Why does it feel so much more mysterious and immersive than anything theyve made since?

Why does it feel so much more mysterious and immersive than anything they’ve made since?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because everything else they make is basically just "remember Dark Souls?"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      DaS, DeS, and BB are very apparently the only times Miyazaki was actually passionate about making a game. And out of those three DaS has the most unique setting and also allows for locational diversity unlike BB.

      Dark Souls ages even more poorly when you see all the shit they ripped off. Like the opening up doors ambush in Boletaria palace getting moved to the lower undead burg, the identical enemies, the undead soldiers and warriors that have identical scripting to Dreglings and Boletarian soldiers, and so on. So many similarities pile up

      >Vast and more intricate levels with great sense of scale and design were replaced by half assed lame and small "interconnected" levels constantly using tubular design and danger from falling/limiting player movement
      >The world feels artificial because Lordran is ridiculously small, constrained into its open world design. Boletaria feels like an actual kingdom.
      >Homeward bones break the gameplay by allowing an easy and cheap get-out-of-jail move
      >Asylum Demon - Get a face full of ass 3x because they just copy paste it twice later on
      >Taurus Demon - Somehow has more intricate attack animations than any other boss, wasted on shitty arena
      >Pinwheel - Worse version of False Idol from demon's souls
      >Bell Gargoyles - Worse version of maneaters from demon's souls
      >Capra Demon - Another shitty arena, this time with unnecessary enemy spam. Getting a plunge attack involves playing musical chairs
      >Quelaag - Make frickhuge arena for co-op kino, turns out the solution is to get in close after all. ZZzzzzzz...
      >Iron Golem - Worse version of tower knight from demon's souls
      >Priscilla - Priscilla was just going to be the level-up character, and the Painted World of Ariamis was just the proof of concept test stage that was developed before anything else in Dark Souls
      >O & S - Most epic fight of the whole game forces you to backpedal for 90% of it
      >Sif - Literally has the same moveset as gargoyles except add a cool spin once in a while
      >Four Kings - "Muh DPS check"
      >Seath - Dishonest game design
      >Bed of Chaos - Worse version of Dragon God from demon's souls
      >Gwyn - L2 L2 L2 L2 L2

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        lol'd at all that greentext. You're not wrong about anything but none of that makes DaS age poorly nor does it detract from what it does well, at the very most it just makes me respect it less and prefer DeS.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >mfw the map clicked in my mind playing the first time

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >New Londo that low
          >no Ash Lake

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but there is something fresh in Dark Souls. The amount of armor and weapons alone, you can have any kind of build and even larp, no other game in the series gave you so many options (maybe DS2). Also the variety of maps, Dark Souls give you a lit bit of every fantasy setting, in the right measure. DS3 tried the same and failed, every fricking shit looks forced specially that catacombs section.

        Is Dark Souls perfect? Frick no. But has enough to give you satisfaction and a lot of replay value, none of the other souls games have that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Funny you say that because I played 1 the grand total of once while I have 600 hours in 3.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            DS3 is weird in that it's easy to play over and over again but it's so unfun. It's like you expect the next playthrough to be good but it's not so you end up stuck in a permanent loop. I had more fun playing DS1 and DS2 a total of five times each than I did playing DS3 six times.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              3 is something you can put on when you're bored and not have to think too much.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >be playing DaS3
              >find a cool weapon and think of a fun build
              >make new character
              >realize you have to do Lothric as your first area
              >realize you have to do 3 swamps in linear order afterwards
              >give up
              We all know the feel

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >not knowing your way through Farron blindfolded 5 mins tops
                ngmi

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                DS3 swamps are easily the most forgiving and easiest-to-get-through swamps of the whole game, and tbh i like the design of "not so much a swamp as an overgrown ruined castle" compared to the other games.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's less that they're annoying to get through and more that they look hideous, aren't fun to play through, and they're all crammed together at the start of the game in what feels like the developers begging you to quit

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I like the way Road of Sacrifices looks. The sunbeams piercing through the green hue.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I get the urge to replay DS3 pretty often, but then I remember I'd have to actually play DS3 again and lose all interest.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            DS3 is weird in that it's easy to play over and over again but it's so unfun. It's like you expect the next playthrough to be good but it's not so you end up stuck in a permanent loop. I had more fun playing DS1 and DS2 a total of five times each than I did playing DS3 six times.

