Fragony on 23/3/2010 at 14:08
copy/paste from what I posted in another forum, not sure it will find a loving home here because it's a console title to the max, but imho it's really good.
Since I am not to pay the price they want for God of War 3 I picked up something else, glad I did because this is one fun game. Think God of War meets Zelda meets Diablo, and it comes together wonderfully. First of all, the hero is cool. Being a Horseman of the Apocalypse is just that, cool. Being a Horseman of the Apocalypse in a post-apocalypse setting, even better. The enviroments are mixed bag, sometimes you think you are playing a PS2 title, sometimes it will floor you. The game just has a look of it's own, the artwork however is always cool, and the enemy-design and animation are awesome. Combat is smooth and rediculously gory, it has a nice difficulty curve, you will learn a lot of combo's, too many really. Now the Zelda element, basically a ripoff, do I care? No. The (huge) world opens up as you gain extra abilities, and each dungeon has a new ability and the puzzles make you use it. And a *gasp* endboss, who are like Zelda really puzzles. Now for Diablo, you collect souls, it's Darksiders experience. You can buy and upgrade your weapons, your spells, gain other passive abilities, your attacks, there is a pretty strong rpg-lite element to Darksiders. People complain about the story, ok it's pretty straightforward but so what? It's about butchering enemies with cool weapons, and solving puzzles with cool abilities, and that it delivers in spades. Really a highly recommended game.
Phatose on 23/3/2010 at 18:32
It was a fun romp. My main complaints were that the dungeon where they're ripping off portal goes on about twice as long as it remains fun, and that I'll likely never actually want to replay it.
More of a rent then a buy, honestly.
Fragony on 30/3/2010 at 11:55
Quote Posted by Phatose
It was a fun romp. My main complaints were that the dungeon where they're ripping off portal goes on about twice as long as it remains fun, and that I'll likely never actually want to replay it.
More of a rent then a buy, honestly.
Done, I will sure as hell replay this, I loved every minute of it. Gonna put some more points in ranged combat, the throwing thingie is a blast to use. The game becomes a bit easy towards the end, but this is more Zelda then it is God of War so that's ok. IMHO and many are going to disagree, but Darksiders pwns both because of it's excellent design. Combat in Zelda is dull, puzzles in God of War are dull. In Darksiders they complement eachother they break up the pace brilliantly. You will never say 'get it over with already', just when boredom looms you are treated with an epic fight or a fun puzzle. Greater then the sum of it's parts was never more true. Zelda fans shouldn't even be thinking about buying this game but run to the store and bring a sleeping-bag if it's closed. Zelda with brutal combat, oh god yes.
Fragony on 31/3/2010 at 11:50
Can't see that working, not with keyboard and mouse at least. It also couldn't be more of a console title, only a niche audience will probably be willing to give it a shot. Hope it works out I am desperate for a sequel.
gunsmoke on 31/3/2010 at 15:18
Fuckin' sweet Fuckin' sweet Fuckin' sweet!!! I have been more than interested in this title for some time now, but with no current consoles gracing me with their presence I was being forced to live without it. As long as the specs are reasonable I'll be all over this one. Hell, if they aren't I'm all over it...I am building my new quad-core beast in the next couple months. The only roadblock would be a TERRIBLE PC port. Crossing my fingers on that one.
EvaUnit02 on 31/3/2010 at 17:32
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Hope it works out I am desperate for a sequel.
One's already been announced for 2012 fiscal. Also Red Faction 4 has been confirmed for 2011 fiscal and Saint's Row 3 for 2012 fiscal.
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henke on 28/8/2012 at 17:48
Just finished this, even though it was dragging on quite a bit during the later half of the game. I’ve never played the God of War or Devil May Cry games so the combat was a bit novel for me. The story revolving around the politics of angels, demons and apocalyptic horsemen was looking pretty good on paper but when translated into mission-design it ended up being little more than a series of fetch-quests.
I bought the game when it was 5 bucks in the Steam sale but my interest was originally piqued when Phatose compared it to Space Marine (which I liked) but with better combat. Darksiders’ combat may well be better, but then again it’s a meleeing game with some shooting in it, while Space Marine is a shooting game with some meleeing in it, so the comparison is hardly fair.
The game certainly did have some cool scenes and setpieces and monsters though, but it delays on pretty much every single sequence for too long, letting you get bored of it before it’s over. Yeah the part where you’re transporting energy back to the angel is cool, but do I have to do it 3 times over? Do I really have to kill 6 spiderbosses in a row? Collect 3 hearts? Gather 7 trinkets? Couldn’t I just do 1 of each and still move the story forward? The game could’ve easily been edited down from an 18 hour game to a 10 hour one and been better for it.
tl;dr: It was alright, but got boring long before it was over.
Phatose on 28/8/2012 at 19:52
You'll definitely want to skip the sequel then - it's very heavy on that "Now do X 3 times".
On a side note, did you actually shoot that much in Space Marine? I was constantly smacking things in Melee because it was the only way to get health back, and in ranged combat my health was dropping like a rock.
june gloom on 28/8/2012 at 22:11
oh christ why'd you have to rez this i thought fragony had come back don't scare me like that you wanker
