Kinda sad what other people here are saying about POE 2

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RottenSausage#6164 wrote:

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matisto29#1060 wrote:

the difficulty gap from poe1 to poe2 is ridiculous i'm sorry it just is !

That's a good thing imo.

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POE 1 used to be ruthless 13 years ago, and thats exactly why I and thousands of others players pick it up instead of D3. 13 years of power creep later, the game is totaly different that what their vision was, according to GGG themselves.

Now that they have the opportunity for a start, and a different approach to the genre. Why not let them cook a more ruthless ''souls-like'' ARPG, that is different from poe 1? that way we'll have 2 great game to play.

The game is barely out and a lot of peoples (probably mostly poe1 zoomzoom andies) are crying that the game is too slow, too hard, not enough exalts drop so they cant buy why they want, blablabla...

PLZ GGG, release a poe 1 league asap so people go back to poe 1, reach max level in 3 days, got their OP multiple screen clear 600ms one shot boss mirror tier builds, and eploit game mechanics to farm mirrors. then quit the league after 2 weeks because the gameplay has become boring and mindless.

We have all done that for multiples years by now. It's time to move to something different, yet familiar. Can everyone stop trying to turn the ''souls-like'' game they want to make, into a ''diablo-like''.

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My problem largely is that right now PoE 2 isn't really either of the things it's trying to be. As someone who absolutely loves the Souls series and FromSoft games in general, it's like GGG never actually played any of them and instead just saw that people liked Elden Ring and that it was "hard" so they decided to just slap a dodge roll into the game and extra boss mechanics but then forgot to actually think about what they'd actually have to change to accommodate that; they grafted Souls-like ideas onto a PoE 1 shell without any of the backing philosophy that makes FromSoft games enjoyable.

In almost all of the souls games you're in control of how you engage enemies: you're generally always faster than them so you can always disengage a little to catch your breath, typically you're only fighting 2 or 3 at time. That just isn't the case in PoE 2, in my second map I spawned in and moved five feet and got nuked by 6 blowdart dudes at the edge of my screen.

In the Souls games if you die you just lost the souls you had on you, but if you can get back to where you died you get them all back and you've earned more; most importantly, I can simply just spend them on character levels or weapon upgrades anytime I'm getting close to having more than I'm comfortably losing so you can limit any loss significantly, constantly gain character power, and even regain what you lost on death. Totally opposite experience in PoE 2, lose the xp, lose the map, lose the bonuses on the node, everything on the ground. If you're lucky you managed to do some looting before you died so you're not entirely empty handed.

Looking at the map design it's like they decided to make Dark Souls 2 which widely has always been the communities least favorite, many would even say it's awful. In many ways it's specifically because it's all tight corridors with higher than typical mob density and a bunch of "ah ha, surprise!" mob attacks. No one thought it was enjoyable at the time and it still isn't, it's simply frustrating which is why they moved away from it's prevalence in later games.

Honestly there's too much that bugs me with the comparing PoE 2 to any of the Souls games. I mean, both of the more difficult ones in the series Sekiro and Bloodborne essentially did away with the RPG elements entirely so they could do the difficulty more fairly and you could focus on just doing the mechanics.

I get that it's early access but even the just the foundation makes it seem like GGG hasn't learned anything from PoE 1, let alone understand anything about what makes aspects of the Souls genre work and feel like an enjoyable time.