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but seriously saying you haven’t played BG1/2 and if you did they’d be as shit as Fallout 1/2 AND that diablo is better than any of these games, you have to be pretty retarded.

Diablo is a loot game that works the same a gacha game might work, dopamine trigger through random loot. There’s no story, no sophistication, it’s just a fucking skinner box.
You gotta look at it from my perspective. I'm a diehard horror genre fan and Diablo 1 nailed it perfectly. Like that, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill were the masters of that shit at the time.

I've had small interest in Fallout because I was watching Mad Max long before it. BG shit I can't explain.
 

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but seriously saying you haven’t played BG1/2 and if you did they’d be as shit as Fallout 1/2 AND that diablo is better than any of these games, you have to be pretty retarded.

Diablo is a loot game that works the same a gacha game might work, dopamine trigger through random loot. There’s no story, no sophistication, it’s just a fucking skinner box.
You gotta look at it from my perspective. I'm a diehard horror genre fan and Diablo 1 nailed it perfectly. Like that, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill were the masters of that shit at the time.

I've had small interest in Fallout because I was watching Mad Max long before it. BG shit I can't explain.
How is Diablo or Resident Evil a horror? What the fuck? What is your favorite movie horror? John Wick? Terminator? Matrix? What about books? Lolita? Memoirs of a Geisha?
 

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but seriously saying you haven’t played BG1/2 and if you did they’d be as shit as Fallout 1/2 AND that diablo is better than any of these games, you have to be pretty retarded.

Diablo is a loot game that works the same a gacha game might work, dopamine trigger through random loot. There’s no story, no sophistication, it’s just a fucking skinner box.
You gotta look at it from my perspective. I'm a diehard horror genre fan and Diablo 1 nailed it perfectly. Like that, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill were the masters of that shit at the time.

I've had small interest in Fallout because I was watching Mad Max long before it. BG shit I can't explain.
How is Diablo or Resident Evil a horror? What the fuck? What is your favorite movie horror? John Wick? Terminator? Matrix? What about books? Lolita? Memoirs of a Geisha?
The Thing, The Shining, Evil Dead 2. You don't know what horror is.
 

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but seriously saying you haven’t played BG1/2 and if you did they’d be as shit as Fallout 1/2 AND that diablo is better than any of these games, you have to be pretty retarded.

Diablo is a loot game that works the same a gacha game might work, dopamine trigger through random loot. There’s no story, no sophistication, it’s just a fucking skinner box.
You gotta look at it from my perspective. I'm a diehard horror genre fan and Diablo 1 nailed it perfectly. Like that, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill were the masters of that shit at the time.

I've had small interest in Fallout because I was watching Mad Max long before it. BG shit I can't explain.
How is Diablo or Resident Evil a horror? What the fuck? What is your favorite movie horror? John Wick? Terminator? Matrix? What about books? Lolita? Memoirs of a Geisha?
The Thing, The Shining, Evil Dead 2. You don't know what horror is.
So... what is horror?
 

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How is Diablo or Resident Evil a horror? What the fuck? What is your favorite movie horror? John Wick? Terminator? Matrix?
Diablo and the action RE games are horror-themed, at least. Although, I have never, ever heard someone put Diablo into the same category as the original Resident Evil and Silent Hill games.
 

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SDG I'd recommend checking out Sacred 1 Gold if you like Diablo. It's it own thing, a little uglier and older title than Diablo 4, also not satanic, but I really dig it. It had also horse riding before Diablo 4 was created!
I was recently playing both D2 and Sacred, and the difference is that in Diablo you have to do boss/dungeon runs for gear whereas in Sacred you have elites walking everywhere in the open world so you can just mindlessly grind while listening to podcasts or audiobooks. I'm level 80+ on Platinum difficulty and was leveling and gearing my Seraphim for the final difficulty, but got bored and switched to puzzle games, I felt my brain was slowly degrading from the grind, I'll come back later and finish it up eventually tho.

