Diablo I - Pre-Release Demo Gameplay

[guyeylon]

The demo also had a bug - if you paused your game with the inventory open, you could pick an item, "drop" it and return it to your inventory, and it would stay in your inventory as well as dropping on the floor. That, combined with books that don't require higher magic skills with each spell level gained, allowed you to have level 20 healing and identify spells easily on the demo...

[Gex9z]

...Plus when you first enter the Labyrinth, he says "The smell of death surrounds me..." (I'm aware he says that in the catacombs in the full version, but that sounds much more 'fitting' with the music from the first few levels).

And "Please help... I barely escaped from the Butcher... he killed... my wife, my children... I beg of you, in the name of God... avenge them..." ---- that fkn gave me the chills as a kid xD.

[Gex9z]

Yeah this one was my first impression of Diablo back in '96, and trust me, when I got the full version, I was honestly disappointed about how it's not as "dark and brooding" as this pre-release demo made it out to be. Most of the graphics (like for weapons for example) look more real in this, and you haven't shown the "Tavern Owner"'s voice in this vid... in the full version it's kinda 'comic', in this it sounds full on creepy the way he tells you all that LOL.

[Exkild]

This was my first impression of Diablo, so I remember I was surprised by all the small differences when I finally got the real game.

Like, first I thought Grisvolds new voice was just wierd, but as I continued to play, I say the genious character in it =)

[Coolerdbz69]

Lmao at Griswolds voice

[TheGreenspazz]

Wish the retail version would've had all the original planned quests, too many things are missing from the game and the retail version shows signs of it. Still a great, fun, simple and addictive game to this day and a shame that there are still cheaters without lives infesting battle.net.

[llllJakubllll]

I like how it even more dark then the original.

[xmcflyfanforever]

what does Pre-Release Demo mean? :S

[Nerthing]

@xmcflyfanforever It's a demo they made to hype the game before it comes out.

[xmcflyfanforever]

I see now thank you. ^^

[Bruce99Lee]

@Nerthing then what does it mean with 200.000 frames? :S is each step u take a frame?

[neoshaoran]

Nice book sound LOL!!!!!!

[mrtheoden]

Interesting. 

Dave

[bigleague5]

great post this is awesome. never saw it before. every voice in different than the real game....no Cain or Pepin:( Griswolds voice was funny...I liked his Irish/Scottish accent in the game. glad they didnt put the game out like this

[fallout111111]

can you send me a link there i can download this demo.

i got it on a old disc but it wont work on vista or xp??

[fallout111111]

i got this demo on a cd

but i dosent work for xp or vista

[MARCOSUC82]

long staff of blood ritual???

[omegalpha777]

I love the music and the creepy atmosphere of the first Diablo, good memories

[seblun1]

lol, first time playing i got to the boss, dam hard!! well i was only like 4-6yo

[OverusedChewToy]

Ahh ,where it all started. I still have this on a cd somewhere :D

[seblun1]

wth do you mean? this isnt so special as you think, only 2 games of it lol

[EricTheRed03]

# 3 is work in progress.

[FREEZERQC]

yeas finally diablo 3 is on his way

[MordorTheModmaker]

worth watching

[Mibmu]

We have that demo on a "demo cd"

[besmith12345]

When i got the demo it didn't look anything like this

[Nerthing]

You're talking about Diablo Spawn, which is the real demo. The Pre-Release Demo was a demo made before Diablo to get people interested in it.

[besmith12345]

Oh alright, that's cool, i'v seen you on diablo 2 befor.

[Nerthing]

I don't play Diablo II; I'm on a bot that's logged into the game.

[besmith12345]

Why don't you play diablo 2?

[Nerthing]

Because I spent a couple years playing it. I got many high level characters (including a level 99 Barbarian) and got banned. Never liked Diablo II, never will.

[besmith12345]

How did you get banned?

[Nerthing]

Don't remember. Probably for something stupid.

[besmith12345]

oh, that's pretty stupid i didn't even know you could get banned.

[gyromancy2]

Will you make a Brain Lord tip guide?? I hope you do

[Nerthing]

Never thought about doing that. Guess I'll do that soon.

[followsjesus2]

Forget about those guides. A guide for Baldur's Gate(PC) series would be the best

[Tempao]

Needs more Tempao.

[Nerthing]

What a terrible comment.