hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Put a hub in if you want but don't make me go there every goddamn time I need to do something, unless your load times are literally 2 seconds or shorter (on console).
Dark Souls III leaked info and screenshots [RUMOR - Better Details Write-Up]
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AlphaDragoon
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Light DEX builds destroyed at lower Soul Levels due to the Ring of Blades + Flynn's Ring combo. Chaos Blade in particular is a goddamn monster, you can get close to 500 AR with no infusion or spell buffs and it has 160 Counter Damage. 160.
Make it a brown husbando and I can work with this.
Eh, the Nexus is quite overrated imo. I'll take Majula over it any day.
Yeah, that's cool too. Lucy Briggs-Owen is another fine choice.
Their wills are weak, minds young
More slash damage than dex itself. The Rapier was and still is a monster.
Slash is still pretty damn good for PVP too.
I think it's normal for some older sets to make a return.
Dunno man. Ruth Negga was a really cool choice. She has a lovely voice.
Zombegoast
Member
Majula was terrible and served no purpose other than leveling up. Almost every NPC serves a purpose in the Nexus helping the player and most of the NPC you meet goes there. It was stupid having one of the vendors be outside a jail cell with exploding enemies as well as being in one of the most active places for PvP.
Eh, the same goes for Majula, really. You send people there who sell you stuff, there's the blacksmith who will upgrade your weapon, and through your journey you will advance the NPC's quests, taking further the theme of memory loss and hollowing, it was quite interesting imo.
About the second part, yeah, I agree, but I wasn't comparing Dark Souls II and Demon's Souls, just Majula and the Nexus.
Surprisingly, I was also fond of the Hunter's Dream, even though I thought I would hate it. I don't want any more Souls games to have empty huds and only two vendors for everything, but I think it worked pretty well for Bloodborne, I didn't mind it as much as I thought I would.
Is Ruth Negga the voice of Shana-chan?
FAKE EDIT: Yes she is, I agree, Shana-chan is awesome, man <3
ShockingAlberto
Member
Yeah, the Bloodborne hub was...really poorly thought-out.
It seems like it started as a concept fundamental to the rest of the game but they made other design decisions or fixes or mistakes that made it less and less useful. You have limited blood vials, come here to exchange out with storage! But now it's automatic for ease-of-use, so, uh, a single storage point seems pointless. And now you can just store 600, so whatever.
The hub idea isn't inherently bad. It just seemingly got away from them in Bloodborne.
I'm kind of confused at this because Majula has the Emerald Herald (Level Up, Estus reinforcement, diverse advices, etc...) 1 blacksmith, 2 armor vendors, 1 stone trader (and the most important one) of the game, 3 Trainers (Sorcery, Miracles and Pyromancy) and 4 completly different kinds of NPC with their own stores and stories...
Majula was as lively as the Nexus, that you like more that instead of this is just a matter of preference tbh
But I do agree that the placement of Straid was trollish, just like that bonfire in Sinners Rise surrounded by archers =P
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
My mind just exploded into estus shards.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Just a fact. You might as well have said "these SJWs better not ruin Dark Souls for me".
Anyway, your point is moot. The hub character has never really had much impact in the Dark Souls series in the story.
No, I certainly did not say that, that was your assumption. I'm not sure what me being a junior member has anything to do with it. I actually would like if someone did that in a game. The real joke here is that no one ever will, and that makes me sad.
Well, the dragonism thing was a joke. Maybe I went a little overboard but I would most certainly take that over yet another woman that does nothing but tell you how important you are and level you up.
I don't see where I'm going wrong with this.
Well, the dragonism thing was a joke. Maybe I went a little overboard but I would most certainly take that over yet another woman that does nothing but tell you how important you are and level you up.
I don't see where I'm going wrong with this.
Anyone who's stupid enough to use junior as an insult (which has been punished before) isn't worth engaging with, just ignore him. I've been called "junior" by someone who registered AFTER I did, that was a laugh riot.
TheCongressman1
Member
Hnnngg, all of your equipment now shows up on your character. That's such a nice touch, I've been waiting since the first game for that one.
sheepishlord
Member
Yep, Beserk reference, a very similar reference was made in Bloodborne too.
What i like (and whats different) about this is that whatever is leaking seems to be mounding up on the ground. Pretty cool.
