[spoiler][quote]Convince me otherwise. (Pro tip: You can't.)[/quote] [i]This opening line has apparently left many people jaded or tilted, which defeats the mood of the rest of the post, which is just a wistful, emotional response to gauge my general mood now that I've retried D2 on PC. Leave it to everyone on here to take offense and get butthurt when I use a meme format from imgur to break the ice. But at the same time, screw your self-inflamed keyboard warrior selves who can't help but take offense to something that isn't even itself an offensive remark. No wonder this place is always vitriol. To those of you who can't tell: This is obviously emotional feedback. Yes, some of you are clever enough to discredit emotional feedback under the term "nostalgia," but that's not an argument. The truth is there is no counter argument here except an emotional response that has the exact opposite response, which I'm sure many of you are more than capable (and willing) to make if you so choose. A person's emotional response to a game is triggered by certain factors. Yes, there are obviously things I didn't like about D1, but that game never went so far down the wrong rabbit hole as D2. I hadn't been pushed away from D1 like I had with D2, as you can see by how little I play it in comparison, so making the argument that it's just nostalgia is weak. The fact is, there were reasons I played the game way more than D2, and thus I promote D1 style game design over D2 purely on that basis. What's funny though is that shouldn't be seen as an attack on D2. It is, by and large, a D1 clone. But there is something critical missing or made different, and as much as I the player try to gauge what it could be, it's very difficult. I thought it was the FoV changes, but now I've tried it on PC and still feel alienated by the game. I can't definitively come out and say that it's x or y. That it's about reward vs. incentive, moments of power, etc. I can only narrow it down to how the controls feel comparatively. All I can say is, without a doubt, D1 hit the nail on the head where D2 was like a horseshoe that got close. I do not get the same output in D2 that I got from my input in D1, and that enough is the wedge that drives me apart. It has fundamentally ruined the game despite any quality of life improvements or rewards vs. investment ratios that can be properly gauged, measured and compared, etc. It doesn't matter to me that content got better or the game got prettier if there's that underlying problem where I feel like I'm not playing the same game because the controls are not quite as analogous as I would've hoped considering how well received D1's gameplay was overall.[/i][/spoiler] Does anyone else ever wish they could go back to D1 pre-Special Ammo nerf? I really wish I could go back. The gameplay was some of the best. The content, while not perhaps the most challenging, was grandiose and fulfilling. D2 feels like a watered down emulation with the occasional throwback, reference, etc. I don't know what's in store, but I'll never NOT wish for a revival of D1 style gameplay. I'll never NOT wish they hadn't pseudo-retconned lore, scrapped/rewrote the plot, etc. or whatever dumpster fire happened between D1 and D2's development direction and design, etc. It's been awhile since I've been around here, but it seems like the mood is always the same: Few actually hold this game in as high an esteem as the first, if they even admit to liking D1. I wish I could have the old vision for Destiny back at the helm. Those really were some of the best times. I doubt another game will ever be able to hit that same honeypot that D1 managed to.