            3 is something you can put on when you're bored and not have to think too much.

            >be playing DaS3
            >find a cool weapon and think of a fun build
            >make new character
            >realize you have to do Lothric as your first area
            >realize you have to do 3 swamps in linear order afterwards
            >give up
            We all know the feel

            >Demon's Souls references in Dark Souls 3

            - Movement speed, general physics (attacking, generous dodging, etc.)
            - Auto-revival (embering) after a boss (or helping as a phantom)
            - HP reduction when non-embered + as a phantom
            - No poise
            - Useless heavy armour
            - Mana bar for magic
            - Estoc being OP in PvP
            - Dual kats returning
            - Stormruler
            - Morion Blade
            - Luck stat + Blueblood Sword vs Anri's Straight Sword
            - Scholar's Candlestick = Kris Blade
            - Evangelists reminiscent of Fat Ministers
            - Gauntlet of enemies before L&L very reminiscent 1-3 before Penetrator fight
            - Red-eyed knight * (difficult optional enemy in starting area, the one guarding the Gem)
            - Firelink very reminiscent of the Nexus
            - Irithyll Dungeon reminiscent of Latria prison
            - High Wall of Lothric/Lothric Castle reminiscent of Boletarian Palace (far more than Undead Burg/Parish)
            - Firekeeper "Then touch the darkness within me", vs Maiden in Black "Then touch the demon inside me"
            - Both the Firekeeper and the Maiden in Black are blind (both apparently on purpose)
            - Gimmick bosses being more common
            - Yuria's assassination request reminiscent of Mephistopheles's sidequest, plus they even stand similarly
            - Speaking of which, a character actually called ]Yuria again
            - However, the one that looks like Yuria from Demon's Souls isn't that one, it's Karla, but they look very similar

            Other things that I've seen pointed out, which aren't as immediately obvious, but still worth mentioning:

            - Maiden Astraea/Garl Vinland vs Irina/Eygon
            - Rock worms returning
            - Iudex Gundyr is reminiscent of the Old King Doran

            Was it kino?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Wish it referenced being able to choose what order you do the stages in.
              >Was it kino
              It was very heavy handed with the references, but sure.

              >mfw the map clicked in my mind playing the first time

              You can't not appreciate it. 3D metroidvania is such a great idea.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Some of these are really stretching what the graph considers a node for each game.
                DS1's DLC gets 7 dots, while the whole of Ariandel is 1.
                If we're really going to put Cathedral of Blue on here why not Crucifixion Woods? Or the Old Wolf's tower?
                Biased diagram if anything.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                way to miss the point entirely

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Point being DaS3 is incredibly linear while the rest of the games are not. Also a lot of those extra nodes were added by random anons, it's not inherently biased against DaS3.

                I'm not saying 3 isn't the most linear, it clearly is, but the diagram that anon posted was pretty shit.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Point being DaS3 is incredibly linear while the rest of the games are not. Also a lot of those extra nodes were added by random anons, it's not inherently biased against DaS3.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                DaS2 the GOAT

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >But has enough to give you satisfaction and a lot of replay value
          DS2 does, and does it better.
          >More optional content/less linear
          >More armor, weapons, and spells (and they're balanced better)
          >greater diversity of locations
          >greater replay value (better NG+, more builds, less linear, more content)
          That's all DaS2s area of expertise. DaS3's is bosses, DaS2's is RPG elements and replayability, DaS1's is world design.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >DaS3's is bosses

            *Teleports behind you*
            *wololololols*

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Princes is an excellent boss.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                said no one ever.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        - Priscilla was just going to be the level-up character, and the Painted World of Ariamis was just the proof of concept test stage that was developed before anything else in Dark Souls
        >priscilla was different at one point in development so shes bad
        lmao

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        - Dishonest game design
        huh?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Basically this, but also because dark souls was rough around the edges it cared very little about the player, it lost that in later iterations.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because the sound design is better and the world design isnt composed entirely of grays and browns

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Honestly, I think a big part of it is memory and nostalgia. It is legitimately an amazing game world though

