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Originally Posted by jollyperv
Always hated those games, worthless hack and slashes masquerading as rpgs
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It lacks somewhat in the traditional rp sense but i've never understood why people have to be so black and white about things. Were quests/tasks and the story largely irrelevant to Diablo? Mostly. You could finish all tasks in 30 seconds just by going through the maps and then returning to the town at the end and talking to everyone in one hit and giving each of them their artifact-of-return-to-owner-ness or letting them thank you for killing the big-bad-critter-we-wish-would-die-ness monster.. but that still doesn't make it a bad game. Thats like saying you "hate" a block buster movie because it's dumb fun (I don't understand why it's a binary thing.. why can't you get a boner from anything Charlie Kaufman's ever written or Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ever directed and still enjoy Iron Man (or whatever the popcorn action hero movie of the month is)). The main part of the equation is fun. I don't see how it's less fun because it's not Rogue or whatever. And to a certain extent too much rp can get in the way of fun too.
Anyways.. not the best RPG ever made, but fun enough to suck a good month or two worth of weekends away that you'll never get back... and thats coming from someone who played Bard's Tale 1, Pools of Radience, Ultima 4 etc.