Bg3 is mid . Veil guard below mid. But I also don’t expect everyone to agree with me. It’s a video game I hope some people have fun w it. tf do I care. I just play something else. World don’t need to revolve around me. Internet challenge impossible.
who are these self appointed people talking for the "average" player? people like these are the ones misguiding normal casuals into having bad experience, I see this dood! carefully twisting facts as it suits him, he stopped playing then that's good riddance, these types of people are the actual filth of the gaming industry
@@DubbedJey Dunno, Angry Joe has been pretty solid for me. Often my enjoyment of a game and his rating are often quite close. That's exactly why you should always find the reviewer that has similar interests as you. But I'm interested in what way did you disagree with him or what review.
I don't think too many people care what he has to say. He's just another person with a platform and an opinion on the game. At the end of the day POE 2 is in EA and now is the best time to flood the Devs with opinions, whether good or bad, so they can better shape the 1.0 release.
Its honestly interesting to see him articulate his points and watch when he has to resort to his notes for his points and the words he choses. He honestly sounds like this isnt even his real opinion, but his "im salty about dying and now im shitting on this game because Kripp said its bad". I didnt think he ever said at which tier of maps he stopped. And I am almost certain it is nowhere near red maps and actually most likely he stopped in late white maps. Which is funny, because thats exactly the point where Kripp said you dont notice any of this stuff yet. His build is either complete ass or his gear is beyond trash and he cant accept that running around with that shit wont net him success in maps. From my experience it only really starts to become iffy around t10 maps, because thats when my merc with essentially no defensive layering started to get oneshot by random on death effects (especially chaos). Other than that the only fcked up thing I noticed was bosses with physical slam attacks, those are also pretty insane if you dont have giga armor or plain %dmg reduction.
TLDR of the whole Paul Tassi's "review": I went to T1 maps with negative resistances, got one tapped by everything, finally made it to T2, then lost my stone and gave up on the game. Then, while crying, watched a Kripp video who agreed with me game is hard. Even though Kripp was talking about high tier maps and that some builds will just not enjoy them because they'll die too much.
@F1rstp3rson The only people that enjoy destiny 2 are the ones that haven't played an actual good game in their lives. I don't blame them though. They are just unaware. They don't understand how low the bar they set themselves in d2.
Paul "Starfield is a 9.5" Tassi Paul "Veilguard is an 8.5" Tassi Paul "D4 is a great game" Tassi Paul "I play Destiny 2 in 2024" Tassi Paul "Dogtamer" Tassi
Honestly Starfield got such a bad rap and dogpiled just because it was the cool thing. The game start to finish was actually very very good. It just failed in a sense compared to their other games replayability.
@@Daventry85 The only decent thing about Starfield is the ship building. The main story is absolute dogshit, the basebuilding is limiting and clunky and the dialogue feels like it was written by a committee to ensure its safe for 2 year olds.
@@Daventry85 Or not. Every piece of crap get its share of people going "it was not as bad as people made it", and let's not forget the upcoming flurry of like minded articles about it being "an underrated gem".
@yautjacetanu Kripp is right. end game is very challenging. I keep on dying in T11 maps with 1.3k HP (due to 3rd asc. 25% reserved HP) which is not recommended. I reached to the point that what will I do? I will create a new character or farm in lower maps like T8 to T10 so that I can have enough currency to upgrade my gears to increase my HP and not to sacrifice my Spirit and Max Capped resistance. So I take a rest for whole day, go back to the game and keep on farming. Upgrade my gears. Whoala huge difference. I have thousand of hrs. in POE 1 with few mirrors worth of gears. POE 1 veterans like Kripp who played POE 1 for more than a decade now is comparing his game experience in POE 1 with POE 2. In POE 1 you can have relax mode while in POE 2 there is no relax mode. BTW I'm following Kripps build since he posted the build in mobalytics. Overall, POE 2 is a Quadruple AAAA game for me. The longer I played POE 2 the more i'm loving it. FYI, I played also Last Epoch and D4
I'll give you the reason why he couldn't beat t11, he doesn't have an op 1 shot bow build that carries him all the way through, dude has to use his brain for his own build this time and failing 😂 @@MydrecaNaPopa
14:30 "You play an hour (of the end game) and figure where that's going to go....". You played an hour of end game POE 2 and can see it all? Imagine saying that after 1 hour of maps in POE1. Lmao. Noob
Got my ass kicked as soon as i got to T1 maps too. But I just grinded a few exalts and bought some trash gear and was ripping through maps. Dudes a walking skill issue.
@@keithjernquist4203 Literally this. Spent my first couple eggs after my first death in maps. Since then I've only struggled with keys dropping a tier or two higher than I feel ready for.
You really don't want video game 'journalists' to like your game. Gatekeeping is a good thing, as soon as developers seek out approval from these types of people you end up with industry slop.
Yeah those days they are a massive 50/50 (at best) coin toss. Either they feel the same as the audience and mainstream public , or they are completely at odds with it , and often over the dumbest reasons. Usually no balance and actual in-depth analysis.
Tassi is misrepresenting a lot of Kripp's points and then pretending to appeal to authority by constantly bringing up Kripp because he thinks people will accept it if Kripp "said it".
Lol Paul Tassi, a fella who gives contrarian and dumb opinions and get pissed when someone points out the flaws of his arguement on reddit (i was that guy). Had no respect for him ever since.
Paul wants brainless rpg flow, where as soon you finish the quests without even clearing the map you can go to the boss and after a few tries and learning a bit the mechanic can kill it - Powerfantasy fulfillment - how dare a game want you to think or grind
@@MikeyJ28 yeah if you would do Path of Exile with better graphics - wow what a waste it would be GGG made it clear Path of Exile 2 will be something different. For the ones that want the same PoE will always be there. Most of the crying people are the ones that complain PoE2 is not exactly the same as PoE
@@MikeyJ28 It's almost like Path of Exile in its earlier days was not a mindless powerfantasy and yet it was successful enough to gain all subsequent momentum. You clearly never played before Perandus league etc. Poe 2 in its current state has amassed a much greater playerbase (with strong retention) coming from people who are new to the poe community. This is further corroborated by Chris Wilson's statement that, during earlier playtesting, sclerotic poe 1 players struggled more to perform competently in poe 2 than players who were entirely new to the series. This indicates that the game has already outgrown poe 1 and is poised to be a bigger success. You're stuck in a particular mindset, just like an old man. So, go play poe 1. It's still there for people like you.
@ This is nothing more than a dishonest comparison. PoE 2 is in fact in its earliest of days, but we cannot compare a game in development in 2024/2025 to one from 2011/12. The difference is over a decade of experience, knowledge and mastering of the systems and designs that made PoE 1 a perfectly imperfect and interesting ARPG. We also cannot compare original indie-startup GGG to current multi-million dollar Tencent benefactor GGG that has had well over 5 years and millions of dollars invested into making their second iteration. While yes, I believe PoE 2 is currently the worst it will be and has a lot of room to grow, the issues I have aren’t things that get worked out during Early Access. The entire design of the game is entirely detrimental to what made original PoE a 4,000 hour game rather than a 400 hour game. Everything from the terribly designed and uninteresting passive tree to the overly drawn out slow campaign. The changes to Ascendency/Lab being the most backwards decision imaginable and locking players down to one single Ascendency. The lack of agency one has with their character leads to uninspired metas with no creativity or innovation. All of these things are core game designs that will persist through Early Access and once the honeymoon period comes to an end, I really think a lot of players are going to start questioning whether or not this is a game they want to continue to replay every few months.
@@MikeyJ28 Exactly this and more. Exactly the counter points to the brainwashed junk people keep repeating, but can't hear over the sound of gargling Wilson's nuts. Repeating early access in response to every criticism disregards the massive amounts of time, money, and experience gone into the last 10 years, and currently. These are not early access issues, they are fundamental flaws in game design which do not even align in the slightest with what made PoE the 10 year gem that it has been. Not a game made for the fans like PoE once was, but a wet dream of someone too full of himself being lived out to satisfy ego and investors. But keep drinking it up. keep telling people to leave and to go back and play PoE 1. That's what I'll do while most of you get bored and move on to the next "big thing". Play a game that will likely now have it's resources and priorities shafted at the expense of this garbled mess that "looks and sounds really cool". So sad.
