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I'm a person who can still enjoy something after experiencing it for the umpteenth time. Listening to the same song for the tenth time in the same day, watching the same movie or T.V shows for the hundredth time, replaying a game more times than I can count.
I'm a creature of habit, and while I want to blame that on my being human, there are many people who crave change, so I know it's my upbringing.

I played Dungeon Siege II first at the age of... well I don't recall, but I'm pretty sure I was in the single digits.
It started on visits with my mum to her boyfriend's place, where he had this old PC and the only thing on it was a copy of Diablo II. And every time I went over, I'd play the hell out of it. I was crazy for it. (That, and brief forerays over to the Xbox to play Serious Sam)
A while later, after he moved elsewhere and I didn't visit for a while, I found he had a new gaming PC and I saw playing DSII and thought, hey, that looks right up my alley. So he let me play it all day whenever we came over. And I did exactly that. Every time we went over, while they would watch movies I'd be playing DSII.
"Hey, want to come watch Nacho Libre with us? You like Jack Black."
Dungeon Siege.
"Want to come watch the new Superman?"
Dungeon Siege.
"Are you even still alive?"
Dungeon Siege.

Of course, my being a child and such, I never got past the gates of Aman'lu before we stopped going there, although they didn't actually break up until a while later (But who gives a crap about that. Dungeon Siege!) and t'was around Christmas the next time we went over. We didn't stay long enough for me to get any gaming in, but he did apparently have a gift for me. He handed me a copy of Dungeon Siege, the 3-disc set that includes Legends of Aranna. The same set I have to this day. (My, the folding case is worn out from the number of times I needed the discs)
I was a little disappointed not to have gotten DSII, as that's the one I was most familiar with, but I was still eager to play the original. And so I did.
And it was literally the only PC game I played for years.

I completed the adventures it had in store 5, 6, 7 times. Having to stop often as my mum wanted me to play with actual toys like children do, or perhaps go outside like children do.
But I'd always come back. I recall my particular favorite scenes being on the beach where you first meet Tajj, all the way to the Utraean city.
I didn't even know the internet was a thing until Youtube came around, and it wasn't until shortly after that I found Dungeon Siege had expansions. I still never found out about mods until I came to this site a few years ago, though. Never thought to look for it, I suppose?

Eventually I managed to get a copy of DSII from a torrent my dad's friend was nice enough to find and decrypt for me. Or whatever you do with torrents. I managed to complete the game once, before my laptop was all virus'd up from myspace. So I had to wipe the drive, and my dad's friend never had the time, or never remembered, to find that torrent again.

So then I downloaded the Demo from the main site, playing through the opening campaign and milking as much experience as I possibly could from boarbeasts just to see what Windstone Armor looked like again at level 20.

Fast forward.. what, a year or two? I've lost count now. And I finally find a copy of Dungeon Siege II.... Broken World. And there it sat for a few months, taunting me with it's hidden adventures while I tried to get a copy of DSII alone. And when I finally did... Nostalgia run me through like a Spear with a ton of bricks on one end, and a bunch of other analogies.
So I played that forever.
Then I find this site.
And even though by now my tastes have expanded far beyond Dungeon Siege, it wasn't that way for a VERY long time. (I think until Skyrim came out. So until 11/11/11 the only games I really played was Dungeon Siege II, Fable, Kingdom hearts, Bully, and Halo. Sounds like a lot... isn't really.)

I still play it because it's an excellent game that, while not too difficult, kicks your arse if you stop paying attention too long. (Moreso with the monster level adjust) It has a vibrant world, beautiful style, and a story that... well I know it's generic and not terribly deep, but I love it.
On top of that, I think my enjoyment of RP and drawing and writing stems from Dungeon Siege, being the original Fantasy RPG for me.

Yea.