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[skaven510]

I had no idea they had Diablo on the PS. Was it any good? Couldn't of been easy switching spells on a console.

[12turtle12]

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I had no idea they had Diablo on the PS. Was it any good? Couldn't of been easy switching spells on a console.
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I don't think it was bad at all. That's actually how I was introduced to the series. I abused the heck out of glitches LOL

[Tomekk]

This is seriously one of the best games ever made.
It has an amazing replay value, with lots of different classes to master. The graphics we're very detailed for there time, and was a better choice then 3D back then.
For those who say this is not an RPG, you're definetly wrong. Just because it has a weaker story and less strategy in it, doesn't mean it's an RPG. It has a whole bunch of RPG elements actually: Your character and every item in the game was a whole bunch of stats, there's a whole bunch of enemies,each with different weaknesses, and don't forget the bosses
The multiplayer is also great. You can easily form a party and just go own some monsters.

[Balthasar]

For those who say this is not an RPG, you're definetly wrong. Just because it has a weaker story and less strategy in it, doesn't mean it's an RPG. It has a whole bunch of RPG elements actually:

Hmm..i never played Diablo II, so i can only refer to what Blood-Pigggy is writing in his (btw really good) review. But i played the first part of it and i can say the following:

I started playing it and came into this little village. After some few minutes i came into the dungeon. I said to myself "OK, lets get to this evil monster here, bring back some treasures and become more experience. This is the first dungeon so i guess i'm out here before lunch."..Uhh what a mistake. After i came to the 10th level (or so) i slowly realised, that this will be the hole game. Hack'n Slash till the very end. No NPC's with quests to solve, no party of characters, no real puzzles, no land to discover and a minimum of skills to build up. Seriously, this is not the type of "RPG" that i prefer, even though it might be a good action game.

Your character and every item in the game was a whole bunch of stats, there's a whole bunch of enemies,each with different weaknesses, and don't forget the bosses

That might be true but a RPG is a bit more in my opinion. Think of great RPG's like Might & Magic, Baldurs Gate or The Dark Eye. Those RPG's had some major things in common: The freedom to explore your world, the freedom to choose the way in which order you want to do this, the many attributes (like skills and race) of your characters which make them a true individual and last but not least a good story behind the game itself. So in my opinion Diablo has nothing to do with a good RPG.

Greets B.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Diablo is a throwback to Rogue and is definitely an RPG, you can debate on the sub-genres all you want, but if Planescape: Torment with its utter lack of non-linearity, completely arbitrary character development and rather vapid and generic quest structure is an RPG, then so is the Diablo series.

Rogue-likes are older than most "original" RPGs anyway.

[Tomekk]

Agreed. Many people also call Zelda an RPG, and if you thought Diablo wasn't look at those game.(I'm not saying that there bad just barely any RPG elements at all!)

To tell you the truth, the reason I don't like turn-based RPGs, is becuase they are long and boring. In Diablo all you need is your faithful mouse and just kill 100s of monsters as quick as saying "Blood Pigggy wrote a very good review" :P

Ohh and Piggy I subscired an added you to my firneds list on Youtube. :thumbs:

[Blood-Pigggy]

I love turn-based RPGs, and I don't see the Zelda series as an RPG series, I just think those are misinformed people.

And I wrote this review a long time ago when I was younger and my writing skills weren't up to snuff, I can do a lot better, in fact, I was writing an Oblivion review a few seconds ago before FireFox's stupid ass fucking shortcuts caused me to exit out of it with no progress saved.

The only reason most people don't see Diablo II as an RPG is because of the elitist effect, they don't think hack & slash games are RPGs, and they'd be the first to tell you that Greyhawk Temple of Elemental Evil and Icewind Dale are less RPGs than Planescape: Torment or The Witcher, because they're the sort of people that don't understand the roots of this genre and only concern themselves with "deep" and "complex" games, which in reality are really games with gameplay made for babies. Somehow the whole concept of a complex story and choice and consequence makes a game a complex RPG.