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Every time devs are being killed by bosses I remember Izaro's iconic voiceline: "Justice is served."

Came for ExileCon, stayed for the Void Popcorn

i love how josh's videos are so professional but his streams are him pretending to feed popcorn to people and playing with his overlay

He actually did the suprised face thumbnail

I'm really glad it's going to be its own game. I know it was announced as basically an expansion to POE a long, long time ago. But with that passage of time, I've gotten increasingly concerned about it being hamstrung from launch because it was tied to a game made quite a long while back. POE is still fun but I was immensely relieved to hear the news that POE2 will be able to walk on its own. Now here's just hoping that loot works a little better and I'll actually find a single usable item at endgame on my own after hundreds of hours.

I feel like Josh reacting to Asmongold reacting to Exilecon would have been even less effort for Josh.

Absolutely insane, They're just hitting everything out of the park. The gaming sphere as a whole would be such a better place if every big company cared this much about what their players want.

"If you make a product that appeals to everybody, it appeals to nobody" thank you!! I've been saying that exact same thing since Mists of Pandaria. It's why I don't play blizzard games anymore, they don't care about satisfying a player base, they just care about getting anyone's money that they can, with zero fulfillment.

in an era where communities are hungry for this kinda interaction between studios and players, they def nailed it with ExileCon

53:00 with regards to 'standing still', the demo showed that by the time the ice comet spell has finished the moving animation the arctic armour has fully stacked up. Plus things like channeling skills and things like shield charge (if it works the same) will all count as 'standing still'. not entirely defending it, but i do think its worth noting. Plus you still might get freeze immunity which is nice while levelling.

PoE is one of the few games where they have every exploitable system, but are still somehow one of the most consumer first games ever. From a free game with microtransactions, to systems upon systems layered almost so thick you'd think they were designed to confuse players, to an endless number of expansion.

Welp, two and a half hours watching Asmongolds Reaction to ExileCon - now directly to Josh! Here. We. Go!

That Boss Blackjaw is a real G; dude just killed his own creators with no remorse in front of all their players and shit. I hope they add Blackjaw as a playable character.

If you want drops, you need to set volume to 1% because on mute, it doesn't always count as watched time.

i started replaying golden sun again because of the tweet hint josh made, and honest to god its one of my favorite tbrpgs, the combat is simple, unique, deep and fun, story isnt the best writing but on the contrary i love the pacing of it and i love how alot of dialogue is cut by just making the characters more emotive and reactive. i love the way the game looks the way they used the 3d plain with 2d sprites looks so good and its amazing its all on a gameboy advanced game

artic armor seems like the way to go for scorching ray builds, i love it!

My guide to enjoying path of exile. Play without guides. Discover how everything works organically. Make diverse builds over a year, instead of reading college research papers on stats. Those can wait until you get your own base understanding. Play and have fun, and learn the basics, THEN if you feel like it go for your phd in build theory. Also it makes it a lot easier to understand later because you can post your build to the forums and ask for feedback, this will usually result in a directed and informative tutorial about aspects and flaws you didn't understand. Much faster than reading generalized information.

if flicker strike still works like poe1 (in that despite teleporting, you count as stationary), arctic armor will be fun with that

Loved watching the main Exilecon stream Loved watching Asmon watch the stream And now Josh 😍

I owe you an apology, Josh. I saw the title of the video, and came here to half-jokingly criticize you by saying something to the effect of, "I thought you didn't unironically do reaction videos/streams?" Video opened with Josh talking for a full minute-and-a-half about how he normally doesn't do this kind of thing and why, and I got a laugh at that read of what people like me were likely going to say. I love your videos and content. Happy to say that you've inspired me to play quite a few MMORPGs I wouldn't have otherwise tried.

I'm so glad I watched this on my own first. I love your takes and reactions on things but instead of just making the source audio quieter, you muted it frequently when you said things. I know from watching it first that some of the stuff you muted was pretty important. I beg you to be mindful of this :)

Everyone who missed it live: GOLD CURRENCY what we know now is an EXTRA currency. Not replacing the economy they have now. They will remove some currencys, so gold might be just a replacement for those exact things but its NOT a new economy system with only gold.

After Armored Core 6, Path Of Exile 2 probably my second most hyped game this year thanks to you Josh

Watched Asmon and now you on KZfaq, I don't watch twitch, but your playthroughs and reactions are very appreciated ... love your videos about games of my childhood and I hope yoou have a lot of success in your actual career, you make me smile a lot on rainy days 😊👍 _Edit:_ I will buy Baldur's Gate 3 on the next weeekend a few days after release ;-)

Your cat sounds exactly like mine when it comes to my room. Always has to announce himself and let me know he’s sitting in the doorway doing nothing 🤣😅

I was in the crowd, and I'm watching your video, if that counts haha😊

Fuck me, we might actually have a good game on our hands. Being comfortable with showcasing gameplay with no cinematic pre-renders is a huge confidence boost for the buyers.

unfortunate it seemed he missed a few good lines by muteing instead of pausing or waiting for a break in the commentary

"...gold means there might be an economy in the game." Bruh... PoE 1 has an INSANE economy thats player driven. Its just not based around boring gold...

