DARK SOULS II Announced - [PC/PS3/360 - PR in OP]

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Grief.exe said:
They might have you fooled.

Yes some of it was CG, but a lot of it was live action.

CG: Main Character walking through the sewer.

Live Action: Fighting scene at the end with the masked men.

If you really want proof pay close attention to the animation of him while crossing the bridge, then watch the part where the masked man draws his sword. Its pretty obvious which is which.



I sincerely hope this is one of two things.

A)Troll Post
B)Ignorance
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No way its live action. At times certain elements looks close but there are small things that give it away. What would be the point for so few shots?
 
I hope it's probably both a prequel and a sequel. They can do it. The flow of time is all messed up in Lordran. The new DLC was both too.
 
Mxrz said:
Unless the view from the back is radically different, I dunno if I'd jump to say that's Anor Londo with all the craggy misty mountains around it. The Sun would also seem to be in the wrong position too given where the tower bridge is.
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maybe it's the asylum pre-collapse?

I'm not fussed, to me the souls games have non-standard timelines to begin with anyway.


off topic, is anybody else getting that iphone smashing banner add? It's seriously fucking annoying.
 
Alo81 said:
Who knows what time this game will take place in. It could be late enough that it all becomes a problem again.
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Sounds like you went with the peasant non-Dark Lord ending.

Dark Lord master race represent.
 
Cartman86 said:
No way its live action. At times certain elements looks close but there are small things that give it away. What would be the point for so few shots?
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The incredibly obvious ones off the top of my head would be cost and time constraints. Doing live action would be both cheaper and faster.

They can easily disguise this with various post process effects that is why you can be tricked and makes the video transition smoothly between CG and live action.

None of us are experts though, and I don't see how this can't devolve into fallacious arguments.
 
Grief.exe said:
Yes but Ciaran was the leader of the Assassin's.

There were more than one of them.

He might be onto something.

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She was the head of the Lord Blades, a clan of all female assassins. I didn't get a good look but the masked people in the trailer seemed to be male.

Source, Lord Ciaran's armor:
A robe common to all of the Lord's Blades, These deadly women shift nimbly between layers of darkness, etching streaks of gold into the night air, and planting visions of terror into the minds of their targets.
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Awesome trailer, and I'm also stoked to see that the stock enemies seem to be human. The idea of having to fight equals all the way through the game is awesome.
 
Crackpot theory: the player in DSII is on a quest to kill the MC of DS.

The thought of fighting more bosses like Flamelurker or S&O or Artorias is good shit, by the way. From learned, hopefully, from the Bed of Chaos fiasco.
 
zkylon said:
Well the narration speaks of the undead, so it's safe to say humans are cursed in Dark Souls 2. Maybe your actions in Dark Souls 1 were for naught, maybe it's a prequel, maybe you need to link (or not) another fire in a another land to save them from the curse, who knows?

I have the feeling that whatever you did in Dark Souls 1 didn't really affect all that much, so you're sent by that woman to a faraway land to find a cure for the undead curse or something like that.

Something like a Lordran road trip heh.

Also, we're led to believe by Kaathe that linking the flame is only a temporary fix, so if you do so you basically just stalled the inevitable. If you don't link the fire, then eventually dark will overwhelm the world, and who knows what'll happen then. In either case, you could argue that in X years from then, the undead curse will still be growing strong.
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I always got the impression, especially from Kaathe, that the gods completely made up a cure for the curse in order to dupe the undead into taking the pilgrimage and linking the flame for them.
 
A few pictures and thoughts:

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You can see a bit of skin through the helmet and it's rotten, so you're still very much hollow.

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They look like men to me, so I'm saying no to the theory of the masked people being the Lord's Blades. The mask really looks similar to Ciaran's though.

Clevinger said:
I always got the impression, especially from Kaathe, that the gods completely made up a cure for the curse in order to dupe the undead into taking the pilgrimage and linking the flame for them.
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Yeah, I really like the idea of the cure being Gwyn and co. conning the undead into serving them by linking the flame and keeping the bonfires lit. I mean, if the gods need the bonfires to be kindled and that can only be done by burning humanity, then it'd be a pretty good idea to manipulate the dying people of Lordran into sacrificing themselves for the gods in desperate hopes of a cure.
 
Oh and Demon's Souls IP is crying in a corner locked away by Sony....LOL. Idiots.

PS: Not sure why the "live action" vs CG. All of that is CG, there is no way a FROM game would look that good. Ingame or not.
 
prwxv3 said:
Not being on WiiU is not a good sign for the WiiU at all.
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judging from the way the previous game ran on PC, it seemed fairly CPU intensive, i suspect to make up for the weak gpu's in ps3/360.

which wouldn't bode well for a wiiU port given what we know about it's architecture. Personally I'd rather they make the game on the platforms they're comfortable with, and spend more time on the game, less on learning a new platform. having PC there day one is a big step already.

