Over a decade later and not a single sequel or even game has been able to match the lvl of SOVL that this one entry did for vidya. How did Miyazaki do it?
>>739520157The real question how the fuck did three games come out for this series in the interval of 5 years. Dark Souls 1 came out in 2011, then 2 in 2014 then 3 in 2016. What the fuck happened to video games that it now takes TEN fucking years to get a game out. Fuck Bethesda and FUCK rockstar
>>739520157This game is generic as fuck. Yawn.
>>739520157Assassins Creed Odyssey?Stellar Blade?Nioh 3?Dragons Dogma 2?Onimusha?
>>739520157DaS is a huge downgrade from DeS>Entire second half is borderline incomplete, empty, and sterile>Level design in general is just much less consistent with way more annoying "that part"s>some of the worst environments of all the Souls games like Anor Londo, Catacombs, Ash Lake, Great Hollow, Crystal Caves, Valley of Drakes, Lost Izalith>godawful enemies like the bonewheel skeletons, Stray Demons, Anor Londo Archers, Drakes>many bosses are underwhelming or poorly designed, like O&S, Priscilla, Capra, Quelaag, Pinwheel, Seath, Taurus, Ceaseless Discharge, Bed of Chaos>bosses are already starting to focus primarily on action/rolling with less focus on original and puzzle bosses>recycles the same boss three times>Hitboxes and i-frames are more inconsistent>Retarded mechanics like curse and common consumables only sold by select merchants (I played 1.00)>can't fast travel anywhere until over halfway into the game, constantly backtracking and running from one end of the world to the other just to buy an item, go to a covenant, or upgrade equipment>gives lttle reason to engage with enemies, you can just sprint past almost all of them to the next checkpoint (especially since you will have to do this a dozen times anyways while backtracking for vendors/quest NPCs)>many of the key mechanics are poorly explained (lordvessel, upgrading estus, kindling, pardoning)>game world is a convoluted mess with necessary NPCs scattered into the far corners of the world (the interconnected world starts to become more contrived as the game goes on), again requiring a ton of backtracking>dogshit platforming sections>only basically one main path you can take that you find through trial and error and backtracking. Less flexibility in boss order>DeS had focus on invasions, mindgames, and power dynamics, with risk reward for human vs soul form. DaS is about "le honorable duel" with no downside to hollow and you just summon at the boss door; devalues the whole experience
>>739520157>Less Soul than it's predecessor. >worse than almost every game that came after it mechanically
The Miyazaki worship is so cringe. People act like he built the game from scratch by himself instead of it being a multi-million dollar project with literal hundreds of people working on it.
>>739520157blind luck.
>>739520376Good project management skills, with multiple studios working together, and asset reuse.Demons' Souls has more... soul, though...
>>739520157>I really really like vanilla ice-cream guysAnd this needed to be a thread because?
>>739521416>>only basically one main path you can take that you find through trial and error and backtracking. Less flexibility in boss orderTHe only mandatory part are the two bell bosses, and O&S, then you can do the opened areas in any order
>>739520809>>739521741>>739521810
>>739522159so i can talk about superior Vanilla ice cream with fellow Vanilla ice cream enjoyers. And not have to interact with disgusting chocolate enjoyers
>>739520809What's not a generic game that isn't some indie hipster shit?
>>739520376unironically, blackrock
>>739522521I just posted a racist image about JAPANESE PEOPLE no less and you're calling me a Redditor???
>>739520376don't forget all the dlcs + bloodbornegaming fell off
>>739521416i can't play demon souls... i have a xbox...
>>739520376well to be fair 1 and 2 were unfinished and 3 a basic bitch rushjob
>>739526664>unfinishedand still better than most triple a slop today
>>739520157Simple, it was his team that did itMiyazaki is a hack like Kojima or DruckmannIn time /v/ will learn
>>739521416>>Entire second half is borderline incomplete, empty, and sterileParroted tourist opinion. New Londo, Dukes Archives and Tomb of the Giants are all perfectly fine areas. Not going to bother with the rest.
>>739521416HOLY FUCKING BASED. FORUTH POST BEST POST.
