Path of Exile, the actual Diablo III

[ulya]

Path of Exile is holding a open beta weekend.

Path of Exile is a game inspired by Diablo 2, and which is made very, very similair to it.
Some people say this is the actual Diablo III, and the D3 released by blizzard is nothing compared to it.

I haven't tried it out yet, but downloading the beta and I hope it'll be more fun than D3, it does look more promising.

The passive talent(skill) tree:

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As quite some people here are looking forward to D3, I think they'd like to try this out as well while waiting.

The final game will be f2p when released.

TotalBiscuits WTF is Path of Exile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8779Ff_qoc

[Earthdforce]

Started during the last stress test weekend, and loving every minute of it. Already donated 50 bucks!

[Bjarky]

Yeah i gave it another chance and i must say, i really like playing the shadow class 

[Tot.]

I'm playing the beta, it's awesome.

[POOPHAMMER]

I will be having a hard time balancing this and D3, been playing PoE for a couple weeks now

[Ronin]

Oh boy is this picture huge?

[Tyrell]

Does anyone somehow happen to have a beta key for me?

[Vibe]

Yeah play this last beta test, felt much better than Diablo 3. Dunno, Diablo 3 character progression seems just so linear compared to this.

[Leshma]

There's another contender for best left mouse button masher title, to me looks better than PoE and upcoming Torchlight II. It's spiritual successor of Titan Quest.

Grim Dawn

[Vibe]

Bump, Path of Exile is on open beta now, so everyone can try.

Anyone who played a bit more than a few hours can give a few thoughts of why it might or might not be worth playing?

[Gurnisson]

It's a nice game, but was only 2 acts when I played it. I hope they've added some more content to the game considering it was quite short before. Getting a group and playing would probably be quite fun. I mostly played 2p with Lezard, but had a night with 4 player as well (Schmacko and Chase as well). Classes are nice, planning a build from the tree is also great, since there's tons of possibilities. Played quite a lot of D2 back in the day, and comparing them, PoE is quite the good game.

Think I'm gonna try it out a bit again.

[donib]

I am downloading it as we speak (always wanted to say that  )

[Vibe]

Feels very Diablo2 like, to be honest. I like how the potion system is done, so you don't need to bother with refilling potions or having a thousand of them in your inventory. The skill tree is lol :p

Started a Shadow, went hardcore first, died after 2 hours

[Leesin]

I played it a while ago in closed beta and whilst it was a far better product than Diablo 3 and perhaps also Torchlight II, I found the pace of the game very slow, the general gameplay and combat just felt too sluggish for me personally. Maybe I'll give it another shot, but I'm finding it quite sad that I can still load up Diablo 2 and enjoy it way more than any of these new attempts. If Path of Exile's gameplay was sped up a bit I'd probably find the game more bearable.

[Vibe]

I played it a while ago in closed beta and whilst it was a far better product than Diablo 3 and perhaps also Torchlight II, I found the pace of the game very slow, the general gameplay and combat just felt too sluggish for me personally. Maybe I'll give it another shot, but I'm finding it quite sad that I can still load up Diablo 2 and enjoy it way more than any of these new attempts. If Path of Exile's gameplay was sped up a bit I'd probably find the game more bearable.

Hm now that I think of it, it does feel kind of slow(er)