Not exactly. "Vanilla" Diablo 1 won't run on most modern systems without extensive (unofficial) mods.

The gameplay hasn't been changed from the original... and as far as I'm concerned, that's a GOOD thing. You were thinking that this was going to be a "remaster?" Where they go back and basically rebuild the game, with the same general elements, but using contemporary technology?

I wouldn't have wanted that. I wanted the same Diablo I spent countless hours on when it first released, but running on my current PC without issues. And that's what GoG gave me. I'm happy!
"Are you slow, son?"

Kiddo, don't pull that B.S. You've already demonstrated where YOU are coming from, and it's from the mindset of a twelve-year-old spoiled child.

It's TEN FREAKING BUCKS. FOR A CLASSIC GAME (what "Good Old Games" is really all about!) which countless people wanted to play and haven't been able to for ages. If you find $10 to be something that "breaks the bank" (that's basically a meal at McDonalds, isn't it?)... it's hard to believe you're old enough to be earning a paycheck!

And it has (despite your incessant whinging) never been "abandonware." I'm quite familiar with the term, kid... and no, it has never begun to approach that definition. Honestly, I find most "abandonware" to simply be justification for theft. However, there are SOME (a very few) examples of cases where the IP literaly has no owner, and has literally been abandoned (usually, made open source as well, but not always!). Titus Interactive's PC games seem to fall into that category... even though TECHNICALLY Titus still exists. Sierra no longer exists as a company, but its IP is still owned and stringently policed, on the other hand... and yes, it was SIERRA which published Diablo, while Blizzard developed it.

If you think every game ever published by Sierra can be "downloaded for free," I have a lawyer friend I'd love to put you in touch with. ;)

Why are you assuming he's an American? He strikes me more like a Brit, honestly...

But on behalf of all Americans, I'd like to ask you to stop tossing out silly stereotypes, 'K?

This brat isn't representative of "Americans" even if he happens to be one, which I sort of doubt. :)

this is just not true. I dig my original vanila Diablo 1 CD and you know what?!? It is working like charm on first attempt on my Windows 10 WITHOUT ANY TWEAK. This is just 10 EUR cash grab :( sadly... I was hoping for much more for my money. Utterly disappointed.

It's "just true" for the majority of people. If you happen to have a system which somehow works... great for you. For most folks, not so much.

Anecdotal evidence does not constitute proof.

It wasn't working for me at all, the aspect ratio is bent out of shape when I finally did get it to run, and the application had trouble shutting down properly.

But with the GOG version it's like a native Win 10 application. It just works. I can start it and shut it down and start it and shut it down and alt-tab in and out and it will not break. And the aspect ratio does not hurt my eyes either.

And all this for a mere ten bucks? To each his own, but for me it's not a bad deal at all.

Nevermind.

Not trying to derail here, but it literally says so right in his user stats, under his avatar. So nobody is assuming anything, people just read. Oh wait, "He strikes me more like a Brit, honestly..."

Sorry, YOU were assuming. Maybe you should stick to your own advice if you want others to refrain from going around, assuming stuff?

It does so when looking at it on a PC screen, sure, but not when reading the "mobile version" of the page. I'd have had to go find his profile to see that from my phone.

And when traveling, the phone is the tool of choice, obviously. No reference to his location was present there.

Had you simply said "It can be seen under his profile when looking at the PC screen" I'd have responded with a "thanks, I missed that" comment. But as it is... sorry, but it was NOT visible to me, so your "correction" is rather petulant.

As petulant as is your childish response when you could have said "Sorry, was on phone, did not see that!"

To which I would have responded "Oh, really? Did not know that the phone version is so different, good to know, nevermind then!"

But in fact you need to go overboard. Again, follow your own advice. Seems to be a recurring topic here.

Stay classy, bro.

Not "going overboard." But if you really do feel the need to "score," feel free.

My response is pointing out that the TONE of your "correction" was wrong. I did so, not by "name-calling," but by pointing out something you obviously hadn't thought about.

Tit for tat, "Bro?"

