Thats true. It was also my biggest gripe. The lost of randomized world design. That was a huge draw to previous installments. I will say I liked D1’s version where you only had one hub, and everything, and i mean EVERYTHING was below the church. That was a nice dungeon crawl and when you unlocked a shortcut it felt legendary.
Make the world static and the same everywhere barring some dungeons felt like a massive step in the wrong direction. Along with seeing other players. id rather feel along in my world with a world chat than see a bunch of people to be honest.
What blows my mind is that they KNEW about the stash tab/inventory issues causing lag and STILL went with this garbage design. There must be some non negotiable demands from the monetization team driving that decision.
There’s no such thing as PC first anymore - not from AAA at least. Publishers only care about what’s cheap.
That said, console first is great for gamers, considering that Nvidia believes their video cards are worth $1500. My xbox runs d4 at perfect 60fps. That’s good enough for me. I own both PC and console editions and there’s no benefit to PC other than being able to alt tab out to go look at the external websites you need just to play this hunka.
Here is a list of PC exclusive games one is even being published by Sega so don’t sit there and tell me its not a thing anymore. They sold Diablo 4 as a PC first game and it is not a PC first game it is a console first game.
Anger Foot https://store.steampowered.com/app/1978590/Anger_Foot/
Release Date: 2024
Developed by: Free Lives
Published by: Devolver Digital
Skate Story https://store.steampowered.com/app/1263240/Skate_Story/
Release Date: Sometime 2023
Developed by: Sam Eng
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Jagged Alliance 3 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084160/Jagged_Alliance_3/
Release Date: July 14, 2023
Developed By: Haemimont Games
Published By: THQ Nordic
For the King II https://store.steampowered.com/app/1676840/For_The_King_II/
Release Date: Sometime 2023
Developed by: IronOak Games
Published by: Curve Games
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-lord-of-the-rings-return-to-moria-f01344
Release Date: Sometime 2023
Developed By: Free Range Games
Published By: North Beach Games
Total War: Pharaoh https://store.steampowered.com/app/1937780/Total_War_PHARAOH/
Release Date: October 2023
Developed By: Creative Assembly
Published By: SEGA
Homeworld 3 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1840080/Homeworld_3/
Release Date: February 2024
Developed By: Blackbird Interactive
Published By: Gearbox Publishing
Palworld https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/
Release Date: January 2024
Developed By: Pocketpair
Published By: Pocketpair
The Time I Have Left https://store.steampowered.com/app/1918830/The_Time_I_Have_Left/
Release Date: December 2023
Developed By: GROUND Game Atelier
Published By: GROUND Game Atelier
The Day Before https://www.daybeforegame.com/
Release Date: November 10, 2023
Developed By: Fntastic
Published By: MyTona
PoE has and PoE2 will continue to have, it’s own problems as well.
We’ll see what D4 grows into over the next 1-2 years when they push a new marketing campaign to show everyone how much better the game has become and to come back (since you own it anyway).
Yeah I was a little weirded out by that. I enjoyed the time I had with d4, till the patch, and saw how the battlepass was handled. I really wasnt comfy seeing other people in my game. Like I liked how in d1,2,3 you could clear an area, then leave you pc and go get a snack, do some chores or something, and not worry about being murdered due to respawns.
which is why I feel they should have made the game look like wow. if they wanted wow, they should have made it wow.
ofc, we’re almost done with our season and it was a blast. Now we just hanging around in other forum with the whiteknights that should play their loved game instead of hanging here around with us…says a lot about your game
chain lightning is gonna feel good now. the biggest issue I had was mana. if I was fighting one guy it was fine because mana per bounce but groups suck. now it will feel good do more dmg and chain more times. I’m actually excited to test it all out.
I didn’t use chatGPT I googled it and your entire argument fell through and now you are trying to debate what company is a AAA company and what isn’t.
Sega was a AAA company long before you were probably born. They fell off some time later due to sega cd/dreamcast era where cd’s were still to expensive for the time. Then few years down the road when cd’s became cheaper PlayStation came out and was a huge hit putting Sega outta business for a long time. They are now coming back and showing they are still the same powerhouse company they were 30 years ago.
THQ Nordic is a well known AAA company thats released well known games like Darksiders series.
Just stop please. I destroyed your argument about there not being AAA games that are PC exclusive anymore and all you are doing is adding to the fact that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Imagine if you were writing this about another ARPG, a time before D4, and pointing to D4 and saying the same thing that you are about POE2 now. Did they specifically say that in the video? How can you know until you’ve seen the weaknesses of their engine first hand?
I’m excited for Path of Exile II but making it its own separate game is questionable. Path of Exile already struggles to maintain some semblance of balance underneath its bloat and over-developed systems. Imagine having to do that for two separate games now.