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[Nimphae]

To me, Diablo 1 will always be better. It has better sounds and music to start with.. You seemed to have so many more options, even without the different branches of magic.

In Diablo 2, if you wanted to live past act 2, you generally had to follow the masses with your character design.. And then you get those PK'ers LOL. Nasty nasty, especially if you play Hardcore. :angry:

[PrejudiceSucks]

I play, but the game gets lame quickly after Act 1. Also, Andariel is a total push-over compared to even the first character in Act 2 (in the sewers).

I just 'bashed' her 12 times with a unique runesword and she died really quickly. Even the poison wasn't too bad, I just teleported back to Akara and got healed, bought an antidote and beat the crap into Andariel again (I have a unique sword that makes my enemies no heal and also has a 35% chance to open wounds. Handy.)

The difficulty just hikes straight away from Act 1 to Act 2.

[Charmed]

Well to play Diablo 2 without the Expansion makes about as much sense as playing an RTS game without a mouse. The expasion has increased resolution, more items, more monsters, more everything. Why would one want to take the option of less?

Anyway I have something to admit - I am a Diablo 2 addict ... or at least I used to be. I can honestly say without a shadow of a doubt, that I have not played a single game anywhere near as much as I have with Diablo 2. The game I wasted the 2nd most amount of time with, doesn't even come close to halfway with regards to Diablo 2.

I honestly think I lost a few months of my life playing that game.

Then one day, at the beginning of this year, something clicked in my head. After years of playing the game online, I said to myself, "Why the hell are you wasting all this time trying to find items from bosses and why am I wasting all this time trying to level characters" - This was of course after the 150th Mephisto run or something and I was so sick to death of that game at that moment, that I haven't touched it since. Thinking back now, I can't believe I wasted so many weekends playing that game non-stop, not to mention all those other nights during the week ....

That's right ... I'm Diablo 2 free now for 110 days and counting and I am hoping that Blizzard does not ever release another patch for that game or I am going to be hooked for another few months again ... 'sigh'.

I know I'm an addict because I have left the game 6 times already, only to return a few months later again.

So Blizzard keep away from the patches ... pretty please.