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XisBannedTier
Nah not co op but I can see a game *a very long game* where you swap between the horsemen and need to use all the skills gained from all the games in certain parts along with gaining new abilities
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Nah not co op but I can see a game *a very long game* where you swap between the horsemen and need to use all the skills gained from all the games in certain parts along with gaining new abilities
For me, coop instantly makes story of the game way less important. Other players fuck around on the playing field, skip cinematics and just want to progress trough the story faster and find better loot.
I don't say that i would not like Darksiders game with similar playing style like Diablo, four classes, one apocalyptic storyline with ton of combat potential, but story and Zelda style puzzles would have to be scaled down. I don't want that. Yet.
Wouldn't it be awesome if starting from Darksiders III your character progression from past game (like, if you still have a Darksiders and Darksiders II save), War and Death will have the same stats they had in those?
Nah, they just need to make coop game in the times of the great war between Nephillem and Charred Council. Four young "soon to be horseman" defying their leaders, saving humanity and causing the end of their race. You cant have more epic story than that.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
But that leaves the DS1 ending open still
DS2 can close that ending somewhat. 4 player coop game doesn't need to be produced immediate after DS2, we can still have individual games with other 2 horseman.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I'm just saying it's a little silly to have a game with all 4 before each horsemen got their staring role. XD
Anyways... I wonder what fury and strife's transformed states look like.
I always imagined Fury as kinda like a cloudy or pure energy type transformation and Strife with a kind of Mech/Powersuit type transformation
Also this picture of Strife will always make me think of Bang Shishigami cosplaying XD
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What!? Hell no! Darksiders III needs to be about the 4 Horsemen kicking the Charred Council's ass!
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
I played a demo of this at SDCC. I was sadly disappointed, as I desperately want to like this. There were some performance issues (30fps), but there could be last-minute optimization they still need to perform.
I hope they fix it. I found it quite sloppy in climbing sections - missed collisions and disappearing objects, AND tearing. Did not feel like it was by the same team.
Once again, I hope this was just some rough pre-release demo shite and they are still optimizing the shit out of it.
I hope they fix it. I found it quite sloppy in climbing sections - missed collisions and disappearing objects, AND tearing. Did not feel like it was by the same team.
Once again, I hope this was just some rough pre-release demo shite and they are still optimizing the shit out of it.
Sounds like demo issues to me.
Well as much as I think this is what will happen, I'd really like to see Strife and Fury get their due in their own games. I know a lot of people think that they aren't as attractive as War and Death are from a marketing standpoint, but I thing the guys at Vigil knows what it takes to make them just as varied and awesome from a gameplay perspective.
If they do go for the 4 in 1 approach to Darksiders 3, then I hope you get to choose who you roll with and each environment is able to be tackled in various ways. Sounds like a design nightmare compared to just making each area for each character specifically,but it could lead to loads of replayability.
New Darksiders II interview with Haydn Dalton [our hdn] can be found here @ http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2012/07/interview_vigil_games_darksiders_ii
Here is a quick bullet point summarization of the interview:
- One of the biggest things the team was able to carry over from their experience with the original Darksiders was how to approach the level design. The dungeons and overworld style has been done before in other game series like Zelda, but now the team has a good handle on how to execute it effectively, which means levels got done much more quickly this time around.
- The core level designers from the first game stuck around for the second.
- Theyve also learned a lot about how to refine good melee combat.
- Vigils gone even further than expected. They didnt just take War, reskin the game, and call it a finished product. They rebuilt everything from the ground up for a new character: Death.
- It feels more like Darksiders 2.5 to me.
- The loot and skill tree systems were added on very early in development; they had wanted to implement them in the first game.
- Loot is tiered and tied to your characters level, so as you get stronger, the loot gets better.
- Every piece of loot has a unique look.
- Skill tree system was fairly set from the beginning, with the only tweaks being where certain abilities were stacked and what was included.
- About the ability to feed your Possessed Weapons old items to grow them: We just thought, whats a good way of at first it came about as what would be a good way to get rid of trash? You know, the stuff youve got and you dont really need it any more. Weve given fast travel to the player now, so you can jump to a vendor, jump to a location, go there and sell it. But it is a bit of a hassle for the player. So we said what can we do? We dont want a player just having to drop everything into the scene or always have to figure out which ones they want to drop. So we thought, lets just create an item [that] we can just dump tons and tons of items into.
