For the most part, it's all similar until you get to Bloodborne and DSIII. Bloodborne is more fluid with animations and doging with an emphasis on speed. The trick weapons also switch up combat a lot since you can switch back and forth between two very different playstyles in mid combo. DSIII incorporated a lot of these changes for speed and made duel-wielding finally a viable combat option in Dark Souls, which is something else it took from Bloodborne. It's a bit hard to describe DS's combat style. It's very resource heavy with you having to pace your use of staminia for all combat and then there is a return to item management as well. Of anything, the combat simply gets smoother with each game, with Demon's Souls' having the clunkiest combat.
Over all the years I've been gaming, I've gotten used to dying. I take it the gameplay stays relatively similar? Because I've had a really hard time adjusting from the Witcher 1 to 2. The first game kind of made me think of a Baldur's Gate/Vagrant story hybrid, in that you have the active pause thing and then have to point the enemy, and then you have to time your hits right to string combos and there's three styles that need to be changed around depending on the enemy. And then in 2 it's completely real time with one button press corresponding to one hit like in a regular action RPG but the enemy lock on doesn't lock on your camera and it's weird. Still good, but I'm dying a bit more so far. I can already feel I'm getting better though.
Hopefully Bloodborne may see a PC release, but I wouldn't bet on it. Also, it's not a big deal to start Dark Souls, but I do think you would get a kick out of the lore and overall game design. Once you got past the cheap deaths of course.
Hope you don't get disappointed with me I'll try to get them once I have a bit more money then. And maybe by the time I reach Bloodborne it'll be ported to PC or I'll have a PS4.
Well Bloodborne got me back to reading Lovecraft, I'm getting ready to start The Shadow over Innsmouth. Sadly, Bloodborne is a PS4 exclusive and Demon's Souls is PS3 exclusive, but the rest of Dark Souls is on PC. I think you would actually get a kick out of Dark Souls. It's almost like a playable mythology. Not to mention, debating the lore will be fun with you.
I'm really happy things are finally looking up! Also happy about the Bloodborne thing - you're making me want to pick up the Souls series after I'm done with the Witcher. Judging by how well my monster machine of a PC is handling the Witcher games, I'm fairly confident I can run those well as well Is there a PC version of Bloodborbe? I know there is if the other games. Can't wait for the articles as well! What have you been reading? I've recently started Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.
Well glad to hear you've been doing well. It's been a rough week but I think things are finally going to get better, so Ive been in a better mood than usual. I was also happy to acquire a weapon in Bloodborne that I was looking forward to for a while and it has not disappointed. It helps that the build I was going for was practically tailored made for it. Other than that, I've been in less "story writer" mode and more of a "analytical article" mode. Been working on two article ideas, I just need to start writing them down. I also want to get back to my FF article series. Other than that, I'm trying to read more and finish up backlog games.
(Side-note: the Witcher 2 has one of the best directed opening FMVs I've ever seen)
So ive finished the first Witcher this weekend and enjoyed it a lot. It did a pretty rarely seen thing where the penultimate chapter was kind of a breather just before the climax which I really think helped the pacing, ironically, as I didn't feel at all tired with the actiony climax, which I'm sure I would have been had it been just non-stop action. So now I'm playing 2 and it's very different but also very good so far, with even more nods to the books (to the point that I really don't get how these games were so well received when the story relies pretty heavily on the novels but what the hell). Still, wrote less than I hoped to because of that. But I should have more opportunities this week since we're taking a long train ride for a wedding! And how are you? Had a nice weekend?
Yeah, but Mario is also stuck in status quo is god. Hell, all of Nintendo's properties are like that.
