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My favorite thing about Last Epoch is that I don't need a guide.
They really care about making a fun game and improving the genre. Also, the devs are great. Especially Mike who does a livestream every Friday for years and answers all questions. That is the communication we all ask for. We have to recognize them for it. They are about the players.
Why do you need a guide in other games?
@@patlogic9512POE obligates you to get a guide, without it, its easy to get lost and do some shit you gona regreat end gamw. I think he was talking about this kind of game
@@patlogic9512 He's talking about poe. You need a guide in poe
Mine is that I don’t need internet
Last Epoch is the true Diablo 3 I always wanted
Oh man, that makes me want to buy it since I am a D2 lifer.
Been saying this and I feel like most ppl get confused when I say it lol.
This is my problem with the game. Looks and plays excatly like D3 / D4. Clearly marketed for D3 / D4 players who were disappointed.
Too bad we cannot go back in time and change d3 to something like LE in terms of mechanics
@@rando653if you ask me, poe above maps is a game of it's own, i still love it and sunk thousands of hours into it, but it's hard to compare it Diablo or LE, I'm sure PoE 2 is gonna be more of what you're looking for though
last epoch is a great example of a game made by gamers for gamers.
That’s what I keep hearing being regurgitated 😅
If you really think about it that is such a stupid comment.
@@drago1943 come say tht to my face cvq
@@sagedakillasdk5181 nvr hrd it
Im so happy with palworld, helldivers, last epoch etc. 2024 is the year of the indie
No it's the beginning of the indie companies taking over the AAA(A) companies :)
Yes, all 3 were great gameplay wise, mechanically, etc.
However, Helldivers 2 weeks into launch... still having some server issues and still having some remaining major bugs (like your difficulty being locked permanently so you can't progress)
Last Epoch's launch was gross. First 5 days the servers were basically not functional.
As good as the games are... people need to stop letting companies shit the bed on launch.
only LE was actually a launch title. the others are in deep deep beta and early access had bugs. now LE pooped the bed on that launch. that was 1.0@@LeiRaion
@@LeiRaion I agree in most cases, but you gotta cut small indie devs some slack, especially when they didn't expect such success thus need for extreme amounts of expensive resources for those player numbers.
I'm so glad people stopped dumping on Last Epoch because of opening week bottleneck issues. It really is a great game.
While I do think it's a little concerning that gamers are quickly getting used to "launch day" being plagued with server or stability issues, I will say, I do think it's unfair when a pretty great title or entry in a genre sees people hold back brighter praise simply because "launch day had struggles that are mostly now fixed, but did you see how bad launch day was?"
@@RedShadowOfSaturn This is a 90 person team who are mostly programmers, not network engineers. People are too quick to chop people's heads off these days over things that really don't affect their lives. It's dumb and immature.
Yes, I experienced it and went and played something else until servers came up. Bitching doesn't help them solve the problem any faster. It just adds pressure where they make mistakes.
I mean, they stopped when bottleneck issues got resolved, which is kinda fair.
Yep, game is very good. I would like to see some balance tho, my warlock is virtually unkillable - with a button which gives it 100000 ward. Thats just unfair.
@@RedShadowOfSaturn it's not even just gamers. Every single product launch in history was plagued by unforeseeable issues. It's just the nature of business. If you launch a product to hundreds of thousands of people It's literally impossible to please
@dowOfSaturn It's not 'concerning' that gamers are getting used to it, it just shows that they're starting to understand that online games are *complicated*. When it's a AAA studio that's already used to this stuff, you can expect a quicker resolution, but for an indie developer who are launching their first game, server issues are to be expected, because server load is something that's very hard to simulate. They knew they would have issues at launch, but in order to fix the problems they needed them to happen first.
Gunfire Games' Remnant 2 turned out really well also. It just got overshadowed by Baldur's Gate 3.
Not for me waited for years and had 200hours blast, untill i collected every item in the game.
@@TheNoxmage I'll be getting back into it at some point.
I still need to get the engineer engram among other things.
So you no lifed it over a week, got 200 hours out of the game and think it's "bad" now? Nicetake. @@TheNoxmage
he was saying that baldurs gate didnt overshadow it for him, not that he didnt like it
@@Karben22
Unoptimized af 7800x3d 2k res 32 inch 4070ti... 50fps.. lmfao
1:22 Champions of Norrath, bless you sir.
