POE 2 is the best game I’ve ever played
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So why it has mixed reviews in Steam?
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Poe2 was the best RPG played so far.... until 0.2.0 patch!
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Mash the clean
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" Pretty lame rating for a the best RPG game so far.... Need at least positive reviews or sooner or later will drop to mixed. |
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" There's a couple specific categories of games where the review standings on Steam are nearly useless and you need to go into the reviews themselves to get an idea of whether you will like a game or not, and that applies to both PoE1 and 2. In these kinds of games a significant portion of negative reviews read like this: "Devs are dumb, Devs will ruin/erase your character/progress for "no reason", game sucks, design is stupid, content is too hard, do not recommend" - 500hrs at time of review, 1000hrs now, and currently in-game. This is because some players make the game or gaming their life and anytime something they don't agree with occurs in it, they experience it as a personally directed attack and will lash out accordingly. You can't rely on review scores for games where 30% of the negative reviews are from addicts lashing out over minor inconveniences, you've gotta go in and read enough actual reviews to understand and get a feel of what people are saying they like and don't like about a game. I mean to some degree this exists in all review forums. I once read Google reviews for a restaurant while on a trip for work in a small town and nearly all of it's one-star ratings were from employees at a competing restaurant across the street. The one that wasn't, was actually a review FOR the competing restaurant that the reviewer accidently posted to the wrong place because they mentioned a product that was only served at the competitor and even had pictures. Online reviews and scores can be some of the most unreliable metrics, it's a shame the weight people assign to it. Some of the most memorable games I've ever played growing up I probably would have never been exposed to if I grew up with all my games on Steam just because they likely would have been buried in bad reviews due to not being mass-appeal games. Who am I to say anything, I don't respect my time either.
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I really love the game. Thank you GGG :)
Also, I appreciate that my stash tabs from poe1 got carried over to poe2. Thank you. |
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" The rating should actually be considerably lower. It dropped to 65% at one point. Every time GGG gets review bombed they get removed by Steam before they're calculated into the total. All I'll say is both Titan's Quest 2 and Dragonkin the Banished have higher ratings. Only thing PoE2 has going for it over these two games is texture quality. Not specifically graphics either. You can do a lot without cranking textures that no one can see anyways. Get this. A built in DPS meter and a built in configurable item filer that will disenchant / sell items automatically. Crazy right? It's like the Devs respect the player's time. "Never trust floating women." -Officer Kirac
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" Does your employer respect your working time, because he's not automating your work away? |
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Yeah, I'd say that PoE 2 and PoE 1 are two examples of games that are what I'd call "best in class". Like if you don't like the niche that it's filling then you won't like it, but if you do like the niche that it's filling then you won't find anything like it which is better. Basically, for an arpg where you go around blasting everything, PoE 1 is the best game that exists (I'm not a fan of this, but I can recognize that it's the best thing ever for a particular kind of gamer). PoE 2 is better for a more engaging experience where you have a variety of builds with a variety of active skills (people will make an intellectually dishonest argument that PoE 1 is better in this sense because you press "more buttons" but when they say that they're including buffs like the 5 potion buttons you can press, or whatever buff skills you might press before boss fights; it's not like in PoE 2 where you can make a build where you potentially don't really have a "main skill", because it's the combination of two or more skills that makes your build work).
The unfortunate thing is, a whole lot of people aren't really judging it on its own merits, but on the basis of "how similar is this to PoE 1?" Of course, what's crazy is, PoE 2 is already at that "best in class" level in its unfinished state. There's going to be more classes, more campaign, and of course there are kinks to work out still (especially, I want to see scaling in endgame such that I can play a meta build and still find a challenge; I think the effectiveness stat is the answer here, but we'll see, GGG might come up with something else). So I mean, I'm really looking forward to how much better the game will be just at full release, let alone a couple years down the track when we've had a number of leagues and we're getting additional skills with which to play around. Last edited by Kalistri#2788 on Apr 8, 2026, 7:47:19 AM
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