Recent reviews by turtel93

An interesting take on a Telltale-y story telling game.

Pros
+ Well made characters and story
+ Good combination between being able to walk about freely and choosing your "own" path
+ Well optimized
+ A nice achievement system
+ Very cheap for a good game

Cons
- "Collectible mode" feels unrealistic

Overall 10/10, As of Episode 1.

Don't let the Steam hours decieve you, I have played over 4k+ hours of this game.

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I started playing PoE on the 9th of February, 2012. At that time, the game was in Closed Beta, It was hard to get a key to get in. I've been playing the game on and off ever since.

First I'd like to start with some Pros and Cons.

+ Unlimited replayability.
+ Insanely fun.
+ Difficult to master.
+ Very good economy system.
+ It pays off to play with friends.
+ Well made microtransaction-system.

- Desync.
- Starts off slow if youre a beginner.

The game is very big. It consists of 3 acts, featuring 3 difficulties plus an End-game "Map" system, with a level cap of 100. It even comes with races and "recently" they've included special leagues with special formats and gimmicks that the normal "Standard" and "Hardcore" versions don't have.

The game features one of (if not) the biggest passive-tree in all of video-gaming. It is a very big thing, it's what makes Path of Exile what it is. All of the different combinations of skills and passives you can do is endless, you will never do every single combination. Skills aren't granted through the tree, Skills are given to you using different gems, which are given to you through completing the games story-line and finding them by killing things.

The economy system of PoE is very interesting, it consists of "orbs" that you will find while killing things, these orbs are the currency. For a list of all the currency click here.[www.pathofexile.com] Using these orbs you can trade for different items with other players aswell as with NPCs inside of the towns or your own Hideout.

"Well, how does GGG make money of this game?"
GGG makes money by their fantastic Microtransaction model. It is -all- cosmetics with some convinence items (stash expansions, these are a great way of supporting the game if you dislike the cosmetics).

The game is hard, it's not easy to play and it's definetly not easy to adapt to the desyncs and such. You WILL ♥♥♥♥ your first character up. I recommend visiting the PoE Forums at first and finding a build labeled "cheap" and then following that for your first character. Playing with friends definetly pays off as it makes the grinding a bit less tedious and it generally makes the leveling phase alot more enjoyable. The game even gives you a +50% Increased Drops per person in your party.

Overall, the game is alot of fun with very few flaws, biggest one being the desync, but if you enjoy playing ARPGs, or if you disliked D3, this game is definetly worth trying out. And if you never have played before, don't play on Standard, it's practicly the dumpster of all leagues.