Yeah, I really like that too. Drawing a huge-ass greatsword from your back is way cooler than it just materialising in your hand.
Miyazaki needs to make a goddamn Berserk game already...
I mean Bloodborne was really starting to push that with some of its themes.
BlurredNotions
Neo Member
I think that a hub is very important to the Souls/-borne series.
The Nexus, Firelink Shrine, Majula, The Hunter's Dream, they were your home. "For now" - as Gehrman says.
I know, Firelink Shrine wasn't so much a hub as it was a central focal point of the world, but it still had this sense of "safe zone/home" to it, which is very important to these types of games.
The vibe of the hub can change greatly throughout the game. Bloodborne's hub actually changed visually (its music changed too), but even Firelink Shrine, which stayed the same music-wise and visually over the course of the game, had completely different vibes to it depending on when I reached it.
At the start of the game, I felt semi-safe and overwhelmed with possibility. Later, I felt kinda good when coming back from the Gargoyle fight. Then, after Blighttown, I felt like having been buried alive and having made it back to the world of the living. It felt like a major achievement, and I felt so relieved when the music started playing.
At the very end of the game, when I came back to go to the Kiln, I felt loss, and I myself felt kinda powerful and important AND absolutely meaningless at the same time. "So... this is it" I thought, and I looked around for one last time. All the characters (except for Ingward) were gone, and I thought to myself "What does it all mean? Have I even made a difference? Did I change things for the better?". A really weird sensation overcame me, and I just shook it off and ventured forth down into the Kiln. What an experience.
The Nexus, Firelink Shrine, Majula, The Hunter's Dream, they were your home. "For now" - as Gehrman says.
I know, Firelink Shrine wasn't so much a hub as it was a central focal point of the world, but it still had this sense of "safe zone/home" to it, which is very important to these types of games.
The vibe of the hub can change greatly throughout the game. Bloodborne's hub actually changed visually (its music changed too), but even Firelink Shrine, which stayed the same music-wise and visually over the course of the game, had completely different vibes to it depending on when I reached it.
At the start of the game, I felt semi-safe and overwhelmed with possibility. Later, I felt kinda good when coming back from the Gargoyle fight. Then, after Blighttown, I felt like having been buried alive and having made it back to the world of the living. It felt like a major achievement, and I felt so relieved when the music started playing.
At the very end of the game, when I came back to go to the Kiln, I felt loss, and I myself felt kinda powerful and important AND absolutely meaningless at the same time. "So... this is it" I thought, and I looked around for one last time. All the characters (except for Ingward) were gone, and I thought to myself "What does it all mean? Have I even made a difference? Did I change things for the better?". A really weird sensation overcame me, and I just shook it off and ventured forth down into the Kiln. What an experience.
StoppedInTracks
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StoppedInTracks
Member
The two acceptable ways of playing Demon's Souls.
"The true Demon's Souls starts here"
All I can say:
Umbasa.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Tseldora looks like garbage. Forest of Giants also looks very bad.
DaS2 has some terrible misguided art moments plus cheap (polygon budget) looking areas.
I'm actually quite interested in seeing where this goes, even if I found DS2 a little lackluster, and despite the either obviously fake or obviously placeholder UI, this is probably real. It seems like they're aiming to shake up the gameplay this time around with the "sword arts", which could make things really interesting - DS2 not really adding anything to the formula was one of its main failings, I feel.
Obviously I'm going to wait for more details and an actual confirmation before I get properly excited about this, but DS2 was hardly a bad game, and these screenshots look quite promising. If they return to a more cohesive world structure and axe or heavily rework unnecessary elements like adaptability and soul memory I think it could definitely turn out brilliantly.
Obviously I'm going to wait for more details and an actual confirmation before I get properly excited about this, but DS2 was hardly a bad game, and these screenshots look quite promising. If they return to a more cohesive world structure and axe or heavily rework unnecessary elements like adaptability and soul memory I think it could definitely turn out brilliantly.
I'm hoping the Dark Souls 1 style HUD indicates similar gameplay design decisions in 3. So no quick warp from the start, leveling up at bonfires, no need to go back to a hub often for stuff (I don't care about any of the hubs - I prefer Firelink Shrine and how it connected to multiple areas plus had multiple NPCs like a hub anyway), several useful NPCS that can be found all over.
