#the fuckin SPhere Grid or whatever is fucking Pointless if it Doesn't Let You Make Decisions

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you know I think one of my biggest beefs with action rpgs right now (besides the fact that in every single one you are killing increasingly bizzare demons) is that it’s sort’ve gone from an open build philosophy to railroading you Hard via stat expectations into certain like, class archetypes

even path of exile for all of the “build variety” shit you can say is really really difficult and you generally have to minmax to get into the postgame (which is honestly barely postgame; there’s so much shit in there it rivals the maingame)

a genre that from the beginning should’ve been about doing cool shit with a wide variety of variables has successfully made the most railroaded “open class design” game I have ever seen