Darksiders

[DEMONKAI]

Just got it today. took a short break. The game is pretty ill. Its like Prototype meets God of War.
I say Prototype cuz the chaos Jumps off In the City of NY and people are scattering etc etc.
Its sick how u see the Angles n Demons just going at it as you fighting thru the chaos.

Im still way in the begining. Just started getting the powers back that was stripped away.

 

Bayonetta is still crack and im still running thru that (i stopped once i got the ability to change into A panther).
Game is cool though but Darksiders was my main game to get. My best friend reminded me it was out so i had to get it .

-Back on topic-

 
I recognized one of my fav video game and cartoon voices in it also. Mark Hamill. He played The joker  . He plays as the "Watcher demon" whos keeping you in check. Hella funny char too.

The story is great. Of course its the whole Heaven and hell bit but it has a twist to it. One of my fav Comic artists is did the designs so expect to see some cool @ss looking monsters and chars when you get to play




So who else has Darksiders?

[xPreatorianx]

I have darkeners. I need to actually buy it. The game is awesome and the developers need to be rewarded. But yes the art style is amazing, It's cartoonish yet  gritty and dark. The heaven and hell type of story is one of my favorites to see in a game. I love the whole mythology behind heaven and hell. I guess because it's the only thing on this earth we have no idea if it truly exits until the day we pass on. So it's a really interesting story and topic for me.

The gameplay is amazing. For anyone who needs a dark and gritty zelda fix, this is your game. This will tide me over till my mother or family members get a wii because I will not buy one myself. If I ever get a wii I hope zelda matures into this type of game. Being dark and gritty.

But the game is simply amazing bottom line. Do not listen to any reviews from any game sites. They are all extremely under rated reviews for this game.

EDIT: Also Mark hamill is dark and funny as ever.

[Kev The Galaxybender]

awesome game. I put about 20 hours into it. It's a lot like zelda with DMC combat more so than a god of war game because of the manual combo system vs god of wars chains. The only thing i see that is similar to god of war is the finishers.

Overall the game is pure epicness

[vyn]

Great game, wrote a lowsy review on it, wall of text coming so hang on to your panties guys

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OK ill go straight to the point here, is this a GOW of war copy??? .... NO GODDAMIT!!! GET OVER GOW ALREADY!!!

Feel better now. Lests start with the story: Not really its strong point (bummer) as it starts good yes, then takes over half the game to kick in again (6-8 hours first gametime) as before that you are just an errand boy. From there its decent ya but nothing epic so dont buy expecting a great story. Characters are part of the story to me and those are better indeed, the main dude is well planned and written for a tough guy cliche and his name War is too awesome XD, support characters are good too and much more varied.

Sound: Another low key, original songs arent that great and gameplay sound effects arent too clean plus there are too many there so it kind of works but thats it, voice acting is only good for a couple of characters with the protagonist not being one of them.

Graphics: Hell yeah. The quality itself is above average in this console generation but thats not the key here, the design is. Art concept comes from a comic book ilustrator Joe Madureira (X-Men, battle chasers, Ultimates) i cant say i was familiar with the guys work but i can say that after Heavenly Sword the art on this game is my all time favourite and thats a lot of games to consider, used to be a comic book fan quite a few years ago and the style in this game brings all those memories back so good with tons of stuff in each character, scenario, weapon, etc, huge attention to every detail well im not saying it right, here is a link with some of the ilustrations in this game and trust me they look just as good or even better ingame http://www.3djuegos.com/foros/tema/1407388/0/darksiders-concept-art-joe-madureira/
kratos who??........... I do have a complaint here and thats a regular problem nowadays, the framerate gets bad when theres too much stuff going on, rarely happens but is noticed.

Gameplay: Hell yeah again. Here is where people go pff its a gow ripoff but thats plain ignorance obtained from either youtube combat vids or 10 mins of playing (same thing that is happening to dantes inferno) and ignorance of gow too btw . The basic FIGHTING system itself is a 3d hack and slash like gow sure but that feeling fades real quick when you enter the first dungeon which is when the real game kicks in and it is then when you can define what this game is like, put in a few words thats a gadget-based adventure game, elements from other types of games are puzzling (a lot of it) and a bit of rpg as weapons level up and you can buy stuff with money (souls) you obtain from fights.  All sounds too generic so lets use comparisons again and thats Legend of Zelda (n64 games mostly) that game is exactly what i mean with gadget-based where you obtain certain gadget in a dungeon and use it to plataform around, solve puzzles and kill the respective boss, said formula works here. As for exploring the game is certainly not as linear as i expected but linear enough, the world opens up at certain point but just so u go from A to B with no minigames or whatever in the middle.

