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[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Ive got thousands of hours in POE1 but stopped playing a couple years ago because it started to feel like a cluttered mess. There were so many league mechanics vying for your attention and interrupting the flow of the game it just became tiresome. I hope POE2 feels more cohesive without all the fluff of 50 different leagues. The trailers definitely got me jonesing to play again though.

[-] bosnia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm in the same boat. Absolutely love the game and tend to get a character to maps every second league or so but holy moly does the amount of league mechanics get rough. I feel like I'm watching 3 hours of YouTube tutorials every league to remind me how to do everything.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

Me too, except I guess I don't play it all anymore. I remember the early leagues felt really fresh and interesting, but somewhere along the line the complexity creep became too much for me to keep up with. I also felt like incorporating so many past mechanics into the base game made new league mechanics feel less special and important since they eventually just blended into the already existing soup of sub-systems.

I hope PoE 2 can be a fresh start and a blank slate. GGG have many good ideas, so I'm hopeful.

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