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Eternity If you liked POE1 you have shit taste in games. (my review)

SkiNNyBane

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This was my 3rd time trying to finish the game due to a few people saying hey its not that bad especially after the patches. First was on release version hard where the game became braindead after first 1/3 of the game. Then I tried it on potd where it again became braindead passed first 1/3 of the game. If any fight was actually challenging I could just put my tank in doorway and cast random shit on enemies - ez game ez life.

Then came the "patches fixed the game" codextards. Again I start on POTD The patches put band aids on unsalvageable game. It's like installing mods for witcher 3 to make combat less braindead - it doesn't fucking work. The game is broken at the very core. Yes some of the abilities and tactics didn't work so well, instead having swarms of teleporting crap to deal with.

_Combat_ (POTD fuck off if you played diapers mode)

* Nearly every ability/spell in the game is completely useless and not worth the time it takes to cast. The abilities that are useful you just spam over and over. Choices here are illusions. The few spells that aren't useless are mostly boring acc buffs.

* The only "strategy" in the game due to the shit engagement system is to put tanks in doorways. Since the last version of the game, this doesn't work sometimes. If you have massively teleportating gameplay situation you can surround your squishes with tanks at a corner so that enemies can't teleport on top of them.

You can do the really tedious abuse of the game where you send you tanks first wait until everything is engaged and committed and then bring your backline from a mile away. Alternatively the easiest way to deal with new bullshit is just don't have a backline. Make a party of primary tanks and secondary tanks who use long reach dicks.

* Engagement system makes mobility during combat highly restrictive. Why would using physical movement/positioning as a strategy be something that needs a mechanic against? This is such an incredibly dumb design decision. Fun is not allowed boys.

* Why the fuck are there 1000000000 different "tanky" attributes. Yea that doesn't even sound like a good idea ON PAPER.

* Combat is so fast that you can spend nearly all of it in pause mode. If the speed isn't the issue, its because the visibility is so poor you have to pause to let your mind make sense of the shitstorm happening.

* The optimum way to play seems to be to buff the shit out of your accuracy and do 1000000 dps with pure physical dps characters and ignore the shitshow that are abilities/spells.

* Endurance system is poorly thought out. Winning feels very unsatisfying because you can still win despite losing because your characters just get up. Alternatively you lose despite winning because you still have to go back to town for camping gear because of sheer amount of copy pasta encounters that like to teleport on top of your squishies that apparently develop victim mentality that lowers their maximum endurance.

_ Items _

* Unique items are uniquely trash at being unique.

* There are basically two viable choices for armor. Light and ultra heavy. Who the fuck thought that doing everything 30% + slower would be acceptable for a few + dr especially in a game where combat is both over fast and casting/reloading takes so fucking long.

* Why are half of the enchantments specific to a prticular creature type? Yea let me spend money real quick so I can do +1 damage for just this encounter. ???

_ Game / Story _

* What was the point of spending all that money on the keep? That was obviously an unfinished feature.

* Outside of few main encounters the quests/atmosphere lacks meaning. Too many mmo style fetch quests. And how could it be any different gives how many of them there are? It is like instead of throwing out the trash ideas they just made a separate quest for each of them.

* Writing is mostly walls of text for little reward. Skipping text became irresistible urge very fast. There are very few charming, clever, morally interesting situations to want to explore through text. HELP BRING ME THIS SHIT K THX THE END

* Traveling through the same places gets old really fast especially to finish the trash quests that send you back and forth or refill your 2x camping gear.

* C&C is basically an illusion during conversation. Every conversation choice is basically : I am jesus please give me an item instead of gold. I am decent human being but I like gold. I am an edgelord who will rape and pillage your town because I am on my second play-through.

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I rate this game - if you have nothing to play to a point of attempting this game, you should just read a novel.
 
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There seems to be an influx of people that joined since Autumn/Winter 2017 who copy writing style, demeanor and craving for recognition from old Dexers, just without the charm or occasional knowledge.
At first I thought they were alts to troll the RPG subforum, but I'm not so sure anymore.
 

PrettyDeadman

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This was my 3rd time trying to finish the game due to a few people saying hey its not that bad especially after the patches. First was on release version hard where the game became braindead after first 1/3 of the game. Then I tried it on potd where it again became braindead passed first 1/3 of the game. If any fight was actually challenging I could just put my tank in doorway and cast random shit on enemies - ez game ez life.

Then came the "patches fixed the game" codextards. Again I start on POTD The patches put band aids on unsalvageable game. It's like installing mods for witcher 3 to make combat less braindead - it doesn't fucking work. The game is broken at the very core. Yes some of the abilities and tactics didn't work so well, instead having swarms of teleporting crap to deal with.