- Possessed Weapons have a very low drop rate.
- You can level up 20 times on a first playthrough, and to Level 30 on a New Game +. The level cap is designed to restrict some items to the New Game +.
- Each of the four Horsemen was drawn in preparation for the original Darksiders. Death was very nearly the main character of the first game, so it was easy to decide on him for the second. They wanted him to be agile based on his personality and design.
- Environments are designed around the different play-style: wall-running, beam-jumping, swinging, etc.
- Some levels are horizontally-oriented, some are vertical.
- Deaths adventure happens during Wars 100-year stay in the Abyss.
- What the other Horsemen were doing during that time hadnt been established when they made the original game.
- Each of the Horsemen will fill a character/player archetype. War is a barbarian, Death is an assassin, etc.
- Future games may use co-op, depending on what people want out of the genre. Its incredibly difficult to do good multiplayer with this generations tech without compromise.
- The Wii U version will still retain all features from other console versions.
- His favorite new feature is the loot system, as it adds a kind of play economy thats compelling. Do you ignore enemies, or fight them for loot?
- Some loot is only available via sidequest (legendary items)
Here is a quick bullet point summarization of the interview:
- One of the biggest things the team was able to carry over from their experience with the original Darksiders was how to approach the level design. The dungeons and overworld style has been done before in other game series like Zelda, but now the team has a good handle on how to execute it effectively, which means levels got done much more quickly this time around.
- The core level designers from the first game stuck around for the second.
- Theyve also learned a lot about how to refine good melee combat.
- Vigils gone even further than expected. They didnt just take War, reskin the game, and call it a finished product. They rebuilt everything from the ground up for a new character: Death.
- It feels more like Darksiders 2.5 to me.
- The loot and skill tree systems were added on very early in development; they had wanted to implement them in the first game.
- Loot is tiered and tied to your characters level, so as you get stronger, the loot gets better.
- Every piece of loot has a unique look.
- Skill tree system was fairly set from the beginning, with the only tweaks being where certain abilities were stacked and what was included.
- About the ability to feed your Possessed Weapons old items to grow them: We just thought, whats a good way of at first it came about as what would be a good way to get rid of trash? You know, the stuff youve got and you dont really need it any more. Weve given fast travel to the player now, so you can jump to a vendor, jump to a location, go there and sell it. But it is a bit of a hassle for the player. So we said what can we do? We dont want a player just having to drop everything into the scene or always have to figure out which ones they want to drop. So we thought, lets just create an item [that] we can just dump tons and tons of items into.
- Possessed Weapons have a very low drop rate.
- You can level up 20 times on a first playthrough, and to Level 30 on a New Game +. The level cap is designed to restrict some items to the New Game +.
- Each of the four Horsemen was drawn in preparation for the original Darksiders. Death was very nearly the main character of the first game, so it was easy to decide on him for the second. They wanted him to be agile based on his personality and design.
- Environments are designed around the different play-style: wall-running, beam-jumping, swinging, etc.
- Some levels are horizontally-oriented, some are vertical.
- Deaths adventure happens during Wars 100-year stay in the Abyss.
- What the other Horsemen were doing during that time hadnt been established when they made the original game.
- Each of the Horsemen will fill a character/player archetype. War is a barbarian, Death is an assassin, etc.
- Future games may use co-op, depending on what people want out of the genre. Its incredibly difficult to do good multiplayer with this generations tech without compromise.
- The Wii U version will still retain all features from other console versions.
- His favorite new feature is the loot system, as it adds a kind of play economy thats compelling. Do you ignore enemies, or fight them for loot?
- Some loot is only available via sidequest (legendary items)
DJ Lushious
Member
D-amn! I can't wait for DS2. It's been two years since I've beaten DS1 and I don't remember the gory details of the story. I'm going to play through it again on Easy, just to get my fill of everything, which pains me, as I originally beat it on hard. And then off to play as Death!
HOT DAMN!
So I just pre-ordered Darksiders 2 from greenmangaming, and they say the game will be available for download the 14th of August. The thing is however I live in Sweden (I entered my country correct during checkout), and the release date in Sweden is the 21st. Will I still get a key that works? Or will I simply get it later on?
It would be cool to get it on the 14th, but I just hope it will work with my steam account.
It would be cool to get it on the 14th, but I just hope it will work with my steam account.
Canis lupus
Member
- It feels more like Darksiders 2.5 to me.
Damn.
Damn.
