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Diablo II

Perfected the loot-and-skill-tree treadmill that every later action RPG measures itself against.

Released 2000 Developer Blizzard Entertainment Platform PC Genre Action RPG Era The 3D rupture

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Diablo II inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Procedurally Generated Levels 1980Character Classes 1981Colour-Coded Loot Rarity 1996Procedural Loot Tables 1996Branching Skill Tree 1996Internet Client-Server Play 1996

The Diablo series in this dataset

1996
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2023

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