10 acts too much?

[Isometric]

I really appreciate that is the longest ARPG out there and people were going nuts at the announcement for 10 acts. I really find them too much. I guess the fact that after act 5 they are all rehased versions of previous. I really can't wait to kill the final boss and be done with it for a while.

[Gus the Crocodile]

The new structure is:
-5 acts
-5 acts that do slightly different stuff in much the same areas
-Maps

The old structure was:
-4 acts
-The same 4 acts
-The same 4 acts again
-Maps

Surely in terms of "rehashing" things, the new version is an improvement?

[Isometric]

Of course it is. I'm just saying this as a first time playthrough all acts. It seems a lot of time to play in order to reach the final conclusion of the story.

[Gus the Crocodile]

Yeah, I definitely get it. Story-wise it's a bit of a slog, especially when the reason your character is in Acts 6-9 at all is a silly macguffin fetchquest.

[Phobos]

What other options is there?

1. story mode or
2. lab mode
3. skip to maps

??

[Ryika]

Originally posted by Isometric:

Of course it is. I'm just saying this as a first time playthrough all acts. It seems a lot of time to play in order to reach the final conclusion of the story.

Who in their right mind plays an arpg for the story?!

[Idle]

Originally posted by Ryika:

Who in their right mind plays an arpg for the story?!

While I don't play it exclusively for the story; for me personally the story of any game of any genre is always the second most important thing after the core gameplay. Definitely more important than graphics and nice effects for instance.

And I agree, 10 acts was too long, the whole Doedre,Shavronne,Maligaro thing was not necessary; could've saved a few acts and put more details into the pantheon gods instead.

[Grumpy]

Originally posted by Maguro Man:

and put more details into the pantheon gods instead.

what for example?

[Idle]

Originally posted by Grumpy:

Originally posted by Maguro Man:

and put more details into the pantheon gods instead.

what for example?

Mechanically I'm too bad at the game to offer any decent proposals.

Storywise my main gripe would be with Tukohama; having played a few Marauders I get the feeling he's a pretty important god for Karui at least but his fight is not much harder than a zone boss.
I do have the same problem with the rest of them as well; they are supposed to be Gods you're killing but since they packed in so many of them it doesn't feel the least bit epic to kill them.
It's still okay but feels like a bit of a waste of potentially good bosses.

[Isometric]

Indeed I found the Pantheon a little bit unimportant.

[Awesome!]

aside from a10 kitava feeling a little overtuned i think the progression is pretty smooth now. there are no more weird negative difficulty spikes like how it used to be going from a4 to a1 on the next difficulty.

my biggest issue is the bandit rewards. the only one that is really competitive with 2 points is alira. i liked being able to mix and match in the old system and i miss the option to take an extra charge.

[CaptainNebulous]

I find the A 1 - 10 progression to be quite smooth and proportional. As for the story.... I'm not big on storylines so I personally would appreciate more effort going into gameplay than story. Seems like that's what they've done. The story isn't really worth following at this point, but the gameplay is fantastic!

[Chob]

You can easily can get through all acts really fast... act 8 is cancer though...

[Isometric]

I did finish it but don't feel the need to go back to it. I even uninstalled it. Now that Grim Dawn expansion is released I am more interested in that game.

[Apple]

Not enought for me , its ok i just want to say all act's are perfect , the game going to be what they wanted. My opinion more act = more fun. O//

[kazar]

I will say it was a good idea, with the 9 act thing, as for the first time, I got all the way to end game.

Never done that befor, always got through first play through, and then...well, then I lose the interest, I got through the game.

And that not just a problem I got with poe, that a problem I got with all hack and slash games.