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      disagree, ds1 was one of the last souls games I played, (played bb, ds2 and 3 before, this was 2 years ago), I have 0 nostalgia attachment to it and ds1 still felt the most mysterious and immersive, maybe the most mysterious was demon souls, but that has to do mostly with it being a one off game where they didn't really know what they were doing as much.

      ds1 is incredible and probably the best one.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The only reason DS1 feels "mysterious and immersive" is because it forces you to backtrack through the "interconnected" world hundreds of times, nevermind the fact that there's no reason to do anything in these areas once you made it through them the first time but since they want to push the "interconnected" theme to make is seem like a pseudo open world there you go.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why are you so angry about interconnected worlds?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Because I've played through it. Don't get me wrong it totally works for the first 20 or so levels and having a master key starting item is really cool and unique, but once you've run through andre's smithy for the 50th time just because they turned your bonfire off as a design feature you really have to wonder if it doesn't overstay its welcome.

            Also since the game is designed this way you increasingly go on autopilot and increasingly miss things, not only that but as you're leaving areas that you've 100% to make sure that you don't have to come back you find an area sealed "by the lord's power" which means, you guessed it, you're going to have to run all-the-way-back eventually. This is soul sucking gameplay, especially if you're not using a guide.

            I can imagine in about 30 hours of gameplay you'll spend at least 5 hours doing death runs or returning to areas you've already been which feels like a monumental waste of time

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >but once you've run through andre's smithy for the 50th time just because they turned your bonfire off as a design feature you really have to wonder if it doesn't overstay its welcome.
              Andre's bonfire is like a minute away from firelink, and at the time firelink gets shut off you're going to be going into Sen's anyway so I don't see why you'd have to run back to his bonfire 50 times.
              >Also since the game is designed this way you increasingly go on autopilot and increasingly miss things, not only that but as you're leaving areas that you've 100% to make sure that you don't have to come back you find an area sealed "by the lord's power" which means, you guessed it, you're going to have to run all-the-way-back eventually. This is soul sucking gameplay, especially if you're not using a guide.
              People miss things all the time, having to run through a shortcut occasionally is not the cause of it for most people. And describing blocked paths that you have to return to as soul sucking gameplay is just bizarre. Sounds like you just have some autistic conviction about not returning to areas.
              >I can imagine in about 30 hours of gameplay you'll spend at least 5 hours doing death runs or returning to areas you've already been which feels like a monumental waste of time
              And I can imagine that you're wrong. A lot of hours for a lot of people have definitely been wasted bumbling around, being lost and having no idea where to go and whatnot, but I can't see straight backtracking taking that much time unless you never find shortcuts.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was the right time. DS2 suffered from that massive downgrade so consoles could run it, also it was made by team B and all that shit. DS3 suffered from being too derivative from Bloodborne, also you can see they clearly didn't wanted to do all agian, it was a well done fan service at best. Sekiro tried a new direction but didn't work for me, good if work for someone. Elden Ring tries to tie everything together but at this point they are too addicted to their own formula to make something really great again, so is superbly well done, but frick me there is no souls in this series anymore for a long time.

    I should love Bloodborne since it's souls + lovecraft but I found that game to be insanely boring. Also every map looks the same.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >every map looks the same
      you didn't even get out of yharnam
      LOL

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I played to the fricking DLC, shit always looked the same. I know it's different, you got ruins, sheds, castles, snow and... everything just looks the same. There is some kind of boredom in this whole fricking game I can't put into words.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          the boredom is in your head

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Oh no! There is some joke in here but I'm too tired to think of. The boredom is not just me, lots of people got disappointed with BB. It's not a bad game at all, but you can say the same about Elden Ring and Sekiro. They work very well for some people, but specially for fans of Dark Souls, it's simply not the same. Demon's Souls and Dark Souls and even old shit like King's Field had some magic that From simply lost at some point.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              that's because you grew up with dark souls and don't actually WANT new games, your nostalgia limits you on what you are capable of enjoying

