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>>16018113

Lets hope Left Alive sells enough to prove to Square Enix people want more Front Mission games. Because if fucking Ace Combat can make a comeback anything can.

>>16018120

o-oh gosh!

I dropped DaS 2 and 3 for a number of reasons. Sekiro looks better but I'm not sure on it. I want to see From do new things like they used to always do.

Its just Japanese Nioh

I kinda do

As a kid I loved the first two Tenchus and I'm an a solute Soulsfag and a weeaboo, so Sekiro looks like my bread and butter.

>>16018128

>what if we made nioh but without the irishman showing up, walking out the surf, picking up the first katana he sees an laying waste to an entire island nation of oni/demons

Beggorah, tis another potato famine!

>>16018129 (samefagging)

>a solute

Meant absolute

I'm looking forward to it but not getting hyped. Will be interesting to see how From handles a pure action game though there are a few too many Souls throwbacks. DMCV coming out two weeks before doesn't help the game too much either, as it will almost certainly be a far better and fun game. Sekiro probably has the art direction and story down compared to DMCV but Itsuno and his team have the better game.

An Armored Core with better physics and controls would be nice and is something different. Sekiro is a bit too similar to Souls I guess so people feel a bit of fatigue. Fags like Vaati are fighting to crawl into its ass though and I hope the game is shallow as fuck with lore and story so they can't make any videos about it.

Bloodborne shows From can make good dark souls without being dark souls since its far better than any other souls game

I don't care about no multiplayer, I haven't played any online since Dark souls so that Is no big deal, as long as they make it actually unique like Bloodborne and hopefully expand on single player experiences with something like Chalice dungeons or the abyss in nioh then it will be alright

>>16018112

I don't really get excited for games but this one looks alright, I'll pirate it when its out. Fromsoft have been making the same games for quite a while now so if this isn't any different I expect it'll have a huge obvious case of studio burnout.

Everyone I know has it and that Ghosts of Tsuwhatever mixed up.

>>16018148

Weebs are getting a lot of love with Sekiro, Nioh 2, Ghosts of nogaemsonly and all the anime games.

>>16018161

I thought we agreed it was 'the weebcher'

>>16018148

Isnt that ghost of whatever about dumb Chinese

Who?

I miss King's Field.

>>16018136

From really wants to make an action game instead of another DS. Bloodborne started to replace some of the mechanics and Sekiro has vestigial parts left. It looks like an even more aggressive version of BB since there's no stamina from what I can tell and breaking their shield gauge or whatever opens them up to a critical hit like in Nioh.

>>16018168

the difference though was bloodborne having a very unique look. Last time we got a game like it was Nightmare creatures in like 1998. We all signed up for 'beast souls' in a city during a werewolf outbreak and instead it turned into reverse lovecraft with a really good story about a culture of ancient humans calling down old ones to fuck them over leading to a nightmare bloodcurse.

Meanwhile Sekiro keeps getting confused for other games which isn't something you want to hear when making anything.

>>16018176

I really do not mind this wave of ninja/samurai games. All we need is a new NGaiden and we're set.

>>16018176

That's more bad luck on From's part, I don't think they knew when they began the project that Nioh 2 and that other game were going to be announced basically one after another with theirs.

Sekiro looks good to me, but I really don't see the point of talking about it yet considering the game is not out yet.

Nobody cares about sengoku era japan. That setting is boring and played out. After something like bloodborne going back to such a mundane and overused world is a huge disappointment.

>>16018206

Meiji era city patrolman keeping the dark nights safe from oni demons in 1920's imperial japan when?

>>16018190

The trailer they have on their steam page looks awful, from a visual standpoint. Animations are very basic and are out of sync(0.5 second delay before an attack that should have connected connects)

>>16018257

From Soft can do the big "epic" feel really well. Hope they can keep it going and it looks like they can.

What do you guys think the big death twist is going to be? Its said that dying has an effect on the game and it will be personal to every player. Some speculate it affects your ending or they are bringing world tendency back. A cool theory I read was that dying too much spawns a dark version of you that stalks you and acts as invaders as Sekiro is offline.

>>16018267

>infinite iframe dodges

>take slivers of damage

>no punishment for falling off

>dodge the mergo phase by sprinting around like an idiot

not excited, but wait and see

>>16018163

it's about japs being invaded by some other asians

I want From to refine its systems (in particular Invasions - actual Invasions in levels not gay duel shit) and instead they just water everything down ever since DaS1. When From drops the McDonalds mentality I'll pay attention again.

After 3 felt like it was designed in every conceivable way to annoy the shit out of me, I'll pass

The Activision name attached definitely curbs my interest, but we’ll see. I like how it looks closer to an action game now.

>all these Anons wanting to play Armored Core

>actually wanting to play anything in the series that came after Silent Line

Regarding Sekiro, it's the only upcoming game I have any interest in. It looks great, I'm glad they are trying away from the pseudo-RPG style of Souls, and a Japanese setting that actually incorporates folklore and mythology is a nice change of pace.

Also dedicated singleplayer games that actually focus on gameplay are sort of uncommon nowadays.

I have always hated Souls, wish From would make some JRPGs again.

I'm tired to death of soulsborne to be honest; I loved 1 and 2(meme me idgaf) but 3 was just dull and tired, like a flanderisation of the formula. It was two button combat by that point, spam circle then spam R1. I'm a huge Tenchu/Shinobido fan so I'm interested to see what they're going to do from that perspective but frankly, fast paced, hectic action isn't what I'm looking for theses days. I also can't really figure out what they're doing with the combat system so I'll wait on the reviews. I do have a delicious desire to see the soulsborne-soyboy-streamers and fromfaggots hate it for not being an identical clone of DS1 or BB though.

>>16018292

>take slivers of damage

That's because it's a journo demo.

>>16019757

Have they made any decent ones? I can't remember playing any From JRPGs.

>>16018112

>Souls game.

>Funded by Craptivision.

>Craptivision has From gut most of the Souls shit out.

>You can't make your own weird ass dude anymore.

>Most likely so Craptivison can sell people skins.

>You can't die you just get back up and pwn them.

Fuck this shit I am waiting for Nioh 2.

>>16019860

>Craptivision has From gut most of the Souls shit out.

From staff have said constantly and quite bitterly in interviews they don't want to work on souls shit any more and want the fans to let them make something new or go away. Imagine making the same game over and over again for over a decade.

>>16018267

I'm hoping most of the bosses aren't all that slow. You can't give the player traditional action game mobility but leave the bosses with Dark Souls attacks and pacing. Seems like that would be really boring.

>>16019860

>Craptivision has From gut most of the Souls shit out.

This is the main reason I'm actually interested in the game. As much as I have enjoyed those games, the formula has started to become a little long in the tooth.

>You can't die you just get back up and pwn them.

I'm old enough to remember when "lives" were a thing in video games. Your respawns will probably be resource, and will probably have other uses. That's just pure speculation on my part though.

>>16019890

i think what Dark Souls needs is way to still make player learn enemies but without killing them too quick

Been the same game for ages. Take a fucking risk. You learned too much playing you're own game

>>16019890

I think you die and respawn at checkpoints. The die twice part is that you can die in combat and respawn where you fell and keep fighting. Doing that probably gives you a penalty.

>>16020202

Sure, I mean, Bonfires and Lanterns were basically checkpoints as well. I just think it would make sense if your revives were limited and/or consumed a resource with other uses, so that you have to think about whether or not it's worth it. It would be super lame to just cheese a boss to death with respawns.

There are a lot of potential creative uses for this mechanic, such as enemies moving your corpse to an inaccessible area then reviving, so I'm really hoping it's not just an easy mode.

>>16018720

I think that the shortcut porn in DaS was a nice answer to the Archstones. If they'd worked just a bit harder - just a little! - on DaS's overall level design it would be glorious. (Levels that need work are the Depths, Tomb of Giants, Lost Izalith with a fucking bullet, and maybe some parts of the Basin and Valley of the Drakes.)

