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What's your preferred playstyle in combat games?
- Thread starter trimin
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This is how I'm playing dark souls 3 currently. I have a boring strength knight build with the long sword. I pump all my souls into More Health, More Stamnia, and More Damage. I have the rings that make me do more damage at full health and recover my stamina faster(so I can run up and hit people with my sword even better). I want to run up to every scary ass monster and punch them out in five seconds.
I like being aggressive, up in the enemy's face and dodging or parrying. Never block, hate shields, hate having having to use a shield or see a shield on my character.
My Dark Souls 3 playthroughs were that but with Dex weapons (used scythes, a katana and a sword that one of the early bosses creates), always two-handed, always pumping souls into Health/Stamina/Damage lol. Was so fun.
My Dark Souls 3 playthroughs were that but with Dex weapons (used scythes, a katana and a sword that one of the early bosses creates), always two-handed, always pumping souls into Health/Stamina/Damage lol. Was so fun.
Good man. It's the only way. It's how I play MonHun and basically every MMO as well.
It's a combination of up close and aggressive and being able to move in and out quickly. In games where there are builds, my build usually ends up being a glass cannon. I can do lots of dps and dodge away comfortably at a moments notice. The flip side is my characters tend to die in a couple hits.
I also like playing as characters who are good at a bit of everything.
I also like playing as characters who are good at a bit of everything.
Up close and aggressive. I like to be lightly armored and use dodges to avoid damage entirely. For weapons I do prefer heftier weapons, but only if I don't have to sacrifice mobility. So it depends on the game really. In the Dark Souls games I tend to wear little to no armor, which lets me use greatswords or even the slab of metal that is the Greataxe, no problem. In Monster Hunter I almost exclusively use hammers. But in a game like Nioh I like the super speedy tonfas because it has built-in dodge mechanics, whereas most other weapons rely on parries. In RPGs like Dragon Age, due to its mechanics, I only use daggers because two-handed builds are so damn slow. To me, speed is power.
Agressive but lately I've found myself getting bored like that so sometimes I play just for counters and dodges just because they look cool, many times it goes wrong but I dunno lately it's how I've done it
Looking at this list I think this is one of the issues I have with Ghost of Tsushima's combat. It feels as though it really leans into a single style of play, that defensive / passive style where you're just reacting to enemy attacks.
Anyway, I like to mix playstyles wherever possible. I like to make decisions in combat and shift my playstyle based on the situation. I was playing Shadow of War recently, and I think that offers a good balance. It does force you to use every playstyle at one point or another (you can hardly not play reactively, as if you're not parrying then you'll get hit) but in general you can be more aggressive, more defensive, more ranged, you can use stealth, you can use the environment, or you can even use the enemies themselves against each other.
Anyway, I like to mix playstyles wherever possible. I like to make decisions in combat and shift my playstyle based on the situation. I was playing Shadow of War recently, and I think that offers a good balance. It does force you to use every playstyle at one point or another (you can hardly not play reactively, as if you're not parrying then you'll get hit) but in general you can be more aggressive, more defensive, more ranged, you can use stealth, you can use the environment, or you can even use the enemies themselves against each other.
It really does, I don't mind it since I play like that a lot but yeah on Legends I started mixing waiting for dodges and parries with aggressiveness due to it being online and there you can't wait that much
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This is one of the reasons why I love Hades so much. It rewards so many different play styles and the randomness allows you to experiment and discover different ways to play. I would have stuck with the spear but then the random 20% drop bonus on the gloves made me want to try it and I found a new favorite.
Stylish, so whatever looks best. If it has heavy RPG elements though (like the Souls series), I'll go for whatever seems more effective most of the time.
I think it really tries to encourage playstyles to be more versatile with the rock paper scissors system (shields, swords, spears etc) but even if you use the right type of attack they still block it until their stamina is depleted. Whereas if you just react and hit them, it doesn't even matter what stance you're in, the attacks always land.
It feels like the game has some conflicting ideas there, I think. Perhaps using the right stance should do more damage, or the attacks should be faster. But I found it so much easier to just react and either dodge or parry, then attack.
Yeah, especially the perfect parries, that shit eats up their stamina and health regardless of stance, near the end of the game I kind of forgot the stances at times due to how OP the parries were in comparision
I think stance switching + the perfect parry/dodge systems let you be both aggressive and reactive at once, just with different enemies. You can just do triangle on someone you've got the appropriate stance for and do stagger damage while countering whoever interrupts.
I do but I think the actual stamina damage from tapping triangle is too low, so I usually learn to the 'hold' attacks which break stamina quickly and usually kill. But then, the attack windup is quite long for those, so as soon as you have a lot of enemies around you it's pretty unworthwhile much of the time.
I do attack where it makes sense, but I do think that by default it pushes you to that more passive style. Also the duals are very much in that direction. With unblockable attack sequences that often can't be avoided if you begin an attack. So, it ends up being easier to just wait and react.
