This game is coming in a few days. Now since I have a Xone I can choose between this or sunset overdrive, and for now I'm going with lords of the fallen. It's impossible not to compared it to demon/dark souls games, but it actually doesn't look bad at all. Even though it borrowed alot gameplay elements from the series. Graphical it kinda reminds me of darksiders which is cool with me.

I look forward to playing it alot, and I'm going to see if I can get my vacation time in from my job, but I may get screwed out of it thanks to people not explaining a fucking thing of how it works. I just want to relax and enjoy the game to the fullest.

It looks like the inevitable mainstream demon souls clone, it remains to see if it holds up.

The developers arent shying away from the comparison, and in fact they welcome it and have said so many times. they are huge fans of the series and from the changes they are implementing into their game it could be very interesting.

Warning! It's from the developers of Venetica so don't get your hopes up.

Aww, that boss's sparkly sword doesn't look anywhere near as good as it did in the demos they showed off.

Anyway, this does look pretty fun. Not digging the character design though. I'll pick it up once it gets a price drop.

Looks like it's much more story driven, so that's a plus in my book. One thing I always was a bit 'meh' on in the Souls games was how vague the stories were, and at times you didn't even know why you were doing what you were doing. Combat looks like it's almost a carbon copy of the Souls games, which is alright since the Souls games have great combat. The only thing I'm not too fond of the fact that you're stuck playing a premade character. I wish it let you make your own guy. Still, for a clone of the Souls games, it looks surprisingly good.

What I gather from this is mostly one thing: The so called "B-tier" devs are catching up, at least graphics wise.

I just recently finished Risen 3 on PC and thought it looked pretty awesome in spots. Not AC Unity material, but still.. Lords of the Fallen looks even better, at least to me. The gameplay part remains to be seen.

I think it's sort of cool in some way to have the Souls games this directly ripped off. If you're going to copy a series, why not those?

Waiting on reception before making a purchase decision but it looks good enough to have me interested.

More narrative than Souls is a huge plus for me.

This looks way more imitation than I thought it would be. I assumed it would borrow some concepts like death, but overall be a faster action game. It looks like they're borrowing everything they possibly can.

Also does the camera shake when he swings his sword or is it just me?

The checkpoint system looks super cool

i can't figure out who this game is for. people that heard about dark souls but are afraid to try it because of its difficulty? i can't imagine that dark souls fans will actually enjoy this game for too long

the gameplay videos i've seen (~2 hours worth) make lords of the fallen look almost exactly like dark souls minus the character customization and difficulty. most importantly it cribs the slow paced, animation-dependent combat directly from dark souls. i don't think that style of combat works in a game that appears to be easy, or at least much easier than dark souls

dark souls combat is methodical and slow out of necessity. mistakes are very heavily punished in dark souls so you have to exercise patience to watch and learn your own attack animations as well as the enemies' if you don't want to die over and over. removing or lessening punishment for mistakes defeats the point of the pacing of dark souls-style combat. if there's no real threat of dying, and it seems there isn't any real threat of dying in lords of the fallen, why force the player into this plodding and methodical style of combat?

If you're a sane person that wants a holdover for Bloodborne this is for you. If you're not interested at all in basic reasoning then you'll bitch incessantly about it without ever playing it.

As a Souls fan, I'm not at all interested. I'd prefer a unique combat system. A better one. The evade looks ridiculous. Why is he rolling with so much armor? The large equipment is unappealing. I prefer well designed pre-made characters over user created characters, because character creators are always crummy and the equipment often doesn't fit the body or is suspended in midair. But I dislike this character. I also dislike the Estus system in which two hits means death, which is present in this game. I don't want to drink during combat. I wonder if this game has Souls' cycling item system too. That's gotten me killed a lot.

I like that. It allows me to relax and play for hours and hours at a time. For hundreds of hours. Story games are kind of a chore a lot of the time.

Been excited for this game since E3. Can't wait for Tuesday.

@sterling: I'm getting it the following monday according to Amazon, have to prevent myself from spoiling the game somehow.

@fredchuckdave: Aw man. That sucks. And you saying that made me check my Amazon order. It says Thursday delivery. I guess lower end titles don't get release date delivery? Thats a shame. Maybe I'll cancel and I go digital for this one. Hmmm.

@sterling: Assuming the soundtrack comes with its own CD I'd rather have the hard copy, if not then digital seems fine.

Ive not yet seen any early impressions or previews that have said this game is bad. Infact they have been mostly glowing with a few small exceptions. As a huge Demon Souls / DS1+2 fan, I am really looking forward to this to tide me over until Bloodborne.

They've already taken too much directly from the Souls games... it looks like it's doomed to live in the shadow of those games. Everything down to the ambient noise is fangame levels of imitation. I hope there's more to this than the gameplay video lets on, because I do like the Souls game design, but I have no reason to believe this is particularly inspired anyway just yet. I'm getting a real RC Cola vibe from this.

