Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

I played the first demo from a few months ago, not sure if it's the same as the current one. It was definitely Ni-Oh 2.5, but something felt 'off' about the whole thing. Hopefully they ironed it out before release. It's on Game Pass so no reason not to give it a shot. Release is the best time to play their games too, since they inevitably fuck them up with later patches and DLC.

Played through the demo of this as well. It actually felt pretty soulsy to me when I started using that big slow 2h great horn weapon. But the random drop system... it sounds good in theory but then trying to read through each item and figure out wtf it is gets kind of old. Especially when drinking. Haha.

Anyone looking to get a headstart on this, NZ time travel works for Xbox. Playing it via Game Pass right now.

jonoki said:

But the random drop system... it sounds good in theory but then trying to read through each item and figure out wtf it is gets kind of old. Especially when drinking. Haha.

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I'm going to play it like Ni-oh, where you always just ignore the random stats and equip whatever has the best protection (within reason, obviously you don't dump a 4* item for 1* just to gain a couple points of armor) while keeping your weight limit in the green for the story. Worry about proper gear once you hit endgame content.

Should be interesting to see the % completion of the tutorial boss achievement after a week or so. I suspect a huge percentage of Game Pass players will never beat it and just delete the game. Also makes me wonder how many game journalists out there reviewed it without actually playing past that point. No way the degenerates who write for places like Polygon, Kotaku, or The Gamer beat that shit unless they begged someone else to play the game for them.

It is a weird design choice though. Everything after that boss is super easy by comparison for quite a while.

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Game Pass people can get the pre-order DLC after all; you just need to buy it (for free) from the MS Store. Pretty good armor for the beginning of the game, and both it and the helmet you get from playing the demo can be upgraded for free. Don't worry if you can't upgrade it when you first find the blacksmith--it only works once you have the proper materials in your inventory (but doesn't actually consume them or the copper) so you will need to progress a bit to find a couple more pieces of leather and then run back to her.

I played like 1/3 of the way through Nioh 1 before quitting it. That game was too easy. I played the demo on this one, game is pretty easy best thing to do is dodge/parry it seemed to me.

After quitting Nioh 1, I started Sekiro again and I had a lot of fun learning the boss fights--e.g., Genichiro, Isshin. Nioh 1 bosses didn't hold a candle to Sekiro boss mechanics.

I don't consider Nioh 1 or Wo Long to be a soulsborne game. These games are generic third-person action games with the Souls' die and save your currency run-back mechanic... that's about where the similarities end.

Unplayable on PC if anyone cares, wait for some patches

Rajaah said:

PS5 version is fine, yeah?

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Should be. Haven't been home much so I've played mostly on my Series S with no issues outside of the sunny outdoor level where shadow draw distance is like 5 feet so they constantly pop in and out. Not sure if it happens on XSX and PS5 too, but if it does you can just play that level on quality instead of performance mode.

Definitely wouldn't say this game is up to the standard of Ni-oh 2, but it's still pretty good.

I'm about half through the main story now with all side missions completed and there still hasn't been a single boss remotely as hard as the tutorial fucker. No idea what the hell they were thinking with that retarded ass design.

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bricked is not the same as full system crash. fuck twitchtv forces me to manually power off my system(as in, flip switch in the back as even the reset button in the front doesn't work) sometimes as it has weird violations with other stuff.

bricked is when it outright damages hardware. burns out gpus, memory, psu's etc.

a game actually bricking your system is major bad news, and reason to never touch it. A game just causing a system crash/unresponsive is annoying, but just annoying.
I suppose it could have, but its not clear or stated in this clip if hardware was damaged.

Caliane said:

bricked is not the same as full system crash. fuck twitchtv forces me to manually power off my system(as in, flip switch in the back as even the reset button in the front doesn't work) sometimes as it has weird violations with other stuff.

bricked is when it outright damages hardware. burns out gpus, memory, psu's etc.

a game actually bricking your system is major bad news, and reason to never touch it. A game just causing a system crash/unresponsive is annoying, but just annoying.

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I didn't make the title. I just clippy posty.