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• ShankTheTank Associate Editor / News ManagerMMORPG.COM Staff, Member RarePosts: 232

  December 27

  World of Warcraft GOTY
  
  But why don’t you play good games?
• JudgeUK Member RarePosts: 1,700

  December 27

  The mmorpg game of the year and runners up shows how slow moving the genre is, with 3 of the 4 games over 10 years old.
  
  It will take either a very cash rich or extremely aspirational company to produce another large scale mmorpg for western audiences. The risks are too high.

  
• Terazon Member RarePosts: 423

  December 27 edited December 27

  Great list hard for me to find fault with any of the picks. Maybe Palworld (Sons of the Forest for me)
  Awesome list though.
  POE2 surprised me. I could not get into the first one but the second has captured my attention more than I thought it would. Also, would love to see an Indie RPG category Not sure what mine pick would have been this year but Drova is pretty awesome.

  
• Tokken Member EpicPosts: 3,649

  December 27 edited December 27

  Good choices but not much to choose from.......... IMO

  
  

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• Angrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,839

  1:20AM

  As a guy whose Steam recap shows I played more Last Epoch than anything else this year I have to agree with handing the nod to PoE2. By the way I really don't care for PoE1 at all. They somehow read my mind, because I never posted on their forums, and corrected almost all of the things I hate about PoE1.
  
  Still not a fan of poe.trade, but you can't win em all.
  
  I do think PoE2 is polarizing because of the twins stick control and turning it into a souls-like. Most D4 fans are going to be out on both counts but especially the latter. Getting through the campaign on normal difficulty is an achievement. However when you finally beat that boss the sense of accomplishment cannot be denied. It's something you do not get out of anything in D4 or LE or Grim Dawn. While getting levels and gear can help in PoE2 at some point you will have to buckle down and "git gud". There is no boss you can face tank regardless of gear. Most of the regular trash you cannot simply face tank either. It's like Elden Ring and PoE had a baby. If it's your thing then it's really your thing. I don't foresee me picking up another ARPG for a while. There's really nothing else out that gives the same experience.
  
  Thank you, GGG for taking a risk and building something new and different and not just following the same old formula that everyone else follows.

  
• lahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,053

  8:23AM

  Angrakhan said:

  As a guy whose Steam recap shows I played more Last Epoch than anything else this year I have to agree with handing the nod to PoE2. By the way I really don't care for PoE1 at all. They somehow read my mind, because I never posted on their forums, and corrected almost all of the things I hate about PoE1.
  
  Still not a fan of poe.trade, but you can't win em all.
  
  I do think PoE2 is polarizing because of the twins stick control and turning it into a souls-like. Most D4 fans are going to be out on both counts but especially the latter. Getting through the campaign on normal difficulty is an achievement. However when you finally beat that boss the sense of accomplishment cannot be denied. It's something you do not get out of anything in D4 or LE or Grim Dawn. While getting levels and gear can help in PoE2 at some point you will have to buckle down and "git gud". There is no boss you can face tank regardless of gear. Most of the regular trash you cannot simply face tank either. It's like Elden Ring and PoE had a baby. If it's your thing then it's really your thing. I don't foresee me picking up another ARPG for a while. There's really nothing else out that gives the same experience.
  
  Thank you, GGG for taking a risk and building something new and different and not just following the same old formula that everyone else follows.

  Well, I guess you just sold me PoE2 to me. Downloading when back from holidays.
  
  /Cheers,
  Lahnmir

  

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• Scot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427

  11:09AM

  Or you could wait for titles that are actually properly launched.
• Aeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,061

  12:50PM

  Angrakhan said:

   turning it into a souls-like. Most D4 fans are going to be out on both counts but especially the latter. Getting through the campaign on normal difficulty is an achievement. However when you finally beat that boss the sense of accomplishment cannot be denied. It's something you do not get out of anything in D4 or LE or Grim Dawn. While getting levels and gear can help in PoE2 at some point you will have to buckle down and "git gud". There is no boss you can face tank regardless of gear. Most of the regular trash you cannot simply face tank either. It's like Elden Ring and PoE had a baby. If it's your thing then it's really your thing. 
  

  Yeah, I'm rapidly losing interest in this one and will only try it because it'll be free. This is the exact opposite of what I want from an ARPG.
  
  Which is fine, I guess, because Last Epoch and Grim Dawn are better games than PoE, IMO.