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exquisite tea posted:I think there's a natural human tendency to wanna categorize everything but the huge irreconcilable differences people apparently have between Souls games never felt relevant to me. They're all like variations on a theme and are mostly the same games, closer than most sequels tend to be to their source material. I think there are some qualitative differences between the Dark Souls games that can be examined, though. Dark Souls 2 feels different to play (in part because of how they animated the character model) and I think has weaker environment and level design than the other two. And Dark Souls 3 just doesn't do enough new things to really justify its own existence, which I guess goes along with what you're saying about being closer than most sequels to its original. The reason I like Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne the most (and Demon's and Bloodborne more than Dark Souls) is that each brings something new. Demon's Souls took the King's Field formula into third person and improved the melee combat a lot. Dark Souls... yeah, it basically aped a whole lot of Demon's Souls, right down to some enemy move sets, but its connected world design felt like SotN-style Castlevania brought into 3D. And Bloodborne takes a new approach to combat and is a masterpiece of atmosphere in games.
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Phantasium posted:cool, then the dark souls team can make a Castlevania man I wish Konami would have sold that IP off, or at least had let someone other than loving MercurySteam turn it into a bargain bin God of War.
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Phantasium posted:cool, then the dark souls team can make a Castlevania God drat I wish. I'm imagining a 3D Castlevania with whip mechanics like an expanded version of the Threaded Cane (similar basic move set, but with more moves and special moves because it's your primary weapon the whole game), creepy atmosphere, intricate levels... gently caress that would own.
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Mar 28, 2017 16:33
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They should make a sci-fi Souls game with robots or something.
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haveblue posted:They should make a sci-fi Souls game with robots or something. The Surge looks like an interesting attempt at this.
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haveblue posted:They should make a sci-fi Souls game with robots or something. Maybe they'll make the new Armored Core have Souls gameplay Serf posted:The Surge looks like an interesting attempt at this. It's being made by the Lords of the Fallen people so I wouldn't get your hopes up
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Harrow posted:God drat I wish. I'm imagining a 3D Castlevania with whip mechanics like an expanded version of the Threaded Cane (similar basic move set, but with more moves and special moves because it's your primary weapon the whole game), creepy atmosphere, intricate levels... gently caress that would own. i mean pandora's tower is pretty good
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Grapplejack posted:DS3 also had maybe the worst online since the two area covens didn't work and the game would heavily prioritize games where the host has a phantom already summoned. That plus the hornet ring instant kill means that every pvp fight was the exact same one people figured it out. Tbf that stuff was patched to varying degrees. DS1 had terrible online on release that barely worked at all for many people not to mention the gravelords lol. I think DS2 has the best online and even with soul memory I could very consistently find people to match with.
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i think what is weird in retrospect about dark souls is how the first one is probably the most different when it was assumed after DS1 all the others would have the same kind of open design. DS2/3/bloodborne are more like progressions from demon's souls with dark souls being a weird outlier
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also yeah what really puts DS2 above DS3 for me a lot is that it had very good pvp while DS3s is very bad
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Stux posted:i think what is weird in retrospect about dark souls is how the first one is probably the most different when it was assumed after DS1 all the others would have the same kind of open design. DS2/3/bloodborne are more like progressions from demon's souls with dark souls being a weird outlier
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Mar 28, 2017 16:48
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I love the demons souls style where it's basically just a Mario map where you can pick your levels
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My friends and I somehow managed to get 8 people we know irl into a game of L4D2 last night and it reminded me of how freakin fun that versus mode is, especially when everyone is just goofing off. I hope they release another one!
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Stux posted:also yeah what really puts DS2 above DS3 for me a lot is that it had very good pvp while DS3s is very bad It's cute in dark souls pvp that there's weird dueling etiquette everyone seems to know where you bow before the fight and no one heals
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Lakbay posted:It's being made by the Lords of the Fallen people so I wouldn't get your hopes up I never played that one. Not good, I take it?
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Stux posted:also yeah what really puts DS2 above DS3 for me a lot is that it had very good pvp while DS3s is very bad The online in DS2 is the main reason why I like it over the other two games. I sunk a lot of hours into dumb gimmick pvp builds in that game.
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Serf posted:I never played that one. Not good, I take it? Not good. I gave it a strong chance. As in, I beat it and started a new game with a different build to see if I was missing something. It's just poorly designed from top to bottom. The action, the levels, the mechanics, the enemies, the bosses... It's not good.
