Is Path of Exile Better Than Diablo 3

Trollbait again. Looks like half the forum trolls bit, too.

Diablo 3 has the better Gameplay but path of exile has the better Game Design, for me.

Gameplay: How the combat, movement and Spells feel.

Game Design: How does Endgame Content work, the Skill System, Trade System, Item System, online System etc.

But the Gameplay is only a little better in D3 while the Game Design is much much worse for me. And PoE still has the best gameplay of all Diablo Clones.

yep, but that's my opinion

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sYkoDe4d wrote:

Diablo 3 has the better Gameplay but path of exile has the better Game Design, for me.

Gameplay: How the combat, movement and Spells feel.

Game Design: How does Endgame Content work, the Skill System, Trade System, Item System, online System etc.

But the Gameplay is only a little better in D3 while the Game Design is much much worse for me. And PoE still has the best gameplay of all Diablo Clones.

This, and the fact in Diablo 3 everyone has your skill build and only one character from each class is needed. Diablo 3 has better gameplay and quests, but it's limited. If the two of them had sex and took the others strong points and dropped the flaws 11/10 for sure.

No...but it's still quite good.

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Worldbreaker wrote:

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sYkoDe4d wrote:

Diablo 3 has the better Gameplay but path of exile has the better Game Design, for me.

Gameplay: How the combat, movement and Spells feel.

Game Design: How does Endgame Content work, the Skill System, Trade System, Item System, online System etc.

But the Gameplay is only a little better in D3 while the Game Design is much much worse for me. And PoE still has the best gameplay of all Diablo Clones.

This, and the fact in Diablo 3 everyone has your skill build and only one character from each class is needed. Diablo 3 has better gameplay and quests, but it's limited. If the two of them had sex and took the others strong points and dropped the flaws 11/10 for sure.

This. Except I don't really think that diablo 3's gameplay is that much better.

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kagnew1999 wrote:

Well said and I agree with your point. However, do you think that if GGG were to "better" its advertisement in the form of commercials or a quick review on a show, it would greatly improve its community and allow it to be one of the more successful MMOs?

PoE lacks cutscenes. Cutscenes are one of the most important aspects of game advertising. For the most part, game commercials don't even show gameplay until maybe the last month or so. I don't think I've ever seen real gameplay footage in a Diablo 3 commercial at all. The point is that players want to feel epic. They want to be the demons or the angels or kill the shit out of both types and everything in between. If they only saw the gameplay, then I think they would be turned off a bit. We all know PoE doesn't have the eye candy flash that D3 and to a lesser extent T2 has. So all in all advertising will only go so far.

What GGG can do right now is broadcast to the niche players. Those that are disappointed with D3's lack of difficulty in normal mode, lack of new abilities for bosses on harder difficulties, lack of attribute management, lack of a remotely intelligent story, lack of stable servers, lack of customization,etc. In truth, this is exactly what Runic Games has done. Many players support them because some of D1 and D2's developers (Blizz North) work there. I myself don't understand why this is such a big deal (it doesn't require the same developers to strike the same jackpot), but apparently fanboys like to support their own. Runic Games promises cheap and quality products made by the original developers. D3 promises a large and engaging community plus the brand name.

Since PoE is a f2p game, it has to figure out a way to release additional paid extra content without affecting the core gameplay. In effect, it needs to make money without being pay 2 win.

Advertising will help PoE, but not in the traditional sense. Torchlight 2 itself is popular not because of ads or commercials or cutscenes. It's the "ideal" of what T2 represents that grasps a player's interest.

The only reason i found and started to play PoE is because i was so disappointed at the way Diablo 3 turned out. I bought diablo 3, played for 5 hours hoping it would get better as i went along... it didnt.
So i sent a message to blizzard telling them of the many reasons it sucked and they refunded my money.

PoE is already more fun than D3, and i have only played for an hour or so...
Its still in Closed Beta and is better and has way more potential than D3.

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sYkoDe4d wrote:

Diablo 3 has the better Gameplay but path of exile has the better Game Design, for me.

Gameplay: How the combat, movement and Spells feel.

Game Design: How does Endgame Content work, the Skill System, Trade System, Item System, online System etc.

But the Gameplay is only a little better in D3 while the Game Design is much much worse for me. And PoE still has the best gameplay of all Diablo Clones.

Agreed. D3 gameplay felt really smooth.

POE felt too cluncky and hardcore to many people (please make the first few acts smoother with better transition)

I had my wife and young nephew (12 yr old) to play POE, both of them stopped after a while, but they are on 80+ hours of D3 now.

But POE had the depth of what real gamers wanted, where D3 is WoW on crack.. farm farm farm.

I still enjoying both games.

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kagnew1999 wrote:

The main idea of this thread is that I think that PoE (Path of Exile) actually is a competitor against D3 ...

no

is it better than D3 ?
that is a matter of opinion

but POE will NEVER make as much money as D3 did

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Antilurker77 wrote:

D3 is not over. No one has anywhere near a perfect set of gear, or 100% achievements, or inferno on farm. I don't know why you think "repetitive and grindy" is a good feature for a game to have, which is what PoE is right now.

nobody gives a crap about achievements (achievement: talk to every NPC = whoopdee sh*t)

but you're right that no one has near a perfect set of gear, because drops suck ass (and that is exactly why the game is over)

and MANY people have completed the game (even a few in hardcore)
and once you have completed the game, there is nothing more to do (at least in D2 you leveled up and gained stats after completing Hell; but in D3 you do nothing but "repetitive and grindy" runs of Inferno Act 1 - 4)