Barely!
I keep consoling myself when I see the surprised reactions from people watching the stream, by recalling that I want to experience that the first time I play the game myself.
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Barely!
I keep consoling myself when I see the surprised reactions from people watching the stream, by recalling that I want to experience that the first time I play the game myself.
Valkerionseven
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Never knew where or when they were going on so holding strong out of ignorance haha.
Is there any video of the opening/tutorial/first 5mins or something? Really need something to spur me into buying this. Though I may not get time since yay family visit for the first time in years just happens to be Dark Souls 2 release day.... Dat timing :/
I watched the first part of the intro today, then shut it off. My willpower is fading.
Looked it up and Pyromancy's
fire attack scales with int and faith, but the spells itself don't have any stat requirements
I imagine things like
Iron flesh and Power within are still in the game so either way pyromancy should be the right move for me.
ExFalsoQuodlibet
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Absolutely: as much as I want the game into me as soon as possible, I feel no urge to watch a stream, at all. It's a strange feeling...
Lionheart1827
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Has any of the reviews so far mention the 360 screen tearing? Have the streamers confirmed the tearing is legit and not just because of the stream?
semiconscious
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watch streams of a game you're looking forward to? so you already know exactly what's coming ahead of time? no. & i genuinely cannot understand why anyone would do this...
talk about spoilers. the mind boggles...
zephervack
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I opened a stream in a new tab and im just switching to it for a second and then switching back, havent been spoiled of anything yet, im taking them like screenshots lol.
Alright, good news for me. Looks like I can pretty much ignore faith then.
Fallout-NL
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Wow really? When did he say that?
I've been watching streams.
Finding out what's in the game and being surprised by things just isn't integral to my enjoyment of games (or even films for that matter).
For me it's the same as looking at pictures of somewhere before you are about to go on holiday there - it just heightens the anticipation.
In part 11 at 45:50.
He's wrong. It runs fine. The only problem I've seen on streams is screen tearing and that's been confirmed by the streamers to be caused by capture cards.
Unless by runs like a dog he means it doesn't run at 60fps locked.
UnObtainium17
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Dang.I really hope not. I read more feedbacks that it runs better than DkS w/c is good enough for me. Hoping Monday has more in-depth performance analysis for this game.
Yup, and the temptation is less now that no one is posting the links in here. I think I'll be good to get to Tuesday without seeing the game (other than the short non spoilery videos I've watched).
(not really a spoiler but tagging to be safe) Since I missed the exchange earlier, in regards to
respec, and the argument that "it's fine because no one is forcing you to do it", I disagree. It breaks the integrity of the game. Let's follow the logic to an extreme example, such to illustrate the point: Would you be okay with a "kill everything on screen" button being mapped to the controller from the start? Just don't push it if you don't like it. If you are okay with respecs for the sole reason that they are optional, then you should be able to defend there being a kill all button on the controller for the same reason.
He saw it in person, not just a stream. Just because you haven't seen it on that doesn't mean he's wrong. I'm going to at least wait till more people have it and can say for sure.
I agree with you. Although I think the 'no one is forcing you' argument was rebuked several pages ago. It's a silly premise, as you point out.
What I heard:
Mats simplified into one type of titanite, gaining access to an upgrade path lets you start as many weapons as you want on that path just by paying souls.
Good riddance, I say. There are lots of things that make Dark Souls intense and unique, but farming isn't one of them.
The streamers themselves are stating that the game runs fine though.
Regarding framerate: The reports of better performance and the fact that the game is now unlocked (soft-capped at 30?) make perfect sense together. Dark Souls had wonky frame handling where it was either running at 30 or intermittently dropping all the way to 15, unable to consistently run at anything in between. Dark Souls II is supposed to run at 40+ in some indoor areas, and it's able to drop a little without completely slowing to a crawl like the first one.
Audioboxer
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Swordsman or Sorcerer for me as well. Basing first playthrough around DEX/INT. While a sorcerer is squishy I'm going to assume the casting distance will still help noob some enemies at the start, like it does in every other souls game.
Streams have their own allure as you get to experience all those things together with other people, it's cool to see people freak out at a new boss or laugh when the player does something dumb. With a decent player none of the "story" stuff really goes missing and you still get that "wow" feeling when seeing new things.
I get to do a min/max playthrough myself, I will already know which stats I will want to level where I should head first and have somewhat of an idea what I should do against bosses without beating my head against the wall over and over.
And I wouldn't last 6 weeks spoiler free until the pc version is out.
I think it even dropped to 5 in some parts of Blighttown. Crazy fault of the engine to not allow in between frame rates.
Aspirations26
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semiconscious
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i appreciate that you're not alone on this. but, as i said, hell if i can wrap my head around it
...removing the elements of exploration & discovery from the first playthru of a souls game is, for me, destroying something extremely fundamental to the whole experience...
i have no problems with watching streams of a game. they can be fun. but i think there's a big difference between watching them before or after you've played the game yourself...
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Till the end, brother.
I'm very torn between starting a cleric and heading down str/faith like I did in my first ever Dark Souls playthrough, or going str/dex quality build like I tend to play Dark Souls lately (I enjoy longswords a lot lately, honestly. quite an excellent weapon when cranked up in a quality build)
robotzombie
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Man, NYC is letting me down right now, looks like I'll have to just wait til Tuesday...
this weekend is going to be rough
this weekend is going to be rough
The_Darkest_Red
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I handled Blighttown on PS3, I can handle this. Bring it!
catashtrophe
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I can't wait for the PS3 to arrive, i went in blind on both Demons and Dark Souls as a knight and hacked my way through to the end and the tradition must continue with Dark Souls 2.
Shoemaker's been making these sorts of comments about console games for a while now.
Supposedly maces are really good in DS2 and there are some badass greatswords in the game.
There were brief moments where Dark Souls would hit close to 0 fps, for nearly a whole second-- if DS2 does away with that then we would be looking at an improvement in itself.
He's very sensitive to bad framerates. He brings it up constantly.
air jordans for dogs
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Everytime before a big hyped game comes out, people get frightened by any weird negativity they hear. That fear bounces around in the threads like an echo chamber. Don't worry, the game is good.
Screaming Meat
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Meh. I've watched a couple of minutes here and there. Same as watching that old gameplay demo really. I'll hardly remember it when it comes to my play time.
I understand your position on it, though.
I think it will still be enjoyable but I hope it isn't more "cheap" this time around. That has me more nervous
Clockwork5
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AlimNassor
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The pre-order weapons are garbage. They're slightly more powerful then the starter weapons, but, break easily and are easily outclassed.
robotzombie
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Maces are really good?
Oh man why did you tell me this!
Now I don't know what the hell to make anymore...
darkjedi187
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Haven't watched a singhle stream, I will make it till Tuesday.
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