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Nuns with Guns: Jul 23, 2010; It's fine.
Don't worry about it.

I hope you get to bond with NPCs over booze like you do in Sekiro. That was such a fun way to get backstory out of them.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 06:00

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# ? May 26, 2024 19:54

Xenolalia: Feb 17, 2016

Nuns with Guns posted:

I hope you get to bond with NPCs over booze like you do in Sekiro. That was such a fun way to get backstory out of them.

the mechanic where you could eavesdrop on them was so perfect, i hope it returns

# ? Oct 17, 2021 06:28

Concurred: Apr 23, 2003; My team got swept out of the playoffs, and all I got was this avatar and red text

Not gonna lie, i hope for an eventual unlockable grappling hook but I don't know if it has a place outside of Sekiro

# ? Oct 17, 2021 06:58

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

Concurred posted:

Not gonna lie, i hope for an eventual unlockable grappling hook but I don't know if it has a place outside of Sekiro

I'm interested to see what the stealth mechanics amount to. If it's just creep through grass etc I'll be a bit disappointed, but if they implement some spells/tools that assist it might be really cool.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 07:00

Sum Gai: Mar 23, 2013

JBP posted:

I'm interested to see what the stealth mechanics amount to. If it's just creep through grass etc I'll be a bit disappointed, but if they implement some spells/tools that assist it might be really cool.

There's definitely at least one thing like that, specifically sleep darts.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 07:15

roomtone: Jul 1, 2021; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 4 days!)

i'm glad they've put music in because i've always wanted to hear a non-boss dark souls soundtrack. i hope it's not purely bland horns and strings but i'm kind of expecting that.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 08:34

fridge corn: Apr 2, 2003; NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN

skasion posted:

If TES 6 isn’t based on Souls combat then what are they even doing

The elder scrolls having souls combat isnt going to sell gamepass subscriptions

# ? Oct 17, 2021 08:40

JBP: Feb 16, 2017; You've got to know, to understand,
Baby, take me by my hand,
I'll lead you to the promised land.

TES6 is going to have bad controls.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 09:15

Phobophilia: Apr 26, 2008; by Hand Knit

Stealth in DS3 was already insanely overpowered with completely breaking enemy AI and 1hko backstabs.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 11:01

Groovelord Neato: Dec 6, 2014

JBP posted:

TES6 is going to have bad controls.

Bet it takes place in some area that's really cool and interesting in the lore but Todd decrees must look like generic European fantasy.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 13:56

Phobophilia: Apr 26, 2008; by Hand Knit

lmao gently caress the elder scrolls 5 skyrim came out 2 months after dark souls

# ? Oct 17, 2021 14:07

go for a stroll: Sep 10, 2003; you'll never make it out alive; Pillbug

The clip with the objective compass and the bit about raiding bandit camps for loot has me worried this will be a huge letdown. Of course it's also possible From finds whatever Ubi et al have been looking for in the open world poo poo pile all these years and blows us all away.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 15:18

skasion: Feb 13, 2012; Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Item Getter posted:

Did the other games have any options to turn off HUD elements?

Yes

# ? Oct 17, 2021 16:52

BeanpolePeckerwood: May 4, 2004; I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK

Phobophilia posted:

lmao gently caress the elder scrolls 5 skyrim came out 2 months after dark souls

and the series still hasn't caught up to DS1

# ? Oct 17, 2021 17:09

skasion: Feb 13, 2012; Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

and the series still hasn't caught up to DS1

Hard to catch up when you don�t do anything tbf

# ? Oct 17, 2021 17:12

cool av: Mar 2, 2013

Xenolalia posted:

the mechanic where you could eavesdrop on them was so perfect, i hope it returns

except for how hard it was to discover for dumb people...I beat the game twice before realizing you could do it (to friendly characters), and even then only because I read how to get other endings

heck, I'll probably miss 80% of elden ring by playing blind, oh well!

# ? Oct 17, 2021 17:16

Nuns with Guns: Jul 23, 2010; It's fine.
Don't worry about it.

