Why Path of Exile 2 Falls Short as an ARPG Compared to Diablo 4 ｜ An In-Depth Analysis

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video. So today we're going to be talking

about why Path of Exile 2 doesn't quite

live up to expectations, why it has failed

as an ARPG compared to the likes of other

games such as Diablo 4, and why it is

lacking in a certain kind of lustre. So to

begin with, this game seemed like it was

pretty cool. It had a massive talent tree,

many skills, many pathways, many builds

to explore and experiment with,

and the game seemed quite promising.

However, after playing it for over 299

hours, I have come to my conclusion that

this game is lacking in certain or several

kinds of lustres. So to begin with, first

of all, this game looks pretty good. The

graphics are fine. It's got lots of

skills. You've got lots of skills like

here and here and here. And it does have

this cool thing where you get gems and you

can customize the skills using the

different gems. So you've got lots of

different types of customizability. But

the place where this game kind of falls

flat on its face has to come into several

factors that are found within other games

such as Diablo 4, but you can't really

find them in this game. For example, I

really like the open world in Diablo 4.

However, the open world in this game is

not very open, and it's not even a world.

It's kind of just rubbish, and you just

kind of run through it as quickly as

possible to get to the dungeons. Now, in

Diablo 4, you had cool events like big

mini-boss, world boss, world bosses,

mini-events, and you can see other players

in the map. So that was the main thing for

me. Basically really fun being able to see

other players in the game. In this game,

you don't really see any other players in

the game apart from at the town or at the

hub places. When you're running around

outside in the open world, you don't see

anyone, and it does feel kind of lonely.

And I really enjoyed that aspect of Diablo

4, but you just don't have that in this

game. And I also enjoyed teaming up with

random people in the open world to take

down those big bosses. And stuff like that

was really entertaining and fun, and also

stuff like the blood fields and the

harvest fields were really fun to harvest

with other people, and there are lots of

events in the open world. But in this

game, the open world is just kind of

bland, boring, and uninspired, and nothing

really happens inside of it. Next, the UI

is kind of annoying. So for some reason

you can't right-click to equip gear, so

you have to click it and then drag it over

to the slots, which is kind of silly. And

you also have to identify items. So when

you pick up a bit of loot, it'll always

say unidentified, and then you've got to

use one of these scrolls to click on it,

and then it will identify and tell you

what stats it has. I think this gameplay

mechanic is really unnecessary, annoying,

and stupid. No other game has loot where

you can't even see what stats it has

unless you have this Scroll of Wisdom to

click on it. And you can go to the hub

world. So if you get a portal, go back to

the town, there's an NPC that just

identifies all your items for free. So if

it's free to do, then why are you making

us use this Scroll of Wisdom to do it

individually? It just seems like such a

pointless game mechanic that's not

necessary at all. Doesn't add anything to

the game, just makes it annoying. So it

just feels like everything about this game

has been designed to be as annoying as

possible, and that's kind of

like Also, you'll be

seeing this loading screen a lot because

there is a lot of loot and your inventory

is really small. So your inventory is

constantly going to fill up, you're

constantly not going to have enough room,

you're constantly going to have to go back

to the town to sell everything, and it

takes ages to load into the hub. So you've

got this NPC, he can identify all your

items. And that increases the sell value.

So then you go to the other NPC over here,

and then you do that, and then you gotta

sell everything like that, and then

go back to the dungeon and pick up

everything else. It's really annoying like

that. And then you've also got these

things like other tabs on the

And you've got your stash box, and you've

got like a currency marketplace,

which is really rubbish. So for example,

I really want these Greater Jeweler Orbs,

and I can request it in exchange for an

item I have, but no one wants the items I

have in exchange for this. And you can't—

it's not like you can offer money. To my

knowledge, you can't offer money for this

and then they can accept it. So it's not

very good auction house. It's kind of like

the auction house in WoW, but not very

good. So it's really annoying doing trade

because you can't seem to just trade items

for money. And then you've also got these,

um, so yeah, you can

get a randomized item. So if you just get

a random crossbow, it might be good.

Chances are it's going to be rubbish. I

don't think this is good because it

incentivizes gambling and it just wastes

all your money. And then you just get

rubbish for it. So I could— I can't even

get one more. Um, yeah, so I can't get any

more. And then you've got different items

like that. But the most annoying thing

about the game has to be the waypoints and

the way the game is laid out. So you

go to the waypoint, which is all the way

up here for some reason. I don't know why

they put it so far away, and it's not even

activated. So you've got different

chapters, Acts 1, 2, and 3. You finish

those and then the difficulty increases,

and then you've got to do Acts 1, 2, and 3

all over again, which is so stupid. And

then after you do Acts 1, 2, and 3 in

Cruel Mode, you'll then get access to the

endgame. And the endgame is just boring.

So first of all, uh, you get the waypoint

and you got these Acts 1, 2, and 3.

Now the acts are okay, you got— it follows

a storyline, there's bosses, and yeah,

it's better than the endgame. And then

you, you kill these skulls which are the

bosses, you follow the storyline and the

NPCs, and you finish all that Act

3, and then you get access to the endgame.

And the endgame is basically finishing

these little nodes. So if it's green, it

means you finished it. So I've done quite

a lot, as you can see. And you

just do these nodes, and it just puts you

in a map full of enemies. And also,

trying to get back to the endgame hub is

really frustrating. Like, you click on the

home button But nothing really happens.

So what do you do? And then you kind of go

back in time on top of this pyramid thing,

and then you're kind of stuck here not

really knowing how do I get back to the

endgame hub. The game design

just doesn't make any sense. Maybe it's in

there. Sometimes it just makes no

sense.

So then you go in there and you end up

here, and I— oh, that's how you get into

the endgame hub. That's so weird. So yeah,

the endgame hub's inside of this pyramid

and then basically you just go up to— you

gotta buy a key. So first of all, you

gotta buy waystone— waystones, and they're

5,000 gold each. I've only got 3,000 left,

so I can only buy one. But if I die and

lose that and don't get enough gold, I

won't be able to do it again unless I go

back to the acts and grind gold. So you go

up here and you do the map device, and

then you've got all these nodes. And the

endgame's just really boring. It's not

like in Diablo where you can do all these

different dungeons and you can increase

the level of difficulty. And challenge

yourself by getting these higher tiers.

So you can do that in this game. You do it

in the way of you get waystones. See,

this is tier 1, but it goes up to tier 99

or whatever. But it's really hard to get

the higher tiers. I can do a tier 1, but

tier 2 waystones won't drop at all during

the tier 1. So what you do is you just

find a node that you haven't done before,

maybe like that one, and then you put the

waystone in there and you press traverse.

And then these portals pop up, means you

got 6 times you can re-enter the area.

And then the maps are basically just full

of enemies, and the goal is you gotta kill

the yellow-named bosses. They're not

really proper bosses, they're just like

elite versions of enemies. So you got all

these waves of mobs and then you gotta

kill them. And it's really annoying

because if you die in this, you lose all

your XP. See, I'm stuck at level 73

because every time I die, I lose all the

XP I gained. And then you just gotta go

through the map killing everything,

hoping you don't get one-shot.

The loot's really rubbish. Even when you

kill the mini bosses, you get rubbish loot

all the time. And sometimes you might get

a legendary orange item, but they're not

that good, or it's not for your class.

Oh, there's one. There's one of the yellow

names. So you got these yellow name

people, and they're not even a challenge.

Look, it's so easy,

not even

a challenge. The only

challenge is when you get a bit

overwhelmed and you get stuck.

So look what they drop.