Originally Posted by Energize

There's a variety of different ways to leveling in 2D games, whilst in 3D games it's almost always the same. Plus developers can get plenty of different features which 3D games can't have.

For example; Maple story wasn't so great when it first started it was kill this, kill that, now it has different paths of which one can level.

The downside about 2D games are definitely the community in my opinion. I find alot of immature/anti-newb people.