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Edited by OrGAN1K:
9/24/2017 3:48:13 PM
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What is actually new in D2?? (Rant warning)
So ive come to a few conclusions (somewhat unfounded but they feel accurate) about this game:
Re-skins... re-skins EVERYWHERE!
Im not just talking about weapons/armour... even the planets are reskins!
Think about it, D1 had four locations to visit, so does D2. Titan's playable size is VERY similar to the size of the moon in D1. Earth is a re-skin of... well, Earth, nessus looks a whole lot like venus (dont give me none of that "failsafe said..." crap) Io is a reskin of mars and the leviathan is a re-skinned dreadnaught.
Also its kinda funny how we've just forgotten those other four destinations ever existed in the universe. Will we ever go back to Venus?
So my question is this... what is actually new to the game? More particle effects (that look fake and janky) Yayyyy!
I loved D1 for all its faults and D2 is good but the amount of stuff thats been taken out is unreal. You dont take things out of a sequel unless they dont work. The things they have taken out like ammo synths or VENDORS ACTUALLY SELLING STUFF. ffs what were they thinking.
They patched up one hole but created 16 more in the process.
Also im just ranting now but WTF is this raid can you even call it a raid?? One boss, really... one boss! 3 years of dev and we get one raid boss... even if the dlc raid has 7 bosses it wont make up for how lazy this raid is. Which is a shame cuz the leviathan looks so good.
I await the inevitable forum hate with popcorn and sausage rolls. 😐
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If they would have included the moon and so on, people would have complained alot more i think. The new planets are far from reskins tho in my opinion. IO for example. The surface looks kinda boring yes, but what is underneath is breath taking. There is a strike that takes you through a door that looks alot like the door of VoG (i give you that one) and has to be opened almost the same by taking 2 syncplates but everything after that is really fantastic design. But if you look at nessus its the otherway around. What i do see as a reskin is what enemy's spawn on each planet. Earth is fallen and cabal. Second planets is titan with hive and fallen. Third is nessus with fallen, vex and a little bit of cabal. Last is IO with vex, cabal and taken. Compare that with D1 and we have earth with fallen and hive. Moon with fallen and hive. Venus with fallen and vex. And mars with cabal and vex and later on taken. I think the devs spended more time on the planets and how they look then on any other thing. There is not even a single new option in the character creation menu. Alot of this game is copy and paste. Others are a few small changes before paste it again. Because of that i am curious in 1 detail. For some it may seem like a weird question. But when did Bungie start on the development of D2? Was it during the 3 years off D1 or did they start after the age of triump or whatever it was called last april? Part of me hopes that they started in April this year because then it would be something impressive that have created. But if they started like 2 years ago.....
