Is the best one the one that looks like a 10 year old?
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Is the best one the one that looks like a 10 year old?
First step should be to create their own platform on PC like Origin and Steam.
Next step should be to make a Pokemon MOBA
After that release Super Smash Bros and make it F2P driving even more people to your platform.
Push both games to esports glory.
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Profit (in the billions)
Do it Nintendo...before you fall so hard on your face MS is forced to buy you out and the whole gaming community watches you die a slow death just like RARE.
what do u mean enemy npcs? like regular enemies? but yeah, gotta also mention:Don't know what more you want from DS3.
Best boss fights in the series.
Best enemy npc's in the series
Best music in the series.
Best graphics in the series.
But yea I expect dlc to be good too. Still need to get on a good deal with the season pass.
worst story/characters/lore/setting/writing/whatever in the series
most by the numbers entry in the series
(i wanna say most linear but there's actually kind of half true i guess? worst feeling of non-linearity? sorta? i guess? lol)
i like dks3 but it's the first souls game that i felt tired of. dks2 deserves a lot of the shit it gets (not everything) but at least it tried stuff and took risks and felt like it tried to solve a lot of the problems from 1
eh, i have trouble talking about dks3 without mentioning how disappointed i am by it
I just enjoy my games, hence why I like every single game I've played.
BoosterDuck
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Fuck the length DOOM is worth it for the experience
But it's 10 hours and there's a ton of replayability and secrets
Yea regular enemies were the best imo. They were all very aggressive and didn't mess around. Some were legit hard like those frostbitten guys.
No way DS3 is more linear than DS2. The entirety of DS2 was just corridor after corridor all the way until the end of the game. Not that its a bad thing but at least DS3 had several large open areas like the forest in DS1.
Story/lore doesn't really matter in souls games. Some of it is great the other side of it all is just some regular dark fantasy folk tale. It really applies to all the souls games. I don't really see how one can be better than the other in this regard.
Also to add I think DS3 has the best combat and weapons in the series. The game is just so much more fluid in general compared to the previous 2. Everything felt more natural and polished.
Doomedfool
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Thanks for the earlier Happy Birthdays, all! 
I feel like a cynical bastard most of the time, but it still seems like I can enjoy most of the games I have played. There's plenty of games Gaf seems to hate (after all the praise dies away) that I have had lots of fun with.
I feel like a cynical bastard most of the time, but it still seems like I can enjoy most of the games I have played. There's plenty of games Gaf seems to hate (after all the praise dies away
) that I have had lots of fun with.i think there's a good case to be made but the reuse of so many enemies from dks1 just rubbed me the wrong way and at one point idk if the new enemies are really that good, or if the encounters themselves are that interesting, specially since i think dks3 has arguably the worst most bullshit regular enemy in the series (the jailers)
but yeah, it's a positive, duno if i'd put it above dks1 since that game had so much variety and unique enemy types and didn't really recycle enemies from other games, so idk
ok, we're talking about different things here
yeah, the level design is really good in dks3, probably as good as in dks1
what i meant by linearity is the general structure of the game, dks3 basically offers you dungeons two at a time, while dks1 and dks3 gave u 4 or more. to me that added a lot of replayability and made the world more believable and fun to go through in ng+ and new playthroughs
no such luck in dks3. there's a bit, cos u can like
kill emma as soon as you meet her
point is, it just felt formulaic and uninspired to move from dungeon to dungeon. it didn't felt natural, like in dks1 or dks2 where you had like 4 or 5 different paths out of majula to peek into right from the start
that's just not for you to say if it matters or not, it matters to me a whole lot so if u don't care about it it's your deal
and the story in dks3 is terrible, where dks1 and 2 had interesting backstories and characters and mystery and whatever, here it's like "you know the drill, go kill these dudes" and that's it. and you revisit places from dks1 and see characters from dks1 because idk it's cool i guess? and whatever answers the gave gives are superficial and lame. it's like
oh yea the firstborn is a friend of the dragons and idk he lives in dragon land and i guess orstein left his armor there also oh and you know havel was there cos idk
ugh it makes me so mad that they wasted that opportunity to tell an actual story
like u know you fucked up when the emerald herald is more interesting than the leveling up character u wrote
like fuck
i think it's the most refined for sure, i liked the gameplay a lot even if i didn't end up using the weapons arts much if anything, but the bosses and the dungeons were really fun for sure. it got a couple crazy boss fight adrenaline moments out of me that are what the series is all about, no denying that
but it's also a very disappointing game because i want them to try to surprise me and i was never surprised in dark souls 3, not even once
i mean, i was, but it wasn't like a positive surprise. it was like hey it's this guy from 1, i wonder if they do a cool thing with him and then they didn't and like, that's not great. or hey it's this place from 1, that's cool, i wonder if i'm gonna learn something new about it and all i got is like "oh right this character died" and that's like why bother
ramoisdead
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Well since you folks can't get enough, life and hometown officially to be 60 fps.
