Nioh 2

[somerandomdude]

Nioh 2 is better than Elden Ring, IMO. I put at least 3-4x more hours into Nioh 2 than I did into Elden Ring. You got a lot more depth with character customization, builds, and itemization, and more depth to the combat as well. Team Ninja does the "souls-like" formula better than From Software in many ways. Team Ninja's next game, Rise of the Ronin looks like it might be the spiritual successor to Nioh in the same sorta way that Elden Ring is the spiritual successor to Dark Souls. Unfortunately, it's PS5 exclusive, hopefully it's only timed exclusive for 6 months or a year.

 

[arekks]

I think Elden Ring exposed the limits of From Soft at the moment. They can't make compelling combat and when they push their combat system too far they make something that is basically gambling. Malenia is a boss where you have to both learn its moves and engage in an RNG lottery to win. Team Ninja can make compelling combat and they understand the limits, they have an instinctual understanding of how to navigate gameplay design.

 

[Cryomancer]

My PC is a bit low end and I will only upgrade after I get a STABLE job due a vow.

If my PC had no problems running code vein, hellpoint and other souls like, it will run this game? My pc meets all minimum requirements except GPU which is a bit worse. And no, I don't expect to run it in good graphics.



Also, can I be a water Onmyo?

 

[Suicidal]

My PC is a bit low end and I will only upgrade after I get a STABLE job due a vow.

If my PC had no problems running code vein, hellpoint and other souls like, it will run this game? My pc meets all minimum requirements except GPU which is a bit worse. And no, I don't expect to run it in good graphics.



Also, can I be a water Onmyo?

I played it on a 1060 3GB and it ran well on medium-high settings except in some areas with a lot of particles, where the FPS dipped but it was tolerable. The 1060 is only SLIGHTLY higher than the minimum recs. Also I didn't have Windows 10 at the time and the game wouldn't launch without fiddling with DLLs but when I got it to work everything worked well and stable, not a single crash and etc. I was honestly surprised.

 

[Cryomancer]

IS water Onmyouji good in Nioh 2?

 

[somerandomdude]

IS water Onmyouji good in Nioh 2?

It's good for landing saturated effect, which is a phys defense debuff. Water familiar talisman is pretty dope, it puts a satellite of projectiles up that follow you around, and give what you attack a defense debuff. If you land another element effect with it, you can put confusion on a target, which is a huge debuff.

 

[Reinhardt]

fuck casters, beat enemies with big stick or your fists like real man!

 

[Lambach]

fuck casters, beat enemies with big stick or your fists like real man!

Big stick's damage scales with the Magic Stat, just FYI.

 

[Reinhardt]

fuck casters, beat enemies with big stick or your fists like real man!

Big stick's damage scales with the Magic Stat, just FYI.

wrong big stick

 

[somerandomdude]

Bare fists are actually viable in this game, if you make the build for it. I seem to recall that it may have been nerfed, because it actually hit for a lot of damage with one of the emotes. People were literally oneshotting bosses with it.

 

[Lambach]

IIRC, the bare fists build requires some Omnyo buffs to work properly, so it's not a full caveman option.

 

[somerandomdude]

I don't know of any builds that have cleared underworld and depths that don't use a few omnyo buffs, but I suppose anything would work through the first couple difficulties.

 

[Deflowerer]

Can't wait to get back on Nioh roll, have beaten Nioh 1 3 times and Nioh 2 once. Want to continue both games' playthroughs, will probably start with Nioh 2 again after done with Elden Ring.

 

[Cryomancer]

fuck casters, beat enemies with big stick or your fists like real man!

Staff & Switchglaive scale with magic

 

[Reinhardt]

switchglaive is the gayest weapon for edgy emo kids.

 

[Cryomancer]

Go play Sekiro, only a boring katana, no cool weapons and no cool spells.

 

[Reinhardt]

tons of cool weapons in nioh, switchglaive is not cool, it's ghey. it's something xXxCurororoRomancerxXx would use, not Honda Tadakatsu or Miyamoto Musashi.

 

[Lambach]

There's some truth to that. There are only two Omnyo Mage human bosses in the game. One is unarmed and uses only magic, the other uses an Odachi.

 

[Silva]

Nioh 2 is better than Elden Ring, IMO. I put at least 3-4x more hours into Nioh 2 than I did into Elden Ring. You got a lot more depth with character customization, builds, and itemization, and more depth to the combat as well.

True but Nioh is too gamey/arcadey, lacking Souls' sense of simulation and verossimilitude.

It's like an euro boardgame: great gameplay, little to no soul.

 

[Cryomancer]

Tadakatsu or Miyamoto Musashi.

Abe no Seimei >> Rest.

 

[Reinhardt]

Tadakatsu or Miyamoto Musashi.

Abe no Seimei >> Rest.

not Ashiya Douman? you are disgrace to all ebul pew-pew wizzords.

 

[Deflowerer]

Nioh 2 is better than Elden Ring, IMO. I put at least 3-4x more hours into Nioh 2 than I did into Elden Ring. You got a lot more depth with character customization, builds, and itemization, and more depth to the combat as well.

True but Nioh is too gamey/arcadey, lacking Souls' sense of simulation and verossimilitude.

It's like an euro boardgame: great gameplay, little to no soul.

Nioh has a lot of soul, actually I think it's fairly well balanced combination of more fantastic "animu" style representation of the historic period merged with a fair sense of realism. You get more out of it if you are into the historic period and have familiarity with the characters, that's for sure.

 

[Silva]

Deflowerer , fanboyism is clouding your judgement. The portrayal of the historical characters in Nioh is so goofy it only adds to the arcadey feeling of the game (plus ninja pajamas). Nothing in it can be taken seriously from an historical standpoint.

 

[Silverfish]

Deflowerer , fanboyism is clouding your judgement. The portrayal of the historical characters in Nioh is so goofy it only adds to the arcadey feeling of the game (plus ninja pajamas). Nothing in it can be taken seriously from an historical standpoint.

The worst part is that the historical figures aren't even full-on cartoon characters like in Samurai Warriors. So they're not historically accurate and not especially entertaining either.

 

[ItsChon]

Sekiro vs Nioh. What's the difference and which is better?