[Darksiders] Thread II : the hideous offspring of every game you love.

Grevados

I've been hoarding boatman's coins until I hit the level cap, so if I get any possessed claws I'll let you know.

Lanrutcon

If I find another possessed axe I'm going to respec Necro so I can have my own crows tear my eyes out.

DeMoN

Does anyone know if boatman coins carry over into new game +?

Monger

Lanrutcon wrote: »

I hear you get Possessed Claw Weapons I hear they exist. That they are a thing in the game that you can get. For your character. To use.

*cries*

I found possessed claws once.

On my first run through of a 5 wave battle.

Died before a save.

milk ducks

I'm not really sure what the point of Boatman's Coins are. I mean, I know you can buy things from Vulgrim with them, but is that it? I don't really want to toss them down the drain 10 at a time for some random epic item that may not even be comparable to what I'm currently wearing.

milk ducks

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

The only times I use lockon is with the gun/chain and when I'm in reaper form to focus down specific enemies because sometimes the hit detection can be wonky.

Because fuck liches. Seriously.

Liches are so fucking annoying as a Necromancer, because its Ghouls look exactly the same as my Ghouls, and I have no idea what's going on half the time.

Grevados

They do carry over to new game+, along with

Spoiler:

stat bonuses bought from Blackroot, and extra skill points bought from Ostegoth

And any items you had at the end.

Catalase

Grevados wrote: »

They do carry over to new game+, along with

Spoiler:

stat bonuses bought from Blackroot, and extra skill points bought from Ostegoth

And any items you had at the end.

What about the actual stonebites and artefacts themselves? Reset on NG+?

Grevados

Yeah, all the ones you collected get put back, but the things you bought with them stay with you.

Lanrutcon

I am so fucking proud of myself. I spent 20 minutes staring at a well hidden collectible, unable to figure out how to get to it...and then it struck me. Turned out that getting to the damn thing involved doing something incredibly unorthodox in a manner that the game doesn't ever even hint at.

I'm rather impressed with the variety of puzzles so far.

Grevados

I'm loving how whenever I'm about to leave a room and the doorway is blocked, Death's raw annoyance rolls off of him in waves while he waits for the enemies to show up. For somebody who wears an expressionless mask for the entire game, Death's surprisingly emotive.

milath

So um... this

Spoiler:

maze

is nucking futs. At first it was fun. Then the shielded enemies started making my game frustrating as all get out.

On the bright side, the scythes you find in there? Top shelf

Ynuu

Lork wrote: »

Not only did Twilight Princess let you do exactly that, but Ocarina of Time did as well, although it was an optional ability that you had to explore to find in the latter.

Eh I think I beat all of TP's dungeons in one go so it never came up, I'll take your word for it. And OoT had the green teleporty thing, but couldn't you only jump between two points? And you'd have to set your outside one ahead of time. I don't know if it's a bug but DS2 has been saving all my dungeon waypoints, been quite nice.

Did either Zelda game let you save in the middle of the dungeon? I feel like it's always booted you back to the start of the dungeon when you get back into it. This is all just reminding me it's been too long since I've played a Zelda game... bah.

In any case. I had possessed gauntlets for a little while, they were right sweet. And what's wrong with possessed axes?! I love mine, it's awesome.

Derrick

Zzulu wrote: »

Lork wrote: »

SyphonBlue wrote: »

How is it the worst part of the game when you guys keep doing it waaaaaaaaay before you're ready to? The enemies have level indicators on their names, you should know if you're ready to do an area or not.

So why do the sidequests for those areas unlock 6 hours before you're supposed to do them, then? Of course people are going to get frustrated when the game presents them with a quest to clear out a dungeon, and then they get 90% of the way through it before suddenly running into a brick wall because their numbers aren't high enough.

It's a symptom of a larger problem, which is that the RPG levelling is tacked on and adds nothing of value to the game. I'm starting to appreciate the derivativeness of the original Darksiders. With Darksiders 2, in pretty much every case where they diverge from Zelda the game is worse for it.

You can still beat those bosses if you're good enough and don't mind dying a lot before you get the perfect attempt in. Some people couldn't deal with Gorewood at a lower level but others managed to beat him for example. Personally I like this system because "overleveled boss" is the only challenging thing in this game

I like it as well. I killed him at level 2 when I found him randomly just exploring. I didn't realize at first that I wasn't actually supposed to be able to kill him. And after it dawned on me I was just too stubborn to quit.

