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[Draugoth]

Publisher CI Games and developer Hexworks have released an 17-minute “Extended Gameplay Presentation” for dark fantasy action RPG Lords of the Fallen.

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A vast world awaits in all-new, dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. As one of the fabled Dark Crusaders, embark on an epic quest to overthrow Adyr, the demon God.​

“The team at Hexworks is thrilled to finally share an extended gameplay presentation and reveal numerous new details of our dark fantasy action–RPG. “We have passionately carved our own path in this increasingly popular genre, and we are particularly excited to see how players will approach the game’s unique dual-world mechanic when it releases this October.”

 

[Salz01]

Looks pretty damn good. Just hope the performance on console holds up. I think this is UE5 too.

 

[SkeletonQuays]

I was one of the few who beat the first one and it was fun enough, this one looks to be a huge improvement and even added it's own spin on the spectral realm type mechanic (ie soul reaver series). I'll def grab this.

 

[Spyxos]

It already looks much better than part 1.

Isn't this Box breaking sound stolen 1 to 1 from Darksouls/Elden Ring?

 

[Crispy Gamer]

Awesome boss fight!

 

[The Cockatrice]

Looks good. They should give players a demo like Lies of P so we can taste the level design a bit. Hard to tell from the video.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I don’t know about Day 1, but I will most definitely play this at some point. I really enjoyed the first game.

 

[Roufianos]

Looks really promising but you definitely have to wait and see with Souls imitators. Most look great then turn out average.

 

[Kurotri]

This looks absolutely fantastic. Been saying for a while that this has sleeper hit vibes.

- Amazing art direction and visuals
- Nice build variety (especially liked the second and third build)
- Cool use of two worlds that you can switch back and forth to at any time
- And some to be expected things like Co-op and a fuckin jump button

I hope they release a demo for this, but it doesn't look like it. The only thing I don't like is the sound design, imo combat lacks a little bit of oomph because of that, but it's not tragic. Oh and also with the fire boss at the end, the character literally walks on lava and there is seemingly no burn effect that lasts a while, which I found odd. But again, nothing tragic.

Probably can't day 1 this just yet, will wait for reviews, but I love what they are going for. These types of games live and die by way of how they feel and you can't get that just by watching a video.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

That looks awesome, comes out on my birthday so it looks like it’ll be a ‘treat yo self’ gift for me.

 

[mansoor1980]

looks incredible , combat looks awesome esp the sound effects

 

[ahtlas7]

Skyrimridge Bridge

The lantern thing is a cool idea. Parroting others that a demo would be nice. I need to know how it feels in my hands.

 

[R6Rider]

Looks really fun, just releasing at a bad time.

Same for Lies of P. The demo for that game was fantastic.

 

[March Climber]

Although the animations are a bit eurojank, the graphics and ideas they have(like the parallel worlds for traversal) seem pretty interesting.

I’m hoping it finds more success than the first one.

 

[Bartski]

Sick. I'm definitely in as soon as I can

 

[SmokedMeat]

Is this an entirely different studio doing the work?
I played through the first, and this looks nothing like it. Seems to be a good deal of Elden Ring influence, which isn’t a bad thing.

 

[GymWolf]

Gameplay looks nice but the graphic seems a bit downgraded from the last trailer, maybe it's just the yt compression.

Still a day one probably.

 

[bbeach123]

oversharpened.avi

 

[geary]

Is this an entirely different studio doing the work?
I played through the first, and this looks nothing like it. Seems to be a good deal of Elden Ring influence, which isn’t a bad thing.

Yes, new studio founded in 2020. HexWorks

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Looking great. Will get to it at some point.

Two parallel world's mechanic is always cool

 

[Portugeezer]

Hard to tell with souls-like games how good they will end up being, but it's looking really good so far.

Hopefully they do some cool stuff with the parallel worlds.

 

[peronmls]

Playing the first one right now. It's not bad. Uses a in house engine. I appreciate the tightness and the weight it brings in the combat. I beat the second boss so far. Characters and dialog are meh. A cool graphical feature on the PC version known as in NVIDIA Turbulence is unfortunate bugged and crashes your game after a hour or so of playing so you miss out on particle effects reacting to real-time motion and wind.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Looks miles better than the 1st one!

 

[EviLore]

The lantern to peek between worlds is neat.

 

[Ansphn]

I don't know what it is but this Soul-like does not interest me. I can't pinpoint why.

 

[Needlecrash]

The 1st one looked pretty generic and boring. This one....?

TAKE MY MONEY. Traversal between both worlds is a VERY unique twist.

