(I'll employ the use of spoilers to make the post smaller)
It's been a while since I enjoyed D2, I started during free November with Forsaken and decided to try it out.
I had seen the Taken King (or Rise of Iron, I forget) DLC in GameStop a year or so ago (from when I started playing) and thought the armor looked sick. If I had the base game I would've bought it but that was... above [i]little me's[/i] price range...
I really enjoyed the designs of armor and guns and the class system was fun. I like RPGs that allow customization and cutscenes, so I stuck with it.
Edit: Also the music was nice. I could sleep to it, so it passed.
It was my favorite for a while. Even after Battlefield 1 (my first FPS) and Battlefront 2 (I love the clone wars era) mainly cause of how shiny it seemed to me.
Little rant ahead about why I stopped.
[spoiler]Skip ahead and we reach the beginning of the [i]SEASON PASS[/i]!! I had no problem using birthday money on the DLCs, but when I need to pay for extra story (I look for story in games.) that goes away basically permanently in 3 or 4 months? That's too much. Especially when I don't have the time on weekends and end up missing out.
And when Beyond Light came out, I didn't have the money or time to spend on it and ended up just loosing interest.
At the same time I had found Dark Souls 3 at 75% off along with its DLCs at discount too. It cost me essentially the price of a D2 expansion, but I played that sucker for 100 hours or so. Needless to say, I love FromSoft's games.
Edit: also I could sleep to the boss music, so it passed. I recommend Epilogue, the DS3 credits. Angelic. One of the first game credits I sat entirely through even though it was just text on a black screen. That says a lot.
[i][quote]Opinion: Bloodborne has the best atmosphere/lore and combat imo, even with Elden Ring, though ER has better QoL mostly due to the years of experience and still has DLCs coming so it still has a chance until Bloodborne 2 stomps on its neck.[/quote][/i]
I tried D2 one more time later on after Beyond Light, played a match of Crucible, got frozen, and decided to put it down for at least a year. I was mostly ticked about having to pay for another subclass.
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Conclusion to Bungo game section:
I don't regret playing or stopping when I did. I enjoyed my time and preserved my good memories with the game when I quit and moved on to Souls-likes.
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Forum wise, for the first year of playing D2 and getting the companion app, I never really touched the forums.
Pops didn't like me talking to strangers on the Internet when I was little (good idea, kids talk too much) and so the habit stuck.
I also didn't see the appeal of forums since I've only seen the big sunbforums where you only post dumb questions with messy titles then leave. I used wiki's instead.
So I mainly used the app to fix inventory or check out the gallery for art. There's some goodies.
[b]Extra stuff:[/b][spoiler] about the account, I chose the cabal pfp cause it was funny and the closest I could find to a pig... not many options. The name is, to quickly summarize, because of a Minecraft skin I used mixed with my first ever username, the two is cause someone already thought of it on Google. The status is not cause of Xronad (though I learned about that shortly after), but because I just wanted to give some people cookies for good posts and it was a gimmick for some time (until I realized I'm gonna eventually forget to copy paste the same thing on every post).[/spoiler]
One day I checked the forums, clicked [i]#OffTopic[/i] and saw people talking about...
Porches.
[i]Weirdos.[/i]
A year later I think, 2019, July 4th I checked OffTopic again cause I was dragged to a party that day and couldn't play D2 (the horror). In my boredom I saw some neat posts with RP or just to celebrate Independence Day, and decided to post as well. Turns out the folks aren't too weird.
That's where I learned about this little community that was built in the shadow of the Salt Mines. I liked it. It was small enough to remember people and have an identity, but big enough that it didn't feel abandoned. At the time...
I decided to stay. I basically checked in everyday since (maybe not healthy), participating in a number of RP posts, eating popcorn during drama, pPpoll, porch posting, etc.
Conclusion to forum section:
[spoiler]I consider myself lucky to have witnessed this subforum when RP posts were a bit more prominent, and the [b][i]New[/i][/b] section had enough traffic to bury yesterday's posts for pages, let alone last week's.
I even started a small series of sketch posts. A bit proud of that. Kinna having a lazy moment though. I'll find something to post soon, I did some oil painting last month.[/spoiler]
And I still type more than I intend to... fudge.
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SparkleGuy*dying in the furnace known as AZ* - old
I'm in a decently similar place as you, concerning the forums. Don't talk to no strangers, I was told. I was like, yeah, I don't want to anyways 😂 Main difference seems to be it's only been a year for me on this forum (or any really, I hate social media) lol