I think they don't try too hard to tie-in these books to the games. I struggle to think of one of them that directly led to something important in any of the games. But, I kind of like that because you get something different, and yet in the same universe.
The only one I didn't like much was Halo: The Flood which was the only one to follow closely the story of one of the games, the first one. All the other 12 books are well written and tell much better stories than any of the games.
I will say this, Diablo III has six different difficulty levels you can choose from and four modes that also modulate difficulty. You can fine tune that sucker to be just as hard or easy as you want it to be. I find that really nice.
Perturbator is amazing! I really like that stuff.
When you get right down to it, they are very, very similar: you chase loot, scrutinize equipment stats to figure out which is best, blast everything in your way into great gory chunks, and do it with friends. Yes, one is a FPS and the other an isometric view brawler, but the differences end there.
I had an arguement with my friend over this. He thinks the Nephalem were created from unions between humans and Angels. "You frickin' wish", I said, snorting derisively, "but I read on wikia otherwise, and I quote": "Indeed, the union of angel and demon created a third essence. And we are those children. We are the nephalem." Then humans were the decendants of the Nephalem. GOSH!!!
Yeah. I like that. I'd do what I did when I saw the day/night cycle in Oblivion: just sit and stare at the sky for hours watching it change from day to night.
Another thing to "thank" the internet for: the rising cost of retro video games. It used to be fun in the 90's to hit the flea market or Goodwill and see what you could find for cheap. Usually it was a lot of cool stuff. Now, nothing. I did get a few things on Amazon, though, that were fine and not expensive.
I used to, and that means like only a year or two ago, rush over to my friend's place to play games in the early morning after working very late at night. On a couple hours of sleep, I'd last until about noon and then fall asleep at the controller. That was kind of fun, but I"m keen to improve my health and think it's really bad to keep doing that. So now I let myself sleep later, but sometimes I get too excited and get up way early. Like today for instance. I think I got about 6 hours of sleep. I thought about nodding off once around 4, but after that I was fine.
