I was gonna buy this but if so fuck that...
>>729249529retarded souls tranny can't handle actual gameplay LOL
I dropped Nioh 1 hour into it not because it was harder, but because it was extremely janky and didn't feel good to play. Dark Souls really spoils you with how smooth and optimized the controls are. As an analogy Dark Souls is to Nioh what WoW is to FFXIV in terms of controls and jankiness
>>729249529I really hate the stance changing
>>729249529You just gotta farm better gear
>>729249529it was either code vein 2 or bust, idk why you would even consider nioh. bamco literally has the most experience in the field even though they are hit or miss at times.
nioh is harder until you git gud, then you realise you have tons more options than just rolling and waiting your turn.
>>729249529>AI overview
>>729249987What about code 1
>>729249529>trusts AIgood morning, saar!
>>729249529the gear system and level design was ass. Prepare to have stage hazards and "gotcha!" type events at almost every corner your 1st time playing.
>>729249529You can beat Nioh 1 using a single stanceSource: im retarded and couldnt do stance-switching in combat
>>729250148can you imagine if there were stage hazards and hidden monsters in dark souls that would be crazy
>>729249529>requiring mastery of mechanics like Ki PulseWhat a bunch of retarded bullshit.You can play NIOH just like souls.Worked even for level 1 run without unlimited living weapon cheese.
>>729250040code vein is a game I wish was good enough to enjoy, but it just isn't.
>>729249529Both Nioh games (no clue where 3 stands) start out harder than a lot of Soulslikes, but Nioh leans a lot harder on RPG stuff and all the shit you can unlock, so after beating a couple stages, the games get a ton easier outside of a couple difficulty spikes.I mean hell, it's one of the very few soulslike franchises out there where it's perfectly viable to be a legit tank and just facetank bosses with no effort until you start stacking NG+ and it devolves into naked rolling everywhere.Another thing is that you end up unlocking so many moves and options that even outside of the RPG stuff, you can legitimately git gud and play it more like an action game, especially in Nioh 2.
Nioh is easier mechanically, it's only "hard" in the sense that it has gay diablo random gear so you might randomly only find crap if your unlucky. Living weapon also shits on a lot of challenges
>>729250209the frequency of them is way too high in Nioh.
>>729250040I'm playing through code vein right now and it's just bad. Bad level design, bad combat, bad story.
The mechanics might be better but the game is completely soulless. Every area looks the same and you have to go back and do areas over again which is annoying when every area is Asian village
>>729251113one of the video game levels of all time
>>729250092AI is more trustworthy than your average goycattle
>>729251348Looks cool
>>729251348This level was cool idk why anons don't like it.
>>729249529Nioh is the closest I came to not hating parry katana since metal gear revengeance. Sekiro sucks.
>>729251645Ai is being trained off the data OF goycattle you retard
Nioh 1 is pretty easy. Nioh 2 is where the difficulty is at, especially the DLC. I've seen people get filtered by the tutorial baby boss.
I like Nioh because it's easy. I hope they don't make 3 harder (seems like Living Artifact shits on the game so that's good)
>>729252196it looks cool in that image. it's fucking cancer in practice. it's like trying to put together a puzzle of a solid color and being attacked by monsters every 2 feet while doing it.
>>729249664>it was extremely jankywhat are you even talking about?
Nioh 2 mogs souls so hard. It's like they saw a souls game and said "Ok how can we make Souls but actually intended for skilled action gamers that are adults."
>>729249529It's not that hard, until you get to the double boss fights holy shit were they a nightmareA negative to me was lack of enemy variety so you get used to fighting humans really easily
>>729249664>>729249529I remember I stopped playing Nioh1 17 hrs in because I thought most of the level designs were boring.
>>729251645t. Goycattle
>>729249664>Dark Souls really spoils you with how smooth and optimized the controls are.
>>729249529The fact that the AI is putting on kiddie-gloves when telling you that it's "generally considered harder and more complex" is funny. It's a complete understatement. It feels like half the enemies in any given level are like running into the black knight in undead burg. Complexity is way higher in Nioh so it's not even comparable anymore.The main issue with Nioh (and this persists in Nioh2) is that every "optional" level is literally just the same level you just played but either backwards or reduxed. So like 60% of the game's content is recycled.
>>729249529Nioh's whole gimmick is that you have to push one of the shoulder buttons after every attack combo to regain stamina. it's one of the most retarded gameplay additions i've ever seen and i dropped the game very quickly, glad i pirated it.
>>729251348It looks cool initially, but it's not fun to play and quickly gets tiresome because all the buildings and paths end up looking the same.
>>729257990it's to maintain aggression and adds an element of risk vs reward. you don't HAVE to ki pulse if you just wanna beat the gameyou can also get a skill that makes dodges trigger a ki pulse with reduced effectiveness
>>729250153I've cleared the depths in Nioh 2 and never swapped out of high stance tonfa. Ki pulsing also became just a way to instantly cancel recovery animations to continue attacking instead of a way to regain ki.I used dual swords for Nioh 1, and only swapped stance to use windstorm to guarantee yokai horn breaks.
>>729258243Did you use confusion though? That seemed to me a bigger annoyance than stances with how everything seemed to be scaled around it.
>>729249529Nioh 1 is probably harder than DaS 1, but the level design and the side missions reusing levels over and over again is super lame. Gear system is also cancer. But the combat system is really cool.
>>729249529>using AIit's dark souls, you roll and parry to win, that's it.
>>729254167The problem is that it feels like a labyrinth when it's not meant to be one because every single building and path looks exactly the same. Level could've been incredible with more than 2 different textures
>>729258329In 2 I'd have elemental tonfas (preferably purity), and then throw out kasha whenever I got the anima to. That pretty much kept confusion on bosses permanently. I focused mostly on ki break and spamming shove, so the instant a boss went down, they basically got looped to death because I'd break them again before they could get out of their ki recovery animations like realm switching. The only boss that really ever posed a threat was late depths chaos bringer because of the elemental immunities.
>>729249529Ni-Oh is indeed way harder than Dark Souls, but the level design, art direction and lore are so shit that playing it feels like you're wasting your time. Like the game has nothing to offer other than being challenging for the sake of it.
>>729249664>tfw agreeing with an aquapostertime for me to die
>>729249664I always had this opinion but was always afraid of saying it and having /v/ laugh at me
I didn't play Nioh 1, but Nioh 2 was pretty good.Combat is a lot better than in the Souls series, but level design is worse.If you play it like a Souls game (roll + R1/R2) it is going to be harder, if you use the game's mechanics you can really style on your enemies though.Diablo tier itemization is also something different, so be aware of that.
>>729249529>randomly decide to start up Nioh again and get it off my backlog>remember a friend who said that Nioh was easier than Dark Souls when I bought Nioh like a decade ago>see this threadGET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
>>729259750explain the "jank"
>>729251348I replayed CV last year and it wasn’t as bad as I remembered it but it was still bad. I get what they were going for but Bamco anime games have always suffered from dog shit level design. Scarlet Nexus had this problem too and I imagine CV 2 won’t be much better.
