Ah man I remember reading about the shield design contest for Dark Souls 1 and wondered how I missed it. But it looks like we can't enter that Japanese one? Or can we? Does it literally say only Japanese are allowed to submit?
I thought I'd link to this: DARK SOULS 2 SHIELD DESIGN CONTEST They had one for the first game and I think the Effigy Shield and maybe the Blood Shield are the results of that comp. Here's the page for the new competition (Japanese): http://www.darksouls.jp/shield-design/ They may have a western comp as well, I don't know…
I assume that this mess might be due to Namco calling the shots on the western contest and From being more involved with the Japanese one. That's just a very wild guess, though.
hahah against my better judgement I checked the 1st one out from the library at work again.....going to attempt to put all bias for horrible japanese style UI and lighting/graphics aside and try to get into this gameplay you guys are all raving about. going to force myself to put atleast 2 hours into it this time. fingers…
geh! those screens are pretty horrible. so much black in the textures and shadows. the lighting is brute. I tried dark souls for about an hour and just couldnt get into it, way to japanese for me, horrible UI, and well pretty much everything from art to animation turned me off it. everyone always raves about the gameplay…
WHAT!? sipping a coca cola wont instantly start everyone around me dancing and singing and make my life 100x better!? HOW DARE THEY! Almost every game I have worked on has changed in visual quality over the course of production, most games Ive been on have been built on pc builds for 75% of their production and then gotten…