'Diablo': A Classic Game Postmortem 

The North Remembers.

The north remembers

Most definitely

@Terminal Heights haha

@Terminal Heights Hi, Activision :)

Actually no, it just shows that this kind of mentality and will to do it already existed in the 90s but as he said, logistically it was just not possible. It wasn't until the internet became widespread enough and easily accessible for everyone and fast enough that it actually became possible to do.

Laughs in The Sims

mtx in 96.

@@Murzac Yeah, thanks to the internet, the world are now gamers! Back then, geeks were the gamers.

"but we quickly realized that'd be an issue" i wish publishers nowadays would realize the same...

Support him now! He's got a new game!

Empathy overload 😭🥺🧡🧡

@René Steen Nielsen I think you may be misinterpreting the sentiment. They just mean it's super endearing and sweet to see and they're having an intense emotional response to it.

Doesn't seem nervous. He's eloquent, confident and experienced, he doesn't have trouble being in front of an audience. The apparent awkwardness is just an aspect of his persona.

Best comment thx

I always played as a Diablo, great game

Interesting. Diablo looked like Diablo too, in dino form, haha.

Wait, what the hell is this coincidence???

Wtf

hahahahaah

note how the sound is like talking inside a well. some sound guy fucked up or someone sabotaged him. hearing yourself like that would make any speaker nervous

@@supplebiscuit then we should blame the architect / venue manager? No, seriously, proper sound guys should be able to handle that.

@@supplebiscuit and that, ladies and gents, is a failure of imagination (and know-how). There's things called: - filters - threshold - soundproofing - a proper lavelier mic that doesn't pick up the echo There's a ton of stuff you can do...

@@supplebiscuit threshold is a thing, if we're talking in general terms, but gates is what I meant (I'm no expert). And you can soundproof with painted egg boxes for all I care (no need for expensive stuff), it'll attenuate the sound reasonably well in combination with the lavelier. And no, that's not the only thing I said that made sense. I didn't mean to antagonize you, apologies. However, you just admitted there's no need for breaking the laws of physics, basically making our whole discussion moot. And yes, it is about imagination as well as acoustics (I do know enough physics and equipment to know about acoustics which enables me to *imagine* how one could improve the sound in that venue, which was my original intent, to help promote better sound by critiquing). Hyperbole and frustrations on both our parts? /hug

I wrote Blizzard back in 90-something, and asked if they had a soundtrack available. I have to paraphrase the response here, because it's been a minute.... The music dep't answered (see what I mean about it being a long time ago?): "we don't, sorry, but thanks so much for asking - it's quite the compliment."

@@nickwallette6201 Aww, back when Blizzard was ran by actual human beings, and not soulless corporate NPCs

i just played it through. still kicks ass!

Thank you, Diablo was my introduction to gaming, and now it's time to start my daughter on computers and games

@@Mradevans I skipped a heartbeat from excitement. Oh how I love the game's ability to convey atmosphere.

@Interpersonal Communicator Hey man, some things in life are worth paying for. Namely, Classic Diablo.

@Interpersonal Communicator don't be a cheap bastard. If you want something, pay for it or make it yourself.

IKR. WTH was wrong with that guy?! Lol

I'd have him sign it, sell it for thousands and use that to afford playing diablo for a couple of months, or developping something

@@SalveMonesvol XD

Personally, I would have given the game to the guy who paid for his original pirated copy. Get together just after for a photo-op. Sign it. mutual respect. Make a great story for the game press. "guilt-ridden gamer finally gets chance to pay for pirated Diablo 1, is rewarded signed, sealed copy from creator"

He was shaming the guy, because he was trying to bad mouth his former employer. The guy had the good sense of not embarrassing himself anymore than that.

pics or it didn't happen

Pics pls or we won't believe you, it's a simple trust matter because anyone in RU-vid can comment stuff like this. Some people even fake being creators of something important.

@@damsen978 Yeah I don't think they have a need to prove anything to you or anyone else online lol

@@AnonymoStranger Then what the original comment is clearly fake, you just can't take the word for it, you have to rely on multiple sources to conclude at it, otherwise you all would be misinformed. I can fake being a creator and comment on this section in less than a minute, just as easy.

