Review: Darksiders
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I'm sorry, but when you say the Zelda similarities aren't a bad thing, I highly disagree. I love the Zelda games, but Darksiders rips things off CONSTANTLY! "Boomerang", "hookshot", summonable horse, doors with keys, block puzzles, "heart containers", "fairy" guide, dungeon maps in chests, secondary gear assigned to slots, and even fucking BOMB FLOWERS! It isn't "homage", it's blatant theft!
Also, I really don't like the aesthetic. The general look works for WoW, but this... I just don't care for it. Apocalypses should not look/feel pseudo-cartoony.
Also, I really don't like the aesthetic. The general look works for WoW, but this... I just don't care for it. Apocalypses should not look/feel pseudo-cartoony.
He says in the review, its something like 15+ hours game, varying on your exploration skills.PxDn Ninja said:I'll definitely give it a shot once I finish my current slew of titles (ME2, Bayanetta, Saboteur, OFragon Rising). The gameplay looked fun as hell when he played it, and perhaps then I'll see the Zelda qualities. What is the total play time roughly for the title? Is it a 10 hour game or 40 hour game, so to speak?
This game does look good, i was on the fence about this game. Seeing this review may have pushed me over, when i finsh the new games i bought (Mass Effect 1, Elder Scrools 4: Oblivion, Bioshock, Dragon Age: Origins) Yeah, it may be a while before i play this but mark my words, i will.
DO WANT. DO WANT A LOT. But as Daystar said Mass Effect 2 is much more important lol maybe after....
GuiltyDaystar Clarion said:
Some of us don't have odles of money in our odles of money bags. Well that's why I'm not gonna get it yet.Loop Stricken said:
Any websites to quote on this rumour? Cause it better... This game kinda catapulted to almost the top of "must have" games. I've actually always lamented the fact that you can't hamstring enemies as the wolf in Twilight Princess. Come on Nintendo. Golden opportunity there!Treblaine said:
From what I've seen, it's out everywhere except Japan.TheNamlessGuy said:
Which damn sucks, because I wanted a Hack N Slash game... I freaking hate running around a supposed enemy complex figuring out where the gears to X machine go... with an hour or more between combat, depending on how frustrated I get with the puzzles.
I'm only keeping at playing it because I dropped a $109 on it... it came out the same day as Bayonetta and I had both games in my hands trying to make up my mind on my lunch break, I decided to grab Darksiders for the story and for how cool the idea of playing one of the 4HM would be...
Big freaking mistake. I don't mind puzzle games, but I wasn't in the mind set for a puzzle game when I sat down, I was in the mode for something where I continually kill crap. You're playing WAR. THE RED RIDER. I don't care if he's been castrated he shouldn't be running around like some Elf in green tights fixing machines so he can get to X McGuffin... he should be punching down walls and ripping off freaking heads.
Here's an idea of how annoyed I am with the game, it's been fairly hot here the last couple of days, mid 40s, so when my xbox crashed just after I left Edan did I howl in frustration like I should of? no. I thought "oh thank god, now I can play something else for a while", turned my machine back on and started up Tower Defence, which is basically a logic puzzle... but at least it's an interesting puzzle.
When the custom is relived that his game crashed because it means he can stop playing, you've done something wrong. They really shouldn't of advertised this the way they did, I was expecting an action game and instead I got a puzzler with some fights to break up the puzzles.
Someone warn me if Bayonetta is the same... I don't mind some puzzles in my action, but Darksiders really a puzzler with some damn action every hour or so.
Nice review. I'm definitely going to pick this one up..after Mass Effect 2, of course.
Oh, and you have the most shitty imitation of that Zelda-puzzle-sound I have ever heard.
Oh, and you have the most shitty imitation of that Zelda-puzzle-sound I have ever heard.
Certainly everyone is entitles to personal preference, but what pray tell are you basing the aesthetics of the apocalypse on, seeing as if one will happen it hasn't happened yet at least. The apocalypse could be ushered in by adorable cartoon kittens and bunnies for all we know.Kimarous said:
Well THQ have a habit of doing that, they released Red Faction Guerilla on PS3 and 360 with no confirmation of a PC release then with little warning 3 months later they released the game on PC. Same happened with Red Faction 1 + 2 + 3, Saint's Row 2 and Juiced 2. Here is where I heard it:brunothepig said:
http://news.bigdownload.com/photos/2010-console-games-that-should-be-pc-games/2572509/
Hope it comes true, but otherwise the PS3 version seems to be the best as I've heard a lot of bad things about screen tear on the 360 version yet no seen on the PS3 version as much. A multi-platform game playing better on PS3?!?? Crazy I know but it's happening more and more often now as games push the envelope further (where the PS3 has the power) and developers becoem more familiar the with PS3's unique hardware.
Sorry to burst your bubble there, but the exploding, flaming spear gun has already been done. Back in 2003, a game was released on all platforms called Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. The closest thing that it had to a sniper rifle was the rivet gun, the second coolest gun in the game (#1 goes to the Ripper, which shoots saw blades). When fully upgraded, it will shoot 3 foot long burning metal arrows that go all the way through an enemy and then blow up.
