Get Darksiders 2 on discount on GoG: cutt.ly/91uU7ht What is your opinion about Darksiders 2, and the series in general?

Soundtrack for this game was on next level and voice actor did phenomenal job voicing kinslayer...love this game to death

Darksiders 2 is my favorite game in the series and one of my favorite games overall. You can tell that the developers poured their hearts into making it. It's a shame that it didn't sell well. I highly recommend you try the first game as well if you want more context to some things, like how the apocalypse started or the time travel aspect, which does kinda get explained.

Darksiders as a series is super underrated in my opinion. I do hope we get another.

I never knew that THQ and Vigil went bankrupt because Darksiders 2 performed so poorly... Seriously, life is just not fair. Darksiders 2 is one of the best games I've ever played and encapsulates the pinnacle of the 2004-2013 peak of gaming.

9:20 if I remember correctly that section takes place where the Corruption was withering that plane of hundreds of years and the mechanic sends you back to that place before Corruption even started. So technically Death could wait and prevent but it would take eternity to do so without guarantee of success. 11:20, thats true, while story of both games are almost simulatenously it might be a bit confusing why Death sacrificed himself but is apparently alive in the cutscene. It is because of start of DS 1 and the same scene at the ending. War was accused of starting the apocalypse, and only Charred Council can start it by breaking 7 special seals. War responded to seals being broken by going to Earth that started the war between heaven, hell and humanity just to discover that one of the seals was never broken - something faked the call of the seals and War was imprisoned. The ending of DS1 summons all 4 horsemen even if they are dead, reviving Death. The story of DS3 also takes place roughly at the same time adding even more confusion and some of story elements are in the comic in game universe. Fortunately story of DS Genesis is unrelated prequel. Series is great in general, high production value even in DS3 that was produced at very limited budget. My favourite game from the series is probably the first one, DS2 had more agile gameplay and more interesting puzzles, but I didnt like the forced RPG elements and long travel sequences between areas even if backtracking is a feature in all 3 games for the hidden achievements and Abyss Armor parts.

For me, this is a classic. I also listen to the soundtrack regularly

My favorite track is the guardian fight... and crow father fight.

I played this game years ago when it came out. I loved every second of it and got obsessed..

One of the best games of ps3 x360 era and very underrated. Its a perfect game really

Darksider 2 is my childhood and I always come back to once a or two years. Every time the flaws of the game becomes more clear such as no depth in combat and the horrible loot system but it’s always a fun adventure nonetheless. I hope we finally get the 4 horsemen coop concept which they were first going for in Darksider 4 if it ever happens.

My top 3 favorite game of all time

I love the Darksiders series :-D. I bought every game at launch and I enjoyed every single one of them. Darksiders 3 is one of my most favorite Souls Likes. In my opinion it had the most intelligent use of shortcuts and level connections. At the moment I am playing Asterigos which I discovered in one of your preview videos for RPG's. I recommend playing it, I think it's amazing. Especially if someone is searching for a Souls Like with a great lore, story and characters.

This game is awesome. I still play The game on the regular now in 2023.

This game is great in any year and i will probably keep coming back to replay it until Death actually does take me.

Secretly? I loved it for these whole 10 years.

This is my favorite game in the series but War had better abilities for me...

