The night was moonless, some dogs were barking in the distance, and he was totally creeped out. I remember enthusiastically talking with my brother about it and him saying how he kept playing one night when I'd fallen asleep. Nothing like it existed before, and I've found few games to this day that could match its atmosphere. Sure D2 was prettier, longer, and had better-defined classes, but the original Diablo will always be a superior gaming experience to me. It got even worse when Dark Age of Camelot was released, but that's another story. Wait, it got even sleazier when I traded my rare items to him, pretending like the shit he was giving me in return was a good deal. Eventually, I was forced (to keep this client) to get power-leveled by him and his friends up to a level 67 Barbarian in one Saturday, complete with cow level. So I spent a week visiting every computer on his network with a 3.5" floppy boot disk cleaning each system by hand while he sat on his ass playing Diablo 2. He was psychotic, with magic find everything and complete green sets that he'd make me look at! Want a kick in the balls? His office got infected with a virus. The "IT Manager" would play Diablo 2 all day, while I did his job for him. I was doing computer work for a government agency.
It was a happier time, when Internet Explorer was being shown for the pile of crap it was and embedding it into the OS proved to be the gateway for a million attacks. Lots of folks still had modems, or 768k/128k DSL for high speed internet. Windows 98 reigned supreme, folks were still happily using Netscape, and some folks had pine/elm/usenet for email and discussing rpgs. I was a computer consultant around the time of D2's release. Not for me, but I'll tell you a little story from my past. Diablo 2 - I'm going to go out on a limb and say it may have been the most addictive RPG ever created. It brought a lot of folks into "rpgs" for good or bad. But damn, the maps and music were art!īut Diablo 1/2 was a different animal. Folks wanted another BG1 - not a stylized Hack-n-slash. I remember I bought IWD at the time and it was receiving a lot of hate.
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