Path of Exile 2 Is Not Path of Exile 1 — And That’s Exactly the Point

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karsey#2995 wrote:

There are people who like playing a nearly-pure RNG roll-based combat and loot-casino simulator, and then there are people who like something similar but with more room to master gameplay and potentially mitigate bad-rolls with the aforementioned gameplay mastery.

That means the pace has to slow down so that the gameplay can be allowed to occur and allow for human-level reaction times, not just RNG-based roll outcomes.

"The Vision" has been memed by the poe1 casino enjoyers who don't like that it's now more difficult to receive the same kind of gambling satisfaction from the combat gameplay of poe2 (either because they're bad, the casino just isn't as juicy, or both) and prefer the roll-based fully-fleshed out (and naturally faster paced) gameplay of poe1, and I agree - poe2 is not for them.

poe2 definitely has it's issues but "The Vision" is a good vision, and I like what they're cooking - it's just currently half-baked.

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dreamstate42#3955 wrote:

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karsey#2995 wrote:

There are people who like playing a nearly-pure RNG roll-based combat and loot-casino simulator, and then there are people who like something similar but with more room to master gameplay and potentially mitigate bad-rolls with the aforementioned gameplay mastery.

That means the pace has to slow down so that the gameplay can be allowed to occur and allow for human-level reaction times, not just RNG-based roll outcomes.

"The Vision" has been memed by the poe1 casino enjoyers who don't like that it's now more difficult to receive the same kind of gambling satisfaction from the combat gameplay of poe2 (either because they're bad, the casino just isn't as juicy, or both) and prefer the roll-based fully-fleshed out (and naturally faster paced) gameplay of poe1, and I agree - poe2 is not for them.

poe2 definitely has it's issues but "The Vision" is a good vision, and I like what they're cooking - it's just currently half-baked.

"The vision" is also memed by PoE 2 "meaningful combat" parrots who habitually reject everything that is not PoE 2, especially if it's PoE 1.

How can you honestly say PoE 1 is more "loot-casino", when PoE 2 relies even more on randomness for loot? And why do people mindlessly spout this whole "meaningful combat" nonsense, when PoE 2 is even easier than PoE 1?

Reading most of the replies in this post, you can really get the feeling that the PoE 2 hype has just washed in a lot of game tourists that actually hate ARPGs, failed at challenging games, and now have crowned PoE 2 their "perfect in-between game" that requires just enough skill to finally become one of those annoying "git gud" people.

At this point I just wish two things: that people with a mindset as closed off as most replies here don't ruin this potentially fantastic game, and that all the people pretending PoE 2 is the next best thing since slices bread actually stick with it when it will inevitably become more like PoE 1, because it's still GGG we're talking about.