I meant that every zelda game is a story in itself, which is not connected. Sure, there is some fan service and references, but you'd always be fine with every Zelda you play. Don't feel like playing the first Darksiders now.
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Darksiders II |OT| What starts with War, ends with Death.
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I meant that every zelda game is a story in itself, which is not connected. Sure, there is some fan service and references, but you'd always be fine with every Zelda you play. Don't feel like playing the first Darksiders now.
MagicWithEarvin
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This game isn't even a direct sequel - they are events that are happening at the same time in a parallel universe, so it's more of Death's story than anything else.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I'm sorry, but I fucking love Intermission Stories. It's why I enjoyed DA2's story so much.
I put in 3 hours with the game. I have a fairly meh PC IMO but its running great on my set up. Frame rates have been stable and no prominent screen tearing to speak of but I am not that sensitive to tearing (I am to frame drops though). Game looks gorgeous IMO but I am not a graphics guy so whatever.
The sound and especially the music is phenomenal... totally took me by surprise.
Combat is quicker and more fluid than the original. I already have ideas in my head of what to do next combat wise. Playing on Apoc, not too bad personally but I highly suggest remapping the dodge button to something that is more accessible.
I feel really sorry for all the people who are unable to enjoy the game due to technical issues.... This game is just insanely good. Its a better a sequel to Darksiders than I could've dreamed of.
The sound and especially the music is phenomenal... totally took me by surprise.
Combat is quicker and more fluid than the original. I already have ideas in my head of what to do next combat wise. Playing on Apoc, not too bad personally but I highly suggest remapping the dodge button to something that is more accessible.
I feel really sorry for all the people who are unable to enjoy the game due to technical issues.... This game is just insanely good. Its a better a sequel to Darksiders than I could've dreamed of.
Try using D3Doverrider. I'm using it on my laptop and it's running a gtx560m and it's smooth. Though I have to play at 720p for 60fps.
The dungeon design is a lot better in this then amulur as well. like miles better so far
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Bucklers are pretty damn awesome as secondaries. Dem guard counters.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Game's getting advertised a lot on TV here in the UK. I think I've already seen 3/4 ads for it the past few days and it isn't out till next Tuesday here.
Devs mentioned that 5 potions is sweetspot. During development they tried with 10, but that made game way to easy.
How the hell do you use that counter?
I hold the button and i get whacked
Also, what skills is everyone using? I think we should start talking about builds.
Im using max teleport slash and max shield, with a few skills that help both.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Reckless Onion
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how do you do that charge where he launches with the axe?? i can only do it after meteor strike.
toastyToast
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For some reason my possessed weapons won't pick up health on crit
Third sacrifice now and it's not working. Would have had a badass scythe with 15% crit chance, wrath on crit and health on crit but it won't work
Third sacrifice now and it's not working. Would have had a badass scythe with 15% crit chance, wrath on crit and health on crit but it won't work
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
For some reason my possessed weapons won't pick up health on crit
Third sacrifice now and it's not working. Would have had a badass scythe with 15% crit chance, wrath on crit and health on crit but it won't work
Maybe the two on crit skills dont stack? Elements dont
toastyToast
Member
Makes sense, which means I just wasted a slot
So it picks up everything unless there's a conflict? I have a 20% execution chance scythe that I wanna transfer over that I don't want to mess up and lose
Stop forcing AA through your drivers.
Turn off AA from your driver configuration.
Exactly my thoughts as well. It's a good game, but I'm struggling to stay interested
For EU ppl that has pre-paid this trough Steam, and dont want to wait until August 21 (like me)
- Use a free trail VPN, (i used Hotspot Shield).
- Launch Steam with it enabled, and Steam should download the remaining of the game, showing it is 100% and ready to play.
- Uninstall Hotspot Shield (optional i guess), go in steam settings and turn on offline mode.
- Relaunch steam in offline mode and play the game
Game ran flawless the little i have been able to test for me on a radeon 7850 and 3570k.
In CCC i enabled "Enhance application" witch seemed to work much better compared to "override application settings" where i got problems.
- Use a free trail VPN, (i used Hotspot Shield).
- Launch Steam with it enabled, and Steam should download the remaining of the game, showing it is 100% and ready to play.
- Uninstall Hotspot Shield (optional i guess), go in steam settings and turn on offline mode.
- Relaunch steam in offline mode and play the game
Game ran flawless the little i have been able to test for me on a radeon 7850 and 3570k.
In CCC i enabled "Enhance application" witch seemed to work much better compared to "override application settings" where i got problems.
Honestly, the game really feels a lot more like a Soul Reaver game than the previous title and it's excellent.
Really? Hmm...
The demo of Amalur was a complete snooze and I couldn't push through it fast enough.
I did it differently:
- Quit Steam, download and install this: http://www.flyvpn.com/freetrial and connect to a USA server.
- Start up Steam and finish the download and installation procedure.
- Quit Steam and turn off the VPN.
- Start up Steam and play it.
Haven't had to do anything with offline mode. Runs perfectly fine, other than that my achievements don't show up in my profile/"My History" tab (they do register though).
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Oh cool, I have been playing through vpn constantly because I noticed that I couldn't view achievements on my profile otherwise so I thought they wouldn't register. This is good news.
You don't even need to keep the vpn on that long.
I used flyvpn to get the decrypt file and then closed the vpn client whilst steam was doing the final parts of the install/unlock.
Haven't had any problems.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Oh something I noticed with the gun. It's really fucking good in combat as the wrath regen on shots with it is crazy
systemfehler
Member
I really liked Darksiders 1 - how does the second iteration compare to it? I would be fine/happy with the same stuff but just a lot more of it. Don't want to watch too much trailers and stuff to spoil my experience of the (at least in my eyes) PS3 "Zelda".
They should've called this one Super Darksiders. It's bigger, better, more beautiful and all the while without losing focus.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Dungeons are still very very puzzle based
Combat doesn't have a solid flow to it anymore and is now hyper paced. This isn't a bad thing and this makes Death and War play completely different from each other.
There is still a main story path but there are side quest and each zone is huge ass region with multiple dungeons
You now have Loot in the form of main hand/ offhands / shoulder/ pants / gloves/ boots/ trinket
Possessed weapons let you fuse other items into it to gain their stats and power up.
You now Level up and have stat growth and talent points. Harbinger talent tree benefits from strength Necromancer benefits from Arcane.
ThingontheFloor
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RE: The unlockables from beating the original Darksiders, I thought I read online that these are obtained from Muria in Tri-Stone and based off your achievements for beating/starting Darksiders, but I don't see that she has anything yet. I no longer have the save files (HDD crash), so I would need the save file and achievement for them to unlock? Bummer!
systemfehler
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HNGH thnx for the answers ... must resist in buying ... ah what the hell. I know I can't resist.
Mmh being in PAL land I'm beginning to wonder about using the vpn solution.
2-3 days is the usual shitty latency between zones but a week seems a bit high to me. Nothing unbearable, I can wait but we are talking about the first big release of the 'new season' after all. And that's not like I want to buy the game in dollars, I will gently pay my valve euro tax.
Knowing that, do you think there is a possibility of ban ? I wouldn't want to lose my account for a game.
2-3 days is the usual shitty latency between zones but a week seems a bit high to me. Nothing unbearable, I can wait but we are talking about the first big release of the 'new season' after all. And that's not like I want to buy the game in dollars, I will gently pay my valve euro tax.
Knowing that, do you think there is a possibility of ban ? I wouldn't want to lose my account for a game.
RPGCrazied
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In order to trade items, do you need to have them in your friends list, or can you just send them to the ID?