UPDATE NUMBER UNKNOWN +19, ABOUT WAR AND DEATH.
Today, I want to tell y’all a story:
A long, long time ago one of my Steam friends gave me a copy of Darksiders. Back then, I played it for about an hour, then lost interest and never touched the game again. As an owner of the original game, I got the Warmastered edition for free at some point and remembering that I have that in my library, I recently entered a SG giveaway for the Deathfinitive Edition of Darksiders 2. Lo and behold, I actually won! “Right,” I said to myself, “time to give old Darksiders a(nother) go.”
And so I ended up playing the Warmastered edition and it turned out to be one of my most favourite games. The point is, I want to thank the person who gave me the original Darksiders all those years ago. Whoever you were (because I forgot :/ ), you’re awesome.
Thank you!
🕒 ~37 hours
⭐ 36/43
⁉️ STATUS: Beaten
✔️ LIKED: Overall, this is a very good game and I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. The visuals are quite pleasant. The gameplay is an interesting mix of hack-and-slash action, 3D adventure and puzzle solving. It tells a decent story too, which is always nice. I also really like what they did with the title. Warmastered. Heh-heh. Oh, and Mark Hamill is there, voice acting the Watcher! <3
❌ DISLIKED: The control scheme isn’t the most comfortable one, especially when it comes to throwing or using your “gadgets”. On a few ocasions when you need to jump or climb somewhere, the camera fixes itself at a rather awkward angle.
🕒 ~70 hours
⭐ 44/50
⁉️ STATUS: Beaten
✔️ LIKED: First and foremost, you play as Death! The gameplay is about 50% combat and 50% puzzle solving, which I personally enjoyed. I also enjoyed the climbing and wallrunning in this game - some people seem to dislike this element, but I found it really quite satisfying. And again, thumbs up for the creative wordplay. Deathinitive :)
❌ DISLIKED: It’s one of the most broken games I’ve ever played. Seriously, on the technical level, this shit feels like it’s in early acess! You will randomly be unable to move after you close any in-game menu. It offers very few graphic options. Trying to rebind the controls is a huge pain in the back and some keys (like the arrow keys) aren’t recognized at all. Many players reported crashes after certain bosses. The game was abandoned by the devs all the way back in 2015 (2016?) and the much needed patches never came out. It’s all the more baffling because this is supposed to be the “improved” version of the game. If this is an improvement, then the original must have been an utter disaster.
Also, HOGs! Honestly, I don’t know what to write about these anymore. They’re HOGs, they come with the usual set of ups and downs.
🕒 ~3 hours
⭐ N/A
⁉️ STATUS: Beaten
🕒 ~6 hours
⭐ 35/35
⁉️ STATUS: Completed
🕒 ~26 hours
⭐ 10/10
⁉️ STATUS: Completed
🕒 ~5 hours
⭐ N/A
⁉️ STATUS: Beaten
Maybe the person who gifted you the first Darksiders is a fellow BLAEO Assassin and might come across this :) That is the beauty of giveaways though, we get to experience some games that may (or may not) become a favorite, etc all thanks to a generous folk/s!
Congrats on your Darksiders series progress and your other beaten backlogs (plus on your 100% games). Do you think you will be picking up Darksiders III to follow up?
That is the beauty of giveaways, we get to experience some games that may (or may not) become a favorite
That’s very true :) I posted that bit on Steam as well, in case the person isn’t a BLAEO member.
Darksiders 3, no, I will be skipping that one. From what I’ve seen and heard, it’s really not the kind of experience I’m looking for. Personally, I just want more of what the first two games offered, and it appears that I won’t find it in Darksiders 3 :/ (Besides, it most likely wouldn’t run on my PC.)
Darksiders 3, no, I will be skipping that one. From what I’ve seen and heard, it’s really not the kind of experience I’m looking for. Personally, I just want more of what the first two games offered, and it appears that I won’t find it in Darksiders 3 :/ (Besides, it most likely wouldn’t run on my PC.)
That’s understandable :) And who knows, maybe the devs are already working on a 4th entry that’ll have what many of the fans enjoyed about the first two!
I’d like a 4th Darksiders game, it feels kinda strange that War, Death and Fury have their games while Strife was left out :D Although I’m somewhat concerned that if a 4th game came out, it would be more similar to Darksiders 3 than to the previous two. But, one can hope!
Hmm I planned on playing through the games again now that the remastered editions were released, but I keep reading how they aren’t up to snuff and that maybe I should just play the non-remastered editions. Which is a shame, considering I remember they were pretty good on console. Do you know if the steam non-remastered editions suffer similar issues?
I know that the non-remastered Darksiders (1) had some problems with achievements not registrering properly. No idea about non-remastered Darksiders 2.
In my opinion, there is no reason to play the original versions rather than the remastered ones ;)
From what I gather, the Warmastered edition improved the graphic and fixed the aforementioned achievement issues and the Deathinitive edition comes with the DLC levels. So personally, I would suggest you play them if you own them. I think they’re worth it :)
Devs didn’t exactly abandon Darksiders 2 as much as THQ was in their death throes and everything went tits up for studios operating under them. You can tell latter sections were shorter and more linear compared to first two big zones, for example. Why the Deathfinitive Edition didn’t fix anything is beyond me.
Oh yeah, that’s right, THQ went bankrupt. Didn’t realize that. It’s a shame :/