Yeah,Shaded Woods,Shaded Ruins,Doors of Pharros,Tseldora and the Giant´s Memories are the worst areas imo.
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Dark Souls 3 announced (Early 2016, PC/PS4/XB1, Miyazaki Directing)
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Yeah,Shaded Woods,Shaded Ruins,Doors of Pharros,Tseldora and the Giant´s Memories are the worst areas imo.
I'm only guessing, but it's mostly because Bloodborne has some tech additions that don't show up in Dark Souls II and vice versa. Most of both games' development happened in parallel betweeen two different teams, so it's really not that surprising that they started from the same base and went in two different directions with it. (Of course, it's possible that some work was shared.)
Scholar has a ton of DoF. Most of the time it is innocuous, but if you play around with the camera, trying to push it with walls, or putting stuff between your character and the camera, it will get goofy super fast.
I assume both BB and DS3 are using a new version of the Phyre engine, and whatever change to it that BB needed could be rolled into DS3.
e:it seems they aren't using phyre! still, there's no reason for DS3 to not adopt tech made from BB.
Wait, really?
I love how the Doors of Pharros look, but it's a shame they're so empty.
http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/ne...rector-hidetaka-miyazaki.html#~pg4vTH4p8jflnD
aaah yeah no more stupid enemies disappearing after killing them a certain number of times like in DS2.
I don't know about you guys but I personally think this game is going to rule p hard.
aaah yeah no more stupid enemies disappearing after killing them a certain number of times like in DS2.
I don't know about you guys but I personally think this game is going to rule p hard.
DrROBschiz
Member
Thats actually been changed in Scholar of the First Sin as fas as I can tell
eot
Banned
On the other hand:
"bonfire warping will return and be similar to what was seen in Dark Souls 2, which allowed players to jump between any previously accessed bonfire from the start of the game."
That's actually the reason why I think it's the same engine. BB shares a lot of technical department/programmers with Dark Souls 2 so I figured they worked on the same engine on the backend.
They still disappear.
Bah, out of all the things to carry on from DS2 they pick that?
DS1 had the perfect system. No teleport until late game.
At least it is not the BB system.
Maybe the # of times of kills it takes to to make them disappear but it's still there.
Yeah this is kind of a bummer, but I have faith in Miyazakis level design. I'm not expecting a bonfire bonanza like in DS2 and maybe w/ this talk of larger areas maybe you'll go quite sometime without finding one. I mean I'd still prefer the DS1 system but we'll see with this one...
You can always join the "Company of Champions" covenant if you want infinite respawns.
If enemies didn't disappear I'm not sure I ever would have beaten the twin cat boss in the Ebony King DLC, the Ancient Dragon, or Arturius (sp?). Those boss runs are all hell and I despawned every fucker in the way. That said, ideally enemies never disappear and you just have short boss runs like in Bloodborne.
If
, should they save it for the endgame or should it be the new O&S moment, an AWWWW SHEEEEEEEIT moment to get people excited and then
?
EDIT: I also have faith in Miyazaki's level design. That worried me in Bloodborne, but the game had amazing level design even with free warping, so I don't really care anymore.
Gwyn is indeed coming back in this game
meet the rest of the God Hands Lords of Cinder as the new "Lord Souls" part of the game
EDIT: I also have faith in Miyazaki's level design. That worried me in Bloodborne, but the game had amazing level design even with free warping, so I don't really care anymore.
The Cartographer
Member
I wonder if FromSoftware is already working on DS4 (I hope so).
The Company of Champions (Hard Mode Covenant) actually prevents the despawning of enemies. However, that is like the one that ends up making the mode easier than it would otherwise. Souls & items help tremendously, especially in a few areas.
Sounds like they're taking the best received parts of all three of the recent games. No complaints here.
Sounds like they're taking the best received parts of all three of the recent games. No complaints here.
Yeah, one of the lead programmers of Phyre said so on Twitter a while back. No idea how the rumor got started.
While more Souls is always good, I hope they make something else in the Soulsborne design philosophy. Give us the sci-fi souls or ninja souls or whatever.
There's a lot of good mechanics in Dark Souls 2 that I hope they bring back.
