Originally posted by bekele

"I can answer that one...

PoE has ugly graphics, just varying shades of red and grey. It has no story at all or if it had one, it was so shallow, i missed it altogether. The towns and npcs are lackluster at best, with no character at all. the monster fighting was 97% crabs and didnt change much from 1 zone to the next. bosses were just bigger crabs.

I bought a beta key for 5 bucks. worst 5 bucks i've ever spent. It would of been much better spent on hot pockets and a can of red bull to enjoy while i played the D3 beta."

An absolutely laughable exaggeration, that hardly merits a reply. However, it appears that tens of thousands of people disagree with your ridiculous assessment of POE.  They had an "Open Beta" stress test of the game over Easter, which had nearly 50,000 different people play it, despite it still being quite "in Beta" and not being that well known.

In the aftermath of that, they raised over $200,000 in donations in just five days of fund raising, and from what I hear, that total is closing in on $350,000.  This is for a first title from a small, New Zealand-based indie studio

There is a deep story in POE, but right now it's communicated through NPCs, lore on Unique items, and on the website.  Yes, I know that means you actually have to *read* your lore rather than just listen to it, but good news wrightstuf!  They've promised the game will contain full voice overs when it releases.  The game also has only two of three planned Acts currently, and Act 3 will contain a lot of those missing story elements.  The entire point of the story is that you're abandoned on a desolate beach, without really initially knowing why you're there or where you're headed. 

And seriously, can you actually say that you enjoyed the D3 Beta?  A boring, repetitous slog through 45 minutes of shallow content with zero challenge or customization?  The game has a handful of skills that are basically interchangeable, and all of them demolish your enemies instantly without a hint of danger.  Oh yeah, and the loot system is a complete joke, basically a copy paste of WoW's green items, even down to the names of the prefixes and suffixes.  As a hardcore ARPG player, there is nothing I like more than a big giant NUMBER on every weapon I find, so that I don't have to take even five seconds to actually figure out if it's an upgrade for me.  

POE is a fantastic game, already astonishing in its ambitions and depth, that promises to be perhaps the best game ever made in the ARPG genre when it's done.  It's also free, figured I'd mention that too.

This thread does a pretty good job of demonstrating I'm far from alone in my assessments:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/29092

 

Why must every other post be about POE? don't any one hang out in your own forums?  I am sure POE is fine for what it want to achieve but itss painting by numbers when it come to game design and thats boring. my opinon.

As somoene who likes Titan Quest. No. No. And, no.

I'm very accepting of other Hack&Slashes but I really don't see how TQ (or PoE, for that matter) holds a candle to DIII. Even in terms of graphics I always hated how lifeless both of those games look. And there were tons of other issues. TQ skill system was really underwhelming. Drops were very strangely balanced with the whole dropping-in-specific-places thing. A lot of stuff felt very awkward and artificial in terms of affixes, such as attack speed. The knockback on enemies you killed didn't help, either.

Originally posted by TheDubanat0r

I just got Titan Quest and after playing the D3 beta it seems Titan Quest has everything D3 has and it even looks better. The skill tress are immense and the game is fully voiced. Titan Quest came out how many years ago? and it can stand toe to toe with D3. Whats that say about D3.

I enjoy TQIT and I do think that the game was ahead of it's years, judging how you needed a pretty damn good computer in those days to play it well. You could make a lot of different characters with all those trees, but it took ages before your build was somewhat finished. I rather have fun from the beginning, then only after 20 hours of playtime.

That said, I really like TQIT. The areas that game has are all awesome. The mythical setting is also pretty damn cool, hell, even Leonidas is ingame  There is also a suprising amount of voiceovers in the game, most civilians have 4-6 different sentences, which is pretty awesome.

That said, I don't believe it can stand toe-to-toe with Diablo 3. Aesthetics, gameplay and atmosphere wise I like Diablo 3 more then TQIT. Still I recommend TQIT to anyone who like action rpg's/dungeon crawlers.

Titan Quest is a good game if u like diablo so be sure to give it a try.

Path of Exile looks good too but all the gameplay videos i saw looked kinda poor

The combat and skill just doesnt feel right, to slow bad animation compared with diablo 3 and titan quest

Originally posted by expresso

Originally posted by bekele

"I can answer that one...

PoE has ugly graphics, just varying shades of red and grey. It has no story at all or if it had one, it was so shallow, i missed it altogether. The towns and npcs are lackluster at best, with no character at all. the monster fighting was 97% crabs and didnt change much from 1 zone to the next. bosses were just bigger crabs.

I bought a beta key for 5 bucks. worst 5 bucks i've ever spent. It would of been much better spent on hot pockets and a can of red bull to enjoy while i played the D3 beta."

