Lost Ark is POE Killer

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

if it competes directly

It might compete for players attention but so does Cyberpunk 2077 or Doom Eternal. I mean...why not make threads about those games? Point is they are two different genres, yet everyone compares the two. It makes ZERO sense.

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MECHanokl wrote:

the reason I started playing LA was because I wanted to play an isometric ARPG

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

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MECHanokl wrote:

the reason I started playing LA was because I wanted to play an isometric ARPG

See, that's where you loose me. LA is not a Isometric ARPG. It's a bog standard Korean MMO...with a isometric view.

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MECHanokl wrote:

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

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MECHanokl wrote:

the reason I started playing LA was because I wanted to play an isometric ARPG

See, that's where you loose me. LA is not a Isometric ARPG. It's a bog standard Korean MMO...with a isometric view.

And I can draw a ton of parallels. When I do chaos dungeouns (the horde mode ones), I mow down a ton of enemies just like I would in PoE maps. When I do guardian raids solo, it reminds of me of doing bosses in PoE. When I do dungeouns, again, I can compare it to doing bosses in PoE but with more people and more team coordination required.

There are different rarity tiers of gear with different random stats, and there are stat combinatiosn that are BIS for your class and build... just like in Diablo or PoE. Sure, the item variety is not nearly as great, but the principle is here.

And during questing, I run from one exclamation dude to another in between walking through maps and clearing bosses and monsters in dungeouns, kind of similar to what I would do in... you guessed it, PoE acts leveling.

There are builds in the game, I can modify my skills (with visual changes as well), choose to boost some or others more... Similarly to a diablo-like game.

Are there differences? Absolutely, however, I see enough similarities as well.

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

If you think an MMO is like PoE simply because the view is isometric, I really don't know what to say. I'm baffled and without words. You equip BiS pieces of gear! clearly it's like Path of Exile. I mean wut?
So...if WoW got a Isometric view mode, you would think it's just like PoE? After all, you chase BiS equipment and mow down monsters.

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

If you think an MMO is like PoE simply because the view is isometric, I really don't know what to say. I'm baffled and without words. You equip BiS pieces of gear! clearly it's like Path of Exile. I mean wut?
So...if WoW got a Isometric view mode, you would think it's just like PoE? After all, you chase BiS equipment and mow down monsters.

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MECHanokl wrote:

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

If you think an MMO is like PoE simply because the view is isometric, I really don't know what to say. I'm baffled and without words. You equip BiS pieces of gear! clearly it's like Path of Exile. I mean wut?
So...if WoW got a Isometric view mode, you would think it's just like PoE? After all, you chase BiS equipment and mow down monsters.

I already listed the similarities, so I am not going to repeat myself. I also dont understand your fixation on gear. For me gearing was probably the weakest part of PoE. 99% of my gear was bought on POE trade, not dropped or crafted, and most of the stuff I dropped in the game (after clearing endgame multiple times and over 1k hours) was mostly garbage with few notable exceptions, that were still useless for my builds but good for sale.

You need to understand that different people find games attractive for different reasons, and these preferences can overlap over different games, which can be different in other aspects.

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

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MECHanokl wrote:

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

If you think an MMO is like PoE simply because the view is isometric, I really don't know what to say. I'm baffled and without words. You equip BiS pieces of gear! clearly it's like Path of Exile. I mean wut?
So...if WoW got a Isometric view mode, you would think it's just like PoE? After all, you chase BiS equipment and mow down monsters.

I already listed the similarities, so I am not going to repeat myself. I also dont understand your fixation on gear. For me gearing was probably the weakest part of PoE. 99% of my gear was bought on POE trade, not dropped or crafted, and most of the stuff I dropped in the game (after clearing endgame multiple times and over 1k hours) was mostly garbage with few notable exceptions, that were still useless for my builds but good for sale.

You need to understand that different people find games attractive for different reasons, and these preferences can overlap over different games, which can be different in other aspects.

I don't think genres are your strong suit.

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DamageIncorporated wrote:

People keep making two different arguments. You can play two different games, I agree! Both games are sub genres of RPG I agree!, but it aint a isometric ARPG. That is an objective fact. My issue is people keep putting the two games in the same context, and even saying LA is like Diablo, or PoE. It's not, full stop. Saying otherwise shows a huge misunderstanding of how to classify genres.