As to how well all these elements are incorporated and most importantly executed i have to say its pretty smooth in most parts with a few exeptions. The main sword fighting is simple as direction imputs are rarely necessary and its just a back or forward when its required leaving everything to timing of square button for main weapon and triangle for secondary (ps3), both can be used to interrupt each other to make cool combos but remain very simple, not even close to DMC3/4, later on you can incorporate many weapons and gadgets to the formula. Then there is the aiming where it smoothly goes from plataform to a very well made 3rd person shooter, feels right on point when you shoot bullets, boomerangs, beams, benches, cars or whatever. Then theres the plataforming which is sadly not too god, as any plataforming its based on jumping, running and grapling: the last two are good but the first one sucks with really bad sensitivity you will fall to your death many times out of nowhere, swiming is good too, very natural (nothing like ninja gaiden, damn that was a bad swiming) and finally one element present in all modes which is dashing used to go faster but mostly to avoid attacks as he can dodge in any direction, it sucks, the thing is too short to be effective with most enemies who actually need dodging and the recovery time is too much to get back from a bad aimed dash which happens a lot, a key element so that sucks.

Is this game worth it?? Yes, i believe any kind of player out there can enjoy its 20 or so hours of play and will probably go for a second play on Apocalyptic difficulty.Its a fun, long, kind of challenging extremely well made game. Trophy hunters out there this is a pretty ez platinum.

[Esʞy]

Great game, wrote a lowsy review on it, wall of text coming so hang on to your panties guys

(click to show/hide)

OK ill go straight to the point here, is this a GOW of war copy??? .... NO GODDAMIT!!! GET OVER GOW ALREADY!!!

Feel better now. Lests start with the story: Not really its strong point (bummer) as it starts good yes, then takes over half the game to kick in again (6-8 hours first gametime) as before that you are just an errand boy. From there its decent ya but nothing epic so dont buy expecting a great story. Characters are part of the story to me and those are better indeed, the main dude is well planned and written for a tough guy cliche and his name War is too awesome XD, support characters are good too and much more varied.

Sound: Another low key, original songs arent that great and gameplay sound effects arent too clean plus there are too many there so it kind of works but thats it, voice acting is only good for a couple of characters with the protagonist not being one of them.

Graphics: Hell yeah. The quality itself is above average in this console generation but thats not the key here, the design is. Art concept comes from a comic book ilustrator Joe Madureira (X-Men, battle chasers, Ultimates) i cant say i was familiar with the guys work but i can say that after Heavenly Sword the art on this game is my all time favourite and thats a lot of games to consider, used to be a comic book fan quite a few years ago and the style in this game brings all those memories back so good with tons of stuff in each character, scenario, weapon, etc, huge attention to every detail well im not saying it right, here is a link with some of the ilustrations in this game and trust me they look just as good or even better ingame http://www.3djuegos.com/foros/tema/1407388/0/darksiders-concept-art-joe-madureira/
kratos who??........... I do have a complaint here and thats a regular problem nowadays, the framerate gets bad when theres too much stuff going on, rarely happens but is noticed.

Gameplay: Hell yeah again. Here is where people go pff its a gow ripoff but thats plain ignorance obtained from either youtube combat vids or 10 mins of playing (same thing that is happening to dantes inferno) and ignorance of gow too btw . The basic FIGHTING system itself is a 3d hack and slash like gow sure but that feeling fades real quick when you enter the first dungeon which is when the real game kicks in and it is then when you can define what this game is like, put in a few words thats a gadget-based adventure game, elements from other types of games are puzzling (a lot of it) and a bit of rpg as weapons level up and you can buy stuff with money (souls) you obtain from fights.  All sounds too generic so lets use comparisons again and thats Legend of Zelda (n64 games mostly) that game is exactly what i mean with gadget-based where you obtain certain gadget in a dungeon and use it to plataform around, solve puzzles and kill the respective boss, said formula works here. As for exploring the game is certainly not as linear as i expected but linear enough, the world opens up at certain point but just so u go from A to B with no minigames or whatever in the middle.

As to how well all these elements are incorporated and most importantly executed i have to say its pretty smooth in most parts with a few exeptions. The main sword fighting is simple as direction imputs are rarely necessary and its just a back or forward when its required leaving everything to timing of square button for main weapon and triangle for secondary (ps3), both can be used to interrupt each other to make cool combos but remain very simple, not even close to DMC3/4, later on you can incorporate many weapons and gadgets to the formula. Then there is the aiming where it smoothly goes from plataform to a very well made 3rd person shooter, feels right on point when you shoot bullets, boomerangs, beams, benches, cars or whatever. Then theres the plataforming which is sadly not too god, as any plataforming its based on jumping, running and grapling: the last two are good but the first one sucks with really bad sensitivity you will fall to your death many times out of nowhere, swiming is good too, very natural (nothing like ninja gaiden, damn that was a bad swiming) and finally one element present in all modes which is dashing used to go faster but mostly to avoid attacks as he can dodge in any direction, it sucks, the thing is too short to be effective with most enemies who actually need dodging and the recovery time is too much to get back from a bad aimed dash which happens a lot, a key element so that sucks.

Is this game worth it?? Yes, i believe any kind of player out there can enjoy its 20 or so hours of play and will probably go for a second play on Apocalyptic difficulty.Its a fun, long, kind of challenging extremely well made game. Trophy hunters out there this is a pretty ez platinum.

GOW of war
Gears of War of war.. but I totally agree

[vyn]

GOW of war
Gears of War of war.. but I totally agree

hahaha true, will keep it for the lolz