I hate that he is getting all his info regarding endgame from kripps video, he hasnt experienced it himself and then he obviously misunderstood a ton of stuff in kripps video, e.g. the waystone points on atlas disappearing....so annoying
@@GeraldHarnack-x4t Low Tier maps isnt really endgame, he is missing all Boss stuff, atlas trees and due to the fact that he still thinks markers on the atlas map are lost when he dies in a map, i doubt he has run more than 5 maps
I have lot of Pokémon and Pokéballs figures in my room, having 3-4k hour into PoE 1. That's odd to judge on those things. But all of his takes show that he is Newbie with no game sense, that's true
To speak on the Kripp saying act 2 was the hardest part of the game. I had his stream on my second monitor while I played, so I watched him from basically start till reaching maps. During act 2, he got unlucky with gem drops, so his main skill was very low compared to where he was. He also was running sub par minions, he hadn't swapped to arsonists yet. He was running a minion skill gem that required accuracy, but he had invested none into making them hit more. It was partly Act 2 being harder than the others and partly him getting unlucky and playing bad skills. Compounded he was having a really hard time.
@@Underachiever_Files Ye, I think I only died to one boss through my entire player through, and it was the witch hut mini boss. I swapped both my flasks and had no charges for her, so I rotted to death. Not a single other boss killed me. I actually found the game to be easier than I had hoped, but I know im not the typical gamer.
The only boss I really "struggled" with was the Act 1 final boss but that was my first time fighting him and my gem links and everything were trash. Every other boss I died to maybe 1-2 times max with most bosses killing them the first time. Imo once you realize what the 1 shot mechanic each boss has is you never die to them again.
Act 2 has the most scarcity in the game. Thats it primarily. You haven’t really gotten a load of good gear or a good build by that point and compared to act 1, it is a spike in difficulty. Not that much of one, but with both factors combined, it can make things quite annoying
@@AllEy3s0nMe here's the thing if the developers want a growing audience as they have said multiple times they need to harness the skill of making things fun outside of the notion that hard and difficult is fun. If not like Tassi all these new players they have will go away and they'll be right back to their original small player base
@@jfelton3583 PoE's core audiance are harecore gamers and it always will be. PoE has never been for everyone. If you try to make a game that pleases everyone it will please no one. They have made the game more accessible to the new player now, which is obviously a good thing. These new players may not like the game, which is fine. Everyone doesn't need to like everything. As to the difficulty of the game - it is not difficult at all. It's more punishing then PoE1, sure. People are struggling because they don't know how to make a build and they have bad gear. I started a new run yesterday and in 12hours I have finsihed the campaign. I spent 5-10ex on leveling gear and I pretty much 1 shot every boss. On my main I am clearling T15 maps with ease. The
im a new player too... and this game kicks fucking ass. i didnt realize the hype was actually real and that arpgs could be made like this. haters gonna hate
Gotta disagree with Quinn on some minor stuff: Exp penalties don't need to exist. Wasting time is already plenty punishment. Invalidating previously spent time is not really a positive. Hardcore is the alternative for people who want deaths to matter in a more significant way.
Ok so what I will say is I also disagree with Paul completely, I’m loving the difficulty off end game, I much prefer having to actually think about my decisions rather than run and blink through every map. However I’ve played these types of games before, I’m also playing with a friend and he is struggling a lot because he’s never played this type of game before. Even the most simple of things like not having enough accuracy, the game doesnt really teach u these things for newer players so he was confused why he was constantly missing his attacks. It’s these small details that is making the end game so hard for newer players. Other than that im loving the game, cant wait for it to be fully realised and we get all the classes and weapons.
Imagine a time where people played games because they are having fun, and not because they are "getting something" for doing it. Weird right! POE2 is a blast man.
I mean, I only play PoE1 for the leagues' challenges, once they are done I'm done with the league. Also why I'm not super interested to do much post campaign in PoE2, but it is a early access, I'm just waiting for the rest of the campaign to be added or for it to release and have leagues too.
So far, I'm just one-clicking through the late game. The game was super fun until I made a build that lets me one-click everything. I'm not a fan of this playstyle. The early game felt like real gameplay, but now it's just a bunch of one-clicking. I'm honestly falling asleep. It feels like the game is playing me instead of me playing the game.
@@ponytoast1231 to each their own, I've literally never paid attention to league challenges, I just go until ubers every season and wrap up around then.
ARPGs are literally based around the "getting something" from it. Its a hunt for drops, a hunt for dopamine, nothing else. If it would be for anything else, people would be playing games with better graphics, better combat, better everything.
What Tassi said in the later part of the video is super exaggerated to the point where he should've sat on it for a day before making the video, however: With regards to waystone sustain, by the middle tiers of waystones, you start dropping tier 1-4 as much as tier 10 and up. This would make sustain a bit of a bother if you don't know that you're supposed to start regaling all of your maps and save 300-400%+ stones for boss maps or if you don't know the importance of getting rarity and stacking 10% chance to level up waystones on passive tree... or if you're a noob that's dying a lot Once you know that(which is probably only intuitive for a poe1 player), map sustain is solved. If you don't, then you will probably run out of waystones, especially as a new player. You could also look at adding precursors with rarity and waystone drop chance to towers. Also, once you're around tier 5-8 I'd recommend getting the atlas passive that doubles a rare. It's an extra chance at dropping waystones or currency. Also, also, I've gotten quite a few waystones by clicking on chests, so I'd recommend doing that too. Good luck exiles!
Paul : D4 is Great! Paul : Starfield amazing Paul : jeez I don’t understand why Concord failed. Paul : Dargonage Veilguard amazing game conclusion: KEKW
He is right, even farming up as far as an overall experience, the toughest parts of game were as follows for me as a titan warrior: Act 1 normal end boss. Act 3 Molten Boss and Act 3 intro zone on cruel mode when you first go back into the past. Just got to the endgame so will see how it goes. Think there is a middle ground between dying on the map resetting and the idea of corpse rushing. I did make some adjustments on the way for titan warrior like shield wall breaking and blinding the mobs with it on leap and earthquake then bone shatter, hammer for bosses on devastate break armor. I would of never made it to that build if I wasn't tested some.
I'm in Act 2 Cruel, lvl 52 Merc. I'm loving it. Every challenge I have come across I have either tweaked my build or gone away and farmed for a bit and leveled up, and managed to progress. Obviously not in end game yet but many or most people aren't yet. I expect end game will need a fair few changes to get right, but of course, EA and all that. If I get to a point where I'm not enjoying it anymore, I'll start up a new class. With the changes they've already made and the upcoming changes, I think GGG are well on the right track.
I've spent this past week levelling all ascendancies I wanna try through the campaign - averaging one every two days - just because I figured end game was bound to be scuffed and there were lots of things I wanted to try
"I'm in Act -" You can stop right there. Nobody is even talking about the campaign being bad. The campaign is amazing. The way end game handles difficulty is garbage, there is no "outplaying" the mobs anymore, everything is a gear check. So, making the maps one try is bad. Unless they can actually fix the problems PoE has always had with visual clarity and mechanics bloat in maps.
Im in t 15 maps. There arent acutally that much issues with the end game. The only issue the game currenctly has is loot/balance. You dont get enough res gear during the campaign to balance your resistances and you only realize after that all that "difficulty" straight up just comes from the fact of being undergeared/not res capped. And the end game basically has the same problem, everything works fine until you meet chaos damage, then u are dead. And capping chaos resistance is actually VERY hard even in trade league considering you have such high stat requirements to make ur gear/build work, u probably need to invest a lot in mana regen depending on build, because level 19/20 6 links eat inifinte mana, especcially on fast attack builds and u basically drop ZERO gear. During my entire playthrough to 92 i have not found a SINGLE rare item on the ground that i would even consider putting on my character.
@@DoNotFearTheReapa LOADS of people are saying the campaign is too hard, what are you talking about? But anyway the next patch will make end game easier. End game was always going to need tweaking. The game hasnt even been out 2 weeks...D4 came out with NO endgame, nothing! Just give them time.
The guy didn't understand what the game is about, he wanted a casual grindless experience and this is not it, the comments over oneshots are bs, there's some overtuned mobs but it's nowhere near as he says.
I think it's because he comes off as disingenuous because it's pretty clear he didn't play the end game considering how he describes dying in maps completely wrong.
Paul Tassi does not know how games work, he knows how he WANTS them to work. His entire brand is just acting like a victim in whatever space he puts himself in and trying to stir the pot. Industries most subtle hack.
Yeah this dude sucks. Re rolled a ranger and just made it to act 3 with 4 deaths. 3 of those were me just walking into packs and dying cause I got body blocked. Easiest class in the game.
