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FunkMiller said:
There's an awful lot of people on Twitch playing Demon's Souls, who clearly aren't Souls players... it's hilarious.
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I mean, aside from them being review copies, a lot of people are excited about the game. Including those that have never played a Souls game or didn't care for them previously. The game IS very pretty, so it's not too surprising. It's also one of the few exclusive launch titles, so it's only going to get worse before it gets better, lol.

It's definitely one of the prettier and cooler remakes we've seen thus far.
 
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cragarmi said:
Didn't find the overall story as good as Odyssey personally, but others seemed to have enjoyed this one more. The moment to moment game play is very similar, and some of the smaller tales are quite wacky.
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I trust your words, mate. I think I'll try it for myself anyway. I don't like their magical direction overall since Origins, but Odyssey was so good to me.
 
MiguelItUp said:
I mean, aside from them being review copies, a lot of people are excited about the game. Including those that have never played a Souls game or didn't care for them previously. The game IS very pretty, so it's not too surprising. It's also one of the few exclusive launch titles, so it's only going to get worse before it gets better, lol.

It's definitely one of the prettier and cooler remakes we've seen thus far.
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It's quite good fun watching them trying to work it all out, to be fair. When they get right tactic of block, circle, counter it instantly elevates their gameplay. Really interesting to watch people working out the mechanics, pace and right way to play.
 
Sleepwalker said:
I'll have you know it was Micolash the one who made me quit bloodborne, so I FULLY expect to beat AT LEAST 2 bosses in Demons Souls. :messenger_grimmacing_
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Ugh. Micolash was a ball ache. Easy to kill once you've found him, but chasing him all over the shop was so annoying. Giggling twat.
 
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Looks like a 90+ title to me.

The original game is fantastic. Clever, intricate, and probably has the best and most self-contained lore of the series. Add to that Bluepoint's technical and artistic chops, and the results should be even better.

Cannot wait to try it.
 
ethomaz said:
I thought it was a review thread.
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Man, people will turn everything into a political topic, even a character creator. I don't know how you can look at a fictional world with dragons and undead corpses and think; Black character options equals some kind of agenda. Anyway, 87-89 is my prediction for the critics.
 
Klayzer said:
Man, people will turn everything into a political topic, even a character creator. I don't know how you can look at a fictional world with dragons and undead corpses and think; Black character options equals some kind of agenda. Anyway, 87-89 is my prediction for the critics.
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The developers did that, I just called it out.
 
Bluepoint made a great job, also finally we will be able to play the game at stable frame rates.

Best launch game of all.
 
DeaconOfTheDank said:
Compared to later Soulsborne titles, DeS gameplay is left in the dust. For the veterans, it's hard to overlook when we're used to titles like Bloodborne, Sekiro, and DS3.

That being said, DeS already has better gameplay than like 90% of games in existence lol.

I'm predicting 85+ on metacritic.
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For Dark Souls series I can see where you coming from since those games are spiritual successor to Demons Souls but Bloodbone and Sekiro are very different from those games, especially Sekiro since that game is an action game rather than RPG.
 
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Danjin44 said:
For Dark Souls series I can see where you coming from since those games are spiritual successor to Demons Souls but Bloodbone and Sekiro are very different from those games, especially Sekiro since that game is an action game rather than RPG.
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I agree with you on Sekiro. It's my personal favorite gameplay-wise (love the deflect mechanic) so it'll be a bit weird going back to the dodge rolling strat of the Souls series.

As for Bloodborne, other than the addition of the rally system to encourage aggressive playstyles, it didn't feel too different gameplay-wise. That being said, I always play as a dexterity + bleed build so exploiting i-frames, getting a couple of hits in to build up bleed status, and parrying was what I've always been used to.
 
DeaconOfTheDank said:
As for Bloodborne, other than the addition of the rally system to encourage aggressive playstyles, it didn't feel too different gameplay-wise. That being said, I always play as a dexterity + bleed build so exploiting i-frames, getting a couple of hits in to build up bleed status, and parrying was what I've always been used to.
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Same way Sekiro's core gameplay is about deflecting, Bloodborne is all about dodging and some fights like Ludwig's second form you need to time your dodge. I would say Bloodborne is much closer to FROM's pervious games but at the same time the way you approach encounters is very different than how you would Demos Souls/Dark Souls.
 