Looking back it's shocking how actually small some of these areas actually are and how little there is. I absolutely love DeS and the archstones. The game as a whole is a nice package.

>>16020246

It has to be limited otherwise the game would be too easy. The young boy in the trailers uses his blood to revive you, so you have a small supply.

>>16020249

I like Lost Izalith a lot actually. It was an unfinished mess, but in some ways this actually fit, as a chaos warped ruin. I liked the architecture and eldritch abominations.

>>16020253

Fire Emblem did this with Fates' phoenix mode. Other games have done "story mode" stuff before too.

>>16020246

It could work like a limited pool of lives that you could acquire and horde for particularly difficult sections.

>>16020286

Lost Izalith's main issue was that it was fairly empty and full of enemies that afren't worth engaging and aren't interesting. Structurally it's not bad. Needed a couple more demon enemy types, and a little more reason to explore.

Also a better boss. But that goes without saying.

This isn't reddit dude.

>>16020318

sony isn't making this game retard

I'll just echo what a few others have been more articulately saying in this thread already: I just wanted another Tenchu game. Just another one with some fun local multiplayer where you're playing one of the many characters throughout the game. Or hell make it online too, just the occasional mindless team deathmatch or co-op games.

Maybe this game will be okay, but I feel seeing Activision and knowing it's going to pretty much rip a lot of darksouls/bloodborne gameplay doesn't give me much hope. Maybe next time they'll actually give us a solid sequel, maybe not.

>>16020318

Have you tried Genji on PS2? I think it gets Onimusha's atmosphere down better than those other games.

>>16018112

So far it's the only game I'm really looking forward to in 2019

>>16020433

This basically is Tenchu or as close as you're going to get, and based on the gameplay videos out now, the mobility alone will mean it will play very differently than Souls.

>>16020457

>de facto combat, stealth and magic trees mean the game is an asscreed clone

The game looks nothing like asscreed as far as gameplay is concerned I doubt combat is just wading into a horde and spamming invincible counter animations, and actually in almost every other way (such as aesthetics) as well.

>>16020507

>I doubt combat is just wading into a horde and spamming invincible counter animations

It isnt like that since older ass creed titles, the ones i've mentioned (with exp and perks) dont have this shit.

It looks a lot like ass creed game when comparing progression, this is what i've mentioned.

>>16020255

They can keep the aesthetic but change the play mechanics. BB already felt faster paced, they can spin it off from the souls series in the same way they spun Souls off from King's Field/Shadow Tower.

>>16019860

Interesting that From went from played created characters to a preset characters while Nioh 2 is doing the opposite which most players wanted anyway. It's not like William had much of a personality.

>>16020475

>>16020479

Now you know how Shadow Tower fans felt after the end of Abyss.

>>16020463

>buying any game on a Sony platform is giving Sony money you double retard.

is miyazaki holding you at gun point forcing you to buy sekiro on ps4 instead of pc?

>>16020479

>>16020507

>and based on the gameplay videos out now, the mobility alone will mean it will play very differently than Souls.

I want you to be right man. Wrath of Heaven had a really solid set of tools you could use for getting around the level (especially later on, when you could hang onto ceilings) so seeing improvements to that would be nice but I'll take a wait and see approach for now

Remember to report and filter resetera.

>>16020525

Sekiro already seems to borrow a couple of mechanics from BB. Your arm is a trick weapon/hunter tool and it's powered by "quicksilver bullets" which apparently you get in lieu of souls in this game.

So when are we getting that Armored Core influenced heavily by Dark Souls 2?

>>16018292

He lost a large chunk of health for falling off, so at least something happened because of it; and who is taking slivers, the boss, or him? Because it's just blocking anything that comes from the front.

>>16020286

They tried to do it properly in DaS3 and it's bland as hell.

>>16020307

Did you play the original release of it? People bitched there were too many enemies but it worked better than Prepare to die has. Having to plan your route through a horde of giant enemies while walking through lava made for a unique challenge. When they rebalanced the place post-release it lost all identity. Instead of a cluster fuck nightmare it became an obvious route with bland encounters. The most interesting enemies are only met once on the main path.

There's nothing wrong with Bed of Chaos. If anything Dark Souls 3 should of taught people to better appreciate it as an encounter. It's a hell of a lot better than the generic mess every boss in 3 is. If it was in 3 people would of praised it for it's differences instead of bitching it wasn't another generic boss battle.

>>16018112

>does anyone care about activision game

really anon?

>>16019574

>Regarding Sekiro, it's the only upcoming game I have any interest in. It looks great, I'm glad they are trying away from the pseudo-RPG style of Souls, and a Japanese setting that actually incorporates folklore and mythology is a nice change of pace.

Did you just forget Nioh exists? and is amazing?

>>16021997

Kung fu kicking dragon ass hell. That was if you didn't have covenant that let you skip that part of the area, and at release you had to cut the tail off of the centipede demon to get the ring that granted resistance to lava otherwise you were fighting a highly aggressive group of tanky enemies that had huge reach on a tiny area. While now the dragon asses are pretty much pointless since they are so far out that it is much more difficult to aggro them.

Bed of Chaos reminded me of a Demon's Souls boss, in particular the more "puzzle" bosses like the Storm King or Dragon God. However, it isn't as well put together as either of them, or any of the Demon's Souls bosses.

>>16021997

Complaining about "generic boss battles" in Dark Souls is sort of like complaining about "generic monster fights" in Monster Hunter. Those fights are supposed to be one of the main selling points of the series, replacing one with a bad platforming section is AT BEST good for a one off. It's not something people are going to want to replay continuously.

>>16022133

Excuse me, I might have phrased that wrong.

A bad fight is a bad fight, regardless of whether it's the right kind of fight for the game. However, assuming they are actually good individually, "too many" of that type of fight isn't a valid complaint.

>>16022138

Bed of Chaos isn't a bad fight though, it's just more of a puzzle boss than a straight up fight. There's 22 bosses in Dark Souls. If we're generous we can say Moonlight butterfly and Ceaseless discharge are not the normal boss fight but then you have 19 other generic boss battles. Is that not enough for you? Wouldn't you rather they threw in a few different boss encounters to spice things up a bit?

Dragon god is a damn good boss encounter who only becomes bad retro actively. You enter the fight and oh shit he's huge and terrifying. Then you make your way through the boss scared of him until you solve the puzzles and he dies. That's way more interesting than the Old King from DaS2 which is a similar sized opponent but a generic fight.

I don't think it's a bad fight because it's not a generic souls boss fight. But Dark souls 3 was nothing but generic souls boss fights and most people hated it for being the same bland experience over and over. How many times can you roll roll roll before you just get tired of it? A few puzzle boss fights and unexpected twists go a long way to make up for it. Bed of Chaos's biggest flaw is not it's design but the games pacing. By the time you encounter it you're already wanting the game to be over, you have multiple bosses to get to it and you're just about done. But I feel the same way about Seeth on that front.

Maybe it's the burn out speaking but a good boss fight isn't a "good" boss fight to me. I don't care how good any of the DaS3 bosses are. i just don't want to repeat that same gameplay loop again and again. The fact that BoC isn't just a generic blob of the same 3 hit combo, gap closer and AOE scream is refreshing going back to it.

if it had souls multiplayer or something like it, invasions, bell ringing woman ect, even with different actual mechanics, then I would definitely play it

apparently it dosnt, so it might be an okay game still I dunno, wait and see from me

What? Are you kidding? I care x10 more than if it was a new souls clone. I havent been this hyped for a game since I was a kid, Im actually following the release and everything. Its going to be incredible.

>>16022161

Bed of chaos is a fucking awful fight, regardless of whether or not it breaks the monotony or if said monotony needed breaking. Maybe if the boss "damage" didn't persist through deaths, allowing you to death zerg it it might be slightly better. But if that were the case it would simply stand out even more for how bad the mechanics are.

