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Jeez, How Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: November 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For all you Diablo fans who just go nuts over this game I say, "get a friggin' life!" You people must work on assembly lines or in factories where your jobs are boring and redundant, because that's what this game is. All the dungeon levels look the same and there's only a few different monsters.....I just don't get it. Call me goofy, but I like games with exciting gameplay, a variety of different-looking scenes and monsters, and LESS redundancy! After I got to the fifth dungeon level and was doing the EXACT same thing as on level one, I went bonkers. Gimmie a friggin' break!!!

Dungeons of Drudgery

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 19
Date: July 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After reading one positive review after another and attracted by it's bargain price, I took the Diablo plunge.....and I drowned in boredom. Diablo came out in 1997, but the graphics look more like mid-eighties Commodore 64 action. The gameplay itself is horrifyingly redundant. Basically, you enter a multi-level dungeon where all the levels look exactly the same, fight the same monsters over and over, pick up gold, potions, and weapons...and that's it folks. Fun, huh? This concept is so tired by now, and Diablo lends nothing new to it, so what's the attraction? I wish i had my 25 dollars back so i could go buy a new game for my Commodore 64, and maybe pick up an "Outfield" cassette.

Diablo is not an RPG, it's trash

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...I'd like to know what those people at Blizzard were smoking when they labelled this RPG.
You select from 3 classes - only three! Fallout, released at about the same time, has a classless system where you could create hundreds of different characters from the start. Apparently the folks at Blizzard thought three classes would be enough. It isn't.
So you pick the class - et voila you are finished. The game picks all the statistics for you. It then gets even worse.
You are then dropped into a boring village called Tristram. You explore around a bit, and fid that your character cannot talk. You find that you cannot go into people's houses and steal their goodies. But it gets even worse...
Overall, this game is flawed, I don't even consider it an RPG. Not to mention just how boring and repetitive it is. The single player campaign is only about 30 hours long, bur I still congratulate you if you had gotten through it even once. Not to mention that multiplayer is full of hackers and cheaters who don't do anything other than ruin your character.
To sum it up: Diablo is trash.
Goodbye.

Awful...awfully repitative

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game caught my interest at first as I walked around the town talking to its inhabitants of 20 people, getting to know each and every one of them, and then embarking on my first quest.

But my interest quickly fell through. All it is is going into one room, killing people, going into another room, killing people, and there's only one attack that you can really do unless you're a wizard...and you don't want to be one because they die quicker than a red shirt on "Star Trek." And I got tired of hanging around the same damn areas for what seemed like a millenium each.

Overall, I'm sorry I wasted $10 on this thing.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: January 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I REALLY DID NOT LIKE THIS GAME AT ALL! IT WAS WAY TOO FANTASY-BASED! DO NOT GET THIS GAME IF YOU LIKE GAMES THAT ARE EVEN SLIGHTLY REALISTIC!

This looks familiar...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: July 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I'm about to make myself really unpopular here, but I just didn't like Diablo. I'm sorry, but I seem to remember a game called Gauntlet back in the mid-80s that offered this same gameplay. Don't get me wrong, Gauntlet was an okay game... for its time. Then Electronic Arts made a Guantlet rip-off called "Demon Stalkers" which offered the same gameplay but with a level editor. Well, Diablo doesn't even have that. Sure, the graphics are nicer now (though the colors are a little drab), and the music is better, but come on! The whole game consists of frantically clicking on sprites till they explode into a bloody mess.

Single Player is fantastic.. but..

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Single player is fantastic, but playing Diablo online (multiplayer) is terrible. Cheaters and hackers have ruined online gameplay, the only way to survive is to cheat as well (godmode+more). It's not much of a game after that. Good News though, Diablo II should be cheat/hack free.

Not what you think it is...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: March 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sure, Diablo might have good graphics and I admit, the random dungeon generator is pretty cool, but it is not what others make it out to be. First of all, I don't know how people classify this as an RPG. It has only one town and one dungeon. This gives players no real setting variety, since the dungeons are always the same except for basic floorplan. Second, nobody looks different in multiplayer. Each class has only three different looks, weak armor, medium armor, and heavy armor. Different weapons do not show up differently beyond an axe, sword, shield or no shield, etc. Third, people who cheat have truly made a mess of multiplayer. Even if they don't modify an item to make it all-powerful, they can still "dupe", or copy, items using a simple bug in the game. This can lead to anything from people with a ton of money, to people "duping" all of the good items, that others have worked so hard, and died, to get fairly. Fourth, the subquests are just so unoriginal. They are all the same, "go kill such-and-such demon to let my soul rest". Not even your basic ones like "go get this item" or "please find my son, he went to wherever". No orginality in the subquests. Blizzard is usually a great company, and I have to admit, the graphics in Diablo are good, but ultimately the repetitive gameplay and lack of originality kill this otherwise good game.

Decent but I've been seriously spoiled by the sequel

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Thought I'd download this game just for kicks (after which I downloaded Hellfire for faster movement through town). And what a boring (albeit somewhat amusing) trip down memory lane it turned out to be. This game is very tedious to play (for me) after all the snazzy bells and whistles of Diablo II. Characters plod through both the town and monster-infested areas (and may spritz through town in Hellfire but they still take their time in the hostile areas). I often found myself stupidly and stubbornly pressing the Ctrl key to get the character moving. It gets rather boring for just one level, but there are four of the same to finish (of dungeons, catacombs, etc, plus the Hellfire lvls). Also, mana doesn't recharge here, another definite minus (and another thing taken for granted in II). There's other stuff as well, such as totally desecrated multi-play (which I won't even bother with), where characters cheat like crazy and kill without warning (you get plenty of warning with II and while hacking is not absent, it's moderate by comparison).

The only real plus for me is the nostalgia element and hearing such long-forgotten phrases as "Where would I put this?" and "The sanctity of this place...has been fouled!" or hearing those little fallen ones make retching noises when they die. Plus all those standing-still townsfolk ("I sense a soul in search of answers"). It's all very weird and not necessarily all in a bad way.

This game is a totally different environment than its sequel. Hard to believe I ever thought it was great. But hey, you can't spell Diablo II withouth Diablo. And it's good for a few laughs. So, nostalgia value: 7; overall playability: 5.

Too maze-like with not enough up-close detail.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm an action fan and I love games like Final Fantasy 7, Duke Nukem 3D, etc., but there just wasn't enough detail with the surroundings in all those dungeons and labyriths.

Everything was too small on the screen, the charaters, even the biggest monsters. At least in Duke Nukem, the surroundings are more real-life. Yes, it's somewhat exciting with plenty to monsters to slaughter, but it just goes on and on. All those mazes were too intellectual for me to enjoy any excitement. It's dark and you're always trying to find your way out, etc. Also, the music and theme of the whole game in general is dark and depressing. And like I said before, there's not enough detail with the graphics and characters. I like Duken Nukem 3D because it's more close up. Even 'Quake' is more detailed than this game.

Thank you.

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