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RUMOR: Project Beast (From Software/Sony Japan Studio, PS4) [Port begging = ban]
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ReplacementPelican
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Gaffers love Souls games, who knew?
Crimson_Gold
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Souls of the Beast: it's like King's Field with shotguns
Not surprising really, it is a megaton.
From/Sony co-developed exclusive PS4 Souls game.
(this series being one of the most praised on these boards)
Autofokus
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Don't get me wrong, I just finished DaS II on PC yesterday and it really performed great. But I don't get the console comparison, or better say the 60fps expectation from this title based on that.
I'm on the same boat as W!CKED on this one (and only this, not the other stuff he wrote..): Framerate on fixed hardware is first and foremost a design decision, and looking at FROMs history, I would say we should get comfortable that this game will probably running at (hopefully stable) 30fps.
Hoho for breakfast
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I like the Nightmare Creatures/RE4 comparisons. Same games I thought of when I saw it. Those and Oddworld Strangers Wrath because of the character.
It seems games media know something and are not allowed to say anything, usually games media are quick to jump on rumours (such as new Nintendo console rumour form IGN), but in this case no ones made a fuss, I can't even find anything on this on Kotaku.
Cthulhu_Steev
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So it's set in North Korea then?
Ha ha!! That's funny.
Maybe announcement is far closer than we'd been suspecting. Or some want to try and contact Sony first or whatever.
indigo-cyclops
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So more like Shadow Tower Abyss? *drools*
funkystudent
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Oh god.
It never crossed my mind that this might be Free 2 Play.
Surely SCEJ wouldnt be that daft?
It never crossed my mind that this might be Free 2 Play.
Surely SCEJ wouldnt be that daft?
I honestly thought people hoping for a Sony/From Souls PS4 exclusive was pure wishful thinking. Pretty glad if I'm proved wrong.
I think people were just joking there. That seems to be something you do with a series you're not sure you can hook people on or a whole new game, when you KNOW plenty of people will throw down $60+ on the game you may as well just ask for that money straight out.
I thought it was plausible, but unlikely though I think we had some teasing there. However there was the wrinkle that Miyazaki was actively kept off of Dark Souls II outside of supervising, and his current activity was unknown so that could've been anything, and almost certainly was going to be worth hearing about whether it was a new take on Armored Core or another Souls-style game.
Majmun
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Why wouldn't this project be real? It does look like a From Software game. It would take a lot of time to fake something like that
The screens look legit to me. Just another leak..
If the announcement was expected pre-E3 then sony would have this, Driveclub and TLoU all announced shortly before E3, which must surely mean E3 is stacked.
The King Field games are all fairly slow and clunky to play compared to Demon's/Dark Souls. The Shadow Tower games (Shadow Tower Abyss in particular) are closer in design to the Souls series than anything else, although like King's Field they are also in first person viewpoint.
I don't think From Software will go back to those series though. The third person viewpoint design of the Souls series has worked out really well for them and I can only imagine the outcry from fans if they went back to a fps perspective again as interesting as it would be to see them try.
don't know, it does look horror/fantasy-like but somehow different,
It anything, I think this is some spin-off.
that and the fact that it has "Project Beast" as a tentative name instead of coming upfront and say "projekt souls nextgen" or something.,
it seems like people want to relate it to the souls games no matter what, even coming up with names for it like "Beast souls" and "Souls of the beast"
according to what we have, this is a PS4 co-vedeloped exclusive. As such, there is no way in hell.this is the direct follow-up to any of souls game, as that will remain multi-plat.
I don't think this is Dark Souls 3 or Demon Souls 2.
I linked to an example from earlier in the thread. It's general complaining that the game isn't on your platform of choice.
Funny enough that could well be a mainstream move that's actually going back to their roots. I'd like to think it's worth trying again on the side though, stuff like Elder Scrolls exploded and we really don't get many first person games of the likes of King's Field/Shadow Tower, would be nice to something with more modern controls while still retaining what made those compelling in the first place.
Demons's souls didn't have levels like Blight town where you had a constant 20-25ish framerate but it did have severe framedrops to 15 fps or lower. Especially when destroying objects while fighting enemies.
Dark Souls was 'some spin-off' of Demon's Souls.
If it's got the word Soul in the title or not is really irrelevant outside of the marketing implications.
fitzawesome
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Souls series and on next gen. This is all I could have asked for at E3.
It's not people wanting to to be a Souls related title. It clearly is. The leaked images tell that tale all by themselves. No need to fantasize. If you can't see it in the images then I don't know what to say.
Mt Heart Attack
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Well, Dark Souls was tentatively named Project Dark initially, so that doesn't mean much really.
The game is very obviously related to the Souls series gameplay wise, judging by the screens, and I guess that's what people mean by calling it a Souls game. Whether it's named Dark Souls 3, Demon's Souls 2 or whatever else is actually totally irrelevant outside of lore implications. I suppose the best way to go about this would be starting a new separate series, likely keeping the Souls suffix, but then again Sony owns the Demon's Souls IP so yeah.
Dark Souls was codenamed Project Dark. Also From didn't even want to have a word "Souls" in the Dark Souls title
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/for...s-Originally-Named-With-Juvenile-Racist-Slang
vpance
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I hope so too. I never knew one artist was responsible for so much of what made DS1 so good.
Some People were practically begging at some point for the souls games to be all restarts like dark souls was from demon souls, because they liked how different the worlds were.
Granted they didn't know this was because of Sony owning the IP, but an argument arouse to have the Soul games be separate worlds altogether with mechanics and certain concepts connecting them. This being a different thing is really exciting because of the new world being created and new concepts introduced.
Granted they didn't know this was because of Sony owning the IP, but an argument arouse to have the Soul games be separate worlds altogether with mechanics and certain concepts connecting them. This being a different thing is really exciting because of the new world being created and new concepts introduced.
fastford58
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Oh man...I can't wait for E3
Yeah, someone could at least confirm this or make some 15 sec teaser.
I am honestly curious about that franchise.
If it is the spiritual successor to the Souls series, I wanna try it.
RustyNails
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I kinda wish the leak didnt happen and we saw the reveal for the first time at E3. Easily a megaton announcement.
Figures they couldn't get Dark Lord while King gets Candy, but honestly it's probably better neither got them anyway. Though I imagine that would've flavored Dark Souls II very differently.
Feel free to prove me wrong, but I feel like a lot of the people who would get a PS4 for this game either already have one or were planning on getting one by the end of the year anyway.
ok I stand corrected but still, if this is in any way the "next" souls game and it's co-developed by sony japan and it's exclusive then.... WHAT THE FUCK, megaton right there...that's one major blow to microsoft, this is basically some "GTA/Final Fantasy going exclusive" stuff of epic proportions.
which would explain the 90 pages when we think about it
BananaSprinkles
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SCE helping develop = concrete evidence of exclusivity.
I don't think the exclusivity alone was enough to drive those pages, it's just that many of us really really like Souls games. I mean yeah, there's definitely ramifications and a significant number of posts would've been on that, but this would've probably blown up as a Bandai Namco published multiplat game anyway.
Nocturno999
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I would say yes, but they aren't that loud.
Nothing is keeping FROM Software from making any number of Souls titles for any other platforms. We just got two.
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