I thought I'd post this because it's interesting to discuss all of the changes Diablo went through such as: removed quests, videos, Townspeople dialog, monsters, and hidden items that still remain on the CD.
I don't know if any of you were involved with the beta of Diablo, but ever since Diablo was released, I have seen some interesting revisions of the game. I never got to play the beta, but I'm almost 100% positive there was a version at least in between Pre-Release and Beta that some people had a copy of.
Apparently there is an Alpha 4 version, based off of the Pre-Release available online (which only has 2 - 4 levels of playability). The speech dialog of the towns people are hilarious, with completely different voices, different interface.
The beta, was a Battle.net edition only, correct?
I recall a version our High School had years ago and it wasn't Beta (didn't require Battle.net, and it had Single Player) nor was it Retail. It was just like the retail is now, the only difference that I immediately noticed? The dialog. I'm sure most of you have extracted, viewed, and listened to all the dialog in the Diabdat.mpq file right? There was alternate dialog for several people, including the wounded townsman talking about the Butcher.
The Pre-Release version of the wounded townsman, was different altogether, but the Retail version of the game has two different dialog for the wounded townsman. It only plays one, and never the second.
Anyways, this version that our High School had, always played the second dialog, and not the first.
I just thought that it was interesting that there were versions that somehow got out to the public, and as far as I know they weren't Beta.
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I don't know if any of you were involved with the beta of Diablo, but ever since Diablo was released, I have seen some interesting revisions of the game. I never got to play the beta, but I'm almost 100% positive there was a version at least in between Pre-Release and Beta that some people had a copy of.
Apparently there is an Alpha 4 version, based off of the Pre-Release available online (which only has 2 - 4 levels of playability). The speech dialog of the towns people are hilarious, with completely different voices, different interface.
The beta, was a Battle.net edition only, correct?
I recall a version our High School had years ago and it wasn't Beta (didn't require Battle.net, and it had Single Player) nor was it Retail. It was just like the retail is now, the only difference that I immediately noticed? The dialog. I'm sure most of you have extracted, viewed, and listened to all the dialog in the Diabdat.mpq file right? There was alternate dialog for several people, including the wounded townsman talking about the Butcher.
The Pre-Release version of the wounded townsman, was different altogether, but the Retail version of the game has two different dialog for the wounded townsman. It only plays one, and never the second.
Anyways, this version that our High School had, always played the second dialog, and not the first.
I just thought that it was interesting that there were versions that somehow got out to the public, and as far as I know they weren't Beta.
Fun stuff!