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We are all entitled to an opinion, but this is a very bad one(and I love all the Souls games).
Nioh 3
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Hateyou
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The combat is crazy good for an action RPG. The loot, yeah there’s too much…kind of Diablo slopitis
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It can be a little congested at first. Once you pick what you want to use and stick with it, everything else is just wood for the fire.
It's more so the loot. Theres... nothing unique about it just tons of it. It's not like ER where you get a really badass 2hs, you just get random tiers to drop like Diablo without the unique items. It really turns me off.
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Rajaah
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I'm building Str right now for that Bandit Axe (and whatever else I find), but I can respec later when I have that weapon mod. Managed to pool High Stance bonuses onto the axe so it's got like an extra +20% damage on it with everything already. I already respeced enough times that the respec costs 100k Gold now, damn.
I need something like that Caelid dragon that gives you like 30 levels, cause at 57 or so I'm still about 50 levels short of having any sort of build I want. Gonna look up some level grinding spots.
What's a good level to beat the main game? I finished ER at around 150 the first time, Bloodborne around 180, all the Souls games around 120.
Soygen
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ER is more traditional loot as the item is the item. That's it. One version, you can upgrade its strength and that's it. There are really cool and unique items in ER/Souls games. In Nioh, a huge part of the game is min/maxing for that 'perfect item', much like Diablo and Path of Exile. If that's not your thing, I get it, but that's Nioh's entire point of all the loot. Break the trash down and keep trying to forge a better upgrade at the blacksmith.
Vorph
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It's definitely annoying, especially early game when none of the stats even really matter at all. It's nice if your weapon is imbued with an element (preferably not fire, since the best early ninja arts--fire shuriken, shrapnel bomb, uncanny flame--can be used to apply burning and ideally you want a second element so that you can confuse bosses for big +dmg), and for armor there's a few affixes that increase the only base stats that matter (hp/def/toughness). Aside from equipment and crucible weapon drop %, all the other affixes are so small a boost that they really don't do anything noticeable.
You can mitigate it by making changes in the settings menu though. First off, turn on auto-pickup so you just walk over the items instead of having to RB them one at a time. Then set everything up to uncommon to be marked as junk whenever you visit a shrine. You can either donate them for amrita, sell them for gold, or disassemble them for crafting mats. Personally I recommend doing about 50/50 donating and disassembling in the demo, at least until you max out the donate titles. After that switch to selling and disassembling, and only donate weapons you've maxed out familiarity with because they give a very large amount of bonus amrita. Later on you unlock a fourth option (soul extraction) that will replace disassembling for the most part. You'll also want to bump the junk filter up a tier to include purple items once you're a bit past the demo too.
Later on, once you start getting item sets that boost the weapons/build you want to play you can make use of soul forging at the blacksmith to improve your drops/crafted stuff and you'll be looking for trash items with specific affixes in order to inherit them onto your good gear, and that's when the loot system finally gets interesting.
Edit: Oh, and while you're messing with the game's settings, do yourself a favor and switch controls to Type B. The default left-stick forward/back + square/triangle input for a whole bunch of arts is pure ass. Type B changes that to LB+square/triangle instead.
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Metalhead
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This game really isn't a soulslike and if try to play it like one you are gonna have a bad time.
Utnayan
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Hatorade
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Can also do similar things with crafting and materials, donations for boons etc.
edit: Also turn off action camera, screen shake, and increase camera distance. Makes combat far less chaotic feeling.
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Utnayan
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This helped a ton! Game is more fun to play now. Thanks
I maxed out camera distance and did the others it’s literally night and day. Anyway to turn off all the floating shit?
Hatorade
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Yes, can turn off all damage numbers as well.This helped a ton! Game is more fun to play now. Thanks
Gankak
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This helped a ton! Game is more fun to play now. Thanks
If you already said this sorry... but is this your first Nioh experience? did you play 1 or 2?
Utnayan
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Rajaah
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In Nioh 1 I went with Type E controls just to have the attacks on R1 and R2.
What drives me fucking nuts is that there's no way to have Guard on L1 and attack on R1. Each type has one but not the other. So there's actually no way to play with the normal Souls controls that people spent years getting used to. NONE of the controls have dodge on circle, either, it's always on X.
Nioh 1 desperately needs a controller settings option on console, to let you map the buttons the way you want. Half the reason the game has been so frustrating for me is that the buttons just aren't where they're "supposed to be" no matter what control type I go with.
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Yeah I really don’t understand why game controls are fully mappable in 2026. What the fuck is so hard about it?
Vorph
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You actually can remap just about everything in Nioh 3. I was messing around with it earlier trying to find a way to fix the one big flaw with Type B controls -- guardian spirit skills are mapped to L1+dpad up/down which is annoying. I set dpad up/down to two of my back buttons, but I still don't like it. Trying to find two buttons that don't already do something while guard is held down is kind of tough though.
Biggest problem with that setup is that Nioh uses so many different button chords it gets really awkward and you end up having to do stuff like hold down a face button while pressing the dpad. Having to let go of one stick is bad enough, both is just awful. It's just better to get used to playing it Ninja Gaiden/God of War/etc. style instead of trying to force it to control like a Souls game.