Date on December 31 for a significant part of mankind is associated with the smell of Christmas needles, a chime of tanned deer harness and sales in gaming stores. But the same significant part of the people sees in it another meaning: this date is a birthday Diablo – The very first part of the legendary series of role -playing militants, which quickly became cult and gave rise to a whole squeal of the "Diacabian". And in 2021 she also celebrates the 25th anniversary. Significant dates – Favorite Blizzard , So fans of the company's games are probably waiting for a lot of festive events with gifts and retrospectives. However, the main gift awaits us long before the anniversary festival: today it is released Diablo 2: Resurrected.
It is believed that in Diablo and even more so Diablo 2 They played everything, so everything is already aware of what is happening in Tristram and where everything, in fact, has begun. The first part left a long time ago Battle.Net , but sold in GOG, Let and looks very outdated. You can also get acquainted with the world of the original game during the annual event The Darkening of Tristram V Diablo 3 – But it takes place in January. And what to do to those who are going to first plunge into the universe of absolute evil and endless Luta? Especially for this case, we decided to tell a few stories about what happened before the events of the second part.
The first story. This is not Blizzard!
The very first fact about Diablo may surprise you: initially the game was not the Blizzard project. Programmer David Brevik in high school began to think about the idea of a role -playing game, in which the time from the launch of the introductory video to receiving trophies from the first killed skeleton would be a record short. The first sample and source of inspiration for him was X-Com: Ufo Defense Thanks to the "random" cards and a combination of viewing angle with the size of the character. After this list was added Moria , Angband , Nethack and others, by that time successfully forgotten, games. But Brevik did not immediately take up the global project: for a start, he founded a studio with his friends Condor , To get up experience in contracts.
Contracts and became the first of the happy accidents in Diablo's biography. Two games were brought to one of the game conferences at once Justice League Task Force : Over one, by order Sega , The Brevik studio worked, and the second, on behalf of Nintendo , The guys made from Silicone and Synapse , founded by Allen Adam, Frank Pierce and Mike Morheim. They have already released RPM Racing , The Lost Vikings And Rock N ’Roll Racing and started working on Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. By the time the game that gave the life of a huge universe came out, the studio had already managed to rename twice: first in Chaos Studios , And shortly after that – in Blizzard Entertainment.
Under the name Chaos Studios, the team did not have time to release a single game: it soon turned out that such a name has already been used
Diablo design, which bravik with comrades showed Blizzard, was noticeably different from what we saw several years later, when the company decided to help with the development of the game. Brevik wanted to make step -by -step battles, but Blizzard insisted on battles in real time, and very quickly it turned out that the project instantly won the dynamics from this. And then, when the merger of two studios occurred and Condor turned into Blizzard North , The game demanded to introduce multiplayer opportunities for a freshly obtained service Battle.Net – And the online component finally transferred the game to the category of sensations.
This is what the creators of Diablo in 1996 looked, shortly before the historical release
History is second. Evil evil is angry
In order to facilitate the involvement of the player in merciless grind, the creators of Diablo decided to do without nuances and halftones so that the audience did not occur to stop and reflect on the situation of things. The world "Diablo" is perfectly black and white, divided into absolute evil and infallible good. And this confrontation is expressed by the simplest of the stamps of Gothic fantasy: angels and demons.
However, at first there were neither angels, nor demons, nor even peace as such – only the perfect, incomprehensible diamond Anu, embodied all the virtues and harmony of the world. Here are just hatred, pride, darkness and disharmony, they have not gone anywhere: they gathered together and embodied in the dragon of Tatamet. Their battle lasted eternity, and the final of the confrontation was a large explosion that gave rise to the Diablo universe; Both adversaries disappeared, reincarnating into the Heavenly Kingdom and the blazing underworld. So the war continued with the death of the first creatures, but now it unfolded in the kingdom of Pandemon, in the center of which the very heart of the universe was, it is an eye or a stone of the world.
