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Fun & Challenging, but Baal-runs ruins it. Diablo 1 was fun and addicting. However, with duping (the ability to duplicate any item in-game), everything got just way too easy. You could beat Diablo without much of a thought as everybody had the most powerful of weapons. Diablo II was much more challenging as that bug has been resolved. The graphics were improved and the ability to learn only a certain number of skills added a real strategic portion to the game. The only bad thing that Blizzard should have resolved is what is known as a Baal run. Baal is a new character in the expansion. He throws four groups of minions at you to defeat and you end up getting a lot of experience. If you don't kill Baal, you can do this over and over and over again racking up a lot of experience points. Unfortunately, this makes leveling up and advancing waaaay to easy and took the challenge out of the game. Now the only challenging thing is getting to Baal. So if you are playing online on Battle.Net, you are playing against characters who did Baal runs for a couple of hours and are now more buff than imaginable. Blizzard should have fixed this a long time ago. After playing for several years, I think I'm going to "graduate" to World of Warcraft (also by Blizzard) which I've noticed is quite similar in many ways. But I'm sure I will return to the world of Diablo quite often as there are still a few challenges left to conquer.