Poll: Are You Playing Lies of P?

This will have to wait until i'm done with BG3, so i'm guessing it won't be for a while...

I’m busy with other games, but I’ll get it eventually.
Games that launch Day 1 on gamepass seem to get discounted quicker. Might pick it up around Christmas.

Plan on getting it but have no idea when as too busy with everything else and tomorrow and next doesn't help what with Cyberpunk's 2.0/PL DLC.

Playing on GamePass. Enjoying it so far!

I played the Dark Souls trilogy back when I still cared about playing difficult games. But I got so burned out by the whole genre by 3rd game, I really don't see myself ever going back to it.

One of my most anticipated games this year and it hasn't disappointed. A vast improvement from the demo when I played it however many weeks ago.

Don't get drawn into the Bloodborne comparisons and you'll have a great time.

Playing on Gamepass.

It's ok, the atmosphere is a bit lacking for me but then no game will ever beat playing Bloodborne for the first time in my eyes!

Lies of P is too much of a clone I can’t respect it.

I’ll probably try Black Myth: Wukong when it eventually comes out

I've no time to be frustrated because I'm crap ,I dont understand why they can't put an easy difficulty in these type of games,its all a bit pompous.

My friend bought this and I'm sort of curious about it, but the aesthetic doesn't grab me.

Been to engrossed with Baldurs Gate and going on holiday in a couple of days so didn’t feel it’s worth starting it. Will give it a gamepass go when I’m back though

Free on PC game pass, hard to ignore.

Waiting for a deep sale or a second hand copy for the PS5 physical version, like for all games launching Day 1 on Gamepass. They already got paid, and it's not a must play.

No interest in this. Had all the souls games in the past and fallen off them all due to difficulty,/frustration and other games getting in the way. Still got DS remastered tho and i wont sell that one and vow to get back to it sometime.

I'm loving it. Not quite Bloodborne, but definitely the best non-Fromsoftware souls like I've played

Finishing up 100% of the trophies in S-M:Remastered ahead of S-M2 at the moment, and then I might give Baldur's Gate 3 a go. With so little gaming time available now that I have a little one, I prefer to spend my money and time on games that review phenomenally well, or which come highly recommended by reviewers who's taste is similar to mine. So I might pick Lies of P up along the way at some point, but I don't think it's likely if I'm being honest.

Cool.the demo is excellent so i will definitely play lies of p.souls like games are excellent.im playing the legendary dark souls remastered now.and im having fun.word up son

Yes. And it's good (I am readying for the fight w King's Flame). There are a few thing that I wish were different, but it has its own spin on the genre and adds some nice flourishes.

These ridiculously hard games are just annoying. The git gud crowd can take a long walk on a short pier. There’s plenty of other games out there that are more accessible to the masses. One would think that adding different difficulty options would sell more games.

will purchase it in a couple of weeks when i get back from holiday

Where’s the option for I’d love to buy it, but I’m just not good enough at Soulslikes?

Seriously, I’ve bought all the FromSoft games and plenty of non-From Soulslikes, but I always seem to get stuck a few hours in.

I definitely wantonly this, but man.... BG3 has taken over my life in gaming lol.

The fact that LIES is free on game pass alongside many major titles free on the service; its actually almost the straw breaking the camel's back for me, in terms of me instead going the game pass route to play it and more. Especially with Sony not only not matching the value of the competition, but instead raising prices for their lesser service, further widening that gap.

It's tough not to realize that it would only take 4-6 day one gamepass games that are full price releases on PS, for the investment cost to get the other console to be fully paid for,

I was sure this was going to suck so it slipped off my radar, and now I've got no time for it!

Will have to get round to it later in the year

Not quite sure when but I’ll absolutely be getting to it.

Great setting, but **** the lack of accessibility options. Maybe take a page from the Sifu book and give players the option of levelling off those difficulty spikes.

@moeshiboe I don’t say get good to any1 but honestly there are they so many gamers saying games should have plenty of accessibility option, the devs clearly don’t want this for their respective games. There are tons of other games to play with tons of those settings.

