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Posted March 07, 2019
Blizzard Entertainment and GOG.COM have teamed up to rerelease select classic Blizzard games, beginning with Diablo®, Blizzard’s legendary 1996 action role-playing game that introduced players to the harsh—and deeply rewarding—world of Sanctuary.

The original Diablo® is available now via digital distribution for the first time ever on GOG.COM. Players looking for the authentic Diablo experience can play the game as it was in 1996, with period-appropriate 20 FPS SVGA graphics, and the ability to matchmake through the classic version of Blizzard’s Battle.net® online-gaming service.

Blizzard and GOG.COM have collaborated on an updated version of the game, which includes out-of-the-box Windows 10 compatibility, and a host of bug fixes. Players can choose either version of the game from a launcher.
Posted March 14, 2019
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dudalb: Hellfire was actually released by Sierra games. Blizzard had nothing to do with Hellfire, except givng permission (in exchange for a share of the profits, no doubt) for the studio to do it.
I don't think Blizzard ever had the rights to Hellfire. I wonder why they never produced a official add on...I guess they preffered to concentrate their efforst on Diablo 2.
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Grargar: I know who was responsible for Hellfire, just as I know that Sierra was absorbed by Activision and they in turn merged with Blizzard to form Activision-Blizzard. Now, is there a chance that Hellfire got lost somewhere during the merge because Blizzard didn't give a shit about it? Possible.
Also possible Sierra was only the publisher /distributor of Hellfire, and the actual permanent rights to the game belong to the studio or people who actually programmed the game, and the rights did not go to Activision when they acquired Sierra.
Half Life is another example of a game that Sierra published but did not have permanent rights to.
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bler144: Yeah, I'd forgotten a lot about this game. The design of the sorceror certainly makes it hard out of the gate, but it's an interesting challenge. Using every spare gold towards buying spell books off Adria when she has them, and started a new game twice to farm the lower levels.

Whether or not that's how it's meant to be played. ;)
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Tarhiel: Yeah, this game taught me the basics of any magic based character in any RPG: you start off weak, very weak, you´re the biggest bully-sponge, until a certain level, when card will turn and then you hit like 50 characters at once with 1 spell :D
That seems to be standard with magic users in any RPG;they ,if they are solo not part of a party,have a very rough time early on,oprobably because they run out of ammo..ie mana..so easily. But once they get some experience they become really powerful.
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Tarhiel: Yeah, this game taught me the basics of any magic based character in any RPG: you start off weak, very weak, you´re the biggest bully-sponge, until a certain level, when card will turn and then you hit like 50 characters at once with 1 spell :D
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tinyE: In an I ironic twist, the Sorceress in Diablo 2 was HANDS DOWN the easiest play through I ever had.
I suspect the designers knew they have made the sorcerer in DIablo too weak at start,and decided to really beef up the Sorceress in Diablo 2 to fix the problem.
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Posted March 14, 2019
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Fonzer: Also it's crazy how many cd changing you have to do until the game is installed.
Could be worse. Could be floppies.
Posted March 14, 2019
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dudalb: Also possible Sierra was only the publisher /distributor of Hellfire, and the actual permanent rights to the game belong to the studio or people who actually programmed the game, and the rights did not go to Activision when they acquired Sierra.
Half Life is another example of a game that Sierra published but did not have permanent rights to.
The developers of Hellfire, Synergistic Software, were acquired by Sierra one year before the expansion's release. Hence why I don't think there are actually any rights issue (barring some unforeseen ones generated by Blizzard's indifference during the Activision-Blizzard merge).
Posted March 14, 2019
Can you please fix the problems with mulitplayer? Whenever you try to start a nightmare mode it does not work with multiplayer. Thanks for bringing this game back. Been playing a lot the last few days. Diablo 1 is still the best Diablo game.
Posted March 14, 2019
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Klumpen0815: If you have the Diablo 2 - LoD disc release, be sure to use
https://www.moddb.com/games/diablo-2/news/d2multires
it has no game-play changes at all, just adds HD options.
I played it a lot in LAN as well.
Why the disc release? Because it only works with LoD v1.12a, not with v1.13c, which is the version of Battle.Net's current installer.

I hope that if GOG ever releases Diablo 2 here, they'll track down that guy and pay him to update it.
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qlGGlp: There's already 1.14d version available. Thank you for this, but I'm used to lower resolutions and pixelated graphics. Even in new games I'm lowering resolution to 640x480, because I just like them this way. You know, an old fashioned guy!
I prefer 320 x 200 http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2013/10/320x200-resolution-of-choice-for-ibm-pc.html
Post edited March 14, 2019 by fr33kSh0w2012
Posted March 14, 2019
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fredmon: When Diablo 1 first came out it looked beautiful after playing the standard pixelated games like Doom among others. I managed to get to level 9 and had to give up at the time in frustration. Then Diablo 2 came out and I can't remember how many times I have played it through but have to say it is one of the most satisfying games of its kind that has ever been made. The only thing I never cared for was the fact that my cd drive/burner ran all the time when playing because of DRM. I probably burned up a couple drives playing Diablo 2 over time. It's been at least 15 years since I have played D2 and I always have an itch for it.

