The Surge Review: Should You Buy in 2023?

[@-opus]

Playing this again right now in 2023 and the answer is... yes! The Surge is underrated

[@Ghostshellz1175]

@@twinturborayaw you all up in your feeling? Surge is So UNDERRATED!🫵😂

[@wuberkz1692]

@@twinturboraysame with "overused" you nonce. just use the word "used", not over nor under.

[@Dermetsu]

​@twinturboraycope, seeth, mald.

[@themurdock619]

Not u serrated by that much. It's not really that good of a game and most would agree

[@wuberkz1692]

@@themurdock619 i disagree with what you said

[@zacharron]

The Surge is maybe my favorite Soulslike. I love the repressive atmosphere, chunky and strategic combat, limb removal for finding gear, leveling systems, the (sometimes infuriating) level design and THAT SONG. I would argue that the corpse run isn't necessarily more punishing than a Souls game because you can always bank your scrap at any time, so it evens out. Great review and congrats on 10,000+ subs!

[@rattled4806]

I love the surge too... except for black cerberus. That boss is too hard for my liking and I've finished all souls games with relative ease compared to this. In souls games you can just roll through everything with decent timing and you are invincible, but in the surge it's harder to survive, especially in boss fight.

[@-opus]

That song can be changed, you can upload decent music from your own collection, nine inch nails suits this perfectly

[@kevinschm9798]

Im playing the surge 2 just started today and killed first boss and im having a blast with the limbs mechanic Would you say i should stop and play the surge 1 first? And which one did you like better tsurge 1 or tsurge2? Ty in advance

[@-opus]

@@kevinschm9798 The Surge 2 story is a continuation of The Surge story, so it makes sense in that regard to play them in order. While both games are of the same concept, they are both also very different, at least in relation to implants, which are very important. I prefer the first game, but most people seem to prefer the second one. I did however struggle to get into The Surge when I first bought it, I picked it up and put it down a couple of times mainly because the setting is dull, very happy that I ended up finishing it though. The DLC's really add to the experience too.

[@kevinschm9798]

@@-opus aight i think ill check ou the first one first then thanks mate

[@aFLYER1980]

Once this game clicks, it's REALLY good. Also, some great level design, VERY similar to OG Dark Souls

[@quint3ssent1a]

Fuck no, it's not even close to Souls. In Souls, each area was very clean and relatively small, and when you explored it, you often knew where the shortcuts would lead you. In Surge each area is filled with visual clutter, you often dont know if another hidden nook is just a closet with an enemy or maybe a pickup of some kind or it's actually a path you need to proceed (best example is probably central processing B, where the path leading to boss in Decontamination is hidden so far away from the main ways you can explore, it can get you stuck for HOURS.) I like Surge a lot, but it's level design is... Ugh.

[@ickytips]

the answer is yes. one of my favorite discoveries as of late. great game, just finished my NG+ play thru and got the platinum.

[@bradhudson901]

Just found your reviews recently might be my new favorite game reviewer great video

[@cookdislander4372]

His reviews are awesome and he has great taste in games. I'm binging

[@THE_TECHNOIST]

Thoroughly enjoyed both games and would happily play a 3rd

[@nunchuksteev9811]

The factory has so much atmosphere. I loved this game.

[@kite2036]

This and the 2nd one are some of my favorite games. So much fun.

[@WealthyHomeless]

I'm currently playing this there are some things i like about it and some not. One thing that i thought was really cool was that how to select your class, I've never seen that before in any game to my knowledge. That was really cool and immersive way to select your class.

[@smoothsavage2870]

After playing through this a bit (i got past the 1st boss), i ended up putting the game down due to the difficulty of it. I didnt know there was a genre for these types of games. I ended up playing and finishing Code Vein (anime souls-like), loved it and then i ended up playing Elden Ring when it came out and finishing that. Now have i have a newfound love and respect for the genre and i came back to this last weekend. Also because i have The Surge 2 and i want to play through both. It's a really interesting game once you understand how everything works. I really like the new age technology spin that this game puts on it as opposed to ER or DS and the build making part of it seems a lot more straightforward to me than ER.

[@ragingsilver]

The surge games were my only souls type games I've completed. Granted I'm not a big fan of them but I liked the sci-fi theme and combat it had.

[@RandomSoulsStuff]

Probably one of my favourite games. I’m playing NG+3 right now. I love the setting and grinding different parts is good fun.

[@Ralli08]

Surge 1 and 2 are totally underrated. No Souls for sure, but still better than many others trying to be a Souls like. The story is good, the immersion is massive imho

[@starverzdesign2632]

The only thing I want from this game is Minimap, if they really don't want put the map, at least make it as Implant, where you need to equip in order to use it, just like Implant for enemies health bar.

