Too hard to be fun. Now I understand why most people I've seen play the game spend so much time in the menus. It's the only fun part of the game. I've completed Nioh 1, Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne, Demon's Souls, and Sekiro. Those games were reasonably difficult and fun to play. Nioh 2 is unreasonably difficult and is not fun to play.
Getting gear, getting better stats and upgrading your gear is all just as fun as it sounds. Insanely in depth combat system which is what drew me to the game.I like the Diablo-like loot. Playing the game however, is a tedious slog of trying to fight things with a wet noodle.
Enemies have massive health pools and will kill you in 2-3 hits. One small mistake, usually caused by the horrendous camera, and you're dead. The power creep of the game ensures that this is the experience you have the entire game through. I couldn't seem to over-level myself, or find gear that would be beneficial to me dying less.
I'm all for challenge in a game, but it hits a point where it's just not fun to play anymore. Queue the "Git gud" comments.
Nioh and Soulsborne are mutually exclusive due to being designed with conflicting design phylosophies. It's natural to dislike or outright hate the Nioh games if you're a Soulsborne / Sekiro fan.
I'm playing Nioh 1 and just got to the post credits game. I have 20 on every stat like someone suggested. Where should I allocate more points. I'm maining tonfa, kusarigama, nodachi and axe.
Matthew Flores
why are you maining four weapons who told you to get 20 in every stat
Austin Allen
>I've completed Nioh 1 >Nioh 2 is unreasonably difficult The second game is easier than the first game though. You have significantly more ways to approach problems in 2, and human bosses aren't bullshit in 2 like a number of them were in 1. The only way you'd think 1 was easier was if you just spammed living weapon on everything instead of actually learning the game.
Henry Jackson
git gud
Carter Myers
All the loot kills the game, would be better if you weren't picking up endless piles of bullshit
Charles White
easiest game ever made if you use feathers
Juan Roberts
>why are you maining four weapons I tested all the weapons to see which I liked the most and liked most.
>who told you to get 20 in every stat Yea Forums
Josiah Clark
>Too hard to be fun. It's really not. Stop playing it like a Dark Souls game. The game has a significantly higher skill ceiling which can be frustrating at first, but once you get the combat down It's fucking great. I highly recommend the dojo to practice ki pulsing and stance switching.
Camden Lee
nice steam review, this isn't the first time you've posted shit like this
Zachary Murphy
More like too boring
Aiden Anderson
Actually, it’s too easy once you get a build figured out. You can almost instantly break stamina of opponents and then they just become punching bags until you kill them. Souls and Ninja Gaiden are both superior.
Sebastian Kelly
>why are you maining four weapons maybe he's trying to have fun? I played pretty much every weapon, save maybe hatchets axes and splitstaff >who told you to get 20 in every stat I remember getting that advice too. I'm 200 hours in and still don't know what to put my stat points into but I'm doing fine so far
Carson Edwards
You put your points into the stat your preferred weapons share, then the second stat most of your weapons share, then the ki and health stats based on what you are constantly running out of.
Owen Ramirez
stamina, skill, ninjutsu and magic are also useful no matter what weapon you're using. spreading stats in nioh is very smart, trading 20-30 extra damage for the ability to have a better ki pulse, more armor or magic buffs is very worth it
Cooper Ross
I remember people repeatedly insisting the bonus is negligible. And from what I've seen working towards an "Ultimate X" scroll is a lot more important than anything. Seeing how I'm now first encountering them I should probably start settling on one of those and work towards that stat instead.
Cooper Green
you heard right, focusing on 2-3 stats for a pitiful amount of extra damage isn't worth it at all
Jacob Hernandez
how can i make nioh 1 to show M&K instead controller on pc?
James Hall
>m&k for a movement game .... ... ....
Oliver Morris
Whoever says that is an idiot. Stat scaling may as well not exist in NG
Cooper Mitchell
You literally can turn it off so you only pick up things above a certain rarity.
Gavin Garcia
not him but I really wish you couldn't see the filtered loot at all, it's so ugly
Christian Peterson
no it just takes patience. just do a fucking stam build with a giant axe, it's EZ until the ng+DLC
Jackson Nguyen
The dlc for nioh 1 is insane. The first boss's heat seeking guardian is bullshit.
Stat Advice: They don't matter AT ALL for damage until NG+69 dumb into heart/courage if you want more ki, but mostly dex/magic for more versatility and power
Brody Powell
Filtered fromfag
Joseph Kelly
constitution to at least 20 is also great, the health bonus is massive. stamina to get to A toughness is also a big deal
Sebastian Powell
>Too hard to be fun. I'm shit at this game and even I made it all the way through and even dipped my toes in NG+ or ++ or whatever, can't remember.
