I may be wrong on this, but I remember some talk about it being revealed shortly after E3? Maybe Gamescom?
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Dark Souls series tops 8 million copies shipped (940K Japan, 7M+ abroad)
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I may be wrong on this, but I remember some talk about it being revealed shortly after E3? Maybe Gamescom?
When is that ?
Aces&Eights
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I hope you're right. I would be estatic if they drop an expansion on us for the holidays but I suspect it won't be until next year. Hell, maybe they will include it with dark souls 3 as a bonus to get people who didn't play Bloodborne to try it out.
gotstrangepowers
Banned
Probably not, as Sony is mostly skipping Gamescom and focusing on Paris Week this year.
"However, he did hint at a possible 2015 release date for the DLC, as he explained that he would like to play it this year.
Awesome numbers for the series!
I would've thought it might be revealed at a conference though, which Sony won't be having at Gamescom this year. So maybe Paris games week or Tgs?
I think that would be hard to do with two different publishers though.
I would've thought it might be revealed at a conference though, which Sony won't be having at Gamescom this year. So maybe Paris games week or Tgs?
I think that would be hard to do with two different publishers though.
Backfoggen
Banned
Different publishers, that's never going to happen.
Souls 2 not being particularly brilliant I will grant you. Souls 2 is merely *very good* and I would still place on par or above most other third person action games that have been released in the last couple of years.
Souls 1 did not have a lackluster second half. It had a couple of weak areas that should have been optimized better (Lost Izalith, chiefly) but technically Anor Londo is in the 2nd half of the game and it is amazing (and includes The Painted World of Ariamis which was very cool) The Crystal Cave and of course Kiln of the First Flame. All of those were very strong areas and appeared in the 2nd half of the game.
The Duke's Archive was too long and a bit boring and Lost Izalith was borderline bad but outside of those two areas the 2nd half of Dark Souls was as good as the 1st half.
I don't want to derail the thread too much but there was a very large write-up by a game creator at the time that Bloodborne launched that detailed a couple of the reasons why the Souls games are as good as they are. It is worth a read as it comes from a professional game designer who is also passionate about playing games. Everyone has preferences and it is fine not to like something but I would contest anyone who said that the Souls games weren't objectively great.
Aces&Eights
Member
Ahh, you're right. It was a crazy idea, anyway.
That's why I've always been saying that DS3 is not a question of if, but just when.
Also, that puts the PC sales share for both DS1 and DS2 at roughly 50% -- outside Japan.
I think DS1 is by far the most successful Japanese game on Steam ever, but I might be missing something.
It's fun.
Also, that puts the PC sales share for both DS1 and DS2 at roughly 50% -- outside Japan.
I think DS1 is by far the most successful Japanese game on Steam ever, but I might be missing something.
I still have random students walk up to me after a first lecture/lab and ask if I am the DSfix guy.
It's fun.
Well, look at DMC4SE. Especially at the DLC for it.
If Dragon's Dogma HD ever comes true, you can for sure expect something like '10 arrows pack DLC, $1.99' or 'Pawn revive crystals twopack, $2.99' and such.
Not having playe DMC4SE, I'm not sure how the game would play with a freemium mechanism included... Probably badly.
Were you ever approached by anyone from From/Namco?
Gentleman Jack
Member
DS2 got Durante's approval. I suspect they've learned their lesson on what PC gamers want from ports.
For people asking about DeS numbers the only one I know of is through the end of Feb 2010: 280,000 for North America (Atlus expected to sell 75k). I don't know any source for updated numbers.
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/04/14/demons-souls-sells-triple-what-atlus-usa-expected/
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/04/14/demons-souls-sells-triple-what-atlus-usa-expected/
SteamSpy is an estimation so it's not exact.
I thought it was pretty obvious they used Durante's additions as a blue print for their DS2 PC port.
What a comeback though, I thought DS2 was excellent.
Just had a look at them, they look like cheat codes.
Hey, whatever pays the bills over at Capcom. I would prefer to have a game with some cosmetic or 'cheat code' DLC than a game not existing.
Irrelevant to me either way as I rarely purchase DLC
Not quite, optimization wise DS2 was remarkable, but they still gutted that game's lighting systems and never properly restored them for the PC version.
It still just looks completely broken in parts, but that's more of a design issue than a porting issue.
Game plays just fine, micro-transactions dont really affect it.
hydrophilic attack
Member
This is amazing.
