Drakk the ARPG-ist's PoE Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sir Drakken...
You might actually forgot something or maybe you should add it in the list...
The characters are pretty ugly and not customizable...

Peace out~

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GinSchiffer wrote:

Sir Drakken...
You might actually forgot something or maybe you should add it in the list...
The characters are pretty ugly and not customizable...

Peace out~

I dunno, have you seen Duelist?

From skimming through some of these posts I just want to say that PoE is a pretty old game. By that I mean the game engine it was created on is almost on par with early D3 late D2. This means yeah back then characters cant be customized. This also means huge optimization issues. This game has so many issues with AMD optimization. Now with the new content constantly being pushed there is no way to really fix the game without making a new one to run smoother. So many new mmo style arpgs are going to come in the upcoming years that this game is going to get outdated.

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clandestinehp wrote:

From skimming through some of these posts I just want to say that PoE is a pretty old game. By that I mean the game engine it was created on is almost on par with early D3 late D2. This means yeah back then characters cant be customized. This also means huge optimization issues. This game has so many issues with AMD optimization. Now with the new content constantly being pushed there is no way to really fix the game without making a new one to run smoother. So many new mmo style arpgs are going to come in the upcoming years that this game is going to get outdated.

I run AMD with no problem. Especially with the very in depth Catalyst Control Center that lets you put global overrides on the games graphical settings. In fact I think AMD has more control over the graphical options of any game than anything else. I mean Nvidia is the runner up and Nvidia Control Center is very limited on global override options. Maybe Geforce Experience is better, but I do not think so. Even crappy Intel integrated graphics have some form of global override for graphics settings in games.

No graphic problem with this game just that chars appearance are either dull or ugly.
Its like follow the concept of Diablo.
You wanna play this class? Then you gotta bear with its ugliness.
It be great if their character design like Korean MMOs.
It be fine if you are playing duelist, try play Templar...
That old bald senile beardie dude... XD

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clandestinehp wrote:

.... this game is going to get outdated.

The game and the engine are seriously out of date already. They have been for some time. The engine was never good to begin with and it gets worse with every release. The game itself could only be more poorly optimized if the goal for the next 10 patches was to make it worse.

but.....

If your customers are content to buy garbage, why would you stop selling garbage?

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Dos_Fafner wrote:

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clandestinehp wrote:

.... this game is going to get outdated.

The game and the engine are seriously out of date already. They have been for some time. The engine was never good to begin with and it gets worse with every release. The game itself could only be more poorly optimized if the goal for the next 10 patches was to make it worse.

but.....

If your customers are content to buy garbage, why would you stop selling garbage?

Yeah, so lets all agree to stop buying garbage, which apparently we all agree on a similar set of points being made by new players like me and old ones are that these faults are in fact, garbage? I'm withholding future support until at least one of the uglies is fixed.

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The game and the engine are seriously out of date already. They have been for some time. The engine was never good to begin with and it gets worse with every release. The game itself could only be more poorly optimized if the goal for the next 10 patches was to make it worse.

but.....

If your customers are content to buy garbage, why would you stop selling garbage?

Amen to someone in community who finally understands this and agrees with me.

Drakken

This is pretty much spot on . The sooner the better ggg remove the balance team and replace it with a good one the better poe will become . They gonna destroy a potential g.o.a.t arpg . Probably too late now . Just get rid of them ggg before they destroy your game . You need to show some balls mr ggg boss , fire them , if they are your friends this is a good example how it can turn out when you work together with your friends and some of them is not good enough in their jobs , it sucks to fire them but you dont have many other options left now imo .( chris w ? = boss i dunno ). To be completely honest from the bottom of my heart , poe is the most unbalanced and has worst balanceteam i have ever seen ever in any game i have played in my whole life . Its absolutely disguisting and ridiculously bad , so bad its like they do a bad job on purpose it feels like . Get rid of them , get rid of them , get rid of them, get rid of them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup the melee vs caster has been like that in other games aswell but in poe it is so much insane unbalanced dps from the monsters and bullshit exploitable mechanics in general , i guess ggg balance guys overcompensate to counter the 1 % players with unbalanced/mechanics exploited builds and makes the monsters unbalanced too , yeah thats fun for a newer player with not much wealth that has no chance at all to get into the game in a fun and balanced way and to get a chance to play the game as it is supposed to be played .

Another thing is also that when the monsters hits so freaking unbalanced hard , that also ends up with players having less options for bulding their character . So when its so unbalanced as it is in poe it has killed build diversity and thats blasphemy for a game like poe , this game should have the most diversity of them all but it hasn't thanks to the balance team . But i guess ggg do what chris wants only max 5 builds lol , he has said this lol lol lol lol lol lol lol oh my goooooddddd

btw in d3 the barbarian got + 50% damage reduction or something , dont remember the exact number . That helped a little bit , something like this could be a solution for poe too .
Melee characters could maybe get their own skilltree . It can be fixed , its always a way if there's a will .

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Devonor wrote:

Drakken

To be completely honest from the bottom of my heart , poe is the most unbalanced and has worst balanceteam i have ever seen ever in any game i have played in my whole life.

Actually, most ARPGs are even far more unbalanced, than PoE. Take D2, Titan Quest, Sacred 1/2, Torchlight 1/2, GD, and so on - all of them show ridiculous level of imbalance between various characters, skills, items and playstyles.
IDK why all ARPG developers allow that to happen. Why no one can make better balance, that others have?


Sure, if compared to other genre games, like DoTA2 or Starcraft2, PoE's "balance" looks like a joke.