I have no clue, shows 2 days later for my prestige. I just bought an extra key from cdkeys.
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Dark Souls III Press Event Discussion: Embargo - 8am CST (03/01/)
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I have no clue, shows 2 days later for my prestige. I just bought an extra key from cdkeys.
I didn't particularly like DS2 either. I'm hoping DS3 will be a return to form.
Killer Queen
Banned
Depends on what you're not liking about it.
I really can't articulate it very well, maybe it just has to do with atmosphere and aesthetic? I was mostly enjoying the game until I got to this area that is covered in poison.
Killer Queen
Banned
That's one of my least favorite areas in the game and overall a pretty poorly designed area. There are much more interesting locales later in the game, including the very next one. And the DLC adds plenty more interesting areas. I'd imagine that in terms of art and design DS3 will take it up a notch so don't worry.
Edit: there's actually two areas covered in poison, which one lol although neither are particularly great.
Everything about DS3 looks great to me, and I really enjoyed both Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne. I thought that DS2 is a pile of trash, just finished it last week and god damn everything about it sucks. There are no good zones, no good bosses outside the DLC, and half of the damn bosses are just "here's 3 of thing" or "here's 2 of thing".
DS3 is by the director of the Demon's/Dark 1/Bloodborne. DS2 was by a different director & team.
It's also not going to be hamstrung by last gen hardware the way DS2 was.
The Xtortionist
Member
Watching the IGN stream
That closed door behind the Uchigatana enemy in Cemetery of Ash is gonna be a ballin' shortcut, isn't it?
It just leads to an item that gives the firekeeper a new ability, you need to buy a key for 20k souls to get there.
Bl@de
Member
hmm yeah, but I sure hope that my GTX770 will be enough for 1080/60 :/ Don't want to play it in 30fps or wait for Pascal.
The Xtortionist
Member
The Uchigatana guy guards the door to the tower, also firelink is not connected to any other area then the starter, you have to port to others.
The Xtortionist
Member
edit - nvm, you're right. The editing on one of the videos I watched didn't make it clear.
The tower key is used to open a different door, though.
You enter through the other tower with the key, this tower is where you come out from.
You can see that in one of Vaati's videos.
You can see that in one of Vaati's videos.
DS2 is really the odd one out in the Souls series. It's not representative of the other games. So you might still really enjoy Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 and soon 3.
Audioboxer
Member
Level design and aesthetics in DS2 are the weakest in the series. It has some great areas, but they are connected like cut/paste rather than thought going into them.
From what I've seen of DS3 so far - be it previews or indeed the IGN stream last night - I'm more inclined to go into the game with optimism albeit a cautious sort. Never been a fan of Dark Souls and I've written plenty on why I think it's one of the most boring/pointless/tedious games out on the market, but I loved Bloodborne as it corrected all-but-a-few of Souls' misfortunes.
DS3 certainly looks like a perfect blend of BB's design/aesthetic with Souls' combat and sense of progression. But I'm still seeing the dreaded hit-markers popping up time to time in-game...but I'm sure the Souls Defense Force are already out in their droves defending to the teeth the fact the series still can't quite iron out all imperfections with its combat.
If the narrative is as enticing as Bloodborne's was and the gameplay can still throw up enough variety and interesting twists, then I could get into [finally] digging a Souls game. I'm not holding out for the PvP/multiplayer component though.
DS3 certainly looks like a perfect blend of BB's design/aesthetic with Souls' combat and sense of progression. But I'm still seeing the dreaded hit-markers popping up time to time in-game...but I'm sure the Souls Defense Force are already out in their droves defending to the teeth the fact the series still can't quite iron out all imperfections with its combat.
If the narrative is as enticing as Bloodborne's was and the gameplay can still throw up enough variety and interesting twists, then I could get into [finally] digging a Souls game. I'm not holding out for the PvP/multiplayer component though.
Efren is G.O.A.T.
Member
Can someone explain to me why so many of you consider Dark Souls 2 to be the black sheep of the franchise?
JudgmentJay
Member
You'll find a wide range of answers, but for me it's the inferior level design and the boring, flat aesthetic. I don't like most of the bosses either. Or the NPCs.
Still a good game though that excels in certain areas (multiplayer, build variety).
There are many issues I could probably add, but off the top of my head:
-way too many bosses with multiple enemies
-worst level designs along with a non-sensibly connected world
-adaptability was a very bad idea
-Soul memory (this one didn't bother me)
-A lot of parts felt more cheap than the usual "tough but fair" approach (the dragon boss is perhaps the biggest offender)
-The story was a lot worse than before
-The NPCs were also a lot worse to me
I did actually like Dark Souls 2 a lot, and I think people are way too hard on it. But it did have a lot of problems still, especially when comparing it to other games in such an astounding series.
Bloodporne
Member
As any other game I think I would've enjoyed it quite a bit but it is the successor to Demon's and Dark and in the light it failed miserably for me. The biggest offender was how completely off the art direction and general atmosphere was. It reminded me more of some cheesy Lord of the Rings shit slightly inspired by Dark Souls rather than what made the Miyazaki games so appealing to me. Overall I thinknit was an unfair task for anyone to take on in a way, the previous games were too insular and specific for anyone to just jump into and take over.
