The Journey is Better than the Destination

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budawpi escribió:

Congratulations! You set a goal, and you achieved it. That accomplishment is worth whatever it is to you, no matter what other people say. I can tell you one thing: you have one more Squire than I do.

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Foreverhappychan escribió:

Sorry nubs I will add one thing and then fuck off.

I think I successfully created a journey within PoE that has a destination better than it. Given where I set that journey and how it messes with the game's own traditional dimensions (not sure which dimension repeat runs of a zone you can't manually reset uses other than "yes, have some"), that's probably a low bar...but I think creating a mind-numbingly banal journey with the absolutely confirmed destination being the acquisition of an OP talking sword (that SPOILER falls in love with its wielder like you're some sort of perfect composite of Iliad's finest offerings) is the greatest gesture I could have made to show that despite everything else I kinda get the whole journey destination mobius strip nature of ARPGs.

Holy fuckballs that was a sentence.

Of course that's all done BEFORE you even enter the starting town and you have to literally metagame the starting zone for hours so most who do Pound Sand to Hunt The Country Fair's Top Prize likely don't consider it part of THE journey ahead but...to paraphrase Wheel of Time, it isn't THE journey, but it is A journey.


K bye.

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MourningBlade escribió:

Wish General had more posts like this.

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Nubatron escribió:

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Foreverhappychan escribió:

Sorry nubs I will add one thing and then fuck off.

I think I successfully created a journey within PoE that has a destination better than it. Given where I set that journey and how it messes with the game's own traditional dimensions (not sure which dimension repeat runs of a zone you can't manually reset uses other than "yes, have some"), that's probably a low bar...but I think creating a mind-numbingly banal journey with the absolutely confirmed destination being the acquisition of an OP talking sword (that SPOILER falls in love with its wielder like you're some sort of perfect composite of Iliad's finest offerings) is the greatest gesture I could have made to show that despite everything else I kinda get the whole journey destination mobius strip nature of ARPGs.

Holy fuckballs that was a sentence.

Of course that's all done BEFORE you even enter the starting town and you have to literally metagame the starting zone for hours so most who do Pound Sand to Hunt The Country Fair's Top Prize likely don't consider it part of THE journey ahead but...to paraphrase Wheel of Time, it isn't THE journey, but it is A journey.


K bye.

No need to apologize at all. This thread didn't really start with something to discuss; not really. Then somehow morphed into multiple discussions. Honestly, I'll take any discussion in general discussion that doesn't start with POE Ded or Will Hello Kitty Kill POE or I'm super great, pay me to play!?!

I'll admit that in this particular instance you mention, the destination is MUCH better than the journey. I've done that journey twice. That's right, I hate myself enough to do it once, and then put myself through it again. There are people who do it religiously. I can't imagine.

I poke fun at that journey, but it's one of the most calming grinds you can do. Turn on a movie, queue up a second one...and third one....and a f'ing fourth one. And the whole time just run a beach and kill a big hulk at the end. It's like a mini-D2 boss run over and over again. There isn't a single thing in the game more deterministic than that, outside of the crafting bench.

I seriously considered doing it for the Invasion event, but my wife didn't seem like she was in a place that I felt like tempting the demons :)

But yes, I agree the destination in that particular instance outshines the journey. As I said earlier in the thread, if you believe in balance, there is always a counterbalance. My friend, you've provided the counterbalance for this thread.

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Funny thing, I finally got it for 210 exalts..

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gandhar0 escribió:

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Funny thing, I finally got it for 210 exalts..

So much about drop luck.

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Turtledove escribió:

While getting the Goddess Oni sword can be looked at as a destination, it really unlocks what I consider one of the very best journeys in the game which is leveling with the Oni, anticipating the next goddess line and then listening to it!

edit: anyone that hasn't experienced it should get an Oni ASAP and level a character with it. We don't know when PoE2 will come out. It would be just like GGG to come out with PoE2 instead of 3.17. Once PoE2 comes out that marvelous Oni Gorishi journey will no longer be available.