I thoroughly enjoy these types of games and may give it a shot at some point, but right now what's putting me off about it is the steep difficulty curve that gets thrown at you at points and for some of the bosses. I'm not up for that level of frustration when I'm trying to relax and enjoy some recreation. Steelrising was a great example of a Soulsborne-type game that gets the difficulty aspect right but is still challenging and good fun, IMHO.

If you like the souls games then this is a must have. Its damn near perfect to be honest and i'm loving it. Its not too hard but it does have a few difficulty spikes that can be a bit annoying. Its a huge improvement over the demo. Its hard to look past the bloodborne influence on the graphics but it also reminds me of the bioshock games. Again if you like anything souls type then you really need to have this game.

Oh yeah, I had this game pre-ordered. There’s no such thing as “too many soulslikes” in my world.
The game is also really good. Sure, the world is kinda like Bloodborne and Steelrising had a baby but the combat is tight, the environments are moody and the loot plus underlying systems are great.
Next up: Lords of the Fallen! (well, in a month)

@DETfaninATL i'm finding this to be on a par with steel rising in terms of difficulty. Both games are challenging but there is very little between how hard the boss fights are so far. Both games suffer with difficulty spikes that can seem a bit unfair at times.

Dislike Souls-like games personally.

Yep. Got it on PC. This is right up my street and it's very addictive.

@Oxy "There’s no such thing as “too many soulslikes” in my world."

You're speaking to my heart here. Keep them coming I say.

Lost me at Souls like, but a good game is good for everyone, whether I play it or not. So cheers!

Really excited to play this, but still deep in Armored Core 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I bought it now full price just to support the devs. I absolutely loved the demo.

@Northern_munkey That's encouraging to hear. Many of the reviews I've read have stated that some of the bosses are INCREDIBLY difficult, to the point of frustration, but there's also no accounting for everyone's skill level. That said, how far along are you in the game? I've played every 'Soulsborne' From Software has done and quite a few others in the genre as well, but like I said, at this point, I'm just NOT up for a frustrating experience.....

@DETfaninATL i'm about 12 hours in. The block and parry system works the same way as sekiro and it does take practice to learn the nuances of it but once you've got it down the game opens up and you can become more aggressive with the bosses and they become easier to deal with. There are still instances where you can get caught out if you dont keep an eye on your stamina guage. There are dodge upgrades you can unlock once you can use your p organ abilitys which help an awful lot. Sekiro was way more frustrating than this game and i felt that game was really unfair at times. Lies of p is tough but not impossible if you have a little patience.

Nope, they made the dodge crappy on purpose to force you to parry. I hate when the devs force you to play their ways, so no thanks. They even said they were going to fix the dodge in the full game, but they didn't make it much better, still bad.

@GigaGaia there is nothing wrong with the dodge in lies of p. Its upgradable twice in the skill tree and its better than the dodge in dark souls. How dare a dev design a game that requires to be played a certain way. This game requires a certain amount of learning and patience to get the most out of it and i'll admit that sometimes it feels like the bosses and some enemies feel as though they have a spam attack but its no worse than some of the elden ring and especially the sekiro bosses. Too much is being made of this and to me its a false negative and is putting off players that would really enjoy this game.

I´ve been playing it just a little on Gamepass, Souls-games are not my kind of games but I really like the setting of this game so might give it a fair chance when I dont have any other main game going.

I played Elden Ring for over 400 hours this year. So nah…all due respect to the game but I think I’d be disappointed by comparison.

Would like to give it a go at some point but I've got a big backlog of games I want to play once I've finished BG3, which I have only really just started!

I was interested for a long while, but the demo turned me off a bit. The timing on the parry was to precise and not in a get gud scenario. I may play it if comes to psplus.

Not playing it, don't care about it.

@Northern_munkey Good stuff and thanks for the info! Sekiro is the hardest From Soft game by far, IMHO so comparing it against that gives me a good idea of how difficult it is. I’m not that great w defensive styles like parrying and prefer more aggressive styles like Bloodborne but I do enjoy this genre of game immensely so I might just give this a shot once it’s on sale. Just far too many games coming out that I want to play and on top of a sizable backlog as it is. Thanks again!

@DETfaninATL no problem