Totally made my day.
Totally made my day.
I completely agree, but until I'm actually playing it myself... You know how it is.
It's off by like 500k though based on the 1.2 million shipped and the current numbers. I can't imagine steamspy being that wrong and I can't imagine that DS2 only sold 400k on pc. So something doesn't seem to fit.
The stellar PC sales is probably reason to why Bandai Namco is porting everything they got to PC nowadays. Great that the PC crowd is starting to play more Japanese games. Though I suspect a large portion of those players are people who a generation ago used to play primarily on console.
Well, so long as the actual game balance and currency values aren't tinkered with, I don't care. Microtransactions are shit. But so long as it doesn't have gameplay implications (which they don't for DMC4:SE as it's basically cheat codes), I can just pretend they don't exist.
Gentleman Jack
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I was making a point about the latter than the former. Yeah people will be bummed when DS3 comes out and those particle/lighting effects in the teaser aren't in the shipped product, too. But there's plenty to hope from the quality and performance of the PC port.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Awesome. Soulsborne is the best thing in gaming right now. Miyazaki is the man.
They got a pretty significant backlash for that in DS2 and we've already seen Bloodborne look great on PS4, it's using the same engine, so there's no reason why they should make that mistake with DS3.
I just don't want to see these kinds of shenanigans.
DS3 is only releasing on PS4/Xbone console-wise so there's no reason not to expect lighting and particle effects on par with Bloodborne's.
edit: beaten
Would you be willing to share whether From Software or Namco thanked you or acknowledged you for your mod? I have thought about that for ages!
Just felt like revealing a piece of my imagination of what deserves success and what does not like all the other people that made "undeserved/deserved" posts. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=151763243#post151763243 You also have a lot of "undeserved" posts here, couldn't sense it's suddenly a taboo when it comes to this franchise. I apologize if this is the case.
Lol what?
No.
I'm a researcher really (and more of an engineer really reallyThat's awesome. I didn't know you were an educator in real life.
), I just do 4 hours a week of lecturing as part of my position.4 hours of lecturing that I'm paid for that is. I lecture people on the internet for free all the time!
I think the 1.2 million simply included Japan. Then everything fits perfectly -- assuming the console release didn't sell much on top of that, which they don't really do generally.
Melchiah
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Same here. Although I briefly tried Demon's Souls, when it came available on PS+, but at the time it didn't click with me.
Haha! I did exactly that. =D And now I've platinumed Bloodborne (skipped Defiled chalice though), and playing it again on NG+. How times change.
sixteen-bit
Member
Congrats on the success.
I'm a researcher really (and more of an engineer really really
4 hours of lecturing that I'm paid for that is. I lecture people on the internet for free all the time!
That's interesting! I'm in a similar position, really. I'm currently teaching a couple first year math and physics classes twice a week as part of the requirements for my doctorate program in DSP (Electrical Engineering). The thing is I'm not really enjoying it, and seeing how my day job in the music industry has little to do with it, I'm seriously considering giving up on my studies/research. Besides, I'm not getting paid for any of it yet.
In any case, "my students" aren't very big fans of Dark Souls. They're mostly Call of Duty players, unfortunately. :-/
Weltall Zero
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SuperInuit
Member
Well deserved, brilliant new IP. Great sales for a niche title too. Here's hoping Dark Souls 3 continues in this trend.
For real , i myself don't care for Dota nor will i make myself like a game i don't care for but MILLIONS are enjoying the game and who am i to get in their way by being a little insignificant shit compared to the entire community. Darn why can't there be an option to ignore quotes of ignored people.
Omnistalgic
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Loved, DeS, Loved Dark Souls, but got a little bored with it, just tired of the formula at that point. Skipped DS2, got BloodBorne, ready for DS3.
Fantastic series, glad it's found a large audience.
Fantastic series, glad it's found a large audience.
Omnistalgic
Member
I dunno, PC crowd seems to be the typical anti-AAA group (generalizing a bit) Souls series seems like a perfect match with hardcore gamers, and many have moved on to PC to have more control and options.
CountAntonius
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Dark Souls 2 didn't have any issues.
Great to see the PC community embrace the game. They fought so hard to get in on there weathered a half assed port and here we are. Now if only we got a simultaneous release..sigh.
CountAntonius
Member
Resources better spent on the Next Bloodborne/DLC and DS3 is my guess. They only have two teams.