Perfect near RE2, KH III, DMC5 and Sekiro? Are you mad?
The only crowded period this could still do well is if all the big games are shooters and/or multiplayer-focused.
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Reviews for Darksiders 3 arriving November 26th
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The only crowded period this could still do well is if all the big games are shooters and/or multiplayer-focused.
Review scores are going to depend on whether if reviewers take pricing into account or not. I reckon this looks like a solid 8 of 10 title, but AAA pricing is going to knock it down to 7-7.5/10.
It's also coming at the wrong time of year. This would of been a perfect June to August game. I reckon it's too hard a sell for later November.
It's also coming at the wrong time of year. This would of been a perfect June to August game. I reckon it's too hard a sell for later November.
Those are january and march. Darksiders would be fine in februari, Hardly crowded. Holiday season really only works for big releases.
/edit: okay I forgot Metro, but even so, there's just more opportunity in those early months than holiday season.
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Pricing should never be taken into account when reviewing a game.
Metro is from the same publisher/label, so yes, i don't think THQ Nordic wants to release both games in the same month
That makes some sense at least, but I maintain that it's being sent out to die.
This game will be $30 by Christmas if it follows THQ price trends, which sucks because I want to buy it full priced. But I can wait a month or two.
I just need to know if i liked the first but not the second one how this one is
couldn't care less about score shit
Forgot this game exists despite seeing updates about it frequently.
Darksiders just never clicked with me after the 1st game.
Darksiders just never clicked with me after the 1st game.
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Can't be worse than 2, I'm in the middle of replaying it and it doesn't age well. Some dungeon puzzles aren't bad but controls feel off or something. Also don't like how the game is laid out. I hear 3 is more like 1 so I jumped in...and with BB point stuff & GCU, $35 is a good price.
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From now on, if suspicious, think of THQ as the owner of almost any smaller studio.
They have been buying everything. E V E R Y T H I N G
THQ Nordic owns Koch Media and Deep Silver, they still operate separately tho.
I felt the first game is much weaker than the second. The shooting sections in the first one were atrocious.
This has bargain bin written all over it and it's a shame they are trying to market this to the Souls fanbase with the mostly 1 v 1 battles. Darksiders 2 had almost nailed the combat system.
The original idea was to give to every horseman a different combat system, that's why Fury is different from War and Death.
Do we have any idea if this game is more like the first regarding the Zelda-like design of the dungeons? All of the videos that I've watched don't really give much insight into anything other than the combat...
It's a big and seamless dungeon with various areas
https://segmentnext.com/2018/02/17/darksiders-3-world-seamless-like-one-big-dungeon/
Interesting. The game certainly won't be a Zelda-like then, but this could be cool. Thanks!
The devs said that Metroid was an inspiration for this, in terms of world design
So the first Darksiders was Zelda influenced.
Second one was more open world loot RPG influenced.
This one seems Dark Souls influenced?
Second one was more open world loot RPG influenced.
This one seems Dark Souls influenced?
Three years of development. Gunfire Games has ~60 employees, but they work on multiple projects at the same time, so let's say half of the company was working on the game on average. Let's use a generic estimate of total monthy office + salary costs of $10k per employee. That would mean the budget for the game was slightly above $10M. Add some contractors, outsourcing, localisation, marketing and other overhead to that, and it's probably a couple million higher.
They'll probably need to sell around 400k copies to break even.
Oh, that's interesting. I'm totally down for a 3D Darksiders Metroidvania!
Expecting high 70s-low 80s. Still have it preordered. We need more games like Darksiders.
Just look at this. This is straight out of a 90s cartoon. We need more of this in videogames.
Just look at this. This is straight out of a 90s cartoon. We need more of this in videogames.
Hey that's me! Yes I'm a huge fan of the Darksiders franchise but I was let down by 2. The sprawling, loot style was ok but I missed how tight and well designed the original was.
Too early to say how it fits overall, but it's already way above part two for me. Also after suffering through Red Dead's stiff movement, playing a game with controls that are lighting fast and responsive is a godsend, Double A game or not.
Well, this is awesome to hear... I'm the same. Loved 1, didn't really care for 2.
That was a concern for me as I started playing but she grows as a character much more than War or Death. It's a nice shift in attitude throughout the play time.
Of course it should, the whole point of the review is to discuss its value.
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Do you feel the combat is more diverse and has more depth than the first two games?