DOSBOX lists this title as fully supported, so if you haven’t tried that yet, it sounds like a good place to go.
Wait, wait. You played a game for 4 years and you are citing…boredom as a reason you dropped out of the hobby? I’m confused.
I liked collecting stuff and taking new builds through the game, when I got all the equipment and did every build I wanted, that was it. There were days when I would plan a build, and then realize I already did it.
For example, it got to a point where I had built every single possible variation of the lightning sorc, for example, even oddball ones like 100% strength or 100% dex.
Also, in the first few years, I played on blizzard.net, when I switched to single player, it just got crazy. On blizzard.net, it took a while to finish a build, as you had to party and wait X minutes to mule items. In single player, you can use player /X to set the number of players, and there was software for easy muling. I could (after getting all the eq) run a character to level 85 or so in a day and a half. I think my record was finishing Nightmare in ~20 minutes.
The thing is that computer games have grown and matured a lot in recent years and really are light years beyond the stuff that was coming out in the '90s.
There were some classics then- the Crusader series springs to mind- but it’s a bit like someone saying “The last car I drove was an HQ Kingswood back in 1976 and it wasn’t interesting enough for me so I’ve never driven a car since”.
Also, I think the people talking about board games and the like in this thread may have misinterpreted the modern meaning of the word “gamer”, too…
Yeah. Like I said.
Why not…try a new game? The fact that you somehow managed to suck 4 years of entertainment out of a $50 purchase and that that somehow, after those 4 years no longer amuses you should not be taken as any sort of fault with the hobby.
In fact, it kindof hurts my brain.