The developers who made Terraria contemplated on a Terraria 2 and they were faced with the decision; continue developing Terraria as is or just try to make a Terraria 2.
Seems like they’ve instinctively chosen to keep supporting Terraria as is, because what can you do with a Terraria 2? When so many ideas and creations have been poured into one game? It sounded like Terraria 2 was going to be the same.
Well… They did try to make Terraria Otherworld, but that game got cancelled and they fell back into supporting Terraria because it keeps printing money.
The reason Hytale exists is and is popular is because outside of exploration (and creative mode) Minecraft kinda sucks. The combat is boring, the enemy variations (including bosses) are pretty limited, the survival element is trivialized within the first hour of the game, the progression is weird (to put it nicely). There’s so much to improve over Minecraft that something like Hytale or Vintage Story (which goes so far in the other direction that a comparison with Minecraft or Hytale becomes pointless) can exist.
The same isn’t true for Terraria. Terraria has taken its originally simplistic combat and turned it into something relatively deep with different classes all with their own unique twist to combat. The enemy variations are through the roof with not only different types of enemies depending on the biome but also depending on your progression. And the progression is the core of the game. The reason to play is to get good gear to beat a strong boss to get better gear to beat even stronger bosses. And finally there’s variety in building, automation and fishing. Terraria is a far more complete game than Minecraft which is why you’re never going to see the Hytale of Terraria.
Terraria does its thing so well you can’t just take everything Terraria does and do it better. You can only take things Terraria does well and do something different with it, like Core Keeper, Don’t Starve or Valheim. If you try to take everything Terraria does but do it bigger and better you’re going to end up with Starbound.
In comparison, starbound feels soooooooooo dire of content.
The races being just a different skin felt so lazy. I thought there would be at least food bonuses.
Funnily enough, starbound is also 1.4.5, but the whole changelog from 1 is lesser than Terrarias last update.
No individual update seemed like a justification for a new run.
But CS2 is basically Global Offensive. They “just” ported it over to the new engine. All items were kept and you didn’t need to buy your items again, as it is the same account. Overwatch 2 on the other hand changed the entire formula (5v5 instead 6v6) and introduced lot of new game types and modes. So it’s not exactly the same situation. Having said this, I wish Valve would have created a new game id and store page for the new version of the game. Such a shame.
It is kinda hard to call yourself a sequel when you’re basically the same exact game and literally the original game doesn’t even exist anymore.
I do not like that I paid for Overwatch 1 but now only have Overwatch 2.
The developers who made Terraria contemplated on a Terraria 2 and they were faced with the decision; continue developing Terraria as is or just try to make a Terraria 2.
Seems like they’ve instinctively chosen to keep supporting Terraria as is, because what can you do with a Terraria 2? When so many ideas and creations have been poured into one game? It sounded like Terraria 2 was going to be the same.
Well… They did try to make Terraria Otherworld, but that game got cancelled and they fell back into supporting Terraria because it keeps printing money.
What if someone made the hytale of terraria?
The reason Hytale exists is and is popular is because outside of exploration (and creative mode) Minecraft kinda sucks. The combat is boring, the enemy variations (including bosses) are pretty limited, the survival element is trivialized within the first hour of the game, the progression is weird (to put it nicely). There’s so much to improve over Minecraft that something like Hytale or Vintage Story (which goes so far in the other direction that a comparison with Minecraft or Hytale becomes pointless) can exist.
The same isn’t true for Terraria. Terraria has taken its originally simplistic combat and turned it into something relatively deep with different classes all with their own unique twist to combat. The enemy variations are through the roof with not only different types of enemies depending on the biome but also depending on your progression. And the progression is the core of the game. The reason to play is to get good gear to beat a strong boss to get better gear to beat even stronger bosses. And finally there’s variety in building, automation and fishing. Terraria is a far more complete game than Minecraft which is why you’re never going to see the Hytale of Terraria.
Terraria does its thing so well you can’t just take everything Terraria does and do it better. You can only take things Terraria does well and do something different with it, like Core Keeper, Don’t Starve or Valheim. If you try to take everything Terraria does but do it bigger and better you’re going to end up with Starbound.
Calamity
I mean, there’s already Starbound…
In comparison, starbound feels soooooooooo dire of content.
The races being just a different skin felt so lazy. I thought there would be at least food bonuses.
Funnily enough, starbound is also 1.4.5, but the whole changelog from 1 is lesser than Terrarias last update. No individual update seemed like a justification for a new run.
Counter-Strike would like a word.
You can still play the old counterstrike games
But not Global Offensive.
Global Offensive is still playable (at least the core gameplay) in the csgo_legacy branch of CS2 on Steam.
I don’t like CS2 either; but Global Offensive had already killed CS for me long before it was converted to CS2.
In their defense, counter strike 1.5 and 1.6 existed. Condition zero as 1.7, source as 1.8, GO as 1.9 and now we are finally at two. 🤷♂️
Also, updating to the Source 2 engine, yea?
You can still play the og and cs source???
Thousands still play
You can play 1.5, 1.6, Conditon Zero, and Source.
You can’t play Global Offensive anymore, afaik. It did the same thing OW2 did, getting replaced entirely by CS2.
But CS2 is basically Global Offensive. They “just” ported it over to the new engine. All items were kept and you didn’t need to buy your items again, as it is the same account. Overwatch 2 on the other hand changed the entire formula (5v5 instead 6v6) and introduced lot of new game types and modes. So it’s not exactly the same situation. Having said this, I wish Valve would have created a new game id and store page for the new version of the game. Such a shame.
I believe CS:GO is still available through a beta branch of CS:2 but that the remaining custom servers are mostly empty.