I hear it's going to be a game where you have to dodge and parry and if you don't you'll die
i heard there's gonna be seven more poison swamps than there are distinct areas in the game. the tutorial will be in the hardest most instagib poisonous swamp in the game. it'll teach you how to parry by making you fight a slime that looks like a bubble of spit and disintegrates your character model if it touches you. then it'll make you fight a three foot tall puke green tree that instagibs you but that you will fight periodically with little difficulty later in the game. then you'll wake up in a different poison swamp but missing an arm (you get the arm back by resting at a campfire)
Wild. But also exactly what the world needs now.
I mean sometimes you strike gold with setting and themes. I've played all STALKER games, both Metro games and am currently playing the Metro: Exodus and I'd play 20 more of them
Into the radius 2 just entered early access. It's vr stalker with friends and promises to be very goofy.
Oh, true. My PC is too shit for Into the Radius 1 or 2 in VR though. Kind of looking forward to Road to Vostok after that demo rn, warily being optimistic about STALKER 2.
Yeah. I hope prices come down on vr. It has the potential to become a legitimately transformative technology in teaching, communications, therapy, desig, engineering, it can do so many things, but it has to be something normal people can afford and it ain't there yet.
cereal guy: he will never put a poison swamp in the next game
Me when the boss says "Zanzibart, forgive me"
I like when Midra is like “enough, I have endured more than enough” and then goes mask off
and that game's name? armored core 7
I will devour it like the good little piggy I am
that sword looks like the one Gatsu Beruseruku uses
That's why Sekiro stays winning, and is the best soulsborne game.
wrong.
Actually, although Sekiro takes place in the Sengoku era which is just 50 years after medieval times, the Armored knight boss is wearing armor that comes from Europe tying in the medieval themes. Also inspired by Berserk with the inclusion of Wolf’s prosthetic arm which can be fitted with variations of the weaponry added to Guts’ prosthetic such as, the fire cracker (bomb), the canon, shiruken (arrows). Notably the themes of Berserk although subtle still persist as Guts and Wolf share the same goal, to save their loved ones after having been defeated in an arduous battle. Sekiro is technically a “nobody” only because of his title of Shinobi where he is essentially an assassin whose presence is mostly obscured by the enemy. Whilst Sekiro inverts the typical souls narrative of reclaiming the position in power in a “dying world” the end of Ashina, his main priority is to sever the ties of mortality and thus aids Kuro throughout the game in order to fulfill the request. One of the endings does revolve around fire after Sekiro becomes Shura and is engulfed in flame. The final boss of both Shura and Severance endings are husks of their former selves. Shura Isshin is at his lowest power level and near death, Sword Saint Isshin is the version of him after having succeeded in his Coup although badly injured after having lost vision in one eye and other bodily injuries that wouldn’t deem him in his prime.
But yes it is the best Fromsoft game
Funny ninja man cling clang sword, glock saint go bang
Headcanon that Sekiro and Issihin were lovers (hence the long dialogues reminiscing over Sake), Isshin’s disguise as Tengu in order to conceal the fact Isshin couldn’t be seen with Sekiro as lovers (shirtless of course). Which makes the final battle even harder because the words “hesitation is defeat” is exactly what Isshin had told Wolf over drinks when Isshin was confessing his love for him. Hesitation to find love within Isshin, to stop the killing and to prevent shura.
Even under the golden sun, in Buddhism gold represents enlightenment, love, and purity, the clouds obscuring those parts of gold represent Sekiro’s demise and fall to Shura, but they also could be a metaphor for Wolf’s hesitation to actually love Isshin fully. He had to kill Emma because it was his way of fully abandoning that relationship with Isshin, his trust, his love gone but in the end Isshin says “I couldn’t bring myself to hate you”
SMH they added political people to my heckin ninja game, woke has gone too far!
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On another note, banger headcanon
I meeeaaan, Isshin was very close to Sekijo/Monkey/the Sculptor, just swap him for sekiro in your theory and it's pretty much canon already. We know Isshin adopted Genichiro and afaik we don't see any het partner implied for Isshin sooooooo...
