Is DARKSIDERS 3 as BAD as I remember?
I decided to revisit this game that came out a few years back. It was a disappointment then, so I was hoping that it would be a pleasant change of mind. Was it?
Darksiders 3 is the property of Gunfire Games and THQ Nordic
#darksiders #fury #strife #darksiders3
00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Darksiders 3
03:46 - What I Like
04:48 - The Story (Summary)
09:32 - The Story (What Doesn't Work)
16:26 - The Story (My Version)
25:30 - The Presentation
27:40 - The Gameplay
33:36 - Conclusion
Sorry for the title, but sometimes one need to act like a click-baity dog to get through the fog-o-wah called KZhead! Hope you enjoy!
Is fine, no big red circle to focus on absolutely nothing at least.
the title is perfect
commenting for the algorithm, but also to remind you that they still haven't fixed War's hair 😔
So tired of that mistake, that I didn't even want to mention it...
In which game?
@@TheArklyte When they made the "Warmastered" edition for Darksiders 1, they screwed up War's character model. So his hair is glitched. This issue came over to Darksiders 3. Just look at 05:27
@@KingJGrim And it is my duty to remind you of it, every time :3c
Just felt like took a HUGE change from the rest of the series. I know its gameplay and not story, but makes Fury feel super weak compared to her brothers who ate monsters for breakfast.
To give some credit to the team, every Darksiders game is quite different from one-another. But yeah, aside from Genesis, D3 is the one that took the biggest step in a different direction.
@King J. Grim I suppose that's fair. Although 1 and 2 felt very similar. In the sense that 2 clearly builds on 1. Like Assasins Creed 1 and 2 are different but only because the team and idea was still forming. Nothing wrong with changing things up. That wasn't my gripe at all. Just the whole universe and story and characters are about very powerful horseman fighting the greatest forces in the universe - so this particularly change and the implications on the story felt odd.
I don’t mind Darksiders 3, it has its moments. If I did have any issues it’s the lack of horse combat and stiff in game animations when characters are talking outside of the regular cutscenes. To give the game credit, it at least knew what it wanted to try and be. As opposed to Darksiders 2 which had no idea what it wanted to be.
Good video. Here's a comment. Love the viking "water" tho
The best type of water!
I would personally remove the tornado, idk. Even if it gave me a chuckle on stream.
I guess they thought adding a side quest where Fury transports humans to haven would make a good build up for that speech
12:03 Those spear-sword thing on Rampage are used by angels..or so I thought, and she thinks while she's busy purging Sins the heaven are working against them behind their back.
To summarize: Darksiders 3 would probably have been a better game if THQ didn’t “go out of business” I guess we just have to wait 10 years for the remake, if we are lucky we only have to wait 4 years
It would be interesting to see how Darksiders 3 would've have turned out if Vigil Games had made it. At least I got Darksiders Genesis has some sort of Hope for the future of this franchise.
@@KingJGrim A Gunfire Games & Airship Syndicate collab for the 4th game could be a return to form although that's assuming Vigil Games veterans are still around for both studios
@@dantefromdevilmaycry9857 That'd be the clostest thing to a dream-team we could get. Currently, Genesis is *my* Darksiders 3, which is a shame, as Fury was the character I was most excited to explore.
Same here king. Grim KZhead being crazy on demonetizing
Sure does Feel good seeing another Video from ya. I have this game but haven't played it. But now I have a bit more motivation too.
As stated, for all my annoyances with D3, I did enjoy replaying it.
Fury has an "arc" similar to Daenerys from the hilarious GoT tv series. Apparently she forgot about hating humans.
While I have never watched GoT; writing is an art that is unapreciated until one misses it. So let's hope for a godlike new installment in the future.
A part of me wants to play Darksiders 3, but I don’t have the will to do it. Darksiders 2 is quite the thrill to play, and I didn’t get that feeling when watching the third game.