Loved both games. I'm biased though as a huge EQ nerd and baldurs gate fan.
those games and Dark Alliance were freaking awesome with friends
never forget!
unless im misremembering, there is a near the end of the campaign that reminds me very much of champions of norrath. or maybe it's baldur's gate darl alliance...it's been a long time.
Last Epoch is sooo freaking amazing…Its so fun doing Builds that seem crazy but work really well, you can make a build entirely on 1 Skill and it works….currently playing Spellblade and having tons of fun (lvl 75)…. You can see and feel the love the developers put into it.
This was an Excellent point Smaller Teams taking their seat at the table once dominated by way larger companies. I'm feeling waay more positive of the future thanks to these improved often fan oriented mindsets.
what seat? This game was just released. It will take 1-2 months to see where player base stands.
Playing Last Epoch since early access, I just love the game. Pretty crazy how all these small companies outperform all these AAA games :D
Fuck Corpos!!
There is no AAA with 70$ price tag bro. They are AAAA which is the game for true gamers. I don’t understand why people can play and enjoy a game with half the price of a Diablo 4 mount skin.
@@AnHuynh01101 yes like skull and bones that no one wants to play right lol, screw these boring AAA(A) games they are not worth the money.
I had to watch the intro twice to understand the story. Basically, there were 2 entities and the universe with Eterra being one of the entities. She created the humans and the lands and placed 4 mythological type gods over 4 different sections of the lands. When Eterra vanishes, one of the gods (the air god) tries to take control of everything but they need a special shard that has been broken into 3 pieces and protected by the Keepers. That is their sole job. When all 3 shards are put together, it makes The Last Epoch. 2 of the shards are with different individuals. 1 shard bounces around time and doesn't stay in the same spot. Then...you go from there and start the game.
Btw, Bob has two epoch. He lost one. So it was called last epoch.
do people really care about ARPG story? i skipped every dialogue as soon as i picked up the game.
@@monkeytown1239 some do. My friend doesn’t. It irritates me when we co-op. Too many people are just looking to blow through to the endgame like it’s a race.
@@GuruChazThe story campaign ending in a cliffhanger irritated me somewhat. I haven't finished monolith so I can't commend on how it will shake out. But damn, is the Immortal emperor the player character in another timeline?
@@Tholapsyx That's probably due to future addons.
Last Epoch has an Offline Mode that sold me
Sold me too!
Was so happy to hear Champions of Norrath mentioned at the beginning. That was my wife's and my date night game back when we too financially burdened to do things that cost money.
I've been playing LE off-and-on for the last two years and I'm tickled with how it's grown. This and GD are the best experiences that I've had with kickstarter and EA.
aye...great game
Mayhap we're seeing the Renaissance era of gaming unfolding before us?
Maybe you're typing that not having any idea about the actual state of gaming and are just assuming gaming is apparently bad just cos this guy publishes like 12 videos every week attempting to try and make a 20 minute video on how Baldis Basics is gonna expose the AAA gaming industry instead of realizing not every game that releases has industry shattering effects just so you can pump out another cheap shoddy video to ragebait/clickbait people with. It's like Endymion garbage with wokeness except for gaming and arguably even worse as this guy doesn't even have a single point unlike Endymion, this guy practically only has a "feeling"...
Some games are bad, but trying to extrapolate that to the entire industry is reductive and frankly pathetic, as the games that have problems usually fall into completely different traps.
@@Cranzon-qw9odidk man its been mostly shitty games since like 2016, before thered be multiple great games released each year, every year since 2016 has just seen like one good video game released (if even) and then a bunch of garbage. 2016 had dark souls 3 and a bunch of garbage, 2017 was pure garbage, 2018 only had rdr2 and a bunch of garbage, 2019-2021 were 3 straight years of shit thru a straw, 2022 just had elden ring, 2023 just had bg3, and now 2024 is gonna have last epoch, and seemingly nothing else (at least we get a good elden ring dlc)
Id say he hasnt really been far off
@7918 I see what you mean more so now... Going back to like 2004 or 8, you did have studios pumping out stuff every month...