Still no pics. Guess it's a fake

Blizzard today and Blizzard from the 90s only share the name. After Chris Metzen left, is there even one staff member left who was with the company in the early days?

Yes

Donald Trump's huge dingdong Maybe the janitor? :D

Well, Mike Morhaime, Co-founder of the place is actually still the CEO/president ;)

Lol Dude you replaced the Zs in the company name with Dollarsigns to indicate that they are only interested in the money nowadays! That's genius! I bet you're the first being in world history who thought of that! LOL!

10% for an office, David? :) - Im gonna invent telephone calls on internet (Skype)

but I already have a phone

That moment when you finally popped in a Voodoo (3Dfx) card, and your game jumped from 25fps to 250fps!

Had similar experience in Diablo 2 when I upgraded from 64Mb to 128Mb :) Suddenly all the HDD lag was gone when loading new areas and such.

I bought Diablo and was crushed when I couldn't play it with 4mb memory LOL.

I remember "playing" D2 before we upgraded our pc, right around the time we got cable internet. Whenever I broke the last seal in Chaos Sanctuary, I had to wait for literally 25 minutes while Diablo spawned. I spent more time waiting than actually playing the game. 😅 Luckily we upgraded just before LoD hit. 👍

@@UltromanTheTacoman Lmao yeah.. voodoo 3dfx.. i was about to say my friend had it in crossfire lol :D sick stuff... UT 99 went from lagging in software graphics i think... to fucking something like a game from the far future... my eyes almost popped out of my socket from amazement... these young generations will never experience the shit what we did, tech evolved so fucking fast, that every year u were.. "Wow!" :D i think i havent had any wow effects in gaming for a decade+ already... last time something felt next level to me was dota2 closed beta.. and before that like world of warcraft launch lol... ;> Ur comment suggest u def played unreal tournament loool : ))) i remember also my friend bought entire new pc to play that game where u could slow down time ;D - Max Payne 2: :D damn how shit it looks nowdays haha.. Rumours has it.. max payne 2 drops to 15fps on Xbox... loooooooooooooooooooooooool :D

Matt McLuhan 😂😂😂😂😂

Matt McLuhan I too had this problem as I was raised in a very strict fundamentalist Christian household but I found that if you used the pause/break key instead of esapce to pause, it would just tint the screen red and said paused in the middle.

Funny how different people regard religion. A church we were helping fix up a long time ago had a pastor who played Diablo in his office.

My mother didnt want me to play age of empire because they had priests.

Same

path of exhile was def a better "diablo 3" then diablo 3

@@ssosso79 I just started POE with a friend (lvl 35 ranger now). Quite a bit more complex than any diablo game though. Any beginner tips?

Don't be a jack of all trade. PoE has a really flexible amount of skills configuration that let you be a lot of things.I'm playing the sorceress and the Scion character right now and I specialised them both Into something specific that still fits to my taste; One Is a necromancer and the other an archer all the way.There's a lot of room to experiment with builds and have fun If you don't follow any guides but you gotta have a clear vision still of what you want yours to be. So welcome aboard and have a pleasant stay with us In Wraeclast,exile (Y)!

ROFL best comment

I can't live with the leagues "forcing" me to restart the progress every time new league comes out.

At 58:41. Ya that was amazing.

Kinda cringy, but awesome at the same time.

I thought it was kind of sweet.

Should've given HIM that copy of the game! People are allowed to make personal backup 'pirates' so long as they have paid for a copy, so it'd be metaphorically, literally and legally wiping the slate clean.

Yeah, that is easily one of the most entertaining things I've seen in these talks. I actually knew a band that would take a tip jar with the sign "Pirate Forgiveness Fund" (or something) on it. They swore they got more money in that jar than they actually got selling merch at some shows. I later heard that once they got a contract that their publisher made them take down the sign...

Watching these chill ass dudes at gdc makes me hate my job that much more

Actually it's all history

Peter Timowreef thats why i listen to full, accurately subtitled hitler speeches

And how would you know the subtitles are accurate? Piss off with your hitler jokes.