The heart of the universe gives its owner the opportunity to create worlds, which was used by the angel Inaria, who hid the source of the conflict in the kingdom of mortals – the sanctuary. The demoness Lilith helped him, and the offspring of an angel and a demon began to be called napals. These new creatures carried the features of both angels and demons, but at the same time they were the embodiment of blasphemy, apostasy and heresy for both sides. If the ancient non -falems did not exceed the strength of their ancestors, they would immediately destroy them, but as the centuries went, new generations of napalms were increasingly leaning to the opinion that their htonic ancestors were just fiction. However, angels and demons, of course, are quite real: all this time they were actively looking for the source of the eternal conflict – the eye of Anu. And once, thanks to the desire of mortals, to reveal the secrets of their world and other dimensions, the glowing underworld learned about the existence of a sanctuary. The demons decided to gradually turn mortals to their service, turning their power against heaven.
With Lilith, we will meet again in Diablo IV. According to legend, she and Inaria must return to decide the fate of the world they created
History is the third. There were three of them
After the magicians of the clan Vizzheri managed to call and tie one of the demons, they were convinced that they could ensure the same way to enslave all the inhabitants of the underworld and reign over the world. Inspired by this ambition, magicians began to pull out of the glowing underworld of one line after another – and they returned back with stories about the world of mortals. Therefore, soon the rulers of the world of evil began to whip the fanatics new ideas: this is how the Church of Trinity originated, whose adherents worshiped the embodiment of horror, hatred and destruction, considering them the spirits of determination, love and creation. These three original evils wore the names of Diablo, Mephisto and Baala, but the deceived mortals called them a dialogue, Mephis and the ball. And the head of the church became Lucius, the son of Mephisto.
Only Inaria, the creator of the sanctuary, saw in the angels the trinings of the embodiment of evil – and paid for this when, in the war between the Church of the Trinity and the Cathedral of the Light founded by Inaria, a man intervened. The expelled demoness Lilith aroused the legacy of the Nefalem in the ordinary peasant Uldissian and gave him the ability to awaken the forces of the Aidarens – this is how his followers called him. After the intervention of the Aidremes, the war of sin became so large -scale that both angels and demons openly joined it: the earth and heaven opened, the eternal conflict flared up with renewed vigor, but now on the lands of mortals. And then, seeing what the power of the napalms can do with humanity, Uldissian sacrificed himself, depriving the strength of all his followers.
One war after another: the inhabitants of the sanctuary rarely managed to live calmly
There were no winners in this war. Angels allowed humanity to survive, but erased the memory of people; As a reparation, the demons gave inaria to eternal torment. Heaven and the underworld vowed not to interfere in the affairs of mortals, and religions lost their influence in the world of sanctuary. Only the Wizzheri clan continued to secretly practice the rituals of calling demons, which soon led to the next conflict – the clan wars of magicians.
Когда все магические кланы ополчились против Визджерей, те пустили в ход свой главный козырь — демонов из Преисподней. But the fresent of hell does not care with whom to fight, so soon the callers had to give a fight on two fronts. As a result, the clan fell, its capital was destroyed, and the hired killers moved in the footsteps. The age of magic has come to an end – its place was taken by the age of faith.
Meanwhile, in hell it was also restless. Four younger evils captured the underworld, overthrew the original and expelled them into the world of people. But thanks to Angel Tirael, who mobilized the most powerful magicians to the Unified Order of Horradrim, the inhabitants of the sanctuary managed to track Diablo and sharpen it with the brothers in the stones of the souls. And the stones hid in three different places – the shelters seemed reliable, but after years no one remembered what evil was lurking in them. But only during the hunt, not only powerful artifacts were born, like a choredric cube: thanks to the sorcerer Zoltan Kull, it also turned out that the role of the heart of the mortal could play the role of the stone of the soul. Thus, the demon, even the most powerful, can be enclosed in the human body.
Tirael is the only angel who over and over again took the side of humanity. What will happen if he will be tired sooner or later?
The story is fourth. King and warrior
Horodrims hid the stone of the soul of Diablo in the network of caves near the Westmarsh, the Cathedral for protection and protection was erected over the repository, and years later the city of Tristrama grew up nearby. None of his inhabitants suspected how evil was lurking deep in the dungeons, while the hero of the commander Leorik, King Handuras, chose the Tristers with the capital of the kingdom. The abandoned cathedral became his castle and fortress, but the once wise and fair Vladyka began to gradually change. In the end, he suddenly declared war Westmarsh, listening to his trusted adviser, Archbishop Lazar.