Darksiders 2 is the game that got me so interested in this series, and still my favourite entry. Darksiders one was extremely hevay on the EPIC aspect of its plot, I had fun, but didn`t enjoy it quite as much as 2. All the acting in the game sounds extremely good, but the Death`s VA did an Outstanding job. Death is quite a common character across all media, but I don`t think anythone ever captured it`s voice. Darksiders Death sounds exactly like he should sound. Same goes for Jesper Kyd`s soundtrack - the game sounds wonderfull and makes traveling the world enjoyable, when otherwise it would have been tedious in some places. I love to listen to the OST just because it sounds so good (same as Genesis OST). The game might be a little drawn out, I think some dungeons could have been cut for sure, but the game is colorful, uses the style to its full advantage, has killer soundrack, voice acting and atmosphere, awesome combat and boss design, and a simple but emotional story to boot. It`s an awesome game, and Darksiders as a whole is such a great franchise of games, I love them. Also, the second game had a prequel novel The Abomination Vault coming out to promote it, and I loved that novel to bits. Somehow the writer perfectly captured the combat and translated it into writing, the book has a good main mystery for it`s plot and it gets quite dark and emotional later on, but it`s main selling point is character dialogue and interactions. The book has Strife and Fury featured for the first time in the series, there are a lot of familiar sidecharacters present (like Crowfather), the book features a lot of worldbuilding of Heaven and Hell, there is tons of great War and Death dialogue, and And HORSE (and Dust) INTERACTIONS! There are tons of those, and they are super well done, and adorable at times. Horses don`t really get much love in this series featuring...horsemen... aside from Ruin, other horse are treated mostly like transportation means, but the book has none of that. All the horsemen have special bond with their steeds, the horses have their own character and even act on their riders` behalf. If you`re a fan of the series, I highly reccomend you check out the book, it`s great and I had a great time reading it, and I love to come back to reread it too (I am a weirdo). (fun addition: you can have the game OST playing in the background whole reading the book, according to the location the riders are in - for ex. The Crystal Spire for when the horsemen traverse Heaven). Also, while Death feels like the leader of the Horsemen and is protective of his brothers and sister, there are reasons he is so worried about War particularly in 2...not gonna say any more on that. p.s. played the disk version on x360 and Deathinitive on ps4 - never had any crashes. I didn`t even know that was a problem for the game the RPG elements like gear and stats make the game worse in my opinion. Don`t get me wrong, all the armor and weapons have cool designs, and it`s nice to find a specific weapon with extra ability and carrry it to the late game, but I had much, much more fun just using the gear with auto-scaling (and it suits Death much more in my opinion), or just using the Abyss armor The camera give you trouble in encounters, especially since the game loves Death vs. crowd fights, but it is pretty managable, and some abilities are pretty broken even in Deathinitive (awesome name btw), but camera works very well in boss fights. Personally, I hated the Earth level because I did not want to use the gun - it was very clanky and it controls like through an additional layer of mud, so this level gave me actual hell, since the enemies in the area have 1408 times buffed HP compared to their counterparts. Also, it takes away dodging - the simple but most satisfying mechanic in the entire game. I don`t reccomend the DLC areas. They were made on a tigher budget and it r e a l l y shows. The best part of the game is the main game. p.p.s. Darksiders tierlist: Darksiders 2 (the best of the franchise and it`s spirit perfectly captured, best ost) Darksiders Genesis (a new take on the franchise that fits it perfectly and captures the spirit of the games perfectly, second best ost) Darksiders (a great game, it just didn`t stick with me as much as the others, very epic and tone heavy, horse levels are great, and the epilogue is the dream of a series fan) Darksiders 3 (a good game, but gameplay, tone and story are all over the place, there is no horse(, still fun though)

Extremely underrated, very sad what happened to THQ.

Darksiders 3 was *so good* - really had fun with it. Never played the other Darksiders games, but 2 looks good too. Problem is, I tried download it on Steam, but there are so many bugs even early on, shadow maps the pops into existence and disappears, and lots of graphical glitches. Sad because it looks really good.

Played it first time this year. Was thoroughly impressed. Very good game

Never got around to this one but it definitely looks like it's worth a try! Great vid as always 😆😀

That budget made me laugh I thought it was a joke

I have been a big fan of the Darksiders series since the first one came out. Darksiders 2, for me, is the best in the series.

As a long time fan of the Darksiders games, I find it really interesting to hear the thoughts of someone who sees all these things for the first time. And although I'm a big fan of the games, I'm not blind to the many issues it has, and we all have different views and opinions about games so I'm not bothered if someone doesn't love the games. x)

Friday, I'm enjoying drinking some beers and relaxing and suddenly you upload. God bless you, you damn bastard :D. Kreće uživanje xD

I Love this game, Loot, open-world linearity, art, colors, setting, mechanics, VO. Truly rare game, im always looking for a "modern" copy to play( maybe biomutant). the 2000-mid2010 were the apex of gaming.(GGate was the downfall plus Dlc/mtx/constant patches/season passes/woke changed the industries "north star"). I just played Vanquish again and WOW I miss them days.

Play the Sorcerer build. You'll feel meaningful improvement with each upgrade. To the point of imbalance. Also you didn't manage to hit the sweet spot when doing combos, it will greatly improve the damage

Darksiders 2 was probably my first favorite games in the sense that it was so much cooler than everything else i have played

A lot of the open areas have hidden chests.

best soundtrack and amazing game i miss it ps do you work a 9 to 5 job or your work is YT? also where you from etc?

Game was awesome. Ive played all of the Darksiders games, really hope we get the 4th eventually. Hard to rank them, I enjoyed them all.

