Finally uninstalled PoE2... the wave of relief is crazy!

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FaZe_Midian#2894 wrote:

Feeling amazing already!

It was like a terribly unrewarding mold of all the worst parts of PoE 1 , mixed with all the worst parts of Elder Ring and Souls games, mixed with zero loot, mixed with horrible oversized maps that have maybe 1-2 dense fighting areas per 30 minute map clear.

Just because a game is tedious and slow doesn't mean it was challenging. If that was true, everyone would just be sitting and playing the original Zelda on NES because it's a B*** to play (although I'd rather play that because it has lore and atmosphere).

Only diehard streamer fans and players who have dissolved their brains playing TikTok videos could enjoy this game in its current state.

Also...
The graphics are great, but some things you can't just 'produce' by strongarming money into them. PoE 2 has no soul or lore at all. The main female explorer character whose name is so forgettable I already forgot it, if you zoom in, has a 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' metal helm with 3 huge feathers shoved inside of it under the metal. That's not lore, that's just goofy.

Act 3 is literally Act 2 from PoE 1 copy pasted and changed a little. I laughed out loud when I realized I was basically in Vaal Pyramids except laid flat down with the Soul Stones part.

They had the option to come up with some amazing cool areas and floundered completely. Like... WEVE ALREADY SEEN JUNGLE AND SAND DUNE ACTS BEFORE! It's patronizing. Also, Act 1 should've just been Act 3 since it had a much more demonic and dark feel to it.

The boss ideas are cool at first, until you realize you're stuck in the boss fight for 10-20 minutes unless you chose one of the better classes.


Not to mention, the game simply runs terribly on a lot of different computers. I can run every other game on Ultra or High @ 4k, and this game I'm getting low FPS and 100% CPU usage even though I'm sitting in the main menu still.

Maybe the game eventually 'gets there', but at this point I hope they just cash grab and rugpull PoE 2 and go back to PoE 1. The devs have definitely lost all my respect and I will never willingly spend another dime on a GGG product.

And lets not even get into the fact they just recycled some of the worst content from PoE1 and bragged about it being 'new end game systems'!. Breach is boring. Digging/explosions is boring. No new systems at all, just copy pasted stuff from PoE1.

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FaZe_Midian#2894 wrote:

The devs have definitely lost all my respect and I will never willingly spend another dime on a GGG product.

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Crankalot#3230 wrote:

PoE1 had the same type of rough start I've heard, the game might be superb in 10 years xD

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FaZe_Midian#2894 wrote:

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They had the option to come up with some amazing cool areas and floundered completely. Like... WEVE ALREADY SEEN JUNGLE AND SAND DUNE ACTS BEFORE! It's patronizing. Also, Act 1 should've just been Act 3 since it had a much more demonic and dark feel to it.
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Echothesis#7320 wrote:

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FaZe_Midian#2894 wrote:

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They had the option to come up with some amazing cool areas and floundered completely. Like... WEVE ALREADY SEEN JUNGLE AND SAND DUNE ACTS BEFORE! It's patronizing. Also, Act 1 should've just been Act 3 since it had a much more demonic and dark feel to it.
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Do you not realize how hard are they trying to clone D2 vibes here?:) Act 1 - dark desolate late autumn fields, act 2 - desert and middle east, act 3 - jungle and ruins. We even have scrolls of wisdom and gambling vendors, lol.

Thing is, D2 is ...ing 25 years old, people who love and buy it unconditionally may already be physically incapable to play carefully preserved rippy endgame mess from poe1. I really fail to understand GGG's eternal fascination with D2. It was novel in its time, but now all the things they keep copying are just outdated due to terrible player QoL: manual loot pickup, small inventory, identifying items, artificial trade, exp penalty, even shared loot replication in party. Modern arpg did away with all these features already.

Add to it that D2 at least had class-build parity, in poe its impossible to balance bloated build system (despite attempted simplification in poe2), we already have familiar picture of meta builds clearing faster in trash gear than other builds clear in multiple div gear.

Objectively poe project floats mostly by nostalgia and fanaticism, so you will see same things over and over, otherwise it won't be that poe anymore.

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FaZe_Midian#2894 wrote:

Only diehard streamer fans and players who have dissolved their brains playing TikTok videos could enjoy this game in its current state.