Diablo released on GOG

[agris]

Lyric Suite Is it? I don't follow GoG closely, so I couldn't say

 

[Lyric Suite]

They have used community patches or fixes in many of their releases for a long time, it's not a new thing.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Big Boss, I think there was a way to get Blizzard to send you a download key if you still have the old box.

Agris, surely you're happy to see an seminole game become officially and readily available in digital format? Preserving abandonware is important IMO. Or well, now I guess it's the artist formerly known as abandonware.

All I have is the disc. The box was thrown away by dear old Mom in the 90's. She loved getting rid of my fucking boxes.

 

[Eggs is eggs]

D1 was definitely had the atmosphere down. D2 focused on grinding and loot and spawned the modern "loot 'em up" genre.

 

[Neanderthal]

Well that's my weekend gone.

Wonder if it works wi mods?

 

[Bigg Boss]

One thing I have learned is oldfags hate when newfags have easier access to the things they like. Like owning a disc from before these dudes were born somehow makes their dick larger. I mean it does make it larger but only because you are a grown man and they are still little kids with peach fuzz on their nuts - which have yet to drop - point being stop being grumpy assholes and let people pay for these games again.

I'm not butthurt faggot. I am stating simple facts. I own the disc from the 90's so my gamer cred is twice as large as yours, with monocles on both sides.

 

[Ironmonk]

I also have my original disk somewhere, but I view it differently, like although you can get some games from various sources and install mod/fixes to play (and this is really not a difficult thing to do) there is still a problem: How trustworthy is your source for the game and mod/fixes? Are you 100% sure that there are no viruses/trojans/etc in those files?

So, IMO GOG does both things: they pack everything that is necessary for the game to work and acts as a certified source.

And in the end you get both: a game working properly just after installing it AND you don't need to care about viruses or any other crap.

 

[octavius]

I have the original disks and use them to lure jailbait to my apartment.

 

[Zurat-Yarkuch]

Bought it as soon as I heard the news.

I've actually been trying to get it to work on my PC for years, since I lost the original CD my dad got and had to resort to downloading it. I kept on getting errors that the only solution for fixing was installing mods that change the whole freaking game. It would crash every five minutes and I got a ton of weird graphical errors.

Tried the GOG version for a little bit and it ran smooth as butter. Anyone who says this release is not a big deal has not tried to get this game working recently. Well worth the price in my opinion.

 

[Hassar]

Purchasing this immediately.

 

[octavius]

Bought it as soon as I heard the news.

I've actually been trying to get it to work on my PC for years, since I lost the original CD my dad got and had to resort to downloading it. I kept on getting errors that the only solution for fixing was installing mods that change the whole freaking game. It would crash every five minutes and I got a ton of weird graphical errors.

Tried the GOG version for a little bit and it ran smooth as butter. Anyone who says this release is not a big deal has not tried to get this game working recently. Well worth the price in my opinion.

On Win 7 all you need is to start the game with a batch file that kills explorer.exe before launching the game and restarts explorer.exe when you exit the game. It will probably still suffer from a stretched image, though, in which case dgVoodoo may help.

 

[HarveyBirdman]

I don't think my emotional response rises to the level of happy/unhappy, I'm merely providing clarity as to what the "high resolution" support GoG provides is, and placing it in context with what has been available for download for owners of Diablo 1 for years.

That's good insight, but I'm still going to push back a bit. Diablo has only been legally available for download to people who kept the original box, and were willing to go through the whole "Blizzard feed me" thing.
In other words, I'm happy about this, because more availability of good and impactful games is a positive for consumers old and new.

 

[Monkeyfinger]

I've never played a diablo game, is D1 good outside of the context of whatever boundaries it pushed when it came out?

 

[HarveyBirdman]

Atmosphere is good.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I liked the mods that worked on the cut content (before hellfire). It’s a short game, unless you want to be a completionistand have each class maxed out on hell difficulty or w/e it was called. And there was battler or lan play.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Damn you Infinitron

 

[Storyfag]

I've never played a diablo game, is D1 good outside of the context of whatever boundaries it pushed when it came out?

It is good. Gets somewhat repetitive, but still good.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I've never played a diablo game, is D1 good outside of the context of whatever boundaries it pushed when it came out?

It's fun. Good atmosphere and great music alone ought to make it worth it for a play through.

 

[Plaguecrafter]

All of those old Blizzard games are pretty overrated apart from Lost Vikings.

Now that's a remaster I would like to see!

Can't deny I'm pretty stoked for Diablo on GOG. I know what I'm doing this weekend.

 

[Dr Skeleton]

I've never played a diablo game, is D1 good outside of the context of whatever boundaries it pushed when it came out?

It's arguably the best one of the "Diablo and Diablo-clones" genre it spawned. Best atmosphere, best soundtrack, a lot more dangerous enemies, no respawning monsters, everyone can learn any spells from books if their magic is high enough. It's short and doesn't have the more distinct classes with their own abilities and replayability of D2 but it also has a lot less filler and no grinding the same areas and bosses for loot.

 

[samuraigaiden]

I've never played a diablo game, is D1 good outside of the context of whatever boundaries it pushed when it came out?

Yes, it is. The atmosphere is hard to compare to modern games. They just don't make games this grim anymore. It has amazing music and sound design. The gameplay is as good as a Diablo style game gets, I think, but I'm not the biggest fan of this genre. In the later levels it can feel a bit unbalanced.

 

[ArchAngel]

Dear God people, this must be how you all felt when I said I bought BG1EE.. I have been playing high res and improved D1 for 6+ months and you could have done it since end of 2016 . No need to give 10$ to Blizzard and GoG. Just google Belzebub.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

no respawning monsters

That's a huge plus over Diablo II for non grinding/loot-obsessed players like me.

 

[Black Angel]

Dear God people, this must be how you all felt when I said I bought BG1EE.

I'm not sure if this can compare, considering BG1 Original Cut was available on GOG before EE's release (which simultaneously remove access to the Original Cut), while this.... well, I remembered somebody said that Blizzard hates money, which may explain why for some reason their old classics are not available anywhere on Steam/GOG.

 

[samuraigaiden]

BG1 Original Cut was available on GOG before EE's release (which simultaneously remove access to the Original Cut)

I'm pretty sure if you buy BG1EE on GOG you get access to original BG1 too.