Which one will you recommend for a new player?

[Zomborg]

Hi I just found out about this game a few days ago and the sequel was already about to be released.
Which one is the best in your opinion?
Thanks for any help

[Lysander]

I am looking for an answer to this question too

[TheManBeforeMen]

they seem like two different games get em both

[Zomborg]

Originally posted by TheManBeforeMen:

they seem like two different games get em both

Ok Ill get the first one to start :)

[Giggity Goo]

Darkest Dungeon is a Cthuluh game. Its Dark(est) with Dungeons, City-Ressource Management and Characer Progression.

Darkest Dungeon 2 is a Mobile like Roguelite game with xcom gameplay elements where you drive on a coach. They just live off the name but they are not even close to each other, only the art style is.

[Capt. Slappy]

Originally posted by Abbalyn:

The first Darkest Dungeon is masterfully executed. Almost impossible to make a sequel better than that in my opinion.

To me they failed but how can you blame them considering the task.

Perhaps they could have made a game that had all of the things that made the original great and expanded upon them. Perhaps they could have just spent the majority of the development time making a ♥♥♥♥ ton of new enemies and locations. Perhaps they could have made an actual sequel instead of the gobbledygook they went with.

[Ralanost]

My biggest issue is that DD1 is not only a great game, but it is made so much better by being easy as sin to mod. DD2, while gorgeous, is not nearly as mod friendly.

I personally just don't jive with the concept of DD2. The entire stagecoach thing is so bizarre to me.

[RorytheRomulan]

Hi Zomborg,

If you play the first one, you will be disappointed by the 2nd. It is not the same game. I asked for a refund. If you haven't gone over 2 hours in the sequel, I would suggest you do the same.

[Virgil]

I'm encouraged to see others here with impressions that are similar to my own, I thought I was just getting old because I'm not going ravenous with hype over the sequel. I haven't played it yet, but I've seen several completed runs (had to go for one without someone obnoxiously hyping it up over the gameplay, so no commentary) and honestly it looks like a step back in so many ways.

If people enjoy it, cool, but my favorite parts of DD1 were the team and resource management aspects as well as having to pick the ideal team comp for each individual mission depending on what I have available. None of those things seem to be a factor in DD2. I will also say the soundtrack and the writing seem to be nowhere even remotely close to DD1's stellar quality, and even the legendary Wayne June seems a lot less enthusiastic when delivering his lines.

I'm probably going to wait for a significant sale, maybe in a few years when there's more content and polish. DD1 was something completely unique, whereas DD2 just feels like a standard roguelite where you finish runs and start over to do it again with a few more things unlocked. I love roguelites, but there's games that do what DD2 is trying to do much better than DD2.

[HellSpawnX]

This is better than the new. Darkest dungeon 2 is not as fun to play as this.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

For me, the more detailed animations in DD2 are actually a turnoff; DD1's epic single-frame combat animations was the closest I've come to RIP AND TEAR in a strategy game.

[Zomborg]

Originally posted by RorytheRomulan:

Hi Zomborg,

If you play the first one, you will be disappointed by the 2nd. It is not the same game. I asked for a refund. If you haven't gone over 2 hours in the sequel, I would suggest you do the same.

Hi
Yes I already decided for the first one
Thanks :)

[becephalus]

This one is by far the better game.

[Virgil]

Originally posted by Abbalyn:

Clearly the narrator was on point on DD1. On DD2 it feels like a bad IA reproducing Wayne June voice xD

That's exactly what it sounds like, you nailed it. When I heard the quote "there is comfort in company" from Wayne June during one of the battles of the playthrough I watched, I could practically feel June's eyeroll as he was reading off his lines. The entire game is similar, where he just seems tired and not at all enthused about the quality of the script and it's almost palpable in his voice.

I'd love to see a side by side comparison of the writing in DD1 and DD2. I guarantee the results would be almost laughably obvious in hindsight.

Originally posted by The Entity Hungers:

For me, the more detailed animations in DD2 are actually a turnoff; DD1's epic single-frame combat animations was the closest I've come to RIP AND TEAR in a strategy game.

I strongly agree with this, as well. I never saw the single frame animations as a technical limitation or anything else, it was a great stylistic choice that almost made it feel like an intense graphic novel.

I could learn to live with DD2's visual style changes if the rest of it felt improved, but it really doesn't. I sincerely doubt my opinion will change with time, as they clearly went for a different type of game than DD1 for some reason and I just think what they're going for has been done better already elsewhere.

[GT]

Please quote me when you have been a few hours, I would like to know the first impressions of a new player

[Twisterowns]

This one, then move to DD2 the real spinoff from the company.