History VideoGame / Diablo

* CoOpMultiplayer

* LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt: If you are killed while playing the Rogue, she sounds like she just went OutWithABang.

* UnusualHalo: Imperius, the leader of the CouncilOfAngels, has a crown-like metal halo that matches the design of his TwentyFourHourArmor. The other angels generally don't have halos.
* UnwinnableByMistake: ''Diablo'' disables the "SAVE" option when you die. However, it does so a few frames late, and during these few frames it's difficult, but possible to save ''already dead'' and watch your character die instantly each time you reload. There's only one save slot. While you ''can'' start the game over with your character's current stats (much like a NewGamePlus, except accessible from the very beginning), you'll lose anything you had left lying around in town (which is likely to be a lot, due to GridInventory and [[EverythingFades Nothing Fades]]). But hey, it's your own damn fault for saving when you knew you were dead.

* BowAndSwordInAccord: Good for general strategy purposes, but the cumbersome nature of switching weapons makes it a poor 'quick switch' tactic.

* DummiedOut: Half of the new monsters introduced in ''Hellfire'' are just things that were dummied out in the original game.

* ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'' (2021)

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* DoomedHomeTown: Tristram. [[spoiler:Especially in light of later games. It's bad enough that the trio of heroes that fought against Diablo wind up succumbing to a HeelFaceTurn, but for even more tragic points, with the exception of Deckard Cain, Gillian, and Adria, ''nobody'' in Tristram survives. Of those three, two meet their ends in ''[[Videogame/DiabloIII Diablo III]]'' ([[AssholeVictim even if one of them very much deserved it!]]) and the third, according to supplemental materials, got a case of SanitySlippage.]]

* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' (2015)

* MagmaMan: Magma demons actually. [[AllThereInTheManual They were created from Mephisto's foul blood spilled on Hell's lava]]. While they are made of lava, the boulders they hurl only do fire damage.

* MagmaMan: Magma demons actually. While They are made of lava, the boulders they hurl only do fire damage.

''Diablo'' is an isometric 2D HackAndSlash game series from Creator/BlizzardEntertainment.

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''Diablo'' is an isometric 2D HackAndSlash game series from Creator/BlizzardEntertainment. Notorious for having [[PlayTheGameSkipTheStory an elaborate backstory which nobody follows]] concerning a [[HeavenVersusHell war between Heaven and Hell]]. As a sort of simple graphical {{roguelike}}, the pursuit of the [[RainbowPimpGear perfect randomly-generated equipment]] and [[LevelGrinding character build]] is the main draw.

''Diablo'' is a huge {{dungeon crawl|ing}} consisting of [[BuildingOfAdventure 16 floors of increasing difficulty]] under [[CreepyCathedral the old cathedral]] of Tristram, [[HubLevel the only town in the game]], where {{NPC}}s provide you with quests, healing, or equipment. The player has three characters to choose from: [[FighterMageThief Warrior, Rogue, or Sorcerer]]. The goal is to reach the FinalBoss, Diablo, at the very bottom of the dungeon and kill him.

''Diablo'' is a huge dungeon crawl consisting of 16 levels of increasing difficulty under [[CreepyCathedral the old cathedral]] of Tristram, [[HubLevel the only town in the game]], where {{NPC}}s provide you with quests, healing, or equipment. The player has three characters to choose from: [[FighterMageThief Warrior, Rogue, or Sorcerer]]. The goal is to reach the FinalBoss, Diablo, at the very bottom of the dungeon and kill him.

''Diablo'' is an isometric 2D HackAndSlash game series from Creator/BlizzardEntertainment and is notorious for having [[PlayTheGameSkipTheStory an elaborate backstory and plot that nobody ever follows]] concerning a [[HeavenVersusHell war between Heaven and Hell]]. As a sort of simple graphical {{roguelike}}, [[RandomDrop the pursuit of the]] [[RareRandomDrop perfect randomly-generated equipment]] and [[LevelGrinding character build]] to satisfy one's inner {{Munchkin}} gives the game tremendous [[ReplayValue replayability]].

''Diablo'' is essentially a huge dungeon crawl, consisting of 16 levels of increasing difficulty under the old cathedral of Tristram, the only town in the game, where various [=NPCs=] provide you with quests, healing, and equipment. The player has three characters to choose from - [[FighterMageThief Warrior, Rogue and Sorcerer]]. The goal is to reach the BigBad, Diablo, in the very bottom level of the dungeon and kill him. The non-canonical third-party expansion pack ''Hellfire'' added eight new separate levels and four new quests (a quest to kill another Diablo-esque baddy in the crypt near the church, [[LighterAndSofter a quest from Lester the farmer, a cow quest and a quest to retrieve a teddy bear]]) as well as three more characters (Monk, Bard and Barbarian), though you have to enter a special edit to a text file to get the last two of those quests and the last two of those new characters.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: At the end of ''Diablo'', the hero defeats Diablo and jams its [[SealedEvilInACan soulstone]] in his/her own forehead to contain it. This results in [[spoiler:the hero becoming the new BigBad in ''Diablo 2''.]] This was later [[RetCon retconned]] in ''Diablo 2'' by saying that said hero was more or less [[MindRape mindraped]] into doing so.

* AwesomeButImpractical: ''Diablo'' has a LOT of spells that are cool but useless. Town Portal can be learned as a spell, but you're very likely to find a scroll anyway. Couple that with the fact you have to learn it multiple times to reduce the mana cost to reasonable levels (especially for the Warrior) and, well... Likewise, Healing is a lot less useful than just slugging back a potion, and the unique ability each class has will see use only on the far side of never. Telekinesis is pretty much worthless in most situations; you can just walk up to the items, and being able to push a foe back a square is more than inadequate for the amount of mana it costs.
** Don't underestimate Telekinesis. It is useful if you're playing under multiplayer rules (death = all items drop to the floor) and you have to extract your precious items from under the noses of the monsters that killed you ''with'' those items on and will most likely kill you again without them, over and over until they swarm the only entrance to the level.

* DoomedHomeTown: Tristram. [[spoiler:Especially in light of later games. It's bad enough that the trio of heroes that fought against Diablo wind up succumbing to a [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turn]], but for even more tragic points, with the exception of Deckard Cain, Gillian, and Adria, ''nobody'' in Tristram survives. Of those three, two meet their ends in ''[[Videogame/DiabloIII Diablo III]]'' ([[AssholeVictim even if one of them very much deserved it!]]) and the third, according to supplemental materials, got a case of [[SanitySlippage Sanity Slippage.]]]]

* DoomedHomeTown: Tristram.

* ImprobablePowerDiscrepancy
* InfantImmortality: Averted. Although you can't kill any children in-game, the story states that Diablo possessed a young prince's body. When Diablo is finally defeated in the end of the first game, his body turns back into that of the dead prince. Made even more tragic by ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', which reveals that the Warrior who canonically defeated Diablo [[spoiler:was the prince's older brother Aidan. The guilt Aidan felt from killing his little brother made it easier for Diablo to possess him.]]

* DevilButNoGod: Averted. There isn't a devil either. In Hell you have the Three Prime Evils and their four lieutenants, and in Heaven you have the Angelic Council. Sanctuary itself was created by a ''relationship'' between an angel and demon.