From Software The Dark Souls II Megathread™

[Damned Registrations]

Oh yeah, it would have been so preferable to have instead not have respawning mobs, make them far more difficult to compensate, and force you to run back to the bonfire after every fucknig kill. You guys are just game design fucking geniuses.

 

[pocahaunted]

It's one guy, bro.

 

[Stonewolf]

Oh yeah, it would have been so preferable to have instead not have respawning mobs, make them far more difficult to compensate, and force you to run back to the bonfire after every fucknig kill. You guys are just game design fucking geniuses.

How about, you know, saving? Human race ascended into that level of game design in XXI century, I guess consoles got stuck in the nineties.

Fuck the games that force you to waste time on repeatable sequences.

 

[Jasede]

Repeatable sequences are an arcade staple and if you look at this as anything but an arcade game you don't "get" it. If you can't replicate getting past an obstacle reliably then maybe it was just a fluke?

Think about it: is it really a great display of skill if you beat some FPS on hard when you save after every fight and reload if you finish one with too much lost health? That's like the PC version of grinding.

Getting past something once is easy; doing it reliably is difficult. That's skill.

Actually, by the "save everywhere" logic, every enemy in the game should only appear once. Why waste your time fighting someone you already beat once? Clearly you can beat that enemy so fighting it again is just a chore.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Bawwww. I want to just reload until I randomly win fights. Being skilled is HARD.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Oh yeah, it would have been so preferable to have instead not have respawning mobs, make them far more difficult to compensate, and force you to run back to the bonfire after every fucknig kill. You guys are just game design fucking geniuses.

How about, you know, saving? Human race ascended into that level of game design in XXI century, I guess consoles got stuck in the nineties.

Fuck the games that force you to waste time on repeatable sequences.

Yeah, sure, and also health regen with cover system.
Did you actually play the game? Did you play it properly? Did you fucking understand the concept, or you're one of those faggots with 'every game must be easy and the same' way of thinking?

 

[Great Deceiver]

looks awesome, i played the shit out of demon's souls and dark souls, as well as most of the quirky from software first person rpgs. this will be fun. can't wait.

i just hope they maintain tight level design throughout, and avoid the lame filler that comprised the final hours of the first dark souls (lost izalith was a turd, for example). anor londo was the apex of that game, and it felt like it was supposed to end soon after you restored the lordvessel, but instead kept dragging on bad shit like the aforementioned lost izalith, duke's archives, etc. in order to fill that quota "hours of gameplay" that reviewers seem to love to score.

 

[J_C]

Oh yeah, it would have been so preferable to have instead not have respawning mobs, make them far more difficult to compensate, and force you to run back to the bonfire after every fucknig kill. You guys are just game design fucking geniuses.

How about, you know, saving? Human race ascended into that level of game design in XXI century, I guess consoles got stuck in the nineties.

Fuck the games that force you to waste time on repeatable sequences.

Yeah, sure, and also health regen with cover system.
Did you actually play the game? Did you play it properly? Did you fucking understand the concept, or you're one of those faggots with 'every game must be easy and the same' way of thinking?

of 2013 newfags.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

upcoming sequel's difficulty will not be scaled down

The only real difficulty in Dark Souls was forcing yourself to waste so much time to kill all those fucking respawned mobs and run x minutes to the boss because you died due to retarded controls or some scripted bullshit you had no chance to see coming unless metagaming sucking

 

[AngryDude]

The only real difficulty in Dark Souls was not knowing the mobs at first time, after that it was a breeze

fixd, DS is not a hard game, once you know the moveset of mobs it's laughably easy.

 

[Morgoth]

One of the most striking box artworks ever.

 

[Morgoth]

Dark Souls sold ~2.4 million units.
http://www.destructoid.com/dark-souls-sold-more-than-two-million-copies-251369.phtml

 

[Linden]

How I feel after watching the gameplay video:



Come at me, DS2.

 

[Turisas]

How I feel after watching the gameplay video:



Come at me, DS2.

With PC apparently being the lead platform, maybe this time around the game'll actually be playable right away.

 

[Cynic]

fucking hell this game series really brings out the butthurt retards

 

[Surf Solar]

Guys, I can't believe you haven't done the only proper response yet.

Only a step away from health regen. FromSoftware is innovating, now it's only a matter of time.

'sup Drog.

I already did.

 

[abija]

With PC apparently being the lead platform, maybe this time around the game'll actually be playable right away.

It was playable right away with keyboard only. And where did they say PC is lead platform? I'll be EXTREMELY surprised if DS2 will have proper K&M control.

 

[Black]

Bottom of the pic.

 

[Turisas]

It was playable right away with keyboard only. And where did they say PC is lead platform? I'll be EXTREMELY surprised if DS2 will have proper K&M control.

Keyboard support was (and is) shit, but I was talking about the 30 fps cap and shitty console resolution. Those may be enough for console plebs, but I demand more.

 

[Jasede]

The time between half of 2013 to 2014's half is going to be a great year for all of us.
There's more games I am going to buy in that time span than I bought in the last ten years combined.

 

[Stonewolf]

Repeatable sequences are an arcade staple and if you look at this as anything but an arcade game you don't "get" it. If you can't replicate getting past an obstacle reliably then maybe it was just a fluke?

Think about it: is it really a great display of skill if you beat some FPS on hard when you save after every fight and reload if you finish one with too much lost health? That's like the PC version of grinding.

Getting past something once is easy; doing it reliably is difficult. That's skill.

Actually, by the "save everywhere" logic, every enemy in the game should only appear once. Why waste your time fighting someone you already beat once? Clearly you can beat that enemy so fighting it again is just a chore.

Grinding is being forced to repeat a portion of the gameplay you get no fun from doing. Ie. having to repeat several minutes of gameplay for no real reason apart from gamedev thinking it's hard when player gets punished by having his time wasted. Whats the difference between loading a checkpoint, killing 10 useless mobs on the way and fighting a boss and just loading the save and fighting a boss? It's only about the amount of time you waste on your way back by going through the filler over and over again. Just make the checkpoint before the boss fight or whatever, if you have to make it checkpoint-based.

It's so fucked up concept of difficulty that relies solely on making you ragequit because last checkpoint was ten minutes ago it's unbelievable anyone who's not a consoletard could possibly defend it. Gamedevs are basically saying 'we have no idea how to make game actually hard, so we're just gonna make you waste time and grind whenever you die, LOL HAVE FUN BRO'.

Whatevs, I guess you people have so little to do anyways that it doesn't bother you when a game wastes your time.

 

[Jasede]

 

[Hobo Elf]

You're just mad that you couldn't get past the burg because the monsters kept respawning so you couldn't rely on pussy tactics to beat the game.

 

[Stonewolf]

You're just butthurt that someone might have better things to do than keeping doing the filler like it was some game machine from the ancient times which asks you to insert coin after you die.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Butthurt about what? I'm not the faggot getting mad about a video game. I just don't die so respawning enemies was never an issue for me, but I guess that's too much to ask from a pleb like you. Go back to save scumming in NetHack and tell your friends how hardcore and nerdy you are.