I was watching Marcus (EpicNameBro) discussing the preview build. Honestly, it sounds pretty great. The taken a lot from the Souls series, but they have tweaked enough to make me interested. the risk v. reward of your "blood stain" sounds great. Only having one character you can max out. Timing of attacks leading to combos... etc.

Hmm, where have I seen a trophy like this before?

I wish I had enough extra moolah to play this game... I find it so interesting because I've never actually bought one of these games, and it sort of looks like Zelda and Darskiders if you squint.

I was going to get this game, but I went on the xbone market place and saw Shadow Warrior (reboot). Which won over my interests for Lords of the Fallen and sunset overdrive. I've wanted to play that game for a VERY long time.

If this is like a Dark Siders to Zelda situation, I'm sold.

The art reminds me of Dark Siders, and after watching these videos, I'm impressed with how good it looks (admittedly they're compressed to hell though because of my lack of good net) .

If it plays well and the story is interesting, I'm 100% there

I thought that name sounded familiar. I remember seeing that GB quick look a while ago. That seems pretty worth it as its cheaper too, so cool.

It's fun as hell too. He's got the touch...he's got the power.

I still haven't finished DS2, so I can't really say I'll be playing this anytime soon. I'm happy to see another souls esque game though.

@sterling: Must... not get that trophy! Oh fuck spiders.

I was thinking that too before I got Dark Souls II, but then I was so eager to explore that I fell in a hole within the first five minutes.

@istealdreams: bad previews are never published, due to desire to maintain developer/publisher relations, or optimism that the final game will be better. You can find glowing previews everywhere for some real stinkers.

@sterling the DS2 trophy wasn't a Creedence reference, though, so this game has that going for it

The game looks great. The difficulty of the souls games isn't what draws me to them it's the combat and the exploration. From the gameplay I've seen there are tons of hidden areas to explore and loads of weapons and loot to find. I was sold on this game instantly after seeing it in action.

@benspyda: Good for you sir, happy to see a positive reaction. How many hours will we spend jumping into walls to see if they're breakable I wonder?

I might pass on this then.

That game lacked so much needed polish, but I thought it was actually pretty fun mechanically. Not going to say it was a great game, but it is imo it was pretty under-appreciated. They felt like a team that if they had a bit more cash could have made a really good game.

Cautiously optimistic about LoF.

@fredchuckdave: How the character can just charge through walls and breakable objects like a goddamn space marine is so awesome. That is one hell of a way to find secrets.

I haven't played much yet, but I wrote a short review based on first impressions (not much of a review really, but might still be a fun read) http://www.giantbomb.com/lords-of-the-fallen/3030-42672/user-reviews/2200-27788
I will write some less self-censored stuff on my bands gaming blog and try to upload some videos later tonight, you will find them here, we're from Poland, hence the strange domain-name: http://blog.fonrestorff.pl/

So far I'm cautiously optimistic about the game. Would prefer the DS2 DLC or having more fun with the nemesis system in Shadow of Mordor but got this game for free.

Was watching streams of this and it maybe half dark souls half god of war. Seems pretty cool like the sound of weapons and armor clashing.

That game played really awful but I liked some of the art direction in the cities.

Glad to start seeing Souls inspired games. After DKS2, I feel like From has taken it as far as they can with that formula, and it'll be up to others to add value for a while. This game, even things like Below, Titan Souls, etc, are great competitors for my interest and dollars. Excited for it to become a genre rather than a series.

What I liked about the first Demon's Souls is the new stuff it brought. I'm not so much into the Dark Souls genre, as the, thinking up cool new shit to put into your games genre.

yea played this at Pax and its basically Dark Souls but im sure the hardcore will find all the core differences.

what i really like about his one though, its that you can actually pause the damm game.

Anyone know if there will be reviews tomorrow? Didn't know the game existed before this thread, but now I'm cautiously optimistic.

I'm cautiously excited for this game. Visually its real pretty but I'm not really fan of the art style. Somehow something about this screams generic design. Gameplay wise it looks awfully similar to Dark/Demon Souls, which is not a bad thing, but I'm hoping its not as punishing.

I am also cautiously optimistic for this game. But I think that the bulk of my desire to play it is due to the absolute dearth of quality RPGs so far for the PS4.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2014/10/27/bloodborne-frame-rate-targeting-30fps-since-its-the-best-for-action-games-claims-producer/#/slide/1

I honestly agree.

@patman99: that's my feeling. It look fun but I'd probably wait on it if there were any large RPGs on ps4. I just wanna level up, put stats in stuff and swing a sword. Though I do with this had more magic

Speaking of which I'm excited for magicka 2

I watched some streaming footage and decided to buy it. I am a PC gamer and I love Dark Souls 1 and 2.

Got the preload done (20GB) and supposedly there will be a 5GB patch when it unlocks in 12 hours.

I'm excited.

The thing that makes me scared to play dark souls is that it doesnt seem to explain anything to the player, and i dont really want to spend my time searching the internet for guides. This seems to hold your hand a bit more so i might check it out.