Darksiders

>>389668818
it is a bit yeah, recently played both games and they were pretty good, though the story can get a bit difficult to get sometimes
Hopefully the third game does well and we get a fourth with strife and a conclusion to the series

It's decent.

Repetitive and predictable. But very decent.

>>389668973
they said there's going to be a fifth game, and you'll play all of them

>>389668818

IMHO, it's justly rated. The game is a complete package, competent gameplay, technically okay graphics, fine controls, ect.
That being said, none of the previous point ever go above or beyond. They're all fine; not amazing.
The story and setting are kinda meh. Nothing special. Kind of feels like a generic dark comic got turned into a videogame.
I got about 2/3 through the first game and lost all interest. The gameplay and setting wasn't enough for me to play past 20hrs or so.

>>389668818
Just a shitty Zelda clone

>>389668818
I love both games.
>over the top design
>fun combat
>really good music
>puzzles

What recent games are like this? Last one I played was the remastered God of War 3.

>>389668818
>No one ever talks about it
it's 7 years old and it wasn't an amazing game.
it was talked about quite a bit after it came out. there were even a bit of a revival of threads for about a month after the HD releases came out not too long ago.

>>389669335
Never played any Zelda games, they seem a bit more sterile.

I only played the first game and I really liked it. The other games I just never got around too plus I wanted to play ask War some moar

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BRINg BACK MY WAIFu

>>389669335
do you just go into every action thread that has lock on and items and post the same exact thing?

>>389668818
I fondly remember getting it at launch and I knew I was in for a ride after staring and listening to the menu theme.
https://youtu.be/8UU5iI_kTKU

They're pretty good games.
A little disappointed in the second one for the gear aspects of it in addition to the new and rather absurd charge for getting new attack abilities.
Otherwise it's alright and goes it's job pretty well.
I think the upcoming third game will make or break the series, I'd love to see more because War is a fun character and I enjoy his play style of being a goddamn mountain.

It's not underrated. It's just decent enough, but not great.

>>389668818
>Is this series really underrated
Can't really say since the series is a mixed bag in itself. It's been quite a long time since I played the first one but I remember it being kind of stiff and clumsy but a decent God of War clone nonetheless. The second game is a major improvement in my opinion. I love how fluent the combat feels and the RPG elements were a nice addition too. My only complaint is that the game was a bit too easy even on the highest difficulty level. The Darksiders games could be top tier hack and slash games if they were polished properly and all those little issues were fixed. Nonetheless, I have moderate hype for the upcoming Darksiders III. I hope the series keeps improving and the third game is even better than the second one.

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Uriel best girl

The first one is one of the games I come back to and do a play-through once a year.
Never got above 10 minutes on the second one because it had mayor frame issues which hurt my eyes. Never found out if it was supposed to run like that or if it was something on my end.

>>389670489
she better be in 3 again.

>>389670370
From what we've been told so far Fury is the most technical of the Riders and lacks the others strength, meaning she is very cunning and cruel in fights.
From a gameplay standpoint I would like to see how this translates into combos.

>>389668818
I liked first game's biblical theme and darker graphics. But didn't like second's cartoonish graphics.

>>389668818
Playing warmastered, it has it's moments but it's kinda boring. Hoping DS2 is better.

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Rate my cosplay

No one talks about it because it's old and we're waiting for more information about the third one

>>389668818
Nah they're justly rated. They're mechanically sound games that suffer from a lack of originality and an overarching sense of repetition due to how much the game borrows mechanically from others and from it's shoddy structure. DS1's latter half just became white noise because of how fucking repetitive those shitty portal puzzles were. I like the story/lore but alot of times characters just spout obscure lore names to a point where you can get lost trying to figure out who is who.

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>>389670924

>>389670924
nice nips

>>389670924
>not making the whole thing out of cardboard and foil

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>>389668818

Post yfw you lived to see the day when Darksiders 3 isn't just a meme.

>>389670924
kek didn't the collectors edition have a wearable mask why not use that?

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>>389671223
>Darksiders III is finally coming out
>Dante's Inferno sequel never ever

>>389668818
Kind of, there were a lot of people talking about it when 3 was announced though. They're in the woodwork.

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>>389670924
Brother..