Same. Not sure where nerfs will bring us but even though my ranger had 2 times lower resistances then warrior she's still blasted through early maps like they were joke. The only upgrade I've needed for that was mediocre bow
"If you get one shot either your character sucks or you are bad at the game" - Quin Yeah okay there buddy, as you get 1 shot by a bugged boss in Act 2 (bet he isn't ever going to touch a map version). I'm not defending this Paul guy, but poe2 has a ton of things that are either buggy, overtuned or just not thoroughly thought through before they add it to the game. There are wraiths that can spawn on the 4th floor of the sekhemas trial that can hit for thousands of damage with no modifiers, and these things are ranged, insanely fast and can teleport constantly, and that is just one of dozens of examples I could give. I love path of exile 2 but the game has a lot of issues, for both new and veteran players and hopefully they fix them over time.
Bro when I get stuck on a boss or an area, because enemies respawn, I go get a level or some gear to sell, check vendors see if I can craft anything move skill gems around etc. At least up until the end of the campaign, I felt like whenever I got stuck, I was pretty much always able to figure something out, it might just take a little time. This "you just get stuck and because of how the game is set up you can't do anything about it" just makes me think this is a classic game journalist case of him genuinely not understanding the systems in PoE2. Edit: as soon as I finished typing my comment and unpaused you said the exact same thing as me LOL! exactly! No one told this dude about farming 😅
I wish they would give us 6 portal to attempt end game bosses (reset on death) so they can give us even harder bosses. Grinding Malenia and Kos for hours until I knew their movesets by heart and finally beating is why I love souls games
Should be obvious that the dude actually hasnt played endgame outside of maybe one or two maps and just watched the kripp video without understanding a lot of it ... a lot of things he says are just flat out wrong.
I actually agree with him on map bosses lol. The best part of the campaign was the feeling when you killed a boss that was kicking your ass previously. Removing the boss from maps if you die is just removing the challenge and the best part of the game. By all means if you die remove the events such as breach etc, but keep the boss. BUT.. make the bosses harder so they provide challenge themselves that needs overcome to complete the map. Perhaps maybe even make boss maps JUST a hard boss that doesnt use a keystone. You just have to kill said hard boss to complete it but with good rewards when you do.
He didn't say anything over the top. It's not like she said the game was bad or anything Edit: he started fine, then went full unhinged when saying the endgame isn't worth playing at all.
Why is it unhinged. He probably means it doesn't FEEL worth it. But is he wrong about insta kills? Insta kills are bullshit, they are so dumb and boring and never feel good unless you are doing a specific insta kill run. Its just really fun to do something hard but get multiple times to correct your mistakes and practise over and over. Super meat boy is hard but it's really fun the way it puts you back into the action. Insta kills make it harder to feel like you can learn from your mistakes
Pretty much this. The dude means well, but explains his views in such weird ways that people (especially Quin) focuses on his comparisons, instead of the "issue" he is describing - completely dismissing everything he is saying. Quin several times over, says that he needs to go back and watch Kripp's video - despite him clearly having understood it, but at the same time failing to come up with his own clear comparisons, but instead comes up with these weird ramblings, making it seem like he didn't understand anything. He makes it sound like he wants any challenging difficulty and "standard PoE punishments" removed - but that's not what he is saying though - it comes off like that, because he goes on rambling about XYZ things and makes comparisons that kinda distract from the main point. To sum it up: He wants "low-tier over-tuned mob" one-shots to be gone - just like everyone else. That's his biggest "complaint", yet he fails to convey this in a good way (because of his mad incoherent rambling, that people jump on instead). With one-shots being a thing; that's what can ruin your mapping experience because of the 1-death rule. (all of which seems to be balanced a bit more, with the upcoming changes they posted about some hours ago)
@@tagger_ I think one of the things that is annoying with this kind of drama is that a lot of the time when someone complains, they present solutions but they arnt game devs. So their solutions will likely suck but that doesn't invalidate what they are worried about. People on the other side assume that to listen to the complaint is to implement the specific solution. Like tri went on abiut how he really didn't want people to listen to everyone complaining about no phasing through mobs but then liked the way ggg solved it. Similarly here. All we know is that multiple people find the one shots unfun. This can be solved in so many ways. Making them less likely to happen, make them happen only by scary mobs, telegraph thigns better, make it easier to get straight back into a fight, make it so you can build for defense but then yoyr damage sucks and maps take longer, change the way damage multipliers stack. Allow for zooming out during boss fights so it's easier to see when you're attacked, remove on death effects as much. All these thigns may make someone feel less angry about being one shot. I love playing games where I can choose a 1 life run, like ori or souls likes but it's rare people enjoy that and even when they do it's usually not the first play through. My friends all hated monster hunter because of one shots until they discovered the importance of resists. Then suddenly the game was fun, it's fun when you can solve problems. But it does look like poe2 doesnt give you enough ways to solve things if you don't like them. I also think people like to think everyone likes hard games but actually even dark souls and elden ring have ways of playing that make the game easy with guides and grinding. Sekiro was truly punishing and not as popular. Even that, most bosses could be cheesed some way.
To be entirely fair, diablo 2 had one mechanic better thought out. Monsters "dont need" to respawn on each death. Its just stupid. Imagine killing an enemy, they drop a mirror, or something else insane, then you die, gg respawn, kicked from the map too. All loot lost. Ragequit, lost a player. Why? no need. And the maps are not small, they are quite large. They could go with having a number of portals for that map, so a finite amount of deaths possible. It would be fine imo, and avoid any frustrations. Would ultimately make it feel more fun as well, even for the more average players. I think this point is valid, regardless of the fact that some of us don't have any of these issues, cause we simply trade and get better gear to improve our build to run these maps in a much smoother way. Asmon has said it right, you can keep the game difficult without making it unnecessary punishing. Kripp's points were great as well. Thankfully it will improve, its still EA.
EXP loss doesn't make game objectively better. It's like saying hardcore is objectively better than softcore. Many people doesn't' like wasting time on nothing. Especially when they don't have much time. Punishment is good, but reasonable punishment. For me good punishment in not getting a reward, not in going backwards from the point of trying to get a reward.
Exp loss is something they had in diablo 2. Reaching max level, or even a high level should mean more than I just played alot, it should mean I learned how to play the game well. Makes ladders more interesting. Makes leveling a challenge. Challenge is what I find fun. Like d2 you do not lose levels. Only exp, so your max level is determined by your skill as a player not how many hours you played.
While I also think Paul Tassi is a clown, he does have a point imo. For me (didn't play PoE1) it felt absolutely miserable getting wiped by trials bosses that you see for the first time and losing your token in a second, after spending an hour making your way there. Same with maps that have story bosses in them - get oneshot, lost the map, no maps left, uninstalled. Loving PoE2 all in all, but I would love a casual, more forgiving way to farm up. edit: @8:00: you might be right there, but the game also does not really explain to you what makes a build decent, how the gear systems work, what resistance values to aim for, etc. For a PoE1 player with XX years of experience that might seem trivial, but it is not really intuitive imo
I have fun with the game and its endgame and same goes for every friend that reached it. All i want is ggg to do their thing and release the missing skills, classes, weapons and balance it. My mana (int) stacking mercenary for example is... a little bit too strong xD Cant wait to replay the story and reach endgame with my melee bloodmage i planned (poe1 behavior.. i love pob)
Not sure why so many negative comments are here. By far most content creators agreed with Paul’s opinion. He is not right on everything, but he is right on majority of points. And the purpose of his video was feedback, which was delivered in a very decent, constructive manner.
I don't think a lot of people realize you can farm for items and experience to make your character better. I had upgrades all the time even before the first patch because I'd just farm the areas before bosses. Doesn't take long, and get way more gear and crafting materials.
Normal gamers: There's a problem with the game Smooth brains: git gud GGG literally today: There's a problem with the endgame being far too punishing than we intended and we are addressing it 🤣This community is adorable
we're not even testing any end game right now tho there isn't even the end of the game in the game yet lol still 2-3 more acts to come. We're just running the numbers for them so they can get an idea of what end game will be like then they can go from there but we're just paid testing the middle of the game right now even with the "end game" tab.
As a long time Destiny and Paul Tassi viewer (not fan, just viewer) over the last 5 years, this is what you need to know about him - 1. He will echo Reddit as much as he can. 2. He will never be the first to bring up criticism. 3. When another content creator brings up criticism that looks similar to Reddit's opinion, he will use them as a shield ("other content creators also feel this way"), and proceed to publish said thoughts in both Writing and Video. 4. He sucks at video games, and not just that, he sucks at recognizing design intentions even when they hit him in the face. This is how he makes "safe", low-quality, critical content. Unfortunately, there are people who read this bullshit from the outside. People like Tassi are the reason why the Destiny community ate itself from the inside out, never satisfied and always hostile.
endgame is hard man. i just managed to get thru the t15 quest and i am around 180 hours. i often didnt find maps when i needed to and then had to go back down a few tiers and climb back up. its hard
Only thing to complain about is it's actually difficult. Which is great, imo. You gotta think and use your brain instead of just mindlessly clicking. It's a great game. 👍
At this point, Paul is a meme, and gets paid enough from NYT and his Social media he can make a living off of it. Good for him. I, and many others, have not taken his reviews seriously for years. Some of his reporting has been down right cruel and divisive.
