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The Surge 2 - Overcome. Upgrade. Survive trailer
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It looks like a solid improvement over the first game, which I enjoyed earlier this year. Is it still a 2019 game?
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Nice. Will keep an eye out during its release and maybe, hopefully, possibly get to play it before the year is over. Not looking good with the slate of games coming up though lol
I am quite curious how this pans out during it's release, it does look like a significant upgrade over The Surge 1, and as From Software still persists in making Dark Fantasy over and over and over and over again I'll happily take whatever option anyone else tosses out. It was fun with Dark Souls, improved with Bloodborne, but then with Sekiro I just lost interest entirely and wish they would just make a mech game instead of tossing "dark and depressing fantasy" at just another medieval setting.
Man this is looking good. I really enjoyed The Surge as Deck13 really showed they have the potential to carve out their own niche in this genre. Hopefully they take everything they learned and make The Surge 2 incredible.
September is too stacked.
September is too stacked.
Watched Cohh on Twitch play the early release and it looks fantastic.
Many quality of life improvements throughout, better movement, world design and combat.
I really liked the first game, although was very aware of the potential to improve on many little things.
Many quality of life improvements throughout, better movement, world design and combat.
I really liked the first game, although was very aware of the potential to improve on many little things.
I've watched a little of Lobos playing it early and the game does look really good visually. The clunky space marine look of the series still doesn't appeal to me at all, but if it's at least as good as the first game I'll pick it up on the cheap just like I did that one (will get round to playing it one day, honest).
No, but it was another dark, gooey, depressing fantasy world. And while improved by the 1700-ish estetics, it was still in the same ballpark. And with Elden Ring it's just overdone now.
I'm really excited for this. The Surge was OK, not great. I had major issues with some of the mob placements and at times the game just felt un-fun. This hopefully fixes a lot of those issues.
It's almost annoying how good this game looks and how little most people online seem to care. I hope it breaks through once it's actually out.
This and Outer Worlds are my most anticipated games of 2019. Seriously. More than Death Stranding. I just want to play this.
This and Outer Worlds are my most anticipated games of 2019. Seriously. More than Death Stranding. I just want to play this.
I agree with you. I'm dying for FROM to move to a different setting, with Sci-Fi horror being my preference.
This so much. One of things that the original did not have and some levels/sections seemed really small. This is looking really good.
Hopefully we get some X footage sometime soon. The direct gameplay footage I've seen so far the anti aliasing was very visible which sucks. We've had a lot of very clean games lately and that really stands out.
Subjectively, they are all doing different things with their combat and it will be up to personal preference which feels more satisfying.
Objectively, The Surge does some nice stuff to mix up the "3rd person in-fighting" but ultimately falls short. Both the player and enemies have issues with their momentum and weight, leading to "floaty" looking animations and combat feeling less crisp.
I hope they tighten it up a bit with the sequel, but more than that it seems they're using the dismemberment as a bigger crutch than it needs to be.
Still, this trailer was miles better than the CGI one that came out around E3.
I watched cohh stream this for 8 hours. It's definitely tighter and faster, plus there's an innovative directional parry system to add a large skill component to combat that was missing before. In the last game -- I enjoyed that game, but there were some flaws and the lack of any real parry system meant the way you approached most enemies was pretty simplistic. Dodge in and poke dodge back out, or.. that's about it. You may be able to trade if you have the right build and the enemy is weak.
parry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPYk8AQ1c58&feature=youtu.be&t=552
I also saw an npc boss that had to be parried multiple times in rapid succession in order to counter and it kind of reminded me of sekiro in how it looked.
incidentally, there are a bunch of new weapon types this time, including some genuinely innovative ones like this trick weapon type axe. It's a two hander, but you can split it into dual wielding for faster attacks, and this is based on your input timing with the combo.
example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37FU3xO6xcU&feature=youtu.be&t=629
If floaty footslipping bothers you, that's still in, but everything else is fixed or improved drastically
p.s. game also has ragdolling corpses now which for me is a big plus
Thanks for the impressions, Jobbs
Agreed, the directional parry looks like a welcome addition and a huge improvement over the hop/duck system in the original.
Didn't know multiple parries were a thing. That sounds pretty good.
Floaty footslipping is definitely a pet peeve of mine, but the other improvements are definitely enticing.
I think that between those combat tweaks, character creation, ragdolling and a change in locale, I'm sold on this.
Just holding out hope that the lore and NPC dialogue will be more interesting this time around.
(Being really picky about The Surge, but that's because it probably has the most potential out of all the big-budget Soulslikes and I want to love it!)
Agreed, the directional parry looks like a welcome addition and a huge improvement over the hop/duck system in the original.
Didn't know multiple parries were a thing. That sounds pretty good.
Floaty footslipping is definitely a pet peeve of mine, but the other improvements are definitely enticing.
I think that between those combat tweaks, character creation, ragdolling and a change in locale, I'm sold on this.
Just holding out hope that the lore and NPC dialogue will be more interesting this time around.
(Being really picky about The Surge, but that's because it probably has the most potential out of all the big-budget Soulslikes and I want to love it!)
This is looking really tight. I quite enjoyed the original (particularly the labyrinthine level-design), but it peaked way too early in my opinion, lacked solid boss fights and gained nothing from having a fixed protagonist. All of this seems to have been addressed in the sequel, so count me in. Deck 13 have stuck faithfully to their formula so I hope this is where they get their pay off.
Yowie wowie this looks good! I haven't played the first as i got the sense it was simply Dark Souls with robots. Is it worth a try?
Ok I keep looking at this gif -- can someone tell me what the hell is happeneing here? I cant piece together what I am looking at.
My best guess is that the woman is some kind of magical nanite woman or something and is shooting things at you with the force or something along those lines.