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I am instantly taken back to a time where we literally planned to lug big tower computers to my friends house just to be able to play CS 1.6 together. Thank you for sharing!
Ah yes lugging around CRT monitors, what a time that was.
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IMO the sense of wonder and the defined dark aesthetics of both the worlds created for Diablo 1 and 2 are something Blizzard will have to proove it can still pull off.
Diablo 1 and 2 were made by Blizzard North, a different group of developers than Blizzard. There's a reason Diablo 3 feels so different.
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The latest one is a micropayment gamble game on phones.
Ohhhhh yeah sorry I forgot about that one. Something like pay-to-win, and costs $100k to 100% the game?
It's strange to me that so few games in the genre seem to do this as well, over 25 years later. Hades is supposed to be good, but for some reason it doesn't look like something I'd enjoy. Maybe I'll pick it up on sale at some point and find out.
It speaks volumes that a shareware copy of a multi decade old game running on a browser entertained me more than all the crap games optimized for engagement that are installed on my ipad. Now I got the quest for the water supply poisoning but I cant find the entrance. Is that area even available on shareware version?
I was recently reading Masters of Doom and this fits right in with the vibes of that book. Incredible seeing the lasting impact of the games of that time.
Still some of the best (pseudo-) random dungeon generation I've ever played. That functionality alone probably accounts for over 90% of the time I spent replaying it. It's strange to me that so few games in the genre seem to do this as well, over 25 years later. Hades is supposed to be good, but for some reason it doesn't look like something I'd enjoy. Maybe I'll pick it up on sale at some point and find out.
Wow, I grew up during the mid-90s when the internet was just starting to consume the world. Diablo (Battle.net) and QuakeWorld were my jams at the time. After that came the MMORPGs of the late 90s, Ultima Online and Asheron's Call. Good times. I was recently reading Masters of Doom and this fits right in with the vibes of that book. Incredible seeing the lasting impact of the games of that time.