The Evolution of Diablo
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- The Evolution of Diablo - from its very beginning to its very end, Diablo has evolved around its simple core gameplay loop, but has revolved around loot. Though this central concept is the anchor for the series, many forget or have never experienced what the game use to be. This is a story I think is worth telling.
This is the evolution of Diablo.
Research & production of this video began before Diablo 2: Resurrected's big announcement,
as such it does not include anything but a single reference to the remaster.
patreon.com/MitchellGodsend
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:59 Chapter 1 Diablo I's Development
00:14:29 Chapter 2 Diablo I's Gampelay
00:25:03 Chapter 3 Diablo II's Development
00:45:20 Chapter 4 Diablo II's Gameplay
00:59:55 Chapter 5 Diablo III's Development
01:04:50 Chapter 6 Diablo III's Gameplay
01:21:36 Outro - Hry
It's crazy that.... this part of my life that started out as just "playing a game" could become such a defining part of my experience. The fact that I played these games as a young boy and now I'm watching documentaries on them... like parts of my life becoming history lol! Same with Pokemon too! Thanks for the amazing video!! Truly wonderful narration 💖💖💖
Diablo is truly one of the most reliable "nostalgia kicks" in my life. Wanna relive your childhood for a bit? Turn on D2.
Playing a video game was a defining part of your life?
@@ch-yq5yn guess we all can't be cool like you
true gaming really does take a big part of life
So much effort, yet so little views. What a criminally underrated content creator.
Because it’s too long
On the contrary, the subscriber to views ratio is amazing!
When you compare this to a 100k subscriber channel that only gets 50k views per video, the hard work is rewarded.
Prolly because he added the full content cinematics of probably on of the most viewed cinematics in CZcams (ok maybe second to WoW).
PS: I've watched it completely, just saying
I like long. I found it a year later. Enjoy my sub and contribution to your engagement via this comment.
Right!!! Content creators like this are not getting the love they deserve 😢
Cow level from rumor in D1 to reality in D2 really showed how the developers were connected to the community. I think it was nod-worthy. I thought crafting was also something that might have been worth a mention. But, overall, this was so interesting. I lived through this and had no idea of the backdrop of the stories. I even played 3DO at the store, but my mom said it was too expensive to get.
Ha! The Secret Cow level being a rumor so prevalent in Diablo 1 that the dev's decided to add it into Diablo 2 is actually in my original script - it was one of the things I cut from the final render to trim the excessive anecdotes to keep the video-length down. By crafting do you mean the cube recipes from D2 or the artisans in D3? Either way, I agree that I should have added a bit more about both.
@@MitchellGodsend I never played D3 (for the reasons your video mentioned). Hearing you talk about food and hunger as a cut D1 mechanic, it reminded me of crafting in D2, and I assumed there was something in D3. Just a way to draw is into our heroes outside of "go somewhere, kill something, get gear, repeat." I loved your video. Such great content. Sorry you couldn't get everything in!
not only that but they actually cared to make a good game, vs trying to make a profit earning game
blizzard now only care about profits & injecting real world politics into their games
Too expensive is an understatement
Watching this now after the Diablo 4 beta is really interesting. Really well done, very well structured. Would love to watch this style of video for other games.
truetrue!
Several of the still shots in the D1 chapters are actually during the development of D2. Colleagues include:
2:48 Matt Householder (standing) and Mike Huang (far right)
2:56 Kelly Johnson
5:20 Alan Ackerman and Peter Kemmer
I miss them all. -S
Loved this video, I started playing diablo 2 in third grade with my dad and it definitely is one of my favorite games of all time. You did a fantastic job putting this together and I even turned off my adblocker just to watch some ads on it for you, looking forward to the next video!
Awesome video! There aren't that many quality long form analysis videos on CZcams, but this one was absolutely fantastic.
This also made me consider playing D1, since it's the only one of the games I haven't played.
Keep doing what ya doing!
This is triple A quality work. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I loved this video. I had thought about making a video on Diablo's history, but I think you covered pretty much everything.
This is a great video man. Thank you for taking the time to make this
the delivery of story and information was top notch. Please keep making videos. As a diablo 3 player, I never got to experience what true diablo feels like. Don't get me wrong I love diablo 3 and the thought of it being dark and gritty and not overly cartoony makes me wicked excited for d2 resurrection and d4 .BTW @1:10:35 i laughed so f'ing hard. Awesome video man.
As someone who's only every played Diablo 3....on consol! (Xbox 360 at launch then the reaper of souls edition with off line mode only. Then the switch version just this month. There is diablo 2 ressurected budle that includes it was on dale fpr about 25$) seeing the pc version of diablo 3 is strange
I hope you get more exposure, because your whole performance and the video is high quality af
Man. Incredible work. I wish YT had pick this up. Specially now that D2R is out.
