Dark Souls 2 Director on future of series: Stuff planned that will blow your head off
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iNvid02
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this applies to pretty much every series
i want more, give em another shot to make something as good as the original dark souls
PensivePen
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I'd actually prefer if he continued to go on making new things. He seems to be quite good at it.
Red Liquorice
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Janky hitboxes and floating invisible volcanoes, now in VR form!
I found that funny you said that. Hopefully they learn good world design.
What if Dark Souls turns out to be just like the Zelda series, where they try to top the one game (Dark Souls 1 vs. Ocarina of Time) that became a critically-acclaimed masterpiece? I'd be okay with that!
In that context, Dks 2 would be a Majora's Mask equivalent: highly polarizing at launch, but in the following years gaining more and more goodwill until it's seen as the actual masterpiece?
And Dark Souls 3 would be something fresh à la Wind Waker, which would make sense given Tanimura's words: "What we have on paper right now will blow your minds".
In that context, Dks 2 would be a Majora's Mask equivalent: highly polarizing at launch, but in the following years gaining more and more goodwill until it's seen as the actual masterpiece?
And Dark Souls 3 would be something fresh à la Wind Waker, which would make sense given Tanimura's words: "What we have on paper right now will blow your minds".
Dear god just let the Dark Souls IP die in peaceIt doesnt need a third game. It really doesnt. (if that's what they are talking about)
I think there is some potential for a 3rd DS game. For instance, if DS2 is set in a world where the player
prolonged the Age of Fire then DS3 could be set in a world where the player ushered in the Age of Dark
Nobody does? People are just rightfully not super excited for another Tanimura Souls. The potential for improvement is certainly there, but at the end of the day it's still just potential.
Krusenstern
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Since Miyazaki won't come back to Dark Souls I hope the team behind DS2 improves on themselves and makes it better this time. And no downgrades please. Move on from last-gen hardware.
Dr. Buni
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I agree. I like the series, but I would like From to try something different (more different than what Bloodborne is and multi platform preferably) . The series doesn't need to die (why should it?), but I'd rather not get Dark Souls III anytime soon. We got three Souls games in the past generation, after all.Dear god just let the Dark Souls IP die in peace
That said, it is obvious they are gonna to release Dark Souls III and maybe even IV and V, after all, the Souls games sell well. Also, yeah, the "B-team" thing is insulting and should definitely be dropped. Dark Souls II is a tad inferior to Dark Souls, but offending the team who developed the game is extremely childish.
Krusenstern
Banned
Dudes, that term isn't in any way insulting. I heard it being used for many other studios. That's the way it is.
It's not the original team. It's the second theam that attempted a Souls game, hence B-Team.
A-Team and B-Team is being used for Naughty Dog, it's being used for Insomniac and I never heard anyone complain about that.
You guys get way too offended by this trivial name choice.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Problem is people have the mindset that A > B. And some people do use "B-Team" as a way to say the team is inferior.
Dr. Buni
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The problem is dismissing the idea of a Dark Souls III if it is made by the B-Team instead of the A-Team.
Some people here act like Dark Souls II was bad (being inferior than Demon's and Dark doesn't equal bad) and the team behind it shouldn't touch the series again.
Oh man, that is my dream. Sci-fi settings are totally my thing.
Lee Chaolan
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I bet he literally means that. Incoming giant winds to blow your head off.
Krusenstern
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Although it's still viewed as a good game it's generally regarded as not living quite up to the original. So I can see why people use it that way.
Nothing wrong about it.
Mechanized
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God knows they need to take some risks moving forward.
BlueTsunami
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The return of Kings Field but with the Dark Souls mythos? Not sure how i feel about this. I liked more of the somber feel of Kings Field where Dark Souls scews on the side of horror.
Red Liquorice
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As if any company would let a top-selling series die, of course there will be a DS3.
Chaos2Frozen
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Majority of the people who refers to them as the B-team are doing it as a mockery so what do you expect the response would be?
Doesn't change the fact that the term in is now use with the intent to mock.