I'd say part of the problem is a lot of these studios that made games way back seem to be sitting on their backsides doing nothing, but I just get the impression most people saying gaming is bad are just repeating it... If people only look to play huge AAA releases all the time then it's not too surprising that they're gonna get bored and develop into an echo chamber of people saying gamings bad and having no idea where they got it from other than that 1 YTer...
Most of the time, the obvious cure is to just look for different games, not necessarily just indie stuff... I noticed you said 2017 was pure garbage, do you count Switch stuff in that lineup? That and there are absolutely thousands of old games that everyone loves that tons of people haven't played, so maybe going to those... These are the sorts of things that create demand and get new ideas out in the open...
@@Cranzon-qw9od through its entire life cycle the switch has produced one good game (smash bros)
But you arent wrong about indies, when you dig around you can really find some hidden gems: the point is that in years past when we were kids these AAA studios would drop amazing games with gameplay that clearly put the player and their experience first and allowed profits to follow suit, instead of prioritizing shareholders concerns and ignoring their actual customers. In many ways the folly of the video game industry is the folly of late stage capitalism manifested, but thats a discussion for another time
We used to not have to seek out indie games in our search for quality; now, theres this big hole in the market that indies have found their niche in, as both players and indie devs agree that the state of AAA is indefensible. Its great in some ways (for indie devs especially) but just feels awful if you were ever a fan of a AAA franchise as a child and have to just watch it be destroyed by shoddy management nowadays (borderlands, diablo, cod, halo, god of war, even with newer games like overwatch were seeing this happen rapidly)
It didnt really start in 2016 either, thats just when i started catching on tbh
@@Cranzon-qw9od If I can't fall asleep tonight I'll come back and read your comment again, I'm sure that will help
Seems like Last Epoch doesn't insult your intelligence like D4 but you don't need a PhD like PoE.
One of the more appealing aspects of it for me, and I haven't played it (yet). Diablo 4 seems a bit too simple and narrowly focused, but Path of Exile, while deep and complex, seems too convoluted to be accessible. Last Epoch seems like the perfect balance.
I've seen this exact comment on another vid. Was it you or are you just copying someone else's homework? haha
@@troublesome07 Similar conclusion, I guess? I don't know. xD
@@PeacefulSubmission No it's literally word for word. lol. Maybe you absorbed it subconsciously. Or maybe we're living in a simulation and that was deja vu of a simulated parallel universe.
@@troublesome07 Sounds about right. lol
having prophecies for CoF faction at least has been tons of fun to even more be able to not only focus farm but to also be able to do that within the content I like doing atm. Super customizable and satisfyingly fun
Love your content keep it up! You just hit me with nostalgia with champions of norath. One of the best ARPGs I've played!
Great Video! thank you for covering LE
My heart got so happy when you mentioned champions of norrath
I loveeeeed those games growing up
Been loving my homebrew ignite sorcerer. But, I recently completed the 2 set piece for a lightning meteors, and it's tempting. If this was PoE, I would basically have to roll new character since afaik farming that much orb of regrets isn't feasible. In Last Epoch unspeccing my whole passive tree and taking whole new skills is maybe few hours worth of gold and XP to level up the new skills, while STILL building up my faction reputation and character level. LE is the perfect mix of casual meets complexity.
Yup, the fact you aren't locked into a build by hours and hours of grinding to get back to where you were is a huge improvement. Sure, you can't flip entierly on a dime ala Diablo 3's skill/rune setup, but even there you needed specific RNG gated items to make a build at all. LE has complex and effective builds purely from the skill trees, which you can reset for virtually nothing at any time.
Last Epoch is what Diablo 4 whishes it was, D4 is dead to me now that I have Last Epoch!
You sold it to me, thank you for a great video!
It seems that while development costs and time for AAA games have skyrocketed due to a questionable focus on fidelity and cinematics, the opposite is taking place in the AA and Indie Space, where I think game development itself has never been so accessible before and many people that are in the industry right now have been playing modern videogames for much of their life and have a very clear picture of what they want to develop and what people actually want to play.
Corporate games are made to recover investment and shareholder profit. The bigger the marketing budget/effort the less likely that money was spent to make a great game, but rather to ensure investment recovery by building hype.
