Standing before hellmouth in the cursed village of Tristram. Down, down, down through blood and gold to the arch enemy. 📺: Diablo, Blizzard, 1997-1998 (PS1 version) - ThreadSky

sharkabytes.bsky.social • 51 days ago

Standing before hellmouth in the cursed village of Tristram. Down, down, down through blood and gold to the arch enemy.

📺: Diablo, Blizzard, 1997-1998 (PS1 version)

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goldenaxedoom.bsky.social•13 days ago

ITS PEAM

thetrin.bsky.social•51 days ago

Oh man, this brings back memories...

I love how you've captured the CRT scanlines with your photos. There's a real artistry to how you've done it.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thank you so much! It's something I really enjoy doing, and have sussed out some good settings for the camera app I use.

thetrin.bsky.social•50 days ago

It reminds me so much of the 90's, when magazines had off-screen photos of Japanese imports, long before the days of direct feed screenshots.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•50 days ago

Yeah! I'm an avid old games mag collector and that's one of the things I love about delving into them is seeing the variety of photos. Some from monitors, some from RGB TV, some composite/RF, and every so often a hardware/pc shot. Lovely time pieces.

thetrin.bsky.social•50 days ago

LOL wow, I haven't read an old magazine in a long time. The writing really doesn't hold up, does it?

p3np3n.bsky.social•50 days ago

I played Diablo w/o any context for the first time via PCem a couple years ago, and it was honestly the most breathtaking experience I’ve had with a Windows 9x game! Played it for hours straight!

bookmore.bsky.social•50 days ago

I think I can hear this screenshot! Diablo OG is one of my favorite games.

krustenviech.bsky.social•49 days ago

I Never realized how good the ps1 actually was. Played it the First time last year.

realkenmasters.bsky.social•51 days ago

I played that for about the whole month of January. Never did manage to beat Hell mode

sharkabytes.bsky.social•51 days ago

I've not beaten it yet either, it's really tough.

realkenmasters.bsky.social•50 days ago

I replayed as a Warrior and Monk, for the second time in 15+and my biggest issue was getting to a point where I was maxing out all my skill points, and raised my spell levels as high as possible w/ magic point boosting items, and then it become extremely difficult to balance having enough money

realkenmasters.bsky.social•50 days ago

to buy better equipment, while holding onto said magic stat-boosting equipment so I could equip them temporarily and read more books.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•51 days ago

The thrill of the first new weapon. There's quite a bit of flexibility for the archetypes, so even a melee one can be welcome for the rogue!

PS1 Diablo was the first version I played, and I got bit by the builds bug pretty hard. It's got its flaws, but it's the version I'm most fond of.

kindfulkirby.bsky.social•50 days ago

I played the PC version a lot and the first time I saw the PSX version I was so confused by the 240p(?) resolution making everything so large 😅

cal-pol.bsky.social•50 days ago

I had PC as a kid but played through the PS1 port a few years back and loved it. The art works surprisingly well at the lower res. The main problem I had with it was speed - but then found out that there's literally a speed-doubling option, well-hidden in the menu. Huge difference.

cal-pol.bsky.social•50 days ago

I seem to remember that a pad with autofire works wonders too.

vorde89.bsky.social•50 days ago

I still think the theme of Tristram could be one of the best songs ever produced for a videogame

sharkabytes.bsky.social•50 days ago

Agreed!

videopolis.bsky.social•51 days ago

Down down, deeper and down?

madkillergames.fr•51 days ago

FRESH MEAT

grimtalo.bsky.social•50 days ago

drew.rw•50 days ago

https://youtu.be/9NhIUZFgNw0?si=NDe4s11zMR9SrX8Q

hackandslacker.bsky.social•50 days ago

Stay awhile and listen…

barleybap.bsky.social•51 days ago

Please... Listen to me. The Archbishop Lazarus... He led us down here to find the lost prince. The bastard led us into a trap! Now everyone is dead, killed by a demon he called The Butcher. Avenge us! Find this "Butcher" and slay him. So that our souls may finally rest...

zanardi.bsky.social•50 days ago

My new wallpaper. Thanks!

babyshoes4cash.com•51 days ago

found my old CD wallet and got this running in modern windows last month-

it's really tightly designed! and more or less classless, which i had forgotten. also forgotten: every spell can show up on scrolls, not just identify and town portal

sharkabytes.bsky.social•51 days ago

Ah, nice! I still have a budget release disc for Windows floating about somewhere. And yeah, it really is! Lot of viable builds for each archetype.

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