Why do we judge people based on their background instead of focusing on what they say? I didn’t know who this person was, but after reading the comments, I understand why most of them were negative. While I agree with some points, I genuinely related to what they said, especially about the endgame experience. Watching his video felt relatable to me. In the end, it’s not about how I feel or what you think about the game-it’s about the perspective shared.
I feel like casuals just misunderstand poe, this isn't just an ARPG, it's pretty much a theorycrafting simulator, you are not supposed to just play blindly and get better at it, you are supposed to learn the ins and outs of the game, once you understand HOW to scale your characters, the game is actually insanely easy, the difficulty is not in the gameplay itself, but in the underlying mechanics, this game is pure theory, hence why there's so many people just "playing" PoB and not even touching the actual game. If you find endgame to be harder than the early campaign, you are just not building your character properly, simple as that. Sure the first boss was kinda hard, since we had no passives, no gear, nothing. But man, stacking str on my gemling with a couple of uniques is enough to obliterate everything up to the hardest tier of maps in the game. People just don't even try to understand this game.
I am a new player to POE and I never really played ARPGs like this. I am over 60 hours in (yes I am a casual) and I am enjoying my time. Is the game perfect? No, but I honestly made a lot of mistakes which is fine. I am taking my time learning the game and I know the game will be adjusted before launch.
Based on all the videos I was stressed that maps were gonna be brutal. Map tiers 1-5 are basically identical and completing 10 of each of those gives you 10 skill tree points to pump the maps up a bit to make them actually challenging. It sounds like he just skipped killing all the mobs in the campaign or something. Higher level mobs in maps? They start at 65...
I don't Support Dictatorships if I can help it. Even if its POE. *Chinese Owned, just in-case your Blissfully Unaware as sadly too many in this world seem to be on things like this...
Idk why everyone is shitting on this guy. I’m not aware of his other opinions on other games but he is spot on about the 1 death thing and losing your map. If this is not changed the game will suffer.
He said it's not rewarding enough for the amount of punishment you are getting, not that the game is bad because it's too hard. At least that's my understanding of his video - I personally agree with some points he makes but I know this will get exponentially better with time.
I'm digging the one life per map joint myself. Leveled to ingame with infernalist and about to start a hardcore character. also pretty sure xp loss on death isnt a thing.. at all right now.
How do we know gaming journalists are a joke? ... This guy still has a job. At FORBES. WTFF I remember his D4 takes being equally as bad, over a year ago
while I'm not a fan of Tassi, Quin stating he only got one-shot once (and that it was a bug), so "clearly it's just a skill issue" is a stupid take. Quin has overleveled like crazy, has focused an insane amount of time on getting health and resists (which is fine, because hardcode, but then don't compare if you haven't gone through the same experience?) and has not done anything challenging until he's leveled enough to where it's not that challenging. If you constantly have to be 5-15 levels above enemies for example, that seems.. broken. Also him bitching constantly during stream about almost getting one shot and telling "GGG to fix their game" is pure hypocrisy. plus, I honestly don't think Tassi took Kryps video that far out of context. Plus, it's clear GGG also disagrees, given their latest patch announcement.
Aha, so I hid from youtube etc for a while playing my poe2 campaign and having fun, then yesterday when I got to endgame I saw theyd removed the death penalty of mapping. I was sad to see it go, guess I have the likes of this guy to thank for it.
The map bosses aren't trial and error, they are the same bosses you learned and killed in the campaign. Dying on maps is a skill issue, Quinn is right.
He's clearly an idiot but even an idiot can be right accidentally and I kind of agree on the waystone thing. I just started mapping and I'm dropping less than one waystone per completed map, even T1s.
I always despised dieing in maps in poe1 even if it's not really that punishing, so I'm very glad there is an actual reason to build defence in softcore.
@gu244 don't get me wrong, I do like the choice to have death =you're done with that map. I just liked building those degenerate builds in poe1 where you will win AND die trying.
Did I understand the start correctly lmao??? DId he actually say he cleared the campaign twice, once in normal difficulty, once in cruel. That's just beating it once lmao.
Seem like he didn't even try to swap over to an endgame build... I didn't have the time to come up with my own endgame build. But my self rolled build was only good enough to finish cruel. Not maps.
But he is right about asmongold, asmongold is an absolut clown. he called sekiro and fromsoft games in geenral easy and only bad players would thinks they are not but also said act 1 needs to be nerfed in poE2 lmao. Amsongold is the whole circus. His clown takes are even more funnier considering he cried and quit any fomsoft game atleast once
I have this feeling like tassi has 0-50 total life on his gear and is only equipping the highest evasion gear only Also he is talking about things like every thing is final. Unlike another PoE-like game, ggg has actually shaken up the end game completely before. Like the war of the atlas
Keep in mind this is the same guy that thought Veilguard was amazing. And thought BG3 was mid.
He’s the Jim Cramer of games 👍
BG3 is mid tho
Bg3 is mid .
Veil guard below mid.
But I also don’t expect everyone to agree with me. It’s a video game I hope some people have fun w it. tf do I care. I just play something else. World don’t need to revolve around me.
Internet challenge impossible.
Also the same guy that liked Veilguard because he did not like the previous Dragon Age games like Origins.
His taste is questionable.
who are these self appointed people talking for the "average" player? people like these are the ones misguiding normal casuals into having bad experience, I see this dood! carefully twisting facts as it suits him, he stopped playing then that's good riddance, these types of people are the actual filth of the gaming industry
Paul "cant believe concord failed" Tassi ?
Paul "Veilguard is an 8.5 game" Tassi?
Nah, I'll pass it
if you ever want to laugh go compare the IGN reviews of Concord, Black Myth Wukong, and POE2.
Surely he rated Diablo 4 correctly
I stop taking him serious years ago, like Angry Joe and Jim Sterling. It enhanced my gaming experience.
@@DubbedJey Dunno, Angry Joe has been pretty solid for me. Often my enjoyment of a game and his rating are often quite close. That's exactly why you should always find the reviewer that has similar interests as you. But I'm interested in what way did you disagree with him or what review.
@@jingsterling he's fine when he's doesn't bring politics in tbh
Why does anyone care about Paul Tassi's opinion anyway? He's a literal nobody. He thought concord would succeed and stellar blade would fail.
Yet here you are talking about Paul Tassi.
Sounds like it’s tine to touch grass buddy
I don't think too many people care what he has to say. He's just another person with a platform and an opinion on the game.
At the end of the day POE 2 is in EA and now is the best time to flood the Devs with opinions, whether good or bad, so they can better shape the 1.0 release.
We watch it because it entertaining, not because we care about his opinion. Its like those dating shows, but for gamers
Its honestly interesting to see him articulate his points and watch when he has to resort to his notes for his points and the words he choses. He honestly sounds like this isnt even his real opinion, but his "im salty about dying and now im shitting on this game because Kripp said its bad". I didnt think he ever said at which tier of maps he stopped. And I am almost certain it is nowhere near red maps and actually most likely he stopped in late white maps. Which is funny, because thats exactly the point where Kripp said you dont notice any of this stuff yet. His build is either complete ass or his gear is beyond trash and he cant accept that running around with that shit wont net him success in maps. From my experience it only really starts to become iffy around t10 maps, because thats when my merc with essentially no defensive layering started to get oneshot by random on death effects (especially chaos).
Other than that the only fcked up thing I noticed was bosses with physical slam attacks, those are also pretty insane if you dont have giga armor or plain %dmg reduction.
Cant decide whats worse Tassis dumb takes or Quin reacting and talking with full mouth...
the former because once hes done eating that dogshit is no longer there but tassi's takes are garbage forever
worst : agreeing with Quin on this one.
Asmon agreed with Tassi
@@MrMultiPlatformyes and almond is right .. quin is a moron
@@MrMultiPlatformwho cares lol
So Paul entered endgame, kept dying in T1 maps, run out of waystones, saw Krip's video and quit lmao.
Yep lol, skill issue.
Hes a sheep. Cant think for himself. Krip said…bla bla bla. Nerd
TLDR of the whole Paul Tassi's "review":
I went to T1 maps with negative resistances, got one tapped by everything, finally made it to T2, then lost my stone and gave up on the game. Then, while crying, watched a Kripp video who agreed with me game is hard. Even though Kripp was talking about high tier maps and that some builds will just not enjoy them because they'll die too much.
