new background

is it horrible i have no idea what the old wallpaper looks like?

took long enough to fill the void

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Freedom.
Power.
Revenge.
Wisdom.
Courage.
HEART!

Okay, I laughed. I also laughed at the other thread where the guy said we pissed off the grandmatriarchs, because for once I actually understood a reference.

Otherwise, though, I'm actually kinda disappointed. Path of Exile seemed to be one of the few games without a protagonist with massive knockers, and now there's... well, it's rather obvious, isn't it.

Yeah GGG. Love the background it looks amazing!

Looking forward to release day!

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Freedom.
Power.
Revenge.
Wisdom.
Courage.
HEART!

POWARANGERS~~

I don't understand why GGG would make 6 reasonably unique classes in terms of aesthetics and then just make quite possibly the most generic white female look in history.

Might be fine, witch is a goth loli material and ranger is a ra(n)ging dyke.

Anyway, we did have a trace of that here and there with female blackguards, especially piety's fairly abundant cleavage. I was actually pretty amazed at that letter at western forest, she struck me as a frigid bitch, it turned out she's just a bitch.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Eh, I was a bit shocked at the Scion's design at first, but eh, it's mostly because, as you said, until now the game hasn't gone there. No doubt our old friends from srsgaming or whatever they're called will be paying us a visit sooner or later over this.

I still think she's quite well designed and does fill a void -- the Six are pretty damn ugly.

I've been dying to play a blonde with long hair, such that I was hoping there'd be hairstyle mtxes, such as a ponytail for the Ranger.

I'm a pretty typical dude and I have no trouble saying I am aesthetically pleased with the new class.

Not as much as I was with the D2 Necromancer (man, what a badass) or the Shadow (also, badass, although I dislike his idle stance intensely), but moreso than the other Exile archetypes.

I do agree that the Scion design is very well-done aesthetically, but I'm disappointed on pretty much two fronts, and I probably should have elaborated earlier.

The first front is that, quite frankly, I think having ugly protagonists suits the game rather well. Having everything be ugly - from what you're fighting, the character you're fighting it with, and the corpse it leaves on the ground - creates a pretty great sense of atmosphere. It tells you that this world is twisted and warped, and that you've gotta be fairly twisted and warped yourself to handle it. Having something aesthetically beautiful like the Scion breaks that atmosphere a little bit; it's like playing Amnesia, getting into the really tense moments, then having a unicorn burst out from behind a shed and impale a nearby chair before offering you a ride into rainbow land. Impressive? Yes. Aesthetically beautiful? Sure, if they pull it off right. Fitting? Not really.

The other front is that the Scion seems to be taking up a pretty significant amount of screen space and focus in the release. I understand that sex sells in advertising, and that even if they aren't following that principle it's entirely possible that they're following the principle of "advertise your newest features", but I guess I just sort of thought GGG was above that sort of thing; especially since they're already something of a bastion for rare practices in the game industry.

Then again, I've seen worse behavior from shittier games, so I don't really have much space to complain :P

And now that I've got that wall of text out, I've gotta say that hair MTXes would be pretty cool; especially if it lets me play a Marauder with a crew cut so I can run around act 1 normal yelling at newbies as "Drill_Sergeant_Facepuncher".