Please tell me why Lords of the Fallen isn't as popular as dark Souls
It isn't as good, duh and it's a clone during dark souls height of popularity.
I'll try to engage with you. What did you use to play dark souls and why are the controls shit?
It isn't as good, why? Specifics. Reasons. Is the chargen better? The chardev? The combat? Is the combat smoother? Are the boss fights better? The trash fights? Is it clearer in story and objective? Better, and if so why? Saying a completely subjective statement just proves my point. Your argument is just like saying Jordan's were better then the Jackson's because they came out shortly after and Jordans were at their popularity peak. Objectively, they were a similar price (and the first wave of $120 sneakers, when they were always like 20-30 before this new craze), similar quality, performed the same functions, both represented high profile and popular athletes of the time.
Your argument proves my point perfectly.
Jordans were more popular for the same reason Dark Souls is mo0re popular and teeny bopper shit is popular. My daughter was listening to this fucking little vapid bitch singing this line over and over - "I lobe you like a love song, baby!" What the fuck? What does that mean? How is this popular? Why? How could anyone like this? It is the same reason I had to have Jordans and loved them way more than anyone should ever love something that goes on his foot. Tyrrany of the masses basically means kids are fucking idiots that are easily manipulated, like what they are told to like, and cannot fathom that something they like is shit. Some kids grow up and believe this until they die. Thankfully, most turn out somewhat normal and learn how to conduct cost benefit analysis, loss friends and all want of being cool after marriage and some kids and too many KFC stops, and figuring out that form is meaningless and function is what matters.
Secondly - as a civilized person I play games one way. The only way a civilized person can. And if you think there is nothing wrong with the controls, which require a fucking fan made patch and is still utter and complete shit, then you, sir, are a savage who either is a console retard and not worth talking to, or even worse, someone with knuckles dragging so low you have betrayed civilization and plugged a controller into your pc and should be executed.
I don't have time to get in a big drawn out retard fight at this point so I will clarify the PST comment.
Content is not mechanics. Grimrock with content could have the same mechanics and turn from a dungeon crawler to a crpg. If you take all the content out of MMX you have a dungeon crawler.
All the shit you guys are bleating about PST is standard now and was first used in FO. I don't see anyone pissing their pants over WL2's content or PoE's content, which did the same shit.
Did PST have good content? Yes, undoubtedly. Did it have good mechanics? No. Only if you like shit horrible combat, shitty AI, shitty pathfinding, etc.
We can explore the content and bring up issues, but the good more than outways the bad.
The only healer you get has no range option, cannot equip weapons for no sensible reason, and sucks in combat really bad. But she is a major character and the only healer.
The stores are in the last zones a normal rpg player will get to after you get out of the monastery. Whether you go left or right, you have no way to sell in the monastery, the first zone out, or the next zones after.
Once you go to the had lady the content becomes pretty linear zone after zone one way only. People had a field day shtting on Lionheart for this.
The chardev is awful and even has less choice than the other IE offerings, which is very lite. You can pick between three classes, and have no choices within them for the most part.
The itemization is half good half awful. Most recruitables have very limited upgrade options, NO has few options for armor, or weapon even depending on class. There certainly are some interesting weapons, but other than jewelry and tattoos there isn't much. Tattoos is a nice addition, and great for the limited characters that can use them.
I could go on and on. But at the end of the day, this game has great content and shit mechanics/gameplay. I see no way to come to any other conclusion with this or Bg1 bg2 or IWd. This is also true for the kotors, nwns, and the future console games these developers came out with. That is pretty much the standard for AAA rpgs. Tons of good content, eye candy out the wazoo, and shit mechanics aimed at not alienating fucking idiot retards who hate thinking or want super hot action without the numbers.
I think NWN2 has great chargen and chardev, but the combat is impossible to lose. You can literally rest after every fight with no consequences. The mechanics are so bad it washes out the good chargen and dev because they become meaningless. Why should I bother putting effort into a build when a retarded three year old can blow through combat almost as well? Certain games have good mechanics and shit combat, like FO and Arcanum. FO could be fixed with no saving allowed during combat, Arcanum was the publishers fault for forcing the TB/rtwp hybrid. But, just because I love the content of thes egames, and the chardev and gen, I am not going to trick myself into monkey thinking and fallacies. I like this game and had fun with it so the combat must be good, right? No. Look at darklands. I doubt many people hold the combat of that game up as a way to do it right. But the game is a gem that offered a ton of what no one else was at the time, and was good despite the combat, etc. PST is a gem that is a classic despite the combat and mechanics and AI and pathfinding, etc. Bloodlines is probably the poster child for action games with heavy rpg elements that nailed everything and is pure awesome despite the not so great combat (or not enough items in my opinion), etc.
