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Path of Exile really?
filmoret
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I see this game come up a lot on the LFGame forums and just don't see how anyone plays it. You never would have figured that in today's gaming industry that a Diablo II clone would have any type of success. I admit that it was the best online game of its day, but that was all made possible by the fact that Everquest cost money to play. Is it just me but when i tried Path of Exile it made me want to vomit at the thought of Diablo II repeat with mindless slaughter of hordes of monsters. So what does this game give the players that Diablo did not and is it actually worth it when we got so many other games to play?
Are you onto something or just on something?
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I agree.
The PvE combat in PoE is much better than most, if not all MMO's I have played.
An RPG with fun combat and monster-killing?
It'll never work.
(Altough admittedly I haven't tried it yet, it's mostly because I figure it'll be another Torchlight 2 where the actual combat isn't as deep as Diablo 3 (especially due to the abundance of character customization.) Diablo 3's failures were mostly AH-related, being able to short-circuit gear upgrades with no Bind on Pickup system, and also failing to land you in a repeatable endgame where the challenges ramped up gradually along with the rewards.)
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
Which is why I like Torchlight 2. No need to be on the internet.
Yeah really.
Killing hordes of mobs is popular. Where have the OP been?
D3 has more success than most MMORPGs (when is the last one selling 12M boxes, except WOW?).
TL & TL2 is a success. There is plenty of market for Diablo type ARPGs.
It's the essence of the ARPG. Who really complains about running around killing monsters nonstop?
Also, the economy/crafting is unique, and the ways of customizing your character are very well done.
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Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
you don't get internet on your business trips? What kind of businses trip is that? Even my phone has that.
I wonder if they are making enough money to keep the game alive.
the strange no gold economy of this game killed it for me
The problem I have with path of exile is how very very slow the levelling gets near the end and just how very nasty the death penalty gets. I do not like the idea of playing a game for a full week or longer with the hopes of gaining a level.
People always say how slow the levelling was in Everquest, but really it was never as bad as most FTP grind games of the current day. I mean the worst I think EQ ever got was 2 blue in an hour and that was 8% of a level per hour. Things were even easier back before expansions. I used to want to get out of the long levels(35,40,45) and I would usually manage to grind them out in a single day.
I hope so. Not that I'm really a fan of poe, but it would be good to see some mmo's use their model rather than what's usually available(if it's at all succesfull).
I find it hard to believe you even played EQ in the early 2000's. I would solo a mob that was even con and the blue line wouldn't move. Soloing the mob would also take a very long time so good luck killing much in an hour. I'm guessing you never soloed in EQ.
POE slow leveling is the least of it's worries.
I hardly love the game like some do, but this is not true honestly. This game was generating interest long before D3 was released.
Nowhere near the interest it would have gotten otherwise. Had D3 not been such a fail, then that's what everybody would be playing. Almost every D3 whine thread contained somebody saying "I'm playing PoE instead" hell some of those threads were major advertisements for PoE
Many of the current POE players enjoyed D3 at release. It was the constant nerfing of the difficulty that killed D3.
I played D2 ALOT... and sorry. I just cant se where PoE is "like" D2...
If you are talking about hack and slahs ARPG, then yes.. they do look alike... but then there is ALOT of games like that.. torchlight... Titan quest... and so on.
Pleas tell me, where this game is like D2...
Saying PoE is like D2... is saying that DOOM 1 from the 90s is like BF4 from 2013... both are fps, so they are the same?