Diablo
Diablo is the original &quot;anti-souls&quot; game.<p>The slot machine mechanics, the lacking of significant strategic elements and sense of hollow progression have always been key factors for my dissatisfaction with it.<p>That said, the beautiful &#x2F; dreadful &#x2F; horror vibe and simplicity of the first game to this day regularly pull me in – only to ultimately dissatisfy me greatly. Each time. To me there is just &quot;no there there&quot; - and that&#x27;s probably the point?<p>So I agree on many fronts with this article.<p>Diablo could have been so much more but they turned it into a highly engineered form of drug that can potentially destroy you, with little to nothing to gain for it. Nicotine? For sure it&#x27;s more gambling than gaming - again to me mostly timeless yet inherently toxic coating - down to the systems level. So in a way, it&#x27;s the original &quot;mobile game&quot;, the ultimate computer based life waster.<p>So depending on the person and with the right .mpq file in hand this could either mean getting addicted to or maybe getting off of &quot;cigarettes&quot; completely:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;diasurgical&#x2F;devilutionX&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;installing.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;diasurgical&#x2F;devilutionX&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;...</a><p>(Devilution&#x2F;X is amazing and maybe more interesting than playing the game itself, complete clean-room reverse engineered version of Diablo).<p>Edit disclaimer: local &#x2F; in-sync multiplayer is (probably?) not as life wasting