POLL: Is your general sentiment towards POE negative or positive?

[adddeed]

Yeah, except that ive been playing RPGs since the 90s and I still like the game. Why? Because its a good game. If you spent less time on forum complaining about nonsense and more time playing a game you'd maybe enjoy it too.

Oh wait, I was just talking to a dumfuck. Nevermind.

 

[Kz3r0]

Yeah, except that ive been playing RPGs since the 90s and I still like the game. Why? Because its a good game. If you spent less time on forum complaining about nonsense and more time playing a game you'd maybe enjoy it too.

Oh wait, I was just talking to a dumfuck. Nevermind.

 

[GrapeJam]

Positive. Game was great, had good concepts although the execution was flawed, hope they'll do an EE edition or at least take the criticisms to heart when making POE 2.

 

[rado907]

Positive. Has the IE vibe. Marred by annoying designer choices motivated by "We just know better than the guys who made the classics." Looking forward to sequel.

 

[tdphys]

Positive. I'm optimistic the future brings better encounters , pacing and possibly engagement systems.

 

[ArchAngel]

Positive. Has the IE vibe. Marred by annoying designer choices motivated by "We just know better than the guys who made the classics." Looking forward to sequel.

/end topic :D

I am only looking forward to the sequel if they overhaul the game in it.

 

[Shannow]

Did anyone noticed how many 2015 newfags like the game?

So you're saying because I like the game and my join date is older than yours, that means the game is good. Until we find an old fag who dislikes it. Then it's shit... Until we find an older fag who likes it again. And so on until Calis (or whoever is the oldest still posting member) finally decides?

I kept out of this discussion because it's at least as retarded as certain moderators is this forum.

Some people like it, some don't, some are ambivalent. All state their reasons. Constructive criticism is given.
End of Rhine.

What's left to bitch about? Does any praising/bitching about the game change anybody's opinion? I skipped all these shitty threads, but did anybody change their minds due to posts here? I'd be extremely surprized if yes.
So find something more constructive to do than going round and round in ever the same circles.
(I know, who am I kidding. Have fun with your useless circle jerking.)

 

[Shevek]

Its funny, since roshan bumped the topic, the positive rating increased by around 2 percentage points.

I guess he has his answer.

 

[Lhynn]

Popularity has always been the best way to determine what is good and what isnt.

 

[hell bovine]

Ambivalent. The good points where overshadowed by the combat feeling like a chore. Finished and uninstalled, won't play again unless someone manages to create a complete combat overhaul (e.g. like Requiem for Skyrim).

 

[sser]

Not really negative or positive, but I wouldn't say ambivalent either. The game's aesthetically amazing. I loved all the artwork. I also really enjoyed the character of Durance. It was the jagged, screwy main story and the poor combat which had me shelving it.

 

[Zeronet]

Did anyone noticed how many 2015 newfags like the game?

So you're saying because I like the game and my join date is older than yours, that means the game is good. Until we find an old fag who dislikes it. Then it's shit... Until we find an older fag who likes it again. And so on until Calis (or whoever is the oldest still posting member) finally decides?

I kept out of this discussion because it's at least as retarded as certain moderators is this forum.

Some people like it, some don't, some are ambivalent. All state their reasons. Constructive criticism is given.
End of Rhine.

What's left to bitch about? Does any praising/bitching about the game change anybody's opinion? I skipped all these shitty threads, but did anybody change their minds due to posts here? I'd be extremely surprized if yes.
So find something more constructive to do than going round and round in ever the same circles.
(I know, who am I kidding. Have fun with your useless circle jerking.)

I have to admit, i played PoE enjoyed it immensely but then i read the forums, was won over by the arguments and realized i hadn't actually enjoyed it. I am of course, being sarcastic. You can't argue somebody into enjoying or not enjoying something.

 

[Serus]

Sometimes you can, you can make a person realize there is something similar to the product in question - but better. Sometimes. In consequence he/she will like the better product more and possibly enjoy the inferior one less.

 

[Sensuki]

Sometimes you can, you can make a person believe there is something similar to the product in question - but better. Sometimes. In consequence he/she will like the better product more and possibly enjoy the inferior one less.

FTFY

 

[Cadmus]

Did anyone noticed how many 2015 newfags like the game?

