Darksiders (PS3/360)

[Robster]

Excellent news spatial !!

[teddymeow]

Ooh, it's a bit good this, isn't it.

Borrowing it from work and I've ploughed 5 hours or so into it already

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just on my way to the second dungeon, shooting angels with that weird Scottish giant

I really like how chunky it feels and how vicious some of Wars moves are. There are some nice graphical effects going on too but for the most part it's "solid".

I can see where the reviews have come at it from the "it does nothing original" angle but for me that's why it's so good. An old fashioned adventure game with plenty of violence and lite-puzzling to while away a few evenings.

I've certainly got less frustrated with this than I did with Bayonetta.

[Spatial]

So did anyone who had problems with the tearing check out the patch? How is it now?

[Jebus]

According to a mate I'm half an hour from the end.

This has got to be one of the greatest finds in ages, hardly any real press behind this but goodness me what a game. Truly chock full of "**** YEAH!!!" fistpump style moments.

When War

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tames the horse

just...OH YEAH!!!

"Paybacks a b****" achievement as well...great!

[importaku]

So did anyone who had problems with the tearing check out the patch? How is it now?

On my 360 i was running it in standard definition & via compo****e cables & it was a mess regarding the tearing, with the patch installed it's all fixed. Started a new game as it was easier to check out if it had fixed it, i was. Yanking that camera round like a maniac quickly changing directions & not a single tear.

Yay rejoyce

[yesteryeargames]

just finished it good game thanks for heads up . i hope there will be a sequal

i cant get that aerrial predator achivo and im not sure what i can do to get more of the enemys lol

[Jebus]

Just finished it.

One of the best endings in gaming history? Certainly one of the best in recent memory.

I cannot wait, I mean, literally, I CANNOT WAIT for the next game in the series.

Imagine what they could do now...perhaps the sequel could have

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co-op in it, with 4 horseman

why not?

[BaronSqwelch]

Just beaten Tiamat and am so far really enjoying it.
Also, the patch for the screen tearing really makes a difference....only playing on normal tho as I am getting steadily less skilled at these games

[djtickle]

Just beaten Tiamat and am so far really enjoying it.
Also, the patch for the screen tearing really makes a difference....only playing on normal tho as I am getting steadily less skilled at these games

For me thats when the game really got going. If you like it up till now you should love the rest!

[fuse]

Played a bit more last night - and yep, the patch has fixed the tear even if not the framerate. Good news. I played up until the point

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just after you kill the Stygian

- more than a hint of SotC at points in that stage.

I am still enjoying this but I am finding some sections very un-necessary. I feel like in some ways they have tried to do too much with this. The gun sections for one, seem rather out of place.

[fuse]

Ugh, having some real frustration with some of these fights. Currently at the

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Black Throne

on apocalyptic (first playthrough) and my strategy of going at it all minus items is backfiring somewhat. Given that a death in a fight brings you back to your last checkpoint at 50&#37; life, and with enemies in some fights capable of taking off a good 2/3 bars in a short string of attacks, it's proving very easy to get stuck looping the same fight until you can manage to do it flawlessly. Appreciate this is my own fault, but still, 'tis testing my patience.

[Goemon]

Ugh, having some real frustration with some of these fights. Currently at the

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Black Throne

on apocalyptic (first playthrough) and my strategy of going at it all minus items is backfiring somewhat. Given that a death in a fight brings you back to your last checkpoint at 50% life, and with enemies in some fights capable of taking off a good 2/3 bars in a short string of attacks, it's proving very easy to get stuck looping the same fight until you can manage to do it flawlessly. Appreciate this is my own fault, but still, 'tis testing my patience.

I had the same concern so plumped for normal difficulty. Kinda glad I did, I can imagine some of the enemies are a right pain in the ass on apocalyptic, certain moves took off huge chunks of health even on normal.

The fighting has a few awkward issues too. Dash and block on the same button doesn't work for one. There becomes instances where you're holding the button to block but you're not blocking and so get chinned. I'm not sure if there are any invincible frames on the dash either, I ended up using it to gain distance as opposed to dodging attacks as they come in.

I do have concerns about playing games on hard (just for the achievements ) and getting frustrated with them. I'm finding myself drawn to playing on normal first, just so I know what's coming and where sticking points may be.

[BaronSqwelch]

I am finding it quite hard on normal so glad I never went for hard first
Cant even get across the bloody sand without being eaten at the mo...

[k0pp0]

Interesting thing happened to me after the patch on the 360 version.. I just offed the

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Stygian

and in it's death sequence, it reared up and.. disappeared. as did War. Then War reappeared sat on thin air and all I could do was pan the camera around. I saved to a new point, restarted and all was fine.. Weird though.

At

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The Black Throne

and it's still not blown me away, just an alright hack 'n' slash for me.

[FelixofMars]

Just picked this up again and got the patch to cure the tearing, to be honest I only noticed it in the lava areas so far so I am not really fussed about the patch if that is all it does :P

I stepped down to normal so I am going to see how that works out, I actually must say that War is so SLOW. I can see why they added the dash out of combat as well as in it.