I liked origins because it was different, and easily the best ac but now they're back to their reskinning again which they'll cash in on for another 3 or 4 years. This is a total reskin of origins.
The minute they add lower difficulties to from games is the minute these games lose their identity and satisfaction you earn from getting through them. Even if you choose to play on hard just knowing that some shmo out there put it on easy and waltzed right through the game to completion would completely ruin a good chunk of the satisfaction those that earned it the right way have. They simply would not be the beloved games they have become if there were easy modes. And by the way as others have stated there are ways of making the game much easier such as farming the shit out of souls and upgrade items and simply over powering the enemies and bosses which can be done for sure in the first playthrough or two. If people who want to experience these games can't do at least that then they have no business playing them. And that's not even considering how much easier these games are after you figure the combat out or play a couple of them. I can breeze through any from soft new game now that I've played them all and honestly they're not so hard that anyone with an ounce of effort can't find a way through them.
Game looks awesome. I loved the first one. I'm glad id had their hands on it too otherwise it would have been another open world with tons of cut n paste side activities. Yeah mad Max and just cause are fun but avalanche definitely does the cut n paste filler, not as much as say ubisoft but they do it too. You can tell Id was heavily involved by how fast and fun the gameplay looks and the world looks interesting too, not just copies of the same areas all over the map. The graphics look beautiful, obviously running on id tech 6 which was the doom engine. I love id's style, old school fast paced fighting and I really miss it in a world of generic shooters like far cry. I almost wish for more linear shooters again like Wolfenstein. Everything doesn't need to be forced open world
@lithus: agreed, it's getting old. To be honest I'm pretty pissed gears 5 is going to be about kait... .again. Gears 4 was already about her and she's the most boring character in gears. Now I have to play with her if I play the campaign. Why not an option to play with Marcus or jd unless they won't be in the game much which I'm assuming is the case. Do we really need 2 games about kait who was never in the franchise until 4. I'm sure there are female players but I'd bet they make up less than a quarter of the gamer base and that's being extremely generous
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