Dark Souls 3
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Surprising absolutely no one, Dark Souls 3 is a thing now.
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Welp, time to get my wallet.
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Looks like the might be diving more into the storyline with the giants we saw in DkSII?
Also.. there can never be too many games like these for me.
All great events are lore and you see years later often only tghe results.
It probably will be, it was rumored that Hidetaka Miyazaki will be the game director on this one again. He made Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne, but wasn't the director on Dark Souls 2.
I love Dark Souls 2 but I'm glad Miyazaki is back.
But of course, DS 1 is pretty much the best thing i ever experienced.
Seeing that this is the last entry of souls series, and Miyazaki had his hand on this one, hopefully this will be a masterpiece just like the first one.
its purty
do you work at from software?
Hmm, I can't really agree. While DS2 had some nice ease-of-use additions, the combat in DS2 was less snappy than in DS1. The movement felt somewhat sluggish. The manual targeting of heavy weapons made them kind of useless. And tying Adaptability to timings and i-frames was a really odd choice. I realize this is subjective, but to me Bloodborne felt like a natural evolution of DS1 combat, whereas DS2 felt more like a step in a different direction.
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Looks great
I love to admire the attention to detail put into the levels in Bloodborne, but I have to admit sometimes more is better when it comes to keeping me playing. I think DkS and BB are better games, but I've played DkSII waaay more.
Hope this third installment strikes a good balance.
Yes I do, I'm senior character artist.
would like to see a fat art dump some day :poly124:
sure
Finally, we got some gameplay. From the looks of it, it's everything I wanted. Speed and intensity of Bloodborne, with mood of Dark Souls 1/Demon's Souls. Can't wait for more info.
Think they went a litttttle overboard with iframes, where as DS2 was too strict with them. PvP isn't much fun when everyone just rolls around. Loving the art, the game is gorgeous and just as rewarding & fun as ever
Almost done, just need to wrap up that boss, get the last few covenants i missed and move to NG+.
Yup, the neighbour's kids have learned some colorful new swear words....
Please post some of the art you made for this game, It's one of my favourite games ever!
Level 78 Pyro
There's a really awesome grinding area I discovered right behind the Keep Ruins bonfire.
I can kill all 3 of those leaping knight dudes with 2 Fire Orbs, for 1000 souls in 5 seconds.
But, If you walk out to the bridge, you can kill those Giant swamp monster thingies from the bridge for 1700 a pop. Over 6500 souls in under a minute before needing to refresh at the bonfire.
I was a HUGE fan of bloodborne which I played a little too much (oops!)
so far really enjoying DS III
What class are you guys playing? I'm going strength/Dex build wielding long swords.
No cheaters yet but I've started to back up my saves just in case.
I'm 61 and I just finished the Abyss watcher, I'm just real slow
You're basically gimped for most of the start of the game. Taking 2 or 3 spells to take down even the most basic mob, with a 3 second casting time (everything kills you in 1-2 hit).
Apparently for a Pyro:
40 Intelligence /17 Faith
will do less damage than:
20 Intelligence/18 Faith
But for Pyros you need to get it to 30/30 min to actually kill most basic mobs in 1 spellcast.
(which means you're pretty useless until you're at least level 60).
Sorcs need 50 Intelligence to do DS1 level damage. Doesn't leave a lot of room to hybrid-build, unless you want to fat-roll.
I've heard a lot of complaints about the 'novelty' bosses but to be honest they've all been (bar one optional one) so impressive visually & in atmosphere that I don't mind. Personally I loved the Yhorm fight, just with they'd nerf the damage of [spoiler] to make it a little more challenging.
In some weird way, I came out of it with more appreciation for what Bloodborne had managed to achieve in terms of polish and consistency. Still, I will probably need to play it a few more times before I make up my mind about it. Although for now, I can safely say that none of the bosses I fought so far are as impressive as Bloodborne's bosses. That roster is simply in a different league.
My favorite fight was Dancer of the Boreal Valley. I think I died more to her than anything just to watch, and the music was amazing!
@teaandcigarettes, I can't say I've seen much of that, at least to knock me out, could be a portaling thing to keep performance up? In some areas I see orange flashes when the culling can't quite keep up with camera movements.
Had a fairly easy time with all the bosses, only one that's really giving me trouble is Nameless King - definitely toughest boss battle in the game!
Perhaps, although those spots are in such random areas that I assume they just weren't finished to the same level of polish on time. It's not really just lack of enviornment details, but overall dips in quality.
To name a few from the top of my head; the room next to the dead giants in Irithyll after beating Pontiff, the room with Farron covenant, the room with Wolnir's chalice in the catacombs (the ceiling is just a flat black plane and there are some grey untextured objects in the area). Lost Izalith which suffers from extremely repeated environment details and confusing layout, tilling patterns on the walls surrounding Farron's Keep, strange cubemaps/fresnel in Irithyll interiors, etc, heavy LOD switching on trees in the swamps, etc.
Then there are some odd mechanical issues that haven't been resolved yet; mainly the non-functioning Poise stat that makes heavy armors and vitality somewhat useless. Covenants that have severe issues with matchmaking.
Of course, I don't want to take potshots at the work they've done since the sheer scale of the game is often mindblowing. But I can't help feeling that the game could use another few months of development to iron out all small kinks and to bring it on the same level of polish as Bloodborne.
Also, I will need to get the game on PC at some point; my impressions are from playing the PS4 copy so perhaps a lot of it is due to optimizations.
Just finished it last night, holy hell, such a good time. Sad to see it end, hopefully we'll get some great DLC the way we did with Bloodborne.