Looking for a slower-paced alternative for Path of Exile
" Nox is a solid choice, especially if you like the D2 vibe. Makes me think of Planescape Torment. Those old school games are still holding up well today. |
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" So it seems the thread has relegated itself to somewhat avoiding the OP's actual question and, as one might expect from Exiles, devolved into generic ARPG chatter. I didn't bring up GD for that exact reason: sure, it's slower paced than PoE, and it's an ARPG, but I don't think it's a good alternative. It's good if you loved Titan Quest and wanted a lot more of that (me, I'll just stick with Titan Quest), but I found going from PoE to GD far too jarring. You're trading one set of clunky, antiquated systems for another, and essentially doing the same thing with them. I really tried to love GD, even modded the crap out of it to incorporate a bunch of new classes -- but it just never stuck. It left me wondering if I were just plain over ARPGs, but then I could fire up TQ and have a blast. I know, rationally, that GD is TQ+, but practically it feels more like TQ plus-size. __ Nox is still around!? Wow. I remember so little of that game other than thinking it had spectacularly awesome lightning effects. __ WH40k I:M is another of those also-rans I sank some time into but ultimately felt like I was doing the same two to three things every mission. I dug its po-faced commitment to WH40k's utterly ridiculous Space-Latin though. __ Still think the real answer is: wait for D2R and see if 'slower paced ARPG' is genuinely what you're looking for, or if there's more to PoE burnout than just its ludicrous speed. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between.
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You can mod your surroundings man....maybe play a super tanky build and make it as fast or as slow as you wish?
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3001500 or maybe get like 400%+ temp chains curse effect going and watch game grind to a halt. Thats what makes poe great the almost infinite possibilities. For me it's just content is old as dirt by now so I'm bored. Nothing to do with mechanisms. Git R Dun! Last edited by Aim_Deep#3474 on May 6, 2021, 10:56:21 PM
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" You can simply not play this game as slow as you wish in its current state. So many things are only possible to do if you have serious clearspeed: Incursions, Legions, Delve,... to name just a few. A true low damage supertank build would have to skip so much content. |
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" Steam doesn't carry it, but good ol gog has those old gems. It's going for like $6 right now. |
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" That's a bit harsh. The OP asked for a slow paced alternative for PoE that has the same or nearly the same complexity and build diversity and Grim Dawn is a valid answer to that. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's not a valid answer. To OP, Grim Dawn is a valid alternative. In fact, I go back to playing Grim Dawn as soon as I burn out from playing PoE. Having said that, Grim Dawn's pace is pretty dang slow that transitioning from PoE to Grim Dawn may be jarring. Bonus though is you can play Grim Dawn offline so no pesky lag to kill you unexpectedly! Another good alternative is Last Epoch. When it comes to gameplay speed it is closer to PoE than to Grim Dawn. Warning though, it is still in early access. This means there are still alot of things missing or needs improvement. And I found the endgame snooze inducing. They're planning to improve endgame in 0.82 but I haven't been up to date with Last Epoch news since this league started so I don't know how that turned out. Lastly, Last Epoch needs you to be online to play unlike Grim Dawn though devs are promising offline single player at the game's official release. |
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" Admittedly, I don't have a broad range of experience. To me, Warframe is the only ARPG/Looter Shooter that has missions with different goals/playstyles. Most every other game is run to the end, kill everything on the way, kill the end boss. I will admit the WH40K I:M's lack of tileset was monotonous, but it kept me entertained enough to run through the four base classes. Plus the clunky Powered Armor and Tank missions were simultaneously infuriating and satisfying. As for OP's question. There are a lot of slow games. Not nearly as many that will give you the opportunity to brick a character like POE (read as: "complexity"). Certainly nothing from the Diablo franchise. |
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As others were saying, GD is a good alternative. Yeah, it also went with "kill stuff or time runs out and you're left with mediocre items" BUT tanks have retaliation damage in that game. Idr now how it works but you either absorb or block damage and reflect it back at the attacker with retaliation modifier; toughest nemesis bosses in the game are actually not that hard with this setup
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Grim Dawn is your best bet, pretty good game but gets old much faster than POE as you don’t have the same level of customization.
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" Grim Dawn could fit OP's desires indeed. I personally didn't like it cuz everything felt really "small" and insignificant, and boring enemy design. The real answer is D2R, if they don't blunder it like they did WC3. (But they did SC well, so that's 50/50 so far.) |
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