So... sign a petition or something?
 
the story could be related to the way of the whites many undead missions or possibly not even take place in lordran.
 
It's CG, no way the game looks like that, no way they built a new engine for the PS360 with next gen just around the corner and it doesn't really look like live action.

Pandaman said:
the story could be related to the way of the whites many undead missions or possibly not even take place in lordran.
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Yes, that's what I'm thinking, though the curse of the undead is a very Lordran-y thing and has a lot to do with Gwyn, so it should have some connections.
 
Pandaman said:
the story could be related to the way of the whites many undead missions or possibly not even take place in lordran.
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Yeah I was thinking that too and was going to post it. The way it's described though (in Lloyd's Talisman) is that it's Cleric Knights who do the Undead hunts. These guys definitely look like assassins and not knights though.
 
Mr_Appleby said:
judging from the way the previous game ran on PC, it seemed fairly CPU intensive, i suspect to make up for the weak gpu's in ps3/360.
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This really isn't a good way to judge anything. Game was CPU intensive because it barely touched the GPU at all. The only way you could get some half way decent usage is to force all kinds of things (AA, AO, etc). It was an optimization issue.
 
New world sounds like all the old lore is out. Maybe they'll ramp the horror/demonic vibes up again. Undead and gods were kind of meh compared to demons and mad kings.

Darknight said:
Oh and Demon's Souls IP is crying in a corner locked away by Sony....LOL. Idiots.

PS: Not sure why the "live action" vs CG. All of that is CG, there is no way a FROM game would look that good. Ingame or not.
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There's nothing stopping them from doing anything with the IP. From is big enough to handle it too, and there's enough overlap with SCEJ and all. Mostly a question of whether Sony feels its worth it. Can't say I've ever cared to follow the series sales.
 
Here's my straight up conspiracy theory:

Dark Souls 2 will use your Dark Souls 1 saved game to add specific bits of flavor into the game. If you choose the Dark Lord ending AND choose the Pendant as your starting gift AND transfer the game into Dark Souls 2, something special will happen.
 
Man, when I first saw that rope bridge in the trailer, I jumped up and gasped and scared the hell out of my wife. Then a buddy and I celebrated by going to the forest and slaying blues for 2 hours. O happy day.
 
RyanDG said:
Here's my straight up conspiracy theory:

Dark Souls 2 will use your Dark Souls 1 saved game to add specific bits of flavor into the game. If you choose the Dark Lord ending AND choose the Pendant as your starting gift AND transfer the game into Dark Souls 2, something special will happen.
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Miyazaki reads this while devilishly grinning.
 
RyanDG said:
Here's my straight up conspiracy theory:

Dark Souls 2 will use your Dark Souls 1 saved game to add specific bits of flavor into the game. If you choose the Dark Lord ending AND choose the Pendant as your starting gift AND transfer the game into Dark Souls 2, something special will happen.
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Game troll of the forever.
 
Astora,Balder,Berenike,Carim,Catarina,Far East,Great Swamp,Oolacile,Thorolund,Vinheim,Zena.These are all other lands outside of Lordran and the game can take place in anyone of them.I'm guessing this game takes place in either Carim,Astora or Far East.

Astora has good backstory here something written on the ring of the evil eye.
"According to legend, this ring contains the spirit of the evil eye, a dark beast which assaulted Astora."

The masked enemies look like stealthish so a guess was Far East.And Carim is my last bet because they worship different gods than people in Lordran so it'll be easy as fuck to set the lore up.
 
RyanDG said:
Here's my straight up conspiracy theory:

Dark Souls 2 will use your Dark Souls 1 saved game to add specific bits of flavor into the game. If you choose the Dark Lord ending AND choose the Pendant as your starting gift AND transfer the game into Dark Souls 2, something special will happen.
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What if you did both?
 
Varna said:
This really isn't a good way to judge anything. Game was CPU intensive because it barely touched the GPU at all. The only way you could get some half way decent usage is to force all kinds of things (AA, AO, etc). It was an optimization issue.
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This just backs my point up. If I write a piece of software for a computer with a weak GPU and a pretty decent CPU, I'd be taking that into account and doing as much as I could on the CPU so as not to waste what little GPU power I had. That's optimization. Then if I took that software and ran it on a computer with a powerful GPU, you'd tell me that it was barely hitting the GPU, and you'd be right. But the reason you'd be right is because the software would be optimized to run in a different environment.

Making better use of extra resources as and when available is not the same thing as optimizing for a fixed target like ps3/360. And the port being a fairly straight port, that's what we got, a PC game optimized for Ps3/360.
 
Im hearing rumors on other forums that this game was announced for WiiU too, true? I've only seen 360PS3PC logos.
 
Ridley327 said:
I'd like to think that everyone in Carim has just as maniacal of laughter as Oswald does.

AFTER ALL, IT IS ONLY HUMAN TO SIN
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EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

all characters laugh maniacally after saying any sentence.
I am going to the store! EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!
 
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