Xenolalia posted:

the mechanic where you could eavesdrop on them was so perfect, i hope it returns

Being able to snoop on people was great, too. That feels like a particular "ninja" thing, but it would be awesome if that was there. Not only for the NPCs but it was a clever diagetic way to leave clues to upcoming boss weaknesses and facts scattered around when you snuck up on enemies idling.

roomtone posted:

i'm glad they've put music in because i've always wanted to hear a non-boss dark souls soundtrack. i hope it's not purely bland horns and strings but i'm kind of expecting that.

Sekiro also has background themes in each area. There's the normal one and the combat theme, as a way of signaling if enemies have spotted you or not. They're all great, but here's a couple examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSm1XgeFgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E1dCgFPGUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcP8v8pawc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2zS86kNCO8

Sekiro's music uses more traditional Japanese instruments, but it does a great job of keeping things low key while conveying a great tense mood. I'm sure we'll still get moments of overblown choral wailing and brass in boss fights but their composers know how to do background themes.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 17:19

Bananasaurus Rex: Mar 19, 2009

cool av posted:

except for how hard it was to discover for dumb people...I beat the game twice before realizing you could do it (to friendly characters), and even then only because I read how to get other endings

heck, I'll probably miss 80% of elden ring by playing blind, oh well!

I found the hole in the back of the hub temple and figured you could eavesdrop on the sculptor. So went back there every now and then but never got the prompt to do it because I didn't realize you had to hug the wall first. Not until I read about it at least.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 19:48

MeatwadIsGod: Sep 30, 2004; Foretold by Gyromancy

I hope Yui Tanimura is involved because the DS2 DLCs are the best Souls content and this seems more in the DS2 vibe than anything to me (which is good).

My one hope is that combat is at least as demanding as Sekiro but it seems like they're trying to make it slightly more forgiving.

# ? Oct 17, 2021 22:29

huh: Jan 23, 2004; Dinosaur Gum

That jump. Doesn't look right.

# ? Oct 18, 2021 00:00

Raygereio: Nov 12, 2012

The jump looked okay? I get that it's not the best animation ever created and watching it won't give you orgasmic joy. But it looked snappy and responsive, which is what you'd want in a Souls game. :shrug:

# ? Oct 18, 2021 00:31

huh: Jan 23, 2004; Dinosaur Gum

Let's hope. But snap and response can't be gauged without inputs.

# ? Oct 18, 2021 02:54

BeanpolePeckerwood: May 4, 2004; I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK

getting such huge shadow of the colossus vibes from everything in elden ring

will miyazaki and co be the first studio to make a horse as good as agro?

# ? Oct 18, 2021 04:35

Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

honestly from the small amount of available stuff i've read about it so far it sounds like from's specifically trying to make their own breath of the wild to me

# ? Oct 18, 2021 04:52

BeanpolePeckerwood: May 4, 2004; I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK

Cowcaster posted:

honestly from the small amount of available stuff i've read about it so far it sounds like from's specifically trying to make their own breath of the wild to me

yeah but breath of the wild just rips off shadow of the colossus and shadow of the colossus just rips off old zelda games

# ? Oct 18, 2021 04:55

Colonel Whitey: May 22, 2004; This shit's about to go off.

BotW with the Fromsoft approach sounds like the perfect game to me

# ? Oct 18, 2021 04:55

Charliegrs: Aug 10, 2009

I kind of get the impression that even though Elden Ring is open world it's going to be on a smaller scale than games like BoTW or RDR2 etc. A lot of the screenshots you can see in the background other areas that we have seen already so while it looks like a much bigger and more interconnected world than any previous Dark Souls game its probably won't be ginormous. Which isn't a bad thing, after all a lot of open world games have a lot of nothing to traverse through.

# ? Oct 18, 2021 08:12

Phobophilia: Apr 26, 2008; by Hand Knit

You know what I'm going to miss now that Dark Souls 4 has a jump button? Lots of obscure little shortcuts and jumps off weird bits of level geometry will effectively be telegraphed. Like the spiral stairs jump on the path to O&S, or the tree jump to the roof of Firelink, or the jump onto the roof of the Corvian settlement. Or that jump near the first Adjudicator in Ringed City.

# ? Oct 18, 2021 14:23