An absolutely laughable exaggeration, that hardly merits a reply. However, it appears that tens of thousands of people disagree with your ridiculous assessment of POE.  They had an "Open Beta" stress test of the game over Easter, which had nearly 50,000 different people play it, despite it still being quite "in Beta" and not being that well known.

In the aftermath of that, they raised over $200,000 in donations in just five days of fund raising, and from what I hear, that total is closing in on $350,000.  This is for a first title from a small, New Zealand-based indie studio

There is a deep story in POE, but right now it's communicated through NPCs, lore on Unique items, and on the website.  Yes, I know that means you actually have to *read* your lore rather than just listen to it, but good news wrightstuf!  They've promised the game will contain full voice overs when it releases.  The game also has only two of three planned Acts currently, and Act 3 will contain a lot of those missing story elements.  The entire point of the story is that you're abandoned on a desolate beach, without really initially knowing why you're there or where you're headed. 

And seriously, can you actually say that you enjoyed the D3 Beta?  A boring, repetitous slog through 45 minutes of shallow content with zero challenge or customization?  The game has a handful of skills that are basically interchangeable, and all of them demolish your enemies instantly without a hint of danger.  Oh yeah, and the loot system is a complete joke, basically a copy paste of WoW's green items, even down to the names of the prefixes and suffixes.  As a hardcore ARPG player, there is nothing I like more than a big giant NUMBER on every weapon I find, so that I don't have to take even five seconds to actually figure out if it's an upgrade for me.  

POE is a fantastic game, already astonishing in its ambitions and depth, that promises to be perhaps the best game ever made in the ARPG genre when it's done.  It's also free, figured I'd mention that too.

This thread does a pretty good job of demonstrating I'm far from alone in my assessments:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/29092

 

Why must every other post be about POE? don't any one hang out in your own forums?  I am sure POE is fine for what it want to achieve but itss painting by numbers when it come to game design and thats boring. my opinon.

For a lot of true D2 veterans POE is the reference. What they think a new D2 sequel should be like 2012.

People can of course think D3 is good and fun enough to play anyway. Its just that maybe PoE deserves to be called Diablo3 more than Diablo3.  And it would be better if Diablo 3 was called "World of Diablo, Small Multiplayer" or something like that.

Perhaps people plan to play both POE and D3? And want to discuss them both.

Originally posted by Hurvart

Originally posted by expresso

Originally posted by bekele

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For a lot of true D2 veterans POE is the reference. What they think a new D2 sequel should be like 2012.

People can of course think D3 is good and fun enough to play anyway. Its just that maybe PoE deserves to be called Diablo3 more than Diablo3.  And it would be better if Diablo 3 was called "World of Diablo, Small Multiplayer" or something like that.

Perhaps people plan to play both POE and D3? And want to discuss them both.

Thanks, you just blew my mind. Ppl critize d3 for not being like d2 and here you come and claim that a game like poe that has no skill trees and random skill drops is the real d3. you sir are without a doubt one of those "true d2 veterans". One of the veterans with brain damage.

But that can't be, right? I mean, Its made by Blizzard! Evil! WoWablo! Greed! Bladibla!

Get over yourselves already. Play PoE if you prefer it. I don't care. We'll see in a years time who's who and what's what.

Originally posted by Hurvart

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For a lot of true D2 veterans POE is the reference. What they think a new D2 sequel should be like 2012.

People can of course think D3 is good and fun enough to play anyway. Its just that maybe PoE deserves to be called Diablo3 more than Diablo3.  And it would be better if Diablo 3 was called "World of Diablo, Small Multiplayer" or something like that.

Perhaps people plan to play both POE and D3? And want to discuss them both.

BizkitNL posted pretty much above this post of mine what I think of these Diablo 2 "veterans" and "hardcore" players. They wanted a sequel to Diablo 2 so badly, but when it turned out that Diablo 3 would be more streamlined and different in some perspectives, what was the first thing they cried about:

• It doesn't look like Diablo 2
• It doesn't have talent/skill trees
• You can't spend points on leveling up
• It's easy.

Originally posted by Hurvart

People can of course think D3 is good and fun enough to play anyway. Its just that maybe PoE deserves to be called Diablo3 more than Diablo3.  And it would be better if Diablo 3 was called "World of Diablo, Small Multiplayer" or something like that.

Perhaps people plan to play both POE and D3? And want to discuss them both.

If you really want a successor to DII of that nature, please play MedianXL or something. PoE is like a worse version of DII that only looks slightly better. If DIII is not a successor to DII (it may not be. I'm not sure I want it to be), DII most certainly was not a successor to DI. Seems to have worked out fine.

There's nothing WoW about DIII at all. It's most definitely a Hack&Slash. Graphics don't make that any different. TL looks very cartoonish but that doesn't magically make it an MMO. Nor is AoEO suddenly not an RTS.