Dragon king is a better example because at least that fight works the way it's supposed to. You don't just run through three times to get a free kill and you don't have to fuck with weird pseudo-platformer shit in a game that is NOT built for it. Either way I still don't like it. I want my boss fights to be real fights, and 22 isn't nearly enough. Of course when you get down to it DaS 1 doesn't have nearly that many real fights, you can count the number that come down to mechanical execution on both hands. The rest, like Neeto, Pinwheel, Butterfly etc are all either gimmicks or they are done before you begin.

Nobody ever cared about FROM apart from DS1 and DS1 was a fluke.

>>16018112

i'm pretty burnt out on the souls style of action tbh. after playing so many, they all feel really shallow compared to a true action game that actually lets you do shit.

hopefully armored core comes back but it really feels like a never ever at this point

>>16022189

There's no platforming unless you consider falling off of a ledge to be platforming.

Nito's a generic boss fight but he has 2 companions. No different to Capra demon.

Pinwheel's problem is they underestimated what the average player would be doing. He's supposed to be an early game boss but you never had a reason to fight him early game and so he gets steam rolled for it.

Every Dark souls boss fight is the same. You learn the combos and roll when needed. I've invested probably 1,000 hours into these games and it's cool at first but you quickly realize every boss is the same boss slightly reskinned. The bosses were never the games strong point, it was always the exploration and later games did away with that. Too many close bonfires and senseless short cuts removed all sense of adventure.

If you don't believe DaS has monotony problems then you're incredibly autistic. Once you get the lord vessel the game crawls to a halt in pacing. The later areas are half finished or annoying as hell. The stairs in the Duke's archive, the tomb of giants, slippy ice platforms. Once you leave Anor Londo the game shits it's self and only the 4 kings can be considered a decent end game area. If you add in the DLC then the pacing becomes even worse.

>>16022229

>Pinwheel's problem is they underestimated what the average player would be doing. He's supposed to be an early game boss but you never had a reason to fight him early game and so he gets steam rolled for it.

I always took it as a kind of bonus, if you had the balls to take on the catacombs early you got a cool reward for the rest of the game. You're right about the rest though, the system just wasn't made for handling shit more complicated than hollows and it really shows. Furthermore Dark Souls level design was pretty great pre Beavis and Butthead, and dungeon crawlers with well designed levels are so rare these days. That's the main reason i ended up hating Dark Souls 3, the whole world is effectively a straight line with a couple detours.

Back on topic no i don't care much about Sekiro at all. I am how ever just starting to get into Armored Core, so that should keep me busy a good while.

>>16022229

The DLC is far better than anything the base game has. The fact that 3 out of 4 DLC bosses are actually decent fights is a big part of that. Level design is far better than anything post-anor-londo too. You can go fuck yourself with your "pacing" complaint.

Like I said, DaS1 only has a small handful of good bossfights. O&S, three from the DLC, maybe you can count Gwyn. That's all I can really think of tbh. DaS2 does much better in that regard, and I'll bet DaS3 further improves but I haven't actually played that (was waiting for a "complete" edition so I didn't have to play it twice, but that never happened).

Remember I compared it to Monster Hunter. You can be just as idiotically reductive about the fights in those games, but anyone else will tell you that in spite of everything boiling down to a big creature trying to smash you while you roll around, the fights are (almost) all very different and nuanced, and also that 22 isn't nearly enough, not when World has 34 and that's still insultingly little.

>>16022366

World needs at least like 2-3 more monster skeletons. Hopefully Iceborne gives more than that though.

O&S isn't really a good fight though unless you want to use summons or casting. There are hardly ever any openings when you are solo so it is gonna take you forever to dodge and weave till you can get that single hit in with a melee wep and immediately retreat. Also Ornstein has that long spear dash and the lightning projectile that can both go right through Smough so you can't see them coming if you have bad luck and manage to have them group up too much/distort the line of sight. DaS combat isn't designed for double boss combat. It can work with multiple small enemies since you can kite them fairly well or just flat out brute force them but with bosses that are going to 1-2 hit kill you it is a bad combat mechanic to put you up against 2 bosses. The only reason it works with the gargs is that you can get most of the damage in or even fully kill the first before the second one spawns.

>>16022229

Bloodborne is better than Dark Souls for me purely because bosses have different weak points like how darkbeast paarl is a fast moving, high damage nightmare unless you learn you can repeatedly break his backlegs which causes him to collapse into a pile of bones, but everything at that point as large as him has taught you to go for the head or arms.

>>16022399

Keep being mad over GG, being your boogeyman makes my dick hard.

Got any webms with gameplay?

>>16022541

>How? For one it's not on PC which makes it worse by default.

I don't even have a PS4, but that argument is beyond retarded.

You can hate the console and the company that forces the devs to keep the game exclusive to it, but to trash it based on that is idiotic.

>>16022738

By your logic that means Yooka-Laylee a better collectathon than Banjo-Kazooie, which is objectively wrong. So get fucked faggot.

>>16022754

>not playing Banjo-Kazzoie

>not even knowing how they're related

Someone is underage.

>>16022229

>he bosses were never the games strong point, it was always the exploration and later games did away with that

I feel like people miss this point so much with the soul series, demon souls was fantastic because the bosses only played a small part most of the boss fights are actually quite easy and are mostly puzzles. flamelurker and the maneaters are the only dark souls like bosses in the game

Not armored core.

No multiplayer.

No thanks.

>>16022813

Are you really trying to argue with an anon that your ignorance makes you intelligent? Why are you on this board if you haven't played an incredibly popular, well-known game that pretty much all of us played as kids. Yes we were all "console peasants" at one point. Even you.

>125 replies

I was wrong, I guess this is reddit.

>>16022832

I pretty much played dark souls 3 and some parts of bloodborne by just running through the level to get to the next bonfire then go back and explore, its badly designed. I really hope they do make a new "souls" game at some point through

>>16022875

>I pretty much played dark souls 3 and some parts of bloodborne by just running through the level to get to the next bonfire then go back and explore, its badly designed

Just because you have autism doesn't mean a game is poorly designed.

>>16022886

Its the most sensible way to play the game

>>16022891

No it's not

>>16022891

By what metric?

>>16022895

>>16022893

because it makes it easier then to explore it negates risk as you can teleport to a closer bonfire if you die, a good example is the first part of the Undead Settlement in Dark souls 3,

Demon souls already solved this problem by sometimes having an objective to do in each level which requires exploration, each level only having one bonfire and a small amount of short cuts

>>16022901

>he can't into IDs either

Underage and a newfag.

>>16022913

Or you could use the resources the game gives you to both explore and make progress at the same time. I'll say that DS3 has a lot of bonfires so this tactic is better than in other games, but it still makes the pace of the game too slow to be enjoyable, and the risk reducing aspect is too small to be worth the effort. I mean I see how you could enjoy the game like that but I find it pretty autistic, and it's definitely not bad game design.

>>16022901

That's a lot of words to reply to me just coming in here to call you a faggot.

No I don't care as all From games are garbage.

>>16022929

i never said I enjoyed playing like that, it just shows how lacking some of the levels are in the souls series

and it doesn't slow the game down it speeds it up, I blitz'd through the grand archives, ringed city etc

Why do people play NG+? You still just end up fighting the same creatures that are laid out in the same way, only they have more health and do more damage no?

>>16022950

you never replay games?

>>16022944

How does you exploring the game in an obtuse way and less effective manner you don't enjoy mean the level design is lacking?

>I blitz'd through the grand archives, ringed city etc

<Coming from the guy that has to get more bonfires so he can be closer to his bloodstain whenever he dies

Yeah, I bet you did

>>16022950

It's different in DeS and DS2, but in DS1 or DS3 I can't really fathom why. Setting the game to ng+ in DS1 when you start out is pretty fun though.

>>16022929

>Or you could use the resources the game gives you to both explore and make progress at the same time.

