The original game club is back! Starting December 1st, we're playing Darksiders.
Yes. Darksiders.
Is it any good? Let's find out!
Don't want to pay more than $5 for it? It's currently $3 on Humble Bundle for the Fall Sale, or it's available to download on console with Xbox Game Pass or Playstation Now.
If you're interested in joining, check in here in this thread. I hope to see you in December!
checking in. Gonna polish up my ridiculously oversized shoulder pads and boob armour!
Will the club move on to 2 after? I finished 1 awhile back but never finished 2.
Tagging!
Downloaded from Now in readiness.
I soured on Darksiders so fast the first time around that I'm not sure I gave it a proper chance. Sounds like a good time to give it a final shot before banishing it from my pile.
The ending was terrible. Fighting the same robot thing over and over, and the maze was confusing. I could tell they ran out of time to playtest the ending level.
Yeah it really dragged towards the end. I thought Darksiders 2 was more consistent although for some reason it has a reputation for being disappointing.
i have a videogame crush on the giant Scottish blacksmith lady and her amazing hair, so DS2 is automatically better than the first! Science!
Yeah! Also, Death is a much sassier horseman of the apocalypse than War.
OK, this has been sitting in my Steam library for a way too long amount of time. Time to clear it off the backlog!
oh yeah!
I will definitely do that....after I install the CORRECT (updated Warmarster edition) version not the original version like I had already done.
Woops!
I love how stupidly po-faced this game is in contrast to it's cartoony tone. Also having watched season 1 of critical role I can't help but recognise Liam Obrien doing a super gravelly, super emo, turn as War
Everyone doing voice acting in this game (a) probably had a lot of fun and (b) probably got through a hell of a lot of throat sweets!
Nothing bothers me more in a game review than the word "derivative." That was plastered all over the reviews of Darksiders and used to knock it continually..
If a game is GOOD, who cares if it imitates another game? Most games do! Darksiders is a great, darker (older style) Zelda clone with more story. I loved it.
There sure are a lot of skulls in this game! I haven't got particularly far with this just yet, but I am enjoying it. I'm not sure if it's quite going to hold my attention for the length of the game, but we'll see.
After hearing so much from critics at the time about how derivative it is of Zelda, I'm kind of surprised that it's really not anywhere near as much as I was expecting. I mean, sure, there's influence there, but there's plenty of other things in the mix too. Or maybe I'm just not far enough into it yet.
There sure are a lot of skulls in this game! I haven't got particularly far with this just yet, but I am enjoying it. I'm not sure if it's quite going to hold my attention for the length of the game, but we'll see.
After hearing so much from critics at the time about how derivative it is of Zelda, I'm kind of surprised that it's really not anywhere near as much as I was expecting. I mean, sure, there's influence there, but there's plenty of other things in the mix too. Or maybe I'm just not far enough into it yet.
It'll become a lot clearer once you hit one of the boss dungeons and start getting the abilities you need to access secret areas and items.
Yeah I see what you mean. I just got up to the boss of the first dungeon and yeah, it was a lot like Zelda. Which is not really a complaint as far as I'm concerned.
I'm struggling with Tiamat's dungeon purely because it's something I've done several times in the past and it's a bit of a slog. Like you say, it's kinda all over the place in terms of how it all flows together. I still get lost and confused with the layout even having run through it a few times already. Looking forward to getting clear of it and into the stuff I remember less well.
The aesthetic are good and hold up pretty well. But then it's the same as with WoW and Borderlands - the more stylised you make something the less uncanny it looks when you come back to it later.
Tiamat is down...finally. I forgot how hard that first boss fight is, even on easy. (Mostly because i'm all thumbs when it comes to switching between throwing/igniting bombs and dodging fireballs).
Made a start tonight and played for about an hour. Seems like good fun, will continue.
ugh. Stuck at a familiar sticking point - trying to do the little arena challenge thing where you need to kill X number of things with environmental objects. Whoever thought it was a good idea to tie these challenges into the main story progression needs to be fir....oh wait they all were anyway. Never mind!
Ooh, I just realised I have the Warmastered edition with my Origin access sub. Bit late but downloading now!
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