He's actually really easy when you get the timing and animations down.

Skull2185

Beat the game. Pretty good stuff. I feel like overall, Darksiders 1 was a more enjoyable game. Death is a better character though.

Some of the bosses and enemies got a little bullshitty towards the end there, so i had to bump it to easy =\

ContentContext

milath wrote: »

So um... this

Spoiler:

maze

is nucking futs. At first it was fun. Then the shielded enemies started making my game frustrating as all get out.

On the bright side, the scythes you find in there? Top shelf

I'm wary of going there, since I only have 4 or 5 of the artifacts with the directions. Can it be done without all of them?

Currently going back and getting all of the previously inaccessible chests/finding more secret stuff, before moving on to the 4th world. I only have one GnoMAD, but I know I passed by another. Just can't remember where it was.

Monger

Monger wrote: »

Lanrutcon wrote: »

I hear you get Possessed Claw Weapons I hear they exist. That they are a thing in the game that you can get. For your character. To use.

*cries*

I found possessed claws once.

On my first run through of a 5 wave battle.

Died before a save.

Found a pair of possessed claws like 15 minutes after making this post.

Thought it was funny.

milath

ContentContext wrote: »

milath wrote: »

So um... this

Spoiler:

maze

is nucking futs. At first it was fun. Then the shielded enemies started making my game frustrating as all get out.

On the bright side, the scythes you find in there? Top shelf

I'm wary of going there, since I only have 4 or 5 of the artifacts with the directions. Can it be done without all of them?

Currently going back and getting all of the previously inaccessible chests/finding more secret stuff, before moving on to the 4th world. I only have one GnoMAD, but I know I passed by another. Just can't remember where it was.

I tried to do it without all the direction artifacts, but it would just take too long and the fights as you get deeper into it aren't easy so I broke down and googled a forum post somewhere with the directions I was missing to the secrets/exit. Even with them it's more than a little difficult. I can't imagine wandering around in the mazes looking for the exits without something though. Without some serious luck in the lower floors you'd be wandering quite a long time.

ContentContext

Figured as much. Good thing I'm backtracing.

Evil Multifarious

....

I just got fucked out of all the side quests I didn't get finished. End of Forge Lands:

Spoiler:

After beating the Guardian, went to the Crucible and left, and the place I come back? RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TREE OF LIFE. Where it auto saves and puts me through a cut scene out of the world. And there doesn't seem to be any way back.

Holy fuck that is stupid.

Dranyth

Eh? You can go back and forth whenever you want.

Frei

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

....

I just got fucked out of all the side quests I didn't get finished. End of Forge Lands:

Spoiler:

After beating the Guardian, went to the Crucible and left, and the place I come back? RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TREE OF LIFE. Where it auto saves and puts me through a cut scene out of the world. And there doesn't seem to be any way back.

Holy fuck that is stupid.

Well this is embarrassing for you because there's a portal right back to that place. It is like, directly viewable on the map in the new zone as soon as the cutscenes are over.

Viking

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

....

I just got fucked out of all the side quests I didn't get finished. End of Forge Lands:

Spoiler:

After beating the Guardian, went to the Crucible and left, and the place I come back? RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TREE OF LIFE. Where it auto saves and puts me through a cut scene out of the world. And there doesn't seem to be any way back.

Holy fuck that is stupid.

there should be a portal right back to the Forgelands, I went back there quite often to shop/finish up sidequests

Evil Multifarious

That's what I was hoping, and what that ... weird merchant dude just told me.

I'm still mad they made me skip the walk up to that area and totally screwed up the pacing for me.

azith28

Beat it today....having 20% life steal on your scythes kinda takes the challenge out of the game especially for things like waves of regular enemies. will wait a bit to talk about the ending, dont wanna spoil anything for people.

Those damn stones are not easy to find. I think i got maybe a total of a dozen, and like 8 of them were blue. I have less then 10 book of the dead pages to find. got all the gnome statues, I'm actually running out of room in my inventory for scythes because i havent sold/fed any of my possessed ones and they are still in my inventory along with all the legendaries ive found.

