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Darksiders III |OT| Fury's Road
- Thread starter GrrImAFridge
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I recently bought both Darksiders 1 and 2 in anticipation of this game. I beat the first game, and thought it was a solid action game. I just barely started 2, and am seeing how different it'll be compared to the first game. I hope to get Darksiders 2 done pretty soon so that I can play through 3!
They really should just make Strife's game the one that advances the story post Darksiders 1 ending. The idea of a 4 player co-op game was more something I were thinking about when the franchise were at its peak, now we're happy to just get a new game.
Anyway, heard some really good things about this game from people who played it, but I think I'll only get to it after the DLC comes out, I'll try to replay the series before it, too.
Anyway, heard some really good things about this game from people who played it, but I think I'll only get to it after the DLC comes out, I'll try to replay the series before it, too.
Nice OT!
Preordered the game last week, the PC-Deluxe Edition costs only ~£51 on 2game.com (use code isthereanydeal)
https://2game.com/darksiders-iii-deluxe-edition
Preordered the game last week, the PC-Deluxe Edition costs only ~£51 on 2game.com (use code isthereanydeal)
https://2game.com/darksiders-iii-deluxe-edition
Nice to see the OT up. I'm half way through the game. Really enjoying it so far.
To reiterate some of my points from the other thread:
The game feels to me like a mix between Darksiders 1 and 2 in terms of world design and progression, mixed with Dark Souls and then Metroidvania aspects sprinkled throughout. I did get a little frustrated with the combat after a few hours of play yesterday but reevaluating how I looked at the combat, ie. not like a standard hack and slash and approach fights more tactically made things much better.
Environments are surprisingly varied as are enemy types. The story is shockingly engaging (as a fan of the previous two games) and voice acting is great all around.
Going to continue playing now and see how the rest plays out. Again great OT!
Update:
I forgot to also let folks in this thread know, I saw two pretty bad bugs yesterday. I'm playing before the release hotfix so these may be fixed in that:
I'm playing on PS4 Pro for anyone interested.
To reiterate some of my points from the other thread:
The game feels to me like a mix between Darksiders 1 and 2 in terms of world design and progression, mixed with Dark Souls and then Metroidvania aspects sprinkled throughout. I did get a little frustrated with the combat after a few hours of play yesterday but reevaluating how I looked at the combat, ie. not like a standard hack and slash and approach fights more tactically made things much better.
Environments are surprisingly varied as are enemy types. The story is shockingly engaging (as a fan of the previous two games) and voice acting is great all around.
Going to continue playing now and see how the rest plays out. Again great OT!
Update:
I forgot to also let folks in this thread know, I saw two pretty bad bugs yesterday. I'm playing before the release hotfix so these may be fixed in that:
I'm playing on PS4 Pro for anyone interested.
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Nice OT JaseC.
Any word on STEAM preload?
Although to be fair most games take longer to unpack than download for me.
Any word on STEAM preload?
Although to be fair most games take longer to unpack than download for me.
About the combat, the guy I quoted a time ago didnt answer.
Is the combat closer to 1, 2 or neither? Not a fan of 2, so whatever comes closer to 2 would suck for me.
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That's probably not going to happen. 3 sets up 4 as another sidequel with the Charred Council's comment at the beginning of the game that Fury was chosen because "War is in chains, Death is missing, and Strife attends to other matters".
There most likely won't be a pre-load. Nordic has thus far never done one on PC.
Personally it's closer to 1 but it doesn't feel like either of them, not completely anyway. You move and dodge like you're out of a Dark Souls game and enemies hit much harder than in previous games. You have to time your attacks, wait for opening and dodge enemies a lot. In 1v1 situations you can just go ham on the enemy but sometimes they put you up against 7-10 enemies at once so you have to evaluate the area and wait for openings to attack or else you'll die over and over and over (which happened to me yesterday) plus everything respawns on death and you have to make it back to your dead body to collect your souls again.
Even though D1 can have you punished with higher difficulty(aways play on apocalypt), what you describes seems to me more like a Souls game, which isn't bad but I would say can be a bit out of game in terms of fighting mass mob of creatures. Have to wait and see for the results, thanks for the imput.
11h30 left before the unlock on PS4 for me.
I'll begin on Apocalyptic difficulty like I did on the first two entries. I hope I won't regret it :P
I'll begin on Apocalyptic difficulty like I did on the first two entries. I hope I won't regret it :P
I can't wait to play this one. I have it pre loaded and ready to go. Darksiders franchise has been good so far
Nice to read this. Hopefully a few more sources will follow. I want this game to be good. Enjoyed the first two games so damn much.
