/v/ - Video Games

>poe

>grim dawn

shit meme games trying to copy the glory of diablo 2. protip: they failed.

>whispering price fixers

This league is fucking trash. Dropped it day 3.

Yes and it's also shit.

>>14524487

I'm so goddamn tired of doing the same thing over and over again in PoE leagues; they cannot make it new and refreshing enough to warrant making me come back for a new league every three months. Just getting to the point where it's considered the endgame is tedious.

I sure as shit don't know how people are grinding it out to lower tier maps within six to eight hours like they claim they're doing. Maybe it's because I'm not fully planning out every facet of my characters before I make and level them, but one shouldn't have to go through such lengths.

>>14524509

>implying I can tell when some douchebag is price fixing

>>14524624

>I sure as shit don't know how people are grinding it out to lower tier maps within six to eight hours like they claim they're doing

Honestly, even though I'm a completionist who explores every inch of the map the acts seems to go by pretty quickly. I imagine those are the people who rush through only killing magic and rare mobs.

Still, I just want to be able to do maps from the start instead of going through 10 acts.

I really fucking hate D3 and this shit.

Nobody will accept that this game would be more fun with stuff like auto-pick up or action house because of this failure Blizzard created. D3 was so shit it not only fucked over its own franchise it fucked over its genre. Anything good about D3 is ignored and avoided solely because it was in D3.

Plus I actually liked real money ah because I don't give a fuck about being top tier and I liked being able to make some money while playing the game.

>>14524509

This game has mechanic like Labyrinth. This game has people actually making characters around doing only Labyrinth because it is actually valid way to make a lot of currency.

This game is actually centered around doing content with limited portals.

You don't need to be a price fixer or even an asshole to ignore trade requests. You can just play the game like it is intended to be played.

Welcome to post-WoW online gaming.

>>14524661

>>14524624

>I sure as shit don't know how people are grinding it out to lower tier maps within six to eight hours like they claim they're doing

With resource sharing teams trained to speedrun the game. Bestiary a shit though. League is hot fucking garbage.

Can I play this singleplayer game without registering my ass and staying online yet?

No?

Fuck off with it then.

>>14525052

It's not a singleplayer game Unless you ssfbtw

>>14525056

>ssfbtw

No idea what that is.

>>14524500

>glory of diablo 2

I didn't know that ARPG cucks had such low standards that diablo 2 is some kind of benchmark.

i have a friend who switched to standard this league, i just stopped playing

>>14525066

solo self found. It means you can't trade with other players, I.E. you have to buy a shitload of tabs to store every piece of garbage you find in hopes of using it someday or you risk on passing on a build enabling item. It's mostly played by circlejerkers.

>>14525066

Solo self found.

You cannot trade or party with other people. It pretty much removes MMO from PoE, besides server lag and desyncs. For whatever reason it is still always online.

It is very good news if you have shit internet, which always prevented you from playing HC. Please kill me.

>>14525081

Sounds like jewery.

>>14524500

Diablo 2 is crap as well. 3 was honestly the only good game in the series.

>>14525100

>>14525081

>>14525066

Is that an actual thing or is it just self imposed?

>>14525385

it is a selectable mode in the game, yes, it's not self-imposed.

>>14525388

Oh neat. I love challenges like that in games because it keeps things fresh on a replay.

>>14525385

It used to be self imposed, it became so popular the developers added it to the game.

>>14525412

Right that makes sense. Nice to see devs do something like that.

the devs hung onto the game too tightly instead of giving it to the people to mod, no offline modes, no fun tbh

I'm in act 3 and didn't have a singe interaction with other people, it's a good single player game

>>14527877

>I'm in act 3 and didn't have a singe interaction with other people, it's a good single player game

That requires an account and an always online connection (from being f2p). I still remember rubberbanding like mad and dying in hardcore because of that.

