What has been your "next Diablo"?

[Treesh]

A much smaller segment could say that they really enjoyed positioning a huge group of enemy Blood Knights into a chokepoint where they could take them down one at a time. Diablo 1 is a slower game, where each monster is individually more threatening to your character than the other two games. That adds a lot of atmosphere right there.

I think that's why I enjoyed Thief: The Dark Portal so much. You had to plan, use everything to your tactical advantage. If you took a wrong step, you were generally dead. It did lack the randomness of layout of D1 though so after failing, you could fix what you did wrong that time and get the timing/positioning better the second time. For me, I think Thief did give me the closest feeling of danger that D1 gave me, but the gameplay itself was so different that I really can't call it my "next Diablo". The other games in the series just weren't even close though.