The first game is amazing. It has less RPG elements but it's my favorite of the series (it's the son of God of War and Zelda with references of other games)

The guardian theme is the best one

sad we didn't get mmo from this series, but the studio and joe with wayfinder might look at the past and have good things like we had in this game

Having played every single darksiders game, 2 is definitely my favourite, the atmosphere and the visual presentation are one of the best ever in gaming imo Oh and I also started with darksiders 2 :p

As someone whose playing through all current games at the moment, I can confidently say the cutscenes of the first 2 Darksiders games A Quality examples as to why i'll always prefer animation by hand over motion-capture rigs in 3d games, even if one is significantly harder. The camera work and stylization help, but it's all the little details in expression and body language that really sell the cakes.

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I LOVE this game. The soundtrack by Jesper Kyd is enough reason to give it a playthrough! The world design and story are great too.

Love how the ending of darksiders 1&2 come full circle.

This is my "gaming comfort food". I've played this a few times, and each time I can put in like 60 hours into it- because I finish the game, and then I gotta do NG+ to unlock the second half of the Crucible- because that's how you get the best gear set (abyssal armor). I dunno what it is about this game- maybe it's the fact that Death reminds me so much of Raziel from the Legacy of Kain, which is my favourite series of all time, haha. Darksiders series has a pretty huge enemy roster, compared to most other action games. And I'm not really big on action RPG loot-driven games- but using the possesses weapons to get the best attributes of multiple weapons to craft a super-weapon mechanic in this game was *really* satisfying. Darksiders 1 feels even more linear, and much more focused on being a 3D Gothic Zelda-like; Darksiders II really expanded the formula with all the loot, skill trees, and A LOT more Prince of persia-style platforming- War is way more focused on gargets than platforming. Darksiders III (made by the people from the other half of Vigil, who formed Gunfire Games), feels more like a Souls game. Except there's no stamina, minimal gear, and the combat revolves around doing the Bayonetta-esque "perfect dodge to slow down time and counter" mechanic. So basically, it's got very little of the "bones" of a souls-game, but because the healing, save system, currency, and upgrades are similar, everyone made sure to compare the game to Dark Souls. It's nowhere near as puzzle-heavy (except maybe the last areas, once you get all 4 of your elemental abilities), but they also created an entire dungeon DLC that's based around using your elemental abilities as you aquire them to compensate for that. Imho, that DLC was a good addition to the game, but if you don't like puzzles, ymmv. Genesis is also pretty neat. Playable in co-op, since I know you appreciate games that do that.

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It's one of the best games ever, I can guarantee.

I'm glad you played it. Darksiders 2 is definitely best for me gameplay, s for story Darksiders 1 have the best

I really want a Darksiders 4

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I wonder how they managed to burn 50 millions on it, let alone in just 2 years...

I have the first 3 games, 1 and 2 I must have gotten on Steam years ago and never played, and 3 I got as a Playstation+ member. This makes me want to try the games more than anything else I've seen. I never played it as I thought the combat looked a bit unexciting, but playing a game and watching gameplay can't always translate how much I'll actually enjoy it. Samurai Warriors 4 was so very enjoyable to play but if I watched gameplay, I doubt I'd have anticipated all the good feelings that I felt playing it.

I finished darksiders trilogy last summer and all of them are really good games, in their own way

I know some say Jesper Kyd's best score is the Assassin's Creed ones, but for me, DS2 is the best score he did.

I think visiting the other games in the franchise might be pretty interesting, because they all kind of have their own subgenre. For instance, Dark Siders 2 is the only game to incorporate heavy looter and RPG elements. Dark Siders 1 by contrast is more of a traditional hack&slash (though still with puzzle and platforming elements) and Darksiders 3 is actually more of a souls-like in how the combat works (also, when you play Darksiders 3, it'll give you the choice between new and classic combat mechanics. If you don't want to hate your life, go for the classic ones, they let you animation-cancel and are a lot more responsive in general, although they do make the game quite a bit easier). Then there's Genesis which is very obviously different in a lot of ways, starting with the fact it's isometric. Still holding out for a Darksiders 4 though. Strife is a fun character and really could do with a full game of his own.

Oh man you really did hurt my OCD, you should have started with the first game

I remember playing the darksiders 2 app for free Dlc

The game look like Devil May Cry and God of War series, but using Diablo 2 loot system. God of War vs War ( Darksiders ), I realy love the 1st game and miss it.

I hope they'll get around to making a game where we'll be able to switch between all four Horsemen.