That's the main difference. Sacred generally just ripped Diablo off while switching the formula up a bit by making it open world. The game design is pretty shit tho compared to D2, lots of useless stats on gear and the controls suck. Good "offline MMO" for mindless grind for gear/xp tho.
 

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How is Diablo or Resident Evil a horror? What the fuck? What is your favorite movie horror? John Wick? Terminator? Matrix?
Diablo and the action RE games are horror-themed, at least. Although, I have never, ever heard someone put Diablo into the same category as the original Resident Evil and Silent Hill games.
Diablo 1 could absolutely be argued as a survival horror game. Dont get me started
 

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I just like turn-based more than rtwp and rtwp more than action because that's how controlling a party both work the best to the worst and feels the most to the least like translation from PnP to computer games. My favourite systems copy either Wizardry or Pools of Radiance, nothing else did it better.

I loved Sweet Home by the way, the stat system is as simple as it can get but the dungeon of this game is excellent. Stygian is actually not that bad either, with interesting Fallout-ish exploration and I had fun playing the traditional crawler Laplace No Ma too, I like how this game is balanced especially. Other relevant horror RPGs I've played are probably either mundane JRPGs (Koudelka ...) or small indie surreal/horror things inspired by Earthbound.

Note that some classic cRPGs contain some excellent horror parts, the ship with brain eaters in Buck Rogers : Countdown to Doomsday is an excellent horror-themed dungeon, and many D&D games from the same period contain some great undead-based dungeons or floors.
 

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but seriously saying you haven’t played BG1/2 and if you did they’d be as shit as Fallout 1/2 AND that diablo is better than any of these games, you have to be pretty retarded.

Diablo is a loot game that works the same a gacha game might work, dopamine trigger through random loot. There’s no story, no sophistication, it’s just a fucking skinner box.
You gotta look at it from my perspective. I'm a diehard horror genre fan and Diablo 1 nailed it perfectly. Like that, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill were the masters of that shit at the time.

I've had small interest in Fallout because I was watching Mad Max long before it. BG shit I can't explain.
How is Diablo or Resident Evil a horror? What the fuck? What is your favorite movie horror? John Wick? Terminator? Matrix? What about books? Lolita? Memoirs of a Geisha?
Actually Terminator 1 IS sort of a horror/SF movie with action elements. One that had the goal the scare viewers at the time. But only the first one in the series is one. People look at it now from the perspective of 40(sic!) years and good knowledge of the concepts like murdering machines from the future, of Arnold S. as actor and of a ton of shitty straight-action/SF sequels. Those sequels were good action movies (part 2), mediocre action movies (3) and WTF action movies (4), I stopped watching at 4. But they were all action/SF movies. The series simply changed genres after the 1st movie - to some degree. Somewhat similar to Alien although the latter was of curse more clearly a horror. The first one in the Terminator series however had strong horror vibes at the time. Hell it was, back then even scary for some - at least as much as any horror can be scary. But isn't anymore. Older movies sometimes have their reception changed so much that they change genres in the eyes of the viewers a generations later. Horror genre is especially susceptible to this.
 

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I just like turn-based more than rtwp
That's fair. Liking rtwp more than anything is the type of thing that sends you to the lakes of roasting piss though, friend. Nothing ever good came from rtwp.



I'm done at this point. I drank enough to kill an elephant. I'm no longer engaging in discussions. Just know i was always correct
 

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Diablo is a braindraining, addicting waste of time.

Much like alcohol. No wonder you like it.
I disagree. One of those two can be beneficial in reasonable quantities. Anyone can guess which one.

Also the original first Diablo game wasn't really based on addiction causing principles, random loot alone is not enough to achieve it. Thousands of game have random loot and they are not even close to D2 and its clones when it comes to being addictive. It was the second Diablo game that adopted the mechanics used to cause dopamine rushes to the player knowingly and successfully. And it was an addictive waste of time as you say. Unless you were using it to make money. I know personally someone who seriously benefited from D2. That was however was one person in many thousands. And unfortunately, not me.
 

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I'd say Diablos (and MMOs alike) are to gaming as drinking wine and eating junk food for dinners are to nutrition.
 

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