Oh, and by the way, let's not forget, my original point which you're responding to was a comment by another poster saying THIS: "And to think Americans gives such good impressions about themselves when they’re thinking ad hominems is as common as walking in the park... "

That wasn't about "this one guy," it was a ridiculous slam on ALL AMERICANS. That, "Bro," is what I was taking issue with.

So, I take it you, like the earlier poster, also find it fun to attack entire ethnic or national groups? Ah, that's something that's never good coming from an Austrian. :)

None of the above, but you really do feel the need to "beat me," and I'm enjoying the distraction.

You are saying I'm going "overboard?" By responding to a criticism of my entire nation's population as fitting some idiotic stereotype some European kids like to pretend to be the case by saying "don't do that?"

My "tone" is that the comment was offensive, and I asked the poster to not make such comments. And you are then attempting to claim that I'm not supposed to do so?

Oh, yes, of course. And I wasn't referring to National Socialism... which, for all its terrible faults, is not INHERENTLY about racial or cultural stereotypes. I was referring to a specific Austrian who felt that the sort of comment I was responding to earlier was good and appropriate, and who brought those ideas to his particular implementation of Socialism. I have no idea if you like socialism or not, and that's not what's under discussion here, in any case. No, I'm referring to the belief this person held that some groups are A-OK to attack en-masse. As, evidently, you do as well, since you're going so "overboard" in defending the little group-attack comment.

"Inverted Commas?" You mean "QUOTATION MARKS?" If you are going to attempt to communicate in English, you should understand the entirety of English grammar, including quotation marks... not "inverted commas." Or, at the very least, not pretend to "correct" people for using them, when you seem not to understand them in the first place?

So much for consistency. Let me leave this final word: You are resorting to calling stereotypes all the time while telling others not to do that. All. The. Time. You are joke.

You are offensive. Your ignorance is offensive. Your lack of manners is offensive. Your tone is offensive. You are a quite offensive individual.

Also:

inverted comma
nounBritish
noun: inverted comma; plural noun: inverted commas

another term for quotation mark.

Another monument to your ignorance. I feel no need whatsoever, but I find it uncalled for, that YOU, yes YOU need to play the apostle of moral and lecture others what is and is not adequate when you can't make ONE SINGLE post without failing miserably in reasoning, basic knowledge and self reflection.

And finally:

"My "tone" is that the comment was offensive, and I asked the poster to not make such comments. And you are then attempting to claim that I'm not supposed to do so?" This is just a gem.

You don't even understand where you failed miserably. You resorted to stereotype and assumption in EVERY post so far, yet tell others not to.

Honestly, you are a joke, and as such, I can't even take you seriously anymore. And I understood you very well, all of the way. At this point you are a raging child, unable to admit it is in the wrong, and henceforth I will give you no more attention for the blabbering buffoon you are. Nice try tho, kid.

Good night, or in your case, rather a lovely day, depending where you live.

Toodles!

Not true. D1 works just fine on my modern Win10 PC and on my "work" PC. Actually it works the same way, as this "UPDATED" version. I can literally see no difference. So why should i bought this, again?

"All the time." I said it exactly ONE TIME... about ONE POST. You then came to the defense of that post.

I challenge you to produce a single other example. Of course, you can't. But your faux outrage demonstrates your own position remarkably well. Ah, yes. The weakest possible response to an actual pointed comment... resorting to "name-calling" as a tactic. Please, by all means, continue. Each time you do this... attacking the individual rather than the subject... you demonstrate your lack of capability to do anything substantiative. In other words... that's essentially a concession, and I'll take it as such. And in Uganda, no doubt, those particular syllables mean something entirely different.

Yet again, you take your anti-American tone. You certainly do have a lot of anger, don't you?

Let me simply put it this way. Perhaps, in the UK, they call that an "inverted comma." And yet, I have never seen this referred to by that term in any British literature. And in the United States, we certainly do not use that term. EVER. In fact, it seems rather ridiculous. That would be like claiming that the Cyrillic character pronounced "ya" is referred to by Eastern Europeans as a "backwards R."