Great video !
I was there during the hay day. No expansion pack , no mercenary, no druids or assassins. Dupes were everything and soj’s were our currency (perfect skulls were currency before soj) it was an amazing time !! WW barbs and orb sorbs were the meta. I remember when javazon, speed barbs and nova sorc came into the fray they were so good I had to build them myself… but then 1.10 ruined it all and nerfed my characters to the bone…. My 12 year old soul was crushed!
I'd have to say this is the best video on the Diablo series I've ever seen!! Great work...
Wow, absolutely loved this. Will definitely subscribing and can't wait for future content.
Beautiful, well-paced vid. I really enjoyed watching this, and something I would've loved to have you cover is the vast difference in combat in each game, like how in Diablo 2 enemies were more clustered and threatening; in Diablo 3 an entire room is full of enemies and "skill" is based on how quickly you can kill them all.
Man… the last part of the vid covering D3 was top tier comedy! Subbed.
By far my favorite game through the years. Love that you did one on diablo and blizzard in general!
Awesome video it’s like a love letter to the series in a documentary fashion
Best video I have seen explaining these 3 games. Make more content please.
This game is perfection 22yrs later, played since 2000 and now enjoying diablo ii resurrected. So here is to playing for 20 years more! if I'm alive that long.
if we're all alive that is.
with brandon not knowing to not mess around in a nuclear powers backyard, that would be a stretch.
@@youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629 man shut the fuck up. this is a video game video. go back to your boomer channels
same, I think I started diablo 1 in 1997, I used to play with my neighbour on a dialup game many nights & it was godly fun
I remember when diablo 2 came out & the graphics were so good it lagged my PC
Even to this day, Diablo 2 is by far one of the best games I've ever played
The itemisation alone can't be beaten or replicated in any other game
@@sulkoma I member getting lucky, the house living in at the time had two phone lines so I didn't have to tie up the phone playing diablo and StarCraft.
good times for sure.
@@youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629 Ahahaha Russian shill - maybe Russia should learn not to invade another sovereign nation to gain territory.
Very well researched video. Thanks for putting it together
Thanks for making this. Banger of a video!
Thoroughly enjoyed. Took a while before it was recommended.
KEEP MAKING CONTENT. This is top tier.
It should be a crime that a video this good has so little views and comments. I hope to see more
Definitely one of the best narrator voices I've heard so far, do something with that!
Great retrospective, having seen much content about Diablo, this does a good job to elevate above many others.
I applaud your not pulling your punched over Blizzard's greed. This whole video was perfectly paced and will delivered by somebody who clearly understands what Diablo is/was supposed to be.
great video man, hopefully the algorithm will pick this up
Commenting for the algorithm. Exceptional work - informative, thoughtful, and thorough. I appreciate your contribution.
Hey dude, I don't really comment on videos but I saw the view count and thought how lame it is that this has less than 10,000 views. This was a super informative & well thought out video and I genuinely thank you for making it. I've only ever played Diablo 3 & now Immortal, but was considering getting Diablo 2R and your video sold me on it. I remember the auction house being controversial but I didn't play D3 until around 2018 when it was long gone, so I never understood why it had so much controversy, but now I fully understand.
Thanks again!
Very good summary of the making of the series. Great job. you should do one on the lore/story of diablo
Very great video. Glad i opened it. Thanks for all the efford
Very good video! Greatly enjoyed thank you!
Very good documentary mate, had similiar thought's on most of the subjects (D3 included). GL !
Great vid Mitch
Great work, keep it up. If only all content creators put this much effort in.
great video. didn't lose focus for one second. cheers
Excellent work
Amazing video! Got one for D4 coming?
Amazing video!
Great video! Would love to see a sequel video to this that includes Immortals and Diablo 4
Thank you really enjoyed it!
Great video. Excited for D4
Excellent documentary. Thank you!!!
This was such a trip down memory lane. My dad gave me diablo one and two to play when I was young, I still have the diablo 2 battlechest with cds!
Subbed, amazing video mate
Nice video! Great memories from Diablo! Thanks for it!
Very well written and narrated! I'd just want to suggest a less disruptive transition between shots, to match the calmer style of narration.
incredible depth and detail, really appreciate it. Also, I remember in Diablo 2 having to like, BUY ARROWS and such, whereas in Diablo 3, the Demon Hunter quickly gained two abilities that you could spam one after the other ad nauseum. It became a cartoon, instead of a gritty as fuck action RPG.
it was like 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, where everyone had "spell-like abilities" instead of a more grounded "I hit it with my sword" style role-playing.
1:18:20 lololol out of comfort zone sorceress 😂
Great vid!