Cooper Wright
The game is definitely beatable, but I would argue that both Nioh 1 and 2 feel cheap and hard for the sake of frustration and being hard. The Souls games have always done a good job of balancing the difficulty. It is a bit of a tightrope and honestly only the more recent Souls games have decided to toss away subtlety in favor of just shoving countless gank squads everywhere and tripling the health pool of bosses for no real reason. Nioh on the other hand is just full of cheap boring tricks. The level design of both games is horrendous and it reuses assets and enemies so much that it becomes very tedious and repetitive. I haven't played 1 in forever, but I remember 2 being full of generic spear zombies that can near one shot you and are always placed hiding in every corner. Nioh is full of one to two shot scenarios unironically and it makes playing the game not particularly rewarding.
Nioh at its core is just a broken game. The gameplay is one dimensional and full of cheap exploits. It feels like you either get cheesed or cheese the enemy. The way buffs and debuffs stack is ridiculous and it undermines the actual methodical gameplay to such a large extent that you would be an absolute fool not to abuse it. I do very much enjoy both games and Nioh 2 has the best coop experience of probably any Souls-esque game, but the design philosophy to both games is very bad. It is mostly carried by the fun movesets and the overall enjoyable aesthetic.
Connor Morgan
filtered frombabies
Blake Smith
>The game is definitely beatable, but I would argue that both Nioh 1 and 2 feel cheap and hard for the sake of frustration and being hard. I agree with some of the encounters in 1, like double bosses or the DLCs, but 2 is a much more manageable game thanks to new tools and more manageable enemy movesets. i think it's a very fair, but challenging game that fixed a lot of the difficulty flaws from 1
Nathaniel Powell
Nioh 2 has superior collison mechanics and the hitboxes are perfectly designed, making the game feel . Having 9 attacks +combos is how combat should be, more authentic samurai sword play and better than "weak attack or strong attack" It also has much more responsive controls, much of Elden Ring's artificial difficulty is because there is so much delay between hitting the button, and watching your character execute the command, and the game frequently takes control away from the player with stuns and glacial animations encouraging cheese and metagaming. If it's harder than Souls then that's a good thing, because its more sophisticated, I'd much rather have snappy sharp gameplay that rewards player reactivity than clunky Souls which feels more like a puzzle
Jack Collins
Oh absolutely. Nioh 2 is a blast to play and it is definitely less broken, but I would argue a lot of those flaws and cheapness are still there. Once again, it is for sure doable. I can see how Nioh 1/2 put people off compared to Souls games though. They aren't nearly as approachable and most definitely aren't as rewarding either.
Justin Morris
>I've completed Nioh 1 >Nioh 2 is unreasonably difficult and is not fun to play. Nioh 2 is easier than Nioh 1
Ayden Russell
>only the more recent Souls games have decided to toss away subtlety in favor of just shoving countless gank squads everywhere This has been happening since Demon's Souls. Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne are the only Souls games that don't have multiple instances of inexcusable bullshit and even them have the Anor Londo archers and the double shark giants.
William Sullivan
I guarantee it that the only people still making Nioh threads are the people who have 200+ hours in it and play WotN naked trying to falseflag for bumps.
It was so much rarer and you are a fool to think otherwise. DeS and DaS1 and DaS2 run so much slower than all of From's Bloodborne clones (everything they've made since BB) which makes any "gank squad" far more manageable. Enemies are nowhere near as fast or agile so you can actually deal with threats as they come. It's completely different from DaS3 having thralls hanging off every ledge and ceiling waiting to gank you from behind/below/above. There are more enemies in Stormveil castle than probably the entirety of DeS.
Henry Johnson
these specific threads whining about difficulty is just the same user literally copying negative steam reviews
>The way buffs and debuffs stack is ridiculous and it undermines the actual methodical gameplay to such a large extent that you would be an absolute fool not to abuse it. Just spam spells in Souls games, lmao
Levi Myers
Just stick to animal crossing and Pokémon with your MtF trans “sister,” you’re newly out of the closet homo older brother and your bukake queen monther.
No, the combat is boring regardless All enemies have shitty little combos and every enemy you face plays the exact same
Ryder Parker
>It was so much rarer >bro go through this poison swamp where you're guaranteed to catch poison and fight these enemies on these tiny railing with giant versions you can't block (they also poison you) >bro fight five skeletons with infinite rolls on this tiny ledge while you're being shot at by enemies you can't kill and then go into tiny tunnels with enemies with giant lasers with them you can't run past >>>>DARK SOULS 2 user, they knew exactly what they were doing. It's not a matter of enemies being agile or not, they're designed to gatekeep you unless you level up and make them less of a factor.
It's definitely easier than souls games. I'm trash at these types of games and didn't have much trouble with nioh 2
Wyatt Perry
No, Nioh is simply a boring game bevause the enemy is at your mercy whenever it's not a ridicolous gank, gainst which you are given I WIN buttons like ranged or living weapons
