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Diablo 4, Path of Exile, and the rest of the ARPG genre has competition in the mega-ambitious Last Epoch, built by its Reddit community and heading towards 1.0.

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[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 year ago

From what I've heard Last Epoch is a good game, but you're not really doing it any favors by saying "made by redditors".

[-] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 points 1 year ago

That bit makes me think the game is chock full of millenial writing

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Holy shit that borderlands 3 "turn the generator on" quote nails why I struggle to push through for the really fun gunplay half the time. They really do just vomit words at you.

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's so funny how people who have no idea about linguistics/communications have such strong know-it-all attitudes about how people communicate. Remember the phenomenon of vocal fry? All the youtube vids like "i discovered this thing that millennial wimmin do and once you notice you'll HATE IT." and they just describe vocal fry which is just an absolutely normal part of speech and done by men just as much as women.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That was amazing. Thank you for linking it.

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[-] Questy@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always marvel at how Grim Dawn isn't in the conversation. It's easily top tier, has no microtransactions, is single player offline, but also supports co-op multiplayer. It features a full cosmetic system that is entirely in-game with no cash shop nonsense. There are so many skills and builds with an outstanding itemization system. Robust crafting system. Repeatable end game challenge content.

Also, it is just recieving another huge free patch, and another full expansion has just been announced.

It took me forever to actually try it, I thought it was going to be janky indie stuff etc. I'm closing on 3000 hours and still dropping back in with new build themes and ideas. I paid $35 for that 3000 hours in a Steam sale.

But yea, Last Epoch is ok I guess.

Edit: a word

Edit 2: just to add since I saw a comment about multiplayer, there is a community run seasonal ladder League as well. Grim League, for those interested.

[-] Minnels@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I played all current dlcs and the base game on separate occasions alone and with my friends and the game never really clicks for me. I don't know what it is but it never got as fun as many other arpgs for me. Doubt that I will look at this new expansion as it feels I could have more fun spending my time with another game instead. Kind of weird as I have over a hundred hours and like the game genre but... Yeah.

[-] hogart@feddit.nu 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah so many people have missed out on Grim Dawn. It's a bit sad it doesn't have multiplayer but in the grand scale of things its what a lot of people wanted with D4. Let me play Singleplayer offline! This game does it. And boy does it do it well.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

It’s a bit sad it doesn’t have multiplayer

What do you mean? Grim Dawn does have multiplayer.

[-] hogart@feddit.nu 0 points 1 year ago
[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

O. It's has full fleged multi-player

[-] hogart@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

How do you go about the multiplayer part? Any private servers or how does it work?

[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You select multi-player and join a game or you can host a game. It's the same multi-player format as Divinity Original Sin.

[-] hogart@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

Uhm. Now I feel dumb :) Last I played you had to enter an ip adress for the game you wanted to join?

[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. That is the Lan option only though.

Multi-player let's you join open games or host your own game.

There is a little circle that you can select to change which you want to do before hitting multi-player.

[-] hogart@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

Mind. Blown.

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's just old. People talked about it back when it came out. POE I think gets recognized because it's free to play (with DLC/MTX). I've played every ARPG under the sun and Last Epoch is one of the best I've ever played. It feels like the real successor to Diablo II

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The biggest difference is that PoE gets huge expansions every 3-4 months with new content while Grim Dawn only mostly gets numeric patches. Yeah there's a new expansion on the horizon, but it's been a good while...

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

$35 Early Access with unfinished story but polished cash shop really shows you where the devs priorities are.

[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's also lacking. I come back every few updates but the game isn't very good. It's no Torchlight 2 or Grim Dawn.

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Give it a try on the high seas. I did and I ended up buying it because it really is that good. I never interacted with a cash shop in my entire time playing

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

... On the story. Their priority is the story. The cash shop is quite recent and the time it takes to develop isn't even in the same universe as story content. Story content requires developing new zones, new enemy types, voice acting... They spent tons of time developing multiplayer, that's a huge undertaking by itself where they are improving constantly. They just reworked some quests and remade the tylesets of some campaign zones. Developing the cash shop can't have been more than 5% of the time they spent developing last year.

Either you don't know about development in general, you are blinded by rage with the drama they had with the release of the cash shop (which they reworked) or you are being malicious. I'm guessing 1 or 2.

[-] yuri@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen early access games that go their entire dev cycle without adding real-cash shops. this pervasive idea that microtransactions are just an acceptable thing in any new game has me absolutely incredulated.

it doesn’t matter how long it takes to develop, putting a cash shop in an unfinished game is a bad move optics wise.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

it doesn’t matter how long it takes to develop, putting a cash shop in an unfinished game is a bad move optics wise.

Sure, but the game already has content enough to be a good single player experience for 35€ so w/e.

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[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 year ago

It's only available on PC.

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