Well if it isn't Josh Strife Says, Josh Strife Hayes's brother from another mother

Thank you for giving coverage to Path of Exile!

Where was the cringe ? They were nervous but they were great. Not to mention all the interesting stuff.

We need more intense eye contact candy bar eating.

Honestly, dying was probably the best thing that could've happened for this reveal. Nothing says that this is real gameplay more than messing it up like a real player could.

BECAUSE WE CAN.

tbh I tried the roasted bananas, Werther's, and lime, they are all pretty good, I would use actual vodka or rhum and not "alcohol for fruit preservation" which tastes very aggressive. also lime was fairly bitter, I'd zest them then remove the rind. roasted banana with caramel and cinnamon is fantastic. (peel bananas, add sugar, put in oven at 180C (in an oven safe jar) and cook till the sugar caramelizes, then pull out, let cool, add cinnamon and alcohol.)

9:59 Josh: "ugh... Sellout" ... Mathias "Exactly!"

that asmongold diss at the start was chefs kiss!

I disagree on playing without a wiki being the most fun. I can't theorycraft for the life of me, I can't build decks, I can't build characters... because I find the process frustrating and annoying and not rewarding (thus I never practised and learned it). Much like I find sowing frustrating and annoying and not rewarding. So I tried to build a character, hate every second and then ended up not being able to see much of the game. For me the way to have fun with PoE (not the most fun, fun at all) was to find "The easiest 1 mio dps you will ever build SSF suitable physical zombie Necromancer" (or something equivalent) and just copy that step for step rigidly. And then I got to play the super fun game that I super enjoy playing. My man Sin is still one of my favourite husbandos of all games to this day. I was there when Vorici was the smoky-voiced hot man dissing you for not being stealthy and I loved it. PoE purposely filtering out people who don't do massive skill trees honestly means a lot of people are missing out on a really really fun game. And I'm glad I didn't. I'm glad I threw my brain out of the window and mindlessly copied some other player's build because it meant and means (you know I will play the hecking fudge out of PoE 2 like I did PoE 1... do youtube comments even get censored for swearing?) I get to have so much fun with a charming game with lovely mechanics and a startlingly enjoyable visual style. I find the colour schemes and music of Skyrim and Vanilla Minecraft too depressing, but I never had a single second where I wanted to change anything about the lighting or music of PoE, it was always... not cheerful, but undepressingly atmospheric. Much like Genshin Impact. Yes, I play GI. Yes I also brainlessly copy builds there and I am having a blast. Incidentally a process I do find enjoyable and rewarding is writing. I'm a writer. I write all day. Enjoy this moderately-formatted youtube comment about how even people with skill issues can find a lot of enjoyment in the game with the velvet-voiced shirtless demon cinnamon roll. I am 50% joking with that btw. I played the fudge out of the game back when you just did Acts 1 - 4 three times. I played before the Atlas. Do you have any idea how exstatic I was when they added Acts 5 - 10? They always said they would AND THEN THEY FUDGING WENT AND DID IT! They actually kept their promise. And yes players complain about nerfs but GGG at the very very least show they care about a somewhat balanced meta. Those are experiences I got to have because I didn't let the skill tree filter me out. I attached myself to the TCers legs like a leech and profited from their achievements in figuring out the game, because to me they would have been the opposite of fun. Not every player enjoys every part of a game. I love playing Magic the Gathering, I hate building decks. You wanna know what I enjoy more than building my own PoE character? Writing a horror story where the Shadow thinks Sin is gonna eat his soul after he's used him to defeat Kitava so the second the big hungry god falls he legs it with the Portal skill gem and lives as a reclusive hermit for months in paranoia thinking Sin (the little hungry god) is coming to eat him until eventually deciding such a life is not a life and going to murder Sin. HARRR GGG THOUGHT THEY COULD KEEP ME AWAY WITH A 1500 NODE SKILL TREE BUT IF THEY WANTED THAT THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE MADE THE STORY AND GAMEPLAY SO ENGAGING! MUAHAHAHA!

I like games like this without static builds. I loved in PoE just amassing huge hoards of skill and support gems. I loved the countless possibilities you could do with them. In Mabinogi, this old (now pretty dead) mmo I used to play, while yes it had standard 'classes', you could actually mix and match what skills to use and weapon combos to form an entirely new playstyle. I was the combat alchemist. I had a sword in one hand, and a Guard cylinder in the other. The guard cylinder acted as both shield and gun. Since Alchemy was very ranged focused, Cylinders were quite literally hand cannons for different elements. With the Singing skill trained, you could get it where you could apply Bard buffs without use of a bard instrument. And magic was very useful on any 'class' due to Healing and mana shields. Its a shame how the game wen, though. Nexon destroyed one of the only decent games they had left.

