For me it's Diablo II. Granted I've played my fair share of D2 since launch, and also recently on a private server with a comrade from hexbear, but I still feel like years later the game didn't grab me as much as D1 did.
Granted I don't hate D2, but for a game that I keep coming back to, D1 takes the prize.
The hubris was so cringe and oh boy once the Blizzard shit really hit the fan later, could not overlook that. Online friends had the energy to pester me for a year to come play the dragon expansion or whatever, but as a lass it all just became a huge 🤢.
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Agreed. And the visceral hate for Sylvanas that was very clear at least in the gamer dudes I was around was also always very sus.
I did try to play in Shadowlands for a bit. What an utter bore it was.
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Especially funny since in the original Warcraft 3 campaign she gets killed and revived as a ghost-like Banshee. Then in the expansion for the game she plays a bigger role in the story, so naturally the devs decided they had to retcon her to be a "sexy" undead elf after all. They were so close to accidentally having a non-sexualised female main character lol
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