Indie games are made for gamers by gamers for the purpose of creating a game they are passionate about. Sometimes it works, many times it doesn't. But social media bypasses traditional marketing so indie games don't have to spend their budget on massive marketing and when the game is good, people find out pretty quickly.
I love LE ❤
I running a Rune Master online and Have a Warlock for Offline/when the servers are slammed.
I really feel the LE has a bright future.
I hope that they flesh out the story more. I think that this would get more players invested in the game.
It still needs some polish but the base 110% there.
my favorite ARPG
The market will always find a way 💪
Great content. Glad you are kicking ass🎉
This year is starting good for indies and small studios
I started playing it in mid January and thought it was okay-to-pretty good. Since full release, I think it’s fantastic.
Where did you get the thumbnail art from? The necro lady looks sooo sick!
Used a rune to roll my exalt helm into unq helm randomly and got ziz squirrel unq helm. Also, I got disconnected at that moment. I was worrying it got roll back. Thankfully, it did not 😂😂
I don't remember if he mentioned it but I love the death screen telling me how I died. Also the character screen tells me all my stats AND my minions'. I think I need PoB to view all of their stats in PoE.
Tbh, this char screen lacks the most important stat, your exact damage, not very convenient to hover mouse over skill when you want to see your damage in a moment
Great game that deserved all the criticism and praise it received at the retail launch. Consumers need to continue with this attitude in the future. Dump on them if the if they launch a broken product. Change it or remove ot when they fix it. Simping helps neother the developers or the consumer. It only enables more broken launches, just look out the window and look around.
yeah I listen to the man legendary! WORD!!!
The only thing I can complain about this game is.
1. Affix shards don't auto pick up like gold
2. I wish there were customizations to the druid forms.
Very very minor and niche things and in no way important. I absolutely love this game.
2024 has been amazing. Last Epoch has been fantastic.
It's funny how this game has succeeded in one of the main selling points (according to devs) of D4. Class fantasy and playing any build you like effortlessly.
I do wish the shattering runes weren't quite so expensive, especially considering how sparse gold is at the beginning. I don't want them super cheap either, but it can be a head scratcher trying to figure out how to craft consistently from the start of the game when people always tell me to craft as early as possible. Granted, that was before I finally started really adding rules to my filters, and I'm all for saving shatters for the yellow items, since you get more affixes from them. I just figured since blues have affixes of their own, are more frequent than yellows in the early game and piling up affix shards gets really easy by mid game, having easier access to shatter runes could let people afford to nab some lucky finds from blue items. That's just me, though, the game is a blast otherwise.
Im buying this so quick after payday lol, btw how is the multiplayer rn? Know it had issues, and i would really like to play with 1-2 friends
LE is my favourite ARPG of the lot, im playing three years at this stage.
NIce IM T-shirt, yiu should give Volbeat a listen great band.
Gaming is healing from the corporate greed
Don't forget that nuance how they encouraged players to make HC character. I have never imagined myself to be a HC player in an arpg but LE did the five-head thing. Upon death in HC your character moves to softcore but still remains in the cycle. I tought myself if I die then just go on in SC. Yeah.. my Forge Guard died eventually at level 75 in a careless endless arena lvl70+. After that I just created another character so I can still feel the value of that one life my character has :) I've also got to keep my reputation with the Circle of Fortune faction and all my stash, gold, crafting materials so I'm sticking with hardcore.
I've given up on a whole league before in PoE because I fucked up my build early lol. Might try LE, I just really liked eventually being able to zip through maps like an OP madman on speed in PoE.
Its so odd that each day at work all i can think about is when i can play LE again or weekend. Its so addictive to play. I'm level 95 falconer dive bomb build and its fun to play.
Learning what items to keep and tinker them later is so rewarding. I dont think D4 has any chance near future to compete with LE itemization and loot system. They would have to totally change game to be as fun and rewarding. Look at how many uniques LE has. Its insane and you get them at low level already. There is no for majority unique items high level requirements AND stats are always same its just range of rolling. What an awesome idea. You are ALWAYS thrilled what item you get when it drops.