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You are projecting hard here kiddo, I was really looking foward for Sekiro and BB, I wish they stopped doing Souls game after 1, 2 and 3 were massive letdowns each for their own reasons. They are not bad games, but the magic is not there, Elden Ring is the best example. 9/10 game, superb in every aspect, but shit it was a chore to finish first time and I not going back.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              only thing that lost the magic at some point is you. The games are fun you just got old and jaded. Thats okay but in no part the fualt of the games.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                NTA but I agree with you in a vacuum. All of these games are fun, but fact of the matter is they can't be divorced from the context of being outright clones of one another.
                If anything you're a freak for somehow being okay with the same shit for over a decade.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >only thing that lost the magic at some point is you

                I played all the games back to back in like 2019 and thought they lost the magic too. Pretty sure I was jaded beforehand anyway.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nah, I disagree. Those games are well made, but not that fun anymore. Like

                NTA but I agree with you in a vacuum. All of these games are fun, but fact of the matter is they can't be divorced from the context of being outright clones of one another.
                If anything you're a freak for somehow being okay with the same shit for over a decade.

                said the fact that they are all clones don't help, the sensation of "being there, done that" is all over the place. I was really looking foward for Elden Ring, had some fun for a while but it's just Dark Souls with a bigger map and a horse. It's time to let it go, maybe do some new Armored Core or other shit for a while.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                NTA but I agree with you in a vacuum. All of these games are fun, but fact of the matter is they can't be divorced from the context of being outright clones of one another.
                If anything you're a freak for somehow being okay with the same shit for over a decade.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's true. BB is only good in the first area and the DLC.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >DS2 suffered from that massive downgrade so consoles could run it

      You mean the graphics? Shut up graphics nerd.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The downgrade led to a lot of issues and bugs like the weird light and the sliding steps. And also made the whole game look like ass, but hey it's ok to like ass bro.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Elden Ring tries to tie everything together but at this point they are too addicted to their own formula

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >and yet people say india will become a first world in a few years
        oh heavens

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          they're Filipino, you illiterate homosexual

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            moron

            sorry sirs

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              i forget you

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          moron

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >also it was made by team B and all that shit
      Literally just parroting r*dditor talking points, you sad homosexual nothing person with no brain of your own.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because it was somewhat original.
      And I also guess it's the sound design.
      Like menu selection and the character creation music is pretty neat

      >DS2 is just shit because of consoles
      DaS1 was on the same console

      >But has enough to give you satisfaction and a lot of replay value
      DS2 does, and does it better.
      >More optional content/less linear
      >More armor, weapons, and spells (and they're balanced better)
      >greater diversity of locations
      >greater replay value (better NG+, more builds, less linear, more content)
      That's all DaS2s area of expertise. DaS3's is bosses, DaS2's is RPG elements and replayability, DaS1's is world design.

      The only replay value DaS2 can offer is the different builds.
      The world just isn't fun to explore and frick around with. Sure, locations are more diverse but the levels aren't good

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The world just isn't fun to explore and frick around with.
        There's nothing to frick around with in DS1, what are you talking about?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I agree with literally everything in this post, including the fact that BB should be good but just comes out a gray and boring mash. Yeah the combat is faster but it's not really better and the tradeoff for less interesting enemy and world design wasn't worth it.

      I wish FROM focused on the more experimental aspects of DeS and DS1 instead of watering it down again and again. I hope their next game is a clunky ass weird fricking dungeon crawler, but I know it won't be.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >DS2 suffered from that massive downgrade so consoles could run it,
      You’re an utter fricking moron if you believe that it’s consoles that are the reason for shit graphics and performance and not the fact that developers make their games so that 3rd world Black folk that have a 10+ year old toaster can run them

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >DS2 suffered from that massive downgrade so consoles could run it,
      You’re an utter fricking moron if you believe that it’s consoles that are the reason for shit graphics and performance and not the fact that developers make their games so that 3rd world Black folk that have a 10+ year old toaster can run them

      Actually the reason DS2 looks so bad is because it went from a next-gen game to a cross-gen game mid development, which is why it such a mess overall, not just visually.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DaS, DeS, and BB are very apparently the only times Miyazaki was actually passionate about making a game. And out of those three DaS has the most unique setting and also allows for locational diversity unlike BB.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    less linearity, all the games they made post DS are very linear, that definitely kill the sense of mistery and adventure.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      2 is less linear than 1

