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From Software The Dark Souls II Megathread™
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meanwhileInPoland
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dude put that shit in spoilres.
but you are right you can interpret that in both ways
SuicideBunny
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you can't type in
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[spoiler][/spoiler]
DragoFireheart
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I always report spoilers. It does not bother me, but I know how much it upsets others when a story's plot gets spoiled.
aris
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Are you sure about that? It does have a clear progression of events, the only place I saw where time was clearly distorted was in the DLC.
Vaarna_Aarne
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They mention it a couple of times, it's the in-game justification for things like the online component. Also Frampt comments that it took you hundreds of years to gain the Lordvessel.
Kanedias
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"Heavens! You have done it! You have retrieved the Lordvessel!
After a thousand years! It is you, it is really you!"
The way I understood that part of the dialogue is that Farmpt was talking about how after a thousand years of waiting a Chosen Undead capable of retrieving the Lordvessel had finally arrived, not that those thousand years had passed between you talking to him for the first time and the retrieval of the Lordvessel.
The time shenanigans in this game are portrayed as multiple timelines (like parallel worlds) that intersect each other to a certain extent, which is the explanation for online play and probably some of the corpses (the ones that appear when you do something specific, like Beatrice's). Also some of the NPCs. People often forget about it, but for example Lautrec is from another world/timeline, even though he appears in "body form" in the Parish and Firelink. We know this because he takes the Firekeeper soul to his own world after killing Anastacia. Solaire, the one who mentions the time shenanigans for the first time, is also from another world, where he links the fire if you save him from the Sunlight Maggot, according to an interview with Miyazaki. I believe Oswald of Carim must also be from another world, as he magically appears once you ring the Bell. At least, that's the way I understood it.
After a thousand years! It is you, it is really you!"
The way I understood that part of the dialogue is that Farmpt was talking about how after a thousand years of waiting a Chosen Undead capable of retrieving the Lordvessel had finally arrived, not that those thousand years had passed between you talking to him for the first time and the retrieval of the Lordvessel.
The time shenanigans in this game are portrayed as multiple timelines (like parallel worlds) that intersect each other to a certain extent, which is the explanation for online play and probably some of the corpses (the ones that appear when you do something specific, like Beatrice's). Also some of the NPCs. People often forget about it, but for example Lautrec is from another world/timeline, even though he appears in "body form" in the Parish and Firelink. We know this because he takes the Firekeeper soul to his own world after killing Anastacia. Solaire, the one who mentions the time shenanigans for the first time, is also from another world, where he links the fire if you save him from the Sunlight Maggot, according to an interview with Miyazaki. I believe Oswald of Carim must also be from another world, as he magically appears once you ring the Bell. At least, that's the way I understood it.
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Vaarna_Aarne
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Hence why my own idea until potential sequel answers is "what happens in Lordran stays in Lordran."
Kanedias
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dunno lah
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Burrowers in mah DaS2? 
Fat Dragon
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Goddamn, those look rough. From REALLY needs to get somebody else to take their screenshots, those hideous things are not doing the game any favors.
Kanedias
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Yeah, I really don't know why they do that, hahaha. They just don't care, I guess. From must be the only company out there that releases screenshots that actually look much worse than the actual game.
Look at these ones from DkS 1:
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Kanedias
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I really don't know if they're of lower quality or not, if you look at those two early DKS screenshots I posted they look even more awful. It's like From makes an effort to make the screenshots look bad.
As for a translation, I found this on reddit:
dunno lah
Arcane
Good to know the NPCs still laugh at the end of their lines. Hehehe.
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/01/16/meet-characters-dark-souls-ii/#CV3SPUuvexyMjZlh.16
same screens as the last batch posted by Kanedias, but this time with character names
same screens as the last batch posted by Kanedias, but this time with character names
Chaotic_Heretic
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fuck ill have no life when this is released.
meanwhileInPoland
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FUCK THE PS2 GRAPHICS
WELL he is dead man when we meet. i need his stuff
Fat Dragon
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The game doesn't have bad graphics really, From just sucks at taking screenshots. They're much too zoomed in on everything with awkward camera angles and don't really show much of the environment. The screens taken from the actual in-game perspective look A LOT better, like the cave pic above.
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So Marcus was actually working on Dark Souls 2's strategy guide, and he has played the game. He says he enjoyed it "much more" than the first one. This makes me very excited, and while less optimistic people can say that he only says that because he was hired to work on said strategy guide, it's nevertheless a good sign that the game is more or less done, it means they have 2 months of polish to avoid disasters like Lost Izalith.
So Marcus was actually working on Dark Souls 2's strategy guide, and he has played the game. He says he enjoyed it "much more" than the first one. This makes me very excited, and while less optimistic people can say that he only says that because he was hired to work on said strategy guide, it's nevertheless a good sign that the game is more or less done, it means they have 2 months of polish to avoid disasters like Lost Izalith.
DragoFireheart
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If it's at least as good as Demon's/Dark Souls then I'm sure everything will be fine.
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