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glau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

For ARPGs if you feel burnt by Diablo IV, I can recommend Path of Exile. Arguably the king of the genre today.

Others mentioned Grim Dawn, which has a bit slower gameplay, but a good choice nonetheless.

If you’re looking for indie ARPG, then there’s Chronicon. Nice little game that I really want to go back to again.

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SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Path of exile is great because it doesn’t shy away from complexity at all, instead it does the exact opposite, it just goes balls deep. It really make for a very refreshing change to typical AAA games where your intelligence as a player doesn’t feel insulted.

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Vipsu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I second Grim Dawn as it’s clearly labor of love from the developers and still getting updates. I also like the fact that its not live service like Path of exile meaning that it does not require online connection and can be even be modded.

It remains to be seen with GGG will do with Path of Exile 1 when they release Path of Exile 2, it would be cool if they would release something like POE Unlimited a premium version of the game that would allow people to play the first game as single player experience, mod it and host their of servers.

But in this day and age it’s much more likely that they’ll just force people to move on to their next big thing.

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- Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  An arpg that doesn’t require online is actually a negative for me. I’m not going to farm content offline
  
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  - Vipsu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    To Each Their Own I guess. Single player games tend to respect players time a lot more and thus usually require a lot less grinding or farming to complete. That being said Grim Dawn does have online multiplayer and community hosted seasons.
    
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- Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They already said that PoE 1 will stay playable.
  
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  - Vipsu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sure but for how long and in what state?
    
    There’s a lot of enshittification going around with games and services with more greedy business practices and it would be naive to think GGG is immune to it. When it comes to live service games certain level of skepticism is healthy to have. Now I do hope we’ll be able to play POE1 even 10 or 20 years from now with it being just as good.
    
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