2k dug its own grave this year making the lockdowns so overpowered and will overcompensate with patches now to cover for it. People making 99 dunk builds to take contested drives and wanting contested shots to go in are all a product of it being so difficult to create enough space relative to the defense. It’s just too difficult for the majority to create space. If the movement wasn’t so nerfed we wouldn’t need for anything contested to go in and can then faithfully rely on a good contest system directly combating getting open shots to create the skill gap. The offense formidability compared to the defense is very clearly unbalanced and they will never address it because they are scared to death of “cheesing” despite not giving us limited competent movement to create space for open shots vs any competent lockdown spamming and bumping you.
@ZerithHairBow@Invinium Plus in Onimusha when you fight it’s mainly 1 on 1 combat compared Phantom Blade where you fighting a multitude of enemies at once, just don’t want ppl to get disappointed that they might not play the same
@ZerithHairBow@Invinium I understand you but at the same time that’s like me hopping on Sekiro expecting so Ninja gaiden type combat/combos. They both great games and both great combat systems but Onimusha is more of a true swordsman like game while Phantom blade is a whole different beast in itself
Can’t wait for phantom blade zero to drop, been one of my most anticipated games for the last few years and will probably be one of the best next gen games of this era but I have to give a shoutout to one of the og’s that paved the way : Bujingai
@Kiwi4Grand@Invinium But then if you time your clashes properly you actually pull of a clash counter and you can definitely see that Phatom blade took a lot of inspiration from it, and they you can repel projectiles and energy attacks by using you attack button to deflect and redirect back
@Kiwi4Grand@Invinium And the defense is really what makes it unique. First important defense mechanic is clashing, pretty much as long as you facing forward towards your enemy the game will automatically start clashing when an enemy attack but they key is you only clash a certain amount of times
I want to eventually grab sparking zero but I still don’t even think it’s better than budokai tenkaichi 4 mod on pcsx2 and xenoverse 3 right around the corner so idk man 🤦♂️
@RisingBlazeX@Si1ver_01 But then again I’ve had a lot experience with ninja gaiden and some of the weapon mechanics are the same but so far the Nioh series gotta be my favorite dark soul series by far especially with the customization and the combo potential
@RisingBlazeX@Si1ver_01 Yea I believe so, Nioh 2 was my first darks souls game fr and I grabbed it earlier. I feel once you find your weapons you like and get used to managing Ki and stance switching it becomes more easier but still is a good challenge. You can do some ng type combos once you master it.