richardhutnik on 16 June 2009
| Sky Render said: Action RPGs existed before Diablo, with the same values as Diablo in terms of action-oriented gameplay. The fact that it's an action RPG, therefore, is not the driving value behind its success. That it's a simple RPG to play, on the other hand, may have a lot to do with it. Diablo was the prototype for the one-click combat model used in most modern MMORPGs. |
Diablo turned the venerable "Net Hack" game genre into something accessible, by making it real-time (rather than turn-based) and upped the graphics. Blizzard took what was an original turn-based Nethack game, and made it a real-time action-RPG game. The end result was the interface that helped advance the RPG genre.
