Trail
@Trail@lemmy.world
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
Shoe on head.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
It’s very similar in some ways in the surface, but pretty different in essence. I like both. STS is more hardcore and “strict” and choices matter more, MT is more chill, relying on a single good combo usually, but with very high ceiling for broken fun things. I prefer MT more to unwind.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
Slay the Spire but no Monster Train?
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 4 months ago:
Eeeh… I mean…
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 6 months ago:
Well, until you start understanding the game mechanics, you can follow a build guide.
I do not, and I roll my own builds, and I will say they are generally quite successful. I can get ideas from guides, or other builds on poe.ninja, but then I still research and adjust to my liking, budget, and playstyle.
Rolling a build is more than half of the game for me, and I spend a lot of time tuning and testing.
So yeah I’d say there are several layers to playing PoE:
- Playing the campaign and a few maps casually without looking something up. It is still a great experience to discover things and the complexity at your own pace. You won’t get to do the true endgame though, but it is an experience you can have only once, so I would personally recommend to go through it and see how you like it.
- Go with a well described build by someone else. You can reach the endgame, learn how the game works, how the mechanics work, how the market works, how farming works, and lots more things.
- Start rolling your own build. It’s like switching games at this point, theorycrafting a build is the true game, and POE is just a frontend for testing your build. And it feels awesome when you succeed and complete something you can call your own and see it do well. And it is iterative, you learn how building a character works so that you can do even cooler things next time.
- And also do achievent/challenge hunting.
I’ve only followed a build once. And it was fun. Then I rolled my own, and it was more fun for different reasons.
But definitely needs a lot of time investment long term. It should probably take a couple of years for you to be able to claim you know what you are doing. But thankfully, the game respects you and does not demand your immediate time investment. You can play at you own pace. I have work and family, I play for a couple of hours every few days mostly. And it is fine. No one is pressuring me with daily quests and shit like that. I play because I feel like playing. I pause and play other games no problem, depending on my mood. It’s great.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 6 months ago:
The newest path of exile build with my newest custom build.
- Comment on The Game Awards 2023 fell short of honoring its own industry 6 months ago:
Only reason I cared about it was the one in a gazillion chance to get a free steam deck.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Good.
- Comment on *screams exestentially* 7 months ago:
Well said. He sounds like a smart fellow.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 7 months ago:
I mean it’s not clickbait, thought, it’s exactly what’s happening, isn’t it? And it is rage inducing.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Well I had played the shit out of Formula 1 '97. Especially when I later got an actual 3d card, Voodoo 3 Banshee, which rocked. With a cyrix 166mhz.
- Comment on YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge 7 months ago:
Huh, what is the issue? Been working fine for me for years.
- Comment on If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be? 8 months ago:
I have seen no mention of Planescape Torment, so there you go.
- Comment on xkcd #2835: Factorial Numbers 8 months ago:
Well I didn’t say practical or efficient, it’s just a cool idea :)
- Comment on xkcd #2835: Factorial Numbers 8 months ago:
This ia actually a pretty cool idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Here’s a downvote for you then. Maybe. Maybe not. Guess you’ll never know.
- Comment on I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design 11 months ago:
One of the greatest experiences for sure. It’s more like a book or a visual novel, though, rather than a game, I would say.