Why did this fly so far under the radar? A new massive patch just dropped too.
>>736810860I didn't buy it because $70, censored, DRM, and throwing out everything about 1 and GE.It's an absolute slap in the face to fans of the first.I'll buy it when it's sub $20. Or pirate it when the DRM is removed.
It was censored. Its really that simple. I was ready to buy the collectors edition and didn't when I found out it was censored. Will only pirate it now.
>>736810932>It's an absolute slap in the face to fans of the firstNo. It's a perceived slap to the face to people that mildly liked CV because of the characters. Fans of the first game greatly enjoy CV2. It has it's own cast of lovable characters while trying to improve the gameplay and make it bigger. If you actually understood CV and how it links to GE, then this would not have been a surprise let alone a "slap to the face" that they dare make a second game that tried and largely succeeded to improve upon the first game's formula.
I don't play censored games.
>>736811306stfu shill
>>736811306I genuinely think people who seethe about "muh GE connection" never even played CV1 and are just retards that want GE4.
>"Let's copy Elden Ring this time Tomizawa-san">"look, we got a bike!">Only a tiny handful of weapons, again>Godawful performance despite the mediocre graphics, as expected of UE5>Godawful animations>Atrocious body rigs that make Bloodborne characters look human>Zero enemy variety, again>Easy as shit>Cringe wish-fulfillment waifu/husbando bullshit again but with not enough fanservice for the gooners to care>No ties to the first game for the two people who actually cared about the first gameBut I don't give a shit about any of that honestly, I'm just boycotting Scamco and Tomizawa in particular for killing Tales of.
>>736810860>Still has denuvo>can't even use nvidia shadersDropped.
Whats in the fucking update ya ding dong?
>>736811447>No ties to the first game for the two people who actually cared about the first gameYou don't understand >>736811306This anon is right. It's actually a love letter to the first game and an cadbury creme easter egg for god eater fans.
bought it yesterday when they dropped the patch. no idea how it was on launch, but its running super smooth for me. also spending a shit load of time with the photo mode, it feels way more intuitive than many others i have seen. i do wish they would allow setting up some custom lights thoits been fun so far, i liked CV1 so not totally surprised, but i have only heard bad things about it so i was a bit unsurealso jadwiga is probably top 3 hottest bitch in vidya for me, she just does it for me
censored and denuvo
Whats censored about itDon't tell me there's no nipples
>>736811793MOD AND BREAK LOCK
>>736810860they censored it so I'll never buy it
>>736811849Many characters had panties in the original, now there are none. Even outfits from the first game that characters wore were modified to hide panties. There only exists black voids.Dialogue between JP and EN was also greatly altered with the usual stuff.
>>736811049spbpI will never financially support a censored game.
>>736810860We still care about the game though...
>>736810860>massive>bang options that were in the first game>the open to NG+ without increasing the difficulty>further nerfing the already easy game>the ability to actually see affinity
>>736811504Bunch of balance to make weapons have more stagger capabilities and they made the affinity with party members actually visible now so you don't need to just fucking guess how far off you are.
>>736810860I bought it on launch; don't care about censorship or culture war. It isn't a bad game and it's the best game I´ve played this year (haven't played Nioh 3 yet) but it is a massive step back from the original in almost every single aspect, from presentation to level design to enemy variety to gameplay to difficulty. The only genuine improvement compared to the first was the companion mechanics. Given how the original was already a tough sell that everyone considered a joke, the game had even less of a chance.To be fair I think it would have been a commercial failure even if it had been the Nioh 2 of Code Vein instead of the Dark Souls 2 of Code Vein. >>736811429Pretty much.
>first game ends on a cliffhanger>second game is a completely separate world Not even sure what they were thinking with this.
>>736811849Literally the only thing censored was the female playable character and since I played as a male anyway it meant nothing to me.
>>736812617I genuinely don't get this. I didn't like CV1 so much that I couldn't even bring myself to finish it. I genuinely think it's a contender for the worst soulslike but I fucking loved basically everything about CV2. I'd say there isn't a single thing CV2 DOESN'T improve on from the 1st game. It's an 8-9/10 game for me. Only Lies of P beats it when it comes to non Fromsoft soulslikes but it's better than the rest of them.
>>736811306>Fans of the first game greatly enjoy CV2."Fans" of the first game are people like this >>736813491
>>736810860Its worse than the 1st game in basically every way.
>>736813540>"fans"What part of me saying "I DON'T FUCKING LIKE THE 1ST GAME" makes you think I'd consider myself a fan of the 1st game? You illiterate fucking retard.
>>736813286They wrote themselves into a corner as CV1 doesn't even fit properly into the god eater universe.
>>736813594It's even in quotation marks. How can somebody as stupid as you call anybody illiterate.