By the way, Lazar in this story is much more gloomy than it seems at first glance. Once the archbishop went down to the catacombs under the cathedral, found the stone of the soul of Diablo and broke it. The liberated original was looking for a suitable body for himself, but could not capture the king himself – he simply went crazy with demonic influence. And then the choice fell on the youngest son of Leorik, Albrecht, whom Lazar abducted and delivered to the cathedral. Upon learning of his son’s disappearance, Leorik finally went crazy and began to execute civilians, demanding the issuance of the abductors: so the noble ruler received the nickname Black King. His end was sad: Leorik fell at the hands of his own knights, having managed to curse their captain Lakdanan before his death. Albrecht was never found, and a detachment of daredevils, who went in search of the prince in the catacombs, did not return.
When the darkness thickened over the tristra, Gerdard Cain, one of the Horadrims, got down to business. He gathered a fighting team from a robber and a magician, and a warrior of Aiden – the elder brother of the missing Albrecht went on a campaign. Unfortunately, the heroes did not know that Diablo has long lived in Albrecht's body, and King Leorik's skeleton wanders around the catacombs in the crown and the gold chain. In general, the final of the first part of Diablo came out extremely gloomy and even creepy. According to the canon, Iden managed to get to the lower tier of the catacomb and there he discovered Diablo himself – the lord of horror, a nightmare in the flesh, a horned demon of blood color. But when the victory over Diablo was completely close, Eiden realized that he was about to kill his own brother.
Any character can fight Diablo chosen. But the canonical outcome looks just like this: the detachment weakens the demon, and the warrior strikes a decisive blow
Isen was sure that he would be able to restrain Diablo in his body. He inserted a stone of shower in his forehead with a prisoner inside the original, but at that moment his mind has already begun to clutch. Soon after Iiden left Tristers, the city was flooded by the demons. But about what happened next, we learn from Diablo II. Rather, from Diablo II: Resurrected!
The story is fifth. End and beginning
Blizzard North was not going to take up the continuation immediately after Diablo, but she had to. The success of the game was so deafening that the game industry physically could not help but notice it. The first month after the release, the circulation got to two million – but at that time the lion's share of sales was on boxed versions! It is not surprising that the example of Diablo was dismantled at the conferences of the gamedesers, and competitors quickly rushed to create their own versions, copies and clones of isometric sensation.
Brevika Sajorishchi did not have to persuade for a long time: during the creation of the first part, they had a lot of unused developments. Yes, and the final Diablo fully allowed the sequel – and even development, because now the players could not be locked in the whole game in the only cathedral with a pair of buildings in the neighborhood. Instead of three playable characters, they made five, gave them various options for pumping, from the very beginning they built https://sister-site.org/libra-spins/ everything with the calculation for multiplayer via Battle.Net … in general, Blizzard North, which had grown three times by that time, carefully improved each aspect of the original game, leaving its basics and principles untouched. It is not surprising that the studio did not even develop a design document: many aspects of Diablo II were created and remade on the fly. In particular, the plot.
The story told in Diablo was an ingenuous: an idyden goes to look for his missing brother and in the end finds. To continue, the developers have prepared the same. The players had to follow the traces of the protagonist of the first part, which pulled the stone of the soul demon in the forehead. But here Blizzard intervened, which always focused on the plot and mythology: in the first part, she took over part of the plot videos, in particular, the final scene. And for Diablo II, the company's scriptwriters came up with a complex multi -act plot with the participation of Mephisto and Baala, and at the same time scattered Laura's fragments on the pages of the register of Descades Cain. Over time, these and other stories of Descard will be collected in the famous Cain Book – Diablo III: Book of Cain.
Diablo II: Resurrected comes out at a difficult time. She had a fate to be the first game, which Blizzard will release after the start of a large -scale scandal with court claims, dismissals, refinements of references and Easter boxes in games – which, what are there, reach the point of absurdity. The most dissatisfied will probably perceive the prime minister as an occasion to express another portion of indignation to the company.
The creators of the original Diablo II are in no way involved in Harassment, harassment and other crimes: for the most part they left the company long before the third part, and the Blizzard North studio itself closed in 2005. A team is working on the Resurrected version Vicarious visions , which recently became part of Blizzard Entertainment and is also not involved. However, the author of the series David Brevik himself has already stated that he does not support the current Blizzard and is not going to play Diablo II: Resurrected. And the director of the remake only advised everyone to do the way they think correctly.
We hope that resurrected will avoid errors Warcraft III: Reformged. And we are waiting for the project in any case will have a lot of fans. Like in good old days!
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