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In Training posted:I love the demons souls style where it's basically just a Mario map where you can pick your levels
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Raxivace posted:I think Bloodborne would feel more like Dark Souls 1 if you weren't constantly having to go back to the Hunter's Dream just to do basic tasks like leveling up or upgrading. yeah you're right, the level design is close to that style but completely broken by having to go back constantly. i mean its fine though really just it does still break from dark souls 1 there yeah. also none of the games were brave enough to just not let you teleport for half the game again like dark souls 1 which really helped give it the feeling it had. that and also taking away the closest thing to a hub the game had at one point in the game! Help Im Alive posted:It's cute in dark souls pvp that there's weird dueling etiquette everyone seems to know where you bow before the fight and no one heals maybe if you're a mark who is asking to get pwned... Andrast posted:The online in DS2 is the main reason why I like it over the other two games. I sunk a lot of hours into dumb gimmick pvp builds in that game. i had/have a character who lives in the belltower, wearing the butterfly poison aoe armor with powerstanced poisoned weapons and it was the most fun pvp ive had in any of the dark souls games rip
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Nate RFB posted:I finished both Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight and Freedom Planet the other day. You're the one who convinced me to get Momodora. I had pretty much the same feeling. It was fun but ultimately forgettable. It is probably the best game that involves beating people up with a maple leaf though.
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Raxivace posted:The Nexus was a really good hub area too. I've only played a bit of Demons' but yeah, your little home base of fellow trapped souls is cool, granted you don't being the serial killer home.
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Lakbay posted:Maybe they'll make the new Armored Core have Souls gameplay Team Ninja has a wildly fluctuating history with their games developed ranging from good to nuclear poo poo and Nioh came out extremely well. I'm optimistic that the LOTF guys learned something from their last outing at the very least
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The Surge's gameplay videos look more promising than Lords of the Fallen--it looks like they've learned how to give your attack animations acceleration and impact, at least, with a good amount of animation pause on hit, so that's an upgrade. It remains to be seen whether the game itself will be at all interesting, though.
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Stux posted:
I was a fan of the desert sorceress outfit while powerstancing the toxic frog whips. I can only hope people enjoyed the extremely weird fights I brought them.
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Dark Souls 3 is going to be the game in the series that will always be remembered as "yeah that was a game" in the public opinion. Everyone will present their memories of DS1, all the many flaws and good things buried in DS2 and then DS3 will just be "yeah it was pretty good" with no strong memories to go along with it.
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That one knight with Venom hiding inside him you fight early on is pretty cool-lookin.
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It's probably telling about my own stance on Dark Souls 3 that I really couldn't care less about its DLC. I enjoyed the game and I'm glad I played it, but I'm done with it, I think. In fact, the only Souls games I could see myself replaying ever again would be Demon's Souls or Bloodborne. If FromSoft never made another game with that formula, I'd kinda be okay with that. If they did and managed to make it really different and in a cool new setting, awesome, I'm in. But if they announce an actual Bloodborne 2 or Dark Souls 4 or something like that I'll probably be a huge rear end in a top hat on forums about it and everyone will block me 
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In ten years DS2 will be remembered as the one that had that kick-rear end skeleton chariot boss
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Gamexplain did a video analyzing the Destiny 2 reveal image. I think.
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fallout shelter finally on steam tomorrow http://store.steampowered.com/app/588430/
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Full D2 trailer March 30, also Fillion gonna Fillion: https://twitter.com/DestinyTheGame/status/846798919786913794
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Harrow posted:It's probably telling about my own stance on Dark Souls 3 that I really couldn't care less about its DLC. I enjoyed the game and I'm glad I played it, but I'm done with it, I think. In fact, the only Souls games I could see myself replaying ever again would be Demon's Souls or Bloodborne. I'd be down with them making a weird modern-day biohorror thing. From Software presents: a Parasite Eve reboot.
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Red Bones posted:I'd be down with them making a weird modern-day biohorror thing. From Software presents: a Parasite Eve reboot.  Fund it
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A super slow paced shooter might be cool, kinda like last of us multiplayer where I can count out how many shots it'll take to kill a person at the same time as shooting them
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I would love more games like PE1/2
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I'd rather see Mama Souls, a reboot of Nintendo's popular Cooking Mama franchise.
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If From does a modern setting, I hope they set it in the US (and hopefully not NY or LA) instead of the obvious Tokyo. Japanese studios depicting American settings is always great stuff E: that reminds me, I still want wild west souls tap my mountain fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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