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Darksiders II |OT| What starts with War, ends with Death.

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earvcunanan said:
You got any screens from Argul's Tomb? I've yet to see it.
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MagicWithEarvin

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Sweet.

Just curious, what are your in-game settings and PC specs, Stallion? I know the game on PC wasn't optimized good at first, but there have been some patches.
 
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MagicWithEarvin

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Is there a fix for the micro stuttering on PC? Here are my settings:

1920x1080 @ 60 FPS
AA turned off in-game
Ambient Occlusion off in-game
FXAA turned on at Nvidia control panel
16x AF turned on at Nvidia control panel

Running on a 660ti. Overall, it's a much better experience than what it was on PS3. 1080p/60FPS is sweet and it looks pretty nice. Eh, I'll probably look into some AA injectors. How do I install SMAA into the game?

Edit: So, I downloaded the SMAA injector, but my Darksiders II doesn't have the Binaries > Win32 folders. Is it alright if I just make the folders and put the SMAA files in there?

Edit 2: Got it figured out. SMAA set to ultra makes this game look much better. There's still some stuttering but I get a locked 60 FPS overall which is damn nice compared to what I went through on PS3. I'll post up some screens later.

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MushroomSamba

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Just started this recently. Anyone have suggestions for which skill tree route I should take? I haven't used any points yet (got 3 waiting to be spent), because I'm indecisive as hell. I'm thinking going with horde summon, mainly because it sounds more amusing, but the other side seems more useful though.

Either way, it doesn't seem especially necessary at the moment. It's been fairly easy so far (although fighting that first "Maker" guy without getting hit took me a few tries).
 
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malfcn

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Are their achievements for the Forge?

Also, watched the IGN preview: "THQ estimates the Forge should last longer than their last DLC, Argul's Tomb" - that doesn't sound promising. Hope it is a little bit more meaty.
 
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Combichristoffersen

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So, I sold a chapter of the book of the dead to Vulgrim, and he gave me a key to the Forge Lands tomb. But where do I find this tomb?

Also, I'm currently running around the City of the Dead and I'm starting to get bored of the game since it just drags on for far too long and has already overstaid its welcome. How much is left of the game by now, if I do only the story-related missions? And what level should I be before doing the Soul Arbiter's maze, killing Beithir, Gorewood and the Deposed King? As for the Deposed King quest, is that the Argul's Tomb DLC?
 
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MagicWithEarvin

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Anyone know when the Abyssal Forge will go up on Steam?

Combichristoffersen said:
So, I sold a chapter of the book of the dead to Vulgrim, and he gave me a key to the Forge Lands tomb. But where do I find this tomb?

Also, I'm currently running around the City of the Dead and I'm starting to get bored of the game since it just drags on for far too long and has already overstaid its welcome. How much is left of the game by now, if I do only the story-related missions? And what level should I be before doing the Soul Arbiter's maze, killing Beithir, Gorewood and the Deposed King? As for the Deposed King quest, is that the Argul's Tomb DLC?
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Fast Travel to the Nook - the tomb is right before the Lost Temple.

There are still two worlds left for you to do, but they're fairly short.
 
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MagicWithEarvin

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Anyone on Steam want to send gift me some Possessed Weapons? =D

Steam ID: earvcunanan

Also, I'm playing through Argul's Tomb right now and getting some decent loot. Think I'm almost done with it.

Edit: Just beat it. For $1.50, it was worth it. The
Frostbane
boss fight was cool.
 
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Combichristoffersen

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earvcunanan said:
Fast Travel to the Nook - the tomb is right before the Lost Temple.

There are still two worlds left for you to do, but they're fairly short.
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Thanks. And holy fuck does the game (on PS3, at least) turn into a buggy mess once you reach
Earth
. It's crashed twice in less than 10 minutes, forcing me to do a hard reset both times. Vigil really needs to get a patch out the door to fix all the freezing issues people have been reporting.

BTW, is there any post-game, ie can I go back to finish up side missions when I'm done with the main game?
 
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malfcn

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Apparently the Abyssal Forge has no new achievements, and people are reporting it has major game-breaking bugs. This could be another nail in the coffin.

RIP Darksiders, Vigil and THQ?
 
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MagicWithEarvin

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Ok... so I've got the Season Pass on Steam, but the Abyssal Forge hasn't unlocked for me in-game yet. What gives? The DLC itself is already on sale on Steam for $9.99.

