Sticking with PoE or just waiting for Diablo 3?

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Tamaranis wrote:

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Tamaranis wrote:

Let's be honest here: Diablo 3 is going to be awesome.

There are a lot of complaints that it's be "wow-ified" or that it's too "mainstream" or "dumbed-down." Upon examination, trying to compare these complaints to the game, they are incoherent. Only when they are held against the motivation of the complainer do they make sense: People think that if they say they want to play a big-budget game like Diablo 3 they won't seem like special little snowflakes.

These people are full of shit and most of them are going to buy Diablo 3.

Path of Exile is going to be a different game than Diablo 3. It's in the same genre, but your character development and the gameplay are going to feel different, and I really want to give it a try.

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PriestinPD wrote:

I have a mission to ask of you. Name me 5 similarities between Diablo 3 and 2.

Classic. The supposedly unanswerable rhetorical question. Delivered with a confidence borne of not having bothered to consider it before asking.

-Direct continuation of storyline of Diablo 2
-Reappearance of familiar monsters and villains
-Game still involves wandering around randomly generated dungeons and killing all the monsters in them.
-Still has a focus on collecting the treasure that falls out of said monsters when they are slain
-Still presents a sense of a humanity besieged by and powerless before an insidious evil power (This final point remains true regardless of how much energy you devoted to whining that it isn't.)

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PriestinPD wrote:

While you do that let me give you some of my gripes with the game. Auto-sorting stat system.

Diablo 2 was a long time ago and that's not a popular system today. But for all the complaints about Diablo 3 being WoW, one thing WoW has taught us is that auto-assigned stats doesn't mean no decisions regarding- or control over- stats.

Anyway, if you're going to obsess on tradition, the current arrangement is quite similar to the original Diablo game, which notionally had a system for stat point distribution, but by endgame resulted in characters with a fixed array of base stats determined by their character class.

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PriestinPD wrote:

Cash Shop

If there's a popular online game with an economy, there's a cash shop. Unavoidable consequence of the day and age. All Blizzard's done is admit it. There was one in Diablo 2. Perhaps you ignored it, then. You won't have any problem continuing to do so in Diablo 3.

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PriestinPD wrote:

Items that make the game simpler i.e Cauldron of Jordan, the Recall Stone, and the Nephillim Cube.

They make the game faster, not easier. The lack of those features in Diablo 2 did not make the game harder, they made it slightly more tedious than it needed to be. There was nothing difficult or intelligent about filling your tome of town-portal or making a town-run to sell the high-gold low-utility items you'd picked up, it just added downtime.

These things weren't features, they were minor oversights Blizzard could afford to make because they were chucking Diablo 2 into a competition vacuum.

They got replicated through the genre, of course, in a manner similar to what happens when the lead car drives off the road in a snow storm.

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PriestinPD wrote:

And skills are automaticly obtained upon leveling up, no more "trap sins" or "singing barbs" or whatever.

Hardly. Sure, you get all 20 skills, but each one of them can be further developed in 1 of 5 ways. It's not that there's 20 skills and you get all of them. It's that there's 100 skills and you get 20 of them. That's enough skills to easily remain a generalist if you want to, or you could focus on a more specific role.

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PriestinPD wrote:

It's not Diablo anymore. Its a cashgrab.

Ah, Blizzard's been operating as a non-profit up 'till this point, yeah?

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Coops147 wrote:

Why not both?