Wolcen Hype Release!

So far, the new Blood trail run has been fun.
Will spend MUCH more time on it once I get my loot box in Mayhem ;)

The sound cutting out bug is a bit annoying, but that aside, it's feeling a lot more...confident in its balancing. I think my extensive post-story game experience has left me surprisingly good at the game itself though -- that or they really nerfed everything in act 1, which I somehow doubt.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Hahaha, one of the new incidental taunts from enemies gave me a chuckle.

The kennel master says, '*I* let the dogs out!'

Teehee.

This doubly entertains me both for the pop culture reference and because the phrase originally was not about the canine 'dog' lol.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

The sound cutting out bug is a bit annoying, but that aside, it's feeling a lot more...confident in its balancing. I think my extensive post-story game experience has left me surprisingly good at the game itself though -- that or they really nerfed everything in act 1, which I somehow doubt.

So Wolcen wins now ?

If by "winning" u mean there isn't a nerdSlayer Video for Wolcen yet, then yeah... Wolcen won!

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Chavolatra wrote:

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

The sound cutting out bug is a bit annoying, but that aside, it's feeling a lot more...confident in its balancing. I think my extensive post-story game experience has left me surprisingly good at the game itself though -- that or they really nerfed everything in act 1, which I somehow doubt.

So Wolcen wins now ?

Fuck no. I spent most of the weekend playtesting Last Epoch. It's better than Wolcen in most of the important areas as regards a good ARPG.

But I *enjoy* Wolcen more, and felt good going back to it after levelling a character to mid 30s on Last Epoch. Wolcen has a cinematic bombast to it that just makes me feel like I'm having a blast. It's easier on the eyes and ears, and for someone who has played every ARPG ever, that sort of aesthetic flashiness means a lot. This is a very personal stance. Wolcen is younger, hotter, dumber. Last Epoch is a much better long-term 'second wife' for ARPG commitment after one has finally decided that Path of Exile simply won't ever evolve beyond her sophomoric peak.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Fuck no. I spent most of the weekend playtesting Last Epoch. It's better than Wolcen in most of the important areas as regards a good ARPG.

I was wondering why these games are even called ARPG in the first place when they shouldn't. They should be more accurately called Diablo-like. Diablo is often called roguelike but should be more accurately called roguelite. Diablo-like games that people don't like are called Diablo-clones. When people say ARPG, I recall Zelda. That label was prominent for such game during the console era before PC was prominent. Diablo doesn't exist then.

I suppose people and companies want to name genre in a certain way because name matter as brand name do. Certain words are neurologically processed in a different way. In that sense, people opinion of the game is more likely to be more favourable as the Brand name "ARPG" as oppose to "Diablo-like".

Since I didn't play Zelda I had to research a bit on wikipedia but u're actually right. The ARPG genre itself goes back to the 1970s and didn't start with Zelda.
Although Zelda was the most prominent ARPG for it's time, Diablo took the crown and rebranded Zelda as an Action Adventure.

From wikipedia:

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Diablo's effect on the market was significant, inspiring many imitators. Its impact was such that the term "action RPG" has come to be more commonly used for Diablo-style games rather than Zelda-style games, with The Legend of Zelda itself recategorized as an action-adventure.

I love it when others do the legwork for me. Especially when I've done it ad nauseum in the past.

^_^

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

I love it when others do the legwork for me. Especially when I've done it ad nauseum in the past.

^_^

Well I was getting ready to shit on the guy for calling Zelda an ARPG instead of Diablo... but I had to educate myself beforehand and thought it would help him aswell :D

yw btw.^^