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Bombadilillo posted:The in game reason is that you are traveling to different parts of a whole continent and the transitions are metaphorical for you traveling long distances. Huh? I don't think so. But I'll happily accept time and space are just weird in Drangleic, DS3 certainly helps you make that point. And to be fair, people complain a lot about that one elevator but for the most part area transitions in that game make a lot of sense. It's only the Hunter's Copse -> Harvest Valley -> Iron Keep branch that doesn't quite work. Areas like the Well, the paths to the Bastille and most other stuff make plenty of sense lore and design wise. Some of them perfectly so, like the whole Drangleic Castle -> Shrine of Amana -> Catacombs area. It just feels, well, soulless, because it doesn't seem as cohesive as DS1's world. They traded an open world design for one that splits into 4 different linear paths, and while I can see what they were going for the game suffers from it. DS3 ditched the multiple path stuff and just focused on building one linear, well designed path and it really paid off. Elman fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Feb 14, 2017 |
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Which elevator?Quantum of Phallus posted:All souls games are good. Umbasa Symbol of the beast (I think that's the name) still has the best lore reveal in the series
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Quantum of Phallus posted:All souls games are good. Umbasa I wish they consistently got better from one game to another instead of one gameplay element getting worse while another gets better. FromSoft is "careful what you wish for" congealed into a studio.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:All souls games are good. Umbasa Except those that are console exclusives  .
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Feb 14, 2017 22:01
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:Which elevator? The one connecting Harvest Valley and Iron Keep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMFDummTtp8
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New Concept Hole posted:I wish they consistently got better from one game to another instead of one gameplay element getting worse while another gets better. FromSoft is "careful what you wish for" congealed into a studio. I've actually liked each one more than the last. Though it's as you say each screws up its own thing. As least there hasn't been a straight up worse entry yet.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:02
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Oh lava lava land is above? That is kind of funny. I forgot.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:05
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200 years from now, the only fragment of civilization found by aliensn will be a Gamefaqs post complaining about the transition between Earthen Peak and the Iron Keep.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:06
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:Symbol of the beast (I think that's the name) still has the best lore reveal in the series Talisman of the Beast from Demon Souls? Do tell, I have and will never play it.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:07
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Inspector_666 posted:Talisman of the Beast from Demon Souls? Do tell, I have and will never play it. Faith and magic is at odds in the setting with the persecuted witch Karla is a call back to is just the regular spell trainer. Talisman of the beast can cast both miracles and sorceries because it calls the the forgot source of magic and the old faith, the Old One the massive eldritch terror that is the end boss.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:10
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Elman posted:The one connecting Harvest Valley and Iron Keep. I can explain it.
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hanales posted:I can explain it. It's a video game.
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Inspector_666 posted:Talisman of the Beast from Demon Souls? Do tell, I have and will never play it. In Demon's Souls there's a substantial amount of dialogue pertaining to miracles and magic and the Demon souls that they're derived-- Urbain, Freke, and Yuria all use the demon's souls to gain power but think there's something inherently evil about how the other does it. There's actually a lot of insinuation that what they all practice is the same thing but can't see past that because of their own beliefs, but the Talisman of Beasts lays it out very bluntly. "An old wooden amulet resembling the Old One. It can utilize both miracles and spells. The symbol of God was nothing more than the Image of the Old One."
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Feb 14, 2017 22:40
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Inspector_666 posted:You have to wail on a tree's dick and rear end in a top hat to kill it... I second the request for new thread title.
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Gologle posted:I second the request for new thread title. Man's rear end the primeval goatman was better, imo.
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Feb 14, 2017 23:48
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You're cursed and losing your mind, other stuff happens between you taking the elevator and getting to the keep, but you're a crazy undying hobo so you don't recall it. 
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The only person cursed and losing their mind was the map designer who was trying to slap all these set-pieces the game director wanted together.
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They made the mistake of not spelling it out with a big glowing white staircase I guess.
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So I started playing more duels kind of randomly on DS3 and I'm really surprised that people are still available to play on the PS4! Granted it takes forever to get anything other than a duel but I'm still having good matches against randos.
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Feb 15, 2017 16:06
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I had to come here and post quickly about a pretty dumb oversight on my behalf. I just started playing through ds3 the other day blind, I've only played bloodborne before this. I killed the deacons of the deep last night having never picked up the ashen estus flask at the beginning of the game and thusly never being able to upgrade to more estus charges. This game is significantly easier with more than three swigs on the ole jug. 