Bloodborne had Insight as a "fixed" World/Player Tendency, but it still didn't push thing as far as I had hoped. Hell of a lot more intuitive than Demon's Souls mechanics, though.
Insight was cool, but it is deeply tied into the lovecraftian lore of BB. And yeah, it was underutilized.
Hell, WT was underutilized too. I like the idea, but it mostly means some extra durable phantoms. I think all three later games eased up a little on the HP of the NPC phantoms, so I doubt it will be back to the Demon levels.
Red Liquorice
Member
This is pretty cool. Going to be pouring over any new images now for further clues!
Even with bonfire warping in, my prediction is that the level design will possibly be a cross between Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne (less bonfires than dark souls 2, but a good focus on unlocking shortcuts and alternate routes). Also, it sounds like level design will possibly be a focus of quality over quantity (large complex areas e.g. Dark Souls 1) as opposed to numerous smaller levels (Dark Souls 2).
Necromanti
Member
Was that KOKIA doing the vocals in the CG trainer? (She sang one of the credits/ending songs for Demon's Souls.)
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
No it doesn't. I really don't understand why people like it, at all (except maybe in a photo mode for a screenshots, but it sucks while playing). I hate when games force a focus or lack of focus, like it's telling me what I should be looking at, and I fail to see why anyone would prefer something to be blurry vs more detailed.
Doors of Pharros look awesome, artistically.
Huh? How so? I haven't played SotFS, but in the vanilla game, the CoC didn't yield more souls or items or anything...
Lesser but bigger and more complex areas are a really good thing. Seems like they learned their lesson from Dark Souls 2. And Miyazaki really emphasizes the exploration aspect, which gets me very hyped indeed.
This man gets it. This man makes games close to perfection. He truly understands what makes games great.
This man gets it. This man makes games close to perfection. He truly understands what makes games great.
If it can look good in a screenshot, it can look good in-game, cuz that's where the screenshot is coming from obviously. Just a matter of whether you mind the game automatically framing the image a certain way.
Especially with a bit of DoF.
It can look good in a game, but it's almost always annoying to play IMHO.
Indeed. I just hope the online will work as well as it did in DS2.
There are several high-yielding (Souls & items & materials) areas I would have farmed out several times over, especially since I did it and most of the DLC with a pure faith build, but it ends up being a nice perk and a bunch of free souls in the long run. No despawns was easily a net positive for the playthrough.
First time I saw DoF in DS1 (thanks to that mod that one guy made) it blew my mind. I'll admit it can be a little troublesome -- it makes it harder to take up-close screenshots of NPCs and scenery, but I still kind of think it enhances more than it detracts.
"That one guy" is two posts above you.
eot
Banned
Is that in SotFS? Because enemies sure still despawn in vanilla, even when you're in CoC.
Oh right, I suppose I should post this here as well in case people haven't seen it elsewhere.
And now we wait. Gamescom is in early August.
SteamyPunk
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http://www.famitsu.com/news/201506/30082036.html
Looks like FromSoft showed the E3 demo to press in Japan. Nothing really new but they updated the sales figures to say the series has sold 8,000,000 copies. The break down is a little weird but it seems like Dark Souls 1 sold crazy well on PC.
Looks like FromSoft showed the E3 demo to press in Japan. Nothing really new but they updated the sales figures to say the series has sold 8,000,000 copies. The break down is a little weird but it seems like Dark Souls 1 sold crazy well on PC.
If I read those numbers correctly, Dark Souls 2 sold 1.96 million copies outside Japan. That would put the PC share at almost exactly 50% according to SteamSpy.
And yeah, DS1 sold crazy well on PC, it sits at almost 2 million copies. Easily the best-selling Japanese game on Steam.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Sorry for bumping this, but was Dark Souls 3 playable at SDCC ? Brian from gametrailers said that.
AuthenticM
Member
Soul Memory needs to fuck off.
OH SHIT, for everyone? WHENS FOOTAGE
JudgmentJay
Member
I heard him say that as well, but I think he's wrong. If it were at CC, we would have definitely seen or heard something by now. There was also no mention of it on social media.
It will most likely be there, yes.
Preach
Red Liquorice
Member
It's gone, confirmed by Miyazaki at E3.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
So I guess it could be playable at gamescom and maybe a closed alpha/beta.