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| | | Pretty nifty conversion of the PC classic dungeon crawler; has slightly more colorful lighting effects, even, as well as a Fast game speed option (gotta hunt for that one a bit, the menus are laid out a little unusually) that makes the game feel pretty zippy. The controls can be a bit tricky--even just aiming a sword as the Warrior (I don't want to think about my attempts to aim the bow--there is some auto-aim, but I haven't quite got the hand of it somehow)--but mostly it isn't too hard to manage the key things, and nice not to have to mouse-click on everything. : )
Diablo was partly inspired by the old Rogue-like ASCII game Moria, and I haven't been able to find a fantasy Rogue-like on PS4 that has really grabbed me, so I decided to get Diablo and play it in Rogue-like, or more properly, "roguelite" fashion: no memory cards (so no reloading and retrying after death, effectively making it permadeath--unlike later games in the series, Diablo (1) had no Hardcore mode, which would have enforced something similar), and, to keep the duration of a single "run" down, no going back to town: you're stuck with whatever you can find in the dungeon. With no standard health regeneration, that does tend to limit how far you can get down through the dungeons. : )
Although, my last run was going a little long; then I got caught and trapped in a swarm, which can happen once in a while, and that ate away my hoard of health potions--but I was still cooking along okay (I'd finally realized I should dump 80% of my level-up stat points into HP, as the Warrior)...and then I got to the Catacombs, with no single-width doorways allowing you to retreat and take on enemies one at a time. So, didn't last too long down there! That has slaked my curiosity about this play variety for a bit; maybe at some point I'll get to wondering about strategies for the Catacomb (played roguelite-style)--but the longer runs are hard to fit in.
I was initially hoping I could play the game on Hell difficulty; unfortunately, only standard difficulty is available--you have to beat that to unlock the next difficulty, and beat that to unlock Hell difficulty; and Diablo apparently takes up 10 slots on a PS1 memory card. ; ) So not sure I'll ever get around to the higher difficulties. |
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...As Heaven Declines
Resurrected
Content found in
0:25 - 1:55
Content type
Audio
Claimants
[Merlin] AudioSalad
on behalf of Testimony Records
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on my first video of this game:
Music track claimed by claimant popped up on YouTube 12 days ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCBcG9DwJ0U). Here's the response I sent through YouTube; will probably go nowhere because as far as I can tell all the claimant has to do is reject the claim--and they'll probably figure they're unlikely to be sued by EA/Blizzard:
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The video in question is a recording of my unique gameplay of the PlayStation 1 version of the game Diablo, published by Electronic Arts in March 1998. The specific segment of audio claimed by the claimant comes from the opening cinematic of the game; this cinematic first appeared in the PC version of Diablo, published by Blizzard Entertainment on December 31, 1996.
For example, here is a fan recording of that cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUpdTubgqmY
The audio is claimed to infringe upon the track "...As Heaven Declines" from the music album "Raping Whores" by the band "Resurrected," released in 1998--two years after the audio in question appeared in the game by Blizzard Entertainment. The audio appears to have been sampled from the game, and I can't find any indication that it was licensed for use--much less exclusive use--in that 1998 music album, which was not published by Electronic Arts or Blizzard Entertainment.
Copyright for the original audio likely belongs to Blizzard Entertainment and/or Electronic Arts. I believe my use of that original game audio from Blizzard Entertainment / Electronic Arts in this gameplay recording in question constitutes fair use. |
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| | | | (My date for their album came from https://resurrectedbrutality.bandcamp.com/album/raping-whores : "released December 18, 1998." Couldn't find any earlier established date for the album. Album case gives no credit to Diablo/EA/Blizzard; the album's first track is just a sample from the Diablo opening cinematic.) |
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| | | | (My video from 2019 has 25 views. Their video from 12 days ago has 4 views.) |
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| | | | "Good news! Your dispute wasn't reviewed within 30 days, so the copyright claim on your YouTube video has now been released." 'p' |
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