[@deo192]

One of my favorite, fluid combat and absolutely love the directional parry system.

[@sadhappy8860]

Recently finished playing this. I adore this game, had great fun exploring and always found the areas intresting. The whole energy thing didn't really agree with me though and I mostly ignored the drone. Agree with all of what you've said, that's a fair review. I would also recommend it and am going to do Surge 2 for Christmas.

[@richardfisher8460]

Drone was great for tough boss fights or splitting up enemies, it's like a free hit

[@sadhappy8860]

@@richardfisher8460 I'm, sure that's right, I could just never get on with it so I basically just ignored it. I've heard some say the knockdown ability is useful

[@VonReaper]

Saludos desde Argentina. Este juego lo compre el año pasado (lo agarre en 75% de descuento, junto a su secuela, ambos con todo el contenido extra) pero muy revientemente le pude agarrar la mano al juego, y es realmente un juego sumamente olvidado que tiene mecanicas asombrosas!. Si bien, varias cosas que propone ya se vieron, realmente es satisfactorio de jugarse. El diseño de niveles es increible (me recordo mucho al de Pascals Wager), la ambientacion tambien me enamoro muchisimo (no es una fabrica, es una empresa con sus diferentes secciones, y cad auna destaca por si misma en diseño y estilo, es magnifico). Capaz en el apartado enemigos deja que desear, pero incluso en esa escases vi que se metio toda la gana y se hizo lo maximo posible para que tengan coherencia con lo que se esta narrando y como se va construyendo la historia. Las revelaciones, los giros, el final, para mi es maravilloso (que si, ya se que se repite de otros juegos, no me impoeta, me mantuvo con el culo pegado a la silla y observando cada rincon y cada detalle). Realmente tengo ganas no solo de hablar de este juego, sino de explicar el como jugarlo, ya que e notado que no mcuhos saben que la velocidad de ataque se puede incrementar, al igual que cada armadura cuenta con una habilidad pasiva de set completo, aparte que hay armas especiales que ofrecen diferentes daños (aunque el daño elemental no es tan poderoso como en el 2, pero con algunas armas si que se nota muchisimo la diferencia de DPS); realmente no me parevio que algunas armas fueran solo para "lucir combos", pero si note que hay muchas armas que existen porque si, ya que por cada una, hay una version mejorada muchisimo mas poderosa (y que se nota muchisimo mas poderosa, cabe agregar). En serio, me da mucha frustracion que un juego como este, que tiene tanto mimo y cariño detras se vea opacado por errores que cometio el estudio en el pasado (y a esto se le debe ahregar que salio en 2017, y todos sabemos que en ese entonces los puristas de los souls no paraban de tirar mierda a cualquier cosa que copiara los souls), debido a ello no se le dio tanta importancia a las cosas que le dan su identidad a este juego (lo cual por un lado es bueno ya que sus mecanicas son exclusivas, y no existe otro The Surge mas que The Surge, pero a la vez es triste que no se expliren los conceptos de juego que plantea este mismo). Una cosa que si me tengo que quejar al respecto, es que para mejorar tu equipamento debes ponerte a farmear... Y farmear de lo lindo en zonas muy concretas para asi subir de nivel las piezas de tu equipo, armas, etc. Pero a la vez tiene algo positivo, ya que siempre podes destruir todo el equipo que ya has creado y elaborar uno nuevo con los materiales del area en la que te encuentres al momento. Algo que tengo pendiente de revisar, es que con cada NG+ el juego se vuelve mas, y mas y mas facil. Lo cual se pudo corregir de una manera muy tonta, capear el nivel de las armas y armaduras al MK5, algo tan simple como ello te pondria en jaque y haria que si o si deoendas al 100% de los modulos (que son una mecanica que me fascino por completo). Podria seguir hablando de este juego, pero este mensaje ya quedo muy largo, realmente no sentia tanta pasion por algo desde hace ya muchisimo tiempo. De verdad que no ouedo hacer mas que recomendar este juego y su secuela, valen totalmente la pena, siempre y cuando te gusten los juegos tipo souls con combate rapido y muchisimo farmeo.

[@warenwolf_17]

Recién compre un combo hace 1 mes para xbox y apenas llegue a la 2da zona del primer juego, tiene su gracia, me gusta, pero como odio a los drones...

[@Stefano_SPGamer]

Congrats for the 10k man, you deserve it!

[@Thee.Mighty]

Just started this game. It is cool, I started soul games only this year from elden ring, now I play surge and later surge 2 nioh and all dark souls)

[@backpackingtony1779]

This is a great review. I doubt I’ll get this game as I can see myself smashing my controller over the difficulty. I avoid anything souls-like for that reason. I’m not the audience for it.