>>736813726What a fucking ESL you are. You would use quotations for someone who SAYS they're fans of the 1st game but really aren't. I have made no illusions to my taste on it. You are using them wrong. You fucking moron.
Its worse then one in every way.
>>736813491>I didn't like CV1 so much that I couldn't even bring myself to finish it. I genuinely think it's a contender for the worst soulslike but I fucking loved basically everything about CV2Said by no one ever.
>>736810932Cheap fuck
>it's worse than 1 in every wayI can guarantee not a single person would say this if not for it being censored and having denuvo.
>>736814127100%
I would buy it if it came to switch 2
>>736814621Lmao fuck that piece of shit
>>736814127in what way would it be better then?
>>736814687Weapons, build variety, boss designs, story, characters, exploration, pacing. Take your pick.
>>736814657But....muh sales...and...Japan :(
>>736814774we're talking about 1?
>>736814974See? You can see the bias from a mile away. This is straight up delusion.
>>736810860The first one was really mid as fuck and it received a very lukewarm reception.So who the fuck asked a sequel? feels like Jewmco was probably looking for an excuse to shelve the franchise and they got it-
>>736810860>censored wokeslop >denuvo>edgy stuff from the first game also toned down to fit into a lower age bracketAll of that on top of it being extremely overpriced and poorly optimised.
>>736810860I would have bought it despite censorship. But I learned that it was ue5, and had shit optimization. So I skipped.
>>736815551What exactly was censored?
>>736811306>Fans of the first game greatly enjoy CV2Not true BTW. Which is why it flopped. It was a niche bargain bin soulslike with anime bones to it. The second one never left that same realm and proceeded to slap the few folks who were interested in it in the face for neglecting the first one's story so hard.
>>736810860>Why did this fly so far under the radar?
I think AI Limit is a better game than CV2 and it's only $20 AND it got an entire expansion for FREE.BandaiNamniggers can only dream about treating their players this good.
>>736816064Chap fuck
>>736816064It is lacking a character creator however. Maybe its one biggest flaw.
>>736815221>who the fuck asked a sequel?The CEOs when they saw how much money an open world souls game can make.
>>736815658>Not true BTWI have to agree, if only because I loved the second game but wasn't a fan of the first. I can only assume the inverse is also true.
For me it was>poor performance>denuvo>open world>$70 pricetag>censorshipI could tolerate like 2 of these, but not all of them.I might pick it up far into the future.
>>736815658>I was not a fan of the first game and I haven't played the second game so let me tell you why I don't agree that fans of the first game enjoy the second game?>>736816064AI Limit is definitely not better. It's very good. You should play it if you haven't. But I'd rather play Code Vein and Code Vein 2 any day of the week over AI Limit. And their DLC treated me like crap but I can't complain because it's free.
>>736816597They fixed the performance, and why wouldn’t it be a full priced game?
>>736810860Censored, toned down outfits and CC. Fuck off.
>>736810860>patchqrd?
>>736816734Did they? Well too little too late, backlogged. I'll buy it one day eventually, just like they fixed it "eventually".
>>736816657I actually liked playing the first AND second game. What I said was just the objective truth. But go ahead and fight to shill a game that had very little market appeal, whack story, and a janky implementation of incredibly repetitive mechanics.
>>736816978If you have a backlog why are you buying games on release to begin with?
>>736815830glad best girl isn't present in this webm
>>736819219dopamine rush
>>736811306Nah, I played the first game and found the character builds and movesets decent enough to finish it.Not going to play CV2 because of everything here >>736810932
No co-op no buy
>>736810860>uncracked shartnuvoNo, I'm not using hivisor either.
>>736819369Yes I am.
>>736811306fuck off you stupid fucking nigger
>>736811306retard spotted
>>736816776It fixed everything!
>>736819517>I'm not a fan of the first game >I could barely muster up the interest to finish it >I did not buy the 2nd game >therefore fans of the first game don't like the second gameStay in school children>>736817768You don't know the meaning of objective truth. You people are mistaking "fans" for "literally anyone who played it for 2 minutes". Not gonna waste my time psychoanalysing you but going around telling people nobody likes x, and x is objectively bad while being someone that also says you enjoyed x is just fucking weird. And despite not being a fan you admitted to enjoying both games which should align with my opinion that people who love the first should love the second while trying to peddle the opposite in the same post. Just stop. I know pushing back against lies and retarded regurgitated "opinions" peddled as facts, because nobody understood Binky's game, is a waste of time. But oh well.
>>736811306What does Code Veronica have to do with anything?
