Margie and Kay and I actually played an online game together. Granted, it was “only ” Torchlight II, and it was played on our local LAN, but we haven’t done something like that in quite a while.
I’ve been on quite a Torchlight kick of late — probably a stress thing — and it occurred to me that we could actually do some playing all together on Sunday. So after we’d gotten it reinstalled on Margie’s machine, and Kay’s computer was through with its patches, we had at.
And it was fun. We were regular little murder hoboes, sweeping the countryside for anything with a label and cutting down anything our weapons and spells could attack. We swapped gear, watched each others’ backs, and had a blast. We ran through about 85% of the first batch of missions (through the Temple Steppes), and had to quit only when dinner arrived.
We’ll have to do it again some time.
We have found ourselves falling back into rounds of Torchlight II on occasion. It scratches that Diablo-like itch quite well, without being actually Diablo.