"I enjoy feeling awesome, nearly every enemy just falls in awe of my kick ass skills." Doesn't this become a fantasy within a fantasy though? I can empathise with it as i put a decent amount of time into playing a destroyer in Torchlight... it was just fun to PLAY so i played it. Its a hollow experience though, its pretty…
yeah, i have zero insider experience, my judgement entirely comes from observations like that. Virtually without fail, if a sequel is bad, or just missing the spirit of the original, somebody changed teams or the developers give interviews/postmortems that describe what went wrong (deus ex: IW, etc) The same thing holds…