Nice. Appreciated your honest opinion on D3, salt with humor is always a treat. Hammered on the first two games like crazy, but late-stage Blizzard always online stuff just sours the hell out of me. I still haven't played it, and might not ever. Torchlight and Grim Dawn scratched that specific itch well enough. Great work! I still have awful/magical memories playing goddamn Everquest on dial-up. Man, that wretched sound.
Early and in time to get some popcorn for this!
Well done. Loved it!
Fantastic video
Amazing doc!
Great video, worth the watch.
10/10 video, deserves ALOT more views...
Great video! Thanks!
I love your video! Very well done. Thank You.
Great work
I had put off watching this for a while simply cause I wasn't sure if I would sit through the whole thing in one go, which feels like a betrayal to the video. I was absolutely wrong. I was drawn in and kept attentive the whole way through. The pacing of the video, the visual and audial quality, the interesting content, and perhaps the fact that anything that starts with the opening chord of Tristram's music has my immediate attention kept me entertained the whole way. Fantastic video, thank you for making it. I didn't know much of this about one of those games that's been historically played by everyone in my family since I was 6 or 7, and it was a wonderful dive through those memories.
Anecdotally I enjoyed your rant about Diablo 3. I remember quite enjoying it my first time playing, but it was after I had mentally accepted that thematically, or maybe spiritually, it wasn't really D2's successor, and felt like more of a Warcraft take on a Diablo game. I remember some of my friends purposely misunderstanding me saying I was "judging the game only for it's graphics" as though the art style in Diablo had never been a core part of it's dark and doom theme. Not sure why you reminded me of that, but there it is.
Great video, thank you!
Awesome video
Another addition at some point in the D2 expansion was the introduction of class specific items. Not overly critical to the purposes of this video but I think worth a mention alongside the other item improvements of LOD.
Great video! Really enjoyed it.
One quibble: at 6:06 you mentioned "Brevik spent a Saturday afternoon...[making the game real time]". That's incorrect. At least, all sources I've seen (including the video snippet you included from GDC) mention Friday.
Bravo. Amazing work.
Loved watching this... thanks for sharing your views... You Rock!
Nicely done
Yo - how the fuck does this channel not have more love? You have MORE than earned my sub and notifications. Cheers to all your hard work. This shit is on par with Summoning Salt!!
WOW! You deserve so much more views!!!
Great video.
You know what part of my problem with D3 was? I got into it when it released on console admittedly BUT as someone who LOVED Diablo 2 I hated the art style and how the loot would ALWAYS fit your character. While I know it was better for building a character, D2 made the world feel more alive when a wolf helm would drop on a Paladin or Sorceress playthrough.
Daaaamn man, that was totally nice
Absolutely fantastic video man! I loved it! I'm looking forward to Diablo 4 and what it has to add to the history of Diablo. Cheers!
Great video Mitchell ! Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff in the future :)
An amazing video!
Absolutely brilliant video thank you for the superb information
Great video
nice video!
Underrated channel wow
Liked and subsribed...this is amazing
if i was a kid in the 92 i would be mesmerized by the 3DO ad and then disappointed by the price point
Subbed love this video
Awesome video. 👍
I’ve played since the shareware demo came out on Diablo. This is the best recap of Diablo (and by association, Blizzard) that I’ve ever heard. Kudos.
Excellently done video! One of my favorite games of all time and this allowed for full nostalgia to be tapped while also teaching much of the back story.
''Do you not have phones??!??!?" was one of the funniest things ever. The audience was fuming.
thank you for breakdown. i miss the good old days of D2.
great video. I watched a whole!
Great video wow!
i wish they keept the auction house, being abel to sell your loot is awesome and rewarding. you said it yourself in the video players in d2 who found items they didt need was used for trading. it definitely encourage people to play the game if they know they can sell there items for 10 dollars.
Thanks!
Thank you for this amazing look at the development history of the franchise. I'll openly admit I'm a newcomer to Diablo as I started at the launch of D3 but the game didn't stick with me until Adventure mode came out later on.
I wholeheartedly understand and sympathize with you on the frustration at how the series changed as I've watched a similar fate occur to Phantasy Star Online where it's sequel which while it performed commercially well ruined what made the original so well loved to the point the only similarity it has is in name only.
Hope to see your coverage on Diablo 4's development cycle in the future!
It's criminal how underviewed this is for the length and depth of your knowledge and research.
Thanks bro!
You trully are a godsend my friend, this video was a delight. I wish you would make more like this, I enjoyed the sht out of it
Bro.... the moment he changed his tone... and became real and say his points of view is a Subscribe button click for me... keep it up good sir
Awesome video!!! Loved the original D2, curious to hear your thoughts on D4 at some point!!
great job well done ^^