My way of doing it was to equip the ring that made walking silent, the ring that gave you mana back on backstabs, and the invisibility spell. Ghosted my way through the entire game with 0 effort. Considering how fucking breakable 3 was, just running around like an idiot nabbing warp points is probably a more valid way to play than what a lot of people did.

>>16022975

Saying that Bloodborne is a bad game because it's a console exclusive is pretty stupid, not to mention willfully retarded. It's the fox and the apple argument, "because I can't reach the apple, I will say the apple is sour and maybe even has a worm."

>>16018112

maybe I will, maybe I won't, but I shall not hype

>>16022967

I didn't need the bonfires because I was shit at the game, I used them to save time, killing the same enemies over and over to get items which are behind them is pointless, demon souls and bloodborne fixed this issue, demons souls with its level design and bloodborne with how sometimes your dropped souls/blood are taken by an enemy so you cant just run in and grab them.

>>16023000

He does suck at the games, so I would take his gameplay critiques with a grain of salt.

>>16023026

Dark souls 1 and 2 were far worse when it came to "lol u died" moments, its one of the things I actually liked about dark souls 3, no bottomless pits hidden under shallow water or fog

>>16023043

>dark souls with less build variety

This really killed it, at least the level design was better than Dark Souls 3. It's pretty obvious from just didn't want to make this shit anymore.

>>16023026

>In one of the first areas of DS 3 there's an enemy that's standing atop a ladder just out of sight even when you're at the very top.

Entirely false. You can roll to the left and escape very easily. Maybe if you come in with low health I can see that happening but otherwise it's not true.

>Later there's a giant blob-tentacle enemy on a rooftop which fills up your entire screen(including your character if your'e anywhere near it) and spams a giant, sweeping attack that will 1-2 shot you with absolutely no wind up and the world's broadest hitbox

That guy comes in with a huge warning sing in the way of the guy exploding in black shit and dealing over half your max health to every enemy that's around him, killing them all. If you didn't get that guy was not a trash mob and you should be careful, and by that I mean not stand right beside him, you're retarded. Oh, and the giant sweeping attack can be dodged by rolling backwards.

You want artificial difficulty? See the bullshit ogre in Aldia's keep in DS2, otherwise it's 98% of the times people like you blaming the game for their own ability.

>>16023078

And by the way, the attack HAS a wind-up, it's the creature opening it's mouth and leaning back while the guy stands still. It's like 1 and a half seconds long too.

>>16023026

>artificial difficulty

autistic and bad at video games. ds3 is the easiest most streamlined ds. other than bosses ripped straight from bloodborne there was nothing remotely difficult about the game. you out speed most of the enemies, everything dies before it can attack.

>Unfortunately it's the first monster of that type - meaning very often the only way to get past it is to die a couple time to it.

wrong, there's an enemy of that type in the area close to the starting bonfire.

>>16023083

Why are you shifting to DaS2 now? And care to explain how having non-shitty lighting would've fixed DaS2's game design problems or poorly implemented features like frame dependent durability or awful hitboxes?

>>16023090

>(I've seen it spam 5, but I think that might've been a release-date bug since it stopped doing that after some patches)

It always does six, the attack is a rush of sweeping motions it does with it's head. That's how you beat him, you bait his attack, and when it's done then hit it once and dodge away I think it's the only one it does too, it's predictable as fuck. "Taking up your entire screen" doesn't matter if safety is just one roll away. Or you could 4 firebombs and stunlock it to death. Really you could've chosen far better cases for it, with that in mind and considering the only two cases are very early into the game I'm starting to think you dropped it before the Undead Settlement.

>>16023037

>telling the truth is bait

>>16023131

>there is only one build and that is dex

>this is what retards actually believe

I'm looking forward to it, loved Tenchu growing up and I'm interested to see another From game without online interactions.

>>16023249

>bad at video games

>shit pc

why the fuck are you here? get out

>>16023294

>can't read IDs

you get out too

>>16023217

>t-there's not enough builds!

Moving the goalposts already I see.

>3 or 5 spells

It's 11

>barely any strength weapons

<most of the weapons scale with STR

>no shields

There's 2, and the gameplay is designed around dodging and not turtling, nigger. One is a joke item to illustrate that.

>no bows and crossbows

It's almost like bows would be considered outdated and wouldn't fit the setting when they have guns or something, and there is a bow in the game.

>parry guns

There's this thing called a bloodtinge build that lets you beat the game with guns.

>>16022366

Everyone agrees the DLC is the best part of the original game. It's the model every other souls game is based on. But it's also a rehash of an area in the main games and it does have pacing issues. The DLC it's self isn't an issue on it's own, it's an issue with the entire game around it. Just playing the DLC would have no pacing issues. Having explored most the world and then getting a +1 extension to every area is an issue with pacing. The DLC being added adds more of the same where you're playing Dark Root +1, same as Anor Londo +1 and Catacombs +1.

I don't like monster hunter so I'm not going to get into a slap fight with that. It's a game about grinding so you can kill the same generic style bosses over and over. I don't play games for the bing bing wahoos so it doesn't mean shit to me.

DaS2 is objectively the better adventure but it's disjointed as hell. Each "set piece" is superior. But it doesn't flow as well and the game mechanics are fucked. It's still the only Souls game outside of Demon's souls I'm willing to go back and play. It's broken but interesting.

>>16022468

I can't recognize the bosses in Bloodborne. They're all fur textures flailing around. I didn't enjoy the game and I didn't like the bait and switch theme.

<<16023389

So you're just shitposting then, carry on I guess.

>>16023469

Post is deleted. Quick screencap it, so we know what it said.

>>16023478

Post asked how many episodes of Rick & Morty he had to watch to reach higher IQ.

>>16023485

Rick & Morty. Creator of the show is outed satanist pedo who puts a ton of such imagery in the show.

>>16023510

>any of the souls games being better than demon's souls

I will never get the worship over DS when DeS does everything it does better.

>>16022738

Do you know what's better than tanking damage? Rolling out the way of it.

>>16022832

The boss fights can be the cherry on the cake but they rarely are. The sewer in DaS1 is one of the few areas that pull this off. Seeing Gaping for the first time is an oh shit moment. His difficulty doesn't matter because he's a visual boss not a fighty boss. Which supports my point. Bosses don't have to be fun fights, they have to serve different purposes and fit the area to make a larger adventure. Capra is a good fight, but most people hate him. Gaping is a bad fight but people like him. Different bosses suit different parts of a larger whole, which newer souls games have forgotten.

>>16022939

The PS1 was objectively a superior machine to the PCs at the time. PCs lagged way behind in 3D graphics which was the newest technology of the time. You cannot make a universal claim that PC is superior when consoles have been superior.

To dismantle you a bit more. How about I want to run my windows 10 game on a windows 95 PC? Is PC still superior there? What if the PC version has endless bugs and runs at 30 FPS but the console version has 60 FPS and is bugless? These things happen. If you spent any time around PC gaming pre-Steam you would realize what a mess PC gaming is and always will be. I like PCs more than consoles, but PC isn't always superior. Especially if you want to leave your mother's basement and play some games on the go. A Vita is superior to a PC if you're rarely home and want to play some games on a bus ride.

>>16022950

Autism. Same reason people speedrun.

>>16022978

First time through a souls game should be played with melee and a bow only for pulling. Anything else is too broken and spoils the experience.

>In one of the first areas of DS 3 there's an enemy that's standing atop a ladder just out of sight even when you're at the very top. That enemy is there just to bushwack and kill you with you having next to no chance of escape(since it immediately pins and stunlocks you against the ledge).

Good, this is something missing in later souls games. Traps are a big part of DeS, you can't just rush through or you get fucked up for it. Traps were put in 1 area in DaS1 and the games never brought them back universally. Traps put you in the mood for a dangerous adventure. You're not supposed to be the gallant hero who strides into duels over and over. You're mostly a thief looking to loot and murder people. Adding traps to your castle only makes sense if you're uber powerful and constantly have plebs wanting your souls. Especially low level plebs who keep respawning. Instead of fighting every single undead who walks in you just set a spear to stab them in the dick when they step on a stone. All the respawning hollows walk in, die and then respawn until they lose their mind. No risk to your soldiers or yourself.

