Never played an ARPG

What is the best option to get into/try the Diablo-like ARPG genre? Should I:

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>play Path of Exile
>pirate Diablo 1
>pirate Grim Dawn
>pirate Titan Quest

I'm open to suggestions what do you recommend?

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Always online single player games can suck a dick.

PoE is the only ARPG worth playing

I have heard it's the type of game where you always need a wiki/guide open

Not unless you are a complete retard.

diablo 2 is the goat. path of exile has an incredibly bloated and autistic end game, so if you really care about that then go with POE since diablo 2 doesn't have much of an end game beyond running a handful of areas. however, if you just want an fun, smooth, well designed experience with incredible music then get diablo 2.

diablo 2 is a completely solved game, so you won't find anyone who wants to actually play
so just pirate something, grim dawn is very boring but at least it has a nice look to it
its like a worse titan quest

I'd say pirate Diablo 1 first since it's a classic and genre forming. Just keep in mind how old it is and might need compatibility fixes to work on modern os.

d2 single player hardcore

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You don't have to buy D2R. You can pirate it for PC. Look up D2R zclient crack

torchlight 2
most friendly for new comer of the genre

Grim Dawn is basically just modernized Diablo 2 and a very easy game to get into if you have no particular preferences or tastes in the genre yet
Diablo 3 is actually fine too. Game is shallow as fuck and most of the complaints about it are absolutely true, but the overall product is a solid introduction to the genre or a good way to kill time if you aren't too particular about your ARPGs

Just play Grim Dawn. It's a little less of a right-click fest, and it's still got the best balance of a solid campaign, okayish endgame, decent build variety, and satisfying progression.

>Path of Exile

Glorified right-click fest. It's less of a game and more a dopamine pump of bright colors

>Titan Quest

Worse version of Grim Dawn

>Diablo 1

Yeah its foundational to the genre, but its still incredibly dated. If you really wanted to trace the ARPG genre all the way to its roots, play this first so that later games don't spoil you with revolutionary concepts like auto-gold pickup and renewable health pots

@You
>Grim yawn
yikes

why would you unironically recommend grim dawn over diablo 2? if he loves diablo to then sure grim dawn is a logical next step but as the first game??

>buy diablo 2 remastranned
>pirate good diablo
Diablo 2 is in archive dot org

Where my last epoch chads at

Grim Dawn sucks

Honestly grimdawn tickled my pickle more than D2 ever did. Never had to grind a zone 10,000 times for a single crafting component. Just pirate it and have fun. It is, of course, better with friends but cest la vie. Oh, and grimdawn has a total rework to turn it into diablo 2, with all the key items and crafting pulled over, most of grimdawns stuff, and all the classes to boot. You can play a double necromancer which gets hard with only one hand.

Reign of Terror I think? The mod is totally free.

you've made this thread daily for a week straight OP, if spending $40 is this difficult for you to pull the trigger on, just don't do it and play the free games instead.

Pirate Diablo 1. Then Diablo II afterwards. Any ARPG after Diablo II just intensifies certain aspects of the game like items/magical items and enemy mobs being thrown at you.

Diablo 1 is more about making due with what you find in the cathedral and wading your way down.

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Grim Dawn all the way. It's a better Diablo than Diablo

I want to love ARPGs but I hate build autism

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