LordBaztion
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Dark Souls 2 Beta Footage
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Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Satsuki in NG+ is wayyyy worse than this wench, who's easily backstabbed after she whiffs. Satsuki is a bitch who grasses.
Yup. He one shot kills, dead angles with his katana and grasses as soon as his health gets low or even half way. Bitch!
Satsuki was fairly easy not like this fine lady over here...
Nah man. NG+ he is so much worse.
Dat Havels armour lol.
I'm guessing you haven't played Demons souls. It made sense there. FROM should punish people who are too scared to come online or provide incentives to come online. In DeS you had half health unless you were human. Its a bit less severe here where you only have lower health if you keep on dying (?).
You only loose your souls if you die twice and progress is never lost as you keep items, and learn how to fight better and the path. Its basically adding more severity in death which is a good thing.
Takamura-San
Member
You don't really lose progress. You keep items, weapons and stuff.
You also don't lose souls, unless you don't manage to get to your last point again.
In Demon's Souls, even the worlds themselves got harder and harder the more you died. I hope that feature returns as well. I loved it.
"You died". over and over and over again. Unless you get better at the game.
Oh god we're in a loop here
H_Prestige
Banned
So this is basically Dark Souls: Demon's Souls Edition
As was said, you don't lose progress - keeping items is a big deal. Mini-bosses stay dead and other environment changes stay done. Dieing really costs you very little. having a difference between being human and hollow adds a lot of fun for me.
Cloudius12
Member
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
FROM you beasts! This is more like Demons DSouls which I love. Black phantoms are finally as threatening as they were in Demons souls and NPC phantoms hnnnnnng. I hope we get a phantom as hard as this guy:
I've always felt that the AI got dumbed down in Dark souls. The phantoms didn't seem aggressive at all.
Also invaders can estus hahahaha gankers am cry.
HYpe is through the roof now.
Takamura-San
Member
CountAntonius
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ThatChairMan
Member
Oh, that's good to know. Does it offset as much as the original, or is that still unknown?
Blocked in US
So true.
I also hope that black phantom NPCs return to form for Dark Souls II. Most of the BPs in Demon's are really challenging, and the ones in Dark Souls are ALL complete jokes.
Worked for me. Man that guy is really bad.
CountAntonius
Member
Really? I'm in the US.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I like that sword and that move set, but is there a reason it sounds like a waterfall is exploding every time he hits a guy? Is it some kind of water elemental sword? If that's just supposed to be the sound of bloody mayhem, they fucked up a little.
(btw, video works for me and I'm in the US.)
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I'm slightly grossed out by how fast dude is swinging such a large weapon.
Red Liquorice
Member
I think he starts off as the dual weilding class, so maybe it has high agility? Just guessing.
Red Liquorice
Member
lol, 4-2 lizard indeed,
I've played Demon's Souls. It didn't make much sense there, but this mechanic seems worse.
Imagine if you've cleared an area, and just want to kill the boss. You keep dying to the boss, and will keep making it harder. Many people will want to have the best shot at killing the boss, which could involve lots of farming to get whaever it is to make your health normal again. It could get very tedious.
Outright Villainy
Member
I'm avoiding to watch any videos, I just want to know one thing, do we know if these are still in the game?
I need more of these comics, bloody hilarious they are.
Also god damn 4-2, most annoying god damn stage ever before I wiki'd how to get the ring of fog. Flying manta ray fuckers, makes the Anor Londo archers seem like freshly scented daisies by comparison.
well if your idea of "challenge" is to shoot 100 arrows at every enemy while out of their aggro range then I think there's a lot more tweaks From has made to stop this than just giving arrows weight.
Though in DeS you could easily carry a few hundred arrows and the open world of nature of DaS means you could run back to a merchant and stock up if you ran out so a legit bow only build still sounds feasible
mickcenary
Member
I will hopefully get some hands-on time at EB Expo this Friday, which is an Australian gaming expo. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty pumped.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
relating to my other post, dont get me wrong i know why these games are hard, ive completed both demon and dark souls in past. just feels like the things they are changing / doing isnt following the normal route and i think things will be more cheap deaths instead of being your fault
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Arrows having weight? Ouch. It's probably very small, but still, that'll hurt. lol
year generation century geological time period.
YESSSSSS game of the
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Arrows now having weight is probably the biggest nerf archery could've possibly gotten.
But then again, DEX-based archery in Demon's Souls was powerful as fuck despite having weight.
But then again, DEX-based archery in Demon's Souls was powerful as fuck despite having weight.
Indeed.
mickcenary
Member
I reckon I used arrows a total of 5 times in 3 play-throughs. That being said, I always had them equipped because the quivers looked swag on your person.
And let's be honest, Dark Souls is 95% about looking swag, guys.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I dunno how I like some of the changes. You have soo many stats now, agreed PvP level will not below 150 I wager.
Vitality
Vigor
Endurance
Agility
+Strength or Dex or Attunement and Int or Faith
Additionally, bow characters will have increased burden.
I'll probably end up with a Dex character, as I want to use a Spear at all costs.
Vitality
Vigor
Endurance
Agility
+Strength or Dex or Attunement and Int or Faith
Additionally, bow characters will have increased burden.
I'll probably end up with a Dex character, as I want to use a Spear at all costs.
StoppedInTracks
Member
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TrueMenace
Unconfirmed Member
I need EpicNameBro's big papa analysis on the Dark Souls II Beta RIGHT NOW!
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
3rd time in a row for FROM. Some kind of record right there.
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TrueMenace
Unconfirmed Member
I've seen that when it came out. That was a beta impression at TGS '13 with 20minutes of playtime only.
His twitter said he can't say anything yet because of From Software's NDA on the beta.
I want his REAL beta impressions!
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Hmm will be interesting how the new usefulness of the resistance stat will work on the highest new game+ difficult...i can only imagin if it is still usefull at ng7 that it is overpowered in early games? Or it ends up useless on ng+ and the stat points are a waste again at that point? Or maybe the stat scales with ng+ ?
I think the balance they had in DkS with the progression being based more on personal skill & item progression than on character progression was working very well to bring "you" into the game, instead of an avatar.
I kind of liked that + the challenges of doing low level character runs - they had some kind of unbalanced balance which was "yours", the player, to solve & manage - but still, perfectly doable.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
This game looks soooo good, but no ps4 port makes me sad.
I just keep telling myself that there has to be one... I mean, right?
These days I look over at my PS3 with a sort of disgust lol.