Path of Exile

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
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  1. SpazioGames
    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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6.9

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  1. supermodified
    Mar 27, 2019
    6
    + gameplay on it's own is rather fun
    + loading times are better than I thought they will be (similiar to hdd pc, absolutely playable)
    - UI    + gameplay on it's own is rather fun
    + loading times are better than I thought they will be (similiar to hdd pc, absolutely playable)

    - UI is quite bad
    - game has no text chat
    - some support packs cost way more than on PC
    - most problems from Xbox One still exist on PS4

    Don't get me wrong. This game is fully playable and fun. But it requires a bit more work and some adjustmens. If GGG won't cease the support for it, it can easily become 8/10, maybe even 9/10. But it's not there yet.    … Full Review »
  2. Hatesauce
    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.… Full Review »
  3. Dehelix
    Mar 28, 2019
    6
    POE on PS4 review, long, long version. Well more of a rant really!

    You would think after decades of producing action rpgs they would have    POE on PS4 review, long, long version. Well more of a rant really!

    You would think after decades of producing action rpgs they would have solved the issue of collecting loot easily from the battlefield. It’s so easy with a mouse but with a console controller, no you still have to dance your character about like a lunatic trying to get the highlight to settle on the piece you want to pick up. A simple hold R2 and then use the controller up, down, left or right to step through the explosion of loot would be far far easier. Yes, the items you want do seem to auto select for a lot of the time but there is always an item I want that’s a nightmare to select.

    Also what’s with the off hand selection of weapons? Sometime you get the option to shove a weapon in the right hand slot but most of the time they always equip on the left. The key combination R2 plus R3 swaps weapon sets but the equipped weapon totally disappears from sight. Many a time during my early play through I thought I had gone mad. I was sure I had a Magma orb with an augmentation spell but could I find the dam thing. Oh look, it’s hidden. Who the hell came up with that daft idea? I’d dock his pay.

    Oh and press the pad section to close the inventory. Daft idea. Why can’t I remap my controller to get the setup I want? Usually in PS4 games the circle steps you back through a menu. On POE you have to press the dam pad and it takes you right out the dam menu not back a page. Aargh!

    Please let’s not mention the crafting. To be told I have been lulled into a false sense of security having been an Apple fan for years I have been totally spoilt by using intuitive interfaces in software for decades. Suddenly in POE I am faced with a crafting interface that might as well be written in Swahili for all the sense it makes. Boxes galore. Do I gave to fill every one before the craft button highlights? Is it a special key combination to get it to work? I have literally pressed my nose to my TV screen trying to make out the icon on the ‘craft’ button. I guess it only becomes active when all the stupid boxes are filled? No?

    Actually I don’t give a ****. I am overwhelmed with weapons and socketed armour who needs to craft anyway. My Witch is so overpowered at level 25 why bother with it? The same goes for the plethora of orbs. I think I have used just one to see what it did. I am now searching for a giant fir tree to decorate with my massive collection of them. Why bother when I can decimate everything before me with three zombies and a Magma orb skill?

    Oh don’t get me started on the bit when you can set up the controller with skills. Every time I do the finger twisting holding R2 to access my second set will the interface cooperate? Will it f***! Skills shoot everywhere and I end up with two of everything! Again thank the lord for Magma orb. I must have over 20 skill orbs liberally sprinkled all over my clothing and weapons. Of which I can only activate 8 at one time it seems. I have skill gems I have never seen in action, ever. They power up as I play so who cares. I can, however, see me coming to a grinding halt at some point further down the road when my inability to handle fully half the interface systems renders my Magma orb totally useless. So then I start a new character or move onto the next game. Simple. It’s only a game at the end of the day.

    Apart from all the groans I actually like the game, mostly. It’s a bit easier than I remember. On my PC when it first came out the Foetid Pool and the Prison were nightmares to play. Maybe my witch is a bit overpowered? She slices through waves of enemies with ease. I get brief glimpses of special mini bosses names but not enough to read it fully before they are dead. Anya only gets overwhelmed in the daft memory levels. Old Cava, or whatever his name is, says the same thing every time you click on him. You enter the memory and ten thousand things seem descend on you at once. I won’t be bothering with them from now on.

    There is way too much text to wade through in the inventory. Maybe there is an option to turn it off? This skill does this, this, this and this, yawn, yawn and yawn. Just give it me and let me load it up! They only work three times out of ten anyway.

    I do seem to be moaning a lot, sorry, if you have bothered to read so far. Its just I have waited years to play this game on a console and it’s still not all I wanted it to be. Yes shoehorning a PC keyboard input into a more limited controller setup is never going to be easy. So let us set it up as we want? Please?

    On my old slow PC I would have scored it a 9, in 2019 after years of development I would score a 6.5 on my PS4. Just. It’s lustre has dimmed a tad with time which is a shame. I am bored to death with Diablo 3 I know those levels like the back of my hand. This at least is fresh I give it that. Is that enough? Just.

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