>no co-op>worse animations than CV1>poor performance on release>overuse of gold design elements on enemies and bosses makes them difficult to distinguish them graphically>motorcycle has zero uphill torque and gets its HP bar halved by barely visible pebbles every time you take it off the few paved roads there are in the game>half the characters still wear masks for some reason>Magmell Base is empty and needlessly large compared to Home Base, with a non-functioning jukebox to boot>boss movesets are less readable than CV1>female companions aren't nearly as sexy as CV1>you're locked out of using companions far too commonly>bell ghosts spammed everywhere in the Present Era are anti-fun>Gobbo isn't half as endearing or interesting as Mido>lack of a coherent art style outside of the gilded elements on everything, making it look like any other open-world UE5 asset flip>poor lighting compared to CV1>neon grass>extremely rushed pacing by the time you get to Zenon's island>censorship>worse models compared to CV1>revenant necks are abnormally long in CV2 for no good reason>various NPC interactions are locked behind Free Exploration Era, forcing players to backtrack and comb every inch of every region *again* to discover them>companion affinity is needlessly obtuse and hard to increaseIt's still decent, but most of its best aspects (e.g. companion interactions, Blood Codes) were clearly iterated directly from the original, and in some ways even they went backwards. Burden, for example, is a pain in the ass to micromanage every time you want to max a Blood Code.
>>736816064>only $20No it’s not
I will buy it when it's 60% off, which is the actual price of the game.
First game came out at the peak of dogshit PCs being able to easily play PS4 games
>>736811049what was censored?
>>736823879Nothing. Ignore the schizo.
>>736810860>Start pandering to americans and black people and go woke>Remove the big titty companion which was the entire reason the first game became popular since it was called jiggle physics souls>Replace her with a nigger ass companion with 0 tits since you need to make americans and blacks happy>On top of that add an ass slider to the character creator and even default the female character to have a nigger ass>Entire game flopsThey went woke and went broke
>>736823879Panties
>>736824674It really do be like that. I want more anime Souls, but Code Vein should just be put to rest at this point.
>>736823587fella you need to learn about keysites
>>736824674Japan sees the USA/West collapsing: >hol up! let me sink together with them!
>>736823879pantsu and dialogue
>>736810932To be fair they wrote themselves into a corner with the GE connection Where would they have gone with it after 1? Revenants who evolved to fight aragami it would just be God Eater 4
>>736827957I don't know if you know this anon.They could have just made God Eater 4.
>make bad game>make bad game IIyeah iunno
I lost most of my interest when I saw how ugly the new art style wasI lost any remaining interest when I heard it was open-world slop
>>736810860tapped out of soulslike and the last time I played a souls game was ER dlc. The only thing that can bring me back is something like bloodborne 2, which means for me to try your game it has to offer something else. >$70I can afford it but these companies should seriously consider not forcing "industry standard" pricing. People may only be willing to pay full price for a handful of games a year nowadays, like clear GOTY tier contender games. CV is not that
>>736810860New patch is cool but I won't play more of it
>>736810860The first game wasn't very good. It's only ever talked about because of the anime girls, including the ability to make your own.2 isn't a significant improvement so most people are simply waiting for a good sale.
>>736816064a nerd impregnated this
>>736828107>They could have just made God Eater 4They have to bring the bullet customization to GE2RB levels at least. I like that it has alot of options and rewards you from exploring it by making it possible to create broken bullets.Also bring back the Blast Gun, toothpaste laser Ray Gun is an interesting equipment but its basically a nerfed down Blast Gun.
>>736828107God Eater should stay God Eater, 3 was already shitty enough no need to dilute it even more with adding stupid revenants
>no co-opwhy would I buy it? Only part I enjoy about soulslikes. And it was the only thing that was fun about cv1 considering how barren and samey all the levels were, at least hanging out with a friend while going thorugh it made it tolerable (not good, but tolerable).That said, I only paid like $5 for code vein and I'll probably pay $5 for code vein 2 when it's in a humble bundle.
>>736810860>under the radargarbage belongs in the landfill though
>>7368108601 was a beautiful game and 2 is fuckugly.
>>736829240both games are asset flips from the unreal store lmao
>>736810860Super expensive, reboot of a game where the setting was the best part for a setting that's less interesting. Chasing Elden Ring open world but it's still Code Vein so it has a very linear order to do things and two difficulty walls. Marketing was aimed at zoomers when it was popular with the mall goths of which zoomers aren't, because Zoomers have a diluted boring monoculture
>>736816734It's higher price than a full price game in some regions, full price games are 80 here, CV2 is 110, 25% off and it's normal new game price, and not remotely worth it
>>736810860>Why did this fly so far under the radarNot even close to worth the price. Minimal change from the original. Came out too close to Nioh 3 (similar genre, curbstomps this)
Guys, you being poor is not an argument against the game
It's funny how suddenly losing the direct GE connection is the end of the world when most of you people either didn't care about the reveal or hated it + those games in all the threads we had back then.
