I went straight Technique the first time. I think I'm finding that Motivity is a bit easier. (Though it's hard to separate the game's difficulty from however many hours of practice.) The trouble with Motivity is that some of the best weapons are very heavy, so you have to invest in Capacity as well as Motivity as you level up.
I'm still waiting on a good enough sale on this one. I want to play it, but am a little bit put off by the setting and art style based on what I've watched.I started talking up Lies of P with a friend of mine the other day, and just for the heck of it, started a new game. (Motivity build instead of Technique build). I got so hooked I finished about half the game in one day.It goes a lot faster the second time!
You're a PC gamer, right? I'd recommend a Game Pass subscription - even if it's just long enough for to play Lies of P.
I'm kind of having the opposite problem lately - but I'm really only into a tiny subset of games, one or two genres at this point. I'm sure the Elden Ring DLC will be entertaining when it comes, and I'm cautiously optimistic about Rise of the Ronin? Until then, I guess I'll play Lies of P over and over again.
Oh I didn't know it was on that. Game Pass is great, except it gets expensive when you have really long games or games you'd like to play multiple times. Great for trying out games you wouldn't normally buy.
Rise of the Ronin early impressions that I've seen are a more mixed bag, with complaints about it being kinda Ubisoft-ish "tons of waypoints on a map" deal. I skipped Wo Long despite loving Nioh 2 because it also seemed a bit of a mixed bag.I'm kind of having the opposite problem lately - but I'm really only into a tiny subset of games, one or two genres at this point. I'm sure the Elden Ring DLC will be entertaining when it comes, and I'm cautiously optimistic about Rise of the Ronin? Until then, I guess I'll play Lies of P over and over again.
Game Pass is obligatory here due to my daughter's Minecraft addiction.
Even if it weren't, between Rogue Legacy 2 and Lies of P, it's paid for itself a few times over this past year. Microsoft is far more generous with early and/or AAA content on Game Pass then Sony is on PS+, which serves mostly as a reminder of how many games exist that I have zero interest in playing. (And if I do have an interest, I've inevitably bought the game already.)Yeah, I want to be excited about RotR, but I'm seeing a lot of red flags. Of course, for me, the talk of a parry-heavy design is worrying, whereas for you, this might be a good thing? I grew to like the parry mechanic in Lies of P a great deal, but I still hate it in Sekiro, and I think the whole grappling hook/ hang glider thing looks a bit janky and out of place in this setting.
Not a gamer, really; at all. But it's nice when a subscription actually works out to be a good deal and you use the darn thing!Game Pass is obligatory here due to my daughter's Minecraft addiction.
Yeah, I want to be excited about RotR, but I'm seeing a lot of red flags. Of course, for me, the talk of a parry-heavy design is worrying, whereas for you, this might be a good thing? I grew to like the parry mechanic in Lies of P a great deal, but I still hate it in Sekiro, and I think the whole grappling hook/ hang glider thing looks a bit janky and out of place in this setting.
Wo Long is just a mess as far as I was able to play it. There's the usual "it's too hard (specifically the first boss)" vs. "git gud" debate, but I think this misses the point entirely. The issue isn't that Wo Long demands too much (too soon?); the issue is that it doesn't present anything of substance to compel the player to invest in the game in the first place. It's just a handful of (ironically) too easy fights that don't teach you anything, directly into an abusive relationship with a boss the game hasn't trained you to defeat. And all of the writing and "acting" up to and including that boss is so bad I considered playing with the volume turned down.
Yeah Game Pass is definitely a much better service. I recommend giving Hifi Rush a go if it's still on there. It's a bit more similar to e.g Devil May Cry games in how it plays, but I don't generally like those (awful level design) but ended up liking Hifi Rush.Game Pass is obligatory here due to my daughter's Minecraft addiction.
For me games with a satisfying parry system are definitely a plus.
I suspect you might grow to like the parry feel in Lies of P, as well. It's less "all or nothing" than Sekiro, where there are almost no other options, and a failure to press whichever button at precisely the right time often means you've lost the battle. In Lies of P, the parry mechanic is just enough to encourage you to stay engaged at close range and lend a "physicality" to melee combat. Whereas in Souls games I will often tend to play things safe with ranged weapons and/or shields.
It's getting such good reviews, I'm starting to get curious... despite not really loving the first game. (More accurately, I barely remember it. I have vague flashbacks of various locations in the game. A wide enough variety to suggest I played quite a bit of it.)
I’ll have to check out some user reviews for DD2. It seemed like all the critic reviews were written by critics who adored DD1… and that ain’t me. :)
The best thing is to always wait rather than buy something straight at release.
Alot of the negative reviews are due micro transactions in a single player $70 game also
Oh yeah that too. Companies really need to keep MBAs away from all media, don't they? Or else they'll try to shoehorn in microtransactions or some other BS.
