The Isle vs Path of Titans

[VelxraTV]

So I have had the isle since it first hit the steam in 2015. I watched a fairly simple dino chat game. Turn into one of real horror and intrigue as one of the most believable dino experiences. Particularly the Jurassic Park approach the game held as an identity.

But now, since EVRIMA. A lot of that identity has changed for more modern looks on dinosaurs. Which is all good and fine. Though now that the isle is basically what other dino games are doing. It leaves me with the question of: What makes the isle different to path of titans?

Path of Titans has come a long way in the last year. Both visually and with content. If I watch comparison videos really there is little the isle has; that path of titans does not. Something that would not be true if the isle remained pre-evrima and continued to expand content. Path of titans even has more dinosaurs and engaging game mechanics for each dino. When I look at the isle I mostly just see delays and starting over from scratch. Instead of progress.

Other long time isle players. What are your thoughts about the two games? Is the isle better or worse than path of titans?

Personally, I had wished the isle would have reached its "jurassic park lost world" dino vs human survival direction it was heading pre-evrima. Now the isle, just seems like we are never going to see it fleshed out.

[joe.alton1]

The Isle succeeds in lore, and humans are on their way. We got a poor excuse of humans because the devs were pushed into making a release date, which they obviously weren't ready for. Time will give you what you want.

[ISI]

I think that the isle has more potential than path of titans. specifically because of its lore that they would like to put in the game. however, Path of titan would probably be more fun to play if your just looking for a dino game to play (with in the idea of playing dinos on demand and with the mod support allow lower difficulty). I don't particularly like how combat in path of titan is still just butt biting, though I like their percise movement. I like that diablo is getting something akin to that but more fleshed out. I think that the POT will have a wider roster from the beginning, but the isle will have more varied play styles. both are fine, though Content creators make it more interesting then both actually are, that is th magic of video editing and being popular.

at the moment, the difference between either game is how gamplay works (percise movement vs alt attacks), (cooldown vs animation speed), and the effectiveness/result of the attack.

[Sonstar]

lore and it has pretty privilege.

[Khanivore]

Good question
My opinion

Genres:
-PoT Is more a Dino mmorpg with lite survival elements (lite death penalty, questing, home decorating, hotbar attacks, skill trees, multiple character slots)
-The Isle is more a true Dino survival (permanent death, one character slot, higher level of player skill in combat, unique built in mechanics for each Dino, no other game fillers so far like questing)

Animations and Graphics:
-PoT is simpler on the range of animations each Dino has particularly in combat, and graphics are more cartoon in appearance)
-The Isle has very detailed animations and often unique animations for a variety of Dinos, Graphics are more in the realistic realm

Playerbase type:
Lot of overlap, but
-PoT is more for the casual player with multiple characters per server and little in the way of a death penalty
-The Isle more for the hardcore survival player, a brutal game play cycle, death just around every tree, far more frustrating and unforgiving

Mods:
-PoT has a huge modding community full stop
-The Isle has had extensive modding in the past, planning to bring it back one day in Evrima, but not for now

Populations and player ratings:
-PoT has a large population and is well received for the most part, the future looks very bright particularly as it's on many platforms
-The Isle has a good and steadily growing population (PC only), also has 'very positive' player reviews as per steam, game has a lot of interest/hope directed at it, and expectations are often very high which for many is hard to take when not reached in time, has a bright future

[MarkSide]

I'm an island player, 600 hours..

a couple of weeks ago I took path of titans, after discovering the existence of server realism (community)

What I can say is that it reminds me a lot of island fun.. The main difference is that the night in pot is not night.
In my opinion if they make the night like in the isle and add the sense of smell to the dinosaurs then Pot would win the match (I'm talking about the realism servers of the community).
If you use vanilla PoT on official servers it's an arcade game (I don't like it).

The isle remains superior for animations, though with few usable ones

[fuber]

Ursprungligen skrivet av joe.alton1:

The Isle succeeds in lore, and humans are on their way. We got a poor excuse of humans because the devs were pushed into making a release date, which they obviously weren't ready for. Time will give you what you want.

Lore? Lol what lore...