That's not actually what happened. But go off
Paul Tassi got that Destiny 2/D4 brain rot
Leave Destiny 2 out of this.
Destiny 2 is dope tf?!
We found the shit eaters^ 😂😂
@F1rstp3rson The only people that enjoy destiny 2 are the ones that haven't played an actual good game in their lives. I don't blame them though. They are just unaware. They don't understand how low the bar they set themselves in d2.
@@colby8104 I never understood Destiny 2 players when BL2 exists. Imo way better.
And atleast 800bucks cheaper.
Paul "Starfield is a 9.5" Tassi
Paul "Veilguard is an 8.5" Tassi
Paul "D4 is a great game" Tassi
Paul "I play Destiny 2 in 2024" Tassi
Paul "Dogtamer" Tassi
Honestly Starfield got such a bad rap and dogpiled just because it was the cool thing. The game start to finish was actually very very good. It just failed in a sense compared to their other games replayability.
Destiny 2 pvp still hits in 2024........sounds like you and Tassi are having the same skill issue bro 😅
@@Daventry85you're wrong. Sorry.
@@Daventry85 The only decent thing about Starfield is the ship building. The main story is absolute dogshit, the basebuilding is limiting and clunky and the dialogue feels like it was written by a committee to ensure its safe for 2 year olds.
@@Daventry85 Or not. Every piece of crap get its share of people going "it was not as bad as people made it", and let's not forget the upcoming flurry of like minded articles about it being "an underrated gem".
But kripp said
Is kripp wrong? Are you in late game maps?
@yautjacetanu Yes, people stil think it is poe 1, but you know the good thing is they can go and play that or D4.
@yautjacetanu Kripp is right. end game is very challenging. I keep on dying in T11 maps with 1.3k HP (due to 3rd asc. 25% reserved HP) which is not recommended. I reached to the point that what will I do? I will create a new character or farm in lower maps like T8 to T10 so that I can have enough currency to upgrade my gears to increase my HP and not to sacrifice my Spirit and Max Capped resistance. So I take a rest for whole day, go back to the game and keep on farming. Upgrade my gears. Whoala huge difference. I have thousand of hrs. in POE 1 with few mirrors worth of gears. POE 1 veterans like Kripp who played POE 1 for more than a decade now is comparing his game experience in POE 1 with POE 2. In POE 1 you can have relax mode while in POE 2 there is no relax mode. BTW I'm following Kripps build since he posted the build in mobalytics. Overall, POE 2 is a Quadruple AAAA game for me. The longer I played POE 2 the more i'm loving it. FYI, I played also Last Epoch and D4
@@kulastvgaming damn how is it even possible to have played poe 1 so much and farmed mirrors meanwhile you cant eve get past t11s in poe 2 lol
I'll give you the reason why he couldn't beat t11, he doesn't have an op 1 shot bow build that carries him all the way through, dude has to use his brain for his own build this time and failing 😂 @@MydrecaNaPopa
I cant believe this guy gets paid to play games
Yeah and also that Paul Tassi guy
14:30 "You play an hour (of the end game) and figure where that's going to go....".
You played an hour of end game POE 2 and can see it all? Imagine saying that after 1 hour of maps in POE1. Lmao. Noob
literally mapped for 6 hours yesterday, this dude didnt play endgame at all. probably died in all maps 😂
Got my ass kicked as soon as i got to T1 maps too. But I just grinded a few exalts and bought some trash gear and was ripping through maps. Dudes a walking skill issue.
@@keithjernquist4203 Literally this. Spent my first couple eggs after my first death in maps. Since then I've only struggled with keys dropping a tier or two higher than I feel ready for.
You really don't want video game 'journalists' to like your game. Gatekeeping is a good thing, as soon as developers seek out approval from these types of people you end up with industry slop.
Yeah those days they are a massive 50/50 (at best) coin toss. Either they feel the same as the audience and mainstream public , or they are completely at odds with it , and often over the dumbest reasons. Usually no balance and actual in-depth analysis.
This idiot thought “The Acolyte” was great!!! 😂😂😂
And Veilguard
And Concord
Never seen this guy have a good take. When D4 launched, he said D2 never had ladder resets.
Destiny 2 main moment
You beat me to that comment
"How you open kebab, bro?" - Quin69 2024
Tassi is misrepresenting a lot of Kripp's points and then pretending to appeal to authority by constantly bringing up Kripp because he thinks people will accept it if Kripp "said it".
Yep, it's so pathetic
Did I get it right? This guy is critiquing PoE2 endgame without playing it based on someone elses video?
He dies too much and loses his maps because hes too week so the game must be bad. Meanwhile Quin is playing on Hard Core.
@@NugKnights Quinn dies as much as Paul.
Lol Paul Tassi, a fella who gives contrarian and dumb opinions and get pissed when someone points out the flaws of his arguement on reddit (i was that guy).
Had no respect for him ever since.
laugh at this reddit user
He also gave Diablo 4 a 9/10. So ya..
Not the first time Paul is farming views through ragebait.
Paul Tassi said Starfield was like a 9 or 10 out of 10.
Paul wants brainless rpg flow, where as soon you finish the quests without even clearing the map you can go to the boss and after a few tries and learning a bit the mechanic can kill it - Powerfantasy fulfillment - how dare a game want you to think or grind
It’s almost like that’s exactly what has made Path of Exile successful for a decade.
@@MikeyJ28 yeah if you would do Path of Exile with better graphics - wow what a waste it would be
GGG made it clear Path of Exile 2 will be something different. For the ones that want the same PoE will always be there.
Most of the crying people are the ones that complain PoE2 is not exactly the same as PoE
@@MikeyJ28 It's almost like Path of Exile in its earlier days was not a mindless powerfantasy and yet it was successful enough to gain all subsequent momentum. You clearly never played before Perandus league etc. Poe 2 in its current state has amassed a much greater playerbase (with strong retention) coming from people who are new to the poe community. This is further corroborated by Chris Wilson's statement that, during earlier playtesting, sclerotic poe 1 players struggled more to perform competently in poe 2 than players who were entirely new to the series. This indicates that the game has already outgrown poe 1 and is poised to be a bigger success. You're stuck in a particular mindset, just like an old man. So, go play poe 1. It's still there for people like you.
@ This is nothing more than a dishonest comparison. PoE 2 is in fact in its earliest of days, but we cannot compare a game in development in 2024/2025 to one from 2011/12.
The difference is over a decade of experience, knowledge and mastering of the systems and designs that made PoE 1 a perfectly imperfect and interesting ARPG.
We also cannot compare original indie-startup GGG to current multi-million dollar Tencent benefactor GGG that has had well over 5 years and millions of dollars invested into making their second iteration.
While yes, I believe PoE 2 is currently the worst it will be and has a lot of room to grow, the issues I have aren’t things that get worked out during Early Access. The entire design of the game is entirely detrimental to what made original PoE a 4,000 hour game rather than a 400 hour game.
Everything from the terribly designed and uninteresting passive tree to the overly drawn out slow campaign. The changes to Ascendency/Lab being the most backwards decision imaginable and locking players down to one single Ascendency. The lack of agency one has with their character leads to uninspired metas with no creativity or innovation.
All of these things are core game designs that will persist through Early Access and once the honeymoon period comes to an end, I really think a lot of players are going to start questioning whether or not this is a game they want to continue to replay every few months.
@@MikeyJ28 Exactly this and more. Exactly the counter points to the brainwashed junk people keep repeating, but can't hear over the sound of gargling Wilson's nuts. Repeating early access in response to every criticism disregards the massive amounts of time, money, and experience gone into the last 10 years, and currently. These are not early access issues, they are fundamental flaws in game design which do not even align in the slightest with what made PoE the 10 year gem that it has been. Not a game made for the fans like PoE once was, but a wet dream of someone too full of himself being lived out to satisfy ego and investors. But keep drinking it up. keep telling people to leave and to go back and play PoE 1. That's what I'll do while most of you get bored and move on to the next "big thing". Play a game that will likely now have it's resources and priorities shafted at the expense of this garbled mess that "looks and sounds really cool". So sad.
I dont care about Paul Tassi, but the cope and gaslighting in this vid is off the charts.
I hate that he is getting all his info regarding endgame from kripps video, he hasnt experienced it himself and then he obviously misunderstood a ton of stuff in kripps video, e.g. the waystone points on atlas disappearing....so annoying
@@GeraldHarnack-x4t Low Tier maps isnt really endgame, he is missing all Boss stuff, atlas trees and due to the fact that he still thinks markers on the atlas map are lost when he dies in a map, i doubt he has run more than 5 maps
Never trust a grown man with a YoDa in his room.
