The blur of everything managed to wipe out some of that feeling of distinctness.

The top part was an architectural basement of sorts with lots of skeletons, and then there was the tunnels with the goat men, then magic users then demons. The pixelation also didn’t help with one memory I had of the original game, which was that of different parts of the labyrinth feeling distinctly different. Without wanting to spoil the event, I sort of wish there was a “ Diablo III visuals” version of the dungeon.

You would have to pixelate the visuals into oblivion to hide the fact that you’ve seen all these dungeon tiles and layouts before. The problem is that even with fuzzed up visuals, the whole thing is clearly made up of assets from the current game. While I appreciate the work done on the graphic filter to make things feel more like 1996 than 2016, I am not sure how well that has really paid off. A five year old game got some new content. My feelings on the whole thing are bit mixed. You just have to go get him, and so off I went. It is more like a massive dungeon with that single “Kill the Dark Lord” objective. The event itself doesn’t have the story of the original. So there in old Tristram, I had to sort through mixed memories. One just eclipsed the other and that was that. The way I never even considered going back to play the original Civilization once Civilization II came out, I never thought to set foot in the original Diablo after Diablo II came out. The problem is that, for me, Diablo II was such a good sequel that it overshadowed the original. I recall going to town, piles of excess gold laying about, the Skeleton King and The Butcher, the alternate entrances to the dungeon that allowed you to pick up your quest in progress between sessions so you didn’t have to start back at the repopulated level 1 every time, and that last level with Diablo himself, where you had to clear the level around him in order to unlock his chamber to fight him.īut it is all pretty hazy and a lot of my memories are clearly Diablo II graphics and features impinging on the memories of the original game.

For openers, it has been nearly 20 years since I first played it and maybe 17 since I last played it in earnest.

There are a couple of problems with Diablo nostalgia for me. Now we where the rubber meets the road and I was not sure what to expect.

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