The game looks really really good and its a the start of the generation! imagine what's to come, imagine if this game was mid generation :lollipop_anxious_sweat:
 
I hope they left the scraping spear in there without a nerf

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Bloodborne gameplay transfers when you return to Souls with more insight and you realize you can just be like:

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Turns out you don't need a shield at all. You just need to move 1 foot in the right direction whenever an enemy attacks and you'll be out of reach.

Bloodborne turns you into a Souls pro.
 
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Tekkie said:
I hope they left the scraping spear in there without a nerf

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From everything I've heard Bluepoint say, it looks like they're not changing anything they don't need to.

So you can completely ruin people's day just the same as in the original... you absolute monster.
 
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smorgasbird said:
Game looks great, but that woke character creation system stands out. "Body type A/B" instead of gender, default black guy in a game with a European setting, female head presets on male bodies.

inb4 I'm accused of white supremacy: I'm not European. The politics bleeding into gaming are just obvious.
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Completely agreed. Incredible detective work on your part.

The developers are desperately trying to appeal to black people, even though we all know black people don't care about demon's or souls or remakes. Apparently the game even has a dragon in it. If you've ever had dragon then you know that they taste just like Church's chicken -- specifically the spicy two piece combo. They know that black people are genetically predisposed to liking fried chicken, so they conveniently came up with a creature in the game that just so happens to have the same whiff, texture, and taste as domesticated fowl. Cluck cluck indeed.

Additionally, your deep sleuthing on the different body types is another example of developers trying to appeal to the LGBTQwertyuiop audience. Why are they using the term 'body type' instead of 'gender'? When you're fighting the magical and or the undead, your gender -- and your loud broadcasting of it -- are critical. About a week ago I was engaged in combat with a demonic wizard. Once I shouted "I WAS BORN A MAN", his spells became completely ineffective against me and I was able to subdue him to the ground.

I look forward to reading more of your investigative work on Demon's Souls. It's really remarkable stuff. If you could take screenshots and circle the equality parts (with the color blue, a strong non-gender neutral hue), that would help out in further discussion of the wokeness of the game.
 
Michael Hawk said:
Completely agreed. Incredible detective work on your part.

The developers are desperately trying to appeal to black people, even though we all know black people don't care about demon's or souls or remakes. Apparently the game even has a dragon in it. If you've ever had dragon then you know that they taste just like Church's chicken -- specifically the spicy two piece combo. They know that black people are genetically predisposed to liking fried chicken, so they conveniently came up with a creature in the game that just so happens to have the same whiff, texture, and taste as domesticated fowl. Cluck cluck indeed.

Additionally, your deep sleuthing on the different body types is another example of developers trying to appeal to the LGBTQwertyuiop audience. Why are they using the term 'body type' instead of 'gender'? When you're fighting the magical and or the undead, your gender -- and your loud broadcasting of it -- are critical. About a week ago I was engaged in combat with a demonic wizard. Once I shouted "I WAS BORN A MAN", his spells became completely ineffective against me and I was able to subdue him to the ground.

I look forward to reading more of your investigative work on Demon's Souls. It's really remarkable stuff. If you could take screenshots and circle the equality parts (with the color blue, a strong non-gender neutral hue), that would help out in further discussion of the wokeness of the game.
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Nothing but fallacies. You suck Mike Hawk. Leftists can't meme or bantz for shit.

- Everyone is of course welcome to play the game. I'm not of any European descent myself. But it's a medieval European setting so it's forced for other phenotypes to feature so prominently. I don't want to see my own race as the default there either because it'd be out of place. It's called not being a self centered prick and thinking that everything must represent you. You should try respecting others sometime.

- Your use of the chicken stereotype says more about you than it does about me. Can you show me where I criticized black people? No, you can't, because I didn't.