PandaPedinte
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I already feel that way and I'm not even old.
Lenght is one of my deciding factors with game purchases these days actually. That being said 10 hours is the sweet spot for a fps campaign, so thats nice
Who let you out again? Back in the hole with you!
Don't know what more you want from DS3.
Best boss fights in the series.
Best enemy npc's in the series
Best music in the series.
Best graphics in the series.
But yea I expect dlc to be good too. Still need to get on a good deal with the season pass.
Better netcode and more interesting PvP.
Or leave it as the trash it is and make the items not so hard to get in other means.
Well since you folks can't get enough, life and hometown officially to be 60 fps.
60fps doesn't mean 60 faps per second, xseed.
PandaPedinte
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I'm trying to get free and play some games from my backlog,but it's easier to just look for dumb pics on the internet. A game that I've been enjoying in short bursts is Roll'd, the game is very simple the character walks and you control the inclination, very simple but hás local and online multiplayer, so it can be fun with friends.
corrosivefrost
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I never said I didn't enjoy it. I just said I didn't think it rated as my GOTY and maybe wouldn't even be one of the top 5 I play this year. It's a good game, but it's not what I've come to expect when a new FROM game comes out.
1. Sure, the AI was better. I should hope it is after 2 console generations and 4 (5 if you count Bloodborne since they could pull from it, whether it's a souls game or not) the AI is the best in the series. But there are a lot of bs enemies this time around. I have never though my deaths in any souls game were particularly cheap until this entry where I got juggled around, hit OTG, and just stunlocked to death more times than I could count.
2. DS3 is pretty linear. What Zky says below about offering 2 at a time vs. 4 at a time is pretty much true. In DS3, one area leads into another which may split off into 2 which then dead end and you're forced to go back to the main path. It's actually one of my complaints about the game. You can do like Zky says and break the path in one key place, but still, that doesn't really add much as it opens up a singular path with two very short side areas.
3. I care about the lore as do a lot of others. Go search YT for dark souls lore and you'll be buried in videos where people are talking about their theories on what the central characters did or how certain events came about. Just because you're not into it doesn't mean it's not there and it's not important to people.
4. Combat felt largely the same as everything else; sure they added a few weapons skills and ways to work them into combat vs. PvE, but in my experience a lot of the weapon skills seem more beneficial to PvP, which isn't really my thing.
Beyond that, I think this game may be the worst of all the souls games in terms of a completionist's nightmare. The grinding is on levels of Demon's Souls Bladestone farming and that's really not a good thing. Farming ears/dregs/grass/tongues was one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a souls game and contributed highly to the burnout I feel after getting about 40% into NG+.
Speaking of NG+, they didn't take one of the excellent features DS2 had where NG+ added new enemies and encounters in places. I was very disappointed to find that NG+ is simply "stuff hits harder, there's a few new rings hidden around, and you can use the boss souls on the items you didn't get last time". One of the biggest improvements from DS2 and they just ignored it. So far I haven't noticed any bosses getting new attacks either. And they could have used it, because a lot of the bosses were just forgettable or used various gimmicks that made them trivial or just not fun.
Add in that the armors/weapons that made it back from DS1 and DS2 are missing a few of my favorites so the nostalgia leaves me just wishing for the stuff I'd actually like to use.
1. I mostly agree about the level design -- they had some good vertical areas where paths kind of looped back over themselves and were well done (cathedral, for instance) but having retreads of a lot of areas from DS1 just kind of made everything feel familiar instead of new. And that lack of options is one of the thing that was a big negative to me... I could no longer really decide which way I wanted to go, I kind of had to follow the main path for most of the game and even if I deviated, it's not like the options on the extra path were very long lived. I did break that sequence you would normally do in NG in my start to NG+, but I just lost my interest after getting everything but the rings.
2. I get where they were going with the story and I respect sort of what they did there, but at the same point, it goes back to my gripe about everything feeling familiar rather than new. Story spoilers:
When you're hammering home the point that everything is just a cycle over and over until there's nothing at the end of it all because it's supposed to be the last game in the franchise, the redundancy makes sense... but I feel like they missed out by not really having throwbacks to DS2 when they did pull in DS2 characters all over the place.