>>736816064>I think AI Limit is a better game than CV2True>it's only $20 True>it got an entire expansion for FREE.This is where I have to stop you. The expansion is a pick 3 roguelite
The game felt like a sidegrade instead of an improvement. It did some things better and some worse.Meanwhile Nioh 3 felt like a downgrade. Literally every single thing it did was worse than previous games they made and I don't understand how the fuck they went from Rise of the Ronin to Nioh 3
>>736810860I almost got it on sale but decided I already had too many in the backlog at the last second. What did the patch entail?
>>736830671I was in the "oh that's neat" camp. It was a fun connection but I didn't really care. CV2 abandoning it didn't surprise me at all. It is surprising that it's one of the biggest criticism for CV2 even though stuff like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest barely ever connect their games.
>>736811306Shut the fuck up faggotEveryone agrees the game is dogshit since release get the fuck out of here
>>736811306>Open World slop>Censored characters when the hot characters were part of the appeal>Removed MultiplayerCV fans dont like the changes because its an inferior game. When CV1 was already mid at best.
>>736831576It's not really disconnected either, they just introduced the idea of multiple worlds to sidestep worrying about lore consistency which was already borderline nonsense in the first game. Code Vein 1 is just another one of the alternate timelines.Also there's a lot of very blatant shitposters who constantly repeat the same talking points in the cv2 threads, so I wouldn't get too hung up on what people say here either way.
>>736811447>Cringe wish-fulfillment waifu/husbando bullshit againSee, this is why CV1 trying to appeal to normalfags with shipping was a mistake.
>>736831937Oh yea, I honestly liked some of the references and callback to CV1 with some of the weapons and stuff.
First one was pretty mediocre, as are all "Like [game] but anime!", the 2nd one was worse because now they were also chasing open world shit and dropped the at least somewhat interesting aesthetic.
>Intend to buy Code Vein 2 on account of enjoying the original game>See on 5ch a screenshot of the black void of censorship>Lose interest immediatelyJapanese companies need to learn to ignore normalfags and chinks.
>>736821354Schizophrenia
>>736810860Did they remove the censorship? If not then isn’t a great patch
>>73681086050$ game at best, what the fuck were they thinking with that price
I played it and liked it, as did everyone except the Mexican shitposting schizo in the threads we hadI don't care if it sold well or not because Bamco is retarded Xenon is the most based man ever put in a video game and Josee is my wife
>>736836697Zenon*, faggot auto correctbut that also lets me post said wife
>>736835429>Japanese companies need to learn to ignore normalfags and chinks.If they ignored your bank overlords they won't be able to sell outside of japan. Which is a good thing because no more trannylizers.
>>736810860First one only sold on sales, now for some reason they think the sequel is worth 70
>>736810860I like the 1st one better. I hate Code Vein with open world. The characters are too much gook-ish and less anime. Most important reason, no Io wife.
>>736810860It looks really shit honestly.
>>736811306>fans of the 1st game loves 2Then why it didnt sell better lemao. It fail to attract new fans and most of old fans dont want a sequel with different story and characters. I know i want the story to pick up from where we left, with the Louis crew and all the boss characters we cured. I want Mia and her brother. I want Masamune and Choco. I know fans from the 1st game can relate with me.But nooooooopeeee lets just shove nu characters we dont know and remove all traces of the old ones and lets make open world because thats the current thing.Why they cant just learn from RE series. Leon and some old casts return and it sells like hotcakes. And guess what? No need for stupid open world to sell millions.
>>736837625Many fans also don't want their franchise to be stuck eternally referencing the same exact memes all the time in a self referential void of creativity, I personally do not want Code Vein to be as creatively bankrupt and boring as modern Resident Evil or Mario specifically. It's fine if you're okay with just standing up from the couch and screaming "I know that reference" to a product that's little more than that, but there's nothing wrong with wanting them to actually do something new either.
>>736810860The first game sucked so people didn't come back.
>>736840059Code Vein didn’t have many fans. There was a niche group that liked it despite how janky low quality it was at times because anime souls. I wanted a 2 to be an actual sequel to 1’s group whose story ended on a sequel hook, not some random alternate world with different characters. Not to mention open world is garbage for soulslike games. Elden Ring destroyed what little value the genre had.
>>736811306>Fans of the first game greatly enjoy CV2. I enjoy CV1 and i say : FUCK CODE VEIN 2 AND FUCK YOU
It's a fine B-tier anime game, just like CV1. The only outright questionable parts are the pricing and the lack of co-op. If the base price was $50, I feel like it would have been taken better but the industry has this dumb need to make everything $70+ now. Whoever is in charge of the pricing decision or anything related to the more expensive editions of the game should be fired. Gameplay wise, the only thing that actually pissed me off on release was the stiffness on action follow-thrus compared to the original, but that shit's been fixed and I forget if CV1 had the same issue on release as well. Other than that, it was fun. Gameplay changes from CV1 are neat and mean I have a reason to play both CV1 and CV2 when I have the itch rather than defaulting to the most recent iteration of the same thing. Watching the discourse around the game here and the steam boards, I swear it is a cabal of autists (or just one really dedicated autist) who are weirdly obsessed with games they don't play. CV2 probably isn't GOTY material, but it also isn't Satan's rectum like these people make it out to be. Maybe the legitimate complaints are related to performance, but I doubt their claims of having nasa level computers when my shitty laptop can run it 60FPS low on 1080p and probably even better now since the update. Hell, my main midtier machine is now getting 144FPS on 1440p high now when I originally was getting 100+ on release.
