Monday, November 23, 2009

Salutations and Diablo: Hellfire

It's my first post! This blog is designed to showcase, well, basically the games I play on my computer and the versions I use and the mods I install. I don't like to install mods that include a lot of original content, I like to focus on mods that restore Beta functions/Ideas to the game. The designers who made these great games were the ones with the great Ideas, they deserve to have their full vision played by the public.

Today, I present for your scrutiny: Diablo. The greatest dungeon-delve RPG ever made. Released November 30, 1996 by Blizzard Entertainment. Diablo went through many stages of development before it was released. If I can point your attention to http://diablo-evolution.com/, you can see that a lot of content was cut from the retail version. http://freenet-homepage.de/sobakewitsch/tasks/tasks.htm, displays more of the early minor quests (then called tasks). On November 24, 1997 Sierra On-line r
elesed the only official expansion of Diablo, called Hellfire. Pitting you against monsters such as "El Chupacabra" (a unigue Scavenger), this expansion adds some flavor to Diablo, giving it an almost satiriacl effect.

Anyway, onto the Downloads! Obviously, this being a blog called Completion, the goal is complete versions of these products. So, downloads here will be presented for Diablo: Hellfire, not just vanilla Diablo. Be sure you install the latest Diablo patch before upgrading to Hellfire (Find it Here: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=20832)
Install in this oder after installing Hellfire:
-Will disable multiplayer. We can fix this (See Below)
-Replacing the vanilla command.txt with this file unlock two quests and two new characters
-After installing the official Hellfire patch, this will re-enable multiplayer.
Enjoy.

So, anyone out there ever hear of Unearthed Arsenal? Micro Star's unnofficial Diablo modification that they actually sold in stores! Blizzard sued and they ceased production. Anyone ever play this?

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