Quickly, name me 3 good things about PoE, you cuck
I dont really care that much about POE but
1-Nice looking 2d isometric graphics
2-Music that creates like half of the atmosphere in the game
3-A lot of different character creation builds (classes, races, abilities etc)
Also POE gets like 100 times better after 2 expansion packs and 3.05 patch
Finally something I can reason with, kind stranger you are
1 - Noted. I'd even add that some environments are gorgeous. But many isometric games have fairly nice-looking visuals, its not rare, its not very hard, and it does nothing for core gameplay
2 - Music is fairly decent, nothing memorable though. The menu theme becomes vomit after 2 days
3 - None of which were balanced. Chanters, Druids and Cyphers rekt everything, Rogues and Monks sucked ass. Everyone picked Godlikes, maybe Orlans, none picked Dwarves and Elves. The whole blind pursuit of all-mighty Balance was for naught.
4 - So did WL2 with DC
I actually never said that POE was some flawless masterpiece, just named couple of things i personally enjoyed. Also this thread is mostly about comparing POE to W2 and i think poe wins hands down. Lets go again
1 Visuals-you must admit that W2 didnt just look bad at the start, it looked horrendous, that cheap 3d with an awkward camera and God awful character models.....
2Music-yeah I know that Mark Morgan himself wrote it for W2 but there is no way in hell you can call music in POE forgettable but say anything good about w2 soundtrack, i actually wanted to switch it off when i got to LA.
3 Balance and character builds oh man dont get me started...... having critical failures when you have like 90% chance to open the lock......
4 Directors cut was a nice improvement (especially considering that people who already owned W2 got it for free) but it can not be compared to what POE was at the release and what it is now.
As for companies themselves. I can not possibly forgive inxile after what they did with torment, after they spat on people who actually made it possible to create that game. inxile is dead to me.