by Chaos Spectre Fri May 11, 2012 7:49 amDark Souls, Minecraft, Terraria, Dungeon Defenders, Tera, Guild Wars 2, From Dust, Demon's Souls, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and now, Soul Sacrifice.
These games are all different. We know the obvious Dark Souls and Demon's Souls. Minecraft and Terraria added a new level of custom creation and exploration. Dungeon Defenders was a co-op experience from an indie team with 14 people that satisfied so much in the way of a hybrid genre, especially tower defense. Tera was about attacking people over skill rotation and pulled it off in the MMO world. Guild Wars 2...too much to say, just a new level of MMO gaming unheard of. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor mixes something borderline useless with something most gamers can't put down, mixing Kinect actions with controller control to give you a feel as if you are there, but your not. GRFS showed up in a shooter world filled with k/d and showed that k/d means nothing, but w/l means everything and teamwork is the only way to raise it. And now, the man of the show, Soul Sacrifice.
To start, here: http://www.siliconera.com/2012/05/10/keiji-inafune-explains-how-soul-sacrifice-is-played/
Some thought Soul Sacrifice was a Demon's Souls sequel, but not having a From Software name attached to it, I had low suspicion it was them. However, it was different, it definitely wasn't another lame shooter. After reading this article, its even better than I thought. Dark Souls was an emotion wrenching game, ripping anger, sadness, happiness, and victory, along with many others. It seems that Soul Sacrifice has the same interest. Every enemy is a human, destroyed by their decisions to become more powerful, becoming demons. Your character can do the same, but with every monster, you can sacrifice them for power, or give them salvation.
Just hearing that is interesting, and thinking that with each enemy I kill, I can decide whether they deserve salvation or destruction. If the game is hard, this can become something of brutal hardship. Harder games rip emotions better, and if that boss royally ticked me off, I'm going to sacrifice him/her, but in the same respect, that battle itself could tick me off, and I just want to give them salvation. Its like your god in a way. I'm sure this will tie into the storyline as well.
This also connects on a community level. With other friends, you dont decide to kill or save the creature, you have to decide together. Its majority rules, and the other players wont know each others votes it seems, but that may even tie more into something else. For example, maybe some convert, while others dont, creating a pvp boss battle, the salvation lovers fight the demons.
Either way, I like this, I'm getting it, the PS Vita has had an amazing lineup from the start and continues to improve, and honestly, I would love to get on this with the souls community to see what we can do together.
What do you guys think?
Tl;dr
Innovation has grown a lot in the past few years. Soul Sacrifice is just another step in the right direction, and even maybe, another key in fixing this shooter infected industry.
These games are all different. We know the obvious Dark Souls and Demon's Souls. Minecraft and Terraria added a new level of custom creation and exploration. Dungeon Defenders was a co-op experience from an indie team with 14 people that satisfied so much in the way of a hybrid genre, especially tower defense. Tera was about attacking people over skill rotation and pulled it off in the MMO world. Guild Wars 2...too much to say, just a new level of MMO gaming unheard of. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor mixes something borderline useless with something most gamers can't put down, mixing Kinect actions with controller control to give you a feel as if you are there, but your not. GRFS showed up in a shooter world filled with k/d and showed that k/d means nothing, but w/l means everything and teamwork is the only way to raise it. And now, the man of the show, Soul Sacrifice.
To start, here: http://www.siliconera.com/2012/05/10/keiji-inafune-explains-how-soul-sacrifice-is-played/
Some thought Soul Sacrifice was a Demon's Souls sequel, but not having a From Software name attached to it, I had low suspicion it was them. However, it was different, it definitely wasn't another lame shooter. After reading this article, its even better than I thought. Dark Souls was an emotion wrenching game, ripping anger, sadness, happiness, and victory, along with many others. It seems that Soul Sacrifice has the same interest. Every enemy is a human, destroyed by their decisions to become more powerful, becoming demons. Your character can do the same, but with every monster, you can sacrifice them for power, or give them salvation.
Just hearing that is interesting, and thinking that with each enemy I kill, I can decide whether they deserve salvation or destruction. If the game is hard, this can become something of brutal hardship. Harder games rip emotions better, and if that boss royally ticked me off, I'm going to sacrifice him/her, but in the same respect, that battle itself could tick me off, and I just want to give them salvation. Its like your god in a way. I'm sure this will tie into the storyline as well.
This also connects on a community level. With other friends, you dont decide to kill or save the creature, you have to decide together. Its majority rules, and the other players wont know each others votes it seems, but that may even tie more into something else. For example, maybe some convert, while others dont, creating a pvp boss battle, the salvation lovers fight the demons.
Either way, I like this, I'm getting it, the PS Vita has had an amazing lineup from the start and continues to improve, and honestly, I would love to get on this with the souls community to see what we can do together.
What do you guys think?
Tl;dr
Innovation has grown a lot in the past few years. Soul Sacrifice is just another step in the right direction, and even maybe, another key in fixing this shooter infected industry.
