imagine playing barb

If you can get strong enough to kill Diablo then Diablo is not grim dark. The demons fear you as your murder millionof them.

>>220248820
Imagine not playing barb at some point. I played thousands of hours of other classes before I got around to it but it's fun as fuck and became one of my all time favourites.

>>220248820
every class is good on 1.06b

Some cool guy from rpgcodex created this:

https://mega.nz/file/nJ4UWLYT#9GPPgzbyqoLVr0S2K8Hkqh09m-aCvgGA2TH2e_g9xmg

it's a launcher for two versions of Diablo 2 - 1.06b, and the last one where there are runewords and stuff. You also get nifty stuff like video filters and whatnot. But most of all you get to experience two distinct design philosophies, one that is highly meticulous and where you're mana starved and get better items, and another where devs enable spam and where you can go /players 8 and get far more xp.

I would also recommend checking out Hell 3 mod for D1 but from what I've played it suffers from too many ideas and has very questionable balance which is a shame.

>>220248784
Playing games like this and starcraft today is so frustrating. They're perfect, setting, atmosphere, etc. but the graphics are so cheeks. Modern games got unreal graphics, but lost the heart and soul of what made games good. Like why can't we have both.

>>220249014
what the hell are you talking about, d1 alone shits on d3 and d4 easily. animations, art design, music, monster design, whatever.

>>220248784
>Grimdark
so 90s grime
The Three Musketeers (1993)
Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Robin Hood (1991)
The Jungle Book (1994)
Ivanhoe (1997)
The 13th Warrior (1999)
Brother Cadfael (1994-1998)

>>220249014
I'm biased since I started playing games in the 90s but to me art style will always trump graphical fidelity. It's rare for a remaster/remake to impress me for this reason, although I think D2R is mostly very good despite some questionable decisions.

>>220249201
>fidelity

nu games put so much shit filters that contrast is completely lost

For Diablo fans, a Russian(?) guy recently made a great dungeon crawler called Tower of Kalemonvo. It has an outstanding grimdark aesthetic and identical pacing to Diablo 1.

>>220249171
Cadfael is a really good suggestion. The rest I would not call grimdark except for the 13th warrior which I don't particularly like. I did not watch Ivanhoe.

>>220249681
They all take place in decaying civilization run by twisted leaders and unspeakably powerful dark forces. Most aren't 100% grimdark all the time, but I don't see how you can argue against Prince of Thieves. People are getting dismembered and sacrificed to Satan all over the place.

>>220248784
You don't think Warhammer 40K is better grimdark kino?