I only want to play it for the Fury. Also buying it would put more probality for the Darksiders 4
Probably not, but it had a very unfortunate release window. I prefer to view Remnant as Darksiders from human PoV😅
Appreciate the Eternal Darkness final boss theme. AWESOME Vid as usual King!! I wonder if we'll ever get a Darksiders 4 with ALL Horseman getting to the bottom of this conspiracy......Too bad the original team from defunct THQ didn't work on this game.....
Eternal Darkness always deserve more love!
@@KingJGrim Dang right!!! The only crime was that it never got a sequel or spiritual sucessor and not being playable on other platforms.
23:14 ahaaaa heroes of might and magic 4 music istantly heared it out hahahha
Noticing the OST of that game, shows me that you truly know the music of the GODS!
@@KingJGrim im happy to even see it used i played it for long long time when i was 14 and that ost is so good for a strategy fantas game its godlike as u said sir
man, i love your videos :D
Man, I love your comment :D
"It's vibrating in my hand. I don't understand..." That line can be taken ANY NUMBER OF WAYS! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Strife reveal did bring up hype but also raised more questions how he really will be connected to all the games through his own chapter (whenever that comes...) There were the guns left behind for the makers who gave them to Death and War. So u know what, maybe they've been building him up through the series, although very very slightly.
Thanks for this. I liked the first couple games but didn’t even know they released a third. Last I heard it was cancelled so that’s how up to date I am. It’s super cheap on sale right now so I might pick it up to kill some time.
I love all the Darksiders games, this one is no exception. It ain't for everyone, that I understood my first time playing it because of the complexity but if I had the chance to replay using Fury again, I would do so in a heartbeat.
Believe me, if they announce another game with Fury, I'll buy it day one.
All the issues you brought up in the Gameplay section haven't even registered as a problem to me in my current first time playthrough. I understand your points but if you never mentioned them I wouldn't have even considered these as being downsides to the game. I also got the game on sale and it runs flawlessly on my machine and looks beautiful on an OLED TV. I can imagine feeling very different if I got it at release for full price and it had performance issues, but really I have almost no complaints at all. It's been a super enjoyable experience.
The most important question one has to ask is of course: "Do I enjoy this?" If the answer is yes, then all else are meaningless in some capacity. For me, the answer was "No", hence every problem, small or otherwise, became the focus for me. All that being said, I am happy that you are finding joy with it! I wish I did, but sadly, I just didn't.
With regards to the humans, if you save them out in the open world and then interact with them in Haven, they all have something to say. It might be quite small but it definitely helps to show how Fury might slowly be turning her opinions of them around. They fact they find a way to survive the apocalypse means they aren't quite as feeble as she first thought.
While I do not know much about darksiders in general, apart from what I gleamed in your videos. There was one Idea about this battle lass and the 7 sins that I wanted to share. How about introducing a "Thematic Hierarchy" with the 7 sins, I.e make Fury fight the deadly sins from the one she indulges least to the one she indulges most. Like her build mostly gives off a hint that she is not all that glutinous, meaning the first boss she fights is gluttony, but since her literal name is "Fury" then the sin of Wrath will occupy the high echelons of the boss list. You get what I mean ?
I tried to like this game. I gave it some time before playing it again. But after finishing this, I cant help but hate my experience. My main issue were the enemies and a lack of polish. Enemies felt way too spongey and took way too much damage on normal mode. Weirdly, even story mode can be pretty hard. But that felt more fair with enemies not soaking up so much damage. Boss fights especially. I genuinely hated my time with the second wrath fight. I had no idea why they thought having him heal and fight other enemies was a good idea. It dragged out the fight. The lack of polish speaks for itself. Even on ps5, the game would freeze in place to load, and you can still see the game load at the edge of the screen
Thank U & here's a sub and like 😀👍
I would love it if you made a "In the mind of Death" video
It is on my list, but when my War video was demonitized, it "demoralized " me into making one for the Reaper. Again, I am certain by just writing 'Death' in the video title, will cause issues.
