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viewmaster_pi posted...

sad to say it, but i agree with people saying 2's a disappointment, Dark Arisen's better, etc. the game has been a massive timesink, and i found myself asking why i'm playing, and not having an answer besides sunk cost. without even knowing it, a quest in battahl took me right to the end of the game, so i loaded a previous save, but now i'm just sitting here like, what the fuck do i do now? just backtrack and wander around for hours, hoping there's at least a couple more late-game quests i didn't miss? what's the point? just to get a couple pieces of gear that are worse than what you can buy at the last shop before the boss? where were all the cool dungeons like the first game had? i explored plenty, nothing fucking happens in the game world, no quests take you on a big adventure, you just walk from one city to another, over and over until the game ends

and then there's the endgame area. it's fucking timed. run out of time, start new game+ automatically, no new content, shotgun through the main quest, start the timed endgame, run out of time, automatically start new game+, shotgun through the main quest, etc etc. there's no point

Nah. Ive been having a blast just roaming around the world and exploring. The world has been far more engaging here than it ever was in the first game. The story is also, at least so far, about what I expected after how lackluster it was in the first. The only legitimate complaints Ive seen thus far have been the odd choices of monsters not to includeafter they said they went all outand some of the very odd choices with vocations (breaking some up, not bringing others back, etc.).

Other than thatits more of the same. Did you just expect more given the limitations of game design at the time of the first?