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VerdantSquire posted:I completely disagree. This is a game series which is famous in part for using game mechanics to imply story. I'm going to be brutally honest - the fact that you can make Lifehunt Scythe out of Aldritch's soul, a character who straight up uses a scythe as his primary weapon (or at least one of his major attacks, but he does use Lifehunt scythe) during the fight with him, and is established as someone who can consume beings to gain their powers, very strongly implies that he ate Priscilla as well. You could claim that there was a peaceful passage of abilities, but consider the people involved in this; Priscilla just seems like the kind of person who wants to be left alone in her own world, and Aldrich is absolutely not a character interested in cultivating long term relationships. I'm going to be brutally honest: nah
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GreyPowerVan posted:Why did you describe your thoughts on a video game as 'brutally honest' It's brutal to tell us that Priscilla is dead
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VerdantSquire posted:I completely disagree. The literal text of the game says he got it from a dream you goober.
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Some read it as an euphemism.
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mango sentinel posted:The literal text of the game says he got it from a dream you goober. a dream...perhaps...a hunter's dream???
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The dream of a good translation.
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VerdantSquire posted:Hell, the cathedral the painted world used to be in isn't even there anymore, let alone the painted world! I didn't even think of this. Where do you get the Painting Guardian set from? If it's at the bottom of Yorshka's tower that's very interesting indeed.
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the painting's from a part of anor londo that isn't there anymore. most of what was in dks1 has fallen away entirely. looking back from the boss room, it'd be on the first floor (well, that you can reach) of a building that used to be to the right the painted set is in yorshka's tower iirc
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turtlecrunch posted:You step on her head and take the flame from her, then chill in front of the eclipse like a total badass. both times I beat the game I did the ending where you summon her to put out the flame, and I had given her the eyes, but this didn't happen.
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Digirat posted:both times I beat the game I did the ending where you summon her to put out the flame, and I had given her the eyes, but this didn't happen. you, the player, have to kill her at the end
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I personally think something went weird with the Painted World and that's why Irithyll/Anor Londo are snowy. Although that might just be winter the place seems to be perpetually cold as it's called Boreal Valley which means probably something happened between the first game and the third to make it like that. The Painted World breaking in some way and freezing everything would do it I imagine, Yorshka is actually a time-reversed Priscilla due to the breaking of the painting or something. Mainly though I doubt Aldrich got to Priscilla because the Lifehunt Scythe you get is described as a Miracle he developed from dreaming of her whilst devouring Gwyndolin, which I'm guessing means he gets visions/dreams from the people he's eating alive. Lord_Magmar fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Aug 24, 2016 |
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Technically all that the miracle says is he dreamed of a pale girl in hiding while devouring gwyndolin. At the same time he doesn't use the real Lifehunt Scythe but merely a miracle recreation so it seems like he didn't actually eat Priscilla.
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And he also uses Gwyn style Fire - that doesn't mean he ate Gwyn.
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If a rock falls in the woods and it's in Dark Souls 3, does that mean that rock is Solaire?
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Lord_Magmar posted:I personally think something went weird with the Painted World and that's why Irithyll/Anor Londo are snowy. Although that might just be winter the place seems to be perpetually cold as it's called Boreal Valley which means probably something happened between the first game and the third to make it like that. The Painted World breaking in some way and freezing everything would do it I imagine, Yorshka is actually a time-reversed Priscilla due to the breaking of the painting or something. I think anor londo is cold because the sun has been out for hella long between somtime before dark souls 1 and when you get there in 3
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VerdantSquire posted:I completely disagree. This is a game series which is famous in part for using game mechanics to imply story. I'm going to be brutally honest - the fact that you can make Lifehunt Scythe out of Aldritch's soul, a character who straight up uses a scythe as his primary weapon (or at least one of his major attacks, but he does use Lifehunt scythe) during the fight with him, and is established as someone who can consume beings to gain their powers, very strongly implies that he ate Priscilla as well. You could claim that there was a peaceful passage of abilities, but consider the people involved in this; Priscilla just seems like the kind of person who wants to be left alone in her own world, and Aldrich is absolutely not a character interested in cultivating long term relationships. Yorska is Priscilla duder. You even find the painting guardian gear in her tower.
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Tetracube posted:Yeah I don't think "total badass" is how I'd describe it, more like you completely lost yourself. You're completely broken and can't do anything but behold the dying flame, unsure of what to even do with it. It's the worst possible ending What ending is this?
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Leaked scans http://imgur.com/a/2usOJ  hmmm
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Forgotten Castle Kaathehurst I kind of assumed (but hoped against) one of the expansions being kind of Bloodborne-y so I'm not surprised by this.
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RC Cola posted:You guys get really worked up at this game Dark Souls is life.
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Cainhurst was one of the best bits of vanilla BB so it's fine by me
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Tetracube posted:Yeah I don't think "total badass" is how I'd describe it, more like you completely lost yourself. You're completely broken and can't do anything but behold the dying flame, unsure of what to even do with it. It's the worst possible ending BEST Here is the alternate firekeeper summon ending at 1h1m10s (I skipped most of the FK yapping) for those who don't know how to get it
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I saw a snowy castle and some indoor tunnels, glad to see from soft is keeping up with the tradition of visually nice but derivative and uninspired areas Here's to hoping im wrong because overall the DS3 world wasn't very fun or exciting to discover.
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I watched that trailer and will play it but holy poo poo is anyone else sick of bells and chanting and choirs?
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Sleekly posted:I watched that trailer and will play it but holy poo poo is anyone else sick of bells and chanting and choirs?  Honestly it does get a little samey, but it's not like 95% of fantasy RPGs where it all just sounds like someone riffing on Jeremy Soule and I turn the music off in the first hour, so I'm fine with it.
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KingSlime posted:I saw a snowy castle and some indoor tunnels, glad to see from soft is keeping up with the tradition of visually nice but derivative and uninspired areas
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It's true tho there's so much inspiration from could take, look at the DLC for II. Inspired by different regions/aesthetics and they were all visually the poo poo. Unlit tunnels, stone walls covered in snow, looks just like Cainhurst. Just like with the base game, KingSlime isn't terribly impressed (but will still play the poo poo out of all the DLCs.)
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It looks like the painted world at 1:21! This is sufficient to excite and interest me. BTW the previous sentence is not a good pickup line.
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Watch out FROM, KingSlime isn't terribly impressed.
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And I'm fixing to pen a sternly-worded letter too. Watch out, Myazaki-san.
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I, to be brutally honest, don't give a gently caress if it's another snowy castle that's been done before. I'm going to play this poo poo out of this. Thanks for listening.
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I feel like we didn't get a good idea of what the dlc world is actually like from that trailer other than "there's snow" so I will reserve judgement even if it's bad it will probably still be good
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Given that this is Dark Souls 1: The Repeatening, that HAS to be the Painted World for sure, right? I saw a character reach towards what might have been a large empty canvas, and the snowy bridge clinches it imo. E: Yeah the deer knight dude looks cool as poo poo and yeah even weak from soft content is still good content. They got a solid track record with DLC so I'm not tripping about the quality, just the samey environments.
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KingSlime posted:Given that this is Dark Souls 1: The Repeatening, that HAS to be the Painted World for sure, right? I'm sure it's not the painted world but rather an identical looking place, allowing from to reuse the painted world without actually answering any questions about it
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I saw a destroyed or empty painting, the mountaintop bridge from DS1 (which I think was the only remaining assets of what DS1 was originally supposed to be?) and somebody handing you a piece of painting. Shot in the dark: We get trapped in the painted world and the DLC journey is finding all the pieces of the painting and reassembling it so we can get out again.
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