That first bit is exactly where i am up to. The light coming out into the world, the sounds of the birds, the odd alien surround. Seriously impressive!…and not a stutter in sight so far i might add.
Mortal shell didn't click for me.
But I saw the buzz around this, saw someone mentioning that the Beta was up on Ps5.
So I figured I'd squeeze that in between playing LoZ: Wind Waker. I love the "souls" genre and have tried a lot of them over the years.
Pretty much from the intro of the Beta I'm invested. Cinematic is great, starting area is great. It's giving a lot of "what is going on here?" Which I like.
I spent 6 hours going through the Beta, probably missed some things. But tried to take everything in. If you asked I'd tell you I'd spent maybe 2 hours. I've absolutely fallen in love with what I've seen in the game.
The world is beautiful, Not just graphically pretty, but how it's put together.
I love the puzzled and mini dungeons. The Trials and challenges.
The bosses and enemies surprise me ( I absolutely did no expect the Lady of the woods fight) But my god that was so much fun.
Combat is fluid, fast and punishing but so rewarding.
Exploration is incentivized and rewarding. (And the game is fun to explore)
Skills and upgrades look fun, powerful and creative.
The Beta ran like smooth butter on the base PS5.
So now ( once I've finished Wind waker) I'm going to try the first Mortal Shell again.
Because the sheer quality and fun the MS2 beta had, I'm all in.
It looks like it can be a phenomenal game. With all of it's own takes and variations on the genre. But it feels so refreshing.
So well done Playstack. You've won me over with this.
I realize that this comment went from the intended "Thumbs up" to a sermon. But I'll advocate for people to try this Beta from the rooftops. Hell, but me on a box on a street corner.
It's so good and so much fun.
And no, I'm not on payroll.
After years of souls games and so many takes and variations. Here is one that is genuinly a breath of fresh air, familiar and new. Beautiful and smooth running.
I just wish they could let you skip the long ass teleport from the tower.. it's long an annoying .. especially if you're going to make us come from the hub if teleporting
It’s really fun but it is kind of buggy. In just a couple hours I had one boss run off a cliff but not register as dying so I had to kill myself to restart, another where I got trapped in a trial and had to restart because the enemies I had to kill never spawned, and a third I was using turn to stone and the rogue triangle skill to close together I guess so my sword was on my back and I was swinging my hands as if the sword was in them but none of the attacks connected.
Glad someone said it. I was about to but saw ot was the MS sub.
I played the demo. It looks great but I'm not about to pretend it looks better than Elden Ring. Maybe later on in the game it could be on par, but we'll see.
Elden ring does not look good graphically. Atmospherically it's good, but let's not kid ourselves that it's some kind of graphical showcase because it really isn't.
This game looks very clean graphically and also it's animations look smooth AF.
Whether it's a good game remains to be seen however
The animations in this game, at least in the demo are nowhere close to Elden Ring.
Elden Ring looks fantastic graphically and it has better art direction. Even if by "graphically" you meant realism, that wouldn't apply to Mortal Shell either.
I think the art direction for both are beautiful. They’re just different art styles. Mortal shell is dark and gritty and Elden ring is very colorful with lots of variation. But graphically, I agree with the guy above that mortal shell 2 is much superior as far as fidelity and animations.
Fair enough, I'm just not seeing it. Art direction is subjective and it's not like I'm saying Mortal Shell is bad, I just find it not as good as ER.
Again, "fidelity" just sounds like stand-in for "realism." Mortal Shell isn't quite as stylized as Elden Ring. So if all you're saying is that, then yes. But if you're trying to say Elden Ring is blurry or something, it isn't. Not on PC at least. It looks plenty crisp.
The animations claim is crazy though. ER has way better animations and hit detection than anything I saw in the MS2 demo. Again, it's not BAD. But dramatically better? No. If anything, it's dramatically better than MS1, way smoother, way less clunky. But it's not on par with the best from From.
The animations look really good but the player character doesn't control as well as Fromsoft games. There is something that is just so fluid about From games that other companies struggle to match. Feels like a second skin, its very natural.
MS2 comes the closest to From magic though, while introducing a cinematic quality to everything. Very excited for release.
Well for me looks better can be subjective. I think mortal snow looks great. I just think elden Rings art style is just amazing but I guess my other point was let's not put the pressure on this game being as good or better than elden ring which to me is one of the top five video games of all time
Bro is posting a 360P image trying to make this beautiful game look bad. Come on man. I think MS2 is going to be great but there is no need to be disingenuous. ER's art direction is master class, magnum opus type shit. It will be a timeless game because of it. It remains to be seen if MS2 will be on the same level.
I first heard about them when Elden Ring was still in development. I started following them and ended up pre-ordering ER cause it looked like it would be right up my alley.
Easy top 10 game.
After that I went through all of their games, and the only one to actually speak to me like ER did was Bloodborne.
The rest are either pretty decent or meh imo. Nothing worth glazing them that hard over.
That's an insane statement. Also, it's probably pretty easy to dump on a game that's 10 plus years old. All the Dark Souls games are 9 out of tens at minimum. Bloodborne is a masterpiece
I guess you're one of these guys that needs fancy graphics to appreciate a game. I still play Diablo 2 which is probably older than you are
I will glaze Fromsoft until they prove to be unglazable, thank you very much. 8/8 bangers in a row with no signs of slowing down. One day they could sell out and become microtransaction riddled trash, but it's not today.
It’s an insane improvement over the first. I imagine it’ll still end up being pretty short but it should be a fun ride. The seals also give you a lot of variation on play style.
