They must make the maps in Act III smaller

[Homuya]

I've enjoyed Act 1 and 2 very, very much but Act 3 has just been tedious.

While I enjoy the story, ambience, music as well as bosses I hate the areas. Enemies are rather annoying and worst of all the areas are gigantic. They are easily 2-3x the size of Act 1 or 2 maps and I ran into so many dead ends trying to find the map exit or side-quest.

I feel punished for exploring basically while in Act 1 and 2 I really enjoyed that.

What is your guys take on this? Im glad they have acknowledged it and plan to let us TP to checkpoints but im not sure if that is enough and I desperately hope that the future acts will not be like this.

I've been spending far too much time in those corridor-like-areas just running around searching for stuff, it kinda burned me out to some degree of PoE even. It is so awkward when the boss is the least difficult and most enjoyable part just because im actually doing something with my time.

Just to clarify, I never played PoE 1 for longer than a few hours so im not part of the old gamers that want to steamroll maps like how I heard it was possible in PoE 1, I enjoy the slower paced combat but I've sometimes ran in like 5 different dead ends /=