Bub and I broke the fourth wall and decided to play Diablo 2: Resurrected!
It seems as though they’ve made some changes in terms of level requirement for various quests, as I had a friend rush me through Normal so that I could begin leveling up in the Secret Cow Level (I’ve played this game off and on since I was twelve, I figured that I didn’t need to go through all of the quests if I could help it… as Castiel from Supernatural once said, “I’m old, I think I’m entitled”). We found out that I was not a high enough level to do the Ancients quest in Act V, but somehow, for some strange reason, if I sat in town while partied up with someone who was defeating Baal, I got credit for that quest. You’re supposed to do the Ancients quest to get access to the area where Baal is at, the Worldstone Keep. And yet somehow you can still skirt around that even with this new level requirement if you are crafty and clever enough. This is equal parts amusing and annoying. But I do find it refreshing to be able to choose my character’s skill path…
I had convinced myself that you had to pay more to get the DLC in Diablo II: Resurrected, and I was going to do that at the start of this month. But… to the best of my knowledge, you don’t have to pay anything extra. So that actually saves me money that I had intended on spending to give Bub the fullest experience of the game that we used to play together with him sitting on my lap as a baby, cooing. Yes, we installed it with the original CDs (gasp!), and there were still people playing the original Diablo 2 back in the day. And surprisingly, our current PC does not have a native CD-ROM drive… I had to buy a Blu-ray/DVD player that hooks up to the USB that requires its own power source to give Bub the fullest experience of those things. To reacquaint myself with the mechanics of the game since I haven’t played it in awhile I might stick to the sorceress class for my own personal character, because that happens to be what I’m the best at. (Blizzard. Literally. All over the place.)