i think the way dark souls 3 taps into the well of dark souls 1 is most of all boring and boring is not a word i ever would've used to describe like anything about dark souls
sometimes it's ridiculous and sometimes it's frustrating but it's never boring
sadly dark souls 3 was like that and that's why despite all the things it does right it's a very disappointing game
dks3 did nothing but cement the idea that the souls series is absolutely dead and eyes need to be looking forward to the next project
sometimes it's ridiculous and sometimes it's frustrating but it's never boring
sadly dark souls 3 was like that and that's why despite all the things it does right it's a very disappointing game
dks3 did nothing but cement the idea that the souls series is absolutely dead and eyes need to be looking forward to the next project
I still prefer the level design and structure of DS3. DS3 had more shortcuts in the first 5 hours of the game than all of what DS2 had. DS2 was much more bland in comparison. DS2 was also designed horribly because all you have to do is kill rotten 3 times with ascetics and you could proceed. You didn't even have to kill anything else with your choices. I don't know if they fixed that in SOTFS or whatnot. The sense of adventure in that game was much worse than DS3. DS1 definitely has the best level design but I don't think DS3 is that far behind. The scale of DS3 was just too great. Especially when you reach
a top near farron keep and get to see how large everything was and how it was positioned with the entire game. I loved it a lot.
As for the surprises I don't know exactly what you mean. I was surprised by just about every boss fight except
deacons and big tree.
The second form in all the fights were great and it was very surprising to see how they had additional movesets. Some of the movesets were literally impossible to dodge. Unlike DS1 where every boss had very little moves. Even O&S had like 4 moves each. And DS2 had by far the easiest to dodge bosses and every move was very predictable. DS2 has the worst bosses as a result but at least they had a lot of them. In DS3 some of the fights were so unpredictable they never played out the same way. It was actually very hard all the time for me in DS3.
Its literally how I learned about Project Diva (Project Diva f to be exact), I saw an import copy browsing amazon one day, thought it looked interesting, but had no Vita, came back years later with my new (used) Vita and bought Project Diva F 2nd.
Atraveller
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Have you tried other endings?
Phawx
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Kodi: https://kodi.tv/download/
It was originally XBMC
Edit: Here's the wiki for setting up a controller: http://kodi.wiki/view/Game_controllers Though Xinput controllers I believe are plug and play.
Oh yeah, I need to get Dragon's Dogma at Summer Sale.
i don't necessarily agree with all you say here but point is, there's a lot to ask for in dark souls 3
i think 2 and 3 are both disappointments for different reasons, but i beat dark souls 2 like 5 times and i kind of just wanted 3 to end by the time i was done with it
it just like, didn't even try to do the things i think it should have, it's such a safe game i feel like it lacks any real identity.
remember when there were rumors that you were gonna be able to like, make your own bonfires?
how cool would it have been if it had that?
i want that game, the one that took risks and changed things and felt like a leap forward, not just correcting course on a couple of bad things from dks2 and calling it a day
sadly that's not the game we got
it's really hard when i'm stuck in ng farming swordgrass bullshit because from wanted to force bad multiplayer on me
i know that achievements are stupid to begin with but i've done all achievements in all souls games, it feels weird to give up on them on the 4th one
Ok honestly, its the last ending that's the worst for me it just
makes me want to see what happens, because since you absorbed the fire you can pretty much do whatever you want with its power, so its just a ridiculously huge cliffhanger basically
Thanks a lot! Downloading it and setting up now.
Baron von Loathsome
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I need to get [The Witness/Doom/XCOM 2/Lisa/Soma/etc.] during the Summer Sale.
Atraveller
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It's more like
stored away than took it yourself to utilize it. The whole point was to end the cycle entirely and not just plunge the world into the dark (since we know from the past games that simply extinguishing the flame doesn't work).
pls
So basically
it just reset everything permanently back to the state before the first flame, at least until someone (maybe) tries to make a new flame
Crimsonclaw111
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I'm convinced the worst enemies in Souls 3 are these fucking guards with giant shields, giant swords, and giant maces. They never seem to get knocked back, hit real hard, and track you like crazy.
Hate them.
Hate them.
it's the jailers
there's nothing worse than the jailers
undodgeable 3/4s of ur health lost every time u see one unless you want to wait forever until they turn their backs or something
so fucking annoying
giant guard guys are really annoying too, but it's the jailers
nothing's worse than those fuckers
there's nothing worse than the jailers
undodgeable 3/4s of ur health lost every time u see one unless you want to wait forever until they turn their backs or something
so fucking annoying
giant guard guys are really annoying too, but it's the jailers
nothing's worse than those fuckers
Atraveller
Banned
Yeah they are reverting humanity to the state before the gods, because that's their true form. And the gods are dead, there won't be a new flame.
thesaucetastic
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If true, farewell all of my money.
Wait a minute...
if the dragons are revived by the new age of ancients... wouldn't a new age of fire be possible
Crimsonclaw111
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I love Souls 3 but every time I play I think the enemies are overly aggressive to the point of being fucking irritating compared to 1 or 2.
Let's find out what Hanzo is saying shall we?
Thanks for posting this in Discord Messiah:
The Dear Leader
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