- Censoring "male and female" has nothing to do with the undead theme. "It's not important because undead wizards" is not an argument.

I'm not impressed.
 
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Klayzer said:
Man, people will turn everything into a political topic, even a character creator. I don't know how you can look at a fictional world with dragons and undead corpses and think; Black character options equals some kind of agenda. Anyway, 87-89 is my prediction for the critics.
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It's because "those" people are anti-black people. "Those" types of people have always existed in every culture, every time-period, and in every nation and tribe. This is what they look like in the 21st Century.
 
smorgasbird said:
Game looks great, but that woke character creation system stands out. "Body type A/B" instead of gender, default black guy in a game with a European setting, female head presets on male bodies.

inb4 I'm accused of white supremacy: I'm not European. The politics bleeding into gaming are just obvious.
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Personally, I don't care and this is not something I support (Male/Female works for me :messenger_ok: ). However, male/female, x/y, a/b, and just about everything socially is a construct. What is acceptable generally in comparison to what isn't.
 
mckmas8808 said:
It's because "those" people are anti-black people. "Those" types of people have always existed in every culture, every time-period, and in every nation and tribe. This is what they look like in the 21st Century.
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No the problem is narcissists who think everything should be a monument to their identity and the doormats who enable it.

We've reached a point where a Medieval European setting has to default to black people because of white cucks who are afraid of your ire. Congrats on bullying weaklings into submission. Someone with self respect wouldn't want something earned in this way. You'd have to be really low to accept gains so ill gotten. It's bullies and the bullied, and the actual project, you know, the game itself, is expendable to you so this dynamic can take place.
 
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smorgasbird said:
Game looks great, but that woke character creation system stands out. "Body type A/B" instead of gender, default black guy in a game with a European setting, female head presets on male bodies.
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But who cares? it has character creation and you can make who ever you want (I'm making my character look like Askeladd) and most of the time your character is covered with armour, it not something you should get worked up about.
 
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Danjin44 said:
But who cares? it has character creation and you can make who ever you want (I'm making my character look like Askeladd) and most of the time your character is covered with armour, it not something you should get worked up about.
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Ah yes, let's just let everything in the world get commandeered for political purposes. It's not like there's a slippery slope that has resulted in worldwide chaos or anything.
 
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smorgasbird said:
No the problem is narcissists who think everything should be a monument to their identity and the doormats who enable it.

We've reached a point where a Medieval European setting has to default to black people because of white cucks who are afraid of your ire. Congrats on bullying weaklings into submission. Someone with self respect wouldn't want something earned in this way. You'd have to be really low to accept gains so ill gotten. It's bullies and the bullied, and the actual project, you know, the game itself, is expendable to you so this dynamic can take place.
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Dude.....it's a fantasy world with dragons and 3 eyed monsters! It's not a documentary or based on reality in any way.
 
smorgasbird said:
Ah yes, let's just let everything in the world get commandeered for political purposes.
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In this case I honestly dont care, especially in a game it absolutely doesn't matter what your character looks like and like mckmas8808 mckmas8808 said it s a god damn high fantasy world with monsters and dragons.
 
smorgasbird said:
No the problem is narcissists who think everything should be a monument to their identity and the doormats who enable it.

We've reached a point where a Medieval European setting has to default to black people because of white cucks who are afraid of your ire. Congrats on bullying weaklings into submission. Someone with self respect wouldn't want something earned in this way. You'd have to be really low to accept gains so ill gotten. It's bullies and the bullied, and the actual project, you know, the game itself, is expendable to you so this dynamic can take place.
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They remove the labels so no one has to feel left out. Normal people don't have a problem with this. One looks like a traditional female's both, and the other a man's. You are clearly insecure about this, to the point that you want to shit up a thread about this nonsense. Most people will just pick a body type and move on.

You act like the devs have committed some historic crime against humanity, when if you look through this thread, you're the oddball making a mountain out of a molehill. The devs aren't the problem, it's you. You can't come to terms with the changing world around you, and have tried to dress up your insecurities in some bullshit nonsense about politics and whatever the fuck you're carrying on about. Who do you think you're fooling?
 
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