Never played genre before, this worth taking the plunge?

[Mr Melon]

Wondering whether to take the plunge and buy early access today. Never played before, so can anyone help me decide if it's worth a buy? Thanks.

[Nefser]

Go play PoE for free and decide.

[JinxTheWorld]

Play poe1. It's free and is very close to poe2 experience.

[navigator4223]

Originally posted by Nefser:

Go play PoE for free and decide.

Thats actually the most reasonable answer one could give to the question.

[Орда]

Don't play PoE1 course it's have very outdated graphics without physics and u can get wrong understanding what is PoE2

[Minithra]

I'd say give it a couple of days, maybe a week, and check out the streams and video content that's about to happen - I don't mean "reviews" or reaction stuff, I mean someone actually playing. Mute it if they're annoying. Important is that you see how the game looks and plays, which should be the most important thing to help you decide if it's something for you.

There are bound to be tons of giveaways for keys too, so you might get one gifted, too!

I've been playing Path of Exile 1 for a few years now, and am generally satisfied and happy with GGG as a dev and publisher, so I'm excited to give the game a go in early access and was happy to pay for it (though unneeded because I uhh... spent maybe a bit too much of poe1)

[Dailao]

Originally posted by JinxTheWorld:

Play poe1. It's free and is very close to poe2 experience.

To be honest I don't think that's good advice. POE1 is notorious for not being beginner friendly, and POE2 is known to improve on that. Besides, POE1 looks quite dated nowaways.

[tolshortte]

its basically a looter hack n slash with souls like dodge mechanic and really in depth tech tree customization character building

[Arestris]

Originally posted by JinxTheWorld:

Play poe1. It's free and is very close to poe2 experience.

True and sure worth testing out if this is his kind of game, for OP, that said, PoE 2 shall be more newbie friendly, so he still may get a wrong impression over some things (like repseccing shall be much easier at least for new chars).

[RealReality]

Originally posted by tolshortte:

its basically a looter hack n slash with souls like dodge mechanic and really in depth tech tree customization character building

Lmao its nothing like souls-like FOH with that lying garbage.

[iKalabalik]

Try PoE and see if u like it. No need to pay early access for a game thats gonna be free in 6 months unless you really liked PoE

[Serpent]

Give the game a try. They've made the new game much more beginner friendly. Check out this video, which gives an overview of what's in the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpIbaTXJD4g

[tolshortte]

Originally posted by RealReality:

Originally posted by tolshortte:

its basically a looter hack n slash with souls like dodge mechanic and really in depth tech tree customization character building

Lmao its nothing like souls-like FOH with that lying garbage.

i am not the one. FOH with your rage baiting self flagellation.

[Swoleconomy]

I don't think quickly trying out POE 1 is a good idea at all. It will take a lot of time to properly get into it. The first league I tried it I quit during the campaign, and did not have a good impression of what Poe could offer at all.

For Poe 2 they have tried to do their best to make it new player friendly.

[M14EBR Overwatch]

Like said above, just download the first game and try it out. You've got like 7 hours and 45 mins till POE2 launches.

The series is a Diablo clone, but with infinitely more customization with builds (absolutely ridiculous amount of abilities you have access to compared to the handful of Diablo's static classes). Otherwise they will play very similarly if you've played Diablo 3 or 4, or some other clone titles like Viking: Wolves of Midgard, Victor Vran, Van Helsing, Dungeon Seige 3, Marvel Heroes Omega, etc.

[zaratan4o]

Originally posted by JinxTheWorld:

Play poe1. It's free and is very close to poe2 experience.

Not really.

But if you want to play any game in the genre, PoE 2 would be the best choice.

Only issue is, do you want to play it in an incomplete state? (will be in early access estimated 6 to 12 months and more than doubling the content during that time)

I am too interested and invested to not play it right now. With the level of quality, and not much else out there.