Renegen
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So recently I got into a beta I didn't even know I registered for a game that I publicly dismissed and shat on, what does that mean? It's time to LP this obviously! Path of Exile is a Diablo-3 clone, cashshop, new skill system, also in closed beta, but it's not Diablo 3. Is this game good enough to please the sophisticated tastes of Codexers? Read on...
I'm not lying guys, this is Path of Exile.
Name's taken bitches.
Actually, let's create a new character or else everyone would be too confused by the complex lvl 9 gameplay. I don't want to lose my non-existent audience here.
In the grimdark past, there were 5 classes to choose from. (The classes don't matter too much since skills are item based)
This guy looks too scrawny, I'm not sure he can survive H4rdc0r3 mode.
He looks about right, the kind of guy that picks ups chicks in a dark alley.
Let's choose har... er wait a minute. Oh well. We now need to pick a tough name, a name that will inspire fear in our enemies.
Hongda, that sounds about right.
We start washed away on a beach. Hey, I think a flute solo starts the same way. And 20 different RPGs.
We get up and decide to do some push-ups, gotta keep this sexy body in shape.
I kept turning my speakers up but I didn't hear any voice acting, oh the horror.
The game is forcing our hand by having a zombie kill the NPC, and I wanted to be a pacifist! Hongda is up to the challenge.
Extending fist...
(dramatic) Contact!
The zombie collapses beneath my fists.
Every single kill will be this detailed btw, I'm not fucking around.
In for an inch, in for a mile. Time to pick up this conveniently placed bludgeoning device and kill people.
Three against one? Hongda has faced worst odds than that.
My aura of intimidation repels them away.
Another fight, another victory.
What's this, a plate vest? With 2 holes in it? No matter, I can make it work.
We encounter a particularly slimy bottomfeeder. I bring him down a peg or two.
Another bludgeoning device. My enemies won't know what hit them.
Let's equip them akimbo. I think I saw this once in a John Woo movie.
A scroll of wisdom.
Look what I found here, a giant two-handed flute. Given my mastery, I will equip this superior instrument of pain.
Haven't lost a beat.
I am low on life, I hardly noticed. It seems this game doesn't have HP regeneration. :decline
I chug a health potion. The way health potions work in this game is they refill with the blood of your enemies, so in a way you have health regeneration like any good modern cRPG should.
My mastery has increased to level 2.
But no time for reflection, I must rid this beach of evil. Here, we have a Kratos cosplayer that needs to learn cosplays are for sissies.
The battle is reaching its crecendo.
I feign defeat to chug a potion.
And he's dead. We find a magic maul.
This maul is very good, I may have to put the flute back in its case for a while.
It's time to level up.
I think I saw something similar in a japanese RPG.
This is intense.
Actually this is pretty cool and inclines the game quite a lot, who doesn't love meaningful passive upgrades?
The special looking icons are even more powerful upgrades. Clearly, at 1 point a level I need to forge a path to them.
This game isn't popamole enough, let's go for this one.
Upgrade complete
Next episode: Hongda wonders into town.
I'm not lying guys, this is Path of Exile.
Name's taken bitches.
Actually, let's create a new character or else everyone would be too confused by the complex lvl 9 gameplay. I don't want to lose my non-existent audience here.
In the grimdark past, there were 5 classes to choose from. (The classes don't matter too much since skills are item based)
This guy looks too scrawny, I'm not sure he can survive H4rdc0r3 mode.
He looks about right, the kind of guy that picks ups chicks in a dark alley.
Let's choose har... er wait a minute. Oh well. We now need to pick a tough name, a name that will inspire fear in our enemies.
Hongda, that sounds about right.
We start washed away on a beach. Hey, I think a flute solo starts the same way. And 20 different RPGs.
We get up and decide to do some push-ups, gotta keep this sexy body in shape.
I kept turning my speakers up but I didn't hear any voice acting, oh the horror.
The game is forcing our hand by having a zombie kill the NPC, and I wanted to be a pacifist! Hongda is up to the challenge.
Extending fist...
(dramatic) Contact!
The zombie collapses beneath my fists.
Every single kill will be this detailed btw, I'm not fucking around.
In for an inch, in for a mile. Time to pick up this conveniently placed bludgeoning device and kill people.
Three against one? Hongda has faced worst odds than that.
My aura of intimidation repels them away.
Another fight, another victory.
What's this, a plate vest? With 2 holes in it? No matter, I can make it work.
We encounter a particularly slimy bottomfeeder. I bring him down a peg or two.
Another bludgeoning device. My enemies won't know what hit them.
Let's equip them akimbo. I think I saw this once in a John Woo movie.
A scroll of wisdom.
Look what I found here, a giant two-handed flute. Given my mastery, I will equip this superior instrument of pain.
Haven't lost a beat.
I am low on life, I hardly noticed. It seems this game doesn't have HP regeneration. :decline
I chug a health potion. The way health potions work in this game is they refill with the blood of your enemies, so in a way you have health regeneration like any good modern cRPG should.
My mastery has increased to level 2.
But no time for reflection, I must rid this beach of evil. Here, we have a Kratos cosplayer that needs to learn cosplays are for sissies.
The battle is reaching its crecendo.
I feign defeat to chug a potion.
And he's dead. We find a magic maul.
This maul is very good, I may have to put the flute back in its case for a while.
It's time to level up.
I think I saw something similar in a japanese RPG.
This is intense.
Actually this is pretty cool and inclines the game quite a lot, who doesn't love meaningful passive upgrades?
The special looking icons are even more powerful upgrades. Clearly, at 1 point a level I need to forge a path to them.
This game isn't popamole enough, let's go for this one.
Upgrade complete
Next episode: Hongda wonders into town.