>>736841120>Code Vein didn’t have many fans.There were plenty.>There was a niche group that liked it despite how janky low quality it was at times because anime souls.Sounds like you people didn't like it all that much.>I wanted a 2 to be an actual sequel to 1’s group whose story ended on a sequel hook, not some random alternate world with different characters.The first game finished the story arc of every single character and the entire overarching narrative which were all self contained into that bubble, the only bits left in the air was background lore and the interpretation of what happened to Io. Any story involving the first game's cast would just be an entirely new setting and storyline with no relevance beyond it being those same characters going through the new story, and said characters have already had their character growth and grown to be close knit friends with zero traction so you'd have very little to go off that relates to the first game. That's without even mentioning the setting they were wandering out into which has practically nothing in it since it's post like 8 different apocalypse scenarios that have moved all life on the planet into small conclaves and it would just be a God Eater 4 game of them joining Blood to fight Aragami as a result.>Not to mention open world is garbage for soulslike games. Elden Ring destroyed what little value the genre had.That's like, your opinion.
>>736810860Nothing that can beat Mia white wet panties and IO torn titty clothes. Code Vein 2 is so fucking bland not even Josee can save it. I also hate those negative tits with oversized ass. Not being connected with Code Vein 1 + Performance issues + Looking worse than Code Vein 1 also didnt help
it has tall women. tall women are in it.
>>736810860Beyond censorship and DRM no one has really said anything negative about the game.
>>736841525>it would just be a God Eater 4 game of them joining Blood to fight Aragami as a resultThe Moon isn't green and revenants were already fighting hannibals. On the most basic level CV1 does not fit into the established GE timeline. Now with CV2 canonizing multiverse, it's far more believable that CV1 is a timeline where neither Fenrir, nor god eaters exist.
>>736841405>Watching the discourse around the game here and the steam boards, I swear it is a cabal of autists (or just one really dedicated autist) who are weirdly obsessed with games they don't playThis game probably had one of the worst autists who would bump the thread just to repeat the same criticism, I assume cause it's an anime game and it had the whole censorship debacle so it's a very low hanging fruit
>>736827713Because Japan is basically 5+ years behind on social fads.
>>736823879Panties and Eng Subs.
I enjoyed my time with it. The open world was far less annoying than in other games, and the side dungeons were varied enough to not feel too repetitive.Waiting on the DLC to go on more adventures with my wife and sister-in-law.
>>736810860They took out multiplayer and made the game open world to chase after Elden Ring, along with ditching the previous setting.
>>736810860>massive
>>736810860I think anime Souls is just an inherently smaller audience. Of course many more people gave it a try with CV1, but only those who actually liked and wanted more of it bought CV2.
>>736811306>Fans of the first game greatly enjoy CV2First game was carried by style and charactersSecond game is some incel isekai bullshit where all girls want to suck your cock for no reason and have zero personality and itnerests outside of your existence
>>736841661Hannibals didn't start spawning only after Lindow transformed, like the Dyaus Pita they were present before the events of the game. The fact that the Aragami are just Dyaus Pita outright or resemble other existing Aragami is enough implication to say that it's at least the same general timeline that had God Eaters up to a certain point since Aragami don't have natural evolution paths.I also want to say that a company similar to what Fenrir used to be is mentioned as working on alternative solutions to the Horrors in Code Vein flashbacks too, but that could be wrong.
>>736841848This. My only real concerns trough the game was>Lyle is such a fucking non-character for a hero than even his non-dad has a greater charisma>Valentin is amusingly incompetent and raterded for how much eveyone is tend to glaze him and nobody calls him out>game is disturbingly easyLike what the actual fuck, even Ai Limit managed to get some serious memorable bosses that made /v/ threads occasionally go into meltdown. CV2 had some bosses, outside of maybe HollyP2, HeroHolly and ZenonP2 weren't even that memorable. And they still were stupidly easy to the point where I had to stop using buffs (I guess it IS CV, huh)
Also I am strongly convinced people who bitch about censorship didn't even play the game, sequel has a lot more going in that aspect compared to CV1.One could argue that girls jumping onto you a bit too eagerly, if anything. Also Holly.Also Zenon.
>>736841979>have zero personality and itnerests outside of your existenceTo be fair, that's only Jose. Lou is saviorfagging for an entire story and Holly is an insta thot. I would assume last one was before she became a doctor though.I will agree that on average character development in CV2 is much weaker than CV1 though.
