Best Diablo clone for PC

[Phred]

Divine Divinity may be a dumb name, but who gives a shit? Great game.

Beyond Divinity was the better game anyhow, but it's technically party based in that you have two characters.  It's also much more story driven and not very random.  It does however look and feel dated.

I didn't like BD near as much as DD. Crummy name or not, it was a fun game to play, in it's day.

[schild]

Beyond Divinity:

1. Had Starforce. The hardware crippling kind that you can't remove no matter how hard you try, short of formatting.
2. Was a piece of shit.

There's no way Ard is talking about Beyond Divinity, at least I hope not. Otherwise he probably still has Starforce. To date, I think it's the _only_ PC game without absolutely proper cracks. Though it might've been cracked recently with some complicated .dll shit.

[Torinak]

Beyond Divinity:

1. Had Starforce. The hardware crippling kind that you can't remove no matter how hard you try, short of formatting.
2. Was a piece of shit.

There's no way Ard is talking about Beyond Divinity, at least I hope not. Otherwise he probably still has Starforce. To date, I think it's the _only_ PC game without absolutely proper cracks. Though it might've been cracked recently with some complicated .dll shit.

Larian removed Starforce in the 1.49 patch.  I think BD was one of the games that didn't install Starforce until the first run, so you could install and patch it without getting infected. (or was that  X³?  One had the happy no-Starforce patching process, the other the unhappy one where you had to install, get infected, patch, and then (try to) remove Starforce with one of the official removal tools and/or some registry editing.)

The game wasn't as good as Divine Divinity, though it had some interesting features (the Battlegrounds, at least for the first few of them before they turned into pure experience grinds). The voice acting and the buy/sell inventory interface were not among them.

[Ard]

The game wasn't as good as Divine Divinity, though it had some interesting features (the Battlegrounds, at least for the first few of them before they turned into pure experience grinds). The voice acting and the buy/sell inventory interface were not among them.

I liked it more, but I've got odd tastes to begin with, but yeah, the voice acting was horrific, but I thought the actual text was more amusing than not.

And last time I actually looked for it, I didn't have starforce lurking on my computer, but I also bought the game WAY after it launched, and never played it without patching it.  The 1.49 does remove starforce, which I had to go double check since you just managed to freak me back out again on it.