Sean @ FG : The “story mode” of Jedi: Fallen Order improves accessibility but makes the game feel almost hollow.
A sequel to the studio's acclaimed title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, would be the perfect swan song for long-time video game director Hidetaka Miyazaki.
I just don't see it happening given the success of Elden Ring. I think we'll be seeing a sequel to Elden Ring before anything else.
I'm not into souls games but it's good to see that this dev studio stick to what makes their titles unique, there's alot of souls copy n pasted games but they rarely get talked about cause they're looked at as copies and not original created ideas, the souls games are unique cause they offer they're own identity instead imitating I respect that
Or Bloodborne 2 preferably both but that’s a lot to ask if he plans on retiring sooner than later
Bloodborne 2 or I'd simply love a 60fps remaster. I'd also love a bloodborne randomiser option.
I'm definitely holding out hope for a Bloodborne 60fps remaster still. Some extra features thrown in would be nice too.
With regards to a sequel, I'd actually rather From Software make another new IP with a different setting. That is what made Bloodborne so good - the fact that it took a proven formula and applied it to a completely new setting.
With this feature, we will be taking a look at Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice all these years later and break down why it remains such a great time.
I regret i never played it, like many other great games!! Still on my radar, when i become retro gamer in a year or two with all this gaas crap happening around
Absolutely. Amazing art design, and didn’t have the Bloodborne problem so it runs at 60FPS on newer hardware, which is amazing given the reaction based gameplay
This one title that never clicked with me. I enjoyed Dark Souls, Demon Souls and Bloodborne, but I never warmed up to Sekiro’s parry-focused combat. I honestly gave up on the game at about the half way point.
Me too. But after the Stellar Blade demo and parrying like crazy I’m tempted to go back and play this again
Took me a couple years too get into when I first bought it. I had gotten so used to Bloodborne that the gameplay was genuinely confusing me. Picked it up a third time and clicked. The game is souls stripped of all its RPG elements and left with nothing but it's combat. It's Souls at its pureness but I can see why the combat would turn people off. That's why I liked it so much tho, without the choice of weapons it's very focused on a specific style. I think a sequel with a small selection of weapons but each fleshed out would be the right step.
My problem with Sekiro was the combat, I didn’t find it as engaging as Bloodborne, DarkSouls due to the lack of RPG elements. I even found action games like Ninja Gaiden 1-2 and Ghost of Tsushima more engaging as well.
The Souls-like genre remains popular, along with FromSoftware's classics there are many contenders. But which are the best Souls-like games?
Hmm... In my opinion, the 7 best are the 6 made by FromSoftware (DeS, DS1, DS2, DS3, BB and ER), then Lies of P. But each to their own.
Still DS1? You don't feel it's been surpassed yet?
Demon's Souls has the remake of course, but DS1 has surely been outdated?
I think that the DS1 remake is better looking than DS2. The interior lighting matched with the low resolution textures in DS2 is very garish, IMO.
Besides graphics, what do you mean by DS1 being "outdated"? I'm someone who played through Elden Ring and just recently played through the DS series, and as far as gameplay went, there were all very similar.
I haven’t played many but Bloodborne and NIOH1 are on top of my list.. had a blast with these 2
For world design and interconnectedness (that's a word, right?) DS1 is yet to be beaten.
I would agree, but there are some things in DS2 that are great and incredibly memorable. It tries to do things differently, and there are some amazingly cinematic moments.
Of course, there's also poor level design (particularly the interconnectivity of the world), questionable combat choices and some of the worst boss runs since the early days of video games...
Why does every game in existence need to be compared to the Soulsborne genre? Some people just like to enjoy games without intense difficulty.
The combat needed more polish( tightness) and better design decisions. Not being able to interrupt a swing to block is their most egregious error; its a lightsaber not a claymore. Emphasises on light.
That would have made the combat flow.
I'm not sure how having an easy mode makes the game feel hollow. I played through on Jedi Master and found it to be just the right difficulty for me.
But not everyone would like that. I'm all for games having only one difficulty set at hard, like Sekiro if that is the developers vision. But this being Star Wars it needed to be more accessible. I don't see a problem with that. If it's too easy for you and feels "hollow" just play on the harder difficulties.
Story mode is for people that love Star Wars and want to experience the new story, which is canon, but may not necessarily be experienced gamers. Or people who may not be familiar with the Sekiro/Souls style of play. So they can experience it without having a difficult time doing so.
Quit the complaining. If you're a gamer and have even a little experience playing 3rd person action games then Story Mode wasn't meant for you.
I felt like it was fine, I actually enjoyed it and this is coming from someone who is a mega Soulsborne fan.