re: Remnant 2

I think most Souls fans like it (myself included), but even though it's called "Dark Souls with guns," I don't think that's entirely accurate.

Yes, there's a stamina bar, rolling/i-frames, "bonfires," "estus flasks," co-op (but no invasions from other players), a million different builds, mats used for upgrading weapons, etc. But there are some major differences (e.g., there are difficulty settings, different rewards for beating the game on different difficulties, no penalty for dying, leveling up is different, etc.). Also, there are far more puzzles in Remnant than in the Souls games.

I think the biggest difference is that there is a Campaign mode and an Adventure mode, and the worlds and "events" that take place in them are randomized.

So, Campaign mode is a regular playthrough where you advance through different worlds to get to the end of the game. The "events" are static in your Campaign. Some bosses, worlds, etc. won't appear in your Campaign.

That's what Adventure mode is for. As an example, say you got World X in your Campaign and World X can spawn 5 different bosses. Say you want the loot drop from Boss 2, but Boss 1 spawned in your Campaign instead. Adventure mode let's you replay World X as many times as you want searching for Boss 2. A lot of bosses also have different rewards for alt kills, so you can reroll the world and kill the boss a different way to get different loot.

It can be a bit annoying on console because you have to constantly reroll worlds in Adventure mode looking for specific drops. On PC, there's a mod called "Save Guardian" that tells you what bosses/drops will appear in each world you roll.

Both Remnant 1 and 2 are great games, although 2 basically improved on everything from 1.

Happy to answer any questions you have about the games!

If you just want to run through and only do main objectives, I'd say less than 20 hours. But I think most people like to explore every inch of every world and reroll worlds multiple times in Adventure mode looking for different bosses and loot to perfect builds.

I think part of the appeal is that two people each playing their own Campaign are almost certainly going to have wildly different experiences (i.e., different worlds, different bosses, different events, different puzzles, etc.).

I have 130 hours in Remnant 2 and there is a ton of stuff I haven't found yet (including one weapon modifier I'm dying to find so I can finish a build )

Just started a challenger build. Any advice on what to play with weapon wise? I've been leveling the shite out of the shotgun I was given and a pistol.

Great starting world. Probably has the greatest number of random world events that can spawn and getting the Nightweaver means you can use the web throughout your campaign to transform quest items into weapons, relics, amulets, etc.

I played, and really liked, the original. I thought it would be to “strange” for a sequel.

And it’s on Gamepass. Awesome.

Took me a solid 3 hours or so. I’d try to take as little damage as possible in the first phase otherwise I’d purposely die and restart. So many times I’d have her 1 shot before the second phase then get hit by her dive bomb attack. I was the Challenger archetype without a secondary though.

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There was also a lot up balance changes to weapons, gear, and skills.

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I'm pissed that they nerfed my build. I don't understand why nerfs are necessary in PvE games. Who cares if I'm overpowered? Let me play how I want to play. It's especially annoying for a game like this where it's much more difficult to put together builds because the worlds are procedurally generated, and if you play on console, you don't have access to the save guardian mod to check which items/events spawned when you rolled the world.

Just when I was getting over the nerfs in Hellsdivers, I get fricked by Remnant nerfs