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  • Summary: Path of Exile is a PC online action role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world. Featuring ethical microtransactions, the game is free-to-play, but not pay-to-win. Playing as one of six character classes, players find themselves banished for their past misdeeds to the dark fantasy world ofPath of Exile is a PC online action role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world. Featuring ethical microtransactions, the game is free-to-play, but not pay-to-win. Playing as one of six character classes, players find themselves banished for their past misdeeds to the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast. There, they will encounter hundreds of species of opponents laden with loot and mysterious artifacts as they explore the abandoned continent. Expand

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  1. May 6, 2019
    85
    The PS4 version of Path of Exile is not the best of the bunch, and there are still bugs and glitches all over, but this is still an excellent hack'n'slash RPG and one of the best free-to-play to have ever graced the console market.
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  1. Apr 6, 2020
    10
    Great game. I find it way above Diablo 3. Everything works great, no crashes, nothing. I have to say, but praise this game. Story, music,Great game. I find it way above Diablo 3. Everything works great, no crashes, nothing. I have to say, but praise this game. Story, music, gameplay. I love this game. Expand
  2. Apr 15, 2019
    9
    Superb hack and slash ARPG for the PS4 with serious Game Dev house to back them. I have also played and loved Diablo, Diablo 2 & Diablo 3.Superb hack and slash ARPG for the PS4 with serious Game Dev house to back them. I have also played and loved Diablo, Diablo 2 & Diablo 3. Grinding gear games (POE) and other studios like Crate (Grim dawn ) are the studios taking this genre forward for the foreseeable future. Expand
  3. Mar 29, 2019
    8
    Honestly as an arpg this is probably the best closest fun to Diablo 3 you can have. In fact POE has a lot of depth. I am having a lot of fun.Honestly as an arpg this is probably the best closest fun to Diablo 3 you can have. In fact POE has a lot of depth. I am having a lot of fun. It isn't P2W. All microtransactions are cosmetic or for extra storage. While expensive the store-front may be, one can appreciate such polish on an underrated free to play title. Expand
  4. Aug 6, 2023
    7
    Reasons I quit.
    Console needs all of the PC features. Additionally, CONSOLE ISSUES IGNORED by Devs even at EXILECON! Zero love for console
    Reasons I quit.
    Console needs all of the PC features. Additionally, CONSOLE ISSUES IGNORED by Devs even at EXILECON! Zero love for console players!

    1. No party finder (lonely) and buy/sell doesn't have enough filters (major issue). They should offer mods other than loot filter. No battle Royale either.
    2. Endgame: crafting, maps, builds, delves, and the weird mini games are incredibly confusing for new players especially if on console.
    3. Too easy to "brick" your character. Propper socketing is a nightmare. Respec too expensive. Console economy too expensive with low active player base & currency/item farmers. Unable to trade for build dependent items at reasonable prices (unlike PC). This makes farming kind of pointless & crafting exponentially more difficult.
    4. Too easy to get one shotted by random mobs and not know why.
    5. Video build guides entirely for PC and not console.
    6. Not new player friendly. Even after 350 hours I kept feeling lost.

    I hope POE 2 addresses these issues. Overall, game is far superior to Diablo 4.

    Try playing POE on console. Lack of players & gold/loot farmers makes many trades cost prohibitive. Which kinda ruins farming & requires way more ctafting. No group finder. No mods (except loot finder), limited build possibilities due to crap economy & controller. No Battle Royale. It sucks ballz.
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  5. Jun 28, 2020
    4
    So optimization not gud grafic not bad not gud ether story bad if want stash space must pay real money want skins need to pay real money theySo optimization not gud grafic not bad not gud ether story bad if want stash space must pay real money want skins need to pay real money they dont give you skins like in Diablo 3 an for most bilds you need to spend real money to buy curency to buy unique items if you want play poe siriusy bee redi to spend real money if not you wont get enwher bcz you hawe meta bilds for liges and ewerymeta bild requires unique items to buy for your bild to be full potential or if you want some copy cat game lke diablo and you intrested only in story go ahed its best copy of diablo an dont expect grafic an movement like in diablo 3 it iznt that gud youst port from pc diablo 3 is optimize and made for consoles this is all that you ned to know oh yea and you dont hawe chat Expand
  6. Jul 4, 2020
    3
    While the game itself is pretty good, the PS4 Port (Played on PS4 Pro) is barely playable.
    The game crashes regularly, it seems there's no
    While the game itself is pretty good, the PS4 Port (Played on PS4 Pro) is barely playable.
    The game crashes regularly, it seems there's no disconnection handler, instead the game and the PS4 just crashes.
    It makes it barely possible to complete anything long or difficult.
    Character progression is great, just sad the game is bogged down by following problems:
    a) Your character gets weaker (literally) when you progress in the story, which is kinda backward in usual gamedesign
    b) The game has (in endgame) LOT of insta kill mechanics which pretty much invalidate all classes and skills that are not very mobile which limits the theoretically skill system greatly.
    c) There's a very limited reskill system implemented, if you're getting into it late, you'll have to do a lot of grinding to reskill a class.
    d) The Inventory is tiny, leading to a lot of Inventory management (On PS4, this is especially gruesome)

    So TL;DR great game to play, just sad you will spend most of the time not actually playing it.
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  7. Dec 27, 2019
    0
    Gaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaggggggee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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