***** Did you really think that I thought German was a dead language...? Really..? Point is that when you don't speak German there's not really a way to know if the subtitles are accurate.

***** If that were the case the adjective "accurately subtitled" he used would be redundant. The fact he used it indicates that apparently he believes there also badly translated subtitles available, which he was able to avoid. Why are you defending someone who jokes around about a man who said horrible things?

Read this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law, never take someone serious when they bring up Hitler they're more of a statistic than holding an actual argument, and a troll.

Arbor Day you or your parents?

Me.

My local phone company used to have something called LOS which was a 40 mile radius for free long distance after the first $15. When the bill would come in they would still tally the full minutes used then show capped at $15. I remember getting $9000 and $11000 bills as I would sometimes leave the connection on overnight. I remember the first big bill we got and my dad's reaction when he misread it lmao.

Dude wtf...you have a game addiction I mean I got to level 50 on Diablo 2 in 4 days but dude you got issues...thats didn't cost me any money lol

rummy98 WHAT??? 10000??

@Jonny B except there is interest. And things you can do with 40 million to let it grow properly.

You think that's bad? Back in 1990 Bill Gates offered to sell Windows to IBM for $80,000.

@@joshuanorris5860 yeah, for example their own Diablo expansion, (because of bigger studio and more of workers) Diablo III leaded by him etc.... another hunders of milions of dollars ;p

@Jonny B probably not gonna spend all of 40M though. (unless you're the "lets go nuts" type, and then you'd burn it back to 0 fairly soon anyway) On the other hand, even if he did just drop it in the bank, 40M is still 40M. You wouldn't refuse that just because it isnt 280M.

@@dunmermage that's crazy. But it's not quite comparable. Maybe it would've crashed and burned under IBM, managing it badly or something. Pretty big difference from buying a relatively small product and having to develop it into more, compared to getting 40M just for having a dude sit in your empty room.

right. What a fucking joke D3 was. But then again has any video game been that decent recently aside from darksouls? The gaming world is a steaming pile of shit now.

yeah thats what happens when you ignore the hard fan base and concentrate on making it more playable by everyone

40 million or so copies sold of a piece of shit.

diablo 3 and thief being the biggest disappointments

Diablo 3: 30 million (due to Diablo 2 fame). Reaper of Souls: 3 million (due to Diablo 3 delusion). Do your maths.

no point, copy right expired i believe

You can download the abandonware.

Copyright on corporately owned works doesn't expire until 95 years after publication or 120 years after creation, whichever comes first. Still a long ways to go before even those old games would expire.

it's called walmart

lol to bad Walmart doesn't sell D1 and Warcraft 1 and 2

Some say it still does.

explains why it always crashes

It's the same computer from 1997...

57:15 to relive this hilarious moment

Original battle.net was a basic IRC server nothing more nothing less. There were a lot emulated battle.net servers for pirated games. Now such services are a lot more complicated that even host the games for the anti-cheat protection and so on.

I mean even WoW later had similar things with aggro ranges on mobs, even though both games are in real-time. I wouldn't really equate pulling mobs one at a time to "turn based" though, lol.

I really want to know more about this in regards to Diablo 2. For those that don't know, Diablo 2 runs at 25 frames per second for each animation. Having faster cast rate, move speed, increased attack speed, and so on meant the animation for your character skipped frames in the animation. For example, say it takes your character 10 frames to complete an attack animation, but a monster 25 frames, your character will attack 2.5 times per second while the monster will attack once. This stuff isn't that important for playing against monsters, but if you're doing any sort of PvP, you had this shit down to a science. One of the highest skills you could master was how to de-synchronize (or "desynch"). This was when you flooded the server with so many inputs that when it went to skip over the animations, it could glitch, lose packets, and your character would appear invisible on your opponent's screen. A good Amazon, for instance, could desynch her run speed so that she's almost permanently invisible, "teleporting" next to her opponent, and firing off a large salvo of javalins right to her opponent's face. Paladins were probably the easiest to desynch with, while one of the hardest goals would be to achieve desynch'd whirlwinds on barbarians and assassins. The other thing is that duping in Diablo 2 was usually obtained by desynch. You create the conditions that cause the server to lose track of your character (or straight-up crash the server) and try and move items from one place to another (like the stash into the player inventory). The server loses track of your character, thinks an item is being held by another person, then you log back in and the server sees you still have your item, leaving the other person with the dupe(s). There's a lot of methods, but these are the basics behind most of them. However, none of the desynch methods are possible on Classic because players can't get enough cast speed/move speed/etc. to cause a server to crash. As a result, all items on Classic were either duped prior to v1.09 (when Blizzard introduced item numbers) or are legitimate and not dupes. I'd be really curious to hear Brevik talk about all this.

