games like diablo are worth playing through, slowly... with some good friends...
When you get online it can turn really gear based though, at least from what I remember.. most people just decked their characters out in magic find gear and did loot runs over and over again(sound like anything familiar?)......... but the gear runs weren't very painful at all, I remember busting out loot runs in minutes.
The top gear in D2, as you can imagine... was UBER LEET DEWD... I got a Windforce(when they were the shit) from a friend for my Amazon... and she turned ridiculously powerful.
I wont be skipping the online play, in fact I'll probably ONLY play online, but it can turn into the ever so familiar gear grind bullshit like some of our most beloved games!
