the originally cut content, plus backports a lot of features from eg. Diablo 2 into it.

Hd mod. Amazing quality of life upgrades

@@DarkLOREDash Thank you! Going to try it right now!

Thank you!

I was thinking the same thing. I played Diablo several times, but I must not have triggered them all.

Oh wow, that explains the Psi symbol replacing the cross in Diablo 3! Will do research, cheers!

Different is not inherently bad, but D3 was bad. It still is bad. I don't even consider anything in it to be Canon.

@@aztraeuz5560 I hate what d3 did to the lore, but beneath all the poor design decisions was a great engine and a fun arpg. It didn’t feel like diablo, didn’t play like diablo, didn’t sound like diablo, it wasn’t diablo, but I don’t think it was a bad game, not after the ah shut down and ros got released. It is still one of the best arpgs available, after all. I agree it was pretty bad at launch though.

@@drawlast I would argue that it is still bad. It is the worst mainstream ARPG on the market. It is in fact so bad that even after releasing RoS, Blizzard saw how bad it was and completely gave up on it.

@@aztraeuz5560 I see your point, but it wasn’t entirely abandoned as it still got the necromancer and ongoing events. I still don’t think of it as a bad game, you can tell there was a lot of love and work dedicated to that game, and it pains me that bad direction managed to absolutely ruin it.

My pleasure! Tristram has a hell mouth open due to the presence of Diablo. Basically a greater evils presence warps their surroundings.

@@DarkLOREDash something to do with the map of the stars, maybe thats partly why the townsfolk got left alive - a conduit to.... something else.

It's coming as Diablo Resurrected, a remaster of D1 and LoD. Up for preorder.

@@AlexanderAzarov That only remasters Diablo 1

@@damothelegend7784 sorry, Hellfire.

Beelzebub mod, an HD remake of the original

@@WorstChicken thanks.

I Have been watching his videos and that's absolutely true. I didnt know the Diablo story. Im on Diablo's 2 story now

"Please, listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus, he led us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard led 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 never skip until I know I heard it. The problem is the random dungeon design; there is no telling when you'll find a room with a lore tomb