Puzzle-wise it's more of a retread through the Deku Tree and Dodongo's Caverns in terms of difficulty. The Zelda-like is apt comparison, in the sense that you do have goals when you enter a room. But they're easy and the steps are completely explained by the camera. I only hope they've improved that aspect in the sequel.
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DARKSIDERS |OT| More like Zelda than God of War
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Though it's NOTHING like Zelda. It feels like MUCH more like God of War in an open world (about 3 hours in).
The game is overstaying its welcome and this damn Silitha fight isn't helping.
It seems to be a crap shoot whether I'm actually able to dodge her when she teleports to smash on top of me. I definitely can't just to a RB dash to do it, I have to be running out from under her a split second beforehand and then dash, and even then it doesn't do it. I burn through my entire life bar and still can't get to the section where she makes the little balls appear in the air (I've read about this in the FAQs I've read, I've never gotten that far). If I do like the game apparently wants me to - that is hookshot over to her and start wailing on her, she teleports while I'm in the air wailing on her and there's no way to get out from under her in that condition even with a mid-air dash.
To make matters worse there is apparently no Vulgrim location in this dungeon and no way out of the damn thing so I'm stuck with my one life essence to use during the fight, and I have to load a savegame if I die since it starts you back right outside the fight with only like half of the life bar filled.
Seriously, this fight is such boring BS that I'm ready to just uninstall the game and forget this series exists. It would be different if it were using some interesting mechanic in some way, but it's just apparently monotonous dodging and swinging away for the entire battle.
WTF - I just watched a fight with her (seemed to be the PS3 version) that claimed to be on Apocalyptic difficulty and she's moving to different phases of the fight after like two cycles in each one!!! I literally fight her for like ten minutes and she stays in the first phase of the fight and that's with me wailing on her everytime I can get a hold of her!! This is such crap.
[EDIT:] OK, I think my game was glitching. Originally, through many reloads Silitha was not moving beyond the first "phase" of the fight like EVER. I'd fight her for like ten minutes before she'd even change her tactics at all. So I completely shut down the game and restarted, and suddenly Silitha is moving through the phases of the fight at the pace I saw in the youtube videos (she moved into the second phase after me wailing on her once this time), and she's pretty easy now. Stupid PC master-race gaming. :-0
It seems to be a crap shoot whether I'm actually able to dodge her when she teleports to smash on top of me. I definitely can't just to a RB dash to do it, I have to be running out from under her a split second beforehand and then dash, and even then it doesn't do it. I burn through my entire life bar and still can't get to the section where she makes the little balls appear in the air (I've read about this in the FAQs I've read, I've never gotten that far). If I do like the game apparently wants me to - that is hookshot over to her and start wailing on her, she teleports while I'm in the air wailing on her and there's no way to get out from under her in that condition even with a mid-air dash.
To make matters worse there is apparently no Vulgrim location in this dungeon and no way out of the damn thing so I'm stuck with my one life essence to use during the fight, and I have to load a savegame if I die since it starts you back right outside the fight with only like half of the life bar filled.
Seriously, this fight is such boring BS that I'm ready to just uninstall the game and forget this series exists. It would be different if it were using some interesting mechanic in some way, but it's just apparently monotonous dodging and swinging away for the entire battle.
WTF - I just watched a fight with her (seemed to be the PS3 version) that claimed to be on Apocalyptic difficulty and she's moving to different phases of the fight after like two cycles in each one!!! I literally fight her for like ten minutes and she stays in the first phase of the fight and that's with me wailing on her everytime I can get a hold of her!! This is such crap.
[EDIT:] OK, I think my game was glitching. Originally, through many reloads Silitha was not moving beyond the first "phase" of the fight like EVER. I'd fight her for like ten minutes before she'd even change her tactics at all. So I completely shut down the game and restarted, and suddenly Silitha is moving through the phases of the fight at the pace I saw in the youtube videos (she moved into the second phase after me wailing on her once this time), and she's pretty easy now. Stupid PC master-race gaming. :-0
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
Bought the game for the 360 a couple of weeks ago and I'm enjoying it. The game isn't perfect (the camera is awful) but it does a great Zelda impression.
mentalfloss
Banned
Big blobs of monster marines with exploding guts and blood everywhere.
It might have some Zelda mechanics, but who gives a crap if it looks so thematically stupid.
It might have some Zelda mechanics, but who gives a crap if it looks so thematically stupid.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Basically this.BY2K said:
thestopsign
Member
I bought it. I also tested negative for being insane yesterday.
Damn defo want to get Darksiders, but the its $5 for US users and £5 for us british users. So UK'ers have to pay almost twice as much!! Surely that cant be right??
Would any of you US users purchase Darksiders and the Vietnam add-on for Bad Company 2 if its around $3.40 and gift it to me. I will pay you back via paypal 'gift' option??
