Darksiders

[Rokku]

Oh shit, now I'm getting giddy with anticipation.

[Tekki]

update for 360 soon, to fix the screen tearing

[Kyo]

Ive only encountered one problem, when the fight with stygian first starts, the frame rate dropped tremendously, but it fixed itself after a couple minutes.

[Qalbert]

armor piece locations, spoilers obviously

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[Chun Liroy]

So yeah I totally want to go buy it now after hearing about an hour long boss fight :<

[Tymon]

It's not an hour long.. maybe if you have bad accuracy or are playing on the hardest difficulty

I think I did it in under 10 minutes.. In fact I don't think any boss took more than 10 minutes for me

Just beat it, as well

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Nice that it looks like there's going to be a sequel. At least, I certainly hope there will be.

[Atreides]

yea I beat all the bosses on the first try as well, on normal. I did have to use a life essence here and there, but it wasn't that hard. I did find random battles to be somewhat challenging, I mean I appreciate that they did a good job in making the game somewhat about tactics to limit button mashing.

My final playtime was 16.5 hours with pretty much everything done, just need to finish leveling weapons and farming souls for a few more gauntlet upgrades. Granted that'd probably bring me up to 18ish hours of playtime but eh, Ill get back to it later.

If Darksiders is indicative of how good 2010 is going to be for games I'm pretty excited.

[Cephius]

I didn't read through this whole thread but is there any major difference between the 360 and PS3 versions? Besides the soon-to-be-fixed tearing issue that is.

[Kaslo]

I didn't read through this whole thread but is there any major difference between the 360 and PS3 versions? Besides the soon-to-be-fixed tearing issue that is.

I have heard there is FPS slowdown where there are alot of mobs, but I think I experienced that on PS3 too.

[Chun Liroy]

So would you guys say that beating this game would require a certain amount of skill?

[Man0warr]

PS3 version has some parts with less texture and less vibrant colors, same as every xbox360/ps3 game. There is still tearing but less than xbox.

[Atreides]

So would you guys say that beating this game would require a certain amount of skill?

you definitely can't cheese your way through the combat by spamming attack, and different enemies/enemy types require different tactics although nearly all allow you to instantly kill them by hitting B (ala god of war, without the button sequence) when their health gets low enough. Switching to chaos form makes you invulnerable and thus makes battle trivially easy, and unfortunately towards the end of the game you get to activate it fairly frequently. Still, there are some tricky/challenging fights.

Bosses usually do a good job of making you learn their pattern and utilize the item you got in that dungeon to defeat them. The puzzles are pretty good, nothing too hard but complicated enough to make you feel a sense of accomplishment when you beat them.

All in all I'd say the game has an appropriate level of difficulty assuming you're not playing on casual.

[Chun Liroy]

Yeah, if/when I get it I don't plan on playing on casual, hardest mode onry. I heard it was similar to Zelda which I love (my only gripe of TP was that the bosses were ridiculously easy) so I hope it's fun and from everything you've guys have said it makes me comfortable enough to buy it even though I don't exactly dig the art style as much.

[Kyo]

I have heard there is FPS slowdown where there are alot of mobs, but I think I experienced that on PS3 too.

I havent experienced any slowdown outside of that stygian fight. Even in the area before you get to the areana where you have about 10 mobs or so spamming shit at you, with guns angels etc, I didnt have any slowdown there.

[Eggroll]

For anyone trying to max out weapons, especially the tremor gauntlet, head to the iron canopy after you killed Silitha. The room with one of the 4 spiders you had to kill to break the seal has a ton of baby spiders, and makes comboing very easy. If you have the Earthbreaker skill learnt with the tremor gauntlet and War's glory enhancement, you will get a x60+ combo every time you use earthbreaker with all the spider in range, takes about 20 minutes to level up the tremor gauntlet from level 0 to level 4. After you clear the room, head west, open one of the 2 web doors, and run back into the room so they respawn.

[Chun Liroy]

So what do you guys think, Darksiders or Demon souls? :<

[Kyo]

Buy the game you think you'll enjoy most, we've given you all we can on darksiders and demon souls is a grindy RPG. If you were about to bitch about a 1 hr bossfight, wait till you play demon souls and get ass wrecked. Dont take that wrong tho because I loved demon souls, but its a rather long game with a huge learning curve and it def is not a cakewalk.

[Chun Liroy]

Buy the game you think you'll enjoy most, we've given you all we can on darksiders and demon souls is a grindy RPG. If you were about to bitch about a 1 hr bossfight, wait till you play demon souls and get ass wrecked. Dont take that wrong tho because I loved demon souls, but its a rather long game with a huge learning curve and it def is not a cakewalk.

Actually, you interpreted that as sarcasm but it wasn't. I was excited about the 1 hour boss fight because that shows a little bit of epicness and difficulty in it as well. I'm looking for something that isn't a cakewalk, something that's difficult but fun to do at the same time. Wish I could buy both but I'm le poor q.q

[Kyo]

Well basicaly its an RPG with tons of replay value, some people have put in an upwards of 300 hrs or so, vs a really good action game with a lengthy campaign, Im 18 hours in and just now at the last chosen. So really its pick your poison, both are justifyable buys and good games.

[Kouu]

Just beat it. Amazing game, amazing ending, just... amazing. If you don't like cliffhangers, you're fucked. But the promise of another game following in its footsteps makes me hungry for more. I accomplished just about everything in a little bit under 20 hours (10/10 Abyssal Armor, Maxed Chaoseater and Gauntlet, didn't max Scythe because I was level 3 when I entered "The Hollow Lord" and then I got a new level 0 Scythe... lol).

Probably going to replay it on Apocalyptic difficulty. The game was really worth picking up.