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Goo P-Nut Sack posted:I had to come here and post quickly about a pretty dumb oversight on my behalf. I just started playing through ds3 the other day blind, I've only played bloodborne before this. I killed the deacons of the deep last night having never picked up the ashen estus flask at the beginning of the game and thusly never being able to upgrade to more estus charges. This game is significantly easier with more than three swigs on the ole jug. I didn't know you could miss that. I mean, you could I guess...but...but...what!?! drat more power to you getting that far without it. Was it one of those things were you knew it was supposed to be hard so that's how it was?
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I see Nioh is getting crazy reviews but the few boss fight videos I've seen just look like normal people, not huge rotting monsters.
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Its got some of those too.
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There's pretty good boss variety in Nioh but the regular enemy variety is a bit lacking. It's a fun game with some callouts to Souls but it's really very different, at least in ways that matter to me (particularly equipment progression). It's also a lot easier than Souls (at least for me), particularly if you try to optimize your character at all or utilize one of the several absolutely broken skill combos. There wasn't a boss in Nioh that took me more than 3 tries solo while I was pretty stymied by some bosses in Souls/BB. That may be because I've played a lot of character action games on high difficulties, which it shares a lot of its combat pacing and mechanics with.
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Feb 15, 2017 19:27
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Nioh has combos on multiple weapons that can infinite stunlock ever human enemy 
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Infinite stunlock on human enemies is pretty much how I got though most of DS2's DLC.
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https://twitter.com/illusorywall/status/829902872301146112 I'll probably reinstall DS2 for this, i've been meaning to go through it again. It always was my favorite of the three
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Why not. Maybe I'll enjoy it more not just bumbling around.
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DS2 PVP is SOOOO good
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I haven't done much research lately, but it should be fun! Could be an excuse to actually make my fist moveset usable against human players without different version finagling. Tallgeese fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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spit on my clit posted:https://twitter.com/illusorywall/status/829902872301146112 I'm kinda-sorta tempted to get SOTFS on PS4 for this, but I know none of my usual Souls-buds would do it with me since our game backlog is already too dang long.
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Inspector_666 posted:I'm kinda-sorta tempted to get SOTFS on PS4 for this, but I know none of my usual Souls-buds would do it with me since our game backlog is already too dang long. SOTFS on PS4 is amazing. First Dark Souls game I played fully (after I completed Bloodborne) I loved it. It is INSANELY long with all the DLC.
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Bombadilillo posted:I didn't know you could miss that. I mean, you could I guess...but...but...what!?! drat more power to you getting that far without it. Was it one of those things were you knew it was supposed to be hard so that's how it was? I have no idea how I missed it, must have been jumping around getting used to the controls or something. I like to explore every nook and cranny when I play too  I knew it could be upgraded because of picking up all the shards but I was like huh, wonder when I get the ashen flask the blacksmith says I need? Goo P-Nut Sack fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Feb 15, 2017 22:56
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Goo P-Nut Sack posted:I have no idea how I missed it, must have been jumping around getting used to the controls or something. I like to explore every nook and cranny when I play too Im surprised that theres special dialog for that, I never saw it on any easteregg things, or "19 things your didn't know about ds3" Im surprised that the game said "gently caress you go back and get this thing, you are playing wrong" and I LOVE that you said "gently caress YOU I'm gonna keep goin."
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I'm into this. I have a character that just got to bastille and haven't beaten any of the great souls yet. Maybe there will actually be some signs on PS4.
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So that's 10 days of prep to start building dumb gimmick invaders, should be doable!
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spit on my clit posted:https://twitter.com/illusorywall/status/829902872301146112 How did you come up with such a user name and avatar?
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On the note of the Harvest Valley Elevator to Old Iron Keep I always thought that the Earthen Peak Castle should've actually been built into the side of a mountain, and that's what I've always assumed the elevator was meant to be. Basically the Earthen Peak was meant to be the side of the mountain that the Old Iron Keep was built on top of that turned out to be a Volcano. Hence the poisonous gases and such beneath the ground.
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It isn't though. It doesn't have anything to do with any mountains. "Peak" is a fancy translation, in Japanese it's "Tower of Dirt". It's just a tower in a valley, and they decided it should link to Iron Keep not giving half a gently caress about finesse on the transition.
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