are we the boomers for preferring PoE1 ?

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exsea#1724 wrote:

thats quite a biased thing to say no?

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Phrazz#3529 wrote:

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exsea#1724 wrote:

thats quite a biased thing to say no?

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You responded to a guy responding to me, so I took for granted that you were referring to me.

Of course it's biased; it's my opinion, and opinions are always biased to some degree. But that's my general impression after "finishing" PoE 2. In almost every category I deem important to an ARPG, PoE 1 scores higher than PoE 2. And you know what? It should, because one game is in EA, the other one has 10+ years of added meat to its bones.

Now, does PoE 2 have a higher potential? Of course. And you know what? It should, because it's made by a multi million dollar company, and PoE 1 started out as a game made by a handful of nerds. But to really reach that potential, they need to do the right things, make the right changes and don't be too stubborn to say "this idea wasn't good enough - and won't be good enough, so we have to start from scratch". And our job as "EA testers" is to tell them that, no matter how "hateful" you seem to think it is.

Right now PoE 1 is miles better, even though they are "different beasts"; they are still ARPGs. But in two years time? PoE 2 can absolutely be better if they do the right things. And you know what? I think it will take AT LEAST two years to get an endgame worthy of being a successor to PoE 1's endgame, especially if they keep focusing on band-aids instead of the core problems.