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm pirating Dark Souls Remastered. I'm going to play it with a 90 percent damage reduction mod and will massively increase my starting stats with WeMod.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      (You)

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >gets stuck
    >teleports away

    Nothin' personel

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it was a product of a holistic vision, unlike later titles

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Demon's Souls has a pretty good sense of mystery as well

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just completed DS1 PTD for the first time (after 3, 2, ER that order) because I finally stopped b***hing and got over the fact that the kb&m port sucks ass and won't get better after another 10 years.
    The thing that struck me the most is that it's way easier to become really fricking OP compared to 3 & 2. About halfway through the game the build I made by just playing the game no grinding just destroyed every boss.
    It's probably for the better they changed active poise in the sequels because it trivialises everything once your equip load is high enough.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I broke DS1 when it clicked I could just walk around all the enemies with a shield up and backstab through the whole game.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        My roll build in DS3 was completely broken. Nothing could hit me.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Same for bosses. Just hit them, chug, hit, chug.
        No need to dodge roll or even engage in the mechanics at all.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Was it your first Souls game? Dark Souls didn't feel as mysterious to me than Demon's Souls before it, other than seamless environments added to the mix.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not OP but I played DaS first, then 2, 3, BB, Sekiro, Elden Ring and finally Demon's Souls (original). DaS and DS were the best, I was surprised on how modern and polished DS is, second best game I've played from this series. Looking foward to play the remake now.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They didn't really change up the formula much from the original. All DaS did was make heavier builds more viable to use, where-as in DeS it was all about maintaining half-encumbrance to get maximum movement/roll speed.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because they didn't wring the Souls cliches dry at this point where they may have had something grander in mind but just making up setpieces to bait loregays and didn't think about it

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The sound design

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is a big thing most people forget about. Playing PS3 DeS the sound effects are really haunting and foreign.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No fast travel for the first half, it means you actually have to engage with the world as a whole instead of just being able to zip through it with bonfires

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Layered was more dark and more mysterious than anything in Souls, not to mention the insane shit that is implied to happen in Beliana

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Of course the zoomies who only know From because of Souls don't understand this

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      qrd?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >layered is a giant artificial construct because the earth is so contaminated and fricked from pollutants that humanity all is underground
        >no one has ever explored its entirety and it has a real mystery about it
        >beliana is a fantasy land where nothing is told, but implied to have human experimentation to create elemental creatures among other fricked stuff
        Basically play Froms older games to see why so many people adore them

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          the only references to this shit I can find are from here. You a chain yanker?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Information you only get from actually playing and not MUH YOUTUBE MUH WIKIS?
            Like I said, play their older games.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >MUH INTERNET
              yeah frick me for trying to learn which games in particular to play out of their gigantic portfolio you condescending Black person

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              NTA but stop being such a condescending rat homosexual, you're worse then elden ring redditors

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Layered
      >Beliana
      Are these From games? I'm not seeing them on their wiki entry.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        OK homosexual
        Play Armored Core 3 and Evergrace

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Thank you.
          Are Armored Core games stand alone stories, or do I need the first two for appropriate context?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They're technically standalone but if you like ME REFERENCES like I do you should play them in numbered order
            You should also do that because they kick ass

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Cool, will do.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >required: AC1, MoA, Another Age, Silent Line, Nexus, 4, For Answer
            >optional: 2, Last Raven, V Day
            >eh: Project Phantasma, 3
            >why: Master of Arena (I liked it but still, why), Formula Front, 5

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >this vague homosexual finally spills the beans
          >It's one of the games my buddy that just moved away two days ago left me

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Then he doesn't like you very much, Evergrace fricking sucks lol
            Forever Kingdom is far superior and Evergraces much memed OST only has a few bonkers tracks, while FK the whole thing is off the chain

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              kek, well I'll pcsx2 that one and then whatever else is down the old FromSoftware pipeline.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              This dude knows what's up. EG sucks but FK is pretty good. It also has a better soundtrack.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                so how full of shit is this guy?

