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

submitted 4 weeks 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] 13 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Might be a hot take, but Mass Effect 2.

I love Mass effect, despite its flaws, but Mass Effect 2 was the game that derailed the series and basically forced Mass Effect 3 to have an unsatisfactory ending. So many concepts from Mass Effect 1 like the cipher, visions, Virgil, the Thorian were completely abandoned in favor of one giant video game length side mission. Sure the suicide mission was kind of cool, but at the end of Mass Effect 2 we learned almost nothing about the reapers from the last game.

But Cerberus is by far the worst mistake. From Shepard's POV, they literally witnessed Cerberus do grotesque, inhumane experiments throughout ME1 only a month before game start but the writers forced us to join these space Nazis. Cerberus is comically evil and is constantly doing cartoon villain experiments. Also, the space Nazis somehow have it in their hearts to spend billions of credits so that Shepard can save humanity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The main writer of ME dropped off during the writing of ME2 and they abandoned a lot of his ideas.

I loved the ME trilogy, but after ME1 it really wasn’t about the themes and ideas, just the characters.

Also looking back they’re some of the most lib propaganda games ever like jeez

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I cosign this hot take 100%. All these years later ME1 is the only entry in the trilogy I can replay start to finish.

Hotter take: I've never even played ME3 because ME2 was such an off putting slog.