>>389669335
I would say it sucks a ton of stuff from zelda. It's not exactly a clone because it does bring stuff from other games too, but it isn't really original.

It's a good game, has some interesting stuff and good gameplay, good quality and so on. It's just not much more than good.

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>>389671360
>Dante's Inferno sequel never ever
Oh anon, please, there's hope, and then there's just straight delusion, you can still return to the real world!

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>>389671223
eh

>>389671360
What would you even fight in a sequel? Didn't he end up in heaven or whatever?

>>389671360
But Dante's Inferno was bad, even if it had some cool set pieces

>>389671532
The new design looks really odd and the gameplay very shitty. Here's to hoping they change that.

>>389671532
She looks like a tranny.
I know they don't have the same budget they used to but that looks awful.

>>389671537
Purgatory would be the next step obviously, especially since the first game promised us a sequel.

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>>389671440
who would win?

>>389671678
To be fair, this was from the early alpha.

>>389668818
It's an ok game. I really hated the puzzles tho, it just feels odd to be a rider of the apocalypse solving goddamn puzzles

I really like the series and i'm looking forward for the next one but the MC looks so fucking bad in the 3rd one. Why couldn't make her look like she does in previous games' drawings.

>>389671718
Is purgatory supposed to be filled with grotesque monsters too or?

>>389671726
War.
Fucking aeons of beating the shit out of monsters that he's barely even a spec compared to vs. some fucker that hops around a lot.
War's got this no contest.

is darksiders 1 really bad or am i just retarded. when i played it everything felt very... chunky? sterile? felt like a bad xbox original game. Its really hard to pinpoint what exactly i hated about it so im wondering if i just didn't play it long enough or if Darksiders II is one of those games- like the runefactory series- where you skip the first and go straight to the next because its an improvement in every single way.

>>389670924
more (you)s for the fire. good job anon

>>389671864
Depending on who you ask it's Heaven's waiting list, the waiting list for Reincarnation or the waiting list for eternity because while you weren't an evil sack of shit you weren't exactly a good person either.

>>389671774
Those words mean nothing these days.

>>389671864
According to the Divine Comedy, it's where those who can redeem their sins do so, so that they may enter Earthy Paradise (No entry to true Heaven, though)

>>389669335
So...it's better than Zelda
>gotcha. gonna load this game up now since it's been sitting there for years in my Steam library

>>389671975
Darksiders 1 was clunky because it was the first game with the devs cutting their teeth on it.
It also made sense since every bit of media related to the game tells us that War is the youngest and slowest of the four.
Not to excuse the clunkiness in places but after a while of playing you start getting some items that makes things feel a little tighter.

Darksiders 2 does a lot of stuff better than Darksiders 1, with Death being fast and able to cancel out of all attack animations into a dodge.
It's also a lot faster paced too, outside of puzzles and a couple of dungeons.

>>389669579
>>389670489
good taste

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After reading the novels and comics I still don't get why Death was the 2nd game?
I mean for War it's clear
>blah blah some seals broke
>you are the first rider in the bible

All i got is that Death liked War the most from the riders but still, aren't they doing a long shot from the bible shit or what?

>>389668818
very

I hope 3 doesnt suck, it didnt look too good.

Loving the games, even though they don't do anything new or outstanding. The first one is a great all round package and feels more well rounded and polished than the 2nd. DS2 OTOH is a more uneven experience, when it's good, it soars higher than DS1, but in other cases it did things worse than DS1 ever did. To this day I wonder how DS2 would have turned out if THQ hadn't imploded during development and forced it out the door in a last minute attempt to make some cash.

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So, did they fuck?

>>389672534
Backstory on the nephilim? Maybe they just wanted to make the Death game before going out, I wonder if they suspected the studio would go down.

>>389672919
but that his mom (not literally)

>>389672919
That's gross, anon, who would wanna fuck their mom?

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>>389672919
>fucking your own creator who fucks the 2nd most powerful demon Samael
I don't think so tim

>>389672965
perhaps...
Doubt we will ever get a clear answer

>>389672919
that's his mom or some shit

>>389672534
They based the game lore very loosely on biblical lore and ran with it to make up their own universe. What's so confusing about it? As for "why Death" in the 2nd game, why not? He's looking out for his siblings and would have done the same for the other 2.

