Darksiders Genesis Seemingly Leaked For Nintendo Switch

Isn’t this considered an «E3 spoiler»?

@ryancraddock

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ5ifGqYWTI

Oh god, so we finally get one where we can switch between multiple horsemen? YES PLEASE!

This looks way better than Darksiders 3. Do these games have connected plots, or am I free to just jump in wherever? Never played one before.

It looks a lot like Diablo 3 but more fun. And much better than the main Darksiders series.

I wonder if this is a spin-off given it's apparently isometric camera, or if this is their next attempt at figuring out what kind of game DS should be.

I love and hate the series. The originals were so flawed, yet hit just the right blend of DMC meets Zelda (meets WoW?) to be interesting. But they seemed unsure of what they wanted it to be. DS3 is actually good, but it's so different and hung so closely to the Dark Souls formula, thait it was clear the new team didn't know what to do. Maybe they figured "screw it, make it a TRPG."

@Ralizah 3 is actually good...just...different than the first two. Yes, it's a shameless Dark Souls clone. But by having an actual story, no cryptic garbage, and a simplified, more action oriented gameplay system, it's a better Dark Souls in terms of being fun to play, compared to being a pretentious "piece of......(err)....art" Combat is fun but simple enough to enjoy without being run through Soul's cattle chute of intricately unexplained systems. It may not be worth $60 but DS3 shouldn't be excluded.

The series' plots are connected but you can really jump in anywhere since they're not really told in a linear way. By nature of the story, the connected stories either take place simultaneously, or are kind of a chicken and egg time paradox that only makes sense to Nephilim. Basically they all center around the main story element that, effectively, Heaven & Hell were supposed to be balanced by the seal, the Nephilim were to ride when the seal was broken and for reasons, the seal was broken early and War took the fall for it, as demons invaded Earth and angels basically also invaded Earth. All 3 (4?) games center around cause & effect and the character interrelation during/before/after that event. So they're connected, but in a way that order is kind of irrelevant.

I'm with it. I like this top down playstyle.

This looks legit! Man this looks good!

I was hoping for precisely this, only with up to 4 player MP like Diablo, using all 4 horsemen. But this will do just fine. And it’s coming to Switch?

THQ, bra...vo.

@NEStalgia
This is a prequel spinoff (hence why it’s not named “Darksiders 4”, hence why it’s announced so soon after DS3, hence why it’s a completely different perspective and genre).

@JaxonH Cool, not that it wasn't interesting either way.

Not sure that trailer really tells me much about what kind of game it is. A lot of these smaller gameplay-focused games tend to be undersold by the trailers. Like the Assassin's Creed platformers. The trailer makes them look like bland phone games, but they're actually really intricate games.

man that looks nice

I LOVE THIS! The graphics are crisp, and colorful, and I love the franchise's setting. I can see myself spending a solid amount of time in this game if it is balanced pretty well, and it runs smooth on Nintendo Switch.

Loved what I saw in the trailer to be honest. Can't wait for more information

The thing I find most surprising is they revealed this for Stadia. I'd have thought Google would want this to be saved for later tonight.

Nice, I'll get it. I like games like this plus it with a franchise that I like.

Definitely will get this soon once I had more money to spare.

enjoying the isometric view

OMFG! I love this resurgence of the ARPG genre. Between the old games finding new life on Switch (Bastion, Titan Quest, Hob, Torchlight 2, Diablo 3) and newer games/ports like Mages of Mystralia, Warhammer: Chaosbane and now Darksiders Genesis. I already loved the Darksiders series and now even more!

I'm confused. Just because IGN posted a video, it's confirmed? There is nothing about it on THQ's YouTube channel, or their Twitter account or their official website. It looks to me like it's been leaked, which is not okay

Its about time Cayde 6 got his own game.

@ALinkttPresent Yeah, leaks aren't ok. But it is an official THQ trailer.... Boo for blowing THQ's E3, but it's at least an official PR trailer a week ahead rather than something scraped from someone's linkedin page.

@NEStalgia It's not a week ahead, it's only a few hours ahead. THQ is announcing a new game today at 2pm Eastern US Time and I'm guessing this is supposed to be it

@ALinkttPresent Ahh, that explains it....not a leak per-se, and embargo breach somewhere along the line....

Sucky, but I doubt THQ cares overwhelmingly much that their PR trailer got released to the hardcore gaming site nerds earlier in the day. Not that I endorse it, I don't, but I don't think THQ is scrambling because of it.

This is a maybe as I love darksiders but I got alot of other things to maybe look forward to

@NEStalgia Still, I just wonder what possessed IGN to release the video early. If they do that a lot, game companies are bound to stop trusting them with this kind of thing

Wait... AIRSHIP SYNDICATE!!!!!

So does this mean Joe Madureira is back in charge of the art!!

This is amazing! Day 1!

@ALinkttPresent If it were something like Kotaku I'd assume they did it for the clicks, bad rep be darned.

But IGN is such a big and bureaucratic outfit under 3 layers of subsidiaries, it's probably just plain old incompetence....it was on someone's calendar for today so the intern on the 5th floor got it done while everyone else is at the booth in L.A.

@Matthew010 IGN leaked it way sooner then it was supposed to leak. Officialy, the trailer did play on the Stadia livestream

I prefer Darksiders Mega Drive.

The Switch needs more good action rpgs and this looks great! Wish someone would revive the Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance games for the Switch...

@drewber2635 the classics are coming.
See the news story currently in 3rd place about the 6 titles being revived.

Let's hope it's got online co-op and voice chat!

Hopefully it has loot. That's one of the things I enjoy the most in these types of games

Oh. ALL over this!! Yes please.

Cool. This looks great and nice to see them change the franchise up a bit.

When I read "Diablo style" I was like mehh
Then I watched the trailer I was like " hell yeah!"
Love these hack and slash styles, Looks more like Dantes Inferno.

No Darksiders 3?! Boooooohhhh!!

@JaxonH My guess is that it would have alteast 2 player MP. If you look it up on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/710920/Darksiders_Genesis/

It says it will have both couch and online multiplayer.

If it's anything like Diablo 3 I'm all over it. That game has consumed me in recent months

I am sorry but I reuse to play this unless I can stream it over my house WiFi from an overpriced cloud solution to a dedicated TV that no one else can use and blow my Data cap in a few days while I social my extreme satisfaction with stuttering stream feeds which occur at critical points of the game.

I mean who wants the hassle of having to remove it from dock and take it with you when gaming is all about being tethered to the house.

@Lord those aren’t action rpgs though, they are crpgs where you have to micro manage everything which isn’t my thing