Thank you for all your efforts and your updates on the game.
I did and all I saw in my cart was the game and the season pass. Either way, I'll take the free standard shipping. Capcom store also uses Digital River and I got Dragon's Dogma three days early with standard shipping as well. Hopefully that will be the case here.
Kickass667
Banned
I preordered from the THQ Store
my body is ready!
my body is ready!
MagicWithEarvin
Member
This might dethrone Dragon's Dogma as my GotY :O
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
GAME OF THE FUCKING YEAR 
Darksiders II PC requirements:
http://community.darksiders.com/go/...rs_II_Official_PC_Specs!&post_num=1#522030121
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Min Specs:
• OS – Windows XP, Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7
• Processor – 2.0Ghz Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor or AMD equivalent
• RAM –2GB
• Hard Drive – 20 GB space free (10 GB free after install)
• Video Card – NVIDIA 9800 GT 512 MB Video Card or AMD equivalent
• Online Steam account
Recommended Specs:
• OS – Windows 7
• Processor – Any Quad-core AMD or Intel Processor
• RAM –2GB
• Hard Drive – 20 GB space free (10 GB free after install)
• Video Card – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 512MB Video Card or AMD equivalent
• Online Steam account
Thanks
THQSledgehammer
Darksiders II Community Manager
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Very optimized game [same as the first one] and Steamworks support for every copy of the game is confirmed.
http://community.darksiders.com/go/...rs_II_Official_PC_Specs!&post_num=1#522030121
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Min Specs:
• OS – Windows XP, Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7
• Processor – 2.0Ghz Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor or AMD equivalent
• RAM –2GB
• Hard Drive – 20 GB space free (10 GB free after install)
• Video Card – NVIDIA 9800 GT 512 MB Video Card or AMD equivalent
• Online Steam account
Recommended Specs:
• OS – Windows 7
• Processor – Any Quad-core AMD or Intel Processor
• RAM –2GB
• Hard Drive – 20 GB space free (10 GB free after install)
• Video Card – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 512MB Video Card or AMD equivalent
• Online Steam account
Thanks
THQSledgehammer
Darksiders II Community Manager
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Very optimized game [same as the first one] and Steamworks support for every copy of the game is confirmed.
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
So if I understand this correct, even if I were to buy this from somewhere else, it'd still have Steam Keys?
fuckin amazing, cant wait to play it all day
Yes that is the main benefit of a full Steamworks game. Sometimes games will only use steamworks features for the actual Steam version but every other copy won't register, but normal steamworks means every copy registers and forces Steam.
GoofsterStud
Member
Really should of been, to close to Guild Wars 2. I'll probably pick it up when it's on sale at this rate. One week isn't enough time for me to complete the game and be ready for GW2.
Sleepy Buddha
Member
Yeah, first one ran great. Hopeful for this one too. And owning both a physical copy and a DD copy thanks to Steamworks is the best way to sell a game IMO. Was having some doubts because of Sleeping Dogs but day one for me definitely.
Gotdam. I got tingles.
insane0hflex
Member
Will the OT be posted 2 weeks before release? (still kinda new to GAF)
Really stoked about the Darksiders II, especially with all your information you've been posting Dieh@rd, thanks.
Really stoked about the Darksiders II, especially with all your information you've been posting Dieh@rd, thanks.
One week.
If only Vigil recognized the efforts of |OT| team and send us some Darksiders II swag.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
They will send you stuff from the garbage can behind the studio as a gift then you can ebay itIf only Vigil recognized the efforts of |OT| team and send us some Darksiders II swag.
GhostRidah
Member
Just waiting on that pre load
Jake Tower
Banned
What are you, a "games journalist" . . ?If only Vigil recognized the efforts of |OT| team and send us some Darksiders II swag.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
LOL We got a really cool Death Plushie and War Coffe mug to promote the game and make those long nights of killing demons more pleasing.
10/10
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I think I'm going midly insane from hype D: not good anyways.... ART AND FANART
Ok Im done >.>
Ok Im done >.>
Vigil wanted Darksiders to be co-op
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/359927/vigil-wanted-darksiders-to-be-co-op/
They focused on singleplayer in DS1 [new studio, lack of experience/money/time], and second game is also singleplayer because people liked first one.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/359927/vigil-wanted-darksiders-to-be-co-op/
They focused on singleplayer in DS1 [new studio, lack of experience/money/time], and second game is also singleplayer because people liked first one.