>>389673693
Strife would've bitched and moaned about it though.
Also, that small arm that War has? It's a prosthetic because Death cut his off.
Fury is a cunt too, literally resents her brothers whereas Strife is an uppity brat with Middle Child Syndrome.

>>389674156
How does what you say relate to my post? I'm saying that it makes sense for Death to be the one who sets out to help War, because he's that kind of guy.

>>389674443
I like adding in information. Shoot me.

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>>389672627
I'm glad I'm not the only one critical. It's pre-Alpha but the whip has so little punch in its delivery and the dodging frames are absolutely fucked.

Also where the fuck is Strife at this rate? Is he just looking for his guns? They end up everywhere anyways.

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>>389668818
>Is this series really underrated?
No, it rated as much as it deserves, which is a general consensus of 7/10.
>No one ever talks about it

we talked about it quite a lot, most recently when darksiders 3 was announced and when we had the "best 6-7 out of 10" threads.

I personally think the first one was much better than the second one simply because the second game drags on for too long and has way too much open world stuff.

>>389668818
The third game announcement surprised me. Fury seemed horrible in the cutscene, but in the game and in screenshots, she was fine.
I was more worried about how dull the combat was, darksiders is supposed to have kuhrazzee combos, I hope it was just a very early version.

>>389668818
2 had some good improvements going for it, but the whimsical fantasy worlds Death ended up in didn't do really do it for me.
Apocalyptic earth was much cooler.

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>>389675582
>"THE CHARRED COUNCIL SUMMONS YOU STRIFE TO BATTLE AGAINST THE HORDES OF HEAVEN AND HELL"
>"Any of you seen my guns? I can't find them in my room."

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glad to see more threads about darksiders lately.
Darksiders took the Zelda formula and made it better while also making it their own.

Are there any games similar?

>>389676718
>way too much open world stuff.

I think the open world stuff would have left a much better impression, if there had been a way to make all collectibles visible on the map. Not much fun running all over the world and revisiting every fucking dungeon to find 2-3 missing pieces of those power crystals or the pages of the book of the dead.

>>389677350
God of War and Dante's Inferno are probably the closest

>>389677350
Lords of Shadow

First darksiders was still a bit too easy even on armageddon. The boss fights were pretty cool though and the dungeons were really well done. Very underrated. Haven't gotten around to playing the second.

First one had a few irritating issues and boring puzzles, so I never bothered with the sequel. Is it better?

>>389677619
Kinda this, though I didn't like the fixed camera angles. Made some sections needlessly clunky to navigate around.

>>389677442
> make all collectibles visible

Yeah.

i actually wanted to 100% the game but the game has a shitload of collectables so it is really tedious to go over everything again.

>>389677836
Do you like a Diablo-like loot system? If you do, then it's pretty much the biggest change for me. Other than that, the fighting and action is a lot faster and fluid. It's not like fighting with War and his 350lbs.

>Darksiders 3 and new God of War is in the making
What a time to be alive

>>389668818
man it's Average hack and slash: The Game
good games good games

>>389678996
Average? What games would you say are above average then?

>>389678894
>they'll both be shit and shadows of the heights the series reached in the days of old
You know it.

>>389678996
What hack and slash games are above average then?

>>389669579
>Draw a dwarf
>Upscale it 5 times

>>389678685
Exactly. I did it once, by backtracking everything with a guide at the end of the game, but I don't have it in me to do it on any subsequent play. Most of the stuff, I already noticed the first time around, but didn't have the right tools yet, so why not let me mark it on the map at least, so I know the general area to revisit when I have a new skill/tool?

>>389679286
>acquire waifu

>>389677107
>Everybody else loses their power through supernatural bullshit/The Charred Council being arseholes in the 5th game.
>Strife loses his gear through just being really goddamn clumsy.
>Even in his own game his excuse for not having all of his stuff when the Council give him his job is that he could've sworn he left his helmet near War's sword before the whole premature Armageddon business.

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This boss fight was kino. Shadow of the Colossus vibes.
https://youtu.be/O4lwpYLlVvM

>>389679574
hey, at least darksiders 3 won't have a huge ass open world as confirmed by the developers.

