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I'm sorry for your loss. Yep, here's my personal review that I email to my buddies:

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It was fantastic. Me and ******** had a blast for like 5 hours straight last night. We were all laughing and carrying on the whole time.

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The game is just like Diablo 2 with a bunch of additions and improvements in a new story line. So yeah, exactly what a Diablo *3* should be.

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The graphics are glorious, not too crazy, but nice to look at and interesting. The mobs are way more detailed and the spells and abilites are colorful and look great. The theme is fantastic and the sounds are hilarious. Just a bunch of demons and ghouls and all kinds of nasty stuff making freakish screams and grunts n'shit. Big ole fat guys that explode on death and a handful of giant worms crawl out of them and attack.

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Game play is pretty much the same as D2, and it takes some getting used to tranistioning form MMO's and FPS's. You don't use WASD, you click where you want to go. I kept trying to hit S to stop my guy from going forward too far >.<

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Grouping and transportation are wonderful. You group up before you start a game and then spawn in right on the guy. Next to the Town Portal spot there are Banners, one for each guy in the party. If you click on a person's banner you are teleported directly to them. So, say you have a full bag and port back to town to sell. Your party can keep going and when you're ready, you can teleport right to where they currently are rather than taking the port back and trying to catch up.

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Crafting was good too. You recycle magical gear into consumables for future crafting. So when you make a new piece, you don't throw away the old one. Save all the magical stuff you find 'cause your gonna need those consumables.

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Combat was really easy at first and got gradually harder as we progressed. Mobs drop health pods when they die that heal the whole group so you don't really have any down time from healing up for the next battle.

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They really hit a home run with this one. I'm loving it.

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I forgot to mention how much more interactive the environment is now. Like with how you can drop chandeliers on mobs or knock wall down on them n'stuff. So... you run around an kill all these mobs to get all the loot... and gettting better loot lets you kill even more mobs... which allow you to get even more loot!!.... to kill more mobs!!... to kill more loot!!... and so on. Its great!The hook is in the random chances for drops. That next big mob, or that next chest, just might have that awesome piece of loot that'll make you even better.They're constantly dangling that carrot out in front of you to keep on chasing forever. And I like the chase! As far as I'm concered it doesn't exist. Lucky! That's cool. I'm using a very personal email address so you have to promise not to risk my anonymity here. I have a super awesome gaming pc that I built for like $1500 some months ago. I haven't looked at the graphics settings, but I'll be putting them a "full blast". Yeah... it'll all come back. My biggest problem was getting myself to stop using WASD And I think everything you do is undoable so you don't have to worry about spending points that you'll regret later. You can just unspend everything and put it wherever you want whenever you want. The servers crashed at around 10:30 central last night. We had gotten to level 8 and then when we were booted the login screen said we were only level 5... so I guess it only saves your character info at those checkpoints or something. Oh, sure. A couple speed bump ain't so bad. Although, FunCom really screwed up Age of Conan with all the glitches that game had. Yeah, that and actually being a responsible person. I've got plenty of sick time but there's just a lot of shit going on at work right now that I can't bring myself to neglect in order to play video games... even as much as I'd rather just play.

Did you ever try Torchlight? It was decent. Offline tho. That's right; you can use your follower while soloing in multiplayer, just not while in a party. Yeah, and there's different ones that hold different roles. My wizard started out with an archer-type follower, but then I saw the tank/healing one and was all "Yes please!"Oh, and we ran across a random "Event" quest. At the top of an alter on a mound we clicked the thingy and the event started and we got bum-rushed by a bunch of mobs. Afterwards, we noticed all the dead bodies at the top and we're all: "Oh, lol, I see what's going on here" Holy shit!, that sucks... What happened?"exposure to prolonged social and/or interpersonal trauma in the context of either captivity or entrapment"Yikes. I hope it wasn't something completely terrible. Hey, she playes video games, dude... she can have the good computer. Right on. yeah, I take a little screwdriver and pop off the windows button from the keyboard so I stop minimizing the game window whenver I'm shooting for the big loots I don't think I've ever pushed that button on purpose once, so... good riddance! We just figured out the advanced tool tips last night, but I wasn't aware of "elective mode" so thanks. I've already figured that I'd prefer to use two of the one type of abilities over using one of the other type and I thought it would be really odd if they restricted me from doing that. We just can't bring our selves to stop killing in order to play around with options When I logged back in last night my toon was back to level 8 so I hadn't lost anything. Glitch it is. Sweet! That was a good battle. We got to Act II... back out in the desert fight them god-damned poisonous bug swarms! Oh yeah, I'm already hooked.So, usually with muliplayer games we'll each make a toon reserved for playing with each other so they stay around the same level and on the same quests n'stuff. But that's not needed at all now. If you start a game for quests that I've already done then it doesn't matter and I just do them again. And get the experience for them again too! Life's not fair.You just gotta keep at it! I've stubled upon some yellow-colored magic gear now, and even found and orange-colored belt! Its just random so I guess it all about your luck.

Well I played D2 for, like, 10 years so I think a few months should be good. PM your email when you sign up and I'll add you.

Thanks for sharing your story. That shit really sucks. I'm in a good mood on a Friday so I won't comment further about it.