>>736845087>people who bitch ... didn't even play the gamewelcome to /v/
>thread was made 14 hours ago>barely 100 repliesWhy people keep doing that?That's just pathetic...Game sucked, was worse than first one in every single way.You complaining about "censorship" or posting vtummor tranny opinions about how you enjoyed it, won't change a thing. Game was bad, so bad that there actually nothing to even talk about, bumping your own thread for so long is just plainly pathetic...
>>736845087It's pretty obvious that 99% of the people bitching didn't play either of them when they act like the first game was a degenerate horny game because girls had big boobies when it was the tamest power of friendship adventure with zero sexual tension. Meanwhile 2 is the horny game where you're getting mounted and sucked off by a little girl and having nude baths with the big titty brown girl.
>>736811306Mia's pantsu?
>>736845334I haven't played 2 but I find it hard to believe it could have had a better character than evolution man. That guy fucking rocked. Everyone else spending the entire game all sad and then he shows up having a great time. Exactly the contrast from everyone else the game needed.
>>736845565Imagine if Mido was on your side and was right about literally everything he did and also loves singing and fucking his wife.
>>736844871Yeah but Craig is pretty great. I wish I didn't put off before the end game, but I did get to see Lyel swing around Craig's sword one-handed.CV2 bosses lose some appeal because of how often they get reused. The only one that really gave me fits was Blind Josee v2. Maybe I was just stubborn and didn't want to run all the way back to change my build.
wont be buying it until they put co-op back in.
>>736845565>Everyone else spending the entire game all sad and then he shows up having a great timeI can't spoil it but it's exactly the same in second game, but instead of being an evolutionman (although he kind of is), he is a hopeman and his charisma is powerful enough to carry entire second part of the game's narrative on his back alone. Also the lengths he goes to worship his wife is actually impressive, it's pure autism to the point where you have to appreciate the dedication. And that's without spoiling all the surprises.
>>736845641I didn't use active companions but that's kind of a cool detail. Also there's a passive to carry twohanders in a single hand, it's not as strong as I thought it would be though because default onehanded moveset isnt that good. Lyle sword's uncharged heavy is so stupidly good it trivialized rest of the game though.If the game gets DLC I surely as fuck will install some serious difficulty mods (hope there would be any) and do a full rerun.
>>736810860I blame endfield
>>736844871I don't agree. 1 has mostly forgettable bosses and there's nothing even remotely close to being as hard as Soul Saviour, Alessandro or Dejected Assailant on your first encounter in Code Vein 1 in my opinion. Metagen Remnant was a memorable first major boss with the coolest area in the game, all the Heroes have objectively memorable encounters (except maybe Minotaur Zenon fight), the final boss is a much better end segment than the first game, and so on.
>>736846157Anon who wrote that post feels proud and thinks that he wrote something smart.But, let's see things objectively>People remembered butterfly for years, and that was just the first boss>No one wants to talk about CV2 "memorable bosses" month after game release, and anon needs to spend hours desperately bumping his own thread
>>736846324>People remembered butterfly for years, and that was just the first bossYou can't even remember the name of the boss, you schizo. I've seen multiple conversations in Code Vein threads where people have forgotten they existed entirely and thought Miku was the first boss after the tutorial one.
>>736837625>43% of PS network players made it past the cathedral>38% of the Steam users made it past the cathedralthe first game enjoyed the word of mouth as anime souls but a lot of people didn't even bother finishing it. Anons also keep forgetting how aggressive they were with sales as the game was down -40 or 50% already after half a year.
>>736845949Actual flopped garbage no one cared for
>>736810860First impressions are a lot and when they revealed how it looked the majority of people were disappointed and this is reflected in its sells.
>>736810932>GE connectionThats was the worth part of CV1 though
>>736845565>Everyone else spending the entire game all sad and then he shows up having a great timeMeanwhile Zenon is the guy who'll show up and make EVERYONE have a great timeno really without him your team is screwed
>>736814036you know how many quality soul-slop is out there? It is more about competition for your time than anything.
>>736846157To be fair, Gunner and Fencer girl in CV1 on release fucked me like 50+ times, which is more than Consort and Malenia took from me, but that's because on-release duo was batshit insane and I think they were nerfed shortly after, plus I didn't use buffs or companions(big mistake), so it was a really self-restricted run. It went relatively well until this specific duo.Also obligatory mention of pole-dance boss, we need more of those.
>>736847019If we are talking about anime soulslike, I don't think we even had anything worthwile between AI Limit and Code Vein releases.Which is somewhat surprising, people love their anime girls as gacha popularity shows, but there are barely any anime-style games outside of gachas, if any at all. And I don't mean 10 release of Shounen Jump fightfag reskins per year.