This stream is what i wanted XD

I came for the commentary, I stayed for the void popcorn

Eugh. This game is too fucking good. 4k hours and they still get me excited like a child on Christmas eve before each league launch.

I'm like.. as straight as they come, but this man... THIS man!

seems nice. both poe and poe 2 have their own functionality diffrance what make them enjoyable in their own way.

One game I´d install on every PC as standard is Rimworld. It´s very lightweight, its Linux compatible afaik and even without mods it´s just complex enough to keep you on your toes but also has enough customization options for your gf/wife turning it pretty much into stardew valley. Which is exactly what mine did and I wondered why I suddenly had like 20 Farming and decoration mods on my modlist.

Diablo 4 has done some of the best advertising for PoE2 I've ever seen.

lmao Josh love the content weather original or low bar. You are just to funny and to great. Stay awesome!

Josh Strife Hays trying to force feed ZiggyD popcorn isn't something I realised I needed in my life.

Oh man I'm hyped, I know it's dangerous but still am. GGG stanboy for lyfe

Josh - my cat was watching this.

Oh noes, you didn't do day 2 where they talked about the gold!

Why do you keep muting the stream? Talking over them is fine, but when you mute the stream we miss out on some stuff, like you muted the stream when they explained what Spirit was.

Dam, that's a really good presentation. Seems like it's alot of what ppl wanted too

Probaly one of the most solid Con i have ever seen.

PoE is a half-life game with too many mods turned on all at once. That’s why I love it!

The non consetual popcorning is god dam great

David Breviks great. His talks in design and creation of diablo 1 are really interesting. It was originally quite different to.

You guys saw the starfish right?

Is that black bowl from Ikea? Ive got those too!

If you want to get into voice overs, the ARG communities generally is open to receiving help for voice acting.

Reacting to a reaction content is gold!

Wait, the existence of coins might mean we'll finally have a single standardized fiat currency which would allow them to have a bazaar with in-built taxes to combat inflation

Am the only guy thinking about the possibilities with a melee/ranged char with that weapon swap? Seems pretty cool.

You are working to hard Josh, 6:24 to 6:30 on repeat is more than enough for 120 minutes.

The sad thing as much as I agree poe kills diablo its all based on money. Gameplay wise yea it kills D4 but if it doesnt gather the money of 10million copies + the people that come back every season then leave or when 10million copies of each xpac are sold then in fact it has not killed D4. People truly forget the hold blizzard has on its cultist.

I agree, Mathil is annoyingly Handsome

i tried poe for the first time since 2013 and am fairly lost but got to act 2

Josh Strife Rayects

Yep also getting that putting stuff in alcohol dude lol.

Golden sun is amazing and I'm sooooo hyped for your vid

did Blizzard now launch the biggest marketing campaign for POE with D4? ;-)

Pre-ordering BG3 doesn't give anything special anymore. It was originally going to give us a few days early to play before release. But Larian pushed the release date up to this upcoming Sunday when it was originally towards the end of this month. Honestly, I pre-purchased it because it wasn't called a pre-order. You were basically buying the ability to play the first chapter of the game only, but access to playable content as it was added, like as they worked out the classes you could play. They also gave all pre-purchases a free upgrade to the digital deluxe. But honestly with Larian's track record on producing great TTRPG style games, I bought it out of sheer faith in a good product that I would inarguably enjoy.

I love #shorts

I love it when video games area actually made by Gamers

Nice!

1:14:50

I'm glad destiny 2 is finally unequivocally an MMO.

17:20 that is not really true. There are many german youtuber that are also lending their voice for games and even movies (syncro).

Sean Connery chest hair

Spot on about not reading Wiki's etc - I'd rather have fun my own way.

Feels like they put more effort into the exilecon card game than Blizzard put into Diablo 4. Might just be me.

How is this company gonna keep 2 separate games going with only cosmetics and making significant money to not shut down wtf

wait, so POE to doing PSO2 + PSO2NGS approach?

This is the longest short I have ever seen

I also enjoy the guy who puts things in jars of alcohol for a week. Way more than I enjoy the video of the guy that tried to put a jar inside himself.

Will they finaly let me mix my playstation and pc mtx?

PoE2 releases, we watch Asmongold review, we decided if we play it or not.

51:08 I didn't know Harry Kane played PoE.

the one thing i dont like as a narrative, if they are going with gods drive all realities, then what keeps existence going when they kill all the gods that govern all the rules. example if the god of water stops existing then what happens to all the water? do the physics just stop working on water or does it all just disappear?

1:16:21 Josh Strife Stares

Surprised that never added a Necro other then the Witch. Gold + Bots + Gold Sellers = Dead Economical System ?

What happened to the long-form videos Josh used to make ?

You need to add more "OMG's" !

D4 bad👏

What is gold? Baby dont hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

Cosmetics are amazing

watching it while playing PoE

With the separation of the 2 standalone Path of Exile versions, I wonder what would happen if people played less and less of POE1 to the point it made no sense for GGG to continue updating it: would they just kill it, or ultimately try to merge the 2, as originally thought?