Bro it's like old Dark Souls

the OG "Prepare to Die!" Game

the main menu theme has the same strings sample from Mona's theme in Max Payne 2

Demon's Souls actually copied this game

No movement attacks

No spells

No dual hand slots

No freeaim

No enemy variety

They are nothing alike unless you believe swinging swords makes them the same

It did

It didn't, Blade of Darkness wishes it played like Demon's Souls or had the same mechanics

It did

Sure thing

It's nothing new when it comes to the nips stealing ideas, but an age old tale in the industry. Resident Evil was an Alone in the Dark rip off too.

And from where did Fromsoftware copy the good gameplay? Because in Severance it is nowhere to be found

At least the hitboxes don't suck. Souls iframe/hitbox system was outdated the moment it released.

>No movement attacks

>No spells

>No dual hand slots

>No freeaim

>No enemy variety

old Dark Souls = Severance + Chaos Legion

expect old ass game to live up to your modern standards

top retard

I think it's a great premise for a game and would've been a good launch platform for a franchise of similar games iterating upon the combat system, but like so many great games from around that time I guess it just fucking died. I'm going to assume EA killed their studio, probably correct lol.

It's good from the start
Gameplay is archaic, but it's still more fun than most modern games

Dark Souls wish it had disembrements.

When does this shit get good?

When you do.

What is this webm meant to prove? Old fucking ass game has glitches?

Probably too EVROSOVL for you retard

I tried to install it recently but idk if its my framerate too high or modern system running fast but I just could not fucking control my guy and enemies animated too fast. I played the shit out of this game when I was like 12, prob never beat it but got pretty far in as the dwarf and the knight.

True, Blade of Darkness doesn't have enemies that telegraph their attacks weeks ahead of time, rolls with iframes, and press X to ebin backstab buttons. It's just a fighting game.

From Software would need to learn how to implement a hitbox correctly before we get too hasty by calling what they do 'good'. Unfortunately this was one of the ideas that they could not successfully steal due to incompetence.

Blade of Darkness and Dark Souls are nothing alike, it's a meme propagated by retards who want to appear le knowledgeable about old videogames when in reality they didn't play either of them.

I remember the game had really inflated HP levelling. You started with like double digit health, yet you would pick up these overkill 500 HP potions along the way, but a few levels later these potions healed only a small chunk of health and food items were a complete waste of time after just a few hours into the game.

At least the hitboxes don't suck.

lol the hitboxes are terrible. I lost time of how many times I whiffed compenetrating hits and vice versa hit when I shouldn't have, like here >From Software would need to learn how to implement a hitbox correctly
Kek

Those are iframes, not hitbox. You have full iframes during that animation, it's literally shown here where I get slashed but I get no damage because that shitty sidestep playsGoes to show the faggots that praise this shit game are posers that didn't play it

This nigga continues to shit on the game while posting fun as hell looking webms of it. What's this niggas problem?

Dark Souls hitboxes don't even come fucking close to this game so you're still reaching, they're really fucking bad and everyone knows it but won't care to admit it. If Souls hitboxes even resembled this today it would be seen as the evolution of the sub genre it spawned and then everyone would be copying the new way, instead of just copying the flawed From Software model. But because the journalists didn't receive their bribe money to suck this game off like Dark Souls, it was forgotten.

Youtubers pushed the narrative around the time Dark Souls 3 released

It has better gameplay but Dark Souls got the eceleb culture to save it from irrelevancy.

It's good because it's not souls rollslop. Pc action games should have copied this. Instead of making soulsclone number 30478667

Stay mad.

another game for contrarian trannies to latch onto and use as rage bait against some game they don't like.

Why is every niche game thread so shitty nowadays?

Blade of Darkness doesn't have accurate hitboxes, it has iframes as I already proved

I think I'll use this webm to gloat

it has iframes

it doesn't

proved

you proved nothing

Both are bad
Kingsfield WON

b-but dark souls 2 sucks

the first game is a better example

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You should kill yourself for posting this

plays nothing like it

You're right, it plays better in every way.

it doesn't

Yes, it absolutely does I know the game has shit feedback and you can't tell hits from misses, but I get slashes while having iframes

Whenever I see some anon autistically spamming webms and basing his entire personality around it I just automatically know he's wrong and take the opposite stance.

Yeah Severance was quite gay
This is what actual hitbox combat looks like

Dark Souls hitboxes don't even come fucking close to this game

Lol nope

it doesn't

BoD has a shitload of iframes for every "dodge" move,
Actually play the game

Hopefully this should clear things up for you.

Dsfix 60fps

Lol

What are these people on about? This game is amazing from level 1

no dodge rolls

fast attacks

almost no delay between attacks

what a shitty game

Yes
youtube.com/shorts/zfQXIQsOJuM?si=X8zVWq_SrzNxUgUc

lol

Ah yes, blame away fixing From Software's mess. That would squarely give points to Blade of Darkness alone because it's not bound by 30 fps. Dark Souls is consoleshit waste.

>plays nothing like it

Because it's not incompetent shit?

Kvetch harder, kikeoid.

DeS was ordered by sony to have mechanics similar to Monster Hunter. Not joking. If you look up articles about DeS from 07 you will find From presented the game as such.

having trouble with gaping dragon

Git gud

Game shilled by contrarian neckbeards is actually shit

First time falling this, OP?

When does this shit get good?

First minute of the very first level.

plays nothing like it

Yeah, gameplay is actually good

That is why Demon's Souls is complete shit and would live under the shadow that it's an inferior Oblivion clone.