>>736823508>i like to pad my shitlists with a lot of nitpicking - the postlel retard
>>736847107They're more of a skill/blood code check really, just making sure that you're using things like elemental defense buffs or blocking skills. But I'm not trying to say there weren't difficult moments, only that the first game's highlights were all back loaded into the short EVOLUTION section of the game and the ending shortly after, the middle and early game bosses aren't that notable aside from character moments. Mido and his soldiers were all kino fights.And for me, Soul Saviour is the only one in both games that actually made me stop playing to go change everything I was doing in my build.
>>736815221>So who the fuck asked a sequel?I think CV1 is a bad Soulslike and was exhausting as a game but the game sold incredibly well for the budget it had to the point that it had actual blood drives sponsored by it. It absolutely makes sense for it to have gotten a sequel just because of those sales numbers for such a low budget game.
>>736847615I wonder if CV2 killed franchise for good. Not like I expected a sequel either code fairy incident, I remember>>736847398I've quickly figured that buffstacking with Lou is broken and by the Soul Saviour fight I wasn't even able to feel anything. I should've played around with active skills more.
It took first game 3 years to go bellow 1k players https://steamdb.info/app/678960/charts/#maxSecond game did that at march 2, 30 days after releasehttps://steamdb.info/app/2362060/charts/#max
>>736811306Shut the fuck up shill. No Io no buy.
>>736810860The goose is already cooked. 70 bucks price tag, shit graphics/performance, generic open world.I would be surprised if they ever decide to make a third game.
>>736847774Blame the usual suspects, a pricetag and UE5 performance.I have 4070TS so I usually don't notice anything, but modern games are notoriously shit in terms of graphics-to-performance ratio, it wasnt as bad before.
I dont care about the zoomer cast design, censoring and denuvo.
I didn't get it because I'm Ios strongest soldier and I heard she wasn't in it.
>>736841961>anime Souls is just an inherently smaller audienceAll it really needed was for the gameplay to be good enough, and the enemy varety more decent(which a good combat system also helps)LOTF1 or 2 isn't a good game either, but the level design is stronger. And that helps immensely.But for LOTF its also true: If the core aspect(combat vs level design) was better, it would have sold more.CV1 is pretty much a trashfire hinging on the asethetic or build autists. And it makes me have no faith in CV2, especially as people do not post gameplay webms.
>>736848107>but the level design is strongerLotF's level design is pure and complete ass. The crypts alone should show you that let alone Mordor. The DLC being a literal maze where you can't fight anything without elemental weapons but there's only like four elemental weapons in the game, and if you're in NG+ or NG+2 it's 10+ levels below your best weapon is absurd. Bosses also having no-hit weapons is terrible because they are not even remotely designed to no-hit unlike The Surge.
>>736848107>especially as people do not post gameplay webmscause the majority of anons posting here havent played it
>>7368481812's level design is good... until you discover ranged enemy have the aggro range of the entire level, and the projectiles can keep on going trough the stratosphere. 1 was pretty bad. If there was a stronger contender for Warhammer Souls at the time, it would never have shipped a decent number of copies.
>>736848247And?You need to see some material posted to be convinced people actually play the game for gameplay. If there is a viral megathread about a game, people will post screenshotss and webms. Or fanart.The lack is worrying, and showcases a synthetic view of the game.
I loved the first game so much that i even bought Io's figure. I certainly wont be buying anything from this.
>>736848325why would any bother recording gameplay and convert it to a webm when 90% of the thread is dishonest parroting of the same talking points? A lot of anons would only play it for free if they can run it.
>>736841961The Souls audience is already 100% fine with anime, it's been joked about for a long time that the genre as a whole is only getting more shonen with time, what they actually want is to remove all female characters and for no one to ever, EVER speak japanese
the only 2 videos I have are with sound and I can't be assed to catbox themso have a screenshot to prove I played the game insteadmy opinion matters a million times more than yours, and I liked the game HAPPY KEBABU
>>736848427Because it shows the poster engaged with the game.If nobody did it, nobody played it, etc. Or it was not interesting enough to have a opinion on.
Its ugly. All characters look like they are drawn by this woke bitch.
All my recorded segments are of only Zenon cutscenes or of Holly.
>>736810932>>736811049This except I won't even pirate this steaming pile of shit.
>>736814127It is thougheverbeit.
>>736848386You can't post something like that and not show a buyfag thread photo, anon.
>>736848860Honestly sameThe scene where Holly discovered social media and went from doing plant videos to dancing after reading the comments was hilarious
>>736849228For me, it was seeing her in action for the first time on her first story mission, in a cave with a room of 20+ enemies and not knowing her gameplay archetype. Thrown completely off guard when came in with two giant gatling guns and firing away for half a minute.
>>736823508>revenant necks are abnormally long in CV2 for no good reasonI think this is actually because the models eye tracking with your character has to account for the height slider during cutscenes. I made a tall character with it turned all the way up on my first play through and the weird neck movement was more noticeable than it was with a shorter character on a 2nd play through. CV1's character creator didn't have a height slider until it was patched in later.
