Path of Exile - Page 133

On August 19 2012 11:41 sob3k wrote:
Well, I bought this game after being really sick of D3 and being really impressed with the passive tree....well, the passive tree is great but I have to say the game isn't very entertaing.

The combat is just so incredibly unresponsive I just cant handle it, bigger skills have absurdly slow animations and cast times, and your attack range is frustratingly low and uninterruptible. I feel like im playing diablo 1, and thats not a good thing. Trying to actually kite or dodge projectiles is like slogging through cement, and the hitboxes are irregular and unintuitive on any type of AOE. Enemies are ok, but many death animations are incredible unclear/slow, so its difficult to tell when you have actually killed something, which leads too a lot of swinging at air.

The potion system further dumbs down the fighting, as most of the time i feel like the best strategy is to stand still and spam while chugging pots to maximize DPS.

The items are obnoxiously enormous and your inventory is stupidly tiny, this combined with the limited ID scrolls and TP makes collecting loot a pain in the ass. The human response to finding something with mystery stats is to want to look at them, its basic curiosity. Unfortunately I have to sell probably more than 90% of my items unid, which also makes most of the items in the game seem more boring as they have no distinguishing characteristics you ever see.

Interface is not efficient in many cases, and is displays information crappily. As a basic example:



Skill gems redundantly use an entire line to show the gem level which is already shown in the title. The experience bar which is shown on the side of your screen and is relatively unimportant information is also redundantly shown in top billing, while the actual stats are separated by a fat lump of descriptive text you will only ever need to read once or twice.



Flasks measure their capacity in charges, then a drink uses some random number of charges....Why not just measure the capacity in actual uses (drinks) and cut out this completely pointless conversion? Why is the recovery and recovery time split into two lines? Why not just say "Mana Recovery: 100 over 7 seconds".

Not being able to equip items from the selling screen is obnoxious. Casting speed is not a visible stat in the character screen.

These small poor design decisions stack up and make the GUI clumsy and ugly. You want to see the information at a glance, not search through an excel spreadsheet.

The currency system is ok, but I wouldn't call it an improvement on gold by any measure. Its confusing and clumsy when there is no way to efficiently sort these 40 different tiny items that you have to walk to stash to unload every time you town to sell shit. There is a reason why people in the real world avoid barter systems when they can. Odd facts like the minumum selling price of one scroll fragment also results in strange situations where you can sell a stack of 10 transmutation shards for one scroll fragment...or split the stack into 10 individual transmutation shards and sell them individually for 10 scroll fragments....For player player trading, having to use these trinkets is just flat out clumsy, as nobody really understands their absolute value, people will end up using one or two as a default currency, so why not just make add gold and simplify the whole process?

I know the game is still under development, so I'm not saying its hopeless, but they have a long way to go before I would actually consider playing often or recommending it to friends.

EDIT: the music is really awesome