                Layered was more dark and more mysterious than anything in Souls, not to mention the insane shit that is implied to happen in Beliana

                >layered is a giant artificial construct because the earth is so contaminated and fricked from pollutants that humanity all is underground
                >no one has ever explored its entirety and it has a real mystery about it
                >beliana is a fantasy land where nothing is told, but implied to have human experimentation to create elemental creatures among other fricked stuff
                Basically play Froms older games to see why so many people adore them

                Information you only get from actually playing and not MUH YOUTUBE MUH WIKIS?
                Like I said, play their older games.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                He's just describing older From games, he's completely correct.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That's now how I would describe a game that sucks, but alright.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I always wondered if Evergrace had any connections to Elden Ring.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ah, I see now.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    take the first half of dark souls and the second half of dark souls 3 make it all interconnected keep the DLCs for both and congratulations you now have the perfect souls game.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Interconnected world, zero handholding.
    I opened Elden Ring again yesterday, and they updated it to include the number of Runes gained by using the hard Rune items in their item descriptions.
    When I killed Radahn, the game tells me that my map has been updated with a red marker that tells me how to get to Nokron.
    FromSoft pander to casualBlack folk now. Should have known when they gutted invasions and gave you free AI summons that you can call on any time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      .

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Well, yeah, that too.
        I think they've lost their touch.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >When I killed Radahn, the game tells me that my map has been updated with a red marker that tells me how to get to Nokron.
      They should have just had an environment event where something obvious changed and you use that as your cue to explore it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They did, and that's how everyone (who didn't look up a guide) found it before the update.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That's the joke anon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >When I killed Radahn, the game tells me that my map has been updated with a red marker that tells me how to get to Nokron.
      They should have just had an environment event where something obvious changed and you use that as your cue to explore it.

      I can undestand why that marker was added, but it could've been handled better.
      I spent more than two hours looking around Limgrave trying to find where the meteor had landed. I missed it because when I was looking around Fort Haight it was foggy as shit so I turned around without having seen the big ass crater that wasn't there before.
      They could've just added a smoke trail you could track in the distance

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Or environments could have been hit by the meteor in its way down, opening up routes through cliffs that weren't there before, or maybe annihilating a building on a particularly well-frequented part of the map. Lots they could have done.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The worst part is that in a later patch they added a marker so you know instantly where the meteor landed. That wasn't there in my first run of the game, and it disappointed me so much that they took away the mystery and excitement of searching for the place of impact.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Blaidd says "I can see bloody nokron from here" when you meet him at siofra, after the festival is over he tells you that now we can head down to nokron, the meteor crashes leaving floating debris that can be seen from far away all over limgrave. Truth is most people don't pay attention hence why the added that stupid marker.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >the meteor crashes leaving floating debris that can be seen from far away all over limgrave
          you actually have to be pretty close to see anything, like by the time you see floating shit you can already see the hole. creating an easter egg hunt in the massive open world is actually moronic

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            You can see the floating shit from the first step bro.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              And? You can't see it from caelid, where you are, you can't see it from miswood, which is where its at, right next to caelid, so where is it?
              >it right under your nose, teehee
              frick off fromsoft, suck a dick

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >you can't see it from miswood
                Anon.....

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You could be just before the clearing of the mistwood to the hole and not see it. Unless it was a LoD problem at launch I can't explain it. I was pissed when I got there because I was like "how the frick was I supposed to see that"?

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Should i trust the abyss serpent or the other one?

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    no fast travel until the final act which is also when it loses much of its magic

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    From didn't know what they were doing with the game yet. There's quite a few random npcs scattered throughout the world as merchants that you never use like they wanted to populate it but didn't know how. Then there's the giant empty capital that exists for no reason. The game is a never-ending torrent of content until anor londo and then it just ends

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Be 35 years old
    >Played FROM games since KF2 and AC1 on the PSX
    >Enjoyed DeS and the following games as a natural evolution of KF and ST
    >Enjoy all the references to the aforementioned games
    >Enjoy all their games up to Elden Ring with all their ups and downs
    >Have to deal with annoying kids and secondaries whining about MUH DANK SOULZ 1 WUZ DA BESS!!11! MUH ORIGINAL MASTAHPEES and other vague annoying bullshit statements about FROM and the post DS1 games
    This is worse than dealing with AC4 homosexuals

