demosthenes
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Vague links. Completely stand alone. But both are excellent and I recommend you play them.
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Dark Souls 3 announced (Early 2016, PC/PS4/XB1, Miyazaki Directing)
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Vague links. Completely stand alone. But both are excellent and I recommend you play them.
The problem of the second game is that it leaned TOO heavily on the first in terms of lore and ideas.
They don't tie into each other, but you should play the first two because they are amazing games. Dark Souls 1 in particular is the game of the generation and one of the greatest games ever made
The CGI trailer was lame. Dark Souls II's was way more hype and I don't like how this trailer is reliant on Dark Souls II + DLC knowledge. Instead of showing callbacks, they should have showed the location (Lordran again? somewhere new?) and new story. I don't really care if they use Dark Souls II lore but I wish they wouldn't have wasted CGI on that. The CGI should define Dark Souls III like Demon's Souls and Dark Souls had. This was also rather short so I guess there will be more in the actual game.
I think the problem with the second game was that the NPCs talked too much. Sometimes I would feel like they were explaining the story to me in a very obvious way. They also did the same when referencing Dark Souls 1. If they wanted to make the story more clear, they should have had an NPC like the monumental or something at that hub area who could explain things. Or they could have used the red head.
It seems similar too to the place that is shown in the Dark Souls 2 Intro, when the witch says "They called it Drangleic".
They do unfortunately. Play 1 before 2.
strong vague ties if that makes sense
It's referential and yes you should play both they're excellent games
Agreed. I'm hopeful that this game will do things differently.
DS1 and DS2 both took place at a similar point in the "cycle", when the kingdom was just starting to fall into ruin and the fire needed to be rekindled.
From what we've seen of DS3, it looks like it takes place at a very "low" point in the cycle: the fire has failed to be rekindled, and the kingdom is in the early stages of a Dark Age.
I'm hopeful that this change in backstory helps the game stand out on its own.
Nah, it more like the DarkSoulsCrystal.
Oh that's really interesting. Particularly as Dark Crystal also has a plot relating to immortal beings and restoring mortality by searching for the titular MacGuffin. And a king who keeps on living by sucking the souls of his subjects. Well at least that's what I got reading the wiki summary. Gotta watch this.
Wonder what the ending for the series will be. Assume that someone finally reunites the dark soul in one place (the crown?) and fucks over the humans, who all become hollow and collapse, and something else takes humanity's place. The giants?
The most important thing for the game, if they are going with a connected world, is that there's no hub and no levelling lady. No matter if Miyazaki directs, team b, team c, whatever, just take away the hub and the rest of the design decisions will flow into another DS1.
To be fair a LOT of the architecture in Dark Souls is very similar. I remember people were wondering if the place shown in the DS2 intro (Which turned out to be the Dragon Shrine I think) was Anor Londo from DS1.
They just have extremely similar style across the games. They love their towers and chapels.
What if DaS 3 actually follows the other DaS 1 ending ?
We finally heading to the land of the giants?
That sounds plausible,although i hope they don´t bring back any lore/story elements from 2.
Also,i hope they try to be more creative with the endings this time.
Yeah those arches are present in Heide too.
Technically Vendrick chose the Dark Age ending, since he didn't link the fire. It just happened a few cycles after Gwyn (going by the amount of Sublime Bone Dust in the game, the first flame has been rekindled 5 times).
Backfoggen
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Pls good hitboxes.
Copy the link to imgur.
Sticky&Sweet
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I fucking love it.
Looks very Bloodborne-ish definitely.
I hope its got a bright side like Souls games do. One of my favourite things about the Souls games are its varied environments without any one strict art style.
Lux R7
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hoping in some good guy with a hidden camera.
DoubleTake
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Hmm...Peeves most recent tweet seems pretty somber and doesnt mention anything about Ds3. Wonder if the preview already happened..
Peeve Peeverson
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At E3...playing Bloodborne.
Yup.
Peeve Peeverson
‏@Peeverson
At E3...playing Bloodborne.
Yup.
Morrigan Stark
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wat
GwyndolinCinder
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VanOrd just confirmed gwyn is returning
DoubleTake
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A couple of hours ago seemed like he was excited and heading into the DaS3 demo, now he's tweeting yup and talking a bout BB. Just wondering if the demo happened already or if he's still waiting. The tone of the tweet just sounds really meh, especially coming from him.
What? Isnt this entering spoiler territory?
Weird. That seems like a massive spoiler.
Also, that artwork looks like a more consistent Dark Souls 2, great.
SargerusBR
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
MatrixMan.EXE
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That's a huge spoiler, wtf. Also, when can we see gameplay ourselves? The fuck is this behind closed doors nonsense?
wat. OK then.
Wat,how?
le fuck?
Morrigan Stark
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Huh?