Hello, I’ve just bought NRFTW and I’m so ready to help you guys with feedback and looking forward to an great experience!
I’m an oldskool D2 LoD player & also love Darksouls & Metroidvanias.
I’m looking forward to the campaign, but mostly Endgame & COOP / PVP & Loot.
I hope I can share my experience with the game after beating it.
I’ve recently played D4, PoE2 and Last Epoch and I came to the conclusion, that those games endgame sucks because difficulty isn’t real challenge, it’s just the same thing — but more enemy HP/damage/stat bloat.
Modern ARPGs all boil down to: “Do same thing → enemies tankier/hurt more → grind better gear → repeat.”
The world in D2 was all hostile and organic (you could have encountered tough buffed enemies that kill you all out of the sudden) - PoE2 campaign was kinda great experience but the endgame was the same old treadmill pushing tiers.
I love real challenge, not fake number bloat.
Dodging, positioning, and advantage with really rare items you cannot craft but find or trade.
So, I hope NRFTW makes it better, and I’m sure they will, because gameplay is more mechanical challenging.
It needs a good mix of mechanics + items + enemystats, imho. and not a fast progression with higher numbers and higher stats.
the rarer the items, the better is the hunt for it and the more happier you are when you finally find them (Diablo 2 LoD)
And Coop & PVP are also things that keep people playing (I ll always compare to D2 LoD because there it is a perfect mix of everything).
Looking forward to play the game & trust the devs!
Greetings from Innsbruck <3
P.S.: Ori games are masterpieces!
haha