Grevados

Hmm...and here I was concerned that Vulgrim was behaving downright ethically, since he was mailing me any legendaries I didn't have space for when I found them. Thinking it's a bug, but I can't buy multiple possessed weapons from him without quitting the game and restarting it.

Lanrutcon

azith28 wrote: »

Beat it today....having 20% life steal on your scythes kinda takes the challenge out of the game especially for things like waves of regular enemies. will wait a bit to talk about the ending, dont wanna spoil anything for people.

Those damn stones are not easy to find. I think i got maybe a total of a dozen, and like 8 of them were blue. I have less then 10 book of the dead pages to find. got all the gnome statues, I'm actually running out of room in my inventory for scythes because i havent sold/fed any of my possessed ones and they are still in my inventory along with all the legendaries ive found.

You kidding me? I'm 3/4 through Act 2, I've found 20+ blue stones, 2 yellow, 8 red so far. Sadly blue stones are shitty and reds are the super awesome ones.

Catalase

Someone somewhere should draw up a Death versus Raziel mashup. That would be rad.

Lanrutcon wrote: »

azith28 wrote: »

Beat it today....having 20% life steal on your scythes kinda takes the challenge out of the game especially for things like waves of regular enemies. will wait a bit to talk about the ending, dont wanna spoil anything for people.

Those damn stones are not easy to find. I think i got maybe a total of a dozen, and like 8 of them were blue. I have less then 10 book of the dead pages to find. got all the gnome statues, I'm actually running out of room in my inventory for scythes because i havent sold/fed any of my possessed ones and they are still in my inventory along with all the legendaries ive found.

You kidding me? I'm 3/4 through Act 2, I've found 20+ blue stones, 2 yellow, 8 red so far. Sadly blue stones are shitty and reds are the super awesome ones.

Ugh. The stones are my least favourite collectable. They're almost as bad as the feathers in Assassin's Creed 2.

Corpekata

Blarg, screw Sentinel's Gaze. Get to it the first time, don't have the ability to get into the proper dungeon. Come back with it, and there's no boss, just an end room with one of those invisible monsters that I assume I will be getting the ability to see/fight later in the story.

curly haired boy

so guys does darksiders 2 have one of those really neat "here are ALL the collectibles you missed" radar thingies that darksiders 1 had? cause that was a rather nice addition to the game

Lanrutcon

Took the Deposed King. Man was he overhyped: he killed me once, then I clicked that the fucker is huge and has all the agility of a freight train.

Then I ruined him without using any special moves or consumables.

Strat:

Spoiler:

He roars, then swings his mace. Just dodge AT him, he'll miss completely leaving you with ages to beat his ass. Just keep hitting until he gets up. He'll raise his shield, you'll get deflect stunned and then hit for like 500ish damage with a shield bash. He'll try and follow that hit up with another mace swing...and then you just dodge at him again and repeat the whole thing. With life on hit, life on crit or life regen you'll be back to full by the time you need to repeat this little dance.

Rizzi

Death is pretty sexy.

Catalase

curly haired boy wrote: »

so guys does darksiders 2 have one of those really neat "here are ALL the collectibles you missed" radar thingies that darksiders 1 had? cause that was a rather nice addition to the game

God that would be nice. I haven't heard of anyone mention anything though

Skull2185

So, it doesnt appear that loot scales up to your level in NG+...

Only just got to Tri Stone though, but i have only found low level junk.

Edit: Ha ha, boy was i wrong

Karoz

Dang, another PC bug: If I'm trying to feed a possessed weapon and I select an item below the third row it won't bring up the prompt.

EriktheVikingGamer

If you play on Apocalyptic difficulty does the game give you better loot for it or is it just there for bragging rights?

Karoz

Remember kids: always break weapon racks, I just got two possessed weps in a row. Sadly it was a buckler and glaive.

Lanrutcon

Level 20 Scythes get! Kinda messed up and put Wrath on them instead of +crit damage (stupid ui), but they're still neat:

Iblis

I remember someone here was looking for a possessed Claw. I just found an extra! Though both of them are only level 15, but still.

Derrick

So I know that you can feed your possessed weapons other items, but I don't know how to do it. Does it require a certain amount of progression in the main quest? I'm starting to have to sell or scrap items to make room.