Truest comment here
YEP
@@nguyentri3608 I will draw a distinction between my toxic plastic 40 year old hand puppet yoda on my shelf and a baby yoda in a bin:)
I have lot of Pokémon and Pokéballs figures in my room, having 3-4k hour into PoE 1. That's odd to judge on those things. But all of his takes show that he is Newbie with no game sense, that's true
To speak on the Kripp saying act 2 was the hardest part of the game. I had his stream on my second monitor while I played, so I watched him from basically start till reaching maps. During act 2, he got unlucky with gem drops, so his main skill was very low compared to where he was. He also was running sub par minions, he hadn't swapped to arsonists yet. He was running a minion skill gem that required accuracy, but he had invested none into making them hit more.
It was partly Act 2 being harder than the others and partly him getting unlucky and playing bad skills. Compounded he was having a really hard time.
I didn't die on the dreadnought, not even once. 😂 yet every streamer complained about it.
@@Underachiever_Files Ye, I think I only died to one boss through my entire player through, and it was the witch hut mini boss. I swapped both my flasks and had no charges for her, so I rotted to death. Not a single other boss killed me. I actually found the game to be easier than I had hoped, but I know im not the typical gamer.
When this happened to me I call it BRICKED skill or class, this literally skill issues.
The only boss I really "struggled" with was the Act 1 final boss but that was my first time fighting him and my gem links and everything were trash. Every other boss I died to maybe 1-2 times max with most bosses killing them the first time. Imo once you realize what the 1 shot mechanic each boss has is you never die to them again.
Act 2 has the most scarcity in the game. Thats it primarily. You haven’t really gotten a load of good gear or a good build by that point and compared to act 1, it is a spike in difficulty. Not that much of one, but with both factors combined, it can make things quite annoying
"From the new York times" I was instantly dead lmao
Paul "Skill Issue" Tassi
@@AllEy3s0nMe here's the thing if the developers want a growing audience as they have said multiple times they need to harness the skill of making things fun outside of the notion that hard and difficult is fun. If not like Tassi all these new players they have will go away and they'll be right back to their original small player base
@@jfelton3583nah, the world needs challenging games too. Go back to Elden ring
@@havoc8600 that's fine and GGG will make less money and fail to do what they set out to do which was get new players.
There's nothing you can do about your build to change that "according to other people" OMG that made me ROFL so hard...
@@jfelton3583 PoE's core audiance are harecore gamers and it always will be. PoE has never been for everyone. If you try to make a game that pleases everyone it will please no one. They have made the game more accessible to the new player now, which is obviously a good thing. These new players may not like the game, which is fine. Everyone doesn't need to like everything.
As to the difficulty of the game - it is not difficult at all. It's more punishing then PoE1, sure. People are struggling because they don't know how to make a build and they have bad gear. I started a new run yesterday and in 12hours I have finsihed the campaign. I spent 5-10ex on leveling gear and I pretty much 1 shot every boss. On my main I am clearling T15 maps with ease. The
im a new player too... and this game kicks fucking ass. i didnt realize the hype was actually real and that arpgs could be made like this. haters gonna hate
I blocked of Tasssi of my browser,so i wouldnt even know this lol.
Baseg
Gotta disagree with Quinn on some minor stuff:
Exp penalties don't need to exist. Wasting time is already plenty punishment. Invalidating previously spent time is not really a positive. Hardcore is the alternative for people who want deaths to matter in a more significant way.
Ok so what I will say is I also disagree with Paul completely, I’m loving the difficulty off end game, I much prefer having to actually think about my decisions rather than run and blink through every map. However I’ve played these types of games before, I’m also playing with a friend and he is struggling a lot because he’s never played this type of game before. Even the most simple of things like not having enough accuracy, the game doesnt really teach u these things for newer players so he was confused why he was constantly missing his attacks. It’s these small details that is making the end game so hard for newer players.
Other than that im loving the game, cant wait for it to be fully realised and we get all the classes and weapons.
The Quinn-Tassi cycle repeats!!!!
Edit: in all honesty, I think Paul was just not crafting on maps
Imagine a time where people played games because they are having fun, and not because they are "getting something" for doing it. Weird right! POE2 is a blast man.
I mean, I only play PoE1 for the leagues' challenges, once they are done I'm done with the league. Also why I'm not super interested to do much post campaign in PoE2, but it is a early access, I'm just waiting for the rest of the campaign to be added or for it to release and have leagues too.
So far, I'm just one-clicking through the late game. The game was super fun until I made a build that lets me one-click everything. I'm not a fan of this playstyle. The early game felt like real gameplay, but now it's just a bunch of one-clicking. I'm honestly falling asleep. It feels like the game is playing me instead of me playing the game.
@@ponytoast1231 to each their own, I've literally never paid attention to league challenges, I just go until ubers every season and wrap up around then.
ARPGs are literally based around the "getting something" from it. Its a hunt for drops, a hunt for dopamine, nothing else. If it would be for anything else, people would be playing games with better graphics, better combat, better everything.
@@Zemlja_je_ravnatry a different class and don't follow a build guide, I have been having fun doing that in endgame
Harkonnen cosplay?
Na-barron Quon Harkonnen
What Tassi said in the later part of the video is super exaggerated to the point where he should've sat on it for a day before making the video, however:
With regards to waystone sustain, by the middle tiers of waystones, you start dropping tier 1-4 as much as tier 10 and up.
This would make sustain a bit of a bother if you don't know that you're supposed to start regaling all of your maps and save 300-400%+ stones for boss maps or if you don't know the importance of getting rarity and stacking 10% chance to level up waystones on passive tree... or if you're a noob that's dying a lot
Once you know that(which is probably only intuitive for a poe1 player), map sustain is solved. If you don't, then you will probably run out of waystones, especially as a new player. You could also look at adding precursors with rarity and waystone drop chance to towers.
Also, once you're around tier 5-8 I'd recommend getting the atlas passive that doubles a rare. It's an extra chance at dropping waystones or currency. Also, also, I've gotten quite a few waystones by clicking on chests, so I'd recommend doing that too. Good luck exiles!
Paul : D4 is Great!
Paul : Starfield amazing
Paul : jeez I don’t understand why Concord failed.
Paul : Dargonage Veilguard amazing game
conclusion: KEKW
Paul tassi lives on controversy.
I died 8 times in a row trying to finish my first map then I quit the game.
@@tarekt8427 Yeah probably all of the above, not my type of game. It's good though
@@BuddzBunnyHD that is a fair answer.
"people are gonna call me a tourist" --> literally a tourist lol
I hope when acts 4-6 get released they are so hard they gatekeep endgame.
He is right, even farming up as far as an overall experience, the toughest parts of game were as follows for me as a titan warrior: Act 1 normal end boss. Act 3 Molten Boss and Act 3 intro zone on cruel mode when you first go back into the past. Just got to the endgame so will see how it goes. Think there is a middle ground between dying on the map resetting and the idea of corpse rushing. I did make some adjustments on the way for titan warrior like shield wall breaking and blinding the mobs with it on leap and earthquake then bone shatter, hammer for bosses on devastate break armor. I would of never made it to that build if I wasn't tested some.
I'm in Act 2 Cruel, lvl 52 Merc. I'm loving it. Every challenge I have come across I have either tweaked my build or gone away and farmed for a bit and leveled up, and managed to progress. Obviously not in end game yet but many or most people aren't yet. I expect end game will need a fair few changes to get right, but of course, EA and all that. If I get to a point where I'm not enjoying it anymore, I'll start up a new class. With the changes they've already made and the upcoming changes, I think GGG are well on the right track.
I've spent this past week levelling all ascendancies I wanna try through the campaign - averaging one every two days - just because I figured end game was bound to be scuffed and there were lots of things I wanted to try
Thanks for saving me a lot of typing.
"I'm in Act -"
You can stop right there. Nobody is even talking about the campaign being bad. The campaign is amazing. The way end game handles difficulty is garbage, there is no "outplaying" the mobs anymore, everything is a gear check. So, making the maps one try is bad. Unless they can actually fix the problems PoE has always had with visual clarity and mechanics bloat in maps.
Im in t 15 maps. There arent acutally that much issues with the end game. The only issue the game currenctly has is loot/balance. You dont get enough res gear during the campaign to balance your resistances and you only realize after that all that "difficulty" straight up just comes from the fact of being undergeared/not res capped. And the end game basically has the same problem, everything works fine until you meet chaos damage, then u are dead. And capping chaos resistance is actually VERY hard even in trade league considering you have such high stat requirements to make ur gear/build work, u probably need to invest a lot in mana regen depending on build, because level 19/20 6 links eat inifinte mana, especcially on fast attack builds and u basically drop ZERO gear. During my entire playthrough to 92 i have not found a SINGLE rare item on the ground that i would even consider putting on my character.