What a rude thing to say. When was this?

@@vOddy75 Jay "bitch boy" Wilson. David made a comment saying he didn't think d3 was a good diablo game. Jay responded with "fuck that loser".

@@hellishinc damn! and the loser was right, so joke's on bitch boy

@Terminal Heights Yeah sure, people bought it thinking it would be good because of diablo 2 and pretty much everyone was disappointed. It got high sales but that's it. I played Diablo 2 for many years and still do sometimes. I stopped playing Diablo 3 after less than a year though and didn't bother with the expansion. That's how good D3 is. Regardless of the context of Brevik saying he didn't think D3 was good, he was right.

Diablo 1 will go down in history as the greatest game Beside Doom. Calling this man anything other than Genius is not using his proper title. Peasants always have opinions.

hahahaha he did not think that through, fuck me I'd frame it and treat it as a treasured piece of art.

@Deventh Apparantly he sold it...

IMO It should have gone to the guy that paid for his pirated copy. I know he might have turned it down, but that to me was the most deserving person there. He would have cherished the fuck out of it. Though, a little higher up in the comments, a guy is claiming to be the recipient and still having the game. I looked into it a bit, and there's sóme creedence to it. www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/4b3ian/i_got_an_signed_copy_of_diablo_from_david_brevik/ www.benjaminpirkey.com/ (his twitter name is supersulf)

glad you enjoyed that mobile game :)

Damn, those pixels must've been as big as bricks, man.

@@werdelke HD mod does exist and its good.

@@hrvojesincek3888 Indeed! It is a lot harder though, I got my ass totally wooped first time I played. Just recently managed to kill Mr. D as a normal leveled and equipped warrior :).

I think he was just kind of on the spot and didn't want to seem like he was asking for it. I am sure he regretted it afterward.

He said he already had a copy, The person who asked for it later sold it, which is highly disrespectful as it was given under the idea that he was going to play it.

Mia S I would of thankfully taken it as a collector's piece even if I had a copy. Really kind of sad that it got sold in the end.

If he sold that then he is a scumbag, especially for asking it under pretenses of him needing a copy to play it. Bet he walks around thinking he's a good person too. Dirty liar, if that's true.

Deathbrewer it was you wasn't it?

Sad state of the gaming industry

That’s why these talks are so valuable. Keeps me going when I feel like giving up on my own projects.

I was thinking the same thing. David seems nice enough to do that for him too. Also hey I know you from your first upload, big castlevania fan whatsup

derpeter, why?

Viking II when I describe PoE to people I just say "it feels more like Diablo than Diablo 3".

Ugly, unprovoked attack to an innocent comment...yeah, this is the RU-vid comments section.

and Torchlight 2 aswell

And with D1 and D2 it basically did both, haha. And turned out to be a legendary game or two in the process, respect-wise. SOOO tough to achieve that.

idk in modern times it seems to happen less and less. Maybe more with indie games but not AAA.

I know right! I was freaking out thinking they took it down.

+AoiKaze2000 Right here: www.graybeardgames.com/download/diablo_pitch.pdf

I have it on an HDD somewhere..dang it... Gotta break out my low-res monitor, too.

@@CaveyMoth Should be no need. I had no trouble playing on my modern computer! Although I prefer playing Diablo HD mod, it includes deleted content and Mechanics from Diablo 2.

d2 lod with median XL... or u will be severly dissapointed : ))))