Combichristoffersen said:
BTW, is there any post-game, ie can I go back to finish up side missions when I'm done with the main game?
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No, New Game+ starts you off from the beginning but with your current level, stats and equipment.
 
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Leon Belmont

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earvcunanan said:
Ok... so I've got the Season Pass on Steam, but the Abyssal Forge hasn't unlocked for me in-game yet. What gives? The DLC itself is already on sale on Steam for $9.99.



No, New Game+ starts you off from the beginning but with your current level, stats and equipment.
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Same to me, I have the season pass and I can't see the damn Abyssal Forge!
 
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Combichristoffersen

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earvcunanan said:
No, New Game+ starts you off from the beginning but with your current level, stats and equipment.
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Thanks. I'll finish up some side quests before going off to fight the final boss then. I've done Lair of the Deposed King and Soul Arbiter's maze, so the ones left are Bheithir, Gorewood, the Wandering Stones and the Bloodless. Can't be bothered to find all the shitty little trinkets for Vulgrim and Blackroot or to do Uriel's sidequest. By now I frankly just want the game to be over. It's not a bad game (besides being a poorly coded and buggy mess, and it just froze and crashed my PS3 again, forcing me to do a hard reset and a file system recovery), but it's rather disappointing compared to the first game.
 
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malfcn

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THQ doesn't want to make money. It's that simple. There are people that buy DLC for the sole purpose of getting the achievements. No achievements = lost sales.
 
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MagicWithEarvin

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Meh, the DLC sucks and I'd be pissed if I spent $10 on this, even more so for the Season Pass at $20. Good thing I only got the Pass for $4, though. Still, Vigil Games are slowly falling off since the release of this game.
 
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Combichristoffersen

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RyanardoDaVinci said:
Anyone want to help me get the gifting trophy? It's the last one I need for platinum.

My PSN is the same as here.
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The one for gifting an item to a friend? Sure, I'll add you on PSN and you can gift me some shitty item (which I'll sell to Ostegoth just to get rid of it) to help you get the trophy :)

earvcunanan said:
Meh, the DLC sucks and I'd be pissed if I spent $10 on this, even more so for the Season Pass at $20. Good thing I only got the Pass for $4, though. Still, Vigil Games are slowly falling off since the release of this game.
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So the new DLC sucks and doesn't even have cheevos/trophies? Think I may just pass on it then.
 
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Snacks the sober sea lion

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Combichristoffersen said:
So, I sold a chapter of the book of the dead to Vulgrim, and he gave me a key to the Forge Lands tomb. But where do I find this tomb?

Also, I'm currently running around the City of the Dead and I'm starting to get bored of the game since it just drags on for far too long and has already overstaid its welcome. How much is left of the game by now, if I do only the story-related missions? And what level should I be before doing the Soul Arbiter's maze, killing Beithir, Gorewood and the Deposed King? As for the Deposed King quest, is that the Argul's Tomb DLC?
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That's probably about 70% of the storyline. Just guessing that randomly. The game definitely spent too long in the Land of the Dead. There's one particularly good dungeon left after City of the Dead, but the last third of the game definitely feels unpolished. Completely linear, empty realms and one of the easiest final bosses I've ever seen.
 
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Combichristoffersen

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Snacks the sober sea lion said:
That's probably about 70% of the storyline. Just guessing that randomly. The game definitely spent too long in the Land of the Dead. There's one particularly good dungeon left after City of the Dead, but the last third of the game definitely feels unpolished. Completely linear, empty realms and one of the easiest final bosses I've ever seen.
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Finished the game just about an hour ago, and yeah, the game definitely spent far too much time in Kingdom of the Dead. While the game is by no means bad, it just feels like a disappointment and a wasted opportunity. My main gripes with the game were:

It runs like shit on consoles. Tearing out the ass, occasional freezes, and sometimes it'll crash completely randomly, forcing you to hard reset. It's a buggy mess, and would have benefited from some more time in the oven. This is especially disappointing since the first game ran pretty smoothly on both consoles.

It's just too damn long. I normally wouldn't complain about getting value for money, but the game just starts dragging already at the Kingdom of the Dead, and by the end of that realm you're already wishing for the game to be over and done with. Doesn't help that far too many of the quests are simply fetch quests, making the game feel unnecessarily padded.

The loot/stat system doesn't really add anything to the game. While it doesn't make the game worse, it doesn't really make it better either. It just feels like something that was added for no real reason.

