ITT: this year's games that sort of, just, like, happened... Maybe?
>>741836934I am going to play this video game
>>741836934I don't know why people pretend that the previous games had some huge impact. Nioh 2 is unironically goated and always on my 3x3, but that shit couldn't get the general alive on /vg/ a game that is slightly worse wasn't gonna do it either
>>741836934I don't touch Nioh games until all the DLC releases.
>>741837097hes a deadman!
Waiting for it to be done. Not playing a Nioh game prior to the DLC
>>741837124anon it's a single player game.
>>741836934The DLC better be real fucking good
Did Nioh 3 make 2 a redundant game, the same way people said 2 made 1 redundant?
>>741842981Well first off, 2 did not make 1 redundant and it's an outdated parroted opinion. Secondly, no. Nioh 3 is a big leap in mechanics and ideas but it also effectively removes the new core mechanic of Nioh 2 (yokai skills). They technically exist as summon items kinda of like onmyo but they're just that, summons, rather than the majority of nioh 2 transforming you into the yokai itself. But I do like Nioh 3 a lot more than Nioh 2 it just has a massive issue with balancing.
>>741842709so does Sekiro and that one got GOTY. Me say Nioh 2 deserves that title better
>>741843274I was talking about the /vg/ thing and nioh 3 isn't slightly worse either. A lot of people have bias because they didn't play it until it came out on PC with all DLC and updates or they simply are only talking about 2 in the context of all DLC and updates
>>741842981I have played Nioh 3 times now, if Team Ninja are listening I don't think I need to play it a 4th time
>>741842981If anything it makes Nioh 2 look better by comparison.
>>741842981Nioh2 was an upgrade to Nioh1, Nioh3 seems more like a sidegrade to Nioh2 to me.
>>7418429813 is more of a sidegrade. Plus, 2 has the Parry Yokai mod, so it will continue being the better choice overall.
>>741836934Yeah usual TN GOTY yawn
>>741843143Yokai skills exist in the form of the Guardian Spirit skills, but they are a far cry from the sheer variety, utility, and power of the Yokai Skills that it's baffling that they were replaced with such a middling system. The soul cores you use to summon yokai might as well be an extension to the Onmyo system. I'd say skill tree, but they got rid of the entire magic tree for some reason and made all the spells tied to the soul cores themselves.
>>741836934really thought it would be the next elder scrollsi didn't play it
Played Nioh 1 and 2, wanted to try 3 but it works horribly. I have an average PC (4070, 7800x3d), but there are constant frame drops that make game run in slo-mo. At this rate wo long 2 would be even worse.
>>741845923>from the sheer variety, utility, and power of the Yokai Skills that it's baffling that they were replaced with such a middling system.There were only like at most 8 yokai skills that were worth using, the majority were too slow and lacking in utility to be worth using. Yokai skills also made the combat far too easy.
>>741846243The majority of them were worth using, but many had a very niche use case or you had to have the rest of your build compliment them in some way. That's still massively better than each GS getting exactly 2 skills, that can't be swapped out, can't be altered in anyway, and all follow the close range/long range form they all take. Guhin and Nekomata end up being the most consistently useful of all of them with generically useful passives as well.
>>741846370>That's still massively better than each GS getting exactly 2 skills, that can't be swapped out, can't be altered in anywayThis intentional because they realized that yokai skills made combat too easy and have less meaning. GS skills do have their uses too because they now work like brutes burst counter but the different in speed, range, and utility actually matter giving the players more choices to express when it comes to countering red attacks. yokai skills felt awesome at first but then you start abusing them and it just feels cheesy. Like nioh had cheese before but they weren't tied to core mechanics like yokai skills are.
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>>741846370Yokai cores were excellent, it was like the concept of blue mage converted to Nioh's combat system, and once you were good enough the niche yokai were the ones you always took for style because you didn't need the advantage the strongest ones provided. It wasn't an illusion of choice either, I had about 30-40 yokai to pick from that all did something interesting so it was just another thing in your toolbox that made the game more enjoyable.
>>741836934Nobody even remembers this pile of garbage at this point
>>741836934>sold like 500 copies>hasn't had more than about a dozen concurrent players daily ever sinceThis was such a Concord that nobody even noticed it existed.
>>741847907its literally goty in the year of gtaviits actually going to be the better game than gta6 its my goty
>>741848081Didn't ask. Advertising and begging post
>>741836934This game has an unreasonably good nude mod for some reason. No idea how the modder did it
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Bakumatsu is really fucking good for the open world. I get peoples complaints about it looking boring but a lot of the random site areas have a good amount of soul injected into them.
>>741848694which one there's dozens of them
>>741850105>dozensThere's like two? At least on mod nexus. I used the top rated one >>741849993Dunno it was the low point for me. Just extremely uninspired visual mess and even gameplay wise the game was stale by that point, that area had maybe 2 new enemies total (if any even, I don't remember)
I enjoyed the fuck out of Nioh 3 at first, but by the 2nd era I found the game way too easy and was bored as fuck and I hate the ninja "style".Dropped until they fix the difficulty and level design, there's too few enemies around. The weapons are also unbalanced and they removed all the fun ones from samurai style, fuck that.