@@KingJGrim try writing “In the mind of the pale rider”
@@KingJGrim instead
@@KingJGrim using the title of the character should work
Your point about dodge counters is what makes me feel BOTW's combat is shallow. If the main focus of DarkSiders 4 is guns, then I'd want it to play like Vanquish.
Not played Vanquish, but only heard awesome stuff about it.
King j Grim where are ya from? I enjoy your channel and accent😂
Heya! I'm a Norwegian, Viking boy! Thanks for enjoying!
@@KingJGrim cool
I didn't know about the demon guy and the other things I just defeated pride and Envy finishing the story😂 I feel dumb not knowing about this
Having not played 3 myself, I don't think I could form an overall opinion on it. But I'm glad to now have some knowledge as to why you don't like it
darksiders 3 has troubles even from production and it shows also, considering that war's is 3d zelda, death's is 3d diablo, and fury's is dark souls, i just hope for all the memes and marbles that strife's will just be ratchet and clank
Ooooh, a Ratchet and Clank-esque game would actually be a cool idea!
maybe the sequel could be have dmc/bayonetta inspired combat with strife gaining more guns or some melee options for his adventure
As a DMC fan, I would be okay with that.
My BIGGEST thought would be that instead of melting into a souls like game that almost everyone is trying to be... Why not be like shadow of the colossus
Isn't the Hunter from Darksiders 2 the first human the franchise?
Really need a Darksiders 4 right about now.
I love darksiders 2! I played the mobile game years ago on iphone
I'd say they didn't have much time, possible, to work the finer things into the game and the idea was there but couldn't execute it. My fav would be from the series would be Darksiders 2, Darksiders, 3 and then Genesis.
For me it's D2>D1>Genesis>D3
@@KingJGrim waiting your vid on Mr.Gun Boi and (to edit in) Mr Big Boned also you think that D3 should have come ahead of D2 like save Bones for after Genesis or something?
As soon as i heard that Fury is your favorite, and you opened all with that staitement, i know exactly who you are,
And who am I?
It seems the devs were inspired by Bayonetta but forgot to add actual combos into the game. Imagine that instead of damaging strike for perfect dodge we had a ~couple of seconds of time stop to do combos. The problem with DS3 combat system is that it is very skill independent: you need to learn perfect dodge timings and that's it! It gives you no room for "get good". Imagine if you could do various combos of various length and various hit stunn capacities. In DS3 for all of the challenging enemies all you can do is perfect dodge ~10 times because the game punishes you for trying anything else. Because you can't hit stunn them. Nor you can cancel your move into dodge or jump or whatever. Its not safe to do anything other than perfect dodge. It is even unsafe to try to do an attack after perfect dodge because enemy will not be stunned and might attack you in the middle of your animation and you will get hit. Ugh. It's such a shame. They made all these beautiful weapons and animations for this game. And like 95% of them are unusable against anything that is not a trashmob which you can kill by spamming whatever. Such a wasted potential...
They should’ve tried something like witch time instead of dodge counter. I still believe souls wasn’t the way to go for a Darksider game.
I rather enjoyed the game, however it sort of left me with a sadness knowing that we will never get back to a level of Darksiders II. Love the IP, just wished III wasn't so 'generic'. Bearing in mind that 3 isn't a proper hack and slash like 1 and is not as complex as 2. I found the game too easy, too short and a little too linear. Other than that, loved playing the game. But it really had a high bar to pass from DS2. And didn't meet it.... I hope Darksiders is allowed to have a natural conclusion. Rather than being cancelled on a whim. (Dammjt, need to replay Darksiders 2"
I do hope that Darksiders wont turn into another Legacy of Kain. We need that game that brings the four together!
@KingJGrim One can dream of a four player co-op as all 4 horseman, crawling through dungeons fighting angels and demons. Ah it would be glorious
A seriie without good game in it 3?
