• Gaming
• Online
• Diablo III
• Multiplayer

Yes, that title is indeed a reference to the my favourite movie, “Up” :3 However, it is also a reference to the fact that my girlfriend and I recently started up Diablo III again. She never got to play the expansion, Reaper of Soul, and we figured that it could be a fun activity for that weekend. Sure enough, it rocked! :D

Whoops, forgot about potions... Diablo is hard :c

Playing the game again

So, my girlfriend finally bought RoS and we started a game together. She chose her Demon Hunter, which was level 60 from her vanilla playtime, and I chose my Monk. I never got to max level when I got the expansion, so this time around I “started” by being level 63 (which I got it to when I finished the story the first time, if my memory serves me right).

We had a blast playing through the expansion on the Expert level, even though my girlfriend complained a bit about being underpowered (because of the significant loot change :P) We fought through the hordes and hordes of demons and zombies and fallen angels, enjoyed the lore along the way (my girlfriend may not be as much of a lore-freak as me though) and finally took down Malthael for his horrible crimes against humanity! And after that, it was time to shut down for the night x)

Then, the moment that I knew would come was here… What an incredible drama, right? :P Though, it wasn’t actually dramatic, it was just the moment where the story was done and there would be nothing “new” to do. Other than playing the game on harder difficulties, of course, but I never really got into that :/

Uuuh, something shiny! :3

A winning formula

A couple of days later, I got the “Diablo-itch”. The urge to play again, because it is just so damn fun :P And then it hit me - Why not try out the “new” Adventure Mode (“new” as in the expansion had been out almost a year)?  I had heard good things about it, so it couldn’t hurt :)

Luckily, my girlfriend was game :D So, we loaded up the game and our very first Adventure. Neither of us really knew what to expect, except hoping for some extra fun. To that end, one could say that the game succeeded ^^

The very first Bounty from our very first Adventure mode. Tunnels and molten monster, what could go wrong?

In fact, I would go as far as to say that I was blown away o: The Adventure Mode formula is pretty simple: Travel to different waypoints, kill bad guys, collect phat lewt, repeat. Sure, there is a lot of repetition, but since it is just so entertaining, it didn’t really matter :P To that end, I found it quite fun to re-visit “old” areas of the game and when combined with a variety of bounty-quests, the whole repetition-thing was only a minor flaw. It was just so much fun, especially when playing with someone else :D Though, that’s not something new to the Diablo-series :P