PoE1 has a bunch of problems of its own that PoE2 looks to alleviate, mainly feature-creep. It should be a good jumping-on point for new players.
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That's precisely why Blizzard is freaking out. PoE1 scared off too many casuals and normies, the core audience of Diablo 4, with how much shit there was and they felt they'd be jumping in late. PoE2 has a serious chance of taking a chunk of the normies away from Blizzard and that scares the fuck out of them.
Especially true since games like BG3 and Elden Ring have shown the general audience is a-ok with more complex games as long as they are relatively competently made. Turns out, games are fun when they don't treat their audience like they are completely brainless.
PoE1 is an amazing game. It's also a convoluted, incoherent mess of mechanics held together by ducttape.
A reminder that PoE2 was initially meant to be just a huge update within the bounds of PoE1's client, but eventually GGG just had to give up on it, because the amount of stuff they wanted to change and update wasn't allowing for that plan.
I'm far from fully sold on PoE2's combat yet, but all of the core systems look like they've been refined to near-perfection, losing the incoherence along the way.
A reminder that PoE2 was initially meant to be just a huge update within the bounds of PoE1's client, but eventually GGG just had to give up on it, because the amount of stuff they wanted to change and update wasn't allowing for that plan.
I'm far from fully sold on PoE2's combat yet, but all of the core systems look like they've been refined to near-perfection, losing the incoherence along the way.
Isn't this the guy who tanked Gears of War. What does he work for Blizzard now. Wait its all Microsoft isn't it.
Wake me up when MS releases anything worth playing (ok, maybe black ops 6 but aaaaah)
Hack N Slash was essentially stolen by 3D Brawler esk games like God Of War for how much hacking and slashing you do.
It's not path of exile unless it refuses to run for 20% of players for no discernible reason.
And that 20% is still having more fun than if they were playing Diablo 3 or 4.
PoE in general has a problem where it pretends to be a fun free game, but then makes you pay $300 for stash tabs to make the game actually playable.
As someone not playing POE who's friend recently convinced him to give 4 a chance I have to agree, not playing POE is more fun than playing D4.
Remember folks, D4 Bad.
The combat was janky but you could get into the flow of it okay. The world once you got out of Velen's mudhole was great. The middle parts of the plot were good, even if everything past the point of no return was meh. Hearts of Stone was a big improvement on the base game, and Blood & Wine was peak. Both made big strides in terms of both writing and cinematography.
Eh 1's combat kills the fun for me too much even if the "bosses" were fun.The Witcher 1 > The Witcher 3 > The Witcher 2.
Fight me, nerds
1's combat was the only one I could tolerate because it was the same system as KOTOR and NWN instead of the terrible, floaty action RPG jank of 2 and 3.
Sony just announced that the PS2's record is 160 million units. So they just randomly added 5 million more units, as it was at 155 million units while Nintendo announced earlier this month that the Switch has just hit 146 million units. At the rate Nintendo is going, they likely would have broke 155 million units around Q2 (September) next year. With this 5 million added on, that's going to let Sony hold onto the record for another 6-9 months.
Unironcally this. The Witcher 1 might have had terrible gameplay but it's quest design and story were great. Basically it's Dragon Age 2 if DA2 wasn't rushed (and apparently made by tards).The Witcher 1 > The Witcher 3 > The Witcher 2.
Fight me, nerds
I'm glad that the third game exists though because I remember all the dick riding of 2 which was like a really janky version of Arkham Asylum. It's like RPG nerds, come back to me after playing Batman or Sleeping Dogs. (Id argue that Sleeping Dogs had a better story too, the concept of having an entirely different Act 2 in the Witcher 2 depending on your choices was neat but id be damned if I was asked to remember something about it's story)
That's terrific. How does this change the fact that playstation 5 has no games and the switch is a dodgy underpowered crappy handheld and we would be much better off having a real console and a portable, separate.
because buying one system is a Win not a loss. i get people like to shit on nintendo but the switch being portable is the weirdest thing to mock it for and still it's major selling point for a lot of people.
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