Orochinagis
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Is fanservice too
They made a Dark Souls 1 weapon to promote Dark Souls 3 because there is not iconic weapon since Dark Souls 1
Dark Souls III Great Sword of Artorias - MAN AT ARMS: REFORGED
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Is fanservice too
They made a Dark Souls 1 weapon to promote Dark Souls 3 because there is not iconic weapon since Dark Souls 1
Frozenprince
Banned
Yep.
But not to what capacity since the weapons you got in DKS1 came from Sif. Plus, this is supposed to be the end of the trilogy that wraps things up. Some topics or plot strings are inevitably going to be brought up in order to do so.
sssstententen
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Having played all 3 now,
, there absolutely are big lore implications. Essentially to the point that Londor/Londo/Drangelic are all connected and not just seperate new worlds. The Abysswalkers who you get Artorias's sword are direct descendents of him, fight with his style, and were presumably his followers/pupils. There is also a "wolf covenant" based on him/sif.
Again because the weapon has been in before it really isn't a huge deal. Frankly its everyone's attitude's towards those who want to stay detail free that I fine unfortunate.
abstract alien
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This thread is starting to sound like both sides of the whole Politically Correct movement. That's...bad.
Welp, I'm out. There is no win to be had in a subjective battle. Not that I'm looking to win, but you know.
Welp, I'm out. There is no win to be had in a subjective battle. Not that I'm looking to win, but you know.
Frozenprince
Banned
Because it's a nothing detail.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
And how the fuck is anyone going to infer all that from the title?
I think that's the problem I have with people who keeps trying to cry spoiler. They're so tunnel visioned into thinking that the context they have is the context everybody has.
Relaxed Muscle
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None of what you said is something that would be spoiled just knowing the inclusion of the weapon.
I have to wonder how is not an UGS lol
sssstententen
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The whole point of the souls series is gleaning lore from the weapons and their description's/subtle comments about the world by the NPC's. So it's been something we've been doing since Demon's to figure out lore and story.
I'm clearly not gonna win anyone over here, I just expected a bit more respect towards others from some of the posts. Plus I'm now detracting from the topic st hand. If that's the way it is, no sweat off my brow.
Sorry, that's pushing it. I'm not projecting any context on anyone. I'm just on a blackout before the actual release of the game, and I saw the name of a very important DS1 story character tied to DS3 in a thread title. That's it. I qualify that as a spoiler, I'm sad that I saw that title, and I'm sad that not being happy about seeing it is apparently considered ridiculous in this thread. I'm not asking anybody to love Dark Souls' lore, just for a tiny bit of understanding towards those who do.
As a fan of Dark Souls, and as Someone who's watched this thread unfold, I'm going to make myself very clear here; in the grand scheme of things, this is a complete non-issue. Now, I perfectly understand that people are on a complete blackout and who haven't bitten the bullet and got the game early via import or the Xbox exploit for when the game comes out next Tuesday. That's fine, I get that. But we're talking about a weapon that has shown up in two games already, regardless of its name or graphical look and design, and was explicitly made for the release of Dark Souls 3 as advertising for the game. It stands to reason that, potentially, this weapon could show up again amongst the likes of other weapons, such as the Moonlight Greatsword, or even items such as rings that've shown up the other two games, such the life ring or the covetous serpent rings. Furthermore, it does not explicitly state within the video that the sword shows up in Dark Souls, or even it goes by that name any more were it to show in Dark Souls 3.
Ultimately, as much as Artorias is beloved by much of the fanbase, and as much as his greatsword is iconic to most of us, it's just a sword. That's all it is. A unique sword, and one that I'm sure a lot of people would love to see in Dark Souls 3, but it's a virtual sword from a well-known, but ultimately a video game series that in a year from now, isn't going to help myself or anyone else here with our day to day jobs or lives, and isn't any real revelation with what goes on in the real world. Once again, I get why people feel aggrieved about potential spoilers for Dark Souls 3, but take it from me as someone who's had a rough patch in real life, when compared to virtually unlimited amounts of things that could happen to anyone at anytime in life, this isn't something that people should be massively hung up about.
Anyway, that's my two cents and on topic of the video, it's a lovely weapon, but I imagine it must be heavy as fuck to hold up. No bloody wonder they just let it drop onto things in the demos, rather than attempting to swing the damn thing.
Ultimately, as much as Artorias is beloved by much of the fanbase, and as much as his greatsword is iconic to most of us, it's just a sword. That's all it is. A unique sword, and one that I'm sure a lot of people would love to see in Dark Souls 3, but it's a virtual sword from a well-known, but ultimately a video game series that in a year from now, isn't going to help myself or anyone else here with our day to day jobs or lives, and isn't any real revelation with what goes on in the real world. Once again, I get why people feel aggrieved about potential spoilers for Dark Souls 3, but take it from me as someone who's had a rough patch in real life, when compared to virtually unlimited amounts of things that could happen to anyone at anytime in life, this isn't something that people should be massively hung up about.
Anyway, that's my two cents and on topic of the video, it's a lovely weapon, but I imagine it must be heavy as fuck to hold up. No bloody wonder they just let it drop onto things in the demos, rather than attempting to swing the damn thing.
Baka Zeitgeist
pluck my tasty grapes
Hot damn that looked awesome as fuck, great to see people take the time to bring this stuff to life.
MegaMelon
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I love the lore just as much as you do. But you're classifying all official marketing as being spoilers. Now that's fine, I have no problem with that but if that's how you feel then it's your job to make sure you don't get spoiled by things that 99% of fans don't consider spoilers.
And I do so by not clicking on threads/links that mention the game, it always worked great so far on Gaf because people are usually civil regarding spoilers.
I agree with this. I thought it was a parody post and click the link. Saw some shit I can't unseen.
