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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Previews Thread [See Staff Posts]
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The same thing happened before Bloodborne's release. People love to be concerned.
They take place in a similar setting so it's bound to happen. Gameplay they look far far different though.
By that standard Demon looked too samey to Dark Souls.
I was 100% on the fiance about this game with the earlier previews the game looked waaaaaay to shallow and not soo great, and the no PVP was a turn off at first but after these newer previews I just watched LOBOs Jr 2 hours q&a about his play through and its really got the heart of DS and BB but with this new japan and ninja setting... cant fucking wait.
I'm just wondering HOW LONG the game is is it about the same length as DS3 or BB I'm really hoping for at least 20 bosses and a 40-60 hour long game...
I'm be real sad if its only like 20-25 hours even with a new game plus I just feel that's wwaaay to short.
Also I really hope the US verison has BOTH Japanese and English dubs... the Japanese VA sounded amazing but it would be cool to include both because I could use the English VA on a second play-through.
also it has big cocks soo GOTY... lol
and now the wait is real two more weeks.. -_- :/ :(
good lord
hype is even more now
No, not really. Well, besides the fact that they are both set in japan
Does indeed, Enemy engagement and the Ki system seems similar, Setting clearly is the same. Even the blocking looks familiar, Not a bad thing as Nioh has the best combat this gen anyway.
Maybe I'm mis-remembering my time with Nioh but the gameplay between these two looks nothing alike aside from the most basic of elements. Just navigating the environments is entirely different.
Sekiro looks way more stealth oriented, But the stances are of the same ilk from Nioh, But yeah like you say navigating around is way different.
That was just an example. The combat isn't all that similar aside from the most basic tenets which most third person melee focused action games exhibit. Some big differences are things like no stamina bar in Sekiro, combat is far more aerial and acrobatic and the heavy focus on parrying. Even your example of stances has no comparable element in Sekiro.
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It's nice that more strict timing maneuvers are likely better rewarded, such as the amount of posture damage from below clip. Hopefully this is not an one or two instance scenario in the game.
Enemy preparing to do the unblockable dash attack and gets jumped on, stopping the target in it's tracks and take what looks like over 50% posture damage.
Enemy preparing to do the unblockable dash attack and gets jumped on, stopping the target in it's tracks and take what looks like over 50% posture damage.
Not "worried" but the lack of things I like in the prior games, namely gear variety + multiplayer combining to make numerous single & multiplayer playthroughs fun means I'll never really be as interested in this.
What? No. Even the environments are completely different looking despite the games taking place in more-or-less the same setting. And the gameplay looks absolutely nothing like Nioh
Nioh wishes it had even a fraction of the amazing level design, enemy design and gameplay of Sekiro...only thing Nioh gets credit for is the combat stances
The more you use it the more it creates something called Dragonrot, a sickness which can affect both you and other NPCs you meet at the main hub area.
It sounds like Dragonrot is specifically the result of dying, not of resurrection.
Is that true? I thought that as of the Gamescom demo, the revive meter could be refilled after death and used repeatedly. That may have changed though.
I've only watched the E3 trailer and one preview video yesterday - the world, atmosphere, and level design in Sekiro is on another level entirely. Nioh is great but those things weren't exactly its strong suit.
i heard no ones getting copies you have to just buy it day one.
I am thinking we are not getting a lot of prostetic tools if they have skill trees. The variety within these trees is yet to be seem but I am betting we are getting around ten tools.
Not AAA quality graphics, but I still think it looks pretty good. Art direction also looks good so far imo
How is the setting clearly the same? And how is the combat remotely similar? This has no stamina and is far faster and acrobatic than anything in Nioh, there are no stances, and enemies look much more dynamic
Nioh's combat is slower and Souls-like, while Sekiro looks like an elegant dance of blade-locking parries, literally matching your enemies blow by blow
I could understand that initially, but I think this game has aptly demonstrated it's a very different beast. It's going to be interesting to see how this, Nioh 2 and Ghost of Tsushima fare if they all release this year.
My prediction. This will end up with a 91 average, Nioh 2 mid-high 80s, GOT low-mid 80s. Not that reviews mean a damn thing, it's just fun to predict.
No Souls game has been. Hasn't stopped them from being the best games I've played in quite sometime.
It's funny to see a post like this with that 60 dollar price thread. It's easy to see why publishers and developers chase extreme graphical fidelity when in one fell swoop, someone like yourself can look past all a game's obvious merits just to make a reductive shitpost.
I have all the console graphical juggernauts of this generation but funny enough, not a single one has held my attention like a Soulsborne game. And after beating them, I've been unable to go back to a single one.
But to each their own, I guess.
that snake stabbed in the eye was the biggest spoiler for me. I was fine with the rest,but goddamn. I'd like to have found that myself
I can't think of a single preview that has tried to make this forced comparison.
Not to mention that Sekiro has been in development since late 2015/early 2016 and the team expressed a desire to make a game like this from the outset
Aside from the setting? Not even remotely. The level design in nioh was a literal cut-paste from SoulsBourne, while this game adds more in-depth to the way the levels work with absence of fall damage and able to hook to any ledges.
I expected it. Every enemy can be killed in a Soulsborne game. May not be straightforward at first but it's always been possible.
Basically. If you're only measuring graphics by realism or fidelity, then they're unimpressive. The animations, aesthetic, enemy design, use of color are all outstanding. All the layers of details on the enemies and your protagonist are amazing
That has never been From's biggest strengths and even DS never been
There's a meter above your healthbar in the bottom left corner of the screen that fills up as you kill enemies. Once filled up, you can resurrect. You start with two meters that can be filled, which means that if you've killed enough enemies without dying you could resurrect twice in a battle.
Apparently you can increase the number of times you can resurrect via upgrades.
Tbh, I prefer these elements in Dark Souls and much more so in Bloodborne. I'm not really in love with the aesthetics so far n Sekiro
I'm convinced people who say this looks anything like Nioh have the smallest frame of reference for combat in these sorts of games and how they differ. Like who can you look at this and then Nioh and say yeah they play the same and both have stances....like talk about surface level analysis which isnt even correct lol.
I mean all I played of Nioh was the beta and I can already see how much this game differs. Like where in Nioh can you do something even remotely similar to this?
This is a great point and why I think games akin to Souls in terms of marketing and budget will be the future. Publishers and devs need to realize sooner or later that improved graphics have and will hit a plateau and the most important thing to improve upon will be actual game design.
And art design. Souls and Bloodborne aren't Uncharted or DMC V or Horizon, but they are masterworks of aesthetic and level design.
From have always been a AA developer, not AAA. I don't think they will ever be near the top of the technological pile.
Their rise to prominance over the last decade has been remarkable though. If Sekiro sticks the landing they will have released 3 very highly regarded titles this gen. Many studios this gen with far more resources have struggled to even release a single game, or had high profile disappointments.
I actualy wish nioh's level design kept the quality of the levels given to us in the beta. I feel like nioh is still the best "soulslike" outside of fromsoft and they have something going for them with some more improvements.