wargus VS devilutionX

Ah, that makes sense. If you're wanting to relive the glory days with some modern improvements, I wholeheartedly recommend the Wargus and DevilutionX replacement engines for Warcraft 2 and Diablo 1 (respectively). They bring those games up to more modern resolutions and methods of connectivity (for easy LANing with friends) and also add quite a few quality-of-life features that just make the games nicer to play on newer systems. And they both have Linux support, though I haven't tried them on the Deck yet. Note that you'll need the original game data files to play these, and they'll require a bit of work to set up.

In the case of Stratagus/Wargus (open source clone of Warcraft II), the AI at its top level has an ordered list of goals/commands, to give it a sensible progression and allow it to be tailored to specific scenarios while hiding a lot of complexity. Like here's the land attack script for random scenarios, and there's separate scripts for air and sea attacks. Specific campaigns also have their own scripts for each AI player like this one.

Changelog in 3.1.0: https://github.com/Wargus/wargus/blob/master/debian/changelog

Diablo is the original "anti-souls" game.

The slot machine mechanics, the lacking of significant strategic elements and that sense of hollow progression have always been key factors for my dissatisfaction with it.

That said, the beautiful / dreadful / horror vibe and simplicity of the first game to this day regularly pulls me in – only to ultimately dissatisfy me greatly. Each time. There is "no there there".

So I agree on many fronts with this article.

Diablo could have been so much more but they turned it into a highly engineered form of drug that can potentially destroy you with little to nothing to gain for it (nicotine?).

So depending on the person and with the right .mpq file in hand this could either mean getting addicted to or maybe getting off "cigarettes" completely:

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/blob/master/docs/...

(Devilution/X is amazing and maybe more interesting than playing the game itself, complete clean-room reverse engineered version of Diablo).

Devilution X (Diablo)

Diablo 1 with https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX

DevilutionX is a relatively recent project which supports the original Xbox, amongst other platforms.

There basically is already with DevilutionX: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX works great on the deck

I would recommend to use DevilutionX, which is an Open Source Port to modern platforms. It has some quality of life adjustments if you like to use them and also has controller support. https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX

I am trying to install DevilutionX 1.4 (which seems to be the latest arm version?) on my Pi 4 running retropie. I followed the instructions in the Wiki .