[@playermike6927]

a good strong game I played and finished 3 years ago I will buy it and play it again in the near future on ps5

[@danielsuryaputra34]

this game it's like Jurassic Park meet with Dark Souls. Just completed it today and I don't regret bought this game ever

[@richardfisher8460]

Yes its a great game, tough starting out and the end section is very contrived but excellent, underrated game

[@dransoquander1444]

Played the game the last weeks and must say definitely yes, it's an masterpiece of an story if u get behind it. And exploring that map was exiting nice map build, like in the Dark Souls Games

[@KissMyArs-n9t]

I’m late to this game it looks awesome love themes like this must Tyler soon

[@DanielMartinez316]

You used a drone to open a door? How did you do that?

[@amun4281]

Im still confused on how they went from this to what they made in pt2

[@NWAP1337]

I was playing this in 2024 and enjoying it..... until..... I was forced to kill an NPC because enemies attacked me while talking to her, I can't use her weapon because there's no way to get low level upgrade matters, and the game kept crashing during a boss fight. 😑

[@anFy81]

good review - thank you

[@jesusismyhelp9005]

I’m my opinion this game has better bosses than the surge 2 bosses because most of them are actually developed enemies instead being stronger npcs. Black Cerberus is kinda like a mg Cerberus npcs but he was unique because he could spawn a pax drone. archangel eli should’ve been like the black Cerberus but harder in my opinion.

[@Sainderful]

Good review

[@seanm3463]

Picked up the augmented edition for $6US

[@sadhappy8860]

Hope you have fun! I think it's a hidden gem.

[@NightCrawler2002]

@@sadhappy8860bro I completed Bloodborne and sekiro and I really enjoyed is this game good?

[@THE-SHAPE106]

Both surge games are free on PS plus

[@chemadela420]

Imagine pfp though it would be so fire 🔥

[@lasoliribelsson226]

I love the surge! Im in final boss right now. But i have to disagree with the drones not being useful. They can very very useful with the harder enemies and bosses, especially if you use the implants to improve them. I liked the melee most, it knocked enemies down so you can get free hits. And the magnetic drone seems pretty useful too, especially with the last boss.

[@rokzerogaming]

The bosses are the best part and the only gimmicky boss was PAX which isnt even gimmicky once you figure out what to do.

[@koni.K]

Makes me want to throw my keyboard but DAMN this game is good

[@NBKRebelGamer87]

I loved this game! I've had the 2nd game for a while but it's sat in my backlog, need to play it this year.

[@barbecuesauceeyebrows8254]

Looks awesome

[@jihigh482]

This franchise could have been great Too bad they didn't understand that the Industrial setting of the first one greatly helped in creating a kind of horror like atmosphere that i really enjoyed. It also made sense as to why we were using tools to fight. The world was rather cohesive Second game is all bright and colorful, set in yet another generic Western city and the NPCs look like Watch Dogs 2 rejects. Combat is good but everything feels so disjointed and out of place. Oh well. Wasted potential

[@bradhudson901]

Hey could u do a daymare review?

[@MohamedSaber007]

I highly recommend playing The Surge 2, even better than 1.

[@Liquidsunn87]

Yeah, I just started playing the surge, but I don't like it so far. I heard the surge 2 is better, so I will play that one instead.

[@-opus]

@@Liquidsunn87 I didn't like The Surge the first time I played it and put it down for a fair while, I tried it again and did not like it again, but now I am playing it and have completed my 3rd playthrough, it is a great game once you work it out. The environment definitely put me off to begin with, it is too drab for my liking.

[@ruglife]

It's good, try it you won't be disappointed.

[@Chris-v7v8j]

One of the best soul likes ever

[@shpepa1]

I bought it on a sell for like a 1$, worth every penny 😂 Game is actually good, imo, losing only to 'From software' games and Nioh 1&2

[@quint3ssent1a]

I'd say just skip straight to surge2. It's much more playable and just overall more enjoyable game.

[@niemand7811]

This game (or these games, since there are two games to play) is misunderstood. People tried to compare it to Dark Souls and they failed setting up the proper expectations. That is why in many people's eyes this franchise failed. Wrong ideas, judging poorly. The Surge is more akin to games like M.A.R.S. or Technomancer. Great dystopian future visions packed into dense action RPG form. While the game does borrow familiar mechanics also used in From Software titles, it does its own thing and like I said taking inspiration from somewhere else. I like both games for what they are. Let people misunderstand these games for them being a modern demonstration of group ignorance and misguided fake media guidance. Mostly thanks to misguided youtubers and money hungry dumbfluencers.

[@normodica3970]

I didn't enjoy the bosses at all some of the worst mechanically.

[@4x4von]

Level design was horrible 😂

[@TheSandkastenverbot]

The combat is so slow you can learn a language and solve a crossword puzzle while fighting. Words can't express how bad combat is early game. But maybe it gets better