>>389679574
Games with metroidvania elements always drives me nuts. You have to remember early locations for backtracking later and it's nagging in your mind until you find the tool for the job.

>>389668818
Because the first one its a shitty GoW clone and the 2nd its a comfy combination of Zelda style dungeons with GoW combat and some light RPG elements

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>>389668818
WE WILL NOT YIELD

>>389673215
>the 2nd most powerful demon Samael
Nephilim > demonkind
The 4 riders with full power are absolutely overpowered

>>389677350
There's also that WH40K Space Marine game which sadly never got a sequel.

I tried playing it. The atmosphere and aesthetic had the dark edginess of a 14 year old.

I HAVE TO GO ALONE
THIS IS NO PLACE FOR A HORSE

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>>389680169
>implying that is a bad thing

>>389680169
>game about the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse
>complains about edginess

>>389676718
>>389677442
>way too much open world stuff.
I am absolutely sure the game was supposed to support coop borderlands style
>Very, VERY large overworld and fight arenas
>Diablo style drops
>Multiple builds
>2 talent trees
>Trade capacity coded in
They ran out of money midway and probably cut a lot of it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was meant to support all 3 brothers besides war so they could wrap it up all at once in the 3rd game.

>>389668818

I've haven't managed to finish the first one. I just don't care for it, its aesthetic, or the mind-numbing Diabloesque plot.

I can see why people do. You don't need to convince me. I don't think it's a bad game at all, but it just doesn't appeal to me. And that sucks, because it'd be better if it did.

Do I need to play the first or should I just play the second?

>>389680082
The 4 riders are OP because of the power of the Charred Council though, in the scheme of things, most nephilim would get curpstomped by Samael

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An area where the 2 games did excel at was voice acting and cut scene directing. All those scenes with Vulgrim or Samael. The watcher voiced by Mark Hamill. Death was a joy to listen to as well in D2. Always loved when a new cutscene or conversation came about. And there's that hype ending of DS1. It left the game on such a high note.

>>389680596
Absolutely play the first one first, it recently got remastered or whatever they call it.

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>>389680308
horse

>>389680308
really dislike how they give you such a cool mount and you hardly ever get to use it

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>>389680682
HE IS INNOCENT

>>389680538
yeah, sadly all the collectables were a bit too much. i believe it waslike 600 or something. kidn ridiculous especially if you don't ahve a way to track them.

funnily enough, all the best armors and weapons can be obtained by breaking certain pots in specific areas.

i got a bunch of weapons and set just by7 breaking suspicious vases.

>>389668818

darksiders 2 is stuttery and keeps corrupting my saves. In addition to this shitass optimization, the worldbuilding sucks ass and the loot'em up aspect is awful compared to how tight 1 was, with every treasure and powerup worthwhile. Wasted potential

So War was stripped of his powers as punishment, and Death rode without the backing of the Charred Council, an therefore was not empowered. However Fury seems to be on a mission ordered by the Charred Council, against seven big-deal fuckers, presumably with the powers the CC provides. How are they going to justify her not being a complete OP combat monster? Unless somehow de-powered War and Death are as strong as fully-powered Fury?

>>389681110
She doesn't need the Charred Council's power. She is a strong, independent woman.

>>389681110
-4 Str

>>389668818
I found both games extremely boring, technically underwhelming and repetitive, I used to fall asleep while playing.
I liked the artstyle of Darksiders 2, Darksiders 1 was ugly as shit.

>>389681110
The council are dicks. They'll probably go "you need to prove your loyalty, so even though you're on official business, we'll only give you power if you get results first."

Literally a better Zelda game

>>389681110
She's the weakest of the four combat-wise but the most devoted to the cause.
According to the book she's easily the most cunning of the lot and rarely needed to do much before letting the enemy kill themselves for her.
All of the four can easily punch and mid-level Angel or Demon's teeth out through the back of their skull with very minimal effort though.

>>389681215
Strongest is Death though, she is supposed to be a mage but Death is OP as fuck if you go for a mage build.

>>389681939
Isn't she the best one with magic too? Or is my mind making this up?