THAT'S WHAT THEY SOUND LIKE! I've just gone through that area and the bombs sound like these metal chime sounds and all I could think is... I've heard this before. The bloody oracles!
Hah, glad I'm not going crazy. Though it sounds a little TOO similar to be a coincidence lol.
His opinions and scores are normally on par with other sites/channels
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Unfortunately, the quote tag is the only one I can use to create sub-sections as the table tag isn't enabled/supported on here. Also, if you're referring to the screenshots as well, it's the quote tag that's downscaling them to thumbnails. They'd blow up to full size if I were to remove it. Sorry. :(
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As if the latest preview from PS Underground didn't already sold me into the game, a positive from SkillUp is another one
Really happy that this series continues.
Loved the first 2 games and we need to get to get to that Darksiders 1 ending some day.
Also good to hear that people who already played it liked it.
Loved the first 2 games and we need to get to get to that Darksiders 1 ending some day.
Also good to hear that people who already played it liked it.
Been playing some more this morning, really feeling it even more now.
Anyone else who got the game early want to chime in with their impressions? Are we opening a spoiler thread for the game at any point? If not I'll keep everything I talk about in deep spoiler tags like this post just so no one accendtially opens it (you have to click twice to see spoilers).
I've got all four hollows. The last one (stasis) is really cool. Unlocks walking on water and Metroid style wall jumps. Now I have Fury's full Arsenal there's some cool tricks you can do and interesting combos when switching between hollows. The story has taken an interesting turn too, I wonder if the game will give us a choice or something because it's leaning into the idea of choice but then we'd have the argument for which choice is canonical so I guess I'll see, maybe the game will make that choice for us? The Gluttony boss fight was crazy, first half of the fight standard fun but then the second half was a little annoying but once you figure it out it was easy and he went down quick.
One thing I also wanted to talk about was Rampage (Fury's horse) which we see is Dead... I hope there's a way to bring it back because if we ever get the four horsemen game... one can't be missing a horse!
You could use font sizes to make header text and indent the subsection contents a bit. The screenshot quote box is fine.
Really rolling a purchase back and forth in my mind. I really, really enjoyed Darksiders 1. I enjoyed aspects of Darksiders 2, but felt the entire package suffered from being less tight and focused than the first game. This one looks a lot more in line with the scope of 1 than 2.
Waiting to hear overall impressions before I take the plunge, but it's pretty likely I'm going to get this. We were lucky to see the series continued after so long.
Waiting to hear overall impressions before I take the plunge, but it's pretty likely I'm going to get this. We were lucky to see the series continued after so long.
Cautiously optimistic about this game, the first gameplay videos that surfaced looked really rough but recent gameplay seems much improved. Glad to hear it's much more like DS1 than DS2, played the first to completion and enjoyed every second but after 5 hours or so the second one just did not grab me at all.
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Yeah, I considered that back when I was making my first OT and deciding on a template to use going forward but thought it'd look a bit iffy (or rather, even more iffy than what I ultimately settled on ;)). I'll play around with it tomorrow while I'm waiting for unlock o'clock on Steam.
It's confirmed to use dynamic resolution scaling on consoles, but the X version may very well be close to if not at 4K more often than not.
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Can anyone who's currently playing this tell me if the environments of this one are more like 1 or 2?
DS1 felt more like you were wandering around a ruined earth, fighting on skyscrapers, on churches, sewers, office areas etc... Whereas 2 felt more like a traditional fantasy game (ice towers, rolling hills and stone temples.)
I really liked the style of 1 more, gave me the out of place which ramps up the creep factor vibe that I got from the first Half Life.
DS1 felt more like you were wandering around a ruined earth, fighting on skyscrapers, on churches, sewers, office areas etc... Whereas 2 felt more like a traditional fantasy game (ice towers, rolling hills and stone temples.)
I really liked the style of 1 more, gave me the out of place which ramps up the creep factor vibe that I got from the first Half Life.
Nice!
And really, after RDR2 it wouldn't really surprise me that much too.
I am still trying to decide what platform to get this on. Being on Linux I can't say for sure Steam will be the best option. Otherwise, I have purchased the 1st 2 games everywhere I can. Except Wiiu, I skipped that port.
I thought it was a budget title until I saw it's selling at full price. Hope it does well still!
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If you buy the game on Steam, you can always refund it doesn't play nicely with Proton. Also, keep in mind that time played in Offline Mode doesn't count against the two-hour playtime window on refunds, so you can use it tinker and save the two hours for the campaign.
Following this OT closely for impressions. I'm very busy gaming wise right now but I've had a soft spot for Darksiders in the past and hope to see good impressions roll in, but I can't afford the time or money to pick up 3 right at launch. Hope I can squeeze it in between Christmas and Resident Evil 2, though.