Darksiders 2 Deathinitive Edition for the PC has the unfortunate bug of consistently crashing whenever I would progressive far enough in NG+ due to the save file surpassing a certain file size. This sucked tremendously, because I would never be able to complete the 100 floors of the Crucible and finish collecting the last Abyssal armor piece.

Darksiders is my fav game series with there games being in this order for me 1: darksiders 1 2: either genisis or 2 I like them both a lot and can’t decide wich goes in 2nd so they both go 2nd 3rd is 3 cuz fury is umm- well yea also Darksiders 3 had horrendous map design (as in where to go) game looked great tho

Great game! I played no ps3, then i buy it for ps4 and i'm very proud with my Platinum on ps4!!! (saddly when i played on ps3,The servers have already been shut down, so I'm only missing a few trophies there!)

I remember when i was like 14 and played this samael was like the coolest boss ever :D But all bosses are atleast cool visually

Only played the 2nd one. Seen my dad play the first one when I was a kid. Always thought 3rd one was a 2d game from above, until a few months ago I found out it is not. Anyways, great franchise.

Back then i have chosen Amalur and SKyrim and Dark Messiah over playing this. THen i replayed them over this. Then i replayed them over this... Shoud i finally give Darksiders another go? Or should i replay other gems again and again? ;-) btw Click4G give a go to PRophesy of Pendor - 1 of greatest playing experience available.

I remember i finished it, but it was kind of a chore sometimes in between. Overall nice game awsome art style. My darksiders ranking would be 1->3->2

played all of them ... can't tell if i can compare them because every title have its unique style ! 1- DS1 direct zelda style 2- DS2 mix and intro to open world games 3- DS3 direct darksouls style 4- DSG direct diablo style but DS1 was my favorite ...

1 2 and 3 are great but only 1 was able to hold me untill the end. 2 and 3 dropped me somewhere in 3/4 of the game for some reason.

Nice.

In the first game war was accused of starting the apocalypse before the humans were ready. He was captured and imprisoned by the council for 100 years. After 100 years, War with a watcher (voiced by Mark Hamill) is sent to earth to redeem himself by rooting out all that participate in the conspiracy to end humanity. War kills Abaddon, the main responsible for starting the apocalypse by breaking all the seals, starting the war and then asking Utane to reforge the 7th seal. At the end of the game the watcher is about to kill war when Uriel kills War and breaks the 7th seal resurrecting war. War then is about to depart to punish the consul when Uriel asks him if he will wage a war alone, he says no along pointing to the sky where his brothers are about to arrive to earth due to the break of the 7th seal. Darksiders 2 takes place 100 years before the first game when war was imprisoned. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7WPgsp0vL7ZqYk.html

Dis game s such a masterpiece, its sad dat Ds2 was not succsesful enough in terms of company income((((

Best game in the series. This one was another examples when gamers don't buy good games for some reasons... not popular IP or what? Reminds me to buy Genesis and finish Darksiders 3. Maybe some day...

my issue with darksiders 2 was diablo-like loot system. I hate it. it doesn't matter how great a game is if I am distracted every minute by colorful loot that I have to sort out and reequip the best stuff

Will you do a video on Risen the remastered port , coming out in January 2023 ?

I played Darksiders 2 on my Wii U and never had a problem, seems like you played the wrong version hahaha

It's a shame it didn't sell well right away. It's an amazing game, I see it basically as Zelda for adults. I have the first 2 for 360 and the third I got free with gold from Xbox one but haven't really gotten into it. I'm not really a fan of Fury and her whip playstyle. I wish it would have starred Strife I believe is his name? Can't remember but it would have been a nice spin on the game to make it a shooter with melee mechanics too. The top down game was disappointing to say the least imo. It should have been a fully fleshed out game like the others.

darksiders exodus in the making woohoo!

A bit of a spoiler for the first game but the total different gameplay when you reached Earth is actually a callback to the first game having multiple gameplay mechanics like NieR Automata or Bayonetta if you've played any of those two before.

i love darksiders 2 and i never see crash or poor performance

Amazing video, but why playing at 4k with a 2060?