_Combat_ (POTD fuck off if you played diapers mode)

* Nearly every ability/spell in the game is completely useless and not worth the time it takes to cast. The abilities that are useful you just spam over and over. Choices here are illusions. The few spells that aren't useless are mostly boring acc buffs.

* The only "strategy" in the game due to the shit engagement system is to put tanks in doorways. Since the last version of the game, this doesn't work sometimes. If you have massively teleportating gameplay situation you can surround your squishes with tanks at a corner so that enemies can't teleport on top of them.

You can do the really tedious abuse of the game where you send you tanks first wait until everything is engaged and committed and then bring your backline from a mile away. Alternatively the easiest way to deal with new bullshit is just don't have a backline. Make a party of primary tanks and secondary tanks who use long reach dicks.

* Engagement system makes mobility during combat highly restrictive. Why would using physical movement/positioning as a strategy be something that needs a mechanic against? This is such an incredibly dumb design decision. Fun is not allowed boys.

* Why the fuck are there 1000000000 different "tanky" attributes. Yea that doesn't even sound like a good idea ON PAPER.

* Combat is so fast that you can spend nearly all of it in pause mode. If the speed isn't the issue, its because the visibility is so poor you have to pause to let your mind make sense of the shitstorm happening.

* The optimum way to play seems to be to buff the shit out of your accuracy and do 1000000 dps with pure physical dps characters and ignore the shitshow that are abilities/spells.

* Endurance system is poorly thought out. Winning feels very unsatisfying because you can still win despite losing because your characters just get up. Alternatively you lose despite winning because you still have to go back to town for camping gear because of sheer amount of copy pasta encounters that like to teleport on top of your squishies that apparently develop victim mentality that lowers their maximum endurance.

_ Items _

* Unique items are uniquely trash at being unique.

* There are basically two viable choices for armor. Light and ultra heavy. Who the fuck thought that doing everything 30% + slower would be acceptable for a few + dr especially in a game where combat is both over fast and casting/reloading takes so fucking long.

* Why are half of the enchantments specific to a prticular creature type? Yea let me spend money real quick so I can do +1 damage for just this encounter. ???

_ Game / Story _

* What was the point of spending all that money on the keep? That was obviously an unfinished feature.

* Outside of few main encounters the quests/atmosphere lacks meaning. Too many mmo style fetch quests. And how could it be any different gives how many of them there are? It is like instead of throwing out the trash ideas they just made a separate quest for each of them.

* Writing is mostly walls of text for little reward. Skipping text became irresistible urge very fast. There are very few charming, clever, morally interesting situations to want to explore through text. HELP BRING ME THIS SHIT K THX THE END

* Traveling through the same places gets old really fast especially to finish the trash quests that send you back and forth or refill your 2x camping gear.

* C&C is basically an illusion during conversation. Every conversation choice is basically : I am jesus please give me an item instead of gold. I am decent human being but I like gold. I am an edgelord who will rape and pillage your town because I am on my second play-through.

__

I rate this game - if you have nothing to play to a point of attempting this game, you should just read a novel.


Tell me what game you like so that I can tell whether your tastes in gaming are shit and you are qualified to judge whether games are shit or good. Considering your registration date I am 90% certain you have shit tastes in games.
 

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There seems to be an influx of people that joined since Autumn/Winter 2017 who copy writing style, demeanor and craving for recognition from old Dexers, just without the charm or occasional knowledge.
At first I thought they were alts to troll the RPG subforum, but I'm not so sure anymore.

Yes you oldfag codexers are very special unique snowflakes that everyone tries really hard to emulate but fails. You are not at all like your average online shit poster on any community ever. I try really hard for my parrots and I am very sad it displeases the oldfag senpai masters.
 
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Didn't like the game at all either but this post is unnecessarily edgy. There's plenty of people here who enjoy crap like NWN1 and Morrowind who otherwise enjoy good games.




An example of a game that is only possible for morons to like would be something like the Dragon Age games or Mass Effect.


There seems to be an influx of people that joined since Autumn/Winter 2017 who copy writing style, demeanor and craving for recognition from old Dexers, just without the charm or occasional knowledge.
At first I thought they were alts to troll the RPG subforum, but I'm not so sure anymore.

You're from winter 2017 lol
 

SkiNNyBane

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Tell me what game you like so that I can tell whether your tastes in gaming are shit and you are qualified to judge whether games are shit or good. Considering your registration date I am 90% certain you have shit tastes in games.

The classic codex drools like fallout2, arcanum, planescape had combat that was trash but didn't force itself on you as much. But the adventure aspects of them were amazing.

I guess dark souls, homeworld, hollow knight, audiosurf, xcom were pretty damn good. But I mainly play competitive multiplayer games because generally if I want gameplay people are superior to ai to play against.
 

