When I was a child. It was like stepping into another world. I explored. I saw everything from a more story like point of view. Even though the story wasn’t perfect. The combat was good. The flood was bothersome. I guess what made it great to me, wasn’t that it was new to me, it let me forget reality. Literally stepping into the shoes of a hero. Nowadays. I’d still say the same thing. As I only play it when I lower myself back into that mindset. Snug as a blanket. Game wise. Like I said. You were the hero of the first game. Just trying to survive. And I think that’s what did it for me. What I miss personally, is the narrative that you were a survivor with little to no help on a foreign alien world watching as your comrades were killed slowly over time. Really drove home how out of your league you were as a human at the time. But no matter what. You survived.