Would any of you US users purchase Darksiders and the Vietnam add-on for Bad Company 2 if its around $3.40 and gift it to me. I will pay you back via paypal 'gift' option??
Glass Rebel
Member
So a friend gifted this to me. Is there ANY way to edit the graphics settings outside of the game?
Mr.Squirrel
Tom
bought it for $15 today, should be here by tues/wed. I hope it's actually good.
Horsemama1956
Member
zlatko said:
It's not very demanding on the GPU. Being a console port, it runs best on core ix processors. Which processor do you have?
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
What video card do you have? Mine was tearing like a bitch even with the in game Vsync on and had to force on vsync from d3d and now it's smooth as butter.zlatko said:
I have a question, in the first area with the guy who gives you the horn. Is there a way to get the one treasure chest that's up on a ledge? I've got all but that one.
I've had the game for a while, but finally getting through it. Currently up to
and holy shit
. I got stuck at
Azrael
This dungeon takes FOREVER, god all this crazy damn portal stuff and having to "undo" a dungeon once you've gone through it messes with my head a bit.
The beginning of the third section, as I kept getting killed by the Skeleton Warriors with the Shield and Hammer, which takes a whole "skull" of health from you if you get hit
Themacabre
Member
Wait what?
This game is good? I guess I should have bought it during the sale lol
This game is good? I guess I should have bought it during the sale lol
Rlan said:
I remember that section being kind of tough. A good way to cheese the game is with the poison magic. It shoots out a homing attack that kills pretty much anything that isn't a boss, so it's very useful against the bigger mini-boss type enemies, just fight the smaller enemies around to get energy then press a button and the miniboss dies.
Probably not the right place for this, but there was a bunch of new concept art released for the next game in the series. Go have a gander over thar:
http://gamefront.de/archiv06-2011-gamefront/7182.html
http://gamefront.de/archiv06-2011-gamefront/7182.html
Princess Carl
Member
so goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
Mr Touchdown
Member
I need to know, does this game get better the more I play it? The combat feels really dull and mash heavy. Also the dodging is really silly, seeing as it offers almost no invincibility while active. :S
Yeah I'm harping on the combat, but the game seems to want me to do a lot of it.
Yeah I'm harping on the combat, but the game seems to want me to do a lot of it.
After initial combat heavy zones, it starts getting more and more adventure based. And you can upgrade you combat moves, it gets better.
edit - game informer DS2 coverage is almost complete. 3 missing peaces untill end.
http://www.gameinformer.com/p/darksiders.aspx
edit - game informer DS2 coverage is almost complete. 3 missing peaces untill end.
http://www.gameinformer.com/p/darksiders.aspx
Bought it a while ago on the PC, played it at full settings and enjoyed it. It's a Zelda type game, married with God of War.
Not sure whether it's as good as Okami (which was also quite flawed and repetitive), but it doesn't measure up to a Zelda game for me. The story was passable and not very ambitious, music not very impressive, voice acting was good, there wasn't much extra content and the main quest wasn't too long, it was very predictable and never even tried to hide what item you'd need to proceed (boomerang, hookshot etc), and the puzzles and dungeon design were very simple.
Those fetch quests to get the giant rock guys to move, the little trial things? They were kinda annoying.
The art design was cool, very saturated and comic book-ish.
I liked the portal gun though, that part was cool.
The combat was decent once you unlocked a lot of the moves and got the weapons, nothing felt redundant mainly because fights were never really puzzle orientated. It does get repetitive, but it also does try to offer different enemies and challenge.
Zelda games are ridiculously hard to make, so I respect it and Darksiders 2 should definitely be worth watching.
Do I think that Zelda could learn anything from this game? No, not really.
Not sure whether it's as good as Okami (which was also quite flawed and repetitive), but it doesn't measure up to a Zelda game for me. The story was passable and not very ambitious, music not very impressive, voice acting was good, there wasn't much extra content and the main quest wasn't too long, it was very predictable and never even tried to hide what item you'd need to proceed (boomerang, hookshot etc), and the puzzles and dungeon design were very simple.
Those fetch quests to get the giant rock guys to move, the little trial things? They were kinda annoying.
The art design was cool, very saturated and comic book-ish.
I liked the portal gun though, that part was cool.
The combat was decent once you unlocked a lot of the moves and got the weapons, nothing felt redundant mainly because fights were never really puzzle orientated. It does get repetitive, but it also does try to offer different enemies and challenge.
Zelda games are ridiculously hard to make, so I respect it and Darksiders 2 should definitely be worth watching.
Do I think that Zelda could learn anything from this game? No, not really.
Nemesis121
Member
BY2K said:
Got it....steam servers being murdered right now it took almost 18 hours to DL...
You can always change your download region to a less populated one.Nemesis121 said: