Fixet.

bad game is bad

here is a more elaborated point of view of someone who had the strenght to go more deep in the game




"I dont know where to start so I was shocked by this game: shock:


Story of this first part =>

- Client Download OK, the launcher was good enough and I was able to recover data quickly / easily.

- Once on the home screen it's still okay (but no more) our character (or rather the camera) is placed on the deck of a boat.
A moment later, after logging in, you end up in the hold of the same boat having to select a character class.

This sequence immediately made me think about the campfire Diablo 2, where each character (very typical) is one step forward and gave us a demonstration of his skills.

So far so good (or almost).
The animation of the Witch is simply laughable. : Lol:
(By that I mean VERY poorly made. The witch flying through the air like she was possessed by a spell of telekinesis like a rag doll). : Shock:

I select what looks like the Barbarian (Marauder called in this game) and starts the game.

This is where things get tricky ...

The aspect of the game is very dated, it's like income from 10 to 15 years ago! : Shock:
It looks like Diablo 2 with better screen resolution and some additional graphics effects. : Roll:

I take upon myself and revives my character stranded on the beach (why? I know, I went from phase => standing in the ship's hold to spread inert on the beach without any phase transition). Oo

Around me a club placed on the ground (I collect) and two other bodies.
Of course whenever I touch one it becomes a zombie and stumbles / food before the second attack me.

Hmm ...

I travel on the beach (the character animation also leaves much to be desired and seems straight out of a time that less than 20 years can not know) and meet other zombies (we saw more original).

The fights are soft and badly wanked, the animation of my barbarian is more than lame (it's the same standard as the skip function in Skyrim) but worse! : Shock:
My personal tape as in slow motion, like an old marshmallow.

I kill some zombies and shellfish coming out of the sea and I spit at the mouth and falls (already) on a mini-boss! : Shock:

Miniboss my avatar hair and no skill button once 3.
Miniboss decal which I head.

I have to get away twice to drink a potion and then finished in the melee spamming the attack button (the CAC).
I Miss
I Miss
I Miss
I touch
I Miss
I Miss
I Miss
I touch
Him: I get high
Him: I get high
Him: I get high
I digress
I drink a potion
I return to the bedroom
I Miss
I Miss
I Miss
I touch
I Miss
I Miss
I Miss
I touch
Him: I get high
Him: I get high
Him: I get high

Exciting ...

I end up killing him and then a message "Quest made" pop me in the face (the first new! Oh good because I had an ongoing quest?! Oo).


Same thing, I forgot to mention this =>
Shortly after arriving in the game (mode "Default" by default, otherwise there's "Legacy", "Hardcore", "Old Hardcore" and I know what, frankly, not very meaningful).
I pop on the map and stumbles upon a real spam / flood the chat channel.

I'm like "Damn, I came across a multi party" and I leave (to create a solo part).
Well I have not figured out how, a priori it is impossible, as I can not put a password if I create one. Oo

Is good ...

I raise my part, falls on a spamming dialogues marching at full speed.
Chatlog who eats a good portion of the screen (too much for my taste).
I try to hide it and get there (rather quickly).

Problem solved.

Close parenthesis.


So! After killing the MINIBOSS out of nowhere I am invited to go to town.
City that is not apparent, I just see a door, and nothing behind.

When I move the mouse over the door, an old white texture (empty) just replace it. Oo
I click => ottoman loading screen.
15sec later I return to the previous screen and now I can move in the said town (which did not appear qq moments earlier). Oo

Very ugly city and made me re-think on Diablo 2 (again).
To my astonishment full of players of any level virevolent around me. Oo
I see even one who is lvl 61! : Shock: (if this was a player and not an NPC of course).

I'll talk to NPCs and merchants and there again disappointing result.

1 - There is no audio dubbing, but just a little popup text.
2 - The interface dialogs looks exactly like that of ... diablo 2. : Roll:

Other points very badly screwed up (thought):

a - monitors purchases and sales are separate. By this I mean that if you are on the screen "Buy an item" you can not sell an item by right-clicking or moving it from one window to another.
You will need to exit this screen, talk to the NPC, click on "Sell year item" and move the item with the mouse ...
(A heresy in my opinion for a set of 2012).

b - There was no obvious gold coins in Path to Exile! : Shock:
The currency of the game is * drum roll * scrolls identification! WTF?! : Shock:


It's the same, the inventory management is a pure copy / paste from that of Diablo 2.
Icons of items in very nearly the same as those mouth of Diablo 2! : Shock:
Items which take 1 to 6 squares (so that you will find all the full 30sec).

That is to say, they even copied the function of the Alt showing loot on the ground and the system of explosive barrels (even at sea) and the open boxes.

