Watching that video is a stark reminder of why modern videogames are the way they are. Unfortunately he's not really gonna get any enjoyment out of the game unless he changes his approach to it.
This is a brutal one... While I would say Uncharted 2 right away, the direction this generation has gone has really put me off those kinda games. I really enjoyed both of them when I played them, but looking back FC3 has more of a lasting appeal. It's really a case of "do I judge them by todays standards, or by the standards at their launch?". To be honest I think I'd say FC3 is a better game, but I'm still gonna vote Uncharted 2.
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).
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