Speaking of Gael yeah he had short combos, but in second and especially third phase he become so fast and gets so much crap in his moveset (crossbow,cape, souls, lightings, teleports). I had dificult time to find opening I could exploit without getting hit. And his hp pool is pretty big.
This shit was constant every time the game was even mentioned. Leave it to nu-/v/ to take something that was mildly amusing (Cyberpunk was going to be shit regardless if some retard bought adspace for the shazam meme) and try to force it.
Beyond this being completely speculative, I don't think it makes a lot of sense.
Then riddle me this: why is it just about a year later we got one DLC and that's just an arena for PVP? Every game aside from Dark Souls 1 had the DLC come out 6-9 months later.
So what? Sekiro's DLC came out 19 months after release, should we find a justification for that as well?
Looking at the world map there are clouds here and there that they could remove and put DLC under. At least that's what I figured they would be doing when I played it. There's a small one in the middle and a larger one south of Caelid and an even larger one east of Caelid. If they're going that route maybe they have basing the extent of the DLC according to sales and how many copies of it they think they can sell for $XX.
I fucking hate Maliketh, he's too late in the game to practice dodges and his Destined Death fucks over my characters because I don't wanna fucking level every character's vigor over 40 just so I can survive in case I mistime one roll. I get it, DoT so you can heal off the damage before it gets you- why does his spin you can't escape if you get caught in apply it twice, killing you faster than you can drink? Maybe it's just me sucking but sometimes I just stop at his boss gate because of that fight. Phase 1's fun though, wish there was another Beast Clergyman if only to give it a true second phase where it'd stand like a demi human and to give me the rock version of Burn O Flame.
Maliketh has about a third of the health of the other late game bosses. I could be wrong but given his low durability I'm pretty sure From intended for him to be a DPS race and not a prolonged fight of attrition.
My hot take is that it will be an open world area that will link to 2 "legacy dungeons" and 3-4 of the copy paste ones. 2 new big boy bosses and 2-3 new minibosses that get reused in there. I'd love more legacy and less open, but they need to justify the horse. I would personally also love a legacy dungeon that was made accounting for the horse as well as a horseback boss, but this is me just wishlisting at this point.
Expectations bloat and priorities shift? I mean, I assume a good chunk of the team is working on AC6 at a minimum and I never got the impression that From are a massive company that can work on two AA+ projects at the same time. I mean, if it's kind of half assed and rushed it will be easy to notice it also on how many assets are reused (lots of new assets, less likely it was a rush job). There is also the crazy possibility that they have gone fuck it and decided to "compress" the DLCs into a single release, but I very much doubt this one.
Malekith, Mogh, Godfrey and Malenia I really need to refight against... I was starting to get antsy about finishing the game when I came face to face with those and ended up busting mimic tear with rivers of blood, I want to beat them "proper". Though I did at least take down Malekith with the funky parry item, so I at least got a high out of that one.
You're absolutely correct- my problem with it is it's a DPS race where the attacks have very precise roll timings, so you can't make too many mistakes because every opportunity to heal is an opportunity to attack, which makes it so his attacks and black blade projectiles are even more devastating because depending on if you have like 30ish vigor or you survived one already you HAVE to heal because of the destined death DoT, which in turn extends the DPS race and increases your likelihood of dying. It's a fight you damn near have to do perfectly or pray he doesn't get around the pillars fast enough while healing (something I can't seem to get down).
Keep huffing that copium.
Will you eat crow and cock when proven wrong?
Sekiro at least had a point where you can perfect parry those combos to reduce the enemies stance meter, ER is basically feeling stupid for picking a close range class.
There was Sekiro DLC?
It's just so fucking boring to bow him though even if it's the safer option. For me that fight was no fun at all, part of it was that the approach when starting it was always exactly the fucking same. Run and summon dude 1, run and summon dude 2, one-two, roll, now horse, ride, jump-dismount, summon dudes, horse, avoid the arrows etc. Exactly the same every time. Then it was time to run up and hang around his crotch and deal damage hoping that I could be able to tell what attacks he uses or when he's going to run around with his pony.
Bruh, just summon Black Knife Tiche and let her tank the boss. His DoT mechanic works against him just as well as against you, and Tiche is both nimble and tanky enough to at least pose a threat to him.
Of all the bosses and mini bosses in the game, I had as many deaths on BKT as I did on anyone else short of Malenia. He is the best boss killing summon in the game since the mimic nerfs, but he's also the hardest to get in my mind. You also don't really have access to him until mid-late game.