The reaper form didnt do that much endgame cause it scales of arcane and i assume you went physical. You didnt talk about possessed weapons basically weapons that you feed them other weapons and you can give them the stats you want. Also the crucible i would recommend to beat all the floors.It has new game plus you didnt talk about it

You sound like alot of people when the game first came out. They felt the rpg mechanics were unnecessary and the puzzles were a bit too much. They also much preferred the more streamlined nature of the first game and the liked the 3rd game alot as well. I on the otherhand though D2 was amazing and the best game in the series hands down!

this game is an experience by all means, the soundtrack, setting, acting, just the general feel and soul of the game. it is fitting that what it is about because as far as i am concerned it really does feel like a spiritual experience. which you would never expect to get from a game, let alone an action game. maybe it sais some things when one of the medias of recent times that invoke a spiritual experience, is one where the protagonist is literally death. but maybe also, it could be no other way. in either case with the music and the feel of the game it feels enchanting

Darksiders 1 is still my favorite. The reason is the loot system. In darksiders 1, it's more like edgy zelda clone. Everything you get is unique, and incrementally increase your power in organic ways. For example, Increasing health or attack power by collecting the "heart pieces" like in zelda. There is no level up, just you discover better gears and stuff. In darksiders 2, the rpg elements are very tacked on, and i really dislike diablo style loot of all kind. Makes exploration unrewarding sometimes due to the RNG loot. In the end of each dungeon, there are usually chests with blue or purple tier loot, that sometimes are just redundant because you have legendary tier equipment that do more. But the combat in DS 2 is better than DS1, but DS 2 feels like it had to artifically RPG'd itself too hard it loses the zelda charm DS1 had.

What about Darksiders 1?

music just decent? not sure if we played the same game

I also had a mixed feeling on this game. Love the combat but there is just too much puzzle and platforming and a lot of empty fields.

I like this game a lot, but I feel like a lot of the contents seem too much. I would've wished it was more contained like Darksiders 1. Death is my favorite so by far from design to mechanics. :D

About 10 hrs in, fun game, great art style and voice overs the camera is bad and combat just okay. Just finished dragon's dogma bitterblack isle the combat in this game is outstanding so it makes it a hard to play darksiders 2 afterward.

It's just a shame that they decided to make the third game a souls wannabe instead of more of this. I honestly wouldn't mind if Darksiders 3 had not been much different than Darksiders 2. I really do hope they finish off the series one day, maybe even make a genesis 2 with all of the horsemen at once. That would be nice.

this is the best RPG I've played in a long time, the art, the story(a bit cheesy) the lite RPG(some of the items are just gorgoues to look at) and the action... one of my disappointments with this video was that you didn't mention the obvious cuts that were made to the game, if you compare the last 2 sections to the first 2, you quickly notice that so much was cut from the last 2 zones, I played through this game a couple of months back, and through my how many hours of gameplay the last zone took 30-45 minutes, and it was possibly the byproduct of thq tanking, they pushed the game for release when they needed money, marketing was not done correctly or completely, and this game came out in the shadow of skyrim (so many people love that game)....

What was wrong with 3 its wasnt like two at all

this game doesnt have 2012 graphics

I played Darksiders just before announcement of Darksiders 2. I really liked it so I blindly jumped on board the second one. And I was not disappointed. D2 is great. Unfortunately Darksiders 1 and 2 are the only games in the series worth playing. 3rd one was OK with great character, Fury is badass, but the rest of the game is mediocre. Darksiders Genesis is a disaster and transgression to the whole series. Even including 3rd one. Who on earth thought that tween stick shooter will do Darksiders justice? And of course it had to have co-op cause every game needs a co-op/multiplayer now a days.... 😒 After Darksiders 2 I wanted more games in the series. Now I wish they'd never pick that game up...

I really dis enjoyed it, tho the story kinda drags...bit of pacing problems, but nevertheless, underrated game

Darksiders 2 is still my favorite game of the series and I think it does alot right. I liked D3 as well and D1 was good but my least favorite. I liked the world, combat and story of D2 most. It was slow to gain success but I think over time it aged well and it grew on people.

The bugs ruin the game selling the game, if they make anymore get rid of the bugs

Darksiders 2 is more adult zelda.

I fk hated how slow the character run in the game. Many developers dont want to understand how important is a sprint mode in a game, its like they never have played a fk game in their entire lives. 😒

I played both 1 and 2... I liked darksiders 2 more than 1 But I don't like the top down shooter genesis and darksiders 3

Ds1 and ds2 are cool games but puzzles aren't fun to me, i mainly want combat and because of that i don't like them that much

I won’t judge you for starting your journey with the best game in the series. But the game has a fat “2” in its title. It’s not some obscure sequel. If you skip the first game, you are going to miss information and context. The game doesn’t owe you context. The context is in the first game, which you knowingly skipped.

Developers knew that puzzles and platforming been most criticized part of the first game, but still decided add even more in second. I can respect that developers want go they own way, but they ruined they own game and studio on prosess. Kinda sad, because i liked they artstyle and setting from first game.

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