Man yeah this is so chunky and sloggy and good. Playing a sorc, haven’t really picked a specialization so far, although I’ve gone off on one of the attribute spurs to unlock things further out earlier rather than dipping into the mana regen/spell damage area.
I beat a midboss and it dropped a staff that has effectively trivialized everything that I’ve run into afterward, if this isn’t an outlier, this is exactly what I want from the loot systems in these kinds of games.
With WASD movement, this game is effectively a twin-stick shooter now. It’s nice just how different the game feels from POE1. The gem support system is neat! Having to actually dodge enemy attacks instead of tanking them is neat! Thinking a bit more about aiming and timing abilities rather than just spamming them is neat!
It’s slower paced in a lot of ways compared to its peers, in both movement and item progression. But the game is very neat.
I started a Warrior just to see how the other half lives and I have to keep pausing on the tutorial miniboss because you have to do a Souls-style chip away at his gigantic health bar and I both get bored and started to get RSI-style feelings so maybe it’s a little tooooooo sloggy?
My sorc is kind of bottle-necked right now as I’ve hit some later Act 1 mausoleum enemies that I just have no idea how to deal with them, they’re heavily energy shielded and hit like trucks so I’m not exactly sure what the intended approach is.
I am hearing melee is not good.
I think there’s a new mechanic that mostly melee has and it’s useful for staggering bosses, so maybe that’s going to be really important for balance? IDK. The thing with video game buffets is that it takes so long to have a bite of everything. Trying to do a range/melee ranger at the moment, and it’s mostly just arrows and “hey i have a cool shield on my back”
Why don’t I want to play this technically very good game? Is anyone else getting this? Like… I just… idk. Wild
Usually when I feel this way about a game, it’s because I’m burned out on the entire series and want something fresher. Doesn’t matter if it’s significantly better than the one I played too much of earlier
(I still haven’t played this or the first PoE but considering it… let me know if this theory sounds on the mark or there’s a deeper problem with PoE2)
IDK maybe? It might also just be the state of the world.
The game is mechanically interesting. I guess that highlights how much I need to fight against the item system. Which feels like just investing time to proc luck. I know there are ways to optimize it, but yeah.
I never played the original PoE, but I did spend a lot of time in D4 getting increasingly more bored.
I have eternally been an extremely moody gamer, if my mind isn’t in the right place for something it doesn’t matter how good it may be I’m gonna bounce right off it yet I’ve enjoyed plenty of mediocre games for being in the right place at the right time. 'Tis a blessing and curse…
I played a little more and it’s like…
I want a mechanically interesting game w/ a lot of variants in the mechanics which is why “Diablo with good combat” always feels like something I want in practice, but here it’s just kinda like… the loot game is really just getting in the way of the game game.
More than once I alluded to how shopping in the game is a chore and all I want to do is go out and dance with some exploding monsters — and I still feel that way!
I guess I’ll keep playing this w/ “the boys” because it’s one of those games, but like… it could just be a conversation in discord. I have a slight feeling that the other guys playing are just playing to have something to do while we socialize from the comfort of our homes, so maybe… yeah
edit: sorry typed this before the above post
yeah just try again later imo. some of my favorite games are ones that took a few attempts of playing it months or years apart before i finally “got” it and stuck with it.
it’s also early access and should ostensibly get better the longer you wait.
I’m guessing you’re having a good time with it? I can see that.
Maybe one of the content drops will really hook me.
i actually haven’t yet! it just v. much looks like my jam. was planning on playing with a buddy but we ended up getting into hunt showdown instead lol. actually sort of similar to the advice i just gave, though! the gamepass release of hunt reminded me to try the game again after i had bounced off of it the first time, and now i’m hooked.