Obviously, that's not the case. And for the record, there are two forms of quotation marks. If one WERE to claim that a type of quotation mark was, in fact, an "inverted comma," it would be the SINGLE quote, not the the double quote, as I was using.

By the way, since Austria is very similar to Germany in terms of langauge, I'd be curious to see if you can provide either German or Austrian examples of this grammatical element being referred to as an "inverted comma" rather than as an apostrophy or an "inverted comma" (and these are two different things, of course). Well, aren't YOU just annoyed that I'm not submitting to your supposed "authoritaaaahhh..."

You can attack all day long, but since you're not going to actually gain "submission" by your impotent chest-beating routine, I recommend you simply drop it and walk away. You are clearly infuriated by not getting to be in charge and not getting to tell me what I can and cannot say... and that I dared challenge your own anti-American sentiment, no less. But I really don't care about how you feel. I'm not angry. I'm laughing at you right now. Just so you understand. EVERY post so far?

Wow, you have remarkable skills, don't you? You've reviewed every single post I've ever made, and have discovered that to be the case, throughout my entire life. You're obviously MAGIC! But please, don't wave your "magic wand" around me. I'm not interested.

The poster made a blatant anti-American post. You clearly LOVED it. I challenged him. I pointed out that the language used reminded me of that used by Brits I've known and worked with... so you can't be sure he was American. Okay, so his profile may say "American." SO WHAT? The point remains... he is not "all Americans." But you do seem to be representative of "those who hate all Americans." Which I find amusing.

I find YOU amusing. Not "scary" or "intimidating" or "dominant" or anything other than... well... sadly funny. You have just posted a literal RAGE FEST attack on me, all over my continued refusal to "lay down and submit" to your defense of a blatantly prejudicial comment.

I pointed out the ridiculousness of that position you've staked out by pointing out why Austrians in particular should be wary of that attitude, based upon well-known historical precedent. This did not say "all Austrians are Nazis." But all Austrians, perhaps more than anyone else in the world, should be familiar with the "cautionary tale" this particular Austrian's life should teach us. And yet... here you are, utterly defiant in your refusal to acknowledge that yes, you are clearly at least in part similar to him in terms of your attitudes towards "those groups I hate" (in your case, Americans).

A little reflection would do you a world of good. If you truly felt that way, you would not have become as infuriated as you've CLEARLY become. That's merely an attempt to "win the argument by dismissal," a tactic common among those who attempt to bully their way to a "win" without engaging in proper discussion, and who then find that they have failed to do so. You "unilaterally declare victory" and then stalk off, pretending to have "won" somehow.

Not gonna work. But feel free to pretend to yourself that it did, if it makes you feel better about yourself, and prevents you from kicking that dog later today. Riiiiiight. You know nothing at all, but you continue to attack, pointlessly and fruitlessly, instead of simply admitting, up front, that "saying something hostile about all members of a nationality or group is probably not a particularly great idea."

Your attempts to "win" by name-calling... well, that might work on the playground, but among actual adults, not so much. It simply proves you have no better ammunition to expend in the effort to "win."

And all your efforts to "win" come down, simply stated, to your ongoing need to defend a statement made against ALL AMERICANS, because you seem to believe that "group guilt" is a real, legitimate thing. Which, again, is something to be DEEPLY worried about coming from people who, by all historical precedent, should be incredibly aware of the issues with that way of thinking.

Just say it. Once. Say "I think making a generalized derogatory statement about any group or nationality... including but not limited to Americans... is morally, and intellectually, a remarkably bad tactic." Or phrase it however you wish.

Otherwise, we all really know what your REAL beef is, here. We all know your rage is due to having your own ridiculous biases... racism/nationalism/whatever... pointed out, and resenting having had it called out.

Seriously... all this (admitted, to me, rather hillarious) rage on your part has been due to you attacking me over my telling someone not to apply a blanket-guilt accusation to an entire nationality, over one INDIVIDUAL's bad behavior.

Your lack of self-awareness is, it seems, limitless.