Diablo 1996

Is it still worth playing?

Blizzard North's 1997 action role playing game for Windows, later on the PlayStation and the Mac, played with the mouse through sixteen procedurally generated levels from under Tristram down to Hell. A lone hero sets out to rid the world of Diablo, the Lord of Terror. You choose the Warrior, Rogue or Sorcerer, and find normal, magic and unique items that break at zero durability, with spells learned from books. Up to four players can play over Battle.net or other connections. It was originally turn based, with one character or object per tile and a prototype built around the tile grid of X-COM. Blizzard Entertainment preferred real time, a company vote favored it, and the developers switched. Click to act real time combat over randomly generated dungeons, built around finding better items, still endures.