Not a bad game, but it has the weakest PVE i the series by far for many reasons(and pve is the most important aspect about Souls games and why they got popular in the first place)
DS2 strength relies on PVP and build variety so, unless one care about pvp and build variety the most it's most likely bound to be the weakest for the average souls player.
If you don't mind spoilers, there's a preview that kind of details the 3rd area in the game, something we haven't seen from all the media before. SPOILERS Here it is (don't hover over the link obviously).
Should also mention it seems the article goes into some story, character and enemy stuff that we haven't heard of before.
Should also mention it seems the article goes into some story, character and enemy stuff that we haven't heard of before.
Jellycrackers
Member
The coolest thing I saw in that preview is the option to display your character name vs. account name when summoning/invading.
Anyone know if that's a PC only thing? Because that's something I REALLY want to do on the xbox! Makes cosplay builds so much more fun
Killer Queen
Banned
Blighttown III: A good day to die in slow agonizing pain and frustration
Likely on consoles too, it was in Bloodborne.The coolest thing I saw in that preview is the option to display your character name vs. account name when summoning/invading.
Anyone know if that's a PC only thing? Because that's something I REALLY want to do on the xbox! Makes cosplay builds so much more fun
Have not seen this mentioned before: The soundtrack track list was supposedly leaked two days ago. Obviously includes boss name spoilers in case it's not fake!
If it isn't fake the soundtrack fits on one disk (hopefully without cutting music like the DkS2 one did) and has four composers: Yuka Kitamura (
tracks), Motoi Sakuraba (
), Tsukasa Saitoh (
) and Nobuyoshi Suzuki (
)
If it isn't fake the soundtrack fits on one disk (hopefully without cutting music like the DkS2 one did) and has four composers: Yuka Kitamura (
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I seem to remember that Kitamura did stuff on Bloodborne - does anyone have any examples of songs they've done? Did they do stuff for the DLC?
Bloodborne
Yuka Kitamura -
"Watchers" (Used for some Chalice Dungeon bosses),
"Rom, the Vacuous Spider",
"Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos",
Tsukasa Saitoh -
"Cleric Beast",
"Blood-Starved Beast",
"Darkbeast",
"The First Hunter"
Nobuyoshi Suzuki -
"The One Reborn"
Bloodborne The Old Hunters
Yuka Kitamura -
"Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower"
Tsukasa Saitoh -
"Orphan of Kos",
"Laurence, the First Vicar"
Nobuyoshi Suzuki -
"Ludwig, the Holy Blade",
"Living Failures"
It's actually Ryan Amon that composed most of the OST for Bloodborne. None in the DLC though.
Sakuraba didn't participate.
Thought on DS3 -
More Kitamura is awesome, but would have liked a few more for Saitoh.
High Fry Frow
Member
DS3 probably uses deferred rendering, like The Witcher 3, Fallout 4 and MGS V, and as such is incompatible with MSAA and other types of multi-sampling.
Games like the Division and Fallout 4 have shown that if you put enough effort into SMAA and TAA implementation you can get some extraordinary results with post-process AA. But I'm inclined to believe that this will be some half-hearted solution like most Japanese PC ports which is unfortunate because FROM's assets are always shimmer-tastic.
normalmode
Member
So far, my U.S. press colleagues who are playing on PS4 debugs are not using shields. Then my friend Kevin Vanord makes a solid case for using shields.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HZ9Y8d6zHw
I'm five hours in as a Pyromancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HZ9Y8d6zHw
I'm five hours in as a Pyromancer.
DieNgamers
Member
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
At least people won't complain about hitboxes this time.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
At least people won't complain about hitboxes this time.
WOAH
JudgmentJay
Member
At least people won't complain about hitboxes this time.
Seems good.
TheCongressman1
Member
At least hitboxes look correct this time.
Fixed that.
There's so many weird issues I had with collision in ds2, so I'm glad it at least looks like an improvement in that regard.
At least people won't complain about hitboxes this time.
Beautiful.
ASilentProtagonist
Member
Five hours? So how's the game?
https://twitter.com/fiddlecub
You can get more detailed impressions here from Kevin. Seems like he digs it.
super-famicom
Member
Previous Souls games had Japanese text for everything and English voice work.
The Xtortionist
Member
At least people won't complain about hitboxes this time.
Oh baby, they are not going to be as bad as Dark Souls? Count me in!
They are going to be as bad.
Orthogonal
Member
All I want is a Covenant of Champions ; ;
Is it too much to ask for?
I am dying to know more about covenants. After they were treated as an afterthought in Bloodborne, I hope there is a strong return to form here.
DS2 had many faults, but covenants were by far one of its strongest features. Please don't disappoint.
well there goes any chance of me importing.
it's not so much the extra wait time, it's how hard it'll be to avoid looking/reading about the game