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Dark Souls III [Import OT] Kindle the fire, one last time
- Thread starter Yoshichan
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Please spoiler descriptions of things you've seen in streams. Or I guess I should just abandon this thread already.
Can someone tell me how cautious I have to be about the soundtrack? Will the track titles spoil a big surprise? Or are the names vague enough?
Wat. Eileen is from a different game and the enemy I was talking about just a grunt that vaguely resembles her. Take it easy guy.
Beastly.
Exactly. Good job spoiling something for someone who hasn't watched any trailers. Guess I'm out of this thread now because no one can be trusted to not describe things out in the open before the game is even out.
No way. Please don't tell me they screwed this up again. I really don't get how you can get it right in Demon's Souls and then keep messing it up.
Gormless Noodle
Member
Mostly noticed it on the blacksmith and the level up woman. Which could prove quite annoying on frequent visits. But yes I do consider overly chatty NPCs a Dark Souls 2 thing, I feel the other games were very light on that sort of stuff and it added a lot the atmosphere and mystery.
Locked doors can be found in all the games, but Dark Souls 2 had a great abundance of them in very random places. I found that pretty symptomatic of the bad level design the game had.
All just my opinion of course, but I just really, really don't want another Dark Souls 2. So I might be overly worried for nothing.
DieNgamers
Member
People were quick to point at ds3 as too similar to bb graphics. Honestly variety is great until now and he is just at the beginning of the game.
Areas seem much more complex than ds2,too. You actually have to explore to find a bonfire,it's not as straightforward as it was in ds2.
Areas seem much more complex than ds2,too. You actually have to explore to find a bonfire,it's not as straightforward as it was in ds2.
JudgmentJay
Member
Sounds to me like you're trying really hard to be disappointed by this game. From what we've seen so far the level design is fantastic.
Yeah, I mean if anything the locked doors could indicate more of an emphasis on shortcuts.
A lot of verticality.
wait what? link please
Needlecrash
Member
I've been debating between getting the JP physical or digital copy. Digital copy it is.
Yeah. Definitely much more complex than ds2.
It is Not true
There's no link. It was just a regular robed undead that was beating up the guy streaming earlier.
RepairmanJack
Member
Maybe it's that I'm just jumping into the stream, but these area's seem massive.
ProvenDeadly
Member
When are reviews
xVodevil
Member
Damn that hitbox...
How can they fuck level design when they nailed it so much in BB.... just replicated that...
Darryl M R
Member
I've only played BB, will this finally have the fashion aspect I heard so much about with the earlier DS games?
It is.Aesthetically wonderful with that lighting and sense of scale,a lot of shortcuts too.
Holy shit the performance and the hitbox
it's possible the weapon is so big that a near miss with it hitting the ground causes you to stagger
You know you don't actually believe that.
Holy shit this is awful. What the fuck is with these hitboxes?
This looks terrible.
Ah well I had fun with DkS2 so I bet I'll squeeze some luv out of this game as well.
Orthogonal
Member
Phantom hitboxes are so annoying but I can deal with that. Biggest disappointment so far is the world design. Individual levels may have great layouts, but I am concerned about interconnectivity. I don't know why From always makes steps forward and then regresses on various aspects every game.
JudgmentJay
Member
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it just the first few areas that aren't connected? Or are the new areas not connected to each other either?
So what's the counterplay to this?
(early boss gif)
anyway isn't this the bloodborne engine? bloodborne didn't really have these problems. maybe these are freak occurences or will be patched or something...
You could probably find something on the cleric beast but seriously are fucking kidding me and saying there is a faultless Souls game? You will find people shiting on BB hitboxes as with any other game. You sad guys don't have to pretend to be goldfish.
From what I've seen so far, Firelink and the High Wall are not connected to the rest of the world, but everything else (that I know of) is interconnected. And even with Firelink and the High Wall, you can see the other areas in the distance and know how they're related spatially.
Bl@de
Member
Maybe people will now realize that this is a problem in every entry so far and not use it anymore in "DS2 was so awful because of hitboxes. Miyazaki games always have great hitboxes". This shit happened in every game. Except Demon's Souls because I think there were no grabbing enemies.
libertytoast
Neo Member
Watched a bit of narumi23's stream on twitch, and a lot of people in the chat were saying
Anybody know if that's the case?
that you no longer upgrade armor, and it scales with your level instead.
Probably gonna do this too. Medium-sized sword + magic was probably the most fun I had with DkS2.
e: or whatever magic it is that gives me most missile attacks