You're right. It doesn't play like garbage like all soulsborne trash. The worst western game would always beat the best trash the east could come up with.

mashing attack causes your character to throw a desperation strike and become exhausted

This kills the soulskek

no dodge rolls

Amazon is the easiest class in the game because of her generous dodge rolls.

It's actually the range that makes her the easiest.

bro it's like old Dark Souls

That's zelda ocarina of times, Blade of Darkness is actually hard

but Bloodborne

When does this shit get good?

it took me a little while to get into it. i tried it once not too long after it came out and it kept crashing and just felt janky to play. tried it again years later when i saw it on myabandonware and loved it, i've played it like at least a dozen times. once you get used to it feeling a little janky to control it's really a lot of fun.

the level design is really great with a good amount of variety in things, decent short cutscenes that don't try to feel like a movie, a lot of good secrets to find.

So you're just being a disingenuous weeb because someone praised Severance once in a blue moon instead of kneeling in abject submission before Dark Souls 24/7, understood.

Not the point of what is being displayed. There's nothing to 'git gud' in this scenario anyway. It's just a piece of shit and From Software have managed to make this maybe less noticeable to people now. But the way it functions is still flawed and it's still bad and carried across all games. The youtube essayists would hand wave this off and tell you to accept 30 fps shit too if you probed them on it. Because they will not ever let go of Dark Souls 1 being this apparent masterpiece.

the level design is really great

save states

Lol

Purposefully break the game

Game doesn't work correctly

woah

the game insults you for saving too often lol

dsfix is purposefully trying to break it

Woah.... unlocking the FPS causes the game design to fall apart. It must be a great game if that happens. Console games like this belong in a rubbish bin and all of those who prop it up deserve a similar fate.

the level design is really great

Yes I really liked the dozen corridors with the same orcs and Doom tier key hunts

yeah i liked how that level was a loop but still had branching paths to explore

miyazaki bot going into a meltdown

looping levels are le bad unless derk suls does it in which case its revolutionary please miyazaki fuck my wife and give me a bastard son

Indeed, what an incredible level in the same vein and tradition as the best western games ever made like Doom

was a loop

Loop around what? It has no checkpoints because westoid games have retarded game design

If you can't see the problem with DS1 then your brain is damaged beyond repair. That's all i have to say. It's not about whether this was a 'fair death' but it's about bad placement in general. Blade of Darkness clearly does it better, despite it's flaws and jank.

BoD could've easily been a linear corridor game and still good thanks to combat system alone. Instead it goes an extra mile with branching sections and hidden secrets and gives each character a unique origin level.

When does this shit get good?

POT KEK
GOT ANOTHER ONE
reminder, the spanish shitters that made this feces went on to make the terrible 7th gen Castlevanias and later Samus Returds and Metroid: Shit The Bed

If you can't see the problem with DS1 then your brain is damaged beyond repair.

that's sadly something like 95% of gamers. the only thing that makes sense about why DeS and DaS got popular was overwhelming praise by (((the gaming media))) about a couple titles that aren't even middling. they are just straight up technical messes that had the good fortune of quality art direction and a 'shiny' engine.

The BLACK soul apologists are shitting up another thread, I see.

You know an old game that actually does feel a lot more like Dark Souls than this? Nox.

If the camera wasn't all shaky and shit it could be palatable but whoever did this stuck the camera to the player's head like a retard and then did awful animations to boot.

Still using a "fix" that causes tons of known bugs because muh grafix

lol, lmao even.

Why do soulsniggers love the awkward bonfire system and a little humiliation stroll of shame they need to perform each time after dying to grab their shit?

Loop around what?

Keep lowering the bar by letting everyone know that this was a good game.

because muh graffix

More like a drop in standards. I'm not one of those people biased to second game by the way, they're all shit. Every single one of them.

It's actually pretty good at the start when your HP isn't too high (so food actually fucking matters as spare source of healing and not a waste of time because 500HP Potion is already just a drop in your HP pool so forget about food) and enemy HP isn't bloated (so you don't just wait for your stamina to restore so you can spam your best weapon tech until enemy dies). It's the second half of the game where nothing new gets added into combat (same potions, same enemy types but with higher stats, puzzles and platforming is about the same for entire playthrough outside of Temple of Ianna and that one locations with sun key) so you get bored and just wanna be done with the game.
It was nice that some enemies had resistance to slashing weapons (so you had to use blunt weapons against skeletons and golems) but it's too bad that these two are the only resistance types in the game (not to mention that after getting high tier weapons you just ignore the resistance and spam 5-10k damage weapon techs) - would be nice to actually benefit from fire, ice and poison weapons (poison is utter garbage beyond first few levels).
Bow being trash AND permanently wasting one of your weapon slots because you can't drop it and absolutely need it to solve puzzles is bullshit, 3 slots for actual weapons is not enough when you have so many slashing, blunt and unique weapons in the game.
Amazon was easy mode, Knight was clearly the most well-thought character in terms of gameplay, Barbarian was hard mode and Dwarf was just a manlet Knight.
Overall it was okay for one playthrough but I kinda forced myself to finish later playthroughs because there wasn't that much variety in gameplay (basically it's not Action RPG, it's just Action, like Rune).

Nox

my nigga

DaS:R is objectively better with the ReShaded mod. about the same size as DSfix so there is literally no excuse not to just fix the ugly lighting in DaS:R and move on.