Activision Blizzard is a hellhole of a workplace owned by Bobby "Satan" Kotick. They have been sued and settled multiple times for toxic work culture and serious sexual harassment allegations. Blizzard want to charge me $20 to be able to play the game one week early. The game is $70, and can go as expensive as $100 with battlepass. There will be ingame monetization. The game is MMO-lite and basically a grindy slot machine.

All I want is to go for an adventure, go dungeon crawling with my pet wolf frens, and you'd be surprised there is literally not that many games that allow us to do so.

  • dead [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, Lost Ark, Torchlight, Wolcen, Last Epoch, Baldur's Gate

    • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]M
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      2 years ago

      Lost Ark

      The initial leveling experience is fun and core gameplay is super solid, unfortunately after that it becomes ultra-grind P2W hell. The devs literally expect you to grind 5 alts daily and send the mats/money you get from them to your main to progress "optimally". Such a huge disappointment

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Also Grim Dawn and Torchlight II (the superior Torchlight imo) are like $20 full price, the rest of them were like $40-$50

        E) Also big shoutout to Titan Quest, 18 y/o game still supported by devs (new update last year) with a really clean mobile port to boot.

        E2)

        All I want is to go for an adventure, go dungeon crawling with my pet wolf frens

        In Titan Quest the Nature mastery gives you your wolfos, you can take them with you while you explore Greek mythology and beyond!

        • dumpster_dove [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Graphics in TQ was wayy ahead of its time. I remember being in awe of that back when it came out. I also like that it's one of the few ARPGs where melee doesn't feel like it's always worse than ranged.

    • bobdolesflaccidunit [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I was very much a “PoE is too complicated” person and wrote it off for years. It is now my favorite game and I can’t see myself playing Diablo because it just seems so shallow in comparison.

      It also cops so much from D2 and LoD the first time I played through the campaign it was hitting all those nostalgia buttons. Moreso than D3 ever did.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I only played Wolcen for like a month when it first came out and thought it was pretty meh, has it gotten a bit more meat on its bones that you'd recommend it with the likes of PoE, Torchlight, and Grim Dawn?