>>16018112

>Are you excited for Shadows Die Twice?

As long as it comes out on PC

>>16023534

Healing in DaS is better handled. You can't just farm up grass in 4-2 all day and have almost infinite health.

Blight town is better than the later swamp areas in DeS. Would be nice to have seen 5-1 and Blight town merged into a single area.

More weapons in DaS which is nice. DeS has a few options.

>>16023553

You never said it had to be a brand new high end GAYMING PC. You only said it had to be PC. Many people used to have desktop PCs bought from Dell which would run games at 20-25 FPS if you were lucky. That's how I first played through Half life 1, complete with long ass loading times.

You can't just say the latest and greatest PC is better than a console. That isn't how PC gaming works and we all know it. Even if you bought a top quality GAYMING PC in 2005, by 2016 when the Xbox 360 had finally lost support your PC wouldn't be running anything the 360 would at that point.

We get you're a PC master race weenie who's never experienced what PC gaming really is, but do try to stop being a pleb. PC and consoles both have strengths. But you ignore my examples because you don't want to talk about how the PS1 made an utter joke of the PC and they had to invent add ons as expensive as the entire PS1 console just to compete.

>>16018292

either over leveled or journo mode

don't you remember how they made DS3 easier for journos?

>>16023553

Don't respond to bait, ever.

>>16023633

>It's bait to say people may not be able to afford top of the line hardware or that my opinion isn't fact based on historical events which contradict it

>>16023648

>laptop for gaming

Now I know you're just retarded.

There are plenty of PC exclusive games that run like shit. Shall we start discussing early access games and the like or do you just ignore those?

>>16023669

so you're saying that there are 0 early access games on consoles? you are the only dumb nigger i see amigo.

>>16018112

>"DS3 was a mess of recycled shit from bloodborne, Not-Tenchu will do the same to DS3"

Serious Sam 3 was a mess of recycled shit from First Encounter, The Talos Principle did the same to SS3.

>>16023679

Not every sequel has to innovate on everything for it to be good. What you call "recycling" is just consistency in most cases.

Take DS2, for example. It would've been better had it had better world design, enemy design and moveset, enemy variety, better mechanics and less casualization. The fact that it had many of the same weapons and themes from DS1 isn't what stopped it from being a good game.

>>16023677

Sure, there's a few but that's like saying a single paper cut is equal to someone shooting you in the leg. The PC is full to the brim with bad games, early access junk, RPG maker crap and VNs. I can cherry pick just as well as you can but I chose not to.

>>16023691

A good sequel takes the original concept and expands on it. That's why trilogies are traditionally the end point for a story. First invents something, second expands it, third refines it and concludes it. Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne are the 4/5th game in the series and are why they are the state they're in. There is no where to take the series that wasn't already played out.

>>16023691

That's my point — "muh recycling" is not an argument.

>>16023708

Oh, I see. Sorry I missed the point.

>>16023698

I don't think it's necessary to innovate on it. If you can keep up with a good execution then it can be an OK game.

>>16023698

>i'm not cherrypicking!

but you are, i can also cherrypick how many third person cinematic open world games the PeeAssWhore has which imo are in the same level of an early access game

>>16023721

Sure, it has a lot of those. How many walking sims does Steam have on it? Shall we compare the two?

My point was never that console is superior to PC. I even stated I use a PC for gaming. I'm saying both platforms are deeply flawed and you're opinion is shit. You're being a console fanboy in reverse.

>>16023736

i also owned consoles before i built a PC and never touched them, give me a good reson why i should touch a console right now

>>16023748

>give me a good reson why i should touch a console right now

STEAM.

>>16023768

Some games might not come to PC at all and the ones that do might have a completely fucked port.

>>16023748

I've built several PCs and likely been gaming since before you were born from the sounds of it.

This thread already explains why. Console exclusives. Playing games that run like shit on PC and work well on consoles.

Just for another slap fight. Find me a PC exclusive controller that is worth buying. Keyboard and mouse are terrible for 3D platforming games. You are stuck with 4 degrees of movement on keyboard and mouse. Your options are console joypads like the 360 pad (harder to get) or the PS3/4 pad (have to use an unstable wrapper to make it work). If PC is such a superior machine why doesn't it have any good dedicated device for the most popular genre since the PS1? Dark souls cannot be properly controlled without a console input device.

>>16023768

Forgot to say that you have to deal with the likes of Win 10 and hardware DRM on PC too.

>>16023775

>FUD

try again

>DRM

OH NO I HAVE TO WAIT 2 WEEKS UNTIL IT GETS CRACKED

>>16023785

You just and waved his points away. If you want THE BEST GRAPHICS EVER you need Windows 10. Nothing else is running Direct X whatever it is now. You don't get legacy support on these things.

Downloading pirated software isn't risk free. If you claim you can just wait for a 2 week crack I can claim the crack has a bitcoin miner in it just as easily.

You have absolutely no objective awareness in this situation. You have just selected a device you feel superior for consuming and want to bully others into submission when they disagree.

>>16023785

HARDWARE DRM. I'm talking about things like your video card or even your fucking mouse and keyboard. PC is becoming more and more of a walled garden every year.

>>16023796

>what is a distro

>but what if you get bitcoin miner!

don't be a stupid nigger

>>16023775

>cucksole wars

They're usually only fucked in the sense that we hold PC games to a higher standard. DS1, for instance, was very similar to console versions; despite that, people consider it a bad port because it didn't have more options, like 1080p and 60fps which consoles never had until the remaster.

Despite this, you're right that some ports might be inferior to the console version, but they can also be the same or even better. DS1 with dsfix had 1080p and 60fps years before the remaster.

>>16023796

>Nothing else is running Direct X whatever it is now.

wine runs dx12

t. Windows user

>>16023831

Not even on regular PS4s?

Well, one more point for PC but cucksoles wars are cancer anyway.

>>16023807

Consoles also improved over time. Other wise they would just be pong.

PS3 can run ps1 games and you can install mods, custom textures, voice patches etc. Consoles take a while to crack but once they do they can be modded.

>PC version cannot have issues if the console version doesn't.

Said no one. Dark souls 1 ran worse on PC than it did consoles when it came out. It took a lot of patching to fix it. And you can't arguing patching is always a good thing unless you ignore Star wars galaxies which got patched into oblivion. Or Dark souls where you can't get the original Dark souls release on PC. The original release which as discussed in the thread got completely reworked for the PC and is missing content because of it.

Are you going to claim Dark souls is objectively better on PC because it got made easier? That item placement got reworked to be easier, you got more souls, enemies were removed etc? PC master race can't even play Dark souls as it was at release.

I already listed several things consoles do better sweetie. Try to keep up instead of reading reddit.

>Remote play

Wasn't mentioned. But PC also has remote play through Steam link.

>>16023812

Which broke the game and added additional bugs to an already buggy game. Ladders not working properly, your jump being shortened and falling through floors were all added by dsfix. The game was tied to 30 fps and 60 fps changes it quite drastically.

>Muh HD graphics and frame rate are all that matter

These things are not objectively superior. A 4k game running at 120 fps with bad gameplay isn't superior to a 640x480 game running at 30 fps with great gameplay. You people sound like a goddamn meme.

>>16023836

Sure, if you want additional bugs out the ass.

After Demons Souls, most FROM games became day-1 buys or even pre-purchase.

With Activision here, I'm going to hold off until its been awhile and more of a consensus has been reached about quality.

>>16023812

>cucksole wars

What are you talking about? There is no game platform free from sin now days. PS4 has no games and is going balls deep into censorship. Switch is a weird Nvidia shield handheld pretending to be an under the TV console. I don't even know why Xbox is even still in the game. PC has all the problems that have been mentioned before. It's pick your poison and accept the consequences. No one should feel smug or proud about their chosen game platform but no one should really feel ashamed about it either. Because everything is fucked all over.