Glazing
my favorite arpg
Thank God last epoch is the game I needed 🙏
Iron Maiden shirt, guitars in the back ground = insta sub
Nice video!
Got D4 to see if they made druid gameplay as varied and multi-faceted as its d&d counterpart is (why i always loved the class) and sure enough they didnt
Currently level 29 on my LE druid (offline bc queues) and theres so much build variety i fucking love it. No longer am I just a bear with 2 wolves, now i am a bear with 2 wolves and ANOTHER BEAR :D dont even get me started on how the passive trees actually affect gameplay, which cant be said for paragon boards in d4
Nicely put about remembering the character names of the story. The only game that I can remember names is Daiblo 2
Game is incredible
Would we consider Grandblue Fantasy Relink a small developer game? Even if it’s not they’ve been popping off with that banger as well.
Now I gotta get a PC and play Last Epoch :()
Is so fun to make s build and filter it the trash items
This game wasn't even on my radar, and honestly, after D4, I thought I was done with this genre. I am so thankful I was wrong. I happened to see some buzz about it and saw it was only 35 bucks, so I figured, why the hell not. It has been a complete blast, and I have no regrets. It definitely has its flaws; the story is a little difficult to follow, some stuff is voice-acted while others are not, which feels disjointed. The graphics at first looked dated to me, but now after playing, I honestly don't even notice. However, where it shines is the diverse spell talent trees that unlock so many different play styles, further complemented with gear and legos and still somehow seems to not be overwhelming.
This game giving Diablo and Path of Exile a run for their money, Helldivers 2 showing what great warzone gameplay can be for a reasonable price. It's pretty awesome to see, and I'm looking forward to playing it. Makes me happy to be a Warframe player witnessing that game's best time in 11 years, while Destiny has been hyping up "AAA" experiences via flashy trailers, removing campaigns and seasons, charging more and more for less and less. They don't deserve the playerbase they have, which has been starved for innovation and content for years and still haven't gotten to truly dig in and eat.
I really don't understand the allure of HD2. The level design is so bland, with dull desert colors. You fight the same 3 type of mobs that are all just different sizes of each other. The weapons feel uninspiring and the tech deployment are behind complicated button patterns. It's a 5 / 10 game at best.
@@sadistical5787First of all..."complicated button patterns?" Up down left and right are..."complicated button patterns?" Are we new to video games, friend?
As for the allure, it's real simple. Indie and what are called "AA" studios have become real good at honing in on a particular type of gameplay and making the most out of that. Look at AAA examples somewhat comparable to Helldivers, at least in gameplay tone...the last couple mainline Halo games have FAILED miserably at creating a major WAR feel. Helldivers manages to not only capture it, but make it feel dynamic, to the point where players are creating their own memories during engagements. Destiny 2 released Season of the Splicer a couple years ago, where the whole theme was "hack the Vex network," and what did this massive AAA studio think "hacking" looked like? Standing in one place, and doing coop Gambit mote banking. Helldivers, and Warframe as well, may do simple things with hacking puzzles but it's still a brief few seconds away from thinking the game needs to be "constant relentless killing" to be considered "good."
There's also the fact that the war effort can also function dynamically, but the studio handling it supposedly as staff called "game masters," which will be adjusting and/or controlling the enemy forces to almost make it feel like an ongoing strategy game, PLAYING like a real time 3rd person sci fi shooter. They released with only 2 enemy factions, a third (from the original game) may have been leaked to be on the way...if I were Arrowhead, I'd get at least two new ones in, but we'll see...
Anyway, you can break down this game as "lol just shooting bad guys, average, yawn," but it leaves out so much nuance that most AAA studios leave out.
Best way I can explain it. If that's not enough, then I can't help you. Arrowhead even has on their website, the slogan, "a game for everyone is a game for no one." If you're not allured, I guess it's not for you.
Someone said it best, Last Epoch was the Diablo 3 we always wanted from Blizzard.
I personally really like the story. Ofc i dont know everyones names but its not like in PoE that i skip everything xD
"Diaper dungeons, because they are shit".
Damn you, I just spilled my coffee!!!
Well done sir!
D4s nightmare dungeons as a concept are fine, problem is, it's all there is and the 120ish dungeons really are more like 5, and the modifiers are not fun, they're just choose what annoys you next.
