Okay back ground - Diablo 1 completed
Diablo 2 completed with all characters
Diablo 2 remastered completed
Diablo 3 completed with all characters Lv 909 paragon…
Safe to say I adore Diablo. So let’s talk Diablo 4
This is a knock off of a FREE game called Path of exile.
I’m so disappointed, blizzard have been so lazy, the game sound effects and even inventory’s are the same…. Not to mention the “skill tree”
It has Lost its identity… this isn’t Diablo this is path of exile with a different story line…… who needs sacking blizzard ? Name and shame
This is what happens when you try to make a d2 clone to appease the boomers
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I sure wish it was more of a Path of Exile knock off. Except for the trading that is.
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It’s just a mess. As for the online reviewers and so called streamers What the actual F…. Obviously paid for.
And this is where you lost me… only 909? Even in season that’s extremely low.
I don’t like PoE. There has always been a nagging question when it comes to ARPGs for me, “What do you do when you get your loot, or hit level cap?”
D3 answered that by saying, “There is no level cap. Play until you want to be done.”
All other ARPGs power cap me. You may like it, but I do not. I suspect many people who enjoy D3 also do not.
I describe D2 as an old car that you fix up and show off.
D3 is a Ferrari that you drive, rev, and race.
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Crafting systems not remotely similar. D4 doesn’t even have much crafting where it’s a dominant aspect of PoE.
Trade systems not remotely similar.
None of the league mechanics or side activities PoE has adopted over the years appear to be present in D4. It could use some additional end-game systems though, so hopefully D4 adds more over time.
Nightmare Dungeons are perhaps in a very generic way similar to PoE maps, except there’s no atlas or similar system. Unless they changed it from closed beta you also have to walk to each dungeon and can’t just portal to them, which is a shame and kind of annoying. I hope they actually do let us just port to them.
Skill trees, a concept pre-dating PoE by many years including in multiple Blizzard games, are not remotely similar outside the extremely basic and generic “it’s a skill tree” observation. Paragon boards are more similar to PoE’s skill tree than the actual skill tree, but even in those it’s still less complex and annoying to navigate than PoE’s skill system.
PoE forces people to do the entire campaign on every character which I believe Blizzard has stated won’t be the case in D4.
I’m not sure generic and boring stash system is really something anyone can claim ownership over since it’s done that way in so many games, including other Blizzard games that pre-date PoE. If they were going to copy anyone’s stash system I wish they would have copied Last Epoch’s as it blows any Diablo game or PoE out of the water. Their loot filter system does as well. Also their upcoming trade system and factions are a much better approach to trade vs. no-trade than PoE or any Diablo game has ever done.
But yea, calling D4 a PoE knock off has to be trolling.
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Majority of D3 playerbase do NOT believe in a learning curve.
They don’t care that a game with depth requires a learning curve
They would rather everything be handed to them without having to work for it.
To be fair this isn’t just a D3 thing but it is common with most kids these days, TikTok has amplified the 10 second attention span to dangerous levels to the point where Blizzard and other companies are now considering making it part of their game design.
I hope the Biden admin really bans this app
I was never certain if you were a troll or not. But after this I can say without a doubt you are just wasting everyones time.
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They are probably payed shills.
Poe with different story… then it’s not Poe. Just a hack n slash game. You know they share a genre right?
I get it if it’s disappointing because feeling too much like D3 but Poe has its issues too. That’s just my personal opinion but I’m not a fan of its endgame hyper speed and flashy clearing whole screens of monsters in 1 hit gameplay. Also I don’t want that much complexity making it feel like a job.
Definitely.
I like the high complexity and depth, I dislike the endgame combat, I also dislike that the skill gems are tied to item sockets (very positive that they are changing that in the 2.0 release), and the flask system is just spammy and bad. Likely other things too.
Yes, that is exactly as bad as it is in D3.
Yeah well our Diablo nerds will rofflestomp the Poe nerds irl
I’m actually very interested in this change and will have to try it out.
I would have to disagree here.
The skills tied to skill gems and sockets with links is what makes the LEGO sandbox system possible in POE and why no other ARPG can compete with it’s diverse and unique builds.
As for End Game POE has tons of them to choose from, if you don’t like shaper you can delve.
I am a huge fan of delving the excitement of finding that secret room and blowing up that wall with dynamite to get to the secret chest is one of the most rewarding things. And the fear of darkness closing in on me keeps me on the edge of my seat. And the fact that Delve has absolutely NO end as in you can dive deeper forever infinite to the point where even BIS can no longer be enough, is just insanely impressive.
There are other end game features where you can kill shaper instantly with insane expensive gear but not delve, delve will take you for a ride and not bring you back
POE nails end game.
Yeah. That’s just a fantasy. You have no idea who plays Diablo III. No one does.
The RMAH was almost universally panned so nope. You have no idea who plays Diablo III
You have no idea what people who play Diablo III believe. You’re talking out of your hat.
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The skill gems are great. Just not the sockets on items part. It means, not unlike D3 in a way, just taken to the extreme, that you mostly care about getting the right sockets, than the items themselves. Items feel like socket carriers instead of items.
TL infinite and Undecember took more from PoE than D4.
Seeing as PoE is supposedly a FREE game how can it make more money than a game that you have to buy to play
and yet these college still expect
And thats exactly how you work
as far as I can tell you hate D4 is it doesn’t have trading like all your favourite games and all you are really doing is crying because you won’t be able to bott the game and sell your goods on the black market