It's the little series that could. The games aren't perfect, and wildly different, but god dammit do they try. And to think, ANOTHER game is in production. Which game is you favorite, where did these games fall flat, and how might the new one improve? Who's the best character, horseman, and boss?
DARKSIDERS
I thought 3 was pretty neat
1 was great.
2 would have been an excellent evolution of 1 if it didn't have Diablo loot.
Never played 3 but heard it was liquid shit.
I have Genesis but never played it
I played 1 and dropped 2 midway through. 1 was an engaging experiment, War was an edgelord but I liked him. Death was an edgelord but I didn't like him. I dropped 2 because I fucking hate loot systems and I disliked the move away from Abrahamic mythology. It felt like cowardice on the devs' part. I can't even tell you my favorite boss from 1. It's been so long. I really should replay it, I remember liking it a lot.
2=3 > Genesis >>>> dogshit > AIDS > The Last of Us 2 > 1
2 and 3 are great for entirely different reasons and I could recommend one or the other to certain people depending on their tastes. 3 on Ravager difficulty is one of my favorite Souls clones while Darksiders 2 is one of the best Diablo/Zelda/Warrior Within clones you can get your hands on.
It's hard for me to rate Genesis objectively because it's a great 2 player co-op game and you don't need to know anything about the series to enjoy it (it's also my first entry because it was co-op)
1 is objectively dogshit and I can name a ton of reasons, whether it's the pisspoor combat which is stupid easy, the really bad items (the horn), the bad level design (no room for the horse and the fact that the game world isn't as cleverly designed as Darksiders 3 by leading back into shortcuts or even has a decent fast travel system like 2). It's also the shortest game with the most filler (the shitty fucking sword pieces and the mask, kek) The only thing saving 1 from being one of the worst games I ever played was the puzzles, but 2 and 3 are full of them so you don't need to play 1 and you can just get by by watching it's cutscenes on YouTube.
The biggest and funniest cope I've seen from fans of 1 is that "the series is all bad!"... yeah no.
1 was great.
1 fucking sucks dick and you're a retard.
3 was aight, it's just that it betrayed people's expectations because it suddenly became a soulslike
See: You're also a retard.
This games sucked and it died a well deserved miserable death
Cardinal sin was killing her horse
I liked Darksiders 1. Maybe I ought to try Darksiders 2 again and see if it actually works this time. I got the Steam version of it for cheap but its framerate always tanked to like 5 fps in the first dungeon (or at least I think it was the first dungeon) and I was too lazy to refund it or anything. Maybe they've fixed whatever the problem was by now
I think it's undisputed that Samael is the best character in the series, followed by Vulgrim, then Ulthane
The only game I actively dislike is 3. 1 was neat, and a great introduction into the setting, even if it was fairly rough around the edges. 2 is a lot of fun, even if the loot and gear system feel tacked on. It's still a solid game and Death felt great to play as. I think a lot of my dislike for 3 comes from me just being bored of soulslike games on top of Fury feeling very stiff compared to Death. Genesis was fantastic, finally getting to play as Strife was fun as fuck. Playing through it co-op with my best friend who is basically a brother to me was great, especially since the first game is one of the things that led to us becoming friends in the first place.
4 had better feature everyone, even Fury.
Admittedly the story gets kinda hard to follow until you start playing 2 and 3. 1 on its own throws you off because they start referencing The Creator and The Destroyer, but it isn't until later do you realize The Devil is different than The Destroyer (whom was Abaddon and gifted by Lilith and The Devil to become the ruler of a ruined Earth after the Apocalypse). Because when you're playing 1 you're assuming "The Master" Samael references is The Destroyer, but it turns out he's the reason Samael quit.
1 and genesis didn't click for me but 2 somehow became one of my favorite games ever. Spiritual prince of persia sequel.
Also, gigachad Death
it's nice to see you are still sperging out about games that no one really gives that much of a fuck about.
Played 1 on my xbox 360, tried the second one on PC but had to drop it because it just kept crashing. Haven't touched the series since then but I have them all on my library. For me it's simply one of those series that I always say I will complete when I have some free time
Fuck Darksiders. I loved the first game but then they went on to make a game for every horsemen of their own instead of fucking continuing the cliffhanger ending from the first game.
1 is the only good game in the series. Fuck your opinion, suck my dick faggot.
Darksiders 2 is possibly the only game that did the whole random loot thing like Borderlands that I genuinely enjoyed.
It works perfectly in that game because the weapons feel good and being able to customize them was so cool.
That said, I think they should stick to something like DMC since I don't think anyone wants randomized stats back.
It was cool in context because it is a mish mash of plenty of popular franchises of the time plus Death was a fucking badass character.
I miss that bucko so much.
Where the fuck do you think you are nigger?
Am I missing out on anything major if I play the og version of 2 over the deathinitive edition?
1 sucked back then and it sucks forever and you can't even prove me wrong with any of my points of WHY 1 sucks with it's garbage filler content.
1 was fine. it's god of war meets zelda. don't need it to be anything amazing. it's not the best game ever, but it is hardly a garbage game.
1 was fine. it's god of war meets zelda.
