Dark Souls

It's not even close to Dark Souls difficulty. I managed to kill Geonor first try on sorc. You can't do it in Dark Souls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMNDQFXu2Qw

The fun in Souls is you get good Loot from the bosses you knocked your head against.


PoE2 is lootless and your time is not rewarded so monkey brain does not activate.

I'm a Souls veteran. I love Souls.
There are many Souls aspects that I found with these bosses that I loved:
the music, the attack patterns, the vibes.
Those are all amazing.

Then there were huge misses.

The loot in this game is barely existent.

Then there is a huge problem with visual clarity.
I understand that they were going for washed / darker colours with less saturation, because Souls games have that. I get that. And it looks great in Souls games.
But you know what Souls games also have?

COLOR CONTRAST AND VISUAL CLARITY

I never fail to see what's going on in Souls. I do in this game.
Look at this post I made: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3604316
The ground is yellow, the boss is yellow, the sandstorm is yellow and blurs the screen, the screen has a yellow filter, and the aura you're supposed to run behind is... guess what colour... yellow.

Lab in PoE1 had the same problem: Grey walls, grey floors, grey enemies, grey traps, and even a grey filter on top.

You can go for less saturated colours, but not if you have everything the same colour and don't use any contrasts whatsoever.

Look at Bloodborne's Ludwig fight: https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bloodborne-ludwig-the-holy-blade.jpg

It also has dark colours GGG love so much.
But you know what it also has?

DIFFERENT COLOURS

You can visually tell apart Ludwig from the arena from the blood on the floor from his weapon.

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Ironhide75#7617 wrote:

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auspexa#1404 wrote:

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yy90732#5386 wrote:

not fun for YOU. it's fun for us

well it might be fun for YOU but not for US.

I do respect a game company willing to dump a lot of money into building a game and running a live service that many people are not going to enjoy.

Lighting a match to that much money is definitely something that takes some balls.

I really hope all of the people who like this kind of game really really patronize it and spend their money. I wont be, and I am thinking many others are in the same boat.

I am in the same boat.

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dend3lol#4714 wrote:

The fun in Souls is you get good Loot from the bosses you knocked your head against.


PoE2 is lootless and your time is not rewarded so monkey brain does not activate.

Fashion Souls is about loot? What? PoE 1 fans seems like they want a mindless easy game zooming through while watching a movie.

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dend3lol#4714 wrote:

The fun in Souls is you get good Loot from the bosses you knocked your head against.


PoE2 is lootless and your time is not rewarded so monkey brain does not activate.

What loot are you expecting from campaign bosses? POE1 doesn't have much of it either.