I don't think so. If you include Demon Souls, then you have basically 4 (Souls) games.
They'll probably do another souls type game like bloodborne, creating and using different worlds and settings.
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I don't think so. If you include Demon Souls, then you have basically 4 (Souls) games.
They'll probably do another souls type game like bloodborne, creating and using different worlds and settings.
GreyOcelot
Member
something sci-fi would be amazing. light saber in one hand, blaster in the other!
The only thing the newcomers need to know, is in this case that it is from the same developer and it is similar to the "souls" game.
The industry should focus more on the recognition of the developers, like "From (no pun intended) the makers of...." instead "XYZ 2 the sequel of".
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
If they were to make a Demons Souls 2 instead. How would that be different from this? Just the Nexus?
And maybe the lore, bring back world tendencies but flesh them out more
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A Sci-Fi Souls would be great with a BLAME! or Biomega aesthetic. How amazing would it be if every new game would have a fresh setting like Bloodborne. The fourth serving of sword & magick, skeletons & dragons means that...I'm good.
Err... What exactly makes that obvious?
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yeah, I love skipping pompous lines of dialogues just so I can finally level up... no thanks.People hoping for no level up "waifus" are bollocks. Come on, can't we have a soothing voice to enjoy after all the trouble of beating those monsters?
DS2's main theme was largely about cycles, the curse's cycle and ending it... and I'd think you'd be hard pressed to say the ending gave any finality to that.
Look! The Pie!
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So happy right now. Never expected DS3 to be revealed this soon, and as someone who loves DS1, 2 and BB pretty much equally, am more than happy to play another instalment. A Team, B Team, freaking C Team...don't care. Just give it to me. The Assassin's Creed/CoD comparisons are laughable as long as the Souls games continue to maintain their current quality.
Anyway, it's going to be a fun year: endless threads on what DS2 did wrong and how DeS/DS1/BB are flawless masterpieces (because we certainly haven't seen enough of them already), hundreds of pages of whining about the further casualization of the series with every new piece of DS3 information, B Team conspiracy theories...I can't wait.
Anyway, it's going to be a fun year: endless threads on what DS2 did wrong and how DeS/DS1/BB are flawless masterpieces (because we certainly haven't seen enough of them already), hundreds of pages of whining about the further casualization of the series with every new piece of DS3 information, B Team conspiracy theories...I can't wait.
If you look at From's pedigree since it's inception, they are constantly stuck in cycles they can't break.
King's Field
Armored Core
Souls
Master Miyazaki. He's not a master for nothing.
iRAWRasaurus
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BrokenIcarus
Member
Is there any real evidence that he is? Seems highly unlikely to me.
A mix between Dark Souls 2/Bloodborne devs + Sony Studios people probably, the main focus at From is most likely Souls 3.
Edit: I hope Miyazaki doesn't have these weird ideas about keeping a locked 30 FPS even on PC. That would make me a sad panda.
On consoles I'd rather the framerate were locked to 30 like in DeS or DS1 than have it be unlocked 60 if they can't hit a steady 60fps. Made DS2 look really inconsistent on PS3 with the framerate jumping all over the place.
Maxwood
Oh rock of ages, do not crumble, love is breathing still. Oh lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will.
Thanks! Apparently I overlooked that comment.
And thanks to oginath, ofcourse.
I was really suprised to see Hebrew on concept-art for a Souls game, of all things.
Yeah, totally understandable, a smooth locked framerate is better than something that jumps around like crazy for sure.
The Scholar of the First Sin was mostly steady. Thankfully for me it was my my first Souls experience, so I only know the version of the game with good frame rate.
Orochinagis
Member
The problem I am finding in Souls is there is not real consecuences in the game so far, Dark Souls 2 added "cycles" you wont be able to break and make the Dark Souls 2 pointless of your actions since the cicle wont be broken unless you decide to let the fire die and start the darkness. The extra ending just pointed out humans will still try to defy the cycle but eventually fails anyway. It just a Dark Souls cycle with a "maybe next time something will happens" game
The developers from Dark Souls 2 didnt listen to Dark Souls 1 endings at all or like listen to the lore just references and make new ones that would be easily forgotten by the next game.
Bloodborne is going that way since you didnt do anything to stop the hunt nights at all, you just simply survived one night of hunting or
being the dream host, moon boss bro for the next night
Sanctuary
Member
I don't know why so many people still think that if they had been able to keep the Demon's Souls name that Dark Souls would have somehow turned out any different than it did. Dark Souls is Demon's Souls 2, and at this point I doubt they will ever care to go back to a strict hub world design. You can point out all of the design differences between the two games, but then you could point out just as many going from Dark to Dark 2 (which tried to combine elements from both).