It also already works with Isshin having to sacrifice & save Sekijo from Shura and abandon that relationship for his dreams of ruling the land - he chose his ambition and now in his old age reminisces about such things as, in the moment, hesitation is defeat. We already see the events of Sekijo's life repeated in Sekiro's, and he is very much a thematic mirror of the older shinobi.
try fingers but hole
I always do!
He is supposed to be making a classic turn based RPG. Miyazaki pls
Gotta be honest, I do not care half an iota about the story in these
The story is always fairly intricate, the world is always beautifully strange, and the environmental storytelling is great
But I'm not reading a bunch of wiki articles to piece it all together, nor am I watching some self indulgent youtuber have a 3 hour theory session
I'm here to have a pleasant journey thru said world, marked by a bunch of satisfying fights with bosses the size of a house, not trying to wax poetic about the sad, 250 year backstory of said bosses
It doesn't help that they cut a lot of content for seemingly very little reason. There's a whole voice acted questing for one of the merchant guys that explains most of the madness stuff and it's just sitting unused in the files.
I did like the DLC better in that regard, though. The shaman village was pretty poignant.
Honestly fair
They should make a Soulsborne game based around pub brawling or something to mix it up a bit
Those are just the villagers in bloodborne proper gamons
Blokeborne
No weird fog surrounding the kingdom? Pass for me
With how blisteringly fast and inaccessible the reactions needed for these games are, I can't wait to see the next one come out where you need literally microsecond accurate dodging on the right frames to beat the first boss
(I do love Soulsborne games but as someone with coordination and reaction issues, nothing since Dark Souls 2 has been remotely playable for me)
Elden Ring is for you. Just don't listen to what gamers say about how to play. Use every tool they give you and don't be afraid to experiment. Jumping attacks are very powerful and they greatly lessen the need for perfect rolling. Once I got the hang of how the new stats work n junk my build got so strong so fast I just stunlock everything. Magic, ranged, summons, poisons, bleed, freeze, sleep, kiting, knocking things off cliffs - all perfectly valid. It is definitely the best one since DS1.
The piss babies that whine about others playing Elden Ring wrong are honestly the worst part of the community. Elden Ring has been beaten by someone using a DDR floor pad, let's not act like there's any value or pride to be had in choosing to not use summons.
This goes for all of the games. The definition of "cheese" no longer means beating a boss through a glitch or exploit it now means beating a boss with non reddit approved mechanics.
I still throw dung over the capra demon boss wall cos fuck that dude.
I had a friend who refused to use summons and said he had to beat every boss "properly". He then quit the game while I finished it and had fun doing so.
I don't really get what the sense of pride is for. Nobody is watching you play how you like
That would be so cool I cannot wait!
Nah, miss me with this. I got Armord Core because I thought it was gonna be this. Instead it was armored core. I get that was on me but I was still upset
wassup, couch boy
The storyline is basically fromsofts pedigree cos its not far off kingsfield either, hell even armored core 1. Existing thing bad and decay, some nobody comes in and usurps order, new thing ambiguous. Its just the fromsoft style and has been since the 90s and I love every single one of their games especially echo night.
As long as the big bluish green sword that shoots laser beams is in it.
Ok i would make an exception and play Berserk soulslike. The Dynasty-ish warriors Berserk game was also quite good.
Gwondolier, Conspictor of Fartflames non-stop 35-attack-combo is a little much, but I think after the last three days I'm getting the hang of it.
Yes
Also please imagine
Soulsesque theme (could be dark souls, blood borne, Elden ring) but with the inclusion of the sekiro parrying / posture mechanic although instead of deflecting it will be replaced with striking, think of a faster paced enemy that you need to attack but as your weapons clash that is the deflection. They included some variety of this in the shadow of the erd tree with that monkey boss with the glowing deflecting sword and some of Mesmers knights who deflect attacks but immediately follow up with an attack. Swords hitting one another increases posture, I feel it’s a good way to bring back one of the best mechanics in a different form. Sekiro was mostly deflecting and didn’t have the inclusion of stamina as such, but I could imagine a battle with an enemy where your swords clash which adds to the posture damage for both characters, so it would be a slightly more aggressive version of Sekiro imo
They included some variety of this in the shadow of the erd tree with that monkey boss with the glowing deflecting sword
Wait, who?
Maybe Onze from one of the little dungeons
And it would be GOTY.
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