Borderlands 3 made the same mistake when adding mayhem mode
I have Diablo 4 and played POE and plan on playing LE, just wish was also on console... Which i know they stated probably won't happen. Also wish had clans/guilds
Highly recommend pacific drive it’s an amazing rougelite escape from cartov with stalkcar
dont forget Enshrouded XD , and Slave Zero X , its a busy time for the indie space XD
Everyone keeps forgetting Deep Rock Galactic...
its been out in 1.0 for 4 years now its not forgotten. just old and hasnt had a significant update in a while
@@wilburtshnookums How dare you counter me with facts and logic. 😭
Bro I’ll sub if you cover Pacific drive.
they should make an entire school for poe just for learning the basics and everything in it lol.
VK 80 plus and it is fun. The fact tht if you gp for open econamy gild u can sell iteam only once procetc economy. D4 is dead.
Your hardcorw chatacter is not lost after deatj - it is transfered te stqndard relm
LE has more player friendly quality of life features in its inventory system than in all of Diablo 4 Rise of the Cash Grab
i rly like last epoch, i still like d4 more becuase of the story becuase of the campaign the videos and all, i love to feel emerged, but last epoch is very fun to play
I love the crafting.
Last Epoch has THE best Skill systems out of ANY aRPG, no contest.
Is last epoch finally stable to play?
For me yes after 5 days lol
For the sake of fairness, that in POE developers from time to time reset all passive talents for free. P.s. Tonight on Monday, at 5 o'clock Moscow time, the Last Epoch had a queue of 1000 people on the European server.
What about a new Arpg "No Rest for the Wicked" from creators of "Ori"?:)))
I think that'll be the start of a new offshoot of ARPGs that's more narrative and action combat focused. Less RPG, more Devil May Cry, so to speak. (Or, you know, a bit more Dark Souls if you see it that way.)
@@Sorain1 Well, it reminded me of many things: the Dragon Age, the atmosphere of the Overlord, the art style of the Discipless 2, somewhere even the Elder Scrolls.
I tried it and ehhhh maybe I've grown out of ARPGs, but Im not really on board. I actually had more fun with diablo 3 and I'm not sure why. If the early game isnt grabbing me and dragging me along, I just cant get invested.
AAA (& AAAA if you're (an assclown) at Ubisoft): But how will I know if the game is good if I don't put 300 milly on it most of which is only to pay overhead that can't code that only majored in social sciences before and that charge premium for nothing?
Until now I still don't understand what an AAAA game is like ?
If you look into where the "A" stuff started from; you'll quickly find that it was always a term that came from assclowns.
I've never played Diablo 4 since I gave up on Blizzarrd a long time ago but I will never understand the love for Path of Exile. I've tried and tried and the game is miserable. Grim Dawn is GOAT. Last Epoch is a ton of fun. I've had it for years.
first thorough review I have seen. I seen way too many people say a sentence and immediately say PoE is better in every way. I don't think they realize sooo many people do not want to play 5k hours to understand a build or have to read a 1 hour spreadsheet.
My only complaint is endgame tbh which ill be honest I haven't gotten to but seeing that there's no big bosses and hard mechanical bosses is a big turn off for me but I am going to keep playing. I don't mind grinding or playing the endgame as of now.
They did confirm today that they are focused 100% on end game and also other things "For future patches we have plans to expand the monolith, bring great new itemization options, add more boss content, class and balance updates, campaign content, etc." This is what excites me most when I get into these games early. This goes for helldivers 2. I know i will enjoy the game but I look for that roadmap or what the ceo says about it and they said this game is getting huger and lots of content is planned. That's all I need to hear.
Ill wait till its out of early access 😅
I really like the game but they still have the same bugs and mild gameplay issues they have had since the beta… my character still to this day randomly can’t move at all mid monolith for about 3-5 seconds
How can you guys even play it? Here's my experience with the game: Open the - Get in queue - LE-65 - Retry 100 times - Get in town finally - try to get out of town - Infinite loading screen - Close the game
IMO the only ARPG that had a good story was Diablo 1, that was due to the way it was delivered. As for ARPG enthusiasts, this is a golden age for us. Games like PoE, PoE 2, Titan Quest 2, Grim Dawn, Last Epoch and others, we no longer need to look back at D2 with rose colored glasses reminiscing about the good ole days... In fact we can just ignore the Diablo franchise moving forward altogether.