The realms you visit are, besides the Forge Lands, pretty dull and boring. Lostlight especially suffers from this, as there's seriously fuck all of interest to actually see. Kingdom of the Dead is just boring with skulls and bones and sand everywhere, and Shadow's Edge isn't as much bad as it is just forgettable.

The final boss is piss easy. I mean, yeah, I played the game on easy and I was just below level 22 when I fought him, so I didn't expect him to be particularly hard, but damn, he was far easier than Samael, Argul and the Soul Arbiter.

No trophies for the DLC, boo :mad:

So, yeah, not as much a bad game as it is just a disappointing game that could have been so much better. I wish Vigil would get the chance to make a third Darksiders game to fix the problems with Darksiders II, but I guess there's little chance of that happening.
 
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Snacks the sober sea lion

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The stat system is pretty important for the Crucible. Get weapons with high execution chance, wrath and health on execute, and turn small enemies into walking health packs. Freezing enemies is also useful. The bigger problem is that I spent literally half the game using a Possessed Glaive because it outclassed everything. I didn't get items that even matched its attack power until past level 20.

There are a ton of dungeons, but since nearly all the dungeons in the same areas have roughly have the same theme, you don't really remember which one is which.

I thought it was pretty good, but after finishing it the flaws are really obvious. The first world sets too high of a bar, the second world goes on too long, the dungeons don't distinguish themselves, and the game decline as it went on. Definitely set too high of a bar with its own soundtrack too, that the later moments didn't live up to at all. I really don't care about trophies/ achievements, and I got all the dlc (aside from the numerous weapons) for about $5 anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yIwPovQKxQ

The first song you hear, and then again at a pretty big boss fight, and then you never get anything like it again. Also the Crowfather theme.
Death is also underutilized. We know he feels bad about killing his people, he even says if given the choice to do it again, he wouldn't kill Absalom, rather than trying to justify it had to be done. But all he really gets to do is make smartass remarks while
Absalom
cackles about how evil his plans are, and what a jerk Death is. I don't want them to make Death melodramatic, but does feel like they (and the soundtrack) set up Death for more and then forgot about it.
 
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Combichristoffersen

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Snacks the sober sea lion said:
The stat system is pretty important for the Crucible. Get weapons with high execution chance, wrath and health on execute, and turn small enemies into walking health packs. Freezing enemies is also useful. The bigger problem is that I spent literally half the game using a Possessed Glaive because it outclassed everything. I didn't get items that even matched its attack power until past level 20.
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Yeah, I guess it might be useful in the Crucible (haven't tried that yet, actually), but in the main campaign it's not really all that useful (besides those scythes that let me steal enemy health with each hit, those were boss). It's not really a bad idea, but it didn't add all that much to the campaign.
 
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systemfehler

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How does Arguls Tomb DLC works? Do I access it sometimes in-game to get that loot for my current playthrough or is it only stand-alone via "new game"?
 
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Combichristoffersen

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CrazyDude said:
So why do people hate this game?
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I don't think anyone really hates it as it is by no means a bad game, people are just disappointed by it. Mainly people are disappointed because the realms you visit are, except for the first one, not particularly interesting. The game is also too long for its own good as it ends up dragging before you're even done with the second realm, and too many of the quests are really just fetch quests (one of the quests people have complained the most about is set in the Kingdom of the Dead, where you have to find three court members for the king of the dead, and while looking for the second member you have to find three souls just to get him to follow you, so it's a fetch quest in a fetch quest). Add to that how shitty it runs on PS360 compared to the first game, and it's just a disappointing game that could and should have been better.
 
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Stallion Free

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I accidentally broke the new DLC pretty early on. I can't figure out a way to fix it and I can't find a way to restart the DLC. This is just kind of depressing.
 
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Combichristoffersen

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It's such an incomprehensibly dumb idea to not let you level up by killing enemies once you reach level 21. Why did Vigil think of it as a good idea at all? Anyway, I'm at level 22 now after completing Argul's Tomb (didn't even get a level up for killing Frostbane, bah). If I buy the new DLC, will that level me up any more?
 
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Combichristoffersen said:
It's such an incomprehensibly dumb idea to not let you level up by killing enemies once you reach level 21. Why did Vigil think of it as a good idea at all? Anyway, I'm at level 22 now after completing Argul's Tomb (didn't even get a level up for killing Frostbane, bah). If I buy the new DLC, will that level me up any more?
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Nope, same shit.
 
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