@@DoNotFearTheReapa LOADS of people are saying the campaign is too hard, what are you talking about? But anyway the next patch will make end game easier. End game was always going to need tweaking. The game hasnt even been out 2 weeks...D4 came out with NO endgame, nothing! Just give them time.
I don't know this guy seem genuinely fair in his take and didn't say anything proposteus and Quin a clown as usually.
The guy didn't understand what the game is about, he wanted a casual grindless experience and this is not it, the comments over oneshots are bs, there's some overtuned mobs but it's nowhere near as he says.
I think it's because he comes off as disingenuous because it's pretty clear he didn't play the end game considering how he describes dying in maps completely wrong.
He literally says incorrect rubbish and misrepresents another players opinions instead of forming his own. You’re the clown
@@thdotcom1this is cope
"how do you open a kabab bro"
Paul Tassi does not know how games work, he knows how he WANTS them to work. His entire brand is just acting like a victim in whatever space he puts himself in and trying to stir the pot. Industries most subtle hack.
Imagine playing a ranger and complaining how punishing 1 death is
Yeah this dude sucks. Re rolled a ranger and just made it to act 3 with 4 deaths. 3 of those were me just walking into packs and dying cause I got body blocked. Easiest class in the game.
I died as Warrior more than Ranger.
Same. Not sure where nerfs will bring us but even though my ranger had 2 times lower resistances then warrior she's still blasted through early maps like they were joke. The only upgrade I've needed for that was mediocre bow
"If you get one shot either your character sucks or you are bad at the game" - Quin
Yeah okay there buddy, as you get 1 shot by a bugged boss in Act 2 (bet he isn't ever going to touch a map version). I'm not defending this Paul guy, but poe2 has a ton of things that are either buggy, overtuned or just not thoroughly thought through before they add it to the game. There are wraiths that can spawn on the 4th floor of the sekhemas trial that can hit for thousands of damage with no modifiers, and these things are ranged, insanely fast and can teleport constantly, and that is just one of dozens of examples I could give. I love path of exile 2 but the game has a lot of issues, for both new and veteran players and hopefully they fix them over time.
They are fixing the trial issue you mentioned in a patch this week as well as nerfing overturned endgame mechanics, so yes they are fixing the game.
Bro when I get stuck on a boss or an area, because enemies respawn, I go get a level or some gear to sell, check vendors see if I can craft anything move skill gems around etc. At least up until the end of the campaign, I felt like whenever I got stuck, I was pretty much always able to figure something out, it might just take a little time. This "you just get stuck and because of how the game is set up you can't do anything about it" just makes me think this is a classic game journalist case of him genuinely not understanding the systems in PoE2.
Edit: as soon as I finished typing my comment and unpaused you said the exact same thing as me LOL! exactly! No one told this dude about farming 😅
I wish they would give us 6 portal to attempt end game bosses (reset on death) so they can give us even harder bosses. Grinding Malenia and Kos for hours until I knew their movesets by heart and finally beating is why I love souls games
Should be obvious that the dude actually hasnt played endgame outside of maybe one or two maps and just watched the kripp video without understanding a lot of it ... a lot of things he says are just flat out wrong.
I actually agree with him on map bosses lol. The best part of the campaign was the feeling when you killed a boss that was kicking your ass previously. Removing the boss from maps if you die is just removing the challenge and the best part of the game. By all means if you die remove the events such as breach etc, but keep the boss. BUT.. make the bosses harder so they provide challenge themselves that needs overcome to complete the map. Perhaps maybe even make boss maps JUST a hard boss that doesnt use a keystone. You just have to kill said hard boss to complete it but with good rewards when you do.
Bro I lose brain cells every time this guy speaks about a game
He didn't say anything over the top. It's not like she said the game was bad or anything
Edit: he started fine, then went full unhinged when saying the endgame isn't worth playing at all.
I don’t disagree with him. It just doesn’t feel worth the headache and huge time commitment right now.
Why is it unhinged. He probably means it doesn't FEEL worth it. But is he wrong about insta kills?
Insta kills are bullshit, they are so dumb and boring and never feel good unless you are doing a specific insta kill run.
Its just really fun to do something hard but get multiple times to correct your mistakes and practise over and over. Super meat boy is hard but it's really fun the way it puts you back into the action.
Insta kills make it harder to feel like you can learn from your mistakes
Pretty much this.
The dude means well, but explains his views in such weird ways that people (especially Quin) focuses on his comparisons, instead of the "issue" he is describing - completely dismissing everything he is saying.
Quin several times over, says that he needs to go back and watch Kripp's video - despite him clearly having understood it, but at the same time failing to come up with his own clear comparisons, but instead comes up with these weird ramblings, making it seem like he didn't understand anything.
He makes it sound like he wants any challenging difficulty and "standard PoE punishments" removed - but that's not what he is saying though - it comes off like that, because he goes on rambling about XYZ things and makes comparisons that kinda distract from the main point.
To sum it up:
He wants "low-tier over-tuned mob" one-shots to be gone - just like everyone else. That's his biggest "complaint", yet he fails to convey this in a good way (because of his mad incoherent rambling, that people jump on instead).
With one-shots being a thing; that's what can ruin your mapping experience because of the 1-death rule.
(all of which seems to be balanced a bit more, with the upcoming changes they posted about some hours ago)
@@tagger_ I think one of the things that is annoying with this kind of drama is that a lot of the time when someone complains, they present solutions but they arnt game devs. So their solutions will likely suck but that doesn't invalidate what they are worried about. People on the other side assume that to listen to the complaint is to implement the specific solution. Like tri went on abiut how he really didn't want people to listen to everyone complaining about no phasing through mobs but then liked the way ggg solved it.
Similarly here. All we know is that multiple people find the one shots unfun. This can be solved in so many ways. Making them less likely to happen, make them happen only by scary mobs, telegraph thigns better, make it easier to get straight back into a fight, make it so you can build for defense but then yoyr damage sucks and maps take longer, change the way damage multipliers stack. Allow for zooming out during boss fights so it's easier to see when you're attacked, remove on death effects as much.
All these thigns may make someone feel less angry about being one shot.
I love playing games where I can choose a 1 life run, like ori or souls likes but it's rare people enjoy that and even when they do it's usually not the first play through. My friends all hated monster hunter because of one shots until they discovered the importance of resists. Then suddenly the game was fun, it's fun when you can solve problems.
But it does look like poe2 doesnt give you enough ways to solve things if you don't like them.
I also think people like to think everyone likes hard games but actually even dark souls and elden ring have ways of playing that make the game easy with guides and grinding. Sekiro was truly punishing and not as popular. Even that, most bosses could be cheesed some way.
To be entirely fair, diablo 2 had one mechanic better thought out. Monsters "dont need" to respawn on each death. Its just stupid. Imagine killing an enemy, they drop a mirror, or something else insane, then you die, gg respawn, kicked from the map too. All loot lost. Ragequit, lost a player. Why? no need. And the maps are not small, they are quite large. They could go with having a number of portals for that map, so a finite amount of deaths possible. It would be fine imo, and avoid any frustrations. Would ultimately make it feel more fun as well, even for the more average players. I think this point is valid, regardless of the fact that some of us don't have any of these issues, cause we simply trade and get better gear to improve our build to run these maps in a much smoother way.
Asmon has said it right, you can keep the game difficult without making it unnecessary punishing. Kripp's points were great as well.
Thankfully it will improve, its still EA.
EXP loss doesn't make game objectively better. It's like saying hardcore is objectively better than softcore. Many people doesn't' like wasting time on nothing. Especially when they don't have much time. Punishment is good, but reasonable punishment. For me good punishment in not getting a reward, not in going backwards from the point of trying to get a reward.
It atleast makes getting to level 100 a real challenge and achievement.
Exp loss is something they had in diablo 2. Reaching max level, or even a high level should mean more than I just played alot, it should mean I learned how to play the game well. Makes ladders more interesting. Makes leveling a challenge. Challenge is what I find fun.
Like d2 you do not lose levels. Only exp, so your max level is determined by your skill as a player not how many hours you played.
