Should i buy the surge or nioh?

[Kebab69]

Which one should i get?

The surge vs Nioh

GO

[Nordblut]

The Surge ofc, reason.

1. It´s made for PC

2. It has an awesome combat and world

3. It´s from a german developer


Seriously, I was interested in Nioh too, but seeing an almost nonexisting PC port, it totally killed my intention to ever buy that game. Personally I am not supporting devs who aren´t willing to properly program for PC.

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Publicado originalmente por Bankai9212:

A post from someone who hasn't played the game.

Keen observation. It was more a reference to Dark Souls, but the videos I saw showed disturbingly much mashed quick attacks. That on top of the boring level design made me reconsider my wish to play this game. Maybe when a new Souls game from Fromsoft gets announce then I might get Nioh in order to fill a cap of a few months...

Nioh is all about combos later. R1 spam is a thing only in 1st playthough.

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Publicado originalmente por Nordblut:

The Surge ofc, reason.

1. It´s made for PC

2. It has an awesome combat and world

3. It´s from a german developer


Seriously, I was interested in Nioh too, but seeing an almost nonexisting PC port, it totally killed my intention to ever buy that game. Personally I am not supporting devs who aren´t willing to properly program for PC.

Team Ninja seems care about pc. They actually added m&k support recently and keep releasing patches.

[Melguppfin]

I'd say wait for a sale and get both.

[Kamikaze Ice]

Best answer? Get both.
Start with one and play it a bit, then get a refund and try the next one.
Pick your favorite now and get the other later if you're still interested in it.

Price History
The Surge = https://steamdb.info/app/378540/
The Surge: Complete Edition = https://steamdb.info/sub/221254/
Nioh: Complete Edition = https://steamdb.info/app/485510/
***IMO, steamdb.info is amazing for not only price watching with historical and multi-regional price data, but also finding exactly what is on sale and for how long.


Also, The Surge has a demo while Nioh does not.


I'm not a fan of demos in general for a variety of reasons...
*NOTE: I make no claim that the following apply to the demo for The Surge, hence the "in general"*
Many are a different build than the released game (content, mechanics,and/or performance).
Some are "special" (not part of the released game, and some have additional backstory or even a prequel of sorts to the main game).
Extremely common in the past for demos to not provide the player with a good taste of the game (restrictive or selective content and/or mechanics, or simply too short).



I don't find reviews or user comments for a game to be very useful without playing said game yourself.
Why? Because different people are different.
Everyone has different tastes/preferences to gaming elements. A lot of people use "souls like" to describe both Nioh and The Surge, but what does "souls like" mean to YOU? Your answer to this question is going to be different from someone else; drastic or nearly identical is still different.


To put that another way...
This is basically what any comments/reviews are[imgur.com].

[Rizilliant]

The surge is slightly slower combat, Nioh is more akin to Ninja Gaiden imo.. Not slow, mythodical combat you expect.. Surge is closer to Souls combat.. In all honesty, Im not even sure where the Souls comparisons keep coming from for Nioh at all.. two very different games, with very differnt styles

[Wylphen]

Watch: Zero Punctuation - Nioh, then decide if you really want to buy that pile of repetitive ♥♥♥♥.

[Dave_Jame]

Or you can watch Totalbiscuits look on the game who liked it wery much. Depends on the critic you trust more :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HSwrq8z9Es&ab_channel=TotalBiscuit%2CTheCynicalBrit

[Nordblut]

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Publicado originalmente por Nordblut:

The Surge ofc, reason.

1. It´s made for PC

2. It has an awesome combat and world

3. It´s from a german developer


Seriously, I was interested in Nioh too, but seeing an almost nonexisting PC port, it totally killed my intention to ever buy that game. Personally I am not supporting devs who aren´t willing to properly program for PC.

Team Ninja seems care about pc. They actually added m&k support recently and keep releasing patches.

If they would care about it, there would be no need to implement in post release, just my opinion.

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Team Ninja seems care about pc. They actually added m&k support recently and keep releasing patches.

If they would care about it, there would be no need to implement in post release, just my opinion.

They could leave it as is and not loose much in sales (looking at u Nier Automata).

[East]

Nioh, because that one is actually good.