Anyone here played Operation Darkness before?

[burdfishdemon]

Hello, I've never played this game, but it looks similar to and more polished than (not that I care about that) tOperation Darkness.

Has anyone played both?

[DShepard]

Played both. This one is much more polished and has a more interesting story.

[burdfishdemon]

Good to know. :] Thanks!

[Asterozoa]

Played both too. What DShepard said.

[Mutant1988]

No. I would have liked to play Operation Darkness but it wasn't released in Europe and the damn Xbox 360 has region locking.

[landman]

I remember playing the demo, OD combat looked more old scool, unlike VC that felt so fresh.

[Sugoi]

Operation Darkness is a fun but much more traditional strategy RPG. Also ridiculously difficult.

[burdfishdemon]

Well, I am a fan of steep difficulty, but it's not necessary. My concern watching gamplay for VC was that since there is a real-time element, I am worried the game might not require enough strategizing. But that comes off as snobbish, and I don't mean it to do so.

[Sugoi]

Originally posted by burdfishdemon:

Well, I am a fan of steep difficulty, but it's not necessary. My concern watching gamplay for VC was that since there is a real-time element, I am worried the game might not require enough strategizing. But that comes off as snobbish, and I don't mean it to do so.

VC can be hard, but it never approaches the controller-snapping difficulty of Operation Darkness since you want to compare them. The real-time element primarily comes into taking your turns as quickly as possible and positioning your units so that they do enough interception fire that enemies either prematurely end their turns or "throw themselves on your spears" so to say.

Either way, twitch reflexes play basically no role and don't make the game easier.

[Ze Boi]

Played the Xbox 360 version of Operation Darkness, and seeing the Steam's Workshop, I wished to see the game in Steam with the Workshop available to use. Though i doubt it would be available in Steam for multiple reasons many people would say, mine being that Operation Darkness already came out in 2008, 7-8 years ago, making the game most likely not possible to bring into Steam.

[chaosbringer42]

VC has a much better story, better gameplay, less grinding. OD has werewolves, vampires, godzillas, and almost infinite amounts of enemy reinforcements that all move faster than your units about the moment you get vampires. OD also has 3+hr levels just from the number of enemy reinforcements they have, you literally kill a squad and 2 more pop up and get turns (over and over and over) until your slow chars get a move. If you get OD, i hope you spent $10 or less, and remember - have fun :D

[Black Hammer]

Operation Darkness could have been a good game, but it had some glaring deficiencies that prevented it.

[DankWestern]

I really enjoyed this game.

[crono900]

Originally posted by DankWestern:

I really enjoyed this game.

I too, enjoyed the game.

I still have my 360 and the game in great condition, but would still like to see it officially released on Steam or playable on the Series/One X/S.