Diablo 2: 2/3 done

It was fairly smooth sailing to get from Duriel to Baal, though I did spread it across a few weeks. I'm not finding any really cool loot, but I'm getting the hang of my chosen spell combination, and letting the mercenary act as my lightning rod.

I wanted the completion of finishing one more round, this time on Hell difficulty, but not so much anymore. I'll see how it goes. Now that Diablo 3 is out, I should just play that. But, its at full list price and I've gotten really used to shopping in the bargain bin. And Blizzard pricing goes down the slowest of all (though they earned the right).

Let me see where I am on the timeline... looks like next up is Thief or Planescape, but I need a break from dungeon crawling; maybe I'll re-visit the Civilization or Age of Empires series.

avalanche of games; going back down to Hell

I knew I had a lot of games up in the attic, but not this many: over a dozen large plastic boxes, and numerous small bins. Its not quite to hoarding levels, but it is a large waste of space. A lot of it is paper boxes containing a disk or manual and a lot of air. Maybe I'll keep a few boxes for sentimental reasons... I definitely want to keep Wasteland, Fallout, Deus Ex... and maybe some of these collector's editions (not that any has much financial value).

After all that, I just want to play Diablo 2 now. The next Diablo is coming out in little over a month, and I would like to revisit D2 at least one more time. Diablo 3 is going to be full price (around $60) for probably the next year or two, so there's nothing to be gained from waiting, and with Blizzard or Valve games its almost guaranteed to be great.

Going through the archive, it looks my last installs of D2 were in late 2000 and late 2001. I must have been really into this game, because I bought an extra copy of the original and expansion just so I could have a whole bunch of mules to carry stuff. I wonder if that stuff would even carry forward now, so many patches later. I think I'll just start from scratch.