Reckoning destroys Skyrim's/Dark Souls' combat (IGN)

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"][QUOTE="Merex760"]Elder Scrolls games are all about overwhelming you with content and the lively world. They've never been about cutting edge gameplay. Goyoshi12

Unbearable? Skyrim's combat isn't the greatest but you can't even bear to just repeatedly hit the attack button? Kind of weak...

[QUOTE="cyborg100000"]

The combat really looks nothing special, hell it looks a little rigid. The 3rd person view, cartoon look and title-and-health-bar-over-enemy's-head gives it even less of an impact.

Also if Skyrim's combat is considered terrible, how did you people get through Bioshock, Deus Ex, Morrowind, System Shock, ME2 and other such games? Am I the only one who liked the combat?

skrat_01

[QUOTE="Goyoshi12"]

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"] well content means little if gameplay is a bore. i mean, what does it matter if a game has weeks of content if it's unbearable to play through them?BrunoBRS

Unbearable? Skyrim's combat isn't the greatest but you can't even bear to just repeatedly hit the attack button? Kind of weak...

Oh...well...carry on then. Forget what I said. :P

I played the demo. The game is so generic, that includes the combat.

GrannyGoat

if your playing skyrim for combat your doing it wrong

This is coming from the same people who said "Dark Souls will eat Skyrim's face" but gave Skyrim a higher score than Dark Souls.

LOL IGN. Run along, now. :lol:

Skyrim has the worst combat ive seen this gen, so i hope the combat is better.

Skyrim has the worst combat ive seen this gen, so i hope the combat is better.

crimsonman1245

It's flashier...so...there's that.

[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="cyborg100000"]

The combat really looks nothing special, hell it looks a little rigid. The 3rd person view, cartoon look and title-and-health-bar-over-enemy's-head gives it even less of an impact.

Also if Skyrim's combat is considered terrible, how did you people get through Bioshock, Deus Ex, Morrowind, System Shock, ME2 and other such games? Am I the only one who liked the combat?

Cherokee_Jack

if your playing skyrim for combat your doing it wrong

savagetwinkie

From what I played in the demo, the combat seemed really simplistic.

seriously, maybe because i only played it last year, but deus ex seemed more like proof of concept than an actual game. most of the gameplay was pretty bad.BrunoBRS

Yeah, I sort of agree. I think it's pretty satisfying if you play it as a stealth game, much like HR. But you have to do some serious save-scumming to get around the idiosyncrasies of the AI and combat.

"More than the sum of its parts" is what I would say about the first game.

Just finished the demo, the game is one of the worst i have played in years

Sure SKyrim combat is nothing to write home about, but Amalur is overall horrid

And i though FF13 was the most terrible game ever, well, not anymore, now Amalur joined it

Oh IGN always stating the obvious.

I mean what game doesn't destroy Skyrim's Combat? Even PacMan had a better combat.

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"] seriously, maybe because i only played it last year, but deus ex seemed more like proof of concept than an actual game. most of the gameplay was pretty bad.Cherokee_Jack

Yeah, I sort of agree. I think it's pretty satisfying if you play it as a stealth game, much like HR. But you have to do some serious save-scumming to get around the idiosyncrasies of the AI and combat.

"More than the sum of its parts" is what I would say about the first game.

IMO, I thought the combat was good, better than Skryim, but it is really simplistic and all that holds it up is really the fact that it's flashy is really the only grabbing grace the game has over Skyrim and even then there are many other gamplay elements that Skyrim exceeds superbly at while Kingdom's of Amalur fall quite flat, tbh.

Just finished the demo, the game is one of the worst i have played in years

Sure SKyrim combat is nothing to write home about, but Amalur is overall horrid

And i though FF13 was the most terrible game ever, well, not anymore, now Amalur joined it

loosingENDS

Just finished the demo

The game is one of the worst i have played in years

loosingENDS

:|

Having just played the demo, I'd rank it slightly above Skyrim, far below Dark Souls, and any comparison to Dragon Age would be be subjective - so I'd just leave it out of the comparison all together.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"] seriously, maybe because i only played it last year, but deus ex seemed more like proof of concept than an actual game. most of the gameplay was pretty bad.BrunoBRS

Yeah, I sort of agree. I think it's pretty satisfying if you play it as a stealth game, much like HR. But you have to do some serious save-scumming to get around the idiosyncrasies of the AI and combat.

"More than the sum of its parts" is what I would say about the first game.

Better than Dark Souls's combat? We'll see when the game releases, Dark Souls has amazing combat.

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

Yeah, I sort of agree. I think it's pretty satisfying if you play it as a stealth game, much like HR. But you have to do some serious save-scumming to get around the idiosyncrasies of the AI and combat.

"More than the sum of its parts" is what I would say about the first game.

skrat_01

Having just played the demo, I'd rank it slightly above Skyrim, far below Dark Souls, and any comparison to Dragon Age would be be subjective - so I'd just leave it out of the comparison all together.

Kickinurass

Did we play the same demo ?

I would not rank this thing in games at all myself

The world feels like a giand pathway and is generic beyond belief, like they did not have a designer or any artists

Above Skyrim ? ??? ???

