Wowbagger_TIP wrote on May 19, 2012, 01:11:
eunichron wrote on May 18, 2012, 21:51:
That is why I hated Path of Exile so much when I tried the beta. It was everything that was terrible about Diablo 2 without anything new. It was like the developers saw how "different" Diablo 3 was and decided to make a re-imagined Diablo 2, but without the good story and interesting classes, abilities, and enemies. All you're left with is a Skinner box without any veneer to hide the fact that it's a Skinner box (as Diablo [all three of them] has done).
Not that you don't have a point about the D1/2 devs not guaranteeing a good game, but Path of Exile hasn't even introduced the story elements into the game yet. They're still in closed beta and have deliberately left a lot of stuff out so as not to ruin the story for everyone. So passing judgement on that at this point is just nonsensical. Right now it's just basic quests and mechanics in the game.
I didn't know that, and that is good to know, but overall it seemed like a much more shallow gameplay experience than Diablo 3 or Torchlight 2. I honestly can't fathom what anyone sees in that game, other than the skill web, which while a decent enough replacement for a skill tree still seems convoluted and superfluous.