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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

Speaking as someone who's played Diablo and Diablo 2 a fair amount, in most games there's more variety. The first time through, most people will be playing for the plot, which is ok if rather sparse. The second time through, people will play for things they missed, because there was some variety in the gameplay which was pleasing.

In Diablo 2, there's no variety in the gamplay. People will have not missed things. It's all the same.

This is pretty much spot on.

There's only one thing d2 is good for after you are done and that's item whoring, which if it doesn't involve repeating yourself involves going out of your way on blood runs to go somewhere that is identical to where you have been with pretty much the same baddies as you killed before, but is just somewhere you weren't bothered to get round to earlier which isn't very interesting. It's not a bad game, just one that to me seems quite limited.