Poll of the Day > Darksiders: The series ended 'cuz playing as Famine or Pestilence would be lame

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Maybe?

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Darksiders replaced them with Fury and Strife, who both had games.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Darksiders replaced them with Fury and Strife, who both had games.

That's dumb...

Strife could work, but Fury has a little too much crossover as a concept with War as well as the Greek "Furies'

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Lokarin posted...

That's dumb...

Strife could work, but Fury has a little too much crossover as a concept with War as well as the Greek "Furies'

Strife is pretty close to War too, but I think they had a similar thought that Pestilence and Famine didn't lend themselves well to the gameplay.

Darksiders 3 and Genesis were pretty bad anyway, for reasons not solely tied to the characters.

It ended? Didn't it have a game last year?

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InfernalFive posted...

It ended? Didn't it have a game last year?

I'm ot of the loop I guess - I thought DS3 was the last one

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Why would that be lame, that would be awesome

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ewww.... i hate when my topics are touching - it makes me feel like a spammy freak

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The puzzles in the latter third of Darksiders 2 are making me feel dumb...

The solutions are obvious after you figure it out, but figuring it out doesn't immediately click the way Zelda puzzles do...

So in a way they're better puzzles (Darksiders) since they're smarter, and also worse cuz the necessary information is harmed by the environment (clues can be rather subtle)

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A famine game would be awesome. Stealing kids luncheables. Burning fields. Cross contaminating vegan stuff.

dedbus posted...

A famine game would be awesome. Stealing kids luncheables. Burning fields. Cross contaminating vegan stuff.

I can see Strife being a conflation of both Pestilence and Famine as they both lead to difficulties with quality of life

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The timeline got kind of confusing. I think all of the sequels were leading up to the ending of the first game. Yet characters started making references to events they hadn't experienced yet in the subsequent games which took place earlier.

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I was never interested in the series but a game featuring Pestilence would have definitely caught my attention.

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DocDelicious posted...

I was never interested in the series but a game featuring Pestilence would have definitely caught my attention.

You can play as Pestilence in Town of Salem, but it's hard

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Lokarin posted...

playing as Famine or Pestilence would be lame

doesn't have to be. seems more like a problem of lack of imagination. Pestilence in particular could make a great class.

Famine is a bit more difficult; it's too narrow of a concept. maybe you could broaden it away from specifically being about food and make it more about scarcity in general? I don't know the gameplay or setting, but there could be "iron famine" to damage armor and weapons, "malnutrition" to debuff a living creature, "calcium deficiency" against skeletons, etc.? that would make for a really weird class and it might be too much like Pestilence. maybe Pestilence could focus on DoTs and Famine could focus on sapping/debuffs. maybe Famine is really weak, but he has so many debuffs that it doesn't matter (wouldn't work if you could team up).

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Famine should be an RTS where you cut off the food production of enemy cities.

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