 Hi there today on Typical Books we're gonna talk about Diablo. So this one will be the last book we talk about today. First off I want to talk about the first Diablo book I ever read and that's this little nerd right here. Not this little nerd the book. The book that comes with the game. Now way back in the day I had played Diablo and Diablo 2 on PC and I'm not on my own PC because I didn't own one like that or that played games and I was no stranger to things like Doom and Ultima but I worked an engineering firm where they had a copy of Diablo that on lunch or very quiet last hour of the days my boss would play on the local area network. So before you scream LAN party like it's some sort of joke I tried to not partake at first because I just didn't sit well with me to play with my co-workers but hey the powers it be were in on it and if it was a quiet lunch time they would often PVP in the office. Now I thought that was super fun and eventually I did partake and I really enjoyed that a lot like that online sort of gaming PVP stuff and it's not something that I typically do anymore but flash forward many years and here I am on my lunches playing Diablo 3. I've played a lot of Diablo 3 since it came out. I didn't have a lot of money a couple years ago and I had bought a used Xbox and then finally upgraded to a 360 and finally got a Xbox one and all that time it was really to play Diablo. So this little book because I'm not a collector because I had limited funds this little book was my Diablo not strategy guide. I would go online to like game FAQs and different walkthroughs, icy veins stuff like that or watch streamers like bloodshed and riker and wolfcrier hello. I would definitely rely on that as my Diablo knowledge and there's some really cool spreadsheets available for supergeeks too right so I would use that but I do prefer a hefty tome this left a lot to be desired. Now I will say that this little tiny book does have some really fantastic art in it specifically my favorite The Demon Hunter. You cannot get past these little tiny teasers of the art that you will find in the larger books. Now this beautiful thing my husband is a collector himself and he has a real eye for value and a real eye for these sorts of things so when it came about that he could get a copy of the strategy guide for me lo and behold here we are. So this is a beautiful beautiful book it has all of the things that you would want to know about Demon Hunters any other class it goes act by act with all of the sights to see and it is a very wonderful resource as far as what does what in this vast game. I played The Witcher because it and people would say that it's just so complex and it's so very big and there's a lot of really big worlds out there but being at home in somewhere like Diablo that is quite vast when it all becomes second nature it's amazing that all of this information is actually in my brain. It's kind of weird the denizens of hell you do get a teaser of some of the little art in here and there is some suggestions of the larger art here and there and it's just wonderfully put together but it is a lot of tables charts graphs small icons but I will say that it is lovingly crafted it has a matte black finish this beautiful marking on the front where you see the fires of hell shining through these claw marks is just beautifully wrought the back with that shiny black on matte is a wonderful sigil it's just beautiful it's a very heavy tome and it's made of some very high quality high calendars semi gloss high clay content paper that adds to this weight and I'm sure that if you fold any of these pages that crease would probably stay there forever and might cut yourself on it because it is just wonderfully beautifully chosen paper these blood red inlays just an absolutely beautiful tome now next on the list is what I had shown in a previous video as far as a haul it is the collectors edition now this was something that was out of my price range and I didn't need it I had the game right so didn't need it and I didn't play on pc this is the of course pc mac version which I could install if it wasn't just for the books that's what it was bought for and this awesome box that had shown this off earlier just beautiful beautiful stuff I will suggest going to other unboxing videos because that's not necessarily what we're going to do here because it is old it's been around for years guys like you can go and check this out but I will say it is just beautifully put together now I've been slipping it off with the other way but this way you get to see all of the little goodies stacked inside of it and I really do enjoy the two ways that you can approach this box I am going to set it down and show off just this little tiny inner box which I think I want to keep out separately for I don't know what I do have the beautiful Diablo and that's really what the prize is in this box this small Diablo headpiece and the Soul Stone which contains some DLC and Diablo 2 so if I want to play D2 I believe I could get at it in here there's a lot of really big D2 revivalists and I'm not one of those but this is super cool way to get at your D2 and the goal in this box set for me is this original art of Diablo book and this is the D3 only book it only has the original classes but it is so beautiful and it's such a good story tome I really enjoy the lore of Diablo and this is again a very beautifully put together book it's a little lighter than the strategy guide the paper itself is a little lower clay content a little higher rag or cotton or something if you're into paper you'll know what that means it's a little softer it's a little lighter it might be more susceptible to humidity I believe now the art is just oh my gosh a beautiful concept art in this beautiful finished renderings and paintings it's just such a beautiful book and it's typeset so beautifully I just absolutely love every single page in this book and it was a beautiful find and really a good compliment to the other books that are now adorning my shelves it has this old-fashioned looking inlay sort of like a hammered tin roof it has another sigil on the back and they're continuing with this trend this shiny on black matte and the frontist piece is just absolutely beautiful okay so now the big guns the most recent book that was put out and this is the book that infamously spoiled d4 a german company was releasing the book and they had some spoiler material on an online site that was showcasing the book might have been the publisher and everyone went ballistic because they said straight up the art of diablo diablo two diablo three and diablo four and it was not a typo it was not a translation error which many people had thought once people ordered the book because that's what you do when somebody teases something like that it was confirmed that oh yes this absolutely is the first official leak of d4 like really official but again it is a beautiful not quite as heavy it doesn't have that same weight to it as the strategy guide for d3 does but it does contain some straight up beautiful artwork and i think it surpasses the other books in its a quality of art and its attention to just the detail of the character pieces and some of the larger representations of the concept art we get a lot more background in some of our favorite places we've got these beautiful shots of west march pandemonium one of my least favorite places to visit but one of my most favorite places to look at and just a lot of beautiful detail that goes into some things that we haven't seen in the game and won't see in the game we've forgotten this hammered tin or blood red inset on the in the inlays but we've got a picture of perhaps a demon ravaging town folk we have a nice little shot of mouth ill in the background one of my favorite characters from act five and one of the save scenes that oh you're heading into act one and d3 this is the loading screen artwork diablo 4's artistic vision was built using several key pillars return to darkness embrace the legacy and what the art team calls the old masters pillar which was shorthand for striving to make each part of the new game look as if it was painted by a venerated artist such as rembrandt or alia reppen and in the teasing that we've seen so far i mean i think they've hit that mark it looks very beautiful very dark and washed out in a way that you can only get from like an old cpl look and just gonna be absolutely gorgeous to run around in some of the concept art near the end of it is reminiscent of almost silent hill and all in all it does harken to what we've seen in the teasers so far as far as that attention to detail that dark beauty and of course the sort of savage hellscape that can only find as something like diablo so there you have it a whole slew of diablo books diablo three books specifically and the art of diablo which is basically an catch all but hey we got a little teaser of d4 in there and that is my diablo books i do play on twitch at lunchtime most days for a half hour so it's super quick but i'm going to post up a video of a 20 some 28 minute playthrough where i'm just sort of running around in a rift that's what i do it's nothing really serious but it's mostly chit chat and catch up and i talk books and podcasts and horror and news and whatever so i'm going to post one of those up to go along with this uh it's sort of a departure i know but it's books here on typical books typical books and lilia plays diablo are the two videos i'll put up today and then we'll get back to some horror books so i hope you enjoyed this thank you so much for watching thank you for being a diablo fan and have an oaky spooky day