So you're saying because I like the game and my join date is older than yours, that means the game is good. Until we find an old fag who dislikes it. Then it's shit... Until we find an older fag who likes it again. And so on until Calis (or whoever is the oldest still posting member) finally decides?

I kept out of this discussion because it's at least as retarded as certain moderators is this forum.

Some people like it, some don't, some are ambivalent. All state their reasons. Constructive criticism is given.
End of Rhine.

What's left to bitch about? Does any praising/bitching about the game change anybody's opinion? I skipped all these shitty threads, but did anybody change their minds due to posts here? I'd be extremely surprized if yes.
So find something more constructive to do than going round and round in ever the same circles.
(I know, who am I kidding. Have fun with your useless circle jerking.)

I'm still on the fence and I enjoy having it explained to me what's cool about the game because I already know what's not cool about it. So I might be the one kind of swaying in the wind.

 

[LilSassy]

I'm mostly ambivalent about PoE but positive about the future.

 

[Brotherman Bill]

As this poll shows decisively, PoE is a game of the people, appreciated by the masses and true incline. Thanks roshan for giving us an opportunity to get this out in the open.

 

[Lhynn]

As this poll shows decisively, PoE is a game of the people, appreciated by the masses and true incline. Thanks roshan for giving us an opportunity to get this out in the open.

Yup, the masses like poe, the gentlemen with refined tastes dont.

 

[Delterius]

Overall Negative.

Critically, I believe that the game is competently done, polished and worth recommendation to some of people. If the story wasn't so underdeveloped I might have given it more than a 7/10. However, personally it is my biggest disappointment in a long while.

The reason for that mostly boils down to one thing: the design paradigm that brings everything together. The game intends to make sure the player's options in classes and abilities are more comparable. That there are no shitty Avengers or amazingly powerful Sorcerers. As such, it subscribes to principles of tightly balancing every single thing in the game.

To keep a long story short, those are the principles that, in one way or another, became norm in online gaming for the past 15 or so years -- which means the more popular of Strategy games and RPGs in the beginning of the century. I turned to single player CRPGs precisely because I can't stand them anymore. No world that is tightly balanced, no world that obsessively and at all times already expects most of all actions the player may take is organic. Nor does it empower the player.

Just look at the attribute system: nothing can possibly make, damn and I'd argue individualize the Player Character in an attribute system of a game inspired by D&D!

And most distressingly, Baldur's Gate was exactly the series of games I first played after giving up on those balanced games. So that just salts the wound.

The areas were pretty though.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Just voting positive again. Fair considering I'm in my second and third parallel playthroughs. Criticism above make no sense to me, classes have very different playstyles and not comparable at all. Paragraph 4 is the most confusing bit of text I've read since I returned to the Codex.

 

[Lhynn]

Just voting positive again. Fair considering I'm in my second and third parallel playthroughs. Criticism above make no sense to me, classes have very different playstyles and not comparable at all. Paragraph 4 is the most confusing bit of text I've read since I returned to the Codex.

Classes do, but party composition makes it all the same despite playing with a different class. Even if you try some wild combinations of classes in your party, youll find the combat stays the exact same against pretty much any given foe.

No one cares you are playing it for the 3rd time, i know plenty of people that play and love oblivion to death. Doesnt make it a good game, just shows you what kind of standards you are dealing with.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Just voting positive again. Fair considering I'm in my second and third parallel playthroughs. Criticism above make no sense to me, classes have very different playstyles and not comparable at all. Paragraph 4 is the most confusing bit of text I've read since I returned to the Codex.

Classes do, but party composition makes it all the same despite playing with a different class. Even if you try some wild combinations of classes in your party, youll find the combat stays the exact same against pretty much any given foe.

I highly doubt that, because in my new playthroughs I'm having a much different feel of the combat with different party combination. I have seen a lot of people here saying as much.

 

[Jools]

Spoiler

This is a welcome back gift, Irenaeus II .

 

[Irenaeus II]

Lol, this is certainly unappropriate. But thanks.

 

[Jools]

Lol, this is certainly unappropriate. But thanks.

Inappropriate how? You don't like boobs any more? Did your trip to KWA change you that much?


Anyway, OP followup: after a 2nd playthrough and after playing other games, and after reading the news about the expansion, my vote is confirmed to be "negative". The game is just unredeemable, and in fact the more I think of it, and of its shortcomings, the more I find it loathesome...