I might be a POE shill but god the Graphics and Animations in D4 makes POE look like Trash

For all the sheitting I do on D4 and Blizzard and all the praising I do of POE in the end I still have to admit as fun as POE is the graphics but not really graphics the Animations and character model / rig in POE is just down right VOMIT INDUCING to even look at.


That Rogue and Barbarian animation in D4 is beyond god like.
The way how they move so majestic every piece of bone animates.

With POE now being owned by tencent they had better be able to produce Animations in POE 2 that can compete with D4.
GGG can't be taking people's money and not producing anything to show for it.
It is time for GGG to stop claiming to being indie and admit this game makes billion of dollars.

It is time for POE to once and for all start competing with AAA studios.

There is no excuse for POE character models and animations to look this disgusting in this day and age. It looks worse than a PS2 game, I hope GGG can deliver with that update soon or just release POE 2 already

Meh, anyone serious about games know by hearth that graphics dont mean shit after 15 minutes. Its a freaking serious problem the attention the average gamer gives to how pretty it looks as its pushing the industry to invest on graphics over gameplay

Remember the era back when being creative was more important than looking pretty? The games from sega genesis and snes look garbage but the classic platformers are still a godlike experience even compared to many modern games that look like movies, despite being very simple games. The steam is full of indie games that look minimalistic but still are worth more of your time than most AAAs: rimworld, baba is you and west of loathing to name a few

But them, overvaluating prettiness is a problem with society in general i guess...


(and really, you dont need D4 to put poe in the dirt: D3 already looked better and techically speaking, poe is such a processor and RAM vampire that its actually hard to name a game that is worse. As good poe is as a game, between how it needs a rig dozens of time faster than ones that can run D3 in ultra just to not lag in the character select, and the way its almost as random as the loot how well it will run after each expansion; Poe its a freaking epic dumpster fire as a program)

The game looks really bad from the beta footage i saw streamed today. Poor UI design. Boring gameplay due to levels being extremely linear. Skills are not flashy and dont feel like they have impact. Weird sharpness although its player adjustable. Game has this grey pallet to everything that looks super weird.

Also the camera is super weird. They managed to make the game simultaneously look too zoomed in and zoomed out at the same time because the camera is actually zoomed in too much but character and enemy models are small and look like ants.

Shame. PoE desperately needed competition because this game is so bad since the 3.13 and 3.14 patches but oh well. I guess GGG is free to reign without making good decisions, content, balance changes, etc.

Graphics? Animations? Audio? Seem VERY on point, indeed. Still think the art style is too 'cartoony', though - too "round", if that makes sense, but several steps up from Diablo 3. Anyhow, graphics or art style aren't the (only) reasons why Diablo 3 was/is bad in my eyes. But it seems like Diablo 4 is righting a lot of wrongs when it comes to gameplay and depth. It is quite interesting.

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TheAshmaker wrote:

The game looks really bad from the beta footage i saw streamed today. Poor UI design. Boring gameplay due to levels being extremely linear. Skills are not flashy and dont feel like they have impact. Weird sharpness although its player adjustable. Game has this grey pallet to everything that looks super weird.

Also the camera is super weird. They managed to make the game simultaneously look too zoomed in and zoomed out at the same time because the camera is actually zoomed in too much but character and enemy models are small and look like ants.

Shame. PoE desperately needed competition because this game is so bad since the 3.13 and 3.14 patches but oh well. I guess GGG is free to reign without making good decisions, content, balance changes, etc.

I played the Beta D4 today the game looks incredible in person, those video streams are garbage bit rate quality.

This is an ARPG top down isometric and to really see what it looks like and plays like you have to do it in person.

IMO the D4 experience is sub par at best the skill tree while resembles POE is a joke in comparison, it is better than D3 but anything is better than D3.
The removal of D4 runewords is a HUGE slap in the face and I am already regretting it I think the game will ultimately be trash in the face of POE as nothing can compete with POE.

HOWEVER it does NOT excuse the fact that GGG has made billions of dollars and we still have NOT received the updated character model and animations that we once saw in POE 2.

Also it is a shame that while POE 2 animations are a big improvement over POE it still isn't anywhere near as good as D4 but I will take what I get from GGG

hoho vomit inducing good one.

Not impressed. It's OK, but looks like they took D3 and just slapped on a new coat of paint, and maybe added some lacquer. Where I really do not like t, it's in the UI department.....WTF is that abomination?

Yeah, I'll stick to Last Epoch and PoE for a while longer.

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TriniGamer wrote:

HOWEVER it does NOT excuse the fact that GGG has made billions of dollars and we still have NOT received the updated character model and animations that we once saw in POE 2.

Err... source?

Pardon my eventual ignorance, but GGG feels, in my eyes, just a small indie developer with a single title on its belt, one that only appeals a rather niche population

I find these rather frequent claims on this forum that GGG is past being a small fish developer rather puzzling tbh... I mean, GGG only have one title, and its a game that have atrocious optimization and its rather unknown outside dungeon-crawlers enthusiasts

Yes, i know there are developers on asia that thrives on a single title, but those are predatory p2w with money-making design that enables whales to spend enough to buy a house every week, the business model coudnt be any more different from GGG. I know people claim poe is p2w, but these people clearly never touched a mobile game that is legit p2w. Anybody who game any of such games a shot knows theres a MASSIVE diference between poe and the average, legit, p2w mobile, comparing GGG to those developers is... well... current blizzard is legit closer to them than GGG...

I am ambivalent about D4 so far. The graphics are better than D3 and there is a darker feel but I feel like I am playing Diablo Immortal or another free MMORPG. I have only played through level 12 since I have been booted twice and had to wait hours to get back in but I am questioning the decision to buy it. I know they were going for an open world concept but the underlying storyline seems to get lost in the world.

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