Unless they are mobile gamers that is. Those people should probably just sterilize themselves. Mobile is fucking cancer.

Is it out yet now, spicrice? No? Fuck if I care about some figment.

>>16023845

>you shouldn't feel ashamed of buying an xbone

ok reddit man, nobody has told me a single good reason why i should touch a console, it's not like i wanted to pay for subscriptions in the first place

>>16023843

>Which broke the game

Not in any major way. There was little probability of falling down to the abyss by falling down quickly through some ladders and that was it.

>your jump being shortened

Didn't affect the possibility of making the jump, you could still make it to get to a certain item in the rare instance where the jump stretches that far. And you could disable the fix and change to 30fps just to make that jump in the rare occasion where you need to, just to switch it back again afterwards. We at least had the option. Consoles had no option at all.

> falling through floors

Never experienced that at all.

>Muh HD graphics and frame rate are all that matter

Strawman.

>>16023845

>No one should feel smug or proud about their chosen game platform

I agree. That's not the point, though. Cucksole wars are just bad discussions because people do ignore the fact that all platforms have flaws and cherrypick or misrepresent issues in order to make their points across. Look at the other poster I'm replying to. He's overblowing the extent to which 60fps affects the game in a negative way just to pick on that particular point I made.

>>16018112

I'd be interested in seeing some sort of action game maybe or any sort of 3rd person action aside from Souls-like shit. I'm tired of playing Dark Souls for the 5th time

>>16023855

exclusives are the only reason worth any debate.

>>16023855

There's hardly any reason. You could make yourself a swift little SBC for the majority of emulation and keep Frankenstein'n a PC. I haven't touched a console since the PSP. I forget which new one you can push mednafen to and I honestly don't care because I have bigger plans. In a roundabout way, I'm saying they're not even hot business for emulation. For the most part.

>>16023865

Like what? All that comes to mind is a few Yakuza games and Gravy Rush.

>>16023865

you are right but, what exclusives are really worth it? Gaylo? Darksouls with muh HP lovecraft? Bing Bing Wahoo Extreme? but the switch is getting emulated

>>16023859

You are doing that with your post. you're cherry picking what you care about and don;t.

I never had an area on console not load for me. On PC dark souls I had the tomb of giants not load. It just left a grey abyss I couldn't advance through. Just because you didn't experience it doesn't mean others didn't.

I also had games refuse to work at all. Just straight up not work and no forums or tech support could resolve it on PC. A script wouldn't run to activate a path I needed to advance through and it locked my game 5 minutes in. These things do happen on PC and are much less likely to happen on console due to quality checks being higher.

This is starting to look like the comment section on a warezzzzzzzzzz site. I implore you to not be a faggot.

>>16023878

I'm not cherrypicking. I'm describing my experience. I had none of the issues you're talking about and I'm usually pretty good at fixing issues myself anyway so for me, things like what you mention are usually non-issues.

However, you yourself implied there's little probability of encountering these issues, hence why you found nothing on the forums about them. This is both a testament to how problems like that can be encountered but also a testament to how rare they are.

I maintain my point that the vanilla port was the same as the console version, with the added possibility of having 60fps with some rare issues if enabled, and 1080p with no downsides at all. Having the problems you described is a rare encounter. I'm not denying the problems can exist, but I'm stating they're rare and in the cases where it works well (which is the majority of cases), DS1 was a better experience on PC.

>>16023892

>I maintain my point that the vanilla port was the same as the console version

And you are completely wrong as I explained earlier. Vanilla, unpatched Dark souls on PS3 was much harder than the later patches. You couldn't buy higher grade titanites from the giant black smith. Enemies dropped less souls, had different aggro ranges and some were outright removed. In the Undead burg when you come up the stairs after the first bonfire the enemies zerg rush you in unpatched. In a rebalanced patch they come at you much slower and have smaller aggro ranges. The PC version cannot access the unpatched original Dark souls game consoles had. It can only access the easier, rebalanced version which came out with the DLC.

I've repeated this point about five times now. The PC version of dark souls isn't the same as the console one. The original release is significantly harder. I can put in my ps3 disc now and play it as it was at release. I cannot do that on PC, I can only play the baby patched version which toned the game down.

>>16023908

So the patched version is the same. I don't see why the unpatched version is desirable, specially because these patches also came with bugfixes.

>>16023912

>Better post some laughing faces while I state objective facts as if they're not true.

Put a PS1 disc in a PS3 and it runs perfectly. Even offers graphical improvements.

>>16023913

You don't understand why some people might like to play the game without areas having half the enemies removed? The original release plays like a completely different game, it's back breaking in places. If you don't desire that then that's fine, but some of us liked the difficulty and find the patched version an inferior game.

>>16023928

It doesn't necessarily make the game more difficult. The game allowed for exploits that made the game piss easy, like the infinite magic glitch, which was later removed after patching. And some PC mods allow to make enemies more aggressive, rendering your difficulty argument kind of null. There are also mods to randomize item locations and several other stuff.

Either way, this is beyond the point. I'm not making the case for the unpatched version, but for the patched one. If you prefer the unpatched version that's fine, but you're the minority and this isn't really a strong point to extrapolate to console versions vs PC ports anyway.

Just to reiterate my point, most PC ports are only considered bad because they're held to a higher standard; patched DS1 was the same as the PC port, but the PC port offered more options that consoles didn't have until much later. It still has more options even after the remaster if you consider mods.

>>16023964

I can also mod the game until it's just pong. mods are not an argument.

>Your opinion isn't popular because the vast majority of people never experienced it and have no opinion

It looks alright on it's own. As a long time souls fan, however, my expectations have already been set. The lack of customization, the lack of a recognizable rpg system, the fact that there is only one weapon but multiple gadgets, etc. It just doesn't sit right with me. I'm not a fan of playing games with a PC that has already been predetermined before I even play.

>>16023882

I just wanted to talk about Nipborne. I don't know why this is happening.

>>16023974

>I can also mod the game until it's just pong. mods are not an argument.

You can also mod it to be more difficult and get the added difficulty you wanted. Modding is only not important when you specifically cherrypick the mods that are not desirable for you.

I'm not saying your opinion isn't important. It's even worse than that, it's not even relevant since most people don't run into these issues or even desire unpatched DS1. In fact, even desiring it is illogical when you consider that your argument for unpatched DS1 was based around your desire for more difficulty, which can be achieved on PC, with all the other added benefits.

>giving actikike money

Pathetic.

>>16023991

Just realized not important is the same as irrelevant, I worded that wrong.

>>16023991

I want to play Dark Souls unpatched. I cannot do this on PC. There are things like it but it's not the same thing. Any point you make is irrelevant and not important because it's not what I want to do.

>>16024013

That's perfect. I'm fine with you preferring something different from me.

Most people don't want what you want and find the similar enough, or even more difficult experience that mods can provide better, though, so PC versions are usually better for most people.

>>16024136

No, not at all. You should see the state of scurvy threads, childhood.

To be honest I don't care a lot about this gayme. Nioh 2 on the other hand

>>16024226

Is going to run like ass and come in 300x600p 24fps native.

>>16024235

What are you even talking about? Nioh ran fine at high resolutions and 60fps. On PC anyway. Do you have a toaster or something?

>>16023895

>If it's borderlands with swords it probably won't be my cup of tea.

That's not how I would describe it at all.

>people actually praising Bed of Chaos and DS2's bosses

Where the fuck do you retards come from? These are the shittiest opinions I've ever seen holy fuck.

>>16024555

You're just as bad. You're aimlessly bitching without addressing the posts in particular. If they're so wrong, you wouldn't have any issues proving so.

Is Mark ever going to ban TOR?

I do you negative fucking asshole. neg-ass. assfucker. fuck you.