Loots are all identical!
There is no random generation of names and stats.

I looted 15 times the same moldy shield (6 armor)
15 times the same mass (no change in stats, the name or its icon).

Items that we can not even pick up (they are almost 6 squares each time) and anyway why bother?
They all suck, have no value and are traded in the city against fragments of scrolls of identification. : Lol:

A parchment for identification must be spinning 5 6 boxes of items to the NPC.
Who sells items from 1 to X scrolls identification. : Lol:

Of all H & S I've played I've never seen a system so shitty. : Lol:


In short, I talk to NPCs, buy me a helmet that eats all of my scrolls and leaves the city.
There I am assailed from all sides.
I went from 1mob square kilometer (before entering the city) to 15 square meter after leaving. Oo

I kill mobs fairly easily and that drop loot 4 billion.
Just outside the city I'm already full inventory. : Shock:

I try to return to the city, in vain, I have not figured out how. Oo
I've looked, I have not found the interactive area, which allowed to start charging zone change.


Otherwise the music is rather plain, not to say "not good".
The soundtrack has no soul (and its composer no talent).

The game interface is also very dated (ugly).

There are no tooltips to compare two items (as is the case in WoW or Diablo 3 for example).

There is no minimap in the upper right to guide and map overlay (again as Diablo 2) is simply unreadable! : Shock:
It's simple with the texture of sand on the ground can not see anything ...

In short, the beautiful shit.


The good thing is that I realized (playing this thing) how much was accomplished and Diablo 3 to 10,000 light years from Path of Exile.

Whatever is said or you may think, Diablo 3 is very well thought out, and damn everything but technically outdated.

To give you an image, it's like Path to Exile corresponded to Daggerfall (in terms of graphics rendering and technical levels) and Diablo 3 to Skyrim.
This is not even a gap between these two productions but galaxies!"

fixed ur post bro

thanks

very Good to know i can count on my brothers ibzack and miktex to vouch me anytime

^^

I cant stop laugh at loud ^^

Lmk date of his post so it will clear few things, but still 90% of his arguments its just a cry for help a little girl in a dark cellar.

Now i c why your first post is how it is. Have you your own opinion or you always cut and paste few words from other ppl "opinion" ^^

I'll not counter-argued his opinion for now. He is proud hack and slash veteran who tried one map, what isnt even a real fight area just place where new players should figured out basics before go into journey. He dont know yet what is waypoint so he not found 3rd map ^^ even monkey will check place at south of the city and found a city waypoint area and think there will be a wp on next maps ^^ For me he is just fabulist, nothing else. No single word bout skill system, even bout gems. So he was happy with just normal attack and surprised that his attack is slow ^^

Edit:

Im not an Path of Exile defender. I just feel like a car dealer who found article in the morning newspaper, where a guy who had a ride in the trunk, talking about how bad that car is, no air conditioner etc. at trunk you can believe it? ^^

This post was edited by Unda on Mar 27 2012 05:09pm

11 feb 2012

instead you could just upload a vid so everyone can judge

it's ok to enjoy bad games, don't be ashamed

I think ill try to get a computer for the weekend. I have played quite few hours of it at mates place twice. Today played about 6 hours and bit less the other time. Been playing an archer and i really like it, not too easy and definitely will benefit from d2 bowa skills. I think my bowa there is 25 or 26 lvl, currently using this normal attack which gives attack and run speed charges(3stack and lasts 10sec) with multi arrow(40% pierce), burning arrow(something like fb at d2), got this open wound normal arrow skill which is nice vs elites and bosses and switch multi shot to light arrow at times(pierce moves to this skill) which gives light dmg besides physical arrow and the light dmg hits few monsters nearby. Also got this frost nova(same as in d2) from skill gem and can use it to slow enemies a bit, can summon two zombie tanks(that also do some dmg but attack slow) and can cast this 7sec long shit loads of frw buff which disappears if i shoot, which can be used oävs fast elites and bosses and is good for running inside mobs gathering them around or just travelling.

I kinda like the pot system more in it than d2, pots are more like canisters and can have magic mods like faster run while regening from it, extra evasion, more room on the pot, knockback with melee while gaining life/mana from the pot, slower/faster regen from this particular pot. They come in different sizes and refill by themseoves slowly when killing enemies and really slow over time.

Not really sure about the gem skill system with skill point per lvl to superfuckinghuge passive skill tree that you can never skill even 1/10th and need to select the right paths. Really need to see how it all works on d3, so hard to compare the two systems..

Whether it will be a good game for me really depends on what the pvp will be like, now it seems that d3 might be more fun for pvp, but not sure. Pvm in it is quite fun tho(at least with the archer), which is weird for a video game..