I haven’t run into too much trouble with the difficulty yet. I’ve been slaughtered a lot yeah, fell down a lot of holes, but everytime you die, it’s the player’s fault. It’s recklessness and just simply a lack of cautiousness that gets players killed. It’s not a lesson they teach in games these days, so if you play a lot of newer games, I can understand why you might find the difficulty “ungodly”.

World tendency changes when dieing, and defeating bosses/NPC’s in each world. Black world tendency makes the game slightly tougher, but not by much. It affects item drop rate and enemy health (increases both). So dieing constantly actually helps you, AND black tendency also makes farming/grinding a bit tougher, how is that bad?

The combat is probably the best I’ve seen in an action RPG. Lots of weapon variety, the ability to dual-wield every weapon at the cost of mobility or defense. Upgradable weapons with multiple weapon paths for each. The pvp is exhilarating, and the game offers enough maneuverability for you to handle any situation as long as you know what you’re doing. They even included a lock-on feature to assist you (in most cases it gets me killed, so I’ve been playing with it off…much easier on ng+’s without lock on). Oh.. and parrying. not something many people attempt, but it’s rewarding when you master it. Also works in pvp, makes people furious.

The game doesn’t have bad mechanics, just bad players ;D

The game is full of bad mechanics if you ask me. For one the whole world tendancy is horrendous. The game becomes harder the more times you die on a level. How does this make sense? Also the game requires way to much grinding for my liking.

If they would have implemented a checkpoint system that may have saved the game for me.

I’ve been hanging back, waiting for you guys to cover some Demon’s Souls.
I’m wondering if any Bitbaggers played much of it and are/were happy with it. It’s such a breath of fresh air for modern action-RPG’s, it’s hard to sit back and be silent about it. It’s as hardcore as a game can be these days, and the PVP/multiplayer is just sick (no, I don’t work for Sony or From Software hahaha).

I was a little disappointed that nobody talked much about it yet on the Video Game Warzone, considering how amazing it is (can’t please everyone, I know, it’s all good).

To be honest, I completely ignored Uncharted 2 after picking it up, and it was so worth it.

HHG was talking about damage and how the car rolls with no hit to performance, it was clear to me and Brain but not you that he was not playing on simulation. Brain should have said that instead of if asking if he was playing on easy. I think that is what he meant but I was suprise you were not catching that vs caring about people talking about burnout has better crashes. No way he or anyone he watched playing would drive away on damage set to simulation which is no different than the previous versions. Explain to hip hop cosmetic means just that. No actual damage with the performance just cosmetic damage to exterior of the car