Great game ruined by the second 50%

[TheViltsuZ]

In the 2nd half you are already so overpowered that all these cool bosses with their fancy moves just melt in front of you. And that's the biggest sin a game can do. Presenting cool bombastic bosses and then having them be complete jokes without any challenge.

You should not be able to become so overpowered so easily. Fix this and it's a GOTY.

[Ratsplat]

That's why I haven't played Dishonored yet. Best ending = just avoid ever using 90% of the game's content.

[Personne]

Fight Simon and we'll talk about it after.

[Seisachtheia]

You probably played on Expeditioner, if you do all the available side content and tackle some of the bosses you're supposed to do after Act 2 then you absolutely get too powerful. However, for anyone having the same issue if you bump the difficulty up to Expert the difficulty goes right back to a nice balance, you won't feel overpowered anymore (unless you intentionally grinded).

Do make sure to avoid ALL side content in Act 3 though until after you do the main story bit. It's supposed to be post game content.

[【ＮＵＫＯ】]

Originally posted by Personne:

Fight Simon and we'll talk about it after.

2nd phase... oh Man...

[Paradroid78]

You don't say what difficulty you're playing on. Can you increase it to a higher level?

[Tenshu]

But isn't this true for a lot of games? Like Elden Ring melee users are Gucci once they find the Greatsword and for magic users it's once they find the gravity rod and Gravitas, both very early.

[Carnasid]

You can also just, you know, unequip Painted Power and Cheater.

[Ratsplat]

Originally posted by Carnasid:

You can also just, you know, unequip Painted Power and Cheater.

Very true, which is why a tiered set of pictos would have worked wonders. 99k, 999k, etc.

[TheViltsuZ]

Originally posted by Carnasid:

You can also just, you know, unequip Painted Power and Cheater.

I don't like purposefully gimping myself. I want to use everything the game offers and still feel some sense of challenge.

[blankt]

theres a mod for increasing hp of mobs, im currently on ng+ with x100hp running solo mael without cheater / second chance and its pretty fun, for fresh run x5hp works fine and if it gets too easy (and it will) you can up it as you wish

[L4amb0]

Originally posted by Tenshu:

But isn't this true for a lot of games? Like Elden Ring melee users are Gucci once they find the Greatsword and for magic users it's once they find the gravity rod and Gravitas, both very early.

Maybe you are thinking of a different game, as I am not familiar with all of the dark souls. However in elden ring I have hundreds of hours and gravity rod and gravitas I am not familiar with. There are a ton of greatswords and the regular one is gotten super early but isn't overpowered. In ER, people will complain about Blasphemous blade being OP along with darkmoon greatsword, and some of the other God's weapons.

As for this thread, people overly exaggerate game skills in almost every game in difficult games; whether it's Sekiro, Sifu, Elden Ring, Lies of P, Expedition 33 etc. There are some gamers that are incredibly good at games and it would also be true they would be the one's to post on forums as well. It's a HUGE hobby but a niche hobby at the enthusiast levels.

Maybe the OP is just an amazing gamer and doesn't get the fact that their skills are outliers compared to most people. Perhaps they are just stirring the pot. Who knows but the game isn't a breeze IF people actually play without looking up everything which is common in today's gamers with streaming and streamers. If people don't obsess over min and maxing, they wouldnt know what path to take and what to upgrade or not, what character to use or not, how limited the resources can be, etc. It's very easy to have a regular playthrough on default difficulty and be thoroughly challenged.

[Piotrek]

I've started new game plus at expeditioner after doing 90% of the game. I expected the fitghts to be harder, but they were not, so I set the difficulty level to expert. Barely any difference, maybe what changed is that a single enemy attack can kill a party member (still not always), but I still can kill even bosses easily. I don't even use Maelle with her overpowered skills.

As for the fight with Simon, I think it is not a very good fight. Because he removes dead party members, it is hard to learn his attack patterns, the fight is simply too short. And then you have to go through his first phase again to start the proper second one.

[Reiker]

One of the few flaws of the game.

The optional fights throughout the game are fun and difficult, but if you do them then you become very overpowered for the story content.

I've been watching a stream of someone who's not very good at the game just to see what abilities the bosses have.

[Le_Gring0]

If it can help you to understand : (I'm french). Guillaume Broche (Game Director) has been interviewed a loooot of time these days : he is invited by a bunch of french streamers/youtubers. In a recent interview, he stated "every FFX fan agrees that, completing every optional contents , which allowing you to one shot everything (final boss included) is something kinda cool".