Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m back to my semi-regular return to The Division, this time the first game. I don’t know why this series clicked with me the way it did as I don’t really play these kind of looter shooters but for some reason I tend to come back to them every year or two.
I’m lucky enough I don’t care about min-maxing and number crunching so no matter the patch and balance I end up having a blast and that’s all that matters. Now if only we could get the first game on TD2’s engine…
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I also go back to the first The Division game every so often. The snow covered city is beautiful and one of my all time favourites.
The Division 2 is kind of meh in comparison.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I actually switch between the two depending on my mood. I really like the technical and (some of the) gameplay changes as they make the gameplay a bit more fun for me (especially everything that has to do with enemy armour) but story and atmosphere wise, as well as in terms of the map I definitely prefer the first game.
Heck, I’m even willing to run around the Dark Zone there unlike in the sequel where I popped in a few times and called it quits. It’s just not the same.
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I do like some of the mission locations in TD2, the weapon specialist roll and even the backpack charms but the city in general is very repetitive.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yep, the map and enemy factions are my main complaints with the second one as well. For me they just feel less like a natural continuation of the first game and more like a generic post-apocalyptic setting with TD flavour.
It sucks because the detail and design work on Washington is really great, it just doesn’t feel as good as a complete package.