Resurrection DLC: REALLY?????

[Zaxx]

I've just finished the last part of the game, the Resurrection DLC and I just can't believe what I saw. This is the laziest piece of content ever to come out for any videogame in existence. It's basically just one boss battle which:

- takes a very long time to finish, it just drags on forever
- insanely difficult: I've played on the third difficulty setting out of the 4 and at the last part of the last boss battle I just swithed back to Squire because it's just absolute BS (you have to hit one side of his face with a combat system like this? are you fkin' serious?)

I loved Lords of Shadow, I think it's a great game but this? Originally people had to pay 10 bucks FOR THIS on consoles??? That's a crime, the devs should be serving time in a jail for this. And the story? This is the ending? Fight generic monster 526 (looks like it's supposed to be a modern version of the minotaur from the old Castlevania games but in reality it's just the Dahaka from PoP Warrior Within), then something happens and it's over?

I won't be surprised if the reviews are true and LoS2 is garbage because Resurrection shows that MercurySteam is perfectly capable of screwing up a game.

[commander]

Originally posted by Zaxx:

I've just finished the last part of the game, the Resurrection DLC and I just can't believe what I saw. This is the laziest piece of content ever to come out for any videogame in existence. It's basically just one boss battle which:

- takes a very long time to finish, it just drags on forever
- insanely difficult: I've played on the third difficulty setting out of the 4 and at the last part of the last boss battle I just swithed back to Squire because it's just absolute BS (you have to hit one side of his face with a combat system like this? are you fkin' serious?)

I loved Lords of Shadow, I think it's a great game but this? Originally people had to pay 10 bucks FOR THIS on consoles??? That's a crime, the devs should be serving time in a jail for this. And the story? This is the ending? Fight generic monster 526 (looks like it's supposed to be a modern version of the minotaur from the old Castlevania games but in reality it's just the Dahaka from PoP Warrior Within), then something happens and it's over?

I won't be surprised if the reviews are true and LoS2 is garbage because Resurrection shows that MercurySteam is perfectly capable of screwing up a game.

Try aliens colonial marines.. if you think that's bad, be sure to first look at the demo videos of it on youtube, and then comparison videos, and then play the game after you see everything, even the lies in other videos from the main developer a:cm.
Now that is bad.

The game aliens: colonial marines, was going to be good, it's too bad for what happend to it.
Lots of aliens fans were waiting since 2006, and were so mad.
If a:cm really did have issues with development that they had to cut out or try to build off what was left, and they knew about it, then why did they at launch of the game, over price it? See my point? So many on youtube believe they didn't bait and switch, that it was just a development issue, sure... it happends, but not to a:cm sorry but... over pricing the game at launch when knowing for what happend to it, is no excuse and only makes the situation worse than the state the game was in.

[Zaxx]

Originally posted by commander:

Originally posted by Zaxx:

I've just finished the last part of the game, the Resurrection DLC and I just can't believe what I saw. This is the laziest piece of content ever to come out for any videogame in existence. It's basically just one boss battle which:

- takes a very long time to finish, it just drags on forever
- insanely difficult: I've played on the third difficulty setting out of the 4 and at the last part of the last boss battle I just swithed back to Squire because it's just absolute BS (you have to hit one side of his face with a combat system like this? are you fkin' serious?)

I loved Lords of Shadow, I think it's a great game but this? Originally people had to pay 10 bucks FOR THIS on consoles??? That's a crime, the devs should be serving time in a jail for this. And the story? This is the ending? Fight generic monster 526 (looks like it's supposed to be a modern version of the minotaur from the old Castlevania games but in reality it's just the Dahaka from PoP Warrior Within), then something happens and it's over?

I won't be surprised if the reviews are true and LoS2 is garbage because Resurrection shows that MercurySteam is perfectly capable of screwing up a game.

Try aliens colonial marines.. if you think that's bad, be sure to first look at the demo videos of it on youtube, and then comparison videos, and then play the game after you see everything, even the lies in other videos from the main developer a:cm.
Now that is bad.

I don't agree: Colonial Marines is a msterpiece compared to Resurrection, it's not even a game, it's a boss battle. :D One boss battle Konami charged 10 bucks for a few years back, it's a crime against humanity. :D They managed to ruin a great game with extra content like this, playing this DLC is like punching yourself in the face.

[RAYven]

Paladin difficulty, no damage received

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LRrEQtE_M

1.its for free (it was not free years ago, but why should i care about that?)
2.its one and SINGLE hard boss in the game, it requires very good timing and knowledge of your skills (and also animation durations etc etc)
all other boss battles are each and forgiving on any difficulty, this one will destroy you if you are button masher

was i furious fighting him? hell yes, took me 2 hours on Knight to kill him

i liked the DLCs, one was heavy puzzle one, other just the hardest fight in the game...and for free

matter of opinion i guess

[Ziel]

I think that was the second worst piece of DLC I've ever played, right after Dunwall City Trials for Dishonored, although that one still had better value.

[RichardV]

Originally posted by Zaxx:

I've played on the third difficulty setting out of the 4 and at the last part of the last boss battle I just swithed back to Squire because it's just absolute BS (you have to hit one side of his face with a combat system like this? are you fkin' serious?)

I feel you there as I did the exact same thing, that last boss left a sour taste in my mouth. Overall I thought it wasnt balanced well, the arieal manouvers are kind of limiting in how you could attack him.