Dwight Schrute
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So, Souls is my favorite series since Demon's Souls, I just don't want to get hyped if it's an elaborated fake. I have no experience with this, what's the GAF verdict on this ? Legit ?
Robot Pants
Member
yes
The setting has been hinted of a long time by an insider and the art / screens look incredible well done to be fake...
#TeamReal.
Dwight Schrute
Member
Shaded Woods is also pretty terrible.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Uhh dude don't want to spoil your party but each Souls games becomes more... streamlined than the one before. For DaS3 I would not only expect warp based gameplay but you will be also able to place your own bonfires (warp points).
I can imagine someone dragging the body (requirements) of a new bonfire right before the boss fog door...
Imagine all DaS3 bonfires like the one before Rat Authority boss in DaS2 (in front of the boss fog door).
Ehh... gotta live with it. No Souls game will ever be as hard and as awesome as Demon's IMO. That ship has sailed with mainstream jumping into the franchise.
OldAsUrSock
Banned
Exactly, people need to open their minds and not be so conservative with their social opinons.
Best areas of Dark Souls II
- Eleum Loyce (In general, the area is gorgeus after the Snowstorm)
- Shulva, Sanctum City
- Brume Tower
- Heide's Tower of Flame
- Doors of Pharros
- Drangleic Castle (SoTFS)
- Shrine of Amana
- Undead Crypt (SoTFS)
- Dragon Aerie
The absolute worst areas
- Earthen Peak
- Shaded Woods
- Forest of Fallen Giants
- Frigid Outskirts
It is known...
Can't wait to see what Dark Souls III has to offer with a Eclipse-like setting...
- Eleum Loyce (In general, the area is gorgeus after the Snowstorm)
- Shulva, Sanctum City
- Brume Tower
- Heide's Tower of Flame
- Doors of Pharros
- Drangleic Castle (SoTFS)
- Shrine of Amana
- Undead Crypt (SoTFS)
- Dragon Aerie
The absolute worst areas
- Earthen Peak
- Shaded Woods
- Forest of Fallen Giants
- Frigid Outskirts
It is known...
Can't wait to see what Dark Souls III has to offer with a Eclipse-like setting...
Bloodborne would have been fantastic for this; the level design is convoluted enough to support it.
It is harder to get a sense of Yharnam's distribution as opposed to Lordran, though. Not only because you teleport everywhere, but because Lordran is distributed more vertically, whereas Yharnam is more chaotic, and there's no central landmark to look for.
Demon is the easiest one of the four games, bro.
Except for some of the super broken shit; some of the black phantoms had ridiculous HP, but that was just inflation.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Read their original post again. It's definitely not meant as a progressive endorsement.
AlephAlpha
Member
Get ready for that one enemy that drags your sacrifice bonfire away and when you warp to it you get to a location you have not yet been before
Oh yeah, No Man's Wharf was amazing and I really liked it... but I was kind of sad while playing since you can feel that the area was meant to be pitch black but that idea was ditched and the area looks very awful and rough in some parts...One of my favourite Souls areas...
It's not even that big, but I really liked it.
Other areaa that gave me that kind of impression were the Huntsman's Copse and the Lost Bastille, incredible cool areas but sadly very bland looking.
I have to disagree with you there. It's so much prettier when you can actually see it! The implementation of the snowstorm was kinda shoddy too
Oh man, that'd be awesome - but better if you weren't able to warp away from them. I wonder if that'll be the caveat of self-made bonfires, not being able to warp to or from them. They could balance it so there're a smaller number of proper, warpable bonfires, with player ones being much more temporary.
Metalingus5150
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3 EDGY 5 ME
You know what? Eleum Loyce in general is so awesome so let me edit =DI have to disagree with you there. It's so much prettier when you can actually see it! The implementation of the snowstorm was kinda shoddy too
No level up person and no hub, they both suck. Firelink style with bonfires to level up. Pointless loading screens and NPC yapping is not a good thing.
Another thing they need to look to Dark Souls 1 for is the plunging attack, they botched it up in both DS2 and Bloodborne. it used to be an awesome feeling getting the chance to do a plunge, now I'm never sure if it'll work right.
Another thing they need to look to Dark Souls 1 for is the plunging attack, they botched it up in both DS2 and Bloodborne. it used to be an awesome feeling getting the chance to do a plunge, now I'm never sure if it'll work right.