>>16025567

This style of shitposting isn't cutting it. It's fucking annoying and not a bit endearing.

>>16025592

The Surge is what is referred to as a meme game.

>>16025574

It bothers me a bit more now that I've seen normalfags act like that.

>>16025613

Sounds like projecting to me. You're the one thinking about running a train on my mom, maybe you want to bang old ladies.

>>16025630

You think I have autism? You're the one who probably unironically thinks The Surge was good. You gotta be pretty fucking autistic to enjoy that.

Also autism is the biggest "go-to" insult on this board, please be more creative you fucking abortion.

>>16025574

It's not shitposting I sincerely love The Surge and am excited for the sequel. Just because I express my adoration in a jocular way doesn't mean I don't really believe it. I am beyond dismayed by the fact that it was overlooked in favor of Nioh.

>>16025700

Trust me when The Surge 2 drops you guys will understand what i'm on about, it looks, dare I say, Bloodborne good. The court of public opinion on /v/ always swings round, in a couple of years everyone will pretend they always loved The Surge.

>>16025719

At least you're honest about your insanity.

>>16025534

Never

The backlash would be absolutely gigantic. Would probably cause an exodus to another site

>>16018112

vaati does, it's his only source of income

>>16025567

>Ugly sheboon on the promotional art

Surgecucks are the cancer all along.

>>16024311

I'm imagining that "waffle" is actually what came out of a really disgusting laptop after it overheated

I'll be happy when it releases just because people might finally stop fellating bloodborne like it's the greatest game ever when it's clearly not. For some reason people who really like that game are a special breed of faggot.

>>16025598

I wish the surge was actually good, I went in with an open mind but just like with Lords of the Fallen they just can't get it right.

Ashen, on the other hand, is the closest I've seen anyone get to replicating the formula and even that fucks up a lot of stuff but does a couple of decent things too.

>>16026453

They are that way because they have to justify not only their love of the game, but also the purchase of an entire console solely for that game.

>>16027140

Same. truly.

>>16026453

No, dude, you're a special breed of faggot and you need to be gone now.

>>16027009

>unfinished tale

At least they're self aware

>>16027272

It fucking hurts.

>>16027219

It's not bad, but it gets fellated harder than it should be.

Much like Dark Souls did before it got a PC release, at which point the same people who had threads on here about how great Dark Souls is started saying the PC fans ruined their game and that Dark Souls was never good in the first place.

>>16025567

The whole "dude glitchy font lmao" shit got old like 5 years ago.

>>16027140

>>16025598

I actually really liked the Surge

LotF was dogshit though

>>16027140

>Ashen

I pirated that and deleted it after about ten minutes, are you implying there's something redeemable about it later? Everything about it was awful.

>>16027864

The only reason you're not being banned is because Mark would get shit for all the other Tor users he would be banning as well. No one cares about you in particular, and most anons that noticed you would even be glad. You're the epitome of "I wanna fit in".

>>16027877

disabling TOR would have only a positive impact on /v/ but Mark is too afraid to do anything with conviction. This isn't a discussion you can have so I'll also follow up by saying Sekiro looks good but the AI looks like it might be miserably easy to walk around.

>>16028932

what is this

>>16028948

>THOSE FUCKING FINGERS

I HATE IT

>>16028948

the hands don't look so bad

>>16028956

Post it faggot

>>16028948

>>16028959

jesus christ

>>16028959

WHY DOES A CONDITION LIKE THIS EVEN EXIST

WHY WOULD THE HUMAN BODY EVER DECIDE "OH YEAH LET'S BECOME A LOVECRAFTIAN NIGHTMARE, THAT'S A GOOD TRICK"

>>16028966

>the human body decides to become a mutated and disfigured freak

>>16018124

Give me the Armored Core 6

I'm excited because 6 is an upside down 9 and we know they're all gay for the number 9

>>16028959

more

post full-body pics

>>16029093

From have done things like this tons of times. And on occasion they've been complete disasters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Battalion:_Heavy_Armor

>>16028995

You're telling me this can be treated easily?

>>16028926

>disabling TOR would have only a positive impact on /v/

It would in the sense that we would get rid of this one particular, loud, prominent fucking retard. As far as I've seen, other Tor users aren't that bad. The net gain would be there, but it wouldn't be a significant improvement.

> Mark is too afraid to do anything with conviction.

His fear is justified in this case. People would never stop bitching if Tor was disabled. Never. Other boards would even step in and bitch along with the others for being the only "big" board that threatened anonymity in this manner. It would be so bad that people would even speculate that Mark was working with Jim or something. You're severely underestimating /v/'s drama whorishness, faggotry and general tendency to create scandals, over exaggerate and generally be a dumb woman.

>>16029493

>other Tor users aren't that bad.

Torpedos use Tor because they are incapable of forking out cash for a VPN or they want to stand out with the unique Tor ID.

>>16029518

I actually read other Tor posters' posts. People other than this particular nigger are either normal anons that don't stand out with anything they say but are also harmless, or even anons that make decent posts at times. This guy is the only Tor poster that we would definitely be better off without; getting rid of the others would do no damage nor good.

>>16028948

>>16028959

That shit reminds me more of saladfingers.

>>16029217

That fate should not have been a surprise to anyone. From's programmers are not the best and that is a game that would require technical mastery from the programming and design end.

>>16029530

>I actually read other Tor posters' posts.

Good for you, that doesn't change shit. Torpedos use Tor because they literally can't or won't use anything better to shitpost on the clearnet. Only an idiot thinks that a site which is compatible with Tor using an onion on a site with a clearnet counterpart hosted on the same server is safe.

>>16029554

I'm saying their motivations for using Tor are absolutely irrelevant to an argument of what impact they have on the board. All that matters is what posts they make. Whatever you say about their reasons for using Tor doesn't mean dick.

Their posts themselves are fine aside from that one asshole.

>>16029222

It looks much worse than it is, you'll always look weird and lanky but with some treatment and potential surgery you can live a normal life.

>>16029533

I understand why Microsoft hired From, though. They had a good track record with mecha game and they wanted a real game to push Kinect with.

>>16018161

>and all the anime games

oh yeah weebs love when their loli tiddies get steamed and sunrayed

>>16029576

>Whatever you say about their reasons for using Tor doesn't mean dick.

If they aren't willing to put the effort into finding a suitable VPN for the clearnet then they do not put any effort into their own opinions.

>>16029581

You might be right, but they really should have worked with From to make sure it actually worked before shipping it out.

>>16028981

Someone literally got a boner drawing this

>>16029550

The human body does some weird shit. This is probably where all those "talking tree" fae myths came from.

>>16032015

Fun fact: There's actually a type of coniferous tree in northwestern europe that during certain times of the year expels a gas that is hallucinogenic. It takes a decent amount of exposure to it before it takes place, but it can happen. You'll notice the majority of stories have the character falling asleep under a tree and waking up to weird shit.

sage for off topic

>>16032999

Does it drop twinkling titanite on death is the real question.

>>16018284

I hope they bring back world tendency but it functions more like the change of day that happens in bloodborne;

>die in an area

>when you respawn you start at the beginning

>the battle that is on-going in that area has progressed

>the final time you can die all the enemies will be dead and it will be a wasteland

>each time you die it gets progressively easier but you get less drops from that area and the actual look of the area is different

>the side that you're aligned with/ the guys who aren't specifically trying to kill you are all obliterated and some high-tier enemies appear in specific zones, all acting like minibosses

>each progression of death makes everything get more and more fucked over time, causing more and more enemies to show up until that last time, where the battle has been won by them and they've moved on to the next area

>the world tendency of the last area plays into how fucked the next place is (pure black would mean that you start the next area with a bit into the gray heading toward black)

>If you have a gray world tendency after a black world tendency and you don't die, the next area will reward you with a white world tendency

>if you keep dying in the same area you can rack up black world tendency for all areas after a certain point

>your ending changes based on what your world tendencies were/ what your last couple world tendencies were(pure white all the way through gives you a special ending, pure black can give a shitty bad end with a shit-like final boss

These are all my thoughts, I wanted to make a game like this, but demon's souls had me beat and it wouldn't surprise me if they brought it back.