Quinn, "dogshit 4" had me dying. lmao 👍👍👍👍👍👍
While I also think Paul Tassi is a clown, he does have a point imo. For me (didn't play PoE1) it felt absolutely miserable getting wiped by trials bosses that you see for the first time and losing your token in a second, after spending an hour making your way there. Same with maps that have story bosses in them - get oneshot, lost the map, no maps left, uninstalled. Loving PoE2 all in all, but I would love a casual, more forgiving way to farm up.
edit: @8:00: you might be right there, but the game also does not really explain to you what makes a build decent, how the gear systems work, what resistance values to aim for, etc. For a PoE1 player with XX years of experience that might seem trivial, but it is not really intuitive imo
"I've done the campaign twice, once on normal and once on cruel"
bruh
I have fun with the game and its endgame and same goes for every friend that reached it. All i want is ggg to do their thing and release the missing skills, classes, weapons and balance it. My mana (int) stacking mercenary for example is... a little bit too strong xD
Cant wait to replay the story and reach endgame with my melee bloodmage i planned (poe1 behavior.. i love pob)
he just had low resists, u can steamroll campaign with trash resists but once u get into maps they are mandatory
Not sure why so many negative comments are here. By far most content creators agreed with Paul’s opinion. He is not right on everything, but he is right on majority of points. And the purpose of his video was feedback, which was delivered in a very decent, constructive manner.
I don't think a lot of people realize you can farm for items and experience to make your character better. I had upgrades all the time even before the first patch because I'd just farm the areas before bosses. Doesn't take long, and get way more gear and crafting materials.
Normal gamers: There's a problem with the game
Smooth brains: git gud
GGG literally today: There's a problem with the endgame being far too punishing than we intended and we are addressing it
🤣This community is adorable
The PoE community is a cult. Lol even GGG agreed with Paul lol.
we're not even testing any end game right now tho there isn't even the end of the game in the game yet lol still 2-3 more acts to come. We're just running the numbers for them so they can get an idea of what end game will be like then they can go from there but we're just paid testing the middle of the game right now even with the "end game" tab.
As a long time Destiny and Paul Tassi viewer (not fan, just viewer) over the last 5 years, this is what you need to know about him -
1. He will echo Reddit as much as he can.
2. He will never be the first to bring up criticism.
3. When another content creator brings up criticism that looks similar to Reddit's opinion, he will use them as a shield ("other content creators also feel this way"), and proceed to publish said thoughts in both Writing and Video.
4. He sucks at video games, and not just that, he sucks at recognizing design intentions even when they hit him in the face.
This is how he makes "safe", low-quality, critical content. Unfortunately, there are people who read this bullshit from the outside. People like Tassi are the reason why the Destiny community ate itself from the inside out, never satisfied and always hostile.
endgame is hard man. i just managed to get thru the t15 quest and i am around 180 hours. i often didnt find maps when i needed to and then had to go back down a few tiers and climb back up. its hard
Only thing to complain about is it's actually difficult. Which is great, imo. You gotta think and use your brain instead of just mindlessly clicking. It's a great game. 👍
At this point, Paul is a meme, and gets paid enough from NYT and his Social media he can make a living off of it. Good for him. I, and many others, have not taken his reviews seriously for years. Some of his reporting has been down right cruel and divisive.
Why do we judge people based on their background instead of focusing on what they say? I didn’t know who this person was, but after reading the comments, I understand why most of them were negative. While I agree with some points, I genuinely related to what they said, especially about the endgame experience. Watching his video felt relatable to me. In the end, it’s not about how I feel or what you think about the game-it’s about the perspective shared.
I feel like casuals just misunderstand poe, this isn't just an ARPG, it's pretty much a theorycrafting simulator, you are not supposed to just play blindly and get better at it, you are supposed to learn the ins and outs of the game, once you understand HOW to scale your characters, the game is actually insanely easy, the difficulty is not in the gameplay itself, but in the underlying mechanics, this game is pure theory, hence why there's so many people just "playing" PoB and not even touching the actual game. If you find endgame to be harder than the early campaign, you are just not building your character properly, simple as that. Sure the first boss was kinda hard, since we had no passives, no gear, nothing. But man, stacking str on my gemling with a couple of uniques is enough to obliterate everything up to the hardest tier of maps in the game. People just don't even try to understand this game.
He went through the campaign ONCE. Doing it on normal and then cruel IS the campaign for early access.
I am a new player to POE and I never really played ARPGs like this. I am over 60 hours in (yes I am a casual) and I am enjoying my time. Is the game perfect? No, but I honestly made a lot of mistakes which is fine. I am taking my time learning the game and I know the game will be adjusted before launch.
The funny thing is - Tassi is still probably a better PoE2 player than Elon
Based on all the videos I was stressed that maps were gonna be brutal. Map tiers 1-5 are basically identical and completing 10 of each of those gives you 10 skill tree points to pump the maps up a bit to make them actually challenging. It sounds like he just skipped killing all the mobs in the campaign or something. Higher level mobs in maps? They start at 65...
I don't Support Dictatorships if I can help it. Even if its POE.
*Chinese Owned, just in-case your Blissfully Unaware as sadly too many in this world seem to be on things like this...
I would love if they make a season with boss rush mode where you can push Infinite like delve. This would be awesome.
Tassi - here is a cookie and go back to D4, dont let the door hit you
Idk why everyone is shitting on this guy. I’m not aware of his other opinions on other games but he is spot on about the 1 death thing and losing your map. If this is not changed the game will suffer.
I tried watching, but listening to people chomp on food is the most disgusting thing ever. I don’t know why people think this is okay.
Not everyone is annoyed by insignificant things.
Quin… Is this guy… is he mentally okay? Quin is 100%%%%% its a SKILL ISSUE!
He said it's not rewarding enough for the amount of punishment you are getting, not that the game is bad because it's too hard. At least that's my understanding of his video - I personally agree with some points he makes but I know this will get exponentially better with time.
I'm digging the one life per map joint myself. Leveled to ingame with infernalist and about to start a hardcore character. also pretty sure xp loss on death isnt a thing.. at all right now.
I really think the world has turned into pro wrestling and some people are just actively being a heel.
How do we know gaming journalists are a joke?
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This guy still has a job. At FORBES. WTFF
I remember his D4 takes being equally as bad, over a year ago
I mean it’s funny he talks about kripp and kisses his ass, while looking eerily similar to kripp… the face shape, hair, the beard
while I'm not a fan of Tassi, Quin stating he only got one-shot once (and that it was a bug), so "clearly it's just a skill issue" is a stupid take. Quin has overleveled like crazy, has focused an insane amount of time on getting health and resists (which is fine, because hardcode, but then don't compare if you haven't gone through the same experience?) and has not done anything challenging until he's leveled enough to where it's not that challenging. If you constantly have to be 5-15 levels above enemies for example, that seems.. broken. Also him bitching constantly during stream about almost getting one shot and telling "GGG to fix their game" is pure hypocrisy. plus, I honestly don't think Tassi took Kryps video that far out of context.
Plus, it's clear GGG also disagrees, given their latest patch announcement.
Aha, so I hid from youtube etc for a while playing my poe2 campaign and having fun, then yesterday when I got to endgame I saw theyd removed the death penalty of mapping. I was sad to see it go, guess I have the likes of this guy to thank for it.
The map bosses aren't trial and error, they are the same bosses you learned and killed in the campaign. Dying on maps is a skill issue, Quinn is right.
He's clearly an idiot but even an idiot can be right accidentally and I kind of agree on the waystone thing.
I just started mapping and I'm dropping less than one waystone per completed map, even T1s.
He is right about everything he is saying if you can look at from the perspective of an average gamer
I do miss my '6 portal defence'
I always despised dieing in maps in poe1 even if it's not really that punishing, so I'm very glad there is an actual reason to build defence in softcore.
@gu244 don't get me wrong, I do like the choice to have death =you're done with that map.
I just liked building those degenerate builds in poe1 where you will win AND die trying.
Did I understand the start correctly lmao??? DId he actually say he cleared the campaign twice, once in normal difficulty, once in cruel. That's just beating it once lmao.
Seem like he didn't even try to swap over to an endgame build... I didn't have the time to come up with my own endgame build. But my self rolled build was only good enough to finish cruel. Not maps.
But he is right about asmongold, asmongold is an absolut clown. he called sekiro and fromsoft games in geenral easy and only bad players would thinks they are not but also said act 1 needs to be nerfed in poE2 lmao. Amsongold is the whole circus. His clown takes are even more funnier considering he cried and quit any fomsoft game atleast once
I have this feeling like tassi has 0-50 total life on his gear and is only equipping the highest evasion gear only
Also he is talking about things like every thing is final. Unlike another PoE-like game, ggg has actually shaken up the end game completely before. Like the war of the atlas
im on my 7th Quin69 video still trying to figure out how to Sex-Link my CoC
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Hes a Veilguard enjoyer, literally nothing he says or will ever say matters. Next we see him he will have blue hair
my first (dogsh*t) build got me to endgame. I learned how terrible my build was so i made a new one. play, learn, improve. duh