On my first "real" character (the one I beat the game with the first time), I went 40 str 40 end before putting points into anything else. If you have good armor and a good shield vit is actually close to useless as there's more or less nothing in the game that can one-shot you. All you need to do is learn how to time your estus. To this day (after having spent hundreds of hours in both Dark and Demon's Souls) I still find Vit to be one of the most useless stats in the game.
@mariachimacabre: I'm not saying Ryse is gonna be better than God of War or anything, it just reminds me of the whole Ninja Gaiden 3 situation. And while that game wasn't a great game either it wasn't because of any of the stuff people freaked out about after a bad showing at E3.
There are ZERO similarities between any GoW game and what I've seen of Ryse. I'm not a huge GoW fan at all, but the combat in those games is graceful chaos. Kratos flailing giant blade chains around at hordes of skeletons, jumping 30 feet in the air and bringing enemies with him, mutilating mythical beasts, and unleashing magical weapons on skyscraper sized gods. The melee in Ryse is hitting a dude with a sword a few times and then maybe pressing a button to watch his head fall off in slow mo.
Not comparable.
Yeah, there's no point in God of War where you can apparently take your left hand entirely off the controller (meaning the game is apparently moving the character forward for you) and still succeed. That series has plenty of very difficult sections. It also has a large amount of puzzles and non-violent moments. Yeah, it was the harbinger of the modern QTE but it also did it first (or close to it) and in an interesting and fun way. Everything I've seen of Ryse has been nothing but what looks like the slow motion sequences in 300 with QTEs slapped on.
Check out the newest video they released today and judge for yourself. Looking at it I'm guessing the reason you could fight your way through a combat scenario with one hand is because he auto-faces people when you parry (which then can probably be followed with some basic combo to kill). I might remember wrong, but I'm fairly sure the same thing happens in God of War too. I guess at worst he might even auto-face people on attack (Arkham style).
I've never understood why people are so down on Ryse. It's just another God of War game. I get it if you're tired of those games or never really enjoyed them, but Ryse doesn't seem to take any drastic steps away from that formula.
To be honest I've seen much more disappointment than "trashing the competition". People were excited for new consoles, they had been waiting for a long time, they got their hopes up, and then neither of the companies really delivered. The announcements and E3 presentations didn't really show off much new and exciting stuff, so instead the focus went to all the new very un-exciting stuff. It's not really our fault that most of the major changes we heard about were things that noone was asking for. So ye, I think most of the negativity actually comes from people that wanted to buy the consoles but got turned off by the actual pitches.
The letters doesn't translate directly to a certain number, they are more categories of ranges. Also, I might be wrong about this, but I do believe it's not even a flat number but rather a percentage of base damage. So it would be something like an A weapon will have around 100% bonus damage at capped stat bonus, while giving you about a 50% bonus at half-cap.
I wouldn't necessarily call them "best", but these are the games that I've enjoyed the most or blew my mind away when I played them.
World of Warcraft
Dark Souls
Mass Effect
Fallout 3
Borderlands
Civilization 5
Gears of War
Binding of Isaac
Resonance of Fate
Arkham City
There are some games I feel really bad about leaving out, and I'm sure there's one or two I'm forgetting, but off the top of my head that's what popped out. I'm fairly confident the top 5 is pretty spot on at least.
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