MegaMelon
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Civil? C'mon man this isn't some great injustice. Honestly I feel you're being unreasonable. You're asking everyone to be hyper sensitive about spoilers to such a ridiculous extent when there's probably less than 10 people who feel that strongly. Lesson for the future is to avoid Gaf since this is seemingly too spoilery.
What you're saying, though, is that it's not a spoiler unless you've already played the game to the point where you know what it means. At which point it's not a spoiler anymore.
Head.spawn
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I liked when they built the
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JediLink
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Yeah but what if I wanted to feel the same surprise finding it in DS3 that I did finding it in DS2? How was I supposed to know they'd bring it back a second time?
Then you'll have to live without that millisecond feeling of "ah, cool" that you would have experienced from the sword not being "spoiled" by this video. It might be hard but I think you can do it.
It's too late, gaf is already overrun with Spoiler Justice Warriors
Orochinagis
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I died
SatelliteOfLove
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The real revelations to me here is that these are bespoke from publishers now and that Stump has a temper. 
Kyleripman
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This post makes 100% sense to me and I don't think it's an unreasonable opinion at all.
Cool video though. Hyped for this game, including any potential connections to DS1.
I think it's the first time I came upon this channel and I was completely fascinated with the amount of work and dedication these people are putting into making these weapons. I don't know if they actually have something like this, but the format could work really well with popular tv stations like Discovery, etc.
Amen. And this comes from a person who tries to be overcareful with spoilers
due to the hyper sensitivity to such things. People will start protesting soon about spoilers when threads for leaks use the name of the leaked game.
There's nothing uncivil about the thread's title and the complaint of it being spoilery is ridiculous since it doesn't actually spoil anything.
Amen. And this comes from a person who tries to be overcareful with spoilers
(always spoiler tagging my posts)
There's nothing uncivil about the thread's title and the complaint of it being spoilery is ridiculous since it doesn't actually spoil anything.
lmao
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Dark Souls games are getting almost impossible to talk about these days without offending someone unless your post looks like something out of a Freedom of Information Act request.
Boss names, areas, weapons, items, rings, spells, enemies, basic game mechanics, balance issues, the color of the sky, whether or not trees are in the game, character creation options, starting gifts...
I mean seriously, some of you need to find that little red X in the corner of your browser and lock yourselves in a closet until you beat the game. It's absolutely fucking absurd that anyone beyond the age of 5 would lose their damned minds over something as simple and out of context as "hey that boss The Common Adjective was pretty good!" being posted, but here we are.
To be fair; NOWHERE is it claimed that the weapon exists in the game or is a part of it, or that there is any lore regarding it.
They use DS3 name for marketing purposes as per Bandai Namco's reqyeat, and then build a sword from DS1 asked for by their community.
Man that's a fucking great job they did, don't you think guy--what the actual fuck is going on in this topic?
Shitposting aside, they did a fantastic job, the new team manages to one-up themselves every damn time. Nice to see it's in 3 as well though, footage looks damn nice.
Shitposting aside, they did a fantastic job, the new team manages to one-up themselves every damn time. Nice to see it's in 3 as well though, footage looks damn nice.
Pyramid head
Banned
That's nothing. Gene Wildfire, the ginger pyromancer, cartwheeled from one end of Lordran to the other while dual wielding two of those fuckers. Nothing could stand before him.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Damn, that sword looks damn great.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
That huge stick of forged metal is dope as hell.
I mean, Tony was cool and all but at some point everything was plasma cut out of stock.
I mean, Tony was cool and all but at some point everything was plasma cut out of stock.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Also Ilya is so good. He's seriously the sole reason why the new crew is much better than tony.
I can understand where a lot of people come from when doing spoiler free black outs of games, movies, books or whatever their favored entertainment choice is. Its great going into something blind and discovering everything yourself. However I think some people take this mentality too far and soon any bit of info becomes an endgame spoiler and by treat finding out about rather menial details as a major end game spoiler.
Its fine to be sensitive to spoilers and to purposefully steer clear of places where they will pop up but the name of a weapon in a thread title about the forging of an iconic weapon as marketing for an upcoming game is not what I would consider a "spoiler". Its just the name of a sword that while having lore implications, means nothing at all in the scheme of things, especially out of context. There is no significant information here, just the sword name in association with the latest game in the series.
That said the venom from a lot of posters really isn't needed and this goes for both sides.
On topic, that's an awesome sword but I wonder if there is a way to make it more wield-able as that thing looks awkward as all hell. Also watching these videos always reminds me of the fact I want to try taking up black smithing in my spare time but I cant ever find any decent places to teach me.
Its fine to be sensitive to spoilers and to purposefully steer clear of places where they will pop up but the name of a weapon in a thread title about the forging of an iconic weapon as marketing for an upcoming game is not what I would consider a "spoiler". Its just the name of a sword that while having lore implications, means nothing at all in the scheme of things, especially out of context. There is no significant information here, just the sword name in association with the latest game in the series.
That said the venom from a lot of posters really isn't needed and this goes for both sides.
On topic, that's an awesome sword but I wonder if there is a way to make it more wield-able as that thing looks awkward as all hell. Also watching these videos always reminds me of the fact I want to try taking up black smithing in my spare time but I cant ever find any decent places to teach me.
DistortionOfReality
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Sword looks incredible, really great job. Though looks wildly impractical hah, along the same lines as when the old Man-At-Arms team did the Buster Sword from FF7. Still think the best episode of the Reforged team is the Hatori Hanzo katana though, the work that went into that weapon was just insane.
Sorry for triggering anyone who had yet to play FF7. Spoiler culture is out of control.
Sorry for triggering anyone who had yet to play FF7. Spoiler culture is out of control.
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