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      do you have the answer to the riddle of dark souls never being good

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      For me it's the Demon's souls homosexuals

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >look up shadow tower gamplay
      >if you go over the incumbrance limit you start taking constant damage until you go back under the threshold
      >dropping items isn't a thing in the game and you can only sell them to merchants
      yeah sounds like fromshit

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        ?t=120
        Ugliest piece of shit I've ever seen. Gameplay doesn't look particularly good either. inb4
        >zoomer
        PS2 has great looking and playing games. From just didn't hit their stride until Souls. Boomers can seethe about it but it's just true.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >zoomer boomer PS2 is bad
          Garbage post
          From have been good since PS1

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Proof?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Actually play their games you stupid moron

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >no proof

                ?t=3991

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Actually play their games you stupid moron

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I accept your concession, contrarian homosexual.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Ganker legitimately angry I tell them to play games

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                what do you expect? Ganker hates video games
                shadow tower abyss actually looks kinda cool i might emulate it at some point

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >gameplay looks like shit
                >artistically looks like shit
                >is literally just a generic JRPG dungeon crawler but with extremely shitty real time "combat"
                >You have to play it before you can pass judgement bro
                Nah you have some explaining to do homosexual, I aint playing this shit without being coerced. Nobody will judging by the lack of interest in these games.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >i ain't playing shit
                Yeah we know you don't play games

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                post hours boomer

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >shovelware that isn't even the real versions of those terrible games
                >teamshit gundamshit
                Last (you)

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >t...those don't count
                kek, pathetic

                >ligma
                oh no no no

                >black gatekeeper
                I've been told Sigma 1 is fine by several of you homosexuals at this point. Shut up.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >ligma
                oh no no no

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Demons Souls principles shine most brightly in Shadow Tower. You're there. As an adventurer. Trying to decide how best to overcome difficult situations using your brain. Then DS1 happened and you solved everything by circle strafing, rolling, and poise.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Trying to decide how best to overcome difficult situations using your brain.
                >in a game with real time "action" combat
                I don't think I have to explain why putting so little stock in the primary means through which you interact with the enemies is a fundamentally fricked idea for a game. We all know why these games didn't catch on but Demon's Souls did.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                you did the same shit in demons souls minus poise

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Demons Souls you had to outsmart your enemies

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                by circle strafing behind them and backstabbing. or just abusing magic. truly the height of strategic combat.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >it doesn't count because ___
      Sounds like cope. Also nah the world is pretty fun to frick around with because of how often they mix in high-level content in earlier levels, i.e.
      >twin giants in gulch
      >salamanders in forest
      >dragonslayer in heide
      and there's also the fact that you can do Brume and Shulva early which can not only provide a good challenge that shakes things up, but also allow you to skip previously mandatory base game content via getting 1m soul memory easier. DaS2's by far the most engaging to replay and it takes someone who actually plays Souls to realize it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >soul memory
        >engaging
        soul memory sounds like cancer incarnate

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >allows you to skip mandatory content, bolstering replayability even further
          >sounds like cancer incarnate because muh PvP
          laughable cope. Also DaS2 has the best PvP.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            how does it have the best pvp when you level out of pvp by playing pvp without leveling

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >you level out of PvP
              >cant even shitpost correctly
              The problem with it is that you enter a pool without a ceiling. There are plenty of people there, the problem is that many of them will be far higher level than you if you're on the lower end.
              Also literally just make characters for PvP like everyone else.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                so they thought it was a good idea to for you to face higher and higher level players than yourself regardless of your own level?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah sure I'll educate you, why not.
                That's only when you reach the highest soul-memory bracket. it isn't a problem for anyone except people who don't spend souls wisely, die often, or do NG+.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                sounds like its a problem for people that earn souls through pvp, no?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                A problem for people that do literally hundreds of invasions in the same area. Otherwise not really.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                so most pvpers

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >most pvpers
                will have multiple builds at various SL ranges. You'd know if you ever played it and weren't a homosexual shitposter.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So in order to play the game at certain levels you constantly have to remake characters? DS2 sounds like a hunk of shit

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                (You)

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                cope nerd

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                .

