Is this as difficult as a Dark Souls game?

[Ripthruster]

Game looks great! However, I am older and though I enjoyed Dark Souls games and Blood borne, I didn't actually finish any of them. Will this be as punishing? Or is it just using the DS style of campfires, boss battles, and having to recapture lost resources from your corpse?

[カミナ]

I played on solo veteran and it was probably comparable to a fromsoft game. There is no lost resources on corpse though.

[dyne2alex]

it's punishing in a different sort of way. you don't even need to recapture lost resources from your corpse. Some people really find the staggering from adds to be "cheap" though. It's not as if there aren't counterplay for adds through class abilities, mod abilities, target priority, and weapon selection though. People coming from DS often find it "cheap" because they're used to a 1 on 1 with the boss.

[MrWitz]

Solo is pretty difficult. Coop is nearly trivial though.

[Darkrayne]

Depends massively on which archetypes you play as but overall I'd say it's much easier than a FromSoft game. mainly because there's always a checkpoint before major bosses and there's no real punishment for dying.

[Augoeides]

As someone who has finished all the Dark Souls games (with the exception of Demon Souls, and Bloodborne, the latter of which hasn't hit PC yet), I can say that in general, Remnant 2 is far easier than the average Dark Souls game.

Most of the enemies are melee-oriented, and unless you exclusively decide to be melee-based as well (or at least the Challenger Archetype, which is rewarded for doing melee), you'll be using guns to kite and shoot. This means, that as long are your aware of enemy placement, your probably not going to get hit.

However, this doesn't mean the game is easy. If an enemy does manage to hit you, damage is justifiably high, because of how easy it is to maneuver. The weight system for armor is a big strict, so you'll want to stick to Medium rolls, although Light rolls is best, but this means your armor will be bad, so there is some decent trade offs.

Death isn't punishing at all: just means your thrown back to the last "bonfire", with no corpse runs, although this means you'll still have to fight through a level, which is fine, cause you'll need the experience and resources to adapt to other playstyles, experiment, etc.

Compared to the Dark Souls series, the Boss battles in Remnant 2 are actually quite fun. Dark Souls definitely has it's share of interesting Bosses, but most of them boil down to "I'm a beefy fast melee guy", whereas Remnant 2 has enemies that ooze through walls, shower the screen with area attacks as a small phase, etc. However, Boss fights tend to be relatively short by comparison, usually about 2 minutes or less. There are a TON of Bosses in the game though, and because of how unique each playthrough is with random worlds, you may run into new Bosses and environments all the time.

The thing that surprised me most about the game, was the Roleplaying elements. The story itself is kind of bare bones and meh, BUT they made up for this with ridiculous levels of detail in the side stuff and story quests specific to each "world" you visit. You get to talk to a lot of Bosses before fighting them, and can even side with them, if your willing to be evil (although some bosses aren't evil, just in the way of what you were initially doing and have a different opinion on what your trying to accomplish for someone else). This is a game thick with Lore and conversation, if your interested in that stuff. Of coarse, you can just ignore all that and pew pew, if you want.

My only real complaint about the game atm, is performance issues. My GTX 2060 doesn't quite run the game amazing, as I do get 60 FPS, but the game constantly stutters, making certain parts of the game much harder than intended. However, the developer has been very transparent with us, and is promising to fix that.

Also, despite the game not being "officially" out a week yet, they made a Reddit post yesterday, claiming that Quality of Life changes are on the way. This means that unlocking certain Classes and weapons will be less tedious, and the game will be more focused on fun. As someone whose an older gamer too (if you can consider turning 39 this year to be old), I'd strongly recommend Remnant 2, if your fan of shooters and RPG's.

[yuzhonglu]

It's comparable to DS3 in terms of difficulty.

[DANN3]

Played solo veteran as gunslinger/hunter, died maybe 4 times to normal enemies/elites, first or second tried all bosses I got for my campaign except for the cube in labyrinth and Sha'Hala. Fromsoft games are much more difficult IF you played this game on veteran, and maybe it's a little archetype dependent on the type of experience you'd have.

[X-oR.Belgium...]

You shoot and hit weakpoint , so ofcourse is more easy , you can die, but it's just die an retry better, you don't loose xp .... it's fun , the procedural make the game enjoyable for retry in harder diffilculty , solo or with friends, or go in random games for grab some stuff

[Augoeides]

Originally posted by DANN3:

Played solo veteran as gunslinger/hunter, died maybe 4 times to normal enemies/elites, first or second tried all bosses I got for my campaign except for the cube in labyrinth and Sha'Hala. Fromsoft games are much more difficult IF you played this game on veteran, and maybe it's a little archetype dependent on the type of experience you'd have.

Veteran is actually how I feel like the game was meant to be played. Enemies hit hard enough to put you on edge, and in a 3 person team, Bosses are strong enough to almost one shot you and tanky enough that teamwork actually matters. I haven't played beyond that difficulty yet (because I'm waiting for a friend to get the game tomorrow, so I have a reason to keep playing), but I had an intense experience with a group against the Guardian on N'erud, where we had to do like 10 attempts and my team was clearly changing up their gear/Classes for, including myself.

I'd love to try Hardcore for the rewards, but the game's performance is so erradic for me atm, that I could barely get to the first save point, do to all the freezes during battles.

[D. Flame]

It feels harder for about 30 minutes as you get used to the controls and used to every encounter being a gank squad. Then it is easier.

[JP]

game doesn't resemble dark souls in anyway. "souls like" is just a marketing gimmick. a game being punishing and unforgiving doesn't make it qualify as a "souls like" in my opinion.

[D. Flame]

The dodge system and checkpoint system are the only really souls-like bits

[Emperor Fooble]

Is it as difficult?

No, especially since you can play it on easy.

But many of the bosses are (imo) harder, but not quite to the level of the worst Souls bosses, atleast on the earlier difficulties.

It's more accessible than Dark Souls 1-3, but harder than Elden Ring.

[Lecroy]

Originally posted by Private Jeff:

game doesn't resemble dark souls in anyway. "souls like" is just a marketing gimmick. a game being punishing and unforgiving doesn't make it qualify as a "souls like" in my opinion.

Jeff you literally just gave a reason that the game has a souls-like tag on it LOL

[Kappa]

It's smoother, without FS timesinks like corpse run and bonefire far away from bosses.
In terms of difficulty, I found remnant harder because you have to aim weakspots, but greatly I enjoyed both souls and remnants.