Is this game like Dark Souls?

[☧ Voievod]

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[Myrmuz [IRL]]

It's a 3rd-person action rpg, if that's like dark souls. They're quite different games.

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

There is no PvP in DDDA. The coop in DDDA is asynchronous in that you employ other players pawns to assist you and likewise your created "pawn" can go to other players worlds to assist them.

Souls games do better with a melee focus build. DDDA has better ranged and magic builds mechanics and builds.

DDDA is really its own thing. It gets compared to Souls and Skyrim, but the only things that they share is they are considere Action RPGs.

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

no.

[zadymek]

Originally posted by ╬ Feldgrau ╬:

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If you ask me, I'd say DD is more like crossbreed between Gothic and Diablo 2 with a bit of The Elder Scrolls than Dark S. but be the judge.

Similarities:
+ TPP slasher
+ melee and ranged combat, including magick
+ excuse story attempting to look "deep"
+ ...with just a handful of memorable characters
+ bosses
+ dodge roll
+ deep water kills

Differences:
- actual PC port
- actual open world
- [limited] RNG based loot
- ...from every breakable not just chests
- mostly template based map construction
- day and night cycle (and it's a meaningful cycle)
- actual class system (Vocations)
- meaningful character creation
- actual big bosses fights
- both skill and strategy based combat
- quests
- a map
- extended world exploration
- not many glitches (mostly in DLC, and yes, it's VERY MUCH like Dark Souls ;)
- generally good performance
- only solutions, no punishment
- on-line component designed to help players not the other way around

[GREEN]

I would recommend doing a hardcore solo run if you really want the dark souls experience

[Slayer Seraph]

Better, in many way. But it's also very different.
Imagine a Devil May Cry meet D&D meet fantasy action adventure.

[Nerevar]

partly i did say. dark arisen has some souls like moments. but its still different. calling it souls like is not really correct i would say. dragons dogma is hit or miss. like to get cool powerful gear and smash giant monsters and dragons you can even climb on and hack away at them with a decent combat system? this game is for you then.
while souls always keeps this : EVERYTHING CAN KILL YOU if youre not careful (especially gravity defying dogs) even when you know your ♥♥♥♥ and have gear and equip. in dd once youre overgeared only a few enemeies are really a threat.
the rng on gear can be a major turnoff for some people tough. but there is method and technics to increase your chances so youre not fully prey to it.

combat is decent. but souls is unmatched in terms of rpg combat and this game is no exception. the climbing on enemies is cool and unique for an rpg tough.

[Daegon]

No, this is better than Dark Souls.

[zadymek]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

while souls always keeps this : EVERYTHING CAN KILL YOU if youre not careful (especially gravity defying dogs) even when you know your ♥♥♥♥ and have gear and equip

I'd argue if this applys to EVERY enemy in DS. I mean, yes, an awesome end-game gear and start-game gear are not that much of a difference, but UPGRADED to the ceiling they do make a difference. As simple example: compare how does your Chosen Udead hadles Skeletton's blows wearing piss poor Dark Set and Dark Set +5.

And for the combat: if you actually mastered the combat ti combat system plus knowledge of the in-game exploits and glitches, merely 10% of bestiary applys to your words. And oh boy! There is a lot to exploit ;)

What major difference I see between DD and DC is: the choices... that are meaningful in the former.

[BurlsoL]

Best way to describe this game is that this is what people play when they're sick of Souls games or can't be bothered about trying to do frame perfect stuff, and just wants a game with a light amount of story and questing, but where they can just run around randomly slaughtering stuff while having fun doing it.

This game on its normal (unmodded) settings is anythng but difficult unless you try rushing through and playing poorly or jumping right into hardmode but not bothering to learn how the game is played while taking ♥♥♥♥♥♥ pawns. The from scratch speedrun of this game is ~2 hours and has no skilled segments making it more reliant on memory (route), accessing things quickly in menus, and some RNG behavior. So that should tell you something regardin how 'hardcore' this game is.

A blind playthrough will still take 20-30 hours, a completionist playthrough roughly twice that though. But this is more about going through the game content and learning the systems instead of any kind of death cycle as you learn each fight through trial and error.

[Paladin: The Golden Fox]

The atmosphere has reminded me very much of Demon's Souls on more than one occasion. You can actually climb on large enemies in DD, so that's one big difference. You can play solo, if you like, which also lends itself to that same type of experience. The difficulty is much lighter, as you can save at any time (but if you fail to save often, you could kill several giant beasts and then fall off a cliff and die, losing several hours of work).

IMO it is much more fun than the DS type of games, as it is much less frustrating and you are free to experiment a lot more with your equipment, playstyle, build, etc.. I do highly recommend playing it solo though (just let your pawn die to wolves or such early on), as otherwise you'll spend most of your time just standing around, picking up loot, assisting your allies, etc.. and not actually doing much fighting at all. In other words, do you want to play an actual game or something like an MMO? hah!