Orochinagis
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Would be strange since most of the gods were already dead or forgotten
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Dark Souls 3 announced (Early 2016, PC/PS4/XB1, Miyazaki Directing)
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Would be strange since most of the gods were already dead or forgotten
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
There was, but it was only noticeable in screenshots for me. Never an issue while playing at all.
DoubleTake
Member
Well it was written on a grave? Hah.
Imru al-Qays
Banned
We play as Solaire confirmed.
So very much CA in BB.
Sticky&Sweet
Banned
I know a lot of people hated it, but I really hope we see the return of DoF as used in Dark Souls. It gave the game a more "fantasy" vibe imo, especially in Darkroot.
That makes perfect sense! Lost Izalith was developed in the janitor's closet.
PC version is gonna be the best for the CA toggle alone
and 60 fps OuO
I thought the story was that they had bigger plans for Lost Izalith but it ultimately ended up unfinished and left as it is.
Which is true, you can see where the area was suppose to have more to it, but instead they had to fill it with those Demons and be done.
EDIT: I believe it was even acknowledged that they didn't have the time to get it all done.
If I have to then I will just play the PC version but I would like to play on PS4 as well.
The Lost Izalith nonsense made me want to look into things more, every Souls games has some blatantly unfinished content.
- Demon Souls had an entire area cut
- Dark Souls got most of it's intended content in but some was very clearly unfinished, possible implications of an area between Sens and Anor Londo, and the entire Oscar plot cut from the game despite being mostly done it seemed.
- Dark Souls II got the better end of the deal with much less content left cut out (Still a little) But mostly is the unfinished lighting system that SOTFS didn't fully fix (You can actually still use a Torch to make areas look much scarier and cooler looking)
So we'll see what happens but hopefully Dark Souls III gets polished and completed entirely, Bloodborne came out not long ago, DSII SOTFS came out not long ago, they shouldn't feel pressure to rush this.
- Demon Souls had an entire area cut
- Dark Souls got most of it's intended content in but some was very clearly unfinished, possible implications of an area between Sens and Anor Londo, and the entire Oscar plot cut from the game despite being mostly done it seemed.
- Dark Souls II got the better end of the deal with much less content left cut out (Still a little) But mostly is the unfinished lighting system that SOTFS didn't fully fix (You can actually still use a Torch to make areas look much scarier and cooler looking)
So we'll see what happens but hopefully Dark Souls III gets polished and completed entirely, Bloodborne came out not long ago, DSII SOTFS came out not long ago, they shouldn't feel pressure to rush this.
Lux R7
Member
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(I didn't actually play the game like that but it looks nice in screenshots)
i must say i hate it. Really, i want to see everything in distance.
SomedayTheFire
Member
Well that's not true. There might not be nothing wrong with it for you, but for me it was quite distracting. Generally overuse of CA in games gives me a headache, not sure why but I just can't look at an image for long that has it. It's also quite distracting to me.
KittenMaster
Member
I think the only reason they did it like that is because
the entire game takes place inside a vast clear fog.
Stone Ocean
Member
I'll never understand why people like any DoF. I hate that shit
eot
Banned
I don't care if other games have worse CA, the amount of it in BB is insane and totally fucks the IQ. It's awful.
Sticky&Sweet
Banned
Just saw this http://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/3aedto/is_this_what_i_think_it_is/
Oh yeah, I won't miss it.
I don't recall it being that aggressive in DSII, that's far too much for such a well-lit area.
Oh yeah, I won't miss it.
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(I didn't actually play the game like that but it looks nice in screenshots)
I don't recall it being that aggressive in DSII, that's far too much for such a well-lit area.
Souls 2 must have had a buttload of stuff cut though. It's why the world layout is so nonsensical
They changed directions with the game like haflway through development and had to stitch the existing work together, or at least that is my impression from the interviews. It isn't as much cut content as it is reorganized/repurposed content. Certain sequences are fine when viewed alone:
- Drangleic Castle -> Amana -> Crypt
- Hole -> Saints -> Gutter -> Gulch
- Woods -> Doors -> Cove
But the Copse->Keep path is fucked.
EDIT:
Heide's -> Wharf too, thanks.
A few large zones/collection of zones, like Forest or Bastille, are nice. I'm under the impression that Forest was two zones early in development, but eventually they dropped that. (Cardinal Tower, the bonfire, showed up in an early zone list)
DAAAYUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMM
Miya-chan please show us more. Grant us eyes.
EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA5oy41mpsY
Always worth a rewatch to get hyped as shit.
Stone Ocean
Member
Heide as a whole is pretty out of place. I just entered a sewer, why am I in the middle of this floating ocean castle thing now?
He returns
Majula -> Heide's is fine, just with the overly aggressively shortened like a lot of the zone tunnels. What happens when you actually enter the submerged tower after the Dragorider is a complete mess, in orientation, height, and lateral distance.
Sticky&Sweet
Banned
Another thing is that it SHOULD be an interesting located given how it's presented outside, but it's just unremarkable corridors with a hole in the wall.
decoyplatypus
Member
Fire up the bass cannon.
I was being slightly facetious
(in any case, I think I'd read that Demon Ruins/Lost Izalith was rushed/unfinished, and I think Miyazaki apologized for that... maybe? I can't recall)
Yeah, those sequences are fine. Shaded Woods > Drangleic Castle feels weird to me, though... and the less said about Earthen Peak/Iron Keep, the better.
Sticky&Sweet
Banned
The entire Shaded Woods area is my least favourite in the game. It's hideous.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
THE LEGEND NEVER DIES
Whitman's Ghost
Banned
I'm usually pretty tolerant of weird effects some people seem to take issue here. I will have to see give me that digital version for 30 Sony!
Turns out none of the games use Phyre, that was mis-reported and widely repeated.
Bloodborne seems to use a modified version of the Dark Souls 1 engine, and your thinking about visual effects is way off; you can easily add something like CA without changing engine tech at all.
SamusPrime
Banned
I'm blissfully ignorant of technical terms and don't even know what Chromatic... is for example.
I thought this 'blurry' effect in Dark Souls (DoF???) was absolutely gorgeous and lent the game a very dreamy and surreal vibe. Getting closer to get a clearer view of what was hazy in the distance before was really cool I thought. I hope something like this makes a return in DkS3, combined with the ambient background sounds especially.
Depth of field looks great. Chromatic aberration does not.
In Bloodborne:
(the Bloodborne CA also shimmers on distant object as you move, ensuring that your eye is drawn to it)
Count me in the crowd that loved the DoF in Dark Souls, especially the first game (looking up at the aqueducts from Firelink was amazing).
Was DoF even present by default in the second game? If it was, it was a lot weaker.
I always figured that Bloodborne used an evolution of the new-gen engine they supposedly developed for Dark Souls 2.
Lux R7
Member
Woah!! Great find! This is unbelievable mostly 'cause we know that these guys were
illusions made by Gwindolyn
"Slightly less than 2" is Miyazaki's word, so trust that over the numbers from the leak.
However, people worry too much about the somewhat arbitrary cutoff between zones, especially when discussing interconnectedness. How much do zone splash screens really matter? Plenty of zones in the series are tiny, and could easily count as part of their adjacent zones if they wanted.