Better than Dark Souls's combat? We'll see when the game releases, Dark Souls has amazing combat.

mitu123

Better than Dark Souls's combat? We'll see when the game releases, Dark Souls has amazing combat.

mitu123

The game is one of the worst games in existance, i hope that was only meant as a joke

The combat was laughable and simplistic/boring/generic beyond belief

In short, i cant believe how bad this game turned out to be in every way

It is like they took the worst traits of Oblivion and MMOs and put it in a single unbelievably terrible game

[QUOTE="freedomfreak"]

So after complaining about Skyrim's combat since its release people are still pointing out the obvious,uh.

Stevo_the_gamer

[QUOTE="Kickinurass"]

Having just played the demo, I'd rank it slightly above Skyrim, far below Dark Souls, and any comparison to Dragon Age would be be subjective - so I'd just leave it out of the comparison all together.

loosingENDS

Did we play the same demo ?

I would not rank this thing in games at all myself

The world feels like a giand pathway and is generic beyond belief, like they did not have a designer or any artists

Above Skyrim ? ??? ???

[QUOTE="Kickinurass"]

Having just played the demo, I'd rank it slightly above Skyrim, far below Dark Souls, and any comparison to Dragon Age would be be subjective - so I'd just leave it out of the comparison all together.

loosingENDS

Did we play the same demo ?

I would not rank this thing in games at all myself

The world feels like a giand pathway and is generic beyond belief, like they did not have a designer or any artists

Above Skyrim ? ??? ???

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

[QUOTE="Kickinurass"]

Having just played the demo, I'd rank it slightly above Skyrim, far below Dark Souls, and any comparison to Dragon Age would be be subjective - so I'd just leave it out of the comparison all together.

BrunoBRS

Did we play the same demo ?

I would not rank this thing in games at all myself

The world feels like a giand pathway and is generic beyond belief, like they did not have a designer or any artists

Above Skyrim ? ??? ???

The combat was laughable, 90% of the time spells did not even find the target for christ

A kid could program this system better imo

Also it is simplistic, there is nothing to it

Reminds me of the terrible Fable combat, exact same stuff, only with stats to make it "deeper"

As for the comparisson to Skyrim, well i dont like Skyrim combat much either, but Amalur take it to a whole new level of boring

Amalur cant even be in the same sentence as Dark SOuls imo

[QUOTE="Kickinurass"]

Having just played the demo, I'd rank it slightly above Skyrim, far below Dark Souls, and any comparison to Dragon Age would be be subjective - so I'd just leave it out of the comparison all together.

loosingENDS

Did we play the same demo ?

I would not rank this thing in games at all myself

The world feels like a giand pathway and is generic beyond belief, like they did not have a designer or any artists

Above Skyrim ? ??? ???

In regards to combat. I reserve comment on the full game until after I play the whole thing. Though, I also think the crafting system was better than Skyrim's, but like I said, I'll make my full judgment after KoA releases.

[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"][QUOTE="freedomfreak"]

So after complaining about Skyrim's combat since its release people are still pointing out the obvious,uh.

USS_Data

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

[QUOTE="Kickinurass"]

Having just played the demo, I'd rank it slightly above Skyrim, far below Dark Souls, and any comparison to Dragon Age would be be subjective - so I'd just leave it out of the comparison all together.

Kickinurass

Did we play the same demo ?

I would not rank this thing in games at all myself

The world feels like a giand pathway and is generic beyond belief, like they did not have a designer or any artists

Above Skyrim ? ??? ???

In regards to combat. I reserve comment on the full game until after I play the whole thing. Though, I also think the crafting system was better than Skyrim's, but like I said, I'll make my full judgment after KoA releases.

Maybe it has some good systems there, but frankly the world and game overall feels so bad that even the deepest alchemy and blacksmithing systems would not mean much, when i dont really have any desire to make better weapons to play a game that looks like that and wirth such design

i tried a silenced pistol, 1 shot killed a guy, a dude from another room came in and started shooting at me. honestly the AI made me give up on the game more than the clunky controls/gunplay. it just plain annoyed me.

BrunoBRS

What action RPG doesn't have better combat than Skyrim?

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]

i tried a silenced pistol, 1 shot killed a guy, a dude from another room came in and started shooting at me. honestly the AI made me give up on the game more than the clunky controls/gunplay. it just plain annoyed me.

skrat_01

What action RPG doesn't have better combat than Skyrim?

whiskeystrike

I think the first Witcher and Oblivion had pretty poor combat systems. And Fable's combat is overly simplistic, which takes alot of joy out of the combat. I'd rank Skyrim overall all three.

[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]

i tried a silenced pistol, 1 shot killed a guy, a dude from another room came in and started shooting at me. honestly the AI made me give up on the game more than the clunky controls/gunplay. it just plain annoyed me.

BrunoBRS

Is that IGN editor for real ?

The game is laughable and he says it has better combat than Dark Souls ?

I just played the demo and was one of the worst gaming experiences i ever had in my life

I take it the whole thing was meant as a joke, cant be any other way

The only word I feel comfortable describing the demo for KoA: Reckoning was disappointing.

I played the demo. The game is so generic, that includes the combat.

GrannyGoat

[QUOTE="GrannyGoat"]

I played the demo. The game is so generic, that includes the combat.

XanderZane

The game was beyond terrible in every way really imo