My strong concern about all the Boss-fights in POE 2

Out of genuine curiosity: What is it that you want, exactly? The way you are framing this is you want boss arenas that take place in an open field, rather than... Inside a boss arena.

You want the arena to transform, to be big, what exactly? Give an example.

What I would like is more diversity and more of a surprise boss event!

If GGG still forces us to visit every boss in the campaign during leveling in every league, like the did over the last ten years, thinks will get boring a 100%.


You would like to hear an example: A bounty hunter, not the same, but similar to
Grim Dawn.

You are an exile, and a bounty is on your head. A bounty hunter, as a boss, is waiting for you. He chooses the time an place and not you.
You may know, that you are a target, because you heard a rumor, found a warrant poster or an NPC told you.

You are walking along a river... suddenly pirate ships are in sight...like the ships in the Return of the King-movie.

You can go on and on, all you need are good ideas. Right now, I see a tendency to similar boss-fights and the same, tedious level-process every new league, which we had the years before.


regards

OP

Boss arena is one of the many levers you can pull to make a boss fight better.

If GGG never vary from a small enclosed area they are wasting potential and I personally think they are better than this, GGG have made some masterpiece bosses over the years and sure some are a miss but some are genuinely brilliant too.

So I wouldn't worry.

Yes, some of the bosses are superb.

But if you are forced to experience such a masterpiece in the same place and at the same time of the game process a hundred of times, it will loose a lot of its attraction, to put it mildly.

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ArkonHC#4153 wrote:

My strong concern for almost all the main Boss-fights in POE 2 is:


Almost every main Boss will be in limited space, more ore less in a circular area and has multiple phases, depending on its actuall hitpoints.

Every Boss-fight will be like this and so every boss fight will be the "same", meaning has the same limited-space-area philosophy.

If thats true, is sounds a little boring to me.


Do you share my concern, or are you so overhyped, that you cant see
anything...


regards

No

There were multiple people pointing out that there are already enough bosses outside your primary example, that we haven't seen much, but you ignored them to further argue your point, so i will write what you want to read:


You're right, so right, how didn't we see it, praised be!

Also every souls game has a boss arena, always, we can clearly see that people hate it ;)

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ArkonHC#4153 wrote:

Do you share my concern, or are you so overhyped, that you cant see
anything...

So, if I don't "share your concern", I am so overhyped that I don't see anything? Got it.

I'm not particularly hyped about PoE 2, even though the live stream actually helped a little bit. I will play it and I am looking forward to it, but far from hyped.

I think most boss fights look alright. We do need FIGHTS, and not just an animated model in the middle of the screen that you can DPS down from a far without a thought in the world.

I have TONS of concerns about PoE 2. This isn't one of them.

Hey, this was ment to be ironic and funny, not as an excluding argument.

A lot of poeple are hyped + POE is addictive - in a real sense -, so they the tend to overlook things.
Thats nothing new, happend since ancient times. A hyped brain is a partially blinded brain. Doesnt matter if you are close to date a supermodel (you hope) or waiting to play a really good game (you think). It will be good, sure, it will be very good, most likely.
Do we have to visit the same bosses in the campaign over and over again every new char ever created and in every league...sadly YES. May be they will change it sometimes...

regards

game is out next week anyway. we ll see and it s not sth they re gonna change at last minute.

edit: and from my play of undecember where all bosses are in arena, the worst that can happen is that you faceroll them. not that they are in ahn arena

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ArkonHC#4153 wrote:

Do we have something new, consindering the space in which we fight bosses. For me, it seems that the number of the limited space boss fights has increased compared to POE 1.

Every meaningful fight in POE takes place in a limited area. Merveil, Vaal Oversoul, Dominus - obsolete designs where you want to stay as close as possible anyway, Malachai, Kitava, The Brine King, Arakaali, The Sisters, Trinity - especially Brine King, Kitava and Trinity - all this act bosses have limited space arena. And pinacles are kinda the same, except the Exarch.

What are you even talking about? Do you want to call filler unique mobs meant to be one-shot spread across the acts actual bosses?