Action vidya with slow, heavy, lumbering combat

[Vlajdermen]

A while ago I got into a discussion about Horizon: Zero Dawn where I concluded that the best thing about it was how the enemies are always more agile than you, so you can't beat them if you just rush in recklessly - you have to slow down and assess the situation before you act - so it would've been better off as a linear action game. Recommend me a game like that. Doesn't matter if it's a shooter, a brawler, or an action platformer, as long as it limits your mobility and forces you to be cautious.

Games I've played that fit the bill:

• Castlevania 1, 3 and Bloodlines
• Resident Evil 4
• God Hand (I don't like spectacle fighters but it does objectively fit my description)
• To a lesser extent, the Shinobi games

 

[Silly Germans]

God Hand ? Do you mean this one

 

[DJOGamer PT]

the best thing about it was how the enemies are always more agile than you, so you can't beat them if you just rush in recklessly ... as long as it limits your mobility and forces you to be cautious

Games I've played that fit the bill:

• God Hand

 

[Vlajdermen]

the best thing about it was how the enemies are always more agile than you, so you can't beat them if you just rush in recklessly ... as long as it limits your mobility and forces you to be cautious

Games I've played that fit the bill:

• God Hand

Tank controls are limited mobility

 

[WhiteShark]

Monster Hunter series, easily. Slow, deliberate, commitment-requiring combat is the main focus.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

No it isn't when you can dodge anything, cancel any animation and outrun anything in the game
Really when you get used to it the tank controls barely matter

Plus there's all the other charaterisitcs you said that don't fit the bill.
It's a spectacle fighter, it's the exact opposite of everything you're looking for.
Maybe you just like spectacle fighters but don't want to admit it...


Anyway...
As for games that fit that description...
Maybe shooters like CS and Rainbow 6 Siege, but they are multiplayer only; so is For Honor; if you liked RE4 than Dead Space 1 & 2 and REmake 2 should be right up your alley (last one more horror focused though); NIOH; Severance; Hollow Knight; Monster Hunter series; also Absolver perhaps; of course the Souls games.

 

[Goromorg]

Dark Souls, Dark Messiah, Dead Space, Diablo 1&2 (play on hardcore ofc)
EDIT: Damn, got ninjaed

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Vlajdermen answer me the following.
Does this:



... look like a game of slow, restrictive movement and agility that rewards players that take a cautious and more defensive playstyle?

 

[Vlajdermen]

Yes, albeit one with a high skill ceiling. Whoever made this video has already mastered the game, and knows how to make it look effortless. Play God Hand back to back with nu-God of War like I did and you'll get my point.

 

[Sjukob]

I don't know if it counts, but Unreal is the slowest run'n'gun shooter I've ever played.

 

[Sjukob]

Also, how about Magicka?

 

[Sjukob]

Then there's this shit


And this


May be I'll recall something else later.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Yes, albeit one with a high skill ceiling. Whoever made this video has already mastered the game, and knows how to make it look effortless.

Oh c'mon man...
If the game was really one designed for a playstyle of caution and defense than that type of gameplay shown in the video wouldn't be possible or at least successful. If Gene really had restrictive mobility and agility then he wouldn't be able to evade any danger in such short time frames or attack faster than any enemy.
It's a spectacle fighter. By the very nature of it's genre the game is meant to a twitchy agressive brawler.

 

[ArisatoSeldom]

Kings of Lorn.
Haven't played it myself yet, but I've been eyeing it for a while for exact same reasons - heavy, slow, dangerous combat. Gives some old vibes.

From days of old there are early From Software: King's field series, and Shadow Tower.
Also Armored Core Last Raven.

 

[Ippolit]

The Kings Field and Eternal Ring Series have slow combat where you can't rush in recklessly. Only watched streams though, never played them myself.

Also i am playing Might & Magic 6 atm and the enemies there can and will swarm you if you aren't cautious. Maybe that satisfies you.

 

[Avonaeon]

Die by the Sword comes to mind:

 

[AdolfSatan]

King's Field
Exanima perhaps

 

[The Decline]

Condemned 1 & 2

 

[Ol' Willy]

Try Hideous Destructor for GZDoom. God forbid you try to rush in there.

 

[Vlajdermen]

Condemned 1 & 2

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about those games. Will definitely give them a shot.

 

[Shitty Kitty]

action games with slow, lumbering combat

see: most MechWarrior titles, to some extent.

 

[DDZ]

The Surge 1 & 2

 

[The Decline]

Condemned 1 & 2

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about those games. Will definitely give them a shot.

Unfortunately the second one is a PS3/360 exclusive.

 

[udm]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Zeno Clash come to mind.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Maybe STALKER series (and Metro trilogy on top of that)?
If you want some murderhobo experience then Stalker Anomaly fits the bill.