The most important difference between the two games actually has nothing to do with how they play in the first-order whatsoever it has to do with their economies. I have a great amount of affection for Titan Quest and its spiritual successor Grim Dawn, but both are kind of wonky mechanically and weirdly static in their build progressions the leader in the class is of course the Diablo series, but it peaked at Diablo II - the title that Path of Exile bases most of its mechanics and development theory on we’ll get into that later - and Diablo III, while flashy and fun by the time the Reaper of Souls expansion came out, is just a flatly inferior experience that took a lot of work to even keep second-place status behind PoE, which immediately surpassed it upon launch in October 2013. Path of Exile is the best Action RPG ever made, and as far as I’m concerned it isn’t particularly close. Games with this particular presentation and gameplay loop are called “Action RPGs” or “ARPGs” for a myriad of evolving-language reasons in the industry, despite involving some of the least actual action possible when you’re doing them right once you’ve mastered a truly well-done ARPG, it’s much more akin to a walking simulator, or a clicker with pretty graphics. The game is very simple about what its loop is: you control a character with an inventory and an isometric camera who runs around a field, and you click on things to you die, and all subsequent amendments and improvements on this loop involve various ways of increasing the number of things that die per click, until at the highest levels of mastery you don’t even need to click at all. One of the many ways in which Path of Exile is best-in-class is that the plot, for the most part, can stay entirely out of your way - there are only one or two pre-rendered cutscenes in total, easily skippable, and you can motor your way through whatever NPC dialogue is thrown at you when you’re running Acts 1 through 10 (yes, 10) for the fortieth or fiftieth time, because the game never stops and throws you into an in-engine cutscene that isn’t a boss fight introduction.
To be clear, this was well before all the bugs and disappointments of that title set in, though it was also just after a chafingly long tutorial section that spent much too much time with trite character writing. In today’s review, he’s talking about Path of Exile, which recently received a major update.Ī month or so ago - which feels like many lifetimes now - I was perhaps forty minutes into playing Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem when I realized I’d much rather be playing Path of Exile. Each week, Jonathan “Crion” Bernhardt reviews video games, even the ones that aren’t Warhammer-related. At Goonhammer, our passion for games extends well beyond the tabletop.
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