Act 3 is going to kill PoE 2

I have joined 0.1 and was happy to see the gloomy feeling of PoE 2 - combat was bad and try to be "souls-like", there was other bs too, but everything seemed fixable. Then i reached Act 3 - boring, bloathed mess with trash story. You are doing chores for some jungle dwellers and then you get to meet the vaal - and instead of that being high point of the game - it's super boring and uneventful. The biggest problem by far is the lenght of some of the maps - i dreaded the experience of going to that absolute snooze fest so much that i decided to skip 0.2 and 0.3.

Now i am back for 0.4 and im trying to rush act 3 again and my brain is dying. It is the worst act in any RPG in history - boring, ugly, uneventful.

Another part of the equation is they don't seem to try and fix it - Jonathan has said that acts being long is no problem, if they are actually fun(dont know exactlly what are their options to make this trash act fun). And here is the fundamental problem of people who create the product not really understanding it themselves - even if the campaign was fun - you still have to do it at least once a league - you need to be brain dead for it to be entertaining after the 2nd time.

act 3 is boring, but not ugly.

game design, map design, monster design, effect/visual design is 9/10.

but the gameplay in act 3 is boring. too long, too big.

Yeah, and can't believe they still haven't found a way to make it less annoying to go back and forth from the past to sell stuff.

Act 3 is one of my favourite and combat is better than in other games of that type. Now, this is entirely subjective, but it seems you have certain personal expectations and these don't even match what Poe 2 fundamentally is.

It's simply not a game for you at this point, why do you bother? Is somebody pointing gun at you, forcing you to play it, so you need to "fix it"?

How so progressing your character and making your own build is braindead? How is that different in the endgame if you would be running maps but just without quests on them?...

...or perhaps you call endgame farming a totally not braindead activity? Seriously, what is more braindead?


Anyway, these topics were talked over and over. If you expect instant gratification endgame from the start, there are other games that fulfill that fantasy, in fact almost all of them nowadays do that cheap modern design for dopamine addicts, except Poe 2.

You have two options, get dopamine detox for a while then enjoy fully what actual good game design is, or just go and numb yourself playing other games designed to enslave you and brick your brain, so you cannot have fun while playing anything else or possibly doing anything else in your life.

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Morghus#4174 wrote:

Yeah, and can't believe they still haven't found a way to make it less annoying to go back and forth from the past to sell stuff.

At the very least they should place the player and guild stash in the past so you can at least stuff all that shit in there and then sell everything later.