Except sadly not good. It says a lot about it when my favorite parts about it were the puzzles and the cutscenes as everything from the combat, the set pieces, etc were half baked, and the way they tried to extend a short ass game with filler collectible shit was embarrassing for a 360 era game.
Where the fuck do you think you are nigger?
that particular anon frequently does this, he posts screenshots of his playtime from multiple entries in a series and makes a longwinded bait post to get engagement. sometimes he starts a thread with it, sometimes he replies to a thread with it. he frequently harps on the RE games and how no one has a good opinion on them but him. he's just another schizo on this board that is fun to see pop up every now and again.
just take a look
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bait posts
You are crying about my posts because you are a bitch who can't argue
I have to go alone...
This is no place for a horse...
i don't care about your arguments, i just think it's funny that you've been posting the same posts for years. the earliest of the alien isolation playtime screenshot posts are from 2022. it's bait, through and through.
Deathinitive just has the DLC, which is just optional sidequests and bosses
Abyssal Forge
Ice Dragon
Belial
The last one only really touches on something 3 explores a bit more, which is some humans survived the apocalypse. Cool weapons though
2 is a great game really.
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They wasted Strife in Genesis imo. He should've gotten his own game.
1 is okay but it kind of gets worse as you go along. 2 is pretty darn good, I loved the first world especially, nice and green and vibrant.
Darksiders 2 is one of those very unique games that is extremely mediocre and yet I always find myself wanting to replay it. I definitely agree with in that it has Zelda vibes to it. It places a huge focus on adventure and exploration which I highly appreciate. Death is also a great character, he never comes off as too edgy or too silly, he’s perfectly “balanced” as a character. My only problem with Darksiders 2 is that the land of the undead, whatever it’s called, lasted too long. You start off in a beautiful dwarven world and then suddenly you’re thrown into this boring mess of brown and gray where everything looks the same. I appreciate the themes behind it, but that region was just a tad bit too long. Sammael, the Archon, and the Guardian are some of my favorite bosses in videogames ever
They didn’t get Jespyr Kyd as composer for any of the other games
Which one had the portal gun section?
Is Genesis fine to play solo or is significantly better co-op?
I think that was the first one
Blackwashed Deadpool
Darksiders 3 shat all over him
ANOTHER game is in production
This got confirmed? Are we finally getting to the cliffhanger set up since the first game?
Awesome games, loved DS2 even if half of it was unfinished, the combat was so fun I played like 50hrs of just the crucible arena
I don't really see how that was an issue when every game in the series is a different genre
Zelda
hack-and-slash
isometric twin-stick shooter
Souls
Like what exactly were people expecting Darksiders III to be?
I love the fact he never betrays you even though you fully expect him to.
1
OH GOD, STOP IT WITH THE SHITTY TUTORIAL ARENAS AND THE BEAMS ALREADY
2
OH GOD, STOP IT WITH THE SHITTY "DO THREE THINGS, THEN BRING ME THREE THINGS SO YOU CAN GET ONE OF THE THREE THINGS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR BUT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MAIN QUEST" ALREADY
3
OH GOD, STOP IT WITH THE SHITTY SOULS MECHANICS YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ALREADY - WHY SHOULD I EVEN BUY ESTUS CHARGES AT THE CHECKPOINTS WHEN I COULD ALSO JUST REFILL THEM FOR FREE BY JUST KILLING MYSELF?!
Genesis
You're actually pretty damn neat - kinda shit collision detection, thou
1, the Black Tower or something. Hated that section because it just went on forever.
sometimes he starts a thread with it
lmao that's pathetic
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Not sure how well production is going since THQ Nordic imploded and all their subsidiaries had to reorganize around Arc Games afterward.
lol, this place really does bring out the spergs.
I tried playing 3 but since i died often the loading times made me quit.
THQ dies
saved by Nordic
THQ Nordic dies
This franchise is cursed
They didn’t get Jespyr Kyd as composer for any of the other games
Which is a fucking travesty, though he may have been too busy or something.
literally me but I actually played 3, it was mediocre. They turned it into a soulslike for some reason, but iirc they added a "classic" mode at some point.
soulslike
except stamina is infinite
yeah no, shut the fuck up, it was dogshit
it goes back since 2022
This is an extremely lonely and sad person
They made some balancing changes to DS3 after release to make it play less like Souls games, apparently. I still didn't like Fury.
deathinivite is kinda broken and crashes constantly, the original worked well on my pc though
some balancing changes
The "classic mode" simply skips the estus flask animation and simply heals you instantly as soon as you press the heal button. That's literally it.
It's still a souls game with no stamina, no different weapons, and no build variety. Stop defending that dogshit
Pretty sure both 1 and 2 did, with 2's portal gun also working as a time travel gun depending on the surface you shoot.
2, which ironically is where I dropped the game
DS1 - Basic Hack & Slash
DS2 - Combat Improved With Zelda Like Dungeons
DS3 - Soulslike
DSG - Isometric Shooter
They probably should have made DSG a 3rd person shooter, would have been interesting, but the creativity and funds were probably at a low at that point.
Also Uriel best girl