While Last Epoch has issues, I have faith they will continue to improve, innovate, expand and look to PoE and not Diablo 4 on how to do a live service right. While I whole-heartedly feel PoE 2 will be the gold standard of ARPG moving forward; Last Epoch is a great game to play between leagues. The issue with D4 is it's made by people who don't understand the fundamentals of an ARPG, so it will always be mediocre compared to it's competition. Some people dig it, and that's great. However, most avid ARPG players require more quality content, and less hand-holding.
My favorite thing about Last Epoch is offline mode. People have been going crazy about online mode not working since launch, and I could care less. With the Circle of Fortune I can target farm everything for any build, and not have to worry about trade.
Good vid man.
I wish the narrative that people only play Action RPGs for items would be revised. I play Role Playing Games to Role play in the story. So story matters immensely. Last Epoch has the itemization down. If they hammer out a killer story the game will just be that more epic. PoE and Old Diablo had great story's when they came out. PoE still has fantastic writing and voice acting, but the continuity of the story has been changed so much that I don't even know what it is anymore. Kinda why it feels like the game just doesn't matter after the launch hype dies down each season. Don't want Last Epoch to just be a PoE clone where you just chase seasonal meta build items/itemization.
1080p at least pls...
D4 is optimized to be simple so they could focus resources on making a few bits of gameplay fluid and feel impactful. But this leads to trash build variety. It’ll probably change in the future but that’s one system on top of the many that has issues.
Last epoch has the best itemization and crafting in any arpg. Inspired by d2 and implemented features by community feedback/other games.
Moving forward it’ll be Poe2 and last epoch. D4 killed itself.
I’ve been playing last epoch on my asus rog ally and it’s been flawless! I enjoy it much more than Diablo 4 what killed Diablo 4 for me was the end game and the seasons it had so much potential to be great but of course blizzard always finds a way to knock it down
I'm hoping they put some resources towards removing the gender lock on the classes. At least in Path of Exile if I want to follow a build guide someone made for Marauder I can change it to a Scion build with some tweaking and be most of the way there, but in LE if I want to play a Spellblade I'm out of luck.
It's very fun, playing spellblade. Seems almost to easy at times
Until they get those server bills, and investment comes in for the sequels
here before the bald goober
I only play grim dawn and LE really surprised me too! From the short time I played Diablo 4 I recognize that Diablo 4 is a tragedy as a product.
Yeah, who would have thought that actually listening to criticism and reacting to that feedback makes your game better and your customers happy.
I ve not ever played any aRPG as player friendly as LE. It’s almost free from BS punishing mechanics
Poe also saw this empty middle ground between diablo and poe. Thats why they have been working on poe2 . However i dont think they thought last epoch was going to be on the market before them 😂. I enjoy them all as my fav arpg are grim dawm, poe, last epoh.
GGG knows about LE and it's release because LE dev last interview, i think with wudijo, that they've been communicating with each other but not exactly about game development. Probably just a hi or nudge in the discord.
Also GGG was aware of LE's announcement of mechanics, thus, several adjustments to poe 2 has been made like their upcoming trade.
I’ve described Last Epoch as Diablo 2 and Path of Exile had a bastard love child.
The bastard love child had risen Up Above all the rest though💯🔥
Maybe a bit nitpicky, but it’s super weird you used the wiki’s logo in the thumbnail…
The first run through is fun because it's all new but making other characters and doing it over is tedious to say the least. They added shortcuts to get to endgame faster but it doesn't make it any better. The skills at first are fun but grow old once you discover their limitations and lack of further customization. Your doing the same thing over and over and over to what end? I hope v1.1 adds lots of new stuff and fixes some of the issues and I wish the skills felt more fun and impactful.
I believe epoch is pronounced as epic
I pronounce 'Epoch' E-POCH, but it seems most pronounce it EP-POCH... am I wrong? 🙃
it is, but in game the characters pronounce it like in the vid
It's cool cause... anything you think is fun, is viable. Somethings are better then others but not prohibitively so...