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >that guy who got so filtered by 4A and VD he claims they aren't real ACs
    fricking bustertbm lmao

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >it's you!
    >you're the Scholar of the First Sin!
    are we actually serious with this shit

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's not incredible or the best one. Just look at it lmao

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >naked
      Reddit shit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      how hard would this be without the backstab cheese? looks like a lot of backstabs, does he hit hard?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This character is not supposed to be hard, its supposed to penalize players who rely on shields and staggering.

      You're just showing it's weakness.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because it is

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it is

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >guy who doesn't play games uses the term gatekeeper
    What a "surprise"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >still hasn't posted hours
      I win.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >optional
    >kino day and last raven
    you fricking what mate

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ?t=1216
    >required

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >zoomies will never experience destroy floating mines
      SAD

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can really see the groundwork of what would eventually become Demons Souls

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It truly is the Dark Souls of Fromsoft games

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because the game does not hold your hand at any point in the game.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only good from game is King's Field 1 everything else is derivative garbage with no SOVL

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You're right about everything except KF1 being good

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, honestly KF1 also sucks I preferred it when it was just a mod for unreal tournament

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >teleport to painted world accidentally
    >overleveled because I 100% every area I go into
    >kill dragon on bridge
    >wtf his ass is in the way, it even makes hit sounds when you attack it
    >but it doesn't die
    >is this a bug? look it up
    >guy says jump attack butt
    >oh okay
    >jump attack butt
    >butt stands up
    >run into boss arena
    >kill her in like 7 hits
    >get hit once
    >complete DLC in like 10 minutes
    People paid for this shit?

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You didn't know better at the time.
    Also, the lighting and color palate. The world felt quite lonely too.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it has soul, based on FromSoftwares trackrecord, I don't forsee a good future for the quality of their games:

    DeS = Best originality, best swamp zone (Swamp of Sorrow), best atmosphere, best environmental hazards (tied with Dark Souls).
    DaS = Best world design, best closed-world interconnected non-linear world design in all gaming history, best sense of adventure, journey and isolation because you can't teleport until you get the lord vessel, best lore (thematically) when ignoring DaS2/DaS3 lore (they are non-canon anyway), best environmental hazards (tied with Demon's Souls).
    DaS2 = Best slow and methodical combat (the last true Dark Souls game), best PvP, best shadow system (dynamic shadows with torch), best build variety, best hub OST (Majula), true dual wielding/powerstancing, best new game+ features.
    Bloodborne = Best OST, best bosses (tied with Sekiro), best aggressive and fast combat system (tied with Sekiro), best DLC, best horror elements, best weapon design, best individual level design.
    Sekiro = Best bosses (tied with Bloodborne), best aggressive and fast combat system (tied with Bloodborne), highest skill floor and skill cap, best animation quality, only souls-ish game in which you actually have to GitGud (can't cheese with overleveling/summoning).
    Dark Souls 3 = uhhh...? excels at nothing. Bandai Scamco fricked the development time and funding of Dark Souls 3 and FromSoftware was forced to cut all the unique and amazing ideas such as: Bonfire creation ritual, Serpent invasion event, God's Grave, more interconnected world design etc.
    Elden Cringe = not a souls game, an open-world fundamentally prevents the souls formula from existing and thus an open-world game can never be a souls game.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lack of absolute fast travel helps with pacing / immersion

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    cause it was your first souls experience

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it ripped off Runequest and a lot of its design stemmed more from that fantasy aproach, shoving a player into an alien and mysterius environement. That is at different times vertical and at other times horizontal. This gives the player a dissorianting feel and makes the world seem like it is in larger scale than it actually is.

    There is a huge difference beatween Kings Field, Demon Souls and Dark Souls, and that is tone. Dark Souls thrusts you into both areas and gives you items of which you know nothing about at first but have to follow a breadcrumb trail. Myazaki started making videogames because of his passion in making fantasy Runequest related maps. Dark souls maps is thiinking outside of the box in terms of areas when it came to fantasy rpg's. Thats the biggest contribution it had on the gaming industry.

    There are other similarities to Runequest all the way down to the lore, but mechanically the biggest contribution is: Everyone can use magic and that enemies and combat is dangerous.

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it is still the best Souls game.

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