Oh diablo2 was my game back in the day... I was such a hardcore fan nerd. That game was epic.
So much grinding for that sacred SOJ, or red grim helms... man I miss those days.
As for d3, I liked when it was first released and was insanely impossible, which was what the community base wanted - but then stupid blizzard nerfed the game and it all went to shit.
The only thing that kept it alive was the auction house, then that got pulled and everyone abandoned it.

I doubt Diablo can ever recover from what they did with d3. They screwed that game up bad. Bad storyline, bad gameplay... Duels? like WTF - dueling was iconic to diablo and they couldn't even manage to recognize that being a key to the game.

Anyways, nice read. Cool to see other diabloe fans