You win, d4 sucks

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

I will repeat myself yet again. POE2 is a seasonal game. Making campaign too much DIFFICULT is no go. People come back to start fresh and feeling of misery for the next 10-15 hours during a league start, is not in a priority list.

Making campaign too easy is a no go too. It already got nerfed so much boss fights are trivialized and 0.4 mechanic made progression even easier. Seriously like in another thread some guy claimed campaign is too difficult after 1k hrs playtime.

Are we even playing the same game? Poe2 campaign is easily best campaign experience we have in arpg genre which was already gutted by nerfs and people still want to trivialize it even more.

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default_mp3#9394 wrote:

D4 didn't remove it's campaign, they just provided a CHOICE to play or skip it.
And yet D4 is D4. A diffirent game, with a diffirent playerbase. Yet you people for some reason thinking that adding campaign skip made Blizzard shot themselves in a foot, but here we are. The game is still popular enough to keep the engine running, still receiving an updates and ready to launch the next expansion pack later this April that will bring a new piece of lore on top of new content.
While some POE2 players, constantly poking Diablo 4 and keep gatekeeping things, acting like a witnesses of the HOLY VISION. Repeating the same mantra over and over again that making campaign optional would permanently kill the game (which is not true) so rest of the playerbase should keep supporting the VISION while sacrificing their own enjoyment of the game.

Have You even played d4 campaign? As a matter of fact i played it this week. I knew it will be a waste of money but discount on ps store was too good to skip. And boy, let me tell you - while i defend poe2 campaign i would never repeat d4 campaign.

1 - pacing is broken for so many reasons i don`t even know where to start. Campaign is overloaded with too many unnecessary dialogues and cutscenes. There are situations where you finish cutscene just to be forced to start dialogue "what`s next" starting another cutscene. They tried to make it too story focused it broke arpg pacing completely. By the end i was seriously annoyed about that. Open world formula works against pacing too(or its implementation). While horsing you are sometimes forced to get off horse just to climb/crawl and hop on horse again while you just want to kill more monsters.

2 - balance is completely broken. I bought standard edition but afaik expansion makes it even worse. Difficulty levels are not helping. You either choose cakewalk levels or impossible to play levels. There is no middleground which takes all the enjoyment out of it.

3 - There is zero epicness in the campaign. Bossfights are dull, they even lack music. Comparing this to Geonor fight make d4 campaign simply funny experience.

Bonus - story is subjective topic. While d4 campaign had its moments it was definitely wasted potential by infantile netflix-like approach. But i don`t want to talk about that. Poe2 gives you easy way to skip all the story if you don`t care about that. You can zoom through zones, quest without caring at all about story. That`s not the case about d4. Amount of dialogues and cutscenes is too big and skipping them not that quick/simple as in poe2.

So if i was blizzard and knew how dogshit experience is their campaign i would allow optional skip too. Poe2 campaign is 10/10 experience in comparison and i don`t mind playing it two three times a season because it`s fun and polished. [/quote]