>>736810860man i think i need to replay CV1 again, what a disappointment when all they need to do is make CV1 but better instead of a worse elden rangwho the hell in bamco think this is a good idea? you are not fromsoft to pull this off
>>736848654this still wouldn't give me a reason to record my gameplay and convert it to a webm. I don't like avatarfagging either. I cant remember a single good CV2 thread ever since it was announced as there has been at least one schizo shitposting them from the get go and this hasn't changed. If you'd only be allowed to post in a thread after playing the game CV2 threads would slide within a few minutes if this wouldn't flat out kill /v/ anyway.
Would you pay for revenant prostitute?
>>736849851Well, announcement thread was somewhat decent, anons voiced legitimate concerns about sequel being a reboot.I still think revenants were weirdly written into the story somewhere in the middle, therefore all the superficial code vein references. Hell, jap voices literally uses kyuketsuki, which is basically a vampire.
>>736810860Code Vein did have a celebration from selling over 1 million copies just after a month of release.Code Vein 2 did not.
>>736850246>Well, announcement thread was somewhat decentreally despite all the safe horny spam that was half the thread?
>>736850246They translated vampire as revenant and blood as ichor since the start, no? Surprised they use the term blood bag instead of ichor purse or something. Translators are the enemy
>>736848716You posted someone who was literally the opposite of woke and disowned her English speaking fans for being woke retards
Soulshit fatigue.
Did they make it run a bit better on Ps5? I got distracted by Mewgenics and stopped playing this
>>736847243Those "nitpicks" increment pretty quickly to make the overall experience less gratifying. The real retard is you: the goodest goy who actively keeps his head in the sand because of some sentimental attachment to the game that precludes him criticising it.
>>736850797Nta but it’s blatantly padded you have an entire line for “neon grass” to make it appear larger
Holly...
>uhh actually CV1 was badIs this cope from that schizo that like scarlet whatever?CV1 was absolutely not bad, it had great gameplay and codes system was great, it went beyond anime tits except the GE connection at the end, fuck that shit
>>736851007CV being called the worst soulslike isn't exactly new. I wouldn't call it bad yet I wouldn't rate it above 6 or 7/10 either. The build freedom is cool but you have to actively engage with it, play different bloodcodes and unlock gifts. Gear, gift and blood code balance isn't good and enemy variety is non-existing. The area and level design is something you have to like and the story feels troubled like the last minute decision to add Io as companion resulting in her not appearing in any cutscene when the story appears to be rewritten halfway through anyway. All in all the game is niche but at least the community used to be nice.
>>736810860People are tired of Soulslikes. Nightreign perfected the genre and there's really no improving it from there.
>>736850357Well, that's just /v/ nowdays. I am also strongly convinced these people just hop into every single new release thread to post the same shit because it's kind of ridiculous to read how CV2 is less horny than CV1. >>736850619I mean, that's true, but when something drinks your blood using fangs and setting still refuses to call it vampires - it feels really weird. CV1 revenant name was at least thematic with whole dead person memory thing. I guess translators wanted to be consistent and kind of played themselves.
>>736810860gee I don't know, maybe it's the PSX graphics, absolute horseshit per, unfun and floaty gameplay, garbage censored and awful looking characters and how nobody with a brain will genuinely enjoy this shit?
code vein 2 on max settings (especially lighting) looks much better than CV1 to me. i do think that cv1 looked better aesthetically or at least i thought the whole gothic vampire vibe was cooler. the city now after the opening in cv2 is a bit drab
>>736849915>that buildThat's a man.
>>736853365So is that a yes?
>>736851507>CV being called the worst soulslike isn't exactly newAnd I remember back in the day that kind of post being made by one LotF schizo who couldn't accept Code Vein being more popular and liked than his shitty game.
I feel like I live in a bizzaro world, every complaint post includes censorship, is it some elaborate plot?When I just started the game I'd assume usual pol suspects would whitpost about Josee's looks/age/outfit, but somehow it never ever gets brought up.
>>736853464It's all just one guyWith the exact same talking pointsAnd he has not played the gameJosee wearing next to nothing and mounting you immediately after meeting her? He never saw itHolly bathing naked together with you? He never saw itHe will keep saying it's censored because one dlc costume probably had clipping issues with the panties so they replaced it with shorts.Point and laugh
>>736823879Picrel.>736824086Unbased and retarded.
>>736815651>>736854328
>>736854328There are no jiggle physics either.
>>736811480>>can't even use nvidia shaderswhat the fuck are you talking about?
>>736854328anons will take the bigotry line and seethe about woke when context was about revenant and human hostility where it made sense
>>736810860They told fans of the first one to fuck off. They deserve this flop