SkiNNyBane

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Didn't like the game at all either but this post is unnecessarily edgy. There's plenty of people here who enjoy crap like NWN1 and Morrowind who otherwise enjoy good games.




An example of a game that is only possible for morons to like would be something like the Dragon Age games or Mass Effect.




You're from winter 2017 lol


The problem is precisely because its not obviously bad that got me to keep trying it. That's the reason for the edge tone because I want others to not repeat my mistake and consider it undoubtedly bad.
 

fobia

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I'm not an oldfag SkiNNyBane.
I'm saying that shitposters like you have been becoming an even greater nuisance than before, that's all. Also you seem to be very similar, in your opinions and writing style. You use typical codex-speech, are edgy as fuck and either ignore punctuation and grammer or basic formatting in your posts.
It just strikes me as interesting is all.

Micormic Yeah, I'm not saying the registration date is the reason for the shitty posts, but a lot of people who now shitpost joined then.
 

SkiNNyBane

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I'm not an oldfag SkiNNyBane.
I'm saying that shitposters like you have been becoming an even greater nuisance than before, that's all. Also you seem to be very similar, in your opinions and writing style. You use typical codex-speech, are edgy as fuck and either ignore punctuation and grammer or basic formatting in your posts.
It just strikes me as interesting is all.

Micormic Yeah, I'm not saying the registeration date is the reason for the shitty posts, but a lot of people who now shitpost joined then.

Responds to a post with shit ton of actual points with blatant high horse bullshit that is ACTUALLY trolling then proceeds to unironically call others trolls.

I am sorry dude I am obviously not getting paid for my writing. There is only so much editing with punctuation effort I am going to give a random forum post.

You sound mad did you get offended that I called your favorite game shit? I am sorry dude I will surely private message your permission not to hurt your feeling in the future.
 
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I'm not an oldfag SkiNNyBane.
I'm saying that shitposters like you have been becoming an even greater nuisance than before, that's all. Also you seem to be very similar, in your opinions and writing style. You use typical codex-speech, are edgy as fuck and either ignore punctuation and grammer or basic formatting in your posts.
It just strikes me as interesting is all.

Micormic Yeah, I'm not saying the registration date is the reason for the shitty posts, but a lot of people who now shitpost joined then.


This forum has had a problem with a mass migration of morons literally since 2006 or so when Oblivion came out. People like the OP are nothing new here lol.
 
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Joined passed 2006 - checks out.


I had another account before, not that I even care about arguing with you. I didn't even read your entire post because I don't give a shit about POE, or you for that matter.



You tried to play a shitty game 3 different times for several hours then made a post bitching about it on the internet. I literally played poe for like 75 minutes before realizing it was complete shit.
 

PrettyDeadman

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The classic codex drools like fallout2, arcanum, planescape had combat that was trash but didn't force itself on you as much. But the adventure aspects of them were amazing.

I guess dark souls, homeworld, hollow knight, audiosurf, xcom were pretty damn good. But I mainly play competitive multiplayer games because generally if I want gameplay people are superior to ai to play against.

Just as I suspected, you tastes are pretty shit, even for a pleb.
 

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I had another account before, not that I even care about arguing with you. I didn't even read your entire post because I don't give a shit about POE, or you for that matter.



You tried to play a shitty game 3 different times for several hours then made a post bitching about it on the internet. I literally played poe for like 75 minutes before realizing it was complete shit.

Then gtfo of this thread your nothing buy annoying by your own admission.
 

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There seems to be an influx of people that joined since Autumn/Winter 2017 who copy writing style, demeanor and craving for recognition from old Dexers, just without the charm or occasional knowledge.
At first I thought they were alts to troll the RPG subforum, but I'm not so sure anymore.
I warned everyone that we need to shut down immigration until we can vet who these people are.
 

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Fixed for you.


Also I won't be leaving this thread, this is gonna be pure retard vs retard entertainment.

Oh the irony. Your here for exact same reason I am here but you have to act high horse about it. It's like shaming those who watch hentai while watching blacked pornhub.
 

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How can a person who says that they liked Planescape:Torment unironically criticize POE? I mean I get how, some people lack any sense of self-awareness, but still, its just bizarre
 
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Like how can a person who says that Planescape:Torment is his favourite rpg unironically criticize POE? I mean I get how, some people lack any sense of self-awareness, but still, its just bizarre

My favorite rpg is quake champions. I already stated this in another thread. My second favorite is dark souls tho.
 
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Oh the irony. Your here for exact same reason I am here but you have to act high horse about it. It's like shaming those who watch hentai while watching blacked pornhub.


I don't know what hentai is and I don't watch pornhub.



I guess being an internet competitive multiplayer gamer has given you a-lots of knowledge on these things :D
 

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