>>14527931

>Account

>Smash dick on keyboard to make a disposable email address

>Use it once (maybe) for verification

>And a password

wow hard

>>14527848

wizard route of nox was a lot of fun

>>14524500

man you're Delusional. PoE is "THE" game to play right now if you're into Diablo games. Grim Dawn is also very nice.

>>14524500

grim dawn is a great game though

>>14527998

yeah sitting there and making 90 trades because the itemization is god awful is the best!

Don't forget to grind the same 4 maps over and over again for hours at a time to have a chance of getting more currency to trade with, because you will not get anything good.

Also don't forget the wide variety of builds you can do like High HP character with massive AoE or High ES character with massive AoE

>>14529736

Well he's not wrong. If you're a fan of ARPG's the only competition POE really has is Grim Dawn. Despite its flaws POE is basically the top ARPG right now.

Trading is fucking AIDS though.

PoE is shit

the communtiy is shit

and the genre is SHIT

>>14524487

One of 3 things happened:

>the item has already been sold

You are not the only one playing the game. You are not the only one who wants to buy the cheapest copy of the item.

>the seller is afk

shit happens

>the seller is trying to price fix

Cunts.

>>14524500

PoE is the sequel that D2 never had. Chances are if you dislike PoE you would probably dislike D2 as well if you played it for the first time today.

>>14530253

Please Grim dawn at least has build variety that's not "lol AoE and HP or equivalent"

>>14531693

>the item has already been sold

Not entirely sure but I think if it's sold it gets removed from the site (I use both poe.trade and GGG's official trade app).

>the seller is afk

I make sure their status says online before messaging.

People should just stop being lazy and put some effort into unlisting their shit if it's not valuable enough for them to put the time into responding to others.

>>14531819

Grim Dawn is a great ARPG, but you're forgetting other important aspect. Like the fact POE has 3 years on it, more content, better graphics, and a bigger community.

Maybe he was epic trolling me but someone I whispered to trade said to use the poe.trade chat or something? I also whispered someone from Global (granted for a retarded reason) and he said "Don't EVER whisper me if you don't know me." What a total spastic douchelord.

>>14533328

>more content

That's arguable because the entire endgame is maps which is a horrible system, It's the one thing that somehow diablo 3 managed to bungle it's way into being better than PoE at. And the community is awful because it's a fucking command economy simulator more than an actual ARPG.

>>14525379

One was solid, but yeah, three is better. ARPGs are just terrible in general.

>>14534418

>It's the one thing that somehow diablo 3 managed to bungle it's way into being better than PoE at.

you wish, Nephalem Rifts are fucking garbage.

>>14534495

They're better than getting screwed by RNG and having to run redundant maps for 3 hours

>>14534495

or the exciting high stakes gambli… I mean "crafting" that you can do with maps.

>>14534497

Greater Rifts are the definition of RNG you mongoloid. The endgame of D3 is literally just fishing for the perfect pylon placements and mob types. The atlas system in POE is far more interesting and fun than D3 rifting.

The community is pretty garbage for both games.

>>14534876

>The community is pretty garbage for both games.

Any community in a F2P game is garbo tbh.

>>14536128

>garbo

Unless you mean Greta get the fuck out.

>>14541658

>Look up Greta Garbo

>It was an actual person

Oh neat.

>>14536128

I can't even think of an online game period with a decent community. The last one I remember is EverQuest. Sure, there's low population games with okay communities but I think EQ was the last fairly popular one.

>>14524487

No it's just filled with fags who don't speak english.

>>14550199

Слышь бля сам ты фаг.

I wish there was a way to play this completely solo instanced. I don't wanna see all these gyppos standing around in the hubs.

>>14550902

Isn't that what Solo-Self Found is? I haven't tried that mode so idk if it gets rid of people in towns.

Path of Exile is alright on HC but it has the be one of the most poorly optimized games out there. People with top of the line PCs still complain about fps drops.

Once you played one season it feels like you played them all though. Gradually you will get tired of the process of remaking a farmer every season to grind 1000 maps to fund something you might actually enjoy playing.