[Zaxx]

Originally posted by RAYven:

Paladin difficulty, no damage received

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LRrEQtE_M

1.its for free (it was not free years ago, but why should i care about that?)
2.its one and SINGLE hard boss in the game, it requires very good timing and knowledge of your skills (and also animation durations etc etc)
all other boss battles are each and forgiving on any difficulty, this one will destroy you if you are button masher

was i furious fighting him? hell yes, took me 2 hours on Knight to kill him

i liked the DLCs, one was heavy puzzle one, other just the hardest fight in the game...and for free

matter of opinion i guess

I understand that the Forgotten One fight can be memorable because of its difficulty but in my opinion correctly doing it on harder difficulties require such a precise knowledge of the game's combat system that the game itself never provides. For example now I'm replaying the game on Paladin and having a blast with perfecting sync blocks and learning the combos I did not learn the first time and the whole progessions system of combat is based around this idea even when it comes to bossfights.

As for the Forgotten One all you have to do is dodge his attacks then unleash some of your X-A-holdX combos. You don't have to block, you don't have to be fancy with your attacks, you just have to do this in the absolute perfect fashion. To me this contradicts the general gameplay of Lords of Shadow which in itself is pretty forgiving in order to give you space to try out new things so when I compare the full game to the Forgotten One that boss just stands out as a horribly tedious difficulty spike that should have no place in the game. I like a challenge but a specific difficulty setting should be balanced so the right way of doing things would have been the inclusion of a super hard mode.

And it was not free, it's "free" to us PC gamers who received the game 3 years after its initial console release. Reverie and Resurrection were priced at 20 bucks overall: that's 20 bucks for 5 levels: 3 of those provide mediocre gameplay on reused assets with the inclusion of a very badly designed secondary playable character and 2 of those are basically the bossfight that should have served as the ending of the first DLC. The two DLCs are cynical cashgrabs, nothing more, the only worthwile content was the pretty hard puzzles in Reverie in my opinion (tough even those will not pose a challenge to players who are used to puzzles in adventure games so Monkey Island it ain't).

[Epic The Incandescent]

Originally posted by Zaxx:

Originally posted by RAYven:

Paladin difficulty, no damage received

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LRrEQtE_M

1.its for free (it was not free years ago, but why should i care about that?)
2.its one and SINGLE hard boss in the game, it requires very good timing and knowledge of your skills (and also animation durations etc etc)
all other boss battles are each and forgiving on any difficulty, this one will destroy you if you are button masher

was i furious fighting him? hell yes, took me 2 hours on Knight to kill him

i liked the DLCs, one was heavy puzzle one, other just the hardest fight in the game...and for free

matter of opinion i guess

I understand that the Forgotten One fight can be memorable because of its difficulty but in my opinion correctly doing it on harder difficulties require such a precise knowledge of the game's combat system that the game itself never provides. For example now I'm replaying the game on Paladin and having a blast with perfecting sync blocks and learning the combos I did not learn the first time and the whole progessions system of combat is based around this idea even when it comes to bossfights.

As for the Forgotten One all you have to do is dodge his attacks then unleash some of your X-A-holdX combos. You don't have to block, you don't have to be fancy with your attacks, you just have to do this in the absolute perfect fashion. To me this contradicts the general gameplay of Lords of Shadow which in itself is pretty forgiving in order to give you space to try out new things so when I compare the full game to the Forgotten One that boss just stands out as a horribly tedious difficulty spike that should have no place in the game. I like a challenge but a specific difficulty setting should be balanced so the right way of doing things would have been the inclusion of a super hard mode.

And it was not free, it's "free" to us PC gamers who received the game 3 years after its initial console release. Reverie and Resurrection were priced at 20 bucks overall: that's 20 bucks for 5 levels: 3 of those provide mediocre gameplay on reused assets with the inclusion of a very badly designed secondary playable character and 2 of those are basically the bossfight that should have served as the ending of the first DLC. The two DLCs are cynical cashgrabs, nothing more, the only worthwile content was the pretty hard puzzles in Reverie in my opinion (tough even those will not pose a challenge to players who are used to puzzles in adventure games so Monkey Island it ain't).

dear god I know what you mean man, im doing this on what ever difficulty before last is, im on the second phase where i smashed his damn arm...dear god ♥♥♥♥ this guy, ive been mostly sucessful up to thise point spaming the jump then hold x slam down attack getting mas ass kicked when i get impatient and frusterated. also was anyone else totally let down by the utter lack of a wardrobe change or ANYTHING besides "plot armor agaisnt the dark realm" your in for the sacrifice earlyer? because that ♥♥♥♥ made me mad

[outwar6010]

the game is great and you didn't get charged for it so why complain? I bought the game and dlc on the ps3 and then again on here ad feel that its worth buying nlike many other titles these days.

[Epic The Incandescent]

Originally posted by outwar6010:

the game is great and you didn't get charged for it so why complain? I bought the game and dlc on the ps3 and then again on here ad feel that its worth buying nlike many other titles these days.

hey man i dont hate the dlc, not at all i just wish the last boss of the dlc was more....memorable, unique? idk something he just feels like a time eating trial and error boss filler -_- its REALLLLLLLLYYYYYYYY annoying how all the other bosses require a stratgy but this gun is just smack 2 times jump over aoe smack 2 times jump over aoe smack 2 times dodge over heand smack 2 times jump over aoe etc etc add infinum. plus the hit boxe for his right shoulder weak spot piss me the ♥♥♥♥ off