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Path of martial arts: leaked sneak peaks, and discussing thread
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I agree with your point but DA is not better then PoMA lmao, it's aimless and direction-less and full of bloat and spelling mistakes, practically unreadable.
It's apperantly being rewritten to be somewhat decenter but the rewrite is only available for Patreon subs, like what
Yeah nah, i still think that poma is better than both da and ac.
Da feels like i'm reading a novel instead of playing an IF and i'm not sure how its possible that even with more than a million word count, there's absolutely nothing memorable about it.
As for ac, i haven't played it in like a year. the only thing good i remember and can say about it is that it felt like ac has an actual structure and cohession to both game and story as opposed to poma (especially when compared to poma as it exist now) . But thats pretty much it, i have nothing else good to say about it. And most of the negative stuff that i can say has already been said elsewhere by others. But i'll say this, I absolutely despise the xuanhuan genre in general. And ac is most definitely a xuanhuan. Whereas poma even in its current disheveled state still feels like i'm reading/playing a xianxia IF.
Da feels like i'm reading a novel instead of playing an IF and i'm not sure how its possible that even with more than a million word count, there's absolutely nothing memorable about it.
As for ac, i haven't played it in like a year. the only thing good i remember and can say about it is that it felt like ac has an actual structure and cohession to both game and story as opposed to poma (especially when compared to poma as it exist now) . But thats pretty much it, i have nothing else good to say about it. And most of the negative stuff that i can say has already been said elsewhere by others. But i'll say this, I absolutely despise the xuanhuan genre in general. And ac is most definitely a xuanhuan. Whereas poma even in its current disheveled state still feels like i'm reading/playing a xianxia IF.
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But DA doesn’t even have more than a million words — are you sure you didn’t confuse it with another game? And about Poma and AC, that’s simply a matter of personal preference. Personally, I think Poma doesn’t even show what’s most important in the genre for me: the protagonist’s growth. Many times I don’t even know how strong my character is because the story does a terrible job of showing it — and that’s not even mentioning that it doesn’t show what kind of training the protagonist does after getting his new body. They just give you Qi and everything at random, but the narrative shows nothing, so for me it’s much worse than AC. I even read DA and liked it more than Poma.
I seem to be misremembering things, either that or i got it mixed with some other game. Just goes to show how unmemorable and how unnoteworthy da is.
As for the ofher things you said. You're right it is a matter of preference. And i'll say this in favour of da. It felt like i was reading an actual xianxia, and thats exactly the problem. I want to play the game not read it.
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You got it mixed up, because Poma is the one that has almost 1 million words — it has around 997k or something like that. DA has around 370k in the public version and about 400k - 450k in the Patreon version. And about playing Poma, honestly that’s my biggest problem with the game: the gameplay in Poma is just annoying and not fun, because like I said before, I don’t feel like my effort is being rewarded. So the gameplay is what ruins the experience for me the most. Honestly, if they removed the gameplay of managing stats and all that stuff, I wouldn’t mind at all — but that’s just personal preference And honestly, I feel that Poma is pretty short considering its word count. I guess everything is packed into the mechanics that keep changing all the time, and fights that have nothing to do with the plot, so I suppose our experiences and tastes are very different.
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Yeah i agree with most of what you said here. I do believe that poma has an actually interesting story to tell but its shitty *** bloated inconsistent and needlesly complicated mechanics is effecting the story negatively and makes it hard for us to enjoy the game as a whole.
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I don't agree with the public opinion of love or contempt for DA, for me it's just "Oh, it's fun to pass the time..."
But here...
But here...
Here you said what POMA really lacks the most as Xianxia. In fact, you couldn't be more right. It really impresses me that Nicky, as a fan of the genre, doesn't see such a problem. His irrational and misplaced fear/terror/despair towards the supposed "power fantasy" has eroded his critical sense.
It's less his fear and terror and moreso people just driving and wedging his story everywhere because they pay on Patreon, although you're not wrong, he does heavily dislike making this story a power fantasy for some reason despite the fact that it's literally one of the pillars of modern Xianxia, like trying to build a house without cement and bricks.
yh i think ive read it up to here
the b**** asking the first question blocked me from the poma discord for nothing so i'm not even surprised lol
this..
If your only problem is with the stats management then you can already ignore that. It's what story mode is for.