[joe.alton1]

Ursprungligen skrivet av fuber:

Ursprungligen skrivet av joe.alton1:

The Isle succeeds in lore, and humans are on their way. We got a poor excuse of humans because the devs were pushed into making a release date, which they obviously weren't ready for. Time will give you what you want.

Lore? Lol what lore...

There is, in fact, lore in the isle. If you're in the discord you'd know about the ripped up pieces of paper posted in phase three updates.

[joe.alton1]

Lots of little notes on these papers

[KlarVyvern]

Been here since the start myself.

I feel PoT is superior since it respects my time more in several ways.

Both games have inconvenient lag, mixpackers, cannibals, and things like that so It's hard to judge them on that front. I do think there is more diversity of gameplay in PoT, and I think they will keep that advantage for years to come, given The Isle's glacial development.

Having more productive devs is also a point in PoT's favor, though it also seems to help that they have a clearer vision of what they actually want to make.

Don't really care much for the lore in The Isle, since it is just fluff that doesn't matter. Unless they plan to actually incorporate the lore in the game in a meaningful manner in a near future I question the need to even mention it.

[Black4Halo]

Ursprungligen skrivet av KlarVyvern:

Been here since the start myself.

I feel PoT is superior since it respects my time more in several ways.

Both games have inconvenient lag, mixpackers, cannibals, and things like that so It's hard to judge them on that front. I do think there is more diversity of gameplay in PoT, and I think they will keep that advantage for years to come, given The Isle's glacial development.

Having more productive devs is also a point in PoT's favor, though it also seems to help that they have a clearer vision of what they actually want to make.

Don't really care much for the lore in The Isle, since it is just fluff that doesn't matter. Unless they plan to actually incorporate the lore in the game in a meaningful manner in a near future I question the need to even mention it.

this 100% also been here since the beginning, went to beast of bermuda for a bit and settled on titans, honestly all 3 have their merits, but the isle is the worst in my opinion, but lets start best first, path of titans has had constant updates, looks really nice for dino nerds and partially scientifically accurate outside of mods, beast of bermuda while good has the problem of the players making the game not worth it if you cant build community (or public instances) basically unless you are playing with a group of friends you are going to get stomped which is maneageable with the comeback features theyve added but can still be tedious, now the kicker, the isle has had a crescendo of greatness to it that suddenly died out of the sky when they had to do the full restart evrima, and now with this full restart everyone got backburnered, no cannibals, no people, and none of our fav dinos are in, just new test stuff, on evrima, a lot of the isle players moved on when evrima began because if you think about it, so many people have perished in the times since the games been trying, i was a kid when i first heard the idea of cannibals and such and all the cool hypos, and theyre not even close to being implemented, we wont even get the player quetzal either, the isle has become a dissapointment, and i feel like half life 3 will come out before the isle even has 4th of its story done let alone players being able to access cannibals that arnt youtubers on their groin

[Black4Halo]

tldr if you're and adult with a life pot is more forgiving to enjoy while the isle can be a dumpster fire for the casual player without a hoard of high up carebear friends

[snow-cheirus]

I tried to give PoT an honest shake, but Evrima has completely spoiled me with its immersion.

[coffinsh3]

Ursprungligen skrivet av snowdecahedron7:

I tried to give PoT an honest shake, but Evrima has completely spoiled me with its immersion.

agree, I tried PoT. Hated every second of it.

[stefanw1337]

PoT is an MMO with some survival aspects. Means you get quests and "money" to unlock skins. But it is a social game indeed. But has MMO elements like grouping, housing, questing, which The Isle don't plan on doing. So therefor I don't feel it's that competing with The Isle. Isn't The Isle supposed to have humans as well? And I saw some buildings in the devblogs. I've got both games, and I do enjoy both in their own way. They seem similar, but I don't think the end product will be so similar. I do like PoT better, as I like MMO elements and PvE more than PvP.

PoT is kinda competing with Draconia, which is another creature type open-world "MORPG", but that's with dragons. Has some of the same plans as PoT, it seems.
(And it iss 50% off right now)

[Holy Scrotum]

Pre- Evrima was a Code Chaos. Engine was broken that there was no chance to bug fixing it anymore. The Trex as an example could just bite in a 180° angle to his tail top. With every "update" the angle got more and more worse. Hitbox in general was and is a desaster. Pre-Evrima died cause of its failed engine.