🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi there Jamie!

So the name of the game you want to play is "Kill Monsters, Get shinies," 
in a way that doesn't seem too totally pointless.

Well, there's things like Torchlight (1 & 2), which is a bit more 
simplistic than Diablo, and I don't much like the style of the artwork. I 
also felt that 2 was pretty MOTSOLS (More of the same only less so).

There's Nox (which has serious game balance issues), the Dungeon Siege 
games (which have some really dull chapters to grind through-think the 
Kurast jungle about five times bigger), and the Japanese-themed Throne of 
Darkness, which was actually quite fun to start with.

A bit more recent are Grim Dawn and Van Helsing (play the Final Cut 
version) and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

Diablo spawned  a whole slew of imitators, and many of them were OK, at 
least in some respects, while many were really not. Most of those that are 
OK  really lack Diablo's replayability factor. They may have five 
different classes to play but they really boil down to melee or ranged and 
you play the story once and it's cute but that's enough.

You say you're getting bored, but man, it's been 22 years since I started 
playing the original Diablo on Battle Net. That's not a bad deal for what 
we paid for the game; I bought two copies of each, plus expansions, and 
figure the hours of entertainment they have afforded me cost well under a 
penny each.

My personal favorite of the spin-offs is Titan Quest; if you're a fan of 
Ray Harryhausen, the first half of the game is so like being in one of his 
movies it's a real hoot. I love Harryhausen and I kept having to pause the 
game to indulge a fit of the giggles. Joe-Bob says check it out.

Mark.