roshan
Arcane
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2004
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Things I appreciate about the game:
- Love the fact that it seems the camera never moves without you moving it. Shadowrun, Dragonfall and Halfway were really fucking annoying with that stupid tablet bullshit where they kept on automatically moving the camera around and so you had to keep on moving it back. Even basic actions like reloading weapons were bloody painful in those games. In PoE you can double click on a location, character portrait or minimap point to have the camera center on it, of course this is nothing new, basic IE functionality, but after the games I played in 2014 it feels like a breathe of fresh air. Funny how the game's best elements were lifted directly from the Infinity Engine.
- Enjoying the lore when it focuses on the sociopolitical stuff, like the settlement of the Dyrwood, but the soul bits are generally cringeworthy and annoying.
- Although pretty much everything I complained about before release (autoresurrection, regeneration, running, engagement etc.) have actually turned out to be terrible mechanics, the magic stash may be Sawyer's one good design decision, the feather in his cap.
Some stuff that doesn't work:
- There's tons of items that I am finding, mostly food and drink, that go directly into the stash as their bonuses won't likely even amount to anything in game. A dish that gives you +1 to might for 150 seconds.... Am I really supposed to bother with something that will give my character an additional 3% to damage???
- This whole reaching out to someone's soul is bloody annoying. Are these short stories just in the game as backer rewards?
- Love the fact that it seems the camera never moves without you moving it. Shadowrun, Dragonfall and Halfway were really fucking annoying with that stupid tablet bullshit where they kept on automatically moving the camera around and so you had to keep on moving it back. Even basic actions like reloading weapons were bloody painful in those games. In PoE you can double click on a location, character portrait or minimap point to have the camera center on it, of course this is nothing new, basic IE functionality, but after the games I played in 2014 it feels like a breathe of fresh air. Funny how the game's best elements were lifted directly from the Infinity Engine.
- Enjoying the lore when it focuses on the sociopolitical stuff, like the settlement of the Dyrwood, but the soul bits are generally cringeworthy and annoying.
- Although pretty much everything I complained about before release (autoresurrection, regeneration, running, engagement etc.) have actually turned out to be terrible mechanics, the magic stash may be Sawyer's one good design decision, the feather in his cap.
Some stuff that doesn't work:
- There's tons of items that I am finding, mostly food and drink, that go directly into the stash as their bonuses won't likely even amount to anything in game. A dish that gives you +1 to might for 150 seconds.... Am I really supposed to bother with something that will give my character an additional 3% to damage???
- This whole reaching out to someone's soul is bloody annoying. Are these short stories just in the game as backer rewards?
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