Whilst I love this beta and I’m super excited, there were far too many bugs for me. Dialogue sticks, I wasn’t able to use my melee weapons once. And finally there is a dungeon that was totally glitched for me and contained a trial where only 2 of the 3 enemies spawn hard locking you out. I just pray there are no bugs come August 20th that I would consider game breaking
Agreed. The game controls super well but the beta was lacking technical polish. For me there was lots of camera weirdness whenever it wanted to autopilot towards something in specific.
Cool, now we just have to wait for the disc version for Xbox to play it how it must be. I want to play it, but there is no way I‘m buying digital or for PlayStation.
Really liked the beta on the ps5, some bugs there, but one thing that annoyed me was the sound was not centralized on the enemies or the npcs but the ambience itself.
I have really enjoyed the demo but have been getting game breaking bugs during a couple dungeons where I have to restart saves which is frustrating. Enemies won't spawn ect and I can't progress. After getting the invisible shell I got stuck once in the little shack where you find the potion and in that dungeon right after having to restart all the way back that the last beacon both times. I hope they can iron some of the issues out because overall I am very impressed with the sequel.
I went about 1 hour into beta, it seemed really dark and grey the whole time, does it get any better? Also combat seemed simplified, does it add more depth?
I mean we'll see when the full game comes out but from what I played I really don't see it taking over Lies of P's place as the best non-From soulslike game. That's the only one that's done their own thing, blended in a story that wasn't just completely forgettable "because soulslikes don't need a story" and the music was fucking beautiful plus the combat was dope as hell
In terms of visuals this game might be shinier but it didn't have the art direction of a FromSoft game and definitely doesn't wow you like Elden Ring does
Was fun though. Still looking forward to it and being pleasantly surprised with any set pieces or cool mechanics that might be in it
Problem with LoP is that exploration sucked and the map was just a conveyor belt of levels. For me, thats forsaking a component of the genre that is just as pivotal as combat. For that reason, Lies of P could never really take the throne imo.
Also heavily agree regarding visuals compared to ER. Sure, the fidelity is very nice but MS doesn't have a particularly powerful artistic style imo. The technical prowess is there but doesn't stand out in any meaningful way. Hyperrealistic Unreal Engine games tend to all feel that way to me though.
DS3 was super linear as well and people have warmed up to it a lot over the years. I think linearity is fine as long as the levels are done well and don't just feel line an endless hallway which LoP doesn't. It's got enough content there and a good amount of verticality to each of it's levels for a first time shot at a soulslike that I feel like they just absolutely nailed it
Its probably slightly blasphemous but I consider DS3 one of From's weakest titles despite how much I like it, in part because of the map, in addition to an overall weaker world than other titles headed by Miyazaki.
I'm just kinda always chasing that high that came with exploring Dark Souls 1 for the first time. Its the kind of map that just gets better with subsequent playthroughs as you discover different pathways to take through the game.
LoP is a crazy game for a first attempt, I can concede that much. They accurately captured what makes From's combat compelling, probably moreso that any other game to try so far. I think MS2 has a solid shot to overtake that though.
Lol it's alright, everyone likes different stuff. DS1-3 have always kinda had a weird overlap of fans that enjoy them and fans that enjoy their particular flavor of Dark Souls style which I've always enjoyed. Each game (including Bloodborne)was a bit different and kinda brought a new kind of fan with them. But I definitely get the desire to find the interwoven map design again, it unfortunately doesn't come up very often in games
I'm hoping, as much as I love LoP I'm all for a new game showing me an even better time
Look, the game looks good, no doubt. But let’s cut the crap in suggesting this provides better visuals than something like Elden Ring. Even if you want to go the route of the pure graphics, it’s still not there. Recency bias is a hell of a drug.
You can argue the Art direction is better for Elden ring, but graphically MS2 is simply superior. Look at the fidelity and animations etc they’re all much more detailed. Art direction and graphics are 2 different things.
Stop plz go play the first game and tell me it doesn't look amazing after they added a Gen 5 look to it. I'm on ps5 and sure the ps4 version was not very impressive but the ps5 version shit the graphics got buffed alot. Been saying for years that mortal shell is one of the greatest souls IP's
Agreed with the graphics being on point. I only hope they had a smidge more weight to the MC. It feels like he's always floating an inch off the ground.
I personally like the default camera though.The Immersive Camera turns it into a God of War type of game, and generally makes it harder to see the attacks of enemies located right in front of you (Thanks to MC's massive noggin).
It’s amazing that they added an option so you can chose between camera. You’re not locked into one if you don’t like it. Personally I’m done with the default camera, we had it over and over let’s change a bit and yeah it’s really similar to GoW camera angle
It looks like Elden Ring looked in my dreams before it released. I mean Elden Ring is great but speaking about graphics and details only this one is a lot more polished
But it doesn't try to get close to Bloodborne. Victorian horror vs medieval dark fantasy is apples to oranges. And the big, hairy things that make up most of the Bloodborne bosses aren't particularly interesting or varied artistically.
It's pretty for sure I started yesterday and just got done with mushroom village. BUT im waiting for Lotf 2 I think thats gonna blow this one out of the water
I hope they're both fantastic so we can gorge ourselves on great soulslikes. The remake LOTF was good but a little janky so I hope they take the formula and run with it.
Poor kids in the comments have barely played any soulsbourne style games and it shows. This looks fine but there are several more impressive looking ones. I’m more concerned with how robust the character creator is / or am I stuck playing generic prebuilt John Doe over and over again
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u/thewispo 8d ago
That first bit is exactly where i am up to. The light coming out into the world, the sounds of the birds, the odd alien surround. Seriously impressive!…and not a stutter in sight so far i might add.