I kinda think it's gonna be all
Dark Souls 1 tells you how the cycle got started
Dark Souls 2 tells you about a bunch of different cycles and that it's hard to break
Dark Souls 3 tells you how everything got so fucked up a wizard'd go "I'm a wizard and that's fucked up"
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I feel like the point of the new DS2 ending is showing that consecuences of the DS1 ending (kindle or not the flame) don't matter ,because the cycle will keep going whatever happens. Its logic afterall, if you kindle the flame you're just derailing the inevitable, and if you start the age of dark, well.... everyone ends up hollowed.
The point of DS3 may be if theres somethign true about that "something else" that Aldia (and you if you choose the new ending) are seeking.
StaffyManasse
Member
Seriously though. This maggot.
DistortionOfReality
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Intheflorsh
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It's really not a big deal
It is absolutely a big deal for people playing on consoles and have to sit through two long loading screens. Even on PC, it's still a contrived inconvenience.
Considering this will probably be an E3 announcement, they likely won't say anything till then. Plus you know how the typical PR response is..."we don't comment on rumors/speculation blah blah".
DrROBschiz
Member
Souls is a series I could play forever, it feels so good to play that I'd just never stop as long as more content is released and there's more shit to kill.
They could go truly crazy and just make a starter hub souls game and then keep expanding on it's world and areas indefinitely until there is so much content that you basically reach the 700s through leveling normally by the end of the game, that's not really conducive to the Souls experience but it's the kind of thing I could get behind with Souls gameplay.
It's the smooth and simple yet satisfying combat that keeps me hooked.
Actually MGS Ground Zeroes has a similar kind of feeling and re-playability these days too, but I can't think of any other series that really feels like that.
They could go truly crazy and just make a starter hub souls game and then keep expanding on it's world and areas indefinitely until there is so much content that you basically reach the 700s through leveling normally by the end of the game, that's not really conducive to the Souls experience but it's the kind of thing I could get behind with Souls gameplay.
It's the smooth and simple yet satisfying combat that keeps me hooked.
Actually MGS Ground Zeroes has a similar kind of feeling and re-playability these days too, but I can't think of any other series that really feels like that.
CountAntonius
Member
Dream game. Also include seasons like diablo with hardcore ladders, speed ladders, pvp ladders etc.
Basically I want Diablo Souls. Souls combat and setting with Diablo online functions.
Orochinagis
Member
The problem with the aldia ending is the player already saw the consequences in the DLC already with the Ivory and Iron King, Both kings surpassed the curse but were followed by the dark and got destroyed in different situations while the Sunken king was prospering but got destroyed by other humans greed.
There is a implication of resurrecting the dragons for a possible key to destroy the curse in dark souls 2.
DustyVonEric
Member
Seriously though. This maggot.
Nah, man. If you look in the background of the original pic, you see those arches? The ones with the same surface / skin as the monster in your pic?
I think this is a giant snake-like creature.
Now, imagine being eaten by it and there are several areas to play in his belly until you find your way out.
King's Field has been dead since 2006, though.
One of the things I hated about Dark Souls II from a story point of view was just how worthless the games actual scenario is. The first game had a significant feeling of meaninglessness in what you do - you can try to prolong Dark, but that'll fail, or you can say "fuck it" and let it happen right away - but the second game talks about it being cycles, which only ever gets the game away with the fact it's a sequel to the first, and potentially shoehorning that plotline to allow an infinite number of sequels, all in the same land, and there being no impact at all for what you do. Even Bloodborne's ending
doesn't do that, for you're caught in some plague by super evil creatures. The game may hint at a way out, primarily with the blood curse and the myth of Paleblood, but those would appear to be rumors to get people to Yharnam.
If the third game actually entertains a cure to the curse not as mere backdrop or a DLC story idea but as the core theme of the game, I'd be interested. If the GAF teaser has been right all along, I believe he's implied it's the final game in a trilogy, so hopefully it concludes things in a much better manner than Dark Souls II ever tried to do and fail at it.
Small Mailman
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Is this considered a AAA game series? I find it hard to believe the general public played the original and started demanding more. They're pumping these out so fast now!
SlipperyFishes
Banned
2011, 2014(15), 2016 is pumping them out?
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
Don't even care. I love this series so much that they could annualize it and I would buy the shit out of it every year.
StaffyManasse
Member
What arches? There were no arch....
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I don't even know if I should be posting the noping badger or the yessing Nicholson. I love this!
Still think it's more like a maggot than a snake though.
I'm not sure what to believe on this one.
Some of the screens environments look identical to Bloodborne...I seriously doubt they would reuse such large elements from what they vocally said would be a separate entity with separate lore.
That being said I want a DS3 announcement at E3, big time.
Some of the screens environments look identical to Bloodborne...I seriously doubt they would reuse such large elements from what they vocally said would be a separate entity with separate lore.
That being said I want a DS3 announcement at E3, big time.