There are a lot of people who still push the idea that Dark Souls 2's Team is inferior. I believe staying on PS3 and 360 really limited what they could do with the game, at the very least they couldn't get away with showing off higher spec visuals that wasn't optimized for the last gen systems. The DLC showed of they can put grandeur on display if they get the idea and have the time for it.
Schweinehund
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Sounds great, really liked Dark Souls 2.
lol@hitbox complaints, played on PC never ran into any problem like that. Sounds horrible?
lol@hitbox complaints, played on PC never ran into any problem like that. Sounds horrible?
I'd take it if they're of the same quality and size of the others, i am not close to hollowing yet.
Dr. Buni
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They is like people hating on Skyward Sword too me. I just write off the hyperbolic complaints.
I am not a Dark Souls II hater by any means, but the game definitely had some hit box issues, at least with the bosses. That Rat Authority boss is a good example, I think.
And yeah, I played it on PC as well.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Why the fuck can't any interviewer ask From about Lost Kingdoms? Is it that fucking hard?
Well, I can't wait. Hopefully DS3 supports >60 FPS on PC 
Yeah, you can discuss whether DS2 or DS1 is better (I prefer DS2), but the hyperbolic hate on DS2 (on GAF especially), which is widely considered one of the best games of the year, is just ridiculous.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Well, I can't wait. Hopefully DS3 supports >60 FPS on PC
Yeah, you can discuss whether DS2 or DS1 is better (I prefer DS2), but the hyperbolic hate on DS2 (on GAF especially), which is widely considered one of the best games of the year, is just ridiculous.
Preach it brother.
that's a fact?????
Dear god just let the Dark Souls IP die in peace
Is this serious? The Souls series is the most exciting and promising series of games available right now.
Metalingus5150
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A souls game on PS4/XBONE/PC will look amazing.
I think DS2 is inferior to the first game and its plot (while fine on its own) ruins the ambiguity of the original game's ending.
Since the first game is one of my favorite games of all time, that makes DS2 merely excellent and one of my favorite games of 2014.
SteamyPunk
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I've read speculation on Japanese forums that DS2 development was a disaster and From had to bring in Tanimura to salvage it. No idea if this is true but there were definitely issues with the engine that Shibuya created. It's pretty clear that the game came out 6 months after they initially wanted it to and it was still rushed. Seems they had to scrap a lot of stuff. With this in mind and the quality of the DLC, I think Tanimura can do a good job. Plus he can learn from the successes/failures of Bloodborne. I just hope we get more interesting NPCs in DS3...
King Gilga
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Eh, I'll take DS3 over no DS3, I enjoyed DS2, probably my goty if I had to pick one, but it was no DS1 imo.
No I played it on PC and some of the hitboxes were fucked up.
I never noticed that problem in DS1, but that might have just been ignorance. But the gap between me playing 1 and 2 was very small (2 was gifted to on release and I played and completed 1 this january) and I still noticed how much worse they were on 2.
No I played it on PC and some of the hitboxes were fucked up.
I never noticed that problem in DS1, but that might have just been ignorance. But the gap between me playing 1 and 2 was very small (2 was gifted to on release and I played and completed 1 this january) and I still noticed how much worse they were on 2.
Deified Data
Banned
Dark Souls 2.75
Enhanced re-re-release of DS2
Bonus bosses: Fight 3 Velstadts at once. Final boss is an endless series of exploding mummies on a narrow bridge.
New "Mysterious" alternate ending: Player crosses legs on Throne of Want, laces fingers, and laughs evilly as camera fades to black
Enhanced re-re-release of DS2
Bonus bosses: Fight 3 Velstadts at once. Final boss is an endless series of exploding mummies on a narrow bridge.
New "Mysterious" alternate ending: Player crosses legs on Throne of Want, laces fingers, and laughs evilly as camera fades to black
Romars202129
Member
Oh come on, I found DS2 dissappointing too, but that was the dude'd first damn time at it! Mikami's first game has nothing on ds2. Tanimura is a rising star in my oppinion.
Wouldnt surprise me if its true. Game feels really rushed