Lost Ark is POE Killer

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Silverpelt wrote:

Rog is my waifu.

Rog? Sure you meant Grigor! ;)

It's far from a POE killer. It's just more of the same generic MMO the market is saturated with. Played for half an hour, the game does not respect player's time, story is as bland as you'd expect (with the old tired exposition about demons and saviors, etc), cooldown for all skills that make combat clunky, takes much longer to launch than POE, quests are uninspiring, and so on.

Watched 10 minutes of Lost Ark gameplay and got bored of it..

IDK what is all the fuzz about.

Lost Ark is worse than POE in every way possible.

Hhhmmm its got snappy combat, but typical overly heavy cooldown reliance where your combat literally becomes "don't stand in the red circle" followed by "baby sit the cooldowns" or "cool down wack-a-mole until you can press your Ulti". And those are its pros.

Besides that bit of mediocrity though? Yeah its complete dogshit as an actual fantasy RPG. Its got all the usual MMO "almost like an RPG game but stupid enough for cookie clicker obessed house wives to level (click NPC's) and pretend they're doing "quests" (cliker chores, NPC "relationsip back and forth errands" leveling is just straight clicker chores and paper thin busy work) if you've never played an actual RPG they might trick you into thinking that dog shit is what they're all about.

1. Go to generic Fantasy/Anime location A
2. Click on generic Anime sidekick
3. Click on him again
4. Click on the NPC next to him
5. Click on generic NPC sidekick again
6. And for some stupid reason RECLICK ON HIM AGAIN!
7. Return to 1. and continue your wonderful "questing" in a new tileset

There are literally dozens of cases where you're picking up twigs for some cunt NPC RIGHT NEXT TO HIM and putting the twigs in a pile... RIGHT NEXT TO HIM.

There are also scores of cases where after you click on an NPC you need to CLICK ON THEM AGAIN and even dozens of cases where you do this a THIRD TIME... HOLY SHIIIIIT...

For "endgamers" its an MMO theme park that starts at lvl 50 made for normies who want to pretend to be gamers. The same types of people who think WoW "gear scores" are the pinnacle of game design.

Gear score you know: "you must be this tall to get on this ride" LOL.

Lost Ark is LITERALLY just another generic MMO that's dropping at a time when people are thirsty for something new and coming off the disappointment of WoW-pocalypse and New World being an even worse generic MMO with game breaking flaws. I'm thirsty for something new, but I just can't... its too shitty... I've got free time, and a desire for digging into a new game and I have to force myself to keep playing, just because I'm bored.

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alhazred70 wrote:

For "endgamers" its an MMO theme park that starts at lvl 50 made for normies who want to pretend to be gamers. The same types of people who think WoW "gear scores" are the pinnacle of game design.

i love how you desperately try to shit on this game when LA's endgame is a million times harder than any of the rubbish poe throws at you

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yamface wrote:

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alhazred70 wrote:

For "endgamers" its an MMO theme park that starts at lvl 50 made for normies who want to pretend to be gamers. The same types of people who think WoW "gear scores" are the pinnacle of game design.

i love how you desperately try to shit on this game when LA's endgame is a million times harder than any of the rubbish poe throws at you

did I say anything positive about POE's endgame? And also in what universe is the difficulty of meta-gaming a fight at the end of a game some sort of quality standard?

"BUT LOST ARK HAS TRYHARD META GAMING AT THE END SO ITS GOOD 2Header"

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alhazred70 wrote:

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yamface wrote:

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alhazred70 wrote:

For "endgamers" its an MMO theme park that starts at lvl 50 made for normies who want to pretend to be gamers. The same types of people who think WoW "gear scores" are the pinnacle of game design.

i love how you desperately try to shit on this game when LA's endgame is a million times harder than any of the rubbish poe throws at you

did I say anything positive about POE's endgame? And also in what universe is the difficulty of meta-gaming a fight at the end of a game some sort of quality standard?

"BUT LOST ARK HAS TRYHARD META GAMING AT THE END SO ITS GOOD 2Header"

metagaming? LA's endgame bosses are mechanically on par with wow's mythic bosses.

you arent going to just walk in and mow these down. but theres plenty of ppl who do try doing so and fail. and we're talking about tier 1 content fyi, this is the beginners endgame. when you get to t3 youre almost in dark souls territory except you have to also coordinate with 7 other players

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ManiacX wrote:

It's far from a POE killer. It's just more of the same generic MMO the market is saturated with. Played for half an hour, the game does not respect player's time, story is as bland as you'd expect (with the old tired exposition about demons and saviors, etc), cooldown for all skills that make combat clunky, takes much longer to launch than POE, quests are uninspiring, and so on.

So you know all of that after playing half an hour?

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FedeS wrote:

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ManiacX wrote:

It's far from a POE killer. It's just more of the same generic MMO the market is saturated with. Played for half an hour, the game does not respect player's time, story is as bland as you'd expect (with the old tired exposition about demons and saviors, etc), cooldown for all skills that make combat clunky, takes much longer to launch than POE, quests are uninspiring, and so on.

So you know all of that after playing half an hour?

Half an hour is... a bit fast, I do agree with some the sentiments shared here.

Story does feel kinda bland and their of "Go get the magic macguffins to stop the threat" I can point out a few stories that do that, and ones that do that better. Heck PoE does that as the second half of the acts(OH No we need to go get THE THING to stop THE THREAT).

The CDs make the game ... I wouldn't say clunky but far more routine? Yeah PoE is just pushing 1 button but by end game you're probably going to have your preffered combo string and just do that up until someone tells you a better mathed out one for this fight or that boss.

LA does take longer to launch but that's also due to technical issues. This MIGHT improve where as.... hey PoE can you fix the latency that happens when I spawn a Nemesis? No? Oh okay...

And the quests are just go here and do thing/kill thing... at times there's so many people doing it you have to wait for it to respawn or wait your turn depending.

It's not... bad I just didn't get hooked on it after a week of trying to burn through to end game cause that was the solution everyone told me to do, just get to end game.

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yamface wrote:

metagaming? LA's endgame bosses are mechanically on par with wow's mythic bosses.

Why do I get the feeling you think meta gaming is some sort of insult to LA's raids? Meta gaming means to use known strategies to "pre solve" something. Your raid leader then instructs everyone in what to do and you follow orders, and succeed unless someone goofs or you're PUG'ing and have one of "those guys". Yes WoW has these as well.

Again The difficulty of end game raids doesn't determine how high quality a game is. I can name really dogshit MMO's that had stupidly hard raid mechanics who cares?