>>389681989
Tbf, Death's magic basically amounts to necromancy and summoning ravens, which is pretty in keeping with his general deal. Fury might be more general, witch-like magic

>>389682060
She's the best with magic yeah, but she apparently doesn't use it in excess. Death is OP anyway but he admits that Fury has a better range and ability of control over magic.
I can't remember her views on killing either.
War sees it as a duty, Death sees it as an art form and Strife sees it as a game.

>>389682730
She probably sees it as a fetish

I swear, I've restarted DS2 10 times now and I quit every time I get to the big tree.

I hope Strife will be a fps, a metroid prime like could be great.

>>389683127
Are you 25 or older?

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>>389668818
>No. Not alone.

That's how you end the game on a motherfucking cliffhanger.

>>389683058
>She probably sees it as a fetish
Oh God please no.
>Moans while hitting things.
>Lust doesn't affect her because she basically masturbates with every swing of her whip.
>When she uses her Nephalim form she actually orgasms.

It's just gross man, combat sadomasochists are the fucking worst.

>>389683203
I'm 22, why?

>>389680682
>An area where the 2 games did excel at was voice acting and cut scene directing.

In a lot of ways Darksiders is spiritual successor to Legacy of Kain if you ask me

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>>389683313

>>389682730
from what I remember big deal with death is he inherited all the souls of his people and it's not an easy burden

>>389683427
I can see where you're coming from. Speaking of which, I'd welcome a remake of LoK. They can even keep the voice acting from the originals.

>>389683427
I was about to go on a huge tirade but honestly I can see your point.
I just wish it did more poetic language here and there.

>>389683278
Big final plot twist: Fury was lust all along, kills herself to complete the mission, thus continuing the theme of every darksider heroically killing themselves to save the day (They all get saved by the seal anyway)

>>389683667
That was at the start of his game, he kept his people in the amulet since there was really nowhere for them to go after the Well of Souls since his people have no natural place.

>>389683909
Kk, I'd laugh honestly but I get a feeling that the Virtues will get a stick up their ass and decide to join in when scraping with the Sins, Fury will kill both and fuck things up more, killing herself in the process.

>>389683909
I don't think War's sacrifice was really heroic as much as he was counting on a loophole to come back to life. Death is the one who willingly throw away his life and that of his entire people to save War and in the process restore humanity.

>>389684228
>the Virtues are actually as evil or worse than the Sins
>the Sins were actually good and the Council lied as part of their keikaku
>War is actually the final Sin, Wrath

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>>389684624

>>389684375
War's was heroic in one sense, since his entire plan after going to the Tree of Eden was essentially:
"Have Uriel stab me to complete the Death Oath she offers, kill the Watcher since he's an arsehole and the Council were manipulating my actions. Kill the last person the Council deems responsible for the extinction of the Third Kingdom (myself) and cause the true Armageddon, calling my siblings and see where the chips may fall".
Killing Abbadon was his mission but the Watcher was his executioner, since the Council had their own designs he heroic action was derailing their scheme.

poor mans god of war.

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>>389685218
Thinking man's Zelda

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>>389680682
I really liked how Death had actual personality as opposed to War who always felt like barely contained rage.

>>389671532
I was never much of a fan of any of Fury's designs desu

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>>389685608
Not to mention when he talked he sounded constipated all the time. I loved his voice, but Christ man, chill a little bit. Play with Ruin or something.

>>389685608
>War felt like barely contained rage.
In the book you see that more or less is his personality. His first interaction with humanity was him fucking our shit bad in a war since we weren't being effective enough at it on out own.
But he's also honourable to a fault, like challenging things, especially fights and is a master tactician as the latter half of the first game shows.
He's just a bit crude is all, part of it is an act and art of it really is him being pissed ff all the time, but then when his real form is a Balrog who can blame im.

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>>389685846
She would look better with a mask too

>>389685932
I love Illidan's voice tho

>>389668818
/v/ doesn't talk about games that aren't insanely popular, huge flops or surrounded by some kind of controversy. This was just a normal, solid game. Don't expect threads about it here.

>>389685987
She was supposed to wear a tiara with a veil but it looked shit.

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>>389686090
lmao I honestly hadn't realized that was Illidan's VO.

>>389669512
actually this game is more sterile compared to zelda.