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KevinceKostner
09/30/17 12:25:16 AM
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Ya know, orange>purple>blue>green>white>grey
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Red_Frog
09/30/17 12:38:29 AM
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We talking about that order specifically, or the concept in general?
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Far-Queue
09/30/17 1:00:23 AM
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My guess would be Diablo?
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Flyingpirate
09/30/17 1:05:12 AM
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Think it was Diablo.
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HelIWithoutSin
09/30/17 1:05:35 AM
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Did the first Diablo have the colors? I remember it had the various adjectives that added to the items power, but don't remember any rarity colors.
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Smarkil
09/30/17 1:07:06 AM
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Far-Queue posted...
My guess would be Diablo?

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Lokarin
09/30/17 1:08:04 AM
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I'm not sure if the original Diablo had colours outside of quest items, but Diablo 2 was definitely one so that's the latest possible.

Diablo was built as a realtime Angband clone, so maybe we can start there.

As an aside: Castle of the Winds did have colour based rarity, but it was very simplistic.
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Smarkil
09/30/17 1:08:44 AM
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HelIWithoutSin posted...
Did the first Diablo have the colors? I remember it had the various adjectives that added to the items power, but don't remember any rarity colors.


Yes. It had white, blue, yellow, and like brown as I recall. Or maybe it was just yellow for the third one. Either way it definitely had at least three colors.
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KevinceKostner
09/30/17 1:12:09 AM
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Lokarin posted...
I'm not sure if the original Diablo had colours outside of quest items, but Diablo 2 was definitely one so that's the latest possible.

Diablo was built as a realtime Angband clone, so maybe we can start there.

As an aside: Castle of the Winds did have colour based rarity, but it was very simplistic.

That was my first RPG, got it on one of those 500 shareware game CD's
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Sahuagin
09/30/17 2:31:26 AM
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I thought it was WoW, but yeah it was probably Diablo 1
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PMarth2002
09/30/17 5:45:56 AM
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Diablo 1 at least had white for non-magical items, blue for magic items, and yellow/gold for unique items.
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Mead
09/30/17 5:55:45 AM
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Stop judging items based on what color they are
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Foppe
09/30/17 6:48:44 AM
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If we talk about equipments, then most likely Diablo.
If we talk about loot that includes cash, then the different colored rupees in the Legend of Zelda?
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Jiggy101011
09/30/17 7:55:24 AM
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Those specific colors in that order are Borderlands 1 or 2 right?
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Foppe
09/30/17 8:05:47 AM
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Jiggy101011 posted...
Those specific colors in that order are Borderlands 1 or 2 right?

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Zareth
09/30/17 9:45:01 AM
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Red_Frog posted...
We talking about that order specifically, or the concept in general?

WoW started those colors specifically, but the concept was started by Diablo.
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Blaqthourne
09/30/17 9:55:07 AM
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If that means just that the strength of items is denoted by color, the earliest game with that basic concept I've played is Might and Magic III from 1991, where what the item is made of detemines its strength -- wooden<leather<brass<bronze<iron etc.
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Sahuagin
09/30/17 11:59:42 PM
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Blaqthourne posted...
If that means just that the strength of items is denoted by color, the earliest game with that basic concept I've played is Might and Magic III from 1991, where what the item is made of detemines its strength -- wooden<leather<brass<bronze<iron etc.

I guess it's close, but really that's more like a prefix system. this would be if an iron cuirass could be a common/rare/epic iron cuirass. tiers are like an item-wide % improvement. prefixes are more of a straight +X Stat increase which is what you get in M&M3.
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