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    I really wish people would stop comparing everything to a blizzard game...they make good games, fine, but come on, there are other great games out there to compare things to.

    I found the game very laggy and don't even get me started on the loot system in parties. I had to stop playing due to the insane amounts of lag I had when in a group, and since it's a team-based game, it was rather pointless to continue playing. Never understood why I can't play it, I run games like allods and dragon age 2 in full graphics without an issue.

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    Same genre but completely different.

    PoE is old school:

    Inventory gets filled after picking 5 or 6 items, has somewhat "pot spam", if you mess up your build you pretty much have to start all over or farm for ages to respec point by point. Choppy combat and animations, graphics are "old". Trade based on forums/ingame chat, items as ingame currency, loot is shared with the party and you have like 5 seconds to pick an item which dropped for you. If your character dies on hardcore you don't lose items/character and instead they go to the default league.
    Good things about PoE? Gems channeling which makes you able to do a few interesting skills, and item customization.

    D3 on the other hand is not old school, and it has evolved:
    Auction House, Real money Auction House (not on hardcore), inventory can hold like 25-50 items, skill "masteries" and you can change your build anytime with no cost, there is only HP pots and they have huge cooldown, animations are pretty good, loot is individual, graphics are decent. If your character dies on hardcore you lose everything but your bank. Has crafting. Quite decent party matching.
    Worst things about D3? Item/character customization is not as deep as in PoE. You can't go through Acts/Waypoints during the same game, you have to leave and create another game for each act.

    I've played PoE during betas for years, I prefer D3 a billion times more. They are different but imo PoE is more like an old school D2...This doesn't mean it's more hardcore and requires more skill because it doesn't, it's just it has many features from a decade ago which for some will be good to see them again but to me it lost its appeal many many MANY years ago. I wouldn't go nowdays to the cinema to watch "It (Stephen King)", some features from the past have to stay in the past.

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    Quote Originally Posted by periago View Post
    How is it? Is it better than diablo 3?
    How can a game be worse than that?

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