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What's a game you loved that got a sequel you came to dislike? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's Diablo II. Granted I've played my fair share of D2 since launch, and also recently on a private server with a comrade from hexbear, but I still feel like years later the game didn't grab me as much as D1 did.

Granted I don't hate D2, but for a game that I keep coming back to, D1 takes the prize.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Guild Wars 1 was a MMORPG-lite that had instanced territories outside of towns (and even those were instanced, albeit much larger) where you could take up to 8 people with you. Crucially, every class had about one thousand skills you could combine pretty freely and you could second class. You could do some DnD-Tier bullshit combinations of stats with those, given all the weird status effect thingies it gave you to play around with

And then Guild Wars 2 is just WoW

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I do like some GW2 but I totally understand. Hell of a game that was, wish I could find my account info lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm in the same boat, GW1 was my favourite as a kid, I put truly staggering hours into it and ruined my development probably

But GW2 just has zero charm. The Mesmer was my jam in GW1, with its broad build variety from high DPS to caster shutdown, whereas GW2 has them as a clunky melee/ranged hybrid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Mesmer was my jam in GW1

My man!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

gigachad-hd by the end of the game's lifespan I was one of the very few Mesmer primary players, and the only one in my guild. But with drip that good I couldn't not play it as primary class

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Did you know the severs are, inexplicably, still running?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Guild Wars was one of the only MMO's I didn't hate. It was a unique world, with cool as hell classes like Paragon in my favorite expansion. Then 2 just turned into standard high fantasy. A beautiful world to be sure, but I liked the flavor of the old one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I enjoy GW2 a lot but they really should've called it something else.