 

[GymWolf]

The lantern to peek between worlds is neat.

It looks like the thingy you had in dishonored 2 to see the past in one of the latest missions.

 

[Kataploom]

Watching it right now... Looks amazing! Loving all I see, gameplay and graphics wise <3

 

[Fbh]

Looks great, to the point I think they are doing themselves a disservice by using the Lord of the Fallen name, specially since it's a different dev.
Is this the year other devs will finally figure out how to make good Souls-likes? (between this and lies of P)

Looks pretty damn good. Just hope the performance on console holds up. I think this is UE5 too.

Oh god another 720p 45fps game incoming

 

[GymWolf]

After a fast rewatch, mmm the hit reactions seems a bit weak and i'm not convinced with the audio effects when hitting stuff.

 

[Kakax11]

besides the motion blur it looks good

 

[RoadHazard]

It's still weird that this one has the exact same name as the last one. Yeah, reboots happen a lot, but this is only the second game lol.

 

[Crispy Gamer]

Gameplay looks nice but the graphic seems a bit downgraded from the last trailer, maybe it's just the yt compression.

Still a day one probably.

Yeah either we've seen all PC footage up until this video or the bitrate is so bad we can't see the crisp details

 

[hyperbertha]

After a fast rewatch, mmm the hit reactions seems a bit weak and i'm not convinced with the audio effects when hitting stuff.

Yep. One of the biggest issues with souls clones is they don't have the feedback actual from games have.

 

[Roman Empire]

The only thing I don't like is the sound design, imo combat lacks a little bit of oomph because of that, but it's not tragic.

looks incredible , combat looks awesome esp the sound effects

 

[Umbasaborne]

Crazy how this went from lords of the fallen 2, to THE lords of the fallen, to just lords of the fallen again

 

[GymWolf]

I tjink Yep. One of the biggest issues with souls clones is they don't have the feedback actual from games have.

The cartoonish sound effects when he hit doesn't help at all, the slashes with the small weapons sound like you are hitting with a limp dick.

 

[fart town usa]

Definitely interested. Especially with coop. Souls games in coop is top shelf stuff. Anyone who finds these games too difficult, get some friends and try coop, it is so damn fun.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Looks fantastic but how does it *feel*? Demo would be welcome, cautiously optimistic as I said when the previous trailer was shown. Pyromancer Wolverine looks dope as fuck

 

[ssringo]

The only thing I don't like is the sound design, imo combat lacks a little bit of oomph because of that, but it's not tragic

This was the thing I noticed most. Thought it might have been because I was listening with an earbud but seems not. The fists and dagger sounded very limp in general.

Still looks good though. Maybe it's just me but from the footage I was getting Demon's Souls vibes more than Dark Souls.

I'm actually more interested in this than Lies of P.

 

[Heaven Angel]

This game caught me off-guard, now it's on my to play list. This is really interesting. I'm getting this on Xbox Series X.

 

[Kurotri]

Wanted to post this, it's 60fps on PS5 and Series X!

 

[Thief1987]

First trailer looked more interesting, this demo significantly deflate my expectations

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Wanted to post this, it's 60fps on PS5 and Series X!

Awesome! Will be keeping a close eye on this one.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

First trailer looked more interesting, this demo significantly deflate my expectations

I have to agree, 1st trailer was amazeballs, this video though looked...generic as hell.
It's a souls clone, sure, of course things are going to be and look derivative, between the generic orchestral music though, generic grimdark esthetics, downgraded graphics (?), weak sound effects and dubious animations on some parts...I just don't know anymore.

I'll get this when it hits the inevitable 20-25 Eurodollars price drop

 

[Roberts]

Finished the excellent Steelrising a few days ago so I’m totally up for another Souls rip-off soon.

 

[Fuz]

I like what I see.

 

[Kakax11]

True upgrade from the original, leaving Square-enix was a good choice for the developers

 

[Roman Empire]

I have to agree, 1st trailer was amazeballs, this video though looked...generic as hell.
It's a souls clone, sure, of course things are going to be and look derivative, between the generic orchestral music though, generic grimdark esthetics, downgraded graphics (?), weak sound effects and dubious animations on some parts...I just don't know anymore.

I'll get this when it hits the inevitable 20-25 Eurodollars price drop

I won't get it at launch unless it's fantastic.

 

[Denton]

This looks awesome and if it was called "Dark Souls IV" and was made by company called "From Software" the hype would be insane.

Second half of this year is very busy and I am pretty sure it will be a bloodbath, many developers are gonna be unhappy getting lost in the shuffle...

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