Name a better game then PoE.

Pro tip.
you can't

Obvious bait is obvious, but topic is interesting.

Better is subjective, to some people Frogger literally is the best game.

If you wanted to try to be objective, a non-terrible metric would: Total players hours ever engaged in a game.

They must enjoy it if they play it. It seems like a better metric than money spent (which is basically how to attract whales).

To that I would say that Minecraft and World of Warcraft probably destroy PoE. Also Starcraft and maybe Final Fantasy XIV? Also Angry Birds?


My personal better-than-PoE is: Half-Life, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring, Everquest, WoW (first 6 years), Super Mario World, Final Fantasy 2

But that is meaningless, just personal taste.


You didn't even say video game, just game, lets add: Go, Chess, Monopoly, Risk, Poker, Soccer, Basketball, Football, (not baseball that is boring), Tennis, etc etc etc

The original Wolfteam, Raiderz, Nosgoth, Monster Forest Online, Pets Society, Country Story, Simcity 2K, Timberborn, Shadow of the colossus.

Wolfteam is a fps game that keeps you on the toes, every single movement is strategic to your survival and your team, one human goes down, the rest of your team gets savaged by a pack of giant wolves that stands on two legs. Then comes the microtransactions big update, which ruins the game, humans jumping higher than werewolves, werewolves gaining new powers like shooting ice bolts?? I am still willing to play, however the community gave up, when I enter the server, I simply cannot find another player to have a match with.

Raiderz, man this game is like Monster Hunter but it is very free to play which probably leads to it's downfall. Also, I tried Monster Hunter, the user interface is clumsy, the dinosaurs have 30 minutes of long lifepool, the game requires high end graphic cards in order not to look like some pixelated japanese thing. Raiderz revolutionize the giant monsters mmorpg by making them actually intelligent, these crazy knuckles actually track where you are and pounce on you or jump behind you, and you are not given superhero skills to slay it down like another boring butcher game.

Nosgoth is a fun moba fps game, imagine DOTA in 3D, yes I am serious, this is what Nosgoth have to offer. You only have 4 skills that are all useful and can change the tide of battle, you can be vampire and fly, some weird giant Tyrant that can roll into boulder crushing anything in it's path, but most players like the good old shooter which is fun as well, because you 100% have to work and move in a team, one crossbow shooter just simply cannot fight with monsters that have twice as much attack and hp stats. Usually the humans working in team are stun locking the monsters and vampires which are controlled by players as well, and the humans keeps running backwards and draining the enemies' hp, imagine jurassic park getting chased by the dinosaurs, so thrilling. Only to find out in the end, that one of the human teammate is actually a disguised Deceiver monster, one hit killing the whole team. Please seriously, each team can have only 4 humans, please count!

Monster Forest online was bad, but the nostalgia hits hard, instead of killing monsters every second, this game lets you play a different game, collecting monsters, imagine 3D pokemon, holy, now this sounds like a copyright issue, let's glance over that, it actually features a fun coffee bean farm, many farms in mmorpgs are to help your characters get better equipments, stats and to literally grind better rewards. Farming in monster forest online is just farming, pure and no pressure, you can design however your farm you like it to be because it have no effects on your fighting gameplay. Monster Forest online was about collecting other things that I have forgotten, in pokemon, you only collect pokemon, so when you are bored of pokemon, the game dies but not for monster forest online. Also, I am not sure who is the great designer of the fighting dungeons, moving here is very strategic, the routes are clear and highly visible, but there is a certain path that quickly brings you to the end point, the walking path is literally a game itself.

Pets Society, you gift mystery boxes to your online fake facebook friends, they gift you back, you hug each other, you kissed each other. Then suddenly, in real life, a real girl appears in front of you and gift you something and watches you play pets society awkwardly, could the fake facebook friends be your real classmates after all? This game transcends the boundaries of fake and real relationships, stalkers and admirers, socializing or actually romance in disguise?

Country Story is just a farm game that does not pressures you to buy microtransactions like the farmville, which makes it actually relaxing, which is why people play farm games in the first place. The art style is less pixelated and more well done too. The cons are it have too little features, crops variety, and the game shuts down too. I guess, at this point, you can see the trend huh? Only the games that have microtransactions and spam their advertisements in your face survives.

Simcity 2k and Timberborn are city simulation games, there are actually many good city games out there, but these two are the most memorable and easy to access ones. Maybe because these two actually makes it hard to succeed, therefore you will fail many times behind you know the formula of success, these two city games also have cooler art style than the rest of city games as well.

Shadow of the Colossus is really bad, the user inteface is absent, you have to guess what to do, and eventually, you will need to google how to play, ridiculous. But the enemies in this game are insanely fun to fight against, they are like giant giant giant giant monster that you can climb onto and strategically attack the giant, usually this is where the feature stops for most giant killing games, but for shadow of the colossus, they seems to have artificial intelligence or just well-planned movements and environments, so they will know where you are going and plan to ambush you.

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I_NO wrote:

Name a better game then PoE.

Elden Ring, Path of Exile.

Pro tip: I think you meant 'than', I_NO. Because naming a better game, then naming PoE? Uh, piece of cake.

Sudoku.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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I_NO wrote:

Name a better game then PoE.

Elden Ring, Path of Exile.

Pro tip: I think you meant 'than', I_NO. Because naming a better game, then naming PoE? Uh, piece of cake.

To be fair, it's easy no matter if she used then or than.
If it isn't restricted to genre, either, it's even easier.

I'll name Factorio.

"Better?" That really depends on my mood. Right now, Frostpunk is "better" to me, and that's what I've been playing. Other times, modded Skyrim has been (and will be) "better."

Then, and likely pretty soon, PoE will be "better" than anything else, again.

Of course, for some, it's clear that PoE's forum presents a "better" experience than any game they can play... =^[.]^=

Quakeworld
Diablo 1

But they are 20th century games.

POE is undisputedly the best game of this century (so far).

Wordle.

Reason / metric: How much I play it. I play Wordle almost daily.

It's also both more fun and more challenging.

Diablo 2 LoD 1.09.
Diablo 2 remaster too, but woke uglification of characters leaves me salty.

Runes are better currency cause outcomes of their use is reliable rather than slam exalt get +1 to max mana.

Currency in POE is like you have 10 bucks today and that may buy you a meal or may not... Enjoy if you go hungry today. Maybe tomorrow you get two meals... If you hit a bad streak you may go a week without a meal :D I know its hyperbolic comparison but I prefer rewards for time invested to be something tangible and not gamble tokens that only become reliable if you have obnoxious amounts of them.