>>16032999

Is that frog kill?

>>16054926

Wasn't the last game they made in that series a flop and kind of bad? Ironically, the director of that game went on to direct Nioh, which was pretty good.

>>16054948

I don't remember the ki system being in Ninja Gaiden, and a lot of the technical mastery in Nioh comes from that system. Otherwise, I can see that.

Changing the flight plan of this thread because no one actually cares about sekiro.

What do you want in the next Armored Core game?

>Keep the Armored Core 1/ Armored Core 5 scale for the ACs

>Better environment interaction

>Return boost flight but retain wall jumping

>Bring back Back weapons, but have "Additional arm weapon hangar" as a back mounted option.

>Add more attachment points for Extension parts, like the hips, upper arm, thighs, tops of shoulders, calves, etc.

>Give us a story to actually give a shit about this time.

>More cute girl rival pilots. Merrygate is best girl.

I think the hype is lacking because it's not Dark Souls 4 or Bloodborne 2.

>>16056890

swords > mechs

>>16056897

I want a Demon's Souls II with over twice the passion and effort they put into the first one Makes me a bit sad knowing that one of my favorite games will never get a proper sequel.

>>16056902

Just wait for Cyberpunk 2077, it's the Dark Souls of Demon's Soulslike scifi rpgs.

>>16056934

Why are Gundam games always set in desolate wastelands? I know they're technically vehicular combat games but still.

>>16057059

I wouldn't call it the perfect sequel. I felt like Dark Souls fell flat in a lot of places compared to what Demon's Souls excelled at. The atmosphere and consistent quality being two big ones. Dark Souls is great for the first half but falls flat on its face after Anal Rodeo and the atmosphere just isn't there for me. Demon's Souls, while also gutted in the same way that DaS is, is at the least considered a finished game and the feeling of oppressive dread almost drowns the player. I had to quit playing a couple of times during my first playthrough because it is that damn good.

>>16019867

Why don't they just fire them and hire people who actually want to work on that? How is this so fucking hard? It's like if you had to make a star wars game but all your staff hated star wars, fire them, nerds who like star wars are a dime a dozen, how is this so fucking hard, go make what you want, we're not in a Bernie-communist state yet just fucking quit you fucking soyboys. It's like if you were to apply to Marvel movies but you hated capeshit, how is this so hard to grasp?

>>16057083

If/when they return to Souls I'd like them to try and return to what Demons Souls did. Its a bit hard to go back to it now in my opinion. The atmosphere and immersion were top notch originally but those things stop making an impact after a couple runs of the game. Mechanically its the most simplistic of the series and the floaty combat isn't the best.

>>16057097

I'd be pretty bitter too if the company I worked at for a decade was only known for "le Soulslike experience" instead of games like Armored Core and King's Field.

>>16057110

I think the simple controls and floaty combat are part of the charm and what draws me to it. I only picked it up about 6 months ago and I fell in love with it instantly. The atmosphere still gets me going, especially Latria which I firmly believe is one of the best levels designed in a video game.

>>16057126

Scratch that "6 months ago," I forgot a year had already passed. Times sure fucking flies.

>>16057157

Auron was the only good character from that shitshow.

>>16057184

I know what you mean that it could have been a terrible cash in, but you could tell that Miyazaki really just wanted to continue on with Demon's Souls because almost everything in Dark Souls is a beat for beat remake from Demon's down to the "get the uber soul so you can fight the corrupted king and then either choose ending good or ending big motherfucker".

>>16057228

>"oh no, it's THIS part now."

I wish I felt that way but 2-2 and 4-2 are the lowest points of that game by far for me. I'll back up Latria being outstanding though. I was unsure of the game but when I reached Latria and the game essentially turned into a horror game I was in love.

>>16057228

Latria really hits all of the fears someone could have. You have this cramped dungeon/prison with traps around every corner, lovecraftian horrors that can kill you almost instantly if you're not careful and a sense of complete isolation from safety in 3-1. 3-2 is this combination of extreme heights, open space and tight walkways with a bonus of a double penetration at the end. 3-3, if you're online, forces you to fight a player which you can potentially avoid throughout the rest of the game. Really plays into the fact that this once once great kingdom is now a terrifying prison run by a decrepit, corrupt usurper.

>>16057228

>>16057110

I'd just like them to make another Souls game without the damn hollowing mechanic.

>>16057243

>2-2

Much of the exploration turned out to be completely pointless, but grabbing loot while evading giant bugs turned out to be a fun experience for me.

>4-2

Too much cheap shit and getting blasted by gunship rays.

Not being able to evade the encounters and the laser ghosts standing in your way didn't help either.

I understand why you didn't like those parts, but the game never felt like a chore for me, even at its worst.

And that is the most important thing for me.

I guess it really took me for a spin because I haven't played a game of actual high quality in what feels like years.

>>16057259

I really liked the little details they gave it.

Not even opening the iron maidens was safe and if you didn't have curatives, you might have to go back to the nexus to get them (which is what I had to do).

I'm still not 100% sure how the prison guards work, but being half-blind really worked out for them.

They only ever attacked me from the front and were easy to get a jump on, provided you were patient and the bells they carried with them gave away their location and what they were doing.

Not being forced to redo any part of the level if you got killed at the boss sealed 3-2 as great for me.

You went through that hell once, now you just need to kill the bastards.

>>16057293

>spend a good amount of time making your character

>end up playing hollow because humanity is not abundant and you need it to kindle the bonfires

I don't know.

>>16046204

Frogs enter hibernation when frozen due to a natural antifreeze in their body. Frog is live.

>>16057373

I remember those ducks.

>>16057373

Sekiro is SP only and was meant to be Tenchu originally. I feel this game is moving away from the Souls titles while still being similar so the fanboys move over.

>>16057331

One of my favorite parts of Latria's prison complex was that opening cells out of some sort of subconscious compassion for the inmates would ultimately get you killed half the time. Sometimes the inmates would ambush you if you entered the cell and other times the ones that worship you for freeing them get in your way and you're forced to kill them anyways.

>>16028932

That's the guy who played Crooked Man in Conjuring 2

>>16057494

>the part where you start in a cell, the whole thing is is claustrophobic

>the first time you manage to get outside you just want to look at the sky and there's fucking chains all over

>can't trust anyone, even your own perception, you can't decipher the guard's face in 720p in the dark, you can't really predict how they will attack you, then you learn they are pretty dangerous.

>And then you hear singing but you can't trust that either

>Turns out ok, only good thing happening

>After various body horror happening, a fucking lizard trapping you into a pit and the barrage of arrows gauntlet and the duel with the phantom, you're pretty exasperated. The only beauty you'll get in that place, a beautiful church, the fool's idol and the first piece of music in a long while which is a haunting piano piece, it all just makes you very conscious of your surroundings and your actions and everyone just ignores you! You are the only one who is not a fool and the idol will attack you for that

>>16018176

kino description of bloodborne there

>>16018138

this. Bloodborne>DeS>DaS>>>>>>>>>>>>DaS3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>human feces>DAS2

>>16056902

Bloodborne 2 or DeS 2 is all I want

>>16057352

Really depends on how badly it froze. Not there's a point where even antifreeze freezes. Not every frog Cirno meets makes it out alive.

>>16057671

>After various body horror happening, a fucking lizard trapping you into a pit

I learned my lesson and now always have a bow on hand.

It's so weird, slowly walking in the dark, with a tiny light illuminating only what's 3 steps ahead of you.

Run, and you might just drop down a floor, or worse.

>>16057494

>the ones that worship you for freeing them get in your way and you're forced to kill them anyways

I was always afraid of them attacking me suddenly no matter what.

Actually going outside and seeing where you came from, being able to count the floors and tell exactly where you were really made it feel great.