When I saw Diablo 1 come on sale my first reaction was to buy it if only to encourage Blizzard to consider to release more games DRM free through GOG. Reading the news threads I see that a large number of people share this hope and want to see Diablo 2 included DRM free on GOG and judging from the customer base that GOG has it would be a wise decision for Blizzard. I know I won't be making a Blizzard account to buy a game there, but they have it sold if its on GOG.

I installed D1 and started to play and uhg... What a dog. It hasn't aged well at all and doesn't even come close to the quality that Diablo 2 provided. Diablo 1 was a starting place but only for the moment. Yes it has its place in history and can be considered a good old game but there are plenty of Diablo clones that have been made that are much better than D1 from the Divinity series to Torchlight that would be more worthy of the time invested if fun is a consideration. Diablo 1 became very tedious by the third level and I saw why I had drifted away from it on my first play years ago.

In a perfect world Blizzard would have released Diablo 2 on GOG with Diablo 1 as a free addition like Bethesda did with the Elder Scrolls franchise offered with Doom, Morrowind and Oblivion. Let's hope the incredible response from GOG customers will encourage Blizzard to include Diablo 2 among other games they are keeping exclusive available for the GOG library.
I implore you, give it a try, there´s Tchernobog mod for Diablo 1, which brings several quality of life improvements, alongside with higher resolution and refresh rate.

And many of them you can switch on/off as you like.
Post edited March 14, 2019 by Tarhiel
Posted March 14, 2019
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Fonzer: Also it's crazy how many cd changing you have to do until the game is installed.
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Crisco1492: Could be worse. Could be floppies.
Could be MUCH worse, Could be cassette tape.
Posted March 14, 2019
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Crisco1492: Could be worse. Could be floppies.
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fr33kSh0w2012: Could be MUCH worse, Could be cassette tape.
Pfft. Cassette tapes are for casuals. It's all about the punch cards!
Posted March 14, 2019
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Crisco1492: Could be worse. Could be floppies.
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fr33kSh0w2012: Could be MUCH worse, Could be cassette tape.
I am glad I'm too young to remember that being used on computers. And then the television broadcast of games... Oh my.
Posted March 14, 2019
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fr33kSh0w2012: Could be MUCH worse, Could be cassette tape.
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Mr.Mumbles: Pfft. Cassette tapes are for casuals. It's all about the punch cards!
Can't argue with that, Or those magazines with Basic programming in them

that you had to enter manually!
Posted March 14, 2019
At last Blizzard is here.

Blizzard for PC = ULTIMATE Play the Game for ZX Spectrum.

Just my opinion.
Posted March 14, 2019
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thebream: Nice release, heres hoping other classics like Warcraft 1,2 and 3 and StarCraft make it here.
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glorindel: actually you can download original starcraft I from battle net... blizzard released it for free with battle.net multiplayer.. they make remastered hd edition too but this one you must buy... but old nice SC I is for free..
Thanks for the pointer, I'll have a look but I would still like it on Gog though.

Didn't they make Diablo 2 free as well?
Posted March 14, 2019
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Fonzer: I gave diablo 2 LoD a second chance and installed it fully added new patch copied LoD music to the install folder and it works without cd now.
Haven't played it much before, now i will try to see if this game is good, like i've beaten diablo 1 long time ago and liked it.
Also it's crazy how many cd changing you have to do until the game is installed.
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gog2002x: Is it the retail version or from Blizzard site? I still got the CDs (3 sets in fact, 1 with play disc broken, 1 too scratched up to install the music file and last is still good..I think).

And did yoou have to install patch from battle.net?

I'm thinking of installing it again, so long as I can play it w/o having the CD in the drive.
I have the retail version best seller version and i did find a patch from blizzard which i found on their forum here https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20745244961?page=1
Post edited March 14, 2019 by Fonzer
Posted March 14, 2019
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RPGDEX: At last Blizzard is here.

Blizzard for PC = ULTIMATE Play the Game for ZX Spectrum.

Just my opinion.
Those were the days, playing games on Speccy...

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Mr.Mumbles: Pfft. Cassette tapes are for casuals. It's all about the punch cards!
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fr33kSh0w2012: Can't argue with that, Or those magazines with Basic programming in them

that you had to enter manually!
Now THOSE were the days! Magazines with type-ins, learning Basic and pretending to understand machine code...
Posted March 14, 2019
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fr33kSh0w2012: (...) Or those magazines with Basic programming in them

that you had to enter manually!
I still have a few Run and Compute! magazines from the 80's that belonged to my father, back then we never tried to write one of those Basic programs into our C64, but I was always fascinated by those mysterious pages filled with code. :)
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