i wonder how many difficulties will be available from the start. i remember Nioh added new difficulties with the releases of expansions which was cool, because you'd have a reason to revisit the story and of course it's a way to integrate expansion-enemies into the game's main story, which i have not seen in another game yet.

but for all the praising i have to admit i started playing Nioh when all expansions were released, so i never had to wait for them. that might have changed my view on that.

@Judeuduarte: noticed that as well. i think a few months ago we were all settling on the phrase "hardcore action rpg". did that not stick?

@Atzenkiller: clearly not your game then.

@Atzenkiller: i agree that the enemy variety could be larger, but calling the whole game "basic" does not seem right. It is far more nuanced in a lot of other aspects, e.g. the combat stances, the buffing and debuffing, weapon-specific combos, etc. (aspects that Souls games tend to be very "basic" in). There was a lot there to discover for me. The levels might not be as well designed as the original dark souls, but let's not forget that the souls sequels also never got a particular well done level design either (ds2 having very short levels, ds3 pretty much being a linear game). i think a big part of being able to like this game starts with seeing it as its own game and not a "souls-clone". i mean we don't call every third person shooter an "uncharted-clone" or every rpg a "witcher-clone", right? Nioh definitely grew on me over time because it had its own identity.

@sakaixx: yeah man. the sidemission where you have to fight a couple of minibosses and then all the dlc bosses in a row was super hard. i actually took a month-long break between my first tries and beating it, because i died too often and got fed up.

@ladonnatdq: i agree. i doubt we are going to see a lot of remasters of ps4 titles, simply because the ps5 will be backwards compatible to ps4.

@bbq_R0ADK1LL: but if you finished the game you know that the basic game also has a red saber colour by default, no? two actually.

@restatbonfire: shit. sounds like a good plan to not live with them anymore. on the other hand you cannot blame xbox for banning your account on these grounds.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was definitely by far my favourite movie this year. I watched it 3 times. Even though there is no real plot it never gets boring. Both Leo and Brad were really amazing! Man, i could watch it again right now.

@restatbonfire: but how do you lose your account? internet is not required to play digital games once you downloaded them (at least on the ps4), rather you have to set your ps4 as your so-called "primary" ps4 and then you can play offline as much as you want. i don't know about xbox.

i pretty certain that is how it works (feel free to correct me), even though i'm barely ever offline. your ps+ games do not work offline i think, because the system needs to check wether you are a legit ps+ member. but other dlc should work fine.