Link to teaser compilation.

Trailer:

Edrein wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2023 at 10:13pm:


POE's "role"-playing is fucking terrible for sure.

Gotta pay for those cosmetics! I think I spent $100 to get:
Celestial Eye of Winter
Celestial Frostblink
Celestial Herald of Ice
Then some bollucks other MTX for the character itself. The Aesir supporter pack IIRC.

And then a league later they took away eye of winter's shotgunning interaction with hydrosphere making the skill dead.

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Some pointless yapping...



POE has the best systems in any game I've played. Only thing to criticize is that you must follow a build guide because the complexity is simply too high. I've always been comfortable with spreadsheet gameplay but most people are not. Thankfully their Streamer/Youtube community is one of the best so getting good builds is easy.

Aesthetics it gets like a 7/10. POE 2 looks like they'll be pushing up to a 9/10.
Music has always been a 10/10 for me.

Monster design is like a 5/10. It's not boring MMO garbage but it's not something interesting like Dark Souls monsters. Boss design is really hit or miss. Uber Elder is an amazing and fun fight. Shaper/Atziri were pretty good. I enjoy all the Expedition bosses even though they are a bit over tuned. I was not a fan of any of the bosses since Maven came out, and Maven itself is a dogshit fight. Thankfully it looks like POE 2 will slow down gameplay significantly. This might make the game DOA for many of the older fans, but I don't give a fuck. I'm so sick of blowing up screens full of monsters at once. POE at the moment is a lawn-mowing simulator as my bud Asan once remarked.

The game is crack-cocaine for the first 2000 hours---or however long it takes to master the systems---after that the game is pretty awful in a weird way. I haven't been able to play it for more than a week each league since Scourge league, but I think their release quality dropped significantly. Everyone was really hyped about the atlas skill tree but honestly I'm not really a fan of it.

Looks like POE 2 will be emulating Elden Ring boss / monster design.

The demo looks really fun. A bunch of people are complaining about it being too slow, but honestly I'm okay with that.

Shinyshoes wrote on Jul 29^th, 2023 at 6:19pm:


It looks like they are seperating the games now completely. Too many changes to the combat system and "feel of the game." Wise IMO given how hard on people were for WOW classic.

New game has legitimate action combat. Talkin like dodge, animation canceling, proper monster attack telegraphing.

I'm a little worried that this will be like Guild Wars 1 to Guild Wars 2. Action combat will mean a shift in audience.