I have! Many times. I am one of those who is not nostalgic with D1 simply because I did not finish it until late (the first time I seriously dived through it was 5 years ago).

Could you point out things that I said that are inaccurate or incorrect?

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Good question, I think both games are masterpieces each in their own way.

I personally prefer D1 because it’s more focused on tactical gameplay than D2. If you play it right you can tackle the whole game without drinking a lot of potions. D1 rewards both the “skill” of the player aka how good they are at the game, and also the character progression in itself. However D1 lacks a good endgame (although some fellas did engage in PvP fights and PvP tournaments). But there are mods out there that expand the challenge in interesting ways.

D2 is more focused around build and playstyle variety, character progression and trading. It does have a bit of tactical gameplay but it’s mostly common sense.

I think D1 is more single-player oriented where D2 is more multi-player oriented. I enjoyed a lot D2:R when it came out so I do like D2 too! I only place it below D1 because of personal taste.

Be positive! If people find it fun it hurts no one

D1 has a couple of tragic moments (the Butcher encounter as witnessed by the townsfolks, the end of the story itself) but overall it’s more a story in a dark universe than a dark story where everyone loses people they care about.

D2 also has a couple of tragic places (I am mostly thinking of the Act 3 Zakarum Temple filled with blood; or the massacre in the Act 2 Palace) but you arrive after it happened. You don’t see the deed happening. So it’s more of a power story in a dark universe rather than a sad and dark one.

D3, well, is D3. Characters have as much power as gods, villains keep rambling endlessly about how they will shatter your world until you kill them, rinse and repeat… It’s power fantasy

But D4 is really a dark story. You don’t just arrive after the fact like in D2, you really see massacres, dismemberment, sadism, blood sacrifices etc… happening all over. And it’s not just in a couple of places in the story. It’s really everywhere. It’s like the D4 writers passed the message “Each quest should have a grim ending”. Or rather, they saw how people wanted Diablo to get darker after the D3 fiasco, so they listened (a bit too much) and cranked the button all the way to “grim” and “sad”.

In general I have very mixed opinion about D4 story. It has just too much grimness. It’s like every other person in Sanctuary is on a frenzy rampage to kill, eat or chop parts of their neighbors. And, on the opposite side of the spectrum, we have a certain prime evil reduced to bargaining with humans where they should be the very essence of terror/hatred/destruction… It does not make any sense