Great creepy character design, but I didnt enjoy the difficulty.
Dudes back wtf
I want Darksiders 4 with Strife as the main.
Even after finding myself enjoying Darksiders III after knowing the mechanic, this is easily my least favorite game in the Darksiders, its Dark Souls-eck difficulty can get too brutal at times, the bosses (aside from the final boss) are all too basic, the crappy "being able to be hit out of a Perfect Dodge by an Enemy" concept is INCREDIBLE stupid and the story, while can be enjoyable, as a lot of Plot-Points that never got resolve (like who was the one who killed Rampage? What's the Deal with Abraxis?). Its no surprise to find out that all of those was due to both Darksiders III being rushed, and the fact that it was created by different devopers, it makes me wonder what it would have been if Gun Fire Games were the ones who created and had it been given more time. I still enjoy the Darksiders series overall, and I am looking forward to Darksiders VI when that comes out, I just wish that Darksiders II was SO much more then what we got now.
I enjoyed this game. I think cause it reminded me of Metroid in some ways. Like Metroid and dark souls had a baby
Thq came back as nordic thq but i think they want to to take a break from darksiders
It took me 6 tries to get into Borderlands 2. That was my first entry to the franchise. Each time i played it i dropped it....over and over. Until one day i pushed myself past it all and reached Sanctuary. To this day. It is by far one or my favourite games, with one of my favourite villains ever to grace fiction. Sometimes you just gotta put your head down and plow through to get to magic. But that being said. This game was ass and is just another pile in the land fill that is modern western gaming. 😂
I enjoyed the 3rd darksiders
For me it's a great game shame it's full of glitches but fun nonetheless
I'm happy that you enjoyed it! Do not let my own misgivings change your opinions!
It's hard for me to comment on this cause I just find myself agreeing with pretty much everything you said here and I'm also just fully on board with the story changes you suggested so I'd say good job! :D However I gotta say that even after having replayed it at some point in the last like year or so and now also being on board with Darksiders 3 I still just hate the souls-like elements here and they for sure drag down the game for me personally also, and I know it's a bit of a nit pick, even tho I love the hollows I would have loved them even more if for the visuals of them they would have something else than the ssuper saiyn thing of "SLAP A DIFFERENT COLOR ON THAT HAIR!" As for Strife's game I still think a third person shooter in the style of Vanquish would fit AMAZING but Genesis was so much fun that I could also see a twin stick shooter.
It's a good game, especially being smaller scale after the bloated Darksiders 2.
It constantly balanced between good and bad for me. I wish I liked it, but sadly I don't.
Ngl, i actually enjoyed Darksiders 3
And there is nothing wrong with that! I wish I enjoyed it.
I would love to see the next darksiders to play like dmc it would be a contrast to how darksiders played like God of war
Fury was awesome. Other than that, most of the game was pretty mediocre.
Yep. If anything, I really want a Genesis type of game with Death and Fury working together.
Darksiders 3 is so riddled with missed opportunities and regressions of what made the previous two so good, it's a tragedy. While the Hollows were great, gear load outs and varied tools and gadgets as unlockable were sacrificed which while they were broken in some areas, it made trying the game out in different ways, where as Fury had one game plan of gameplay, every time. At least in my experience. A unique talent system or stat menu often seen for souls-likes for level ups was replaced with THREE mundane 'big number go up' stats, and that's the big ones for me on TOP of what you have said, which I agree with 100%. Fury's biggest 'sin' is that she wants, nay, DEMANDS to be the leader of the four horsemen, yet if the chips are down and they fought, I wouldn't believe for a second that she would stand a chance against either of them. At least with how she is represented in this game. She feels like the absolute weakest of the three and I feel like she deserves better.
I agree with that. Having Fury be the potentially strongest of the siblings, is an idea I kind of like. As she is held back by her rash personality. But... story didn't do a good job.