Demiath's Twitch.TV: Darksiders (Gameplay #3)
0Playing Darksiders while listening to John Carmack's QuakeCon 2012 Keynote Address. Our dear old tech god seems a hell of a lot more innovative, intellectually agile and "in the game" than his struggling Bethesda-owned studio id Software, and Carmack's talk about the potential future of Virtual Reality was undoubtedly fascinating (although I'm personally more than content with the still-awesome effects made possible by plain old stereoscopic 3D...).
As for the game itself, maybe my brawler skillz have deteriorated since the glory days of PS2 God of War titles but I actually find Darksiders to be rather challenging due lack of regenerating health (coupled with infrequent health replenishers), unreliable defensive options and poor checkpointing. Also, I really don't like it when the game clearly wants you to approach a particular challenge (say, using a ranged weapon you might easily miss to pick up) in a very specific way but fails to make that clear from the beginning...
My Twitch.TV channel (for the full video recording):
http://www.twitch.tv/demiath/
John Carmack's QuakeCon 2012 Keynote Address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk