VikingWays on Nostr: Maybe it's my age or when you see behind the curtain of game design that you find ...
Maybe it's my age or when you see behind the curtain of game design that you find games repetitive, pozzed or straight up predatory in nature.
A rule of thumb, if a RPG comes from Korea it will be a bugman predatory cash shop with at least twenty different kinds of currencies to disguise their gambling simulator to hook kids with their parent's credit card. -hard pass
Regarding ARPGs. Path of Exile 2 was supposed to be some genre breaking, ten years in the making game and it's actually worse than one in almost every way (better graphics and a more simplified skill tree being the exceptions).
Let's check in on the geniuses at GGG development and see what they've brought to the genre.
1. Continuing this weird trend of gender locks on all classes: check (look, WITCH, fine but all of them? fuck off).
2. Zero and I mean absolutely zero, character customization (want to be a warrior, you get to be George Floyd, no changing it, you are a nog).
3. Armor is useless and by that I mean people have ran the math and you can stack almost every node and still not have enough armor to survive a 5k boss hit. Lots of videos on this but the 2 part one from Kripparian sums it up nicely, skip to the 2nd one for a TLDR. So ten years of POE1 under their belt and they can't make a simple fucking formula for armor work, lol.
4. Giant skill trees that really, aren't that creative. It's a lot of convoluted 15% extra damage when the sun rises on the 3rd day and the mob is stunned bullshit or some % modifier of another % modifier requiring a math degree to figure out so you just click it and since you can't see damage numbers you just assume it's working.
5. Zero choices in the storyline or any other aspect of the game outside the skill tree. None as in crafting is totally RNG, drops of course are a casino and the storyline itself you just click through it and repeat.
The best part, they said they fixed melee ROFL LMFAO, it's actually worse than POE1, with huge animation locks that provide zero i-frames meanwhile my son had a sorc just spamming one button and blowing shit up off the map in high end content. It's honestly just a joke to play warrior.
The game is a top-down cookie clicker for autistic gambling addicts with a numbers fetish.
A rule of thumb, if a RPG comes from Korea it will be a bugman predatory cash shop with at least twenty different kinds of currencies to disguise their gambling simulator to hook kids with their parent's credit card. -hard pass
Regarding ARPGs. Path of Exile 2 was supposed to be some genre breaking, ten years in the making game and it's actually worse than one in almost every way (better graphics and a more simplified skill tree being the exceptions).
Let's check in on the geniuses at GGG development and see what they've brought to the genre.
1. Continuing this weird trend of gender locks on all classes: check (look, WITCH, fine but all of them? fuck off).
2. Zero and I mean absolutely zero, character customization (want to be a warrior, you get to be George Floyd, no changing it, you are a nog).
3. Armor is useless and by that I mean people have ran the math and you can stack almost every node and still not have enough armor to survive a 5k boss hit. Lots of videos on this but the 2 part one from Kripparian sums it up nicely, skip to the 2nd one for a TLDR. So ten years of POE1 under their belt and they can't make a simple fucking formula for armor work, lol.
4. Giant skill trees that really, aren't that creative. It's a lot of convoluted 15% extra damage when the sun rises on the 3rd day and the mob is stunned bullshit or some % modifier of another % modifier requiring a math degree to figure out so you just click it and since you can't see damage numbers you just assume it's working.
5. Zero choices in the storyline or any other aspect of the game outside the skill tree. None as in crafting is totally RNG, drops of course are a casino and the storyline itself you just click through it and repeat.
The best part, they said they fixed melee ROFL LMFAO, it's actually worse than POE1, with huge animation locks that provide zero i-frames meanwhile my son had a sorc just spamming one button and blowing shit up off the map in high end content. It's honestly just a joke to play warrior.
The game is a top-down cookie clicker for autistic gambling addicts with a numbers fetish.