I’ve had this thought many times. The Witcher 3 comes the closest, I think, to a Dark Souls feeling combat that isn’t DS but it’s too fast paced and arcade to really pull it off. Nothing quite has that impactful, measured, weighty pace to it. If my RPG is going to have to be real time combat, I’d rather it had a Dark Souls feel to it than anything else (can you imagine something like Hands of Fate, but with a more Dark Souls combat when you get into a fight?)
Wow, I love that idea. Love it.
@Scott
Since I suck badly at DS, how about NO. :p
wilykat
2785
What makes DS combat good? I’ve never played the games, just been watching Yahtzee’s playthrough, and it looks like it’s mostly dive-rolling and circle-strafing with some shield blocking. Apparently there are parries but they never do them; are they not as hard as these videos make them sound?
Actually, if you could compare it to Batman combat, which I am pretty experienced with and like (though I think it’s too easy most of the time), that’d be interesting.
Imagine the complete opposite of the Rocksteady Batman games’ combat.
robc04
2787
The pace is slower than many action combat games. Most of the learning comes from reading the enemy movement and then dodging / rolling and attacking based on that timing. The movement and animations feel natural, like the opposite of Skyim. Attacks feel like they have some weight behind them. Yeah, I find parries pretty hard and not worth the effort. .
Clanan
2788
Do I need to have played Dark Souls 1 to enjoy the sequel? I recall hearing the first required a gamepad on PC, which I don’t have.
Thraeg
2789
The stories in the series tend to be cryptic, understated, and something you have to make an effort to seek out if you want to really understand, so skipping the first one loses a bit of context, but doesn’t make a big difference to the exploration and combat that is the meat of the games.
I’d really recommend a gamepad for either one, though. I know it’s possible to make them work with a keyboard, but it’s not what they’re designed for, and you don’t really need an extra barrier making things harder.
The weight and solidity of movement and strikes, grounded by excellent sound design. The pacing, the telegraphing of enemy attack animations. The management of that rapidly diminishing stamina bar. The brutality of punishing failure, and the satisfaction of learning and overcoming. Real death penalty, losing your souls. One chance to recover them ratchets the stakes even higher - sweaty palms and heart beating hard in the chest. Greedily chasing extra hits or complacently dropping your guard, and it’s all over in an instant.
So nothing at all like Batman combat. :)
New Humble Weekly Bundle is Sports Games. (well, sort of…)
$1 min for Steam keys to:
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[li]Max Gentlemen plus Triple DLC Pack
[/li][li]OlliOlli
[/li][li]Qvadriga
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BTA (currently $3.26) and unlock:
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[li]WRC4
[/li][li]Vertiginous Golf
[/li][li]Sportsfriends
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Pay $10 and also receive:
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[li]OOTP Baseball 16
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Qvadriga (chariot team racing and management strategy sim) for $1 is a steal. Tack on OlliOlli and it’s a no brainer for the cheap tier.
The middle tier is lackluster unless you’re a big rally racing fan. Vertiginous Golf is neat, but it was FREE not that long ago.
$10 for OOTP Baseball 16 is a great deal (50%) off, especially when you get Qvadriga and the other games along with it.
ioticus
2792
I finally unsubbed to Nuuvem’s newsletter and told them to fuck off because their games are never available in my region to purchase.
KiloOhm
2793
Well honestly, do you really expect them to have some sort of temporal machine or something?
GMG Best of 2015 sale is up- including Witcher 3 for $28 (53% off). No Fallout 4 however…
No Just Cause 3 either. :sadface:
Well, it is the best of 2015…
corkeh
2797
Don’t forget to use the code XMAS20-PERGMG-SVINGS for another 20% off.
“Unable to add voucher” (Assassin’s Creed Syndicate).
That’s not a ‘use once’ voucher is it? I used it yesterday on Dragon’s Dogma.
Origin is having its holiday sale. The games that caught my eye were Battlefield 4 Premium Edition for $19.99 and Dragon Age Inquisition GOTY for $29.99. Both of those include all of their respective DLC.
Papageno
2800
And yet Mad Max is included in the sale.*
*I kid, I kid. I really enjoyed the game, myself, but a lot of people were less than impressed.
