Diablo II is possibly the best game I have ever owned...

In the last 13 or so years there are few games I have had to buy more than once, Diablo II is one of those games. Something about this game, despite how old it is, is still quite engaging and fun. It brings me back to a simpler time, when Online RPGs did not suck (though technically Diablo II is an offline game, it at least gave the option of playing online, which was kind of an awesome feature to bad they screwed that up with Diablo III).

Now I am not really a spell caster type of player, but the last time I played the game I had a level 24 Necromancer that I decked out in field plate that I got from the secret cow level. Maybe it was stupid to raise his strength over 100 so he could use it, but I really just wanted to see if I could do it and guess what happened? I had a freaking tank Necromancer. I invested most of my points into Bone spells and had him primarily set up for defense/offense using Bone Shield and Teeth to mostly clear out rooms. Bone Lance was pretty helpful too, and Bone Wall.

That experience above was one the reason why I loved the game so much, you could play a spell caster, and if you wanted too, you could build them to wear heavy armor even though they really are not supposed too. I tried to replicate a Necromancer in the same way this time around but I quickly got bored and started an Assassin, which was alright at first. I got through the first Act pretty easily, but started to notice a problem in Act II. Mostly because I was super squishy, getting one hit by bosses, and also a depressing lack of damage. I guess you could say I kind of suck at building characters. I kind of just abandoned her for now and moved on to my Barbarian.

My Barbarian is level 19 right now, I am in Act II and really the only problem I have had was in the viper bit, the boss kept three hitting me which was a major pain in the ass coupled with his knock back (I was kind of stupid and chose to put a point into Iron Skin instead of Concentrate). I built my character around dual wielding and I have been using mainly swords as my weapons of choice (I lucked out with imbuing from Charsi, I took a regular Falchion and it came out being a superior sword with added attack bonuses on Undead which are really helpful in the second act). Most of my points are in combat skills and weapon skills, I am kind of ignoring completely my battle shouts which may not be the smartest thing I have done, but damn it I am going to try anyway.

Enough about my characters though, I really just like the game, and I really could not argue with the price of $20 (the other two times I bought the game as a special edition I paid $40, add that all up and I have spent $100 on literally one game) which was awesome because my mom gave me a $20 target gift card that I ended up impulse buying it on the spot. My only problem with the game is that Windows 7 for some odd reason has trouble playing the game, well not any more since I figured out how to set it up to play on Windows 7.

The first time I tried to run the game it took like 20 minutes for it to open, and when it did finally run the colors and everything were really messed up. A quick google search however, gave me a solution to my problem, turns out I have to right click on the icon, click "trouble shoot compatibility," and go through a couple of menus before Windows suggests the best options to run the game in. I've got a video I made detailing the process.

Anyway, if you are also a massive Diablo nerd like me, then feel free to relate your favorite moments from the game in the comments section below, and if anyone currently has the game installed and wants someone to play with, let me know I'll be more than willing to tag along.