>>14524487

PoE a shit. Too heavy of a gear focus and no offline mode killed it for me. Also getting one-shot from something off screen was kinda bullshit too.

>unironically thinking d3 is anything other then a stinking pile of desiccated turds

poe isnt perfect and ive never played grim dawn, but you would have to have downs to think d3 is good at anything.

>no offline mode despite there being a game mode solely reliant on you not getting lag spiked to death

>flasks are OP even after a massive series of nerfs

>any leagues post breach are a fucking snoozefest of chinks ricing for currency

>late-game bosses consist solely of facetanking and OHKO's

>fucked economy thanks to MF uniques

yea fuck this game

PoE could be an excellent game if the developers had the balls or sense to do the following things:

- Allow for meaningful item progression without the hellish experience that is trading

- Enable interesting and challenging gameplay instead of relying on OHKOs by removing the ability to instantly log-out

- Demolish the entirely too fucking random and currency dependent map end-game. Rework the system so that it is based on permanent progression and/or self-chosen difficulty (with correspending rewards)

>>14544368

Nothing popular anyway.

Never even heard of bots here to be honest. But I'm used to getting ignored in trade, yeah.

>>14559234

It's an MMO-lite in some ways and there are always bots in an MMO.

Anyone know how to avoid the massive lag spikes on first shader use when playing in wine?

I have to basically try every bossfight twice because I die on the first try while the game is frozen for several seconds. I get 80-90fps otherwise.

>>14524487

I turned off the chat, I play it as a single player game, because that's what it basically is

Granted it's in early access and I didn't buy it but wolcen looks neat

>>14561739

>Anyone know how to avoid the massive lag spikes on first shader use when playing in wine?

Play on Windows.

>>14568967

>>>/tech/

>>14561759

Explain.

>>14524500

The Diablo games are fucking shit, there are dozens of games that took the fun elements from it but made actual games out of them like Divine Divinity instead of skinner box progression ladders that the Diablo series is.

>>14524500

PoE and Grim Dawn failed as games because the devs forgot to make the journey to the endless grind fun. Going through the story and all the acts is a massive fucking chore because the combat isn't fun, the enemies are dull, the bosses and characters forgetable, and the areas lifeless. Flayer Jungle has more to it than any fucking zone in Grim Dawn or PoE and it's the second worst area in Diablo 2. Worst one being Great Marsh, especially when Act 3 is generated so you're forced to go through the Great Marsh to reach the Flayer Jungle. It's as if these devs thought what made Diablo 2 great was the grind to 99 and doing endless Meph/Diablo/Pindle/Baal/cow runs.

>>14571180

>Divine Divinity is good

>Diablo 2 is bad

>>>/reddit/

>>14533328

The site takes a few minutes to update. If you have a decent item for sale you sometimes get messages up to 5 minutes after it sold. Likewise, it takes a few minutes to actually mark someone as AFK in-game, and then the site takes a few more minutes to index that the player is AFK. Players also tend to just ignore if they dont feel like leaving a map (which some higher end players wont do for less than a few chaos) or if it already sold.

I like the trading system, it requires patience and sometimes feels like you're running your own store. It's an engaging system to me, a lot more interesting than pressing a button and getting an item from an anonymous user you never see again. People should give it a chance.

>>14574646

He's actually right though.

>>14525379

>Diablo 3 was the best console game

Fixed. Say what you will about the PC version but the console version is the closest we will get to a new good arpg like dark alliance or champions of norrath.

Best game in its genre for years.

No idea why people are playing PoE when they can be playing Grim Dawn. Literally better in every single way.

>>14571262

The fuck are you on about. This genre was never about the grind, it was always about going through the campaign/story whatever you want to name it, and end it at that. There was never an 'end-game' where you replayed the same shit over and over again.

Go the fuck back to reddit, plebian. Just the way you speak of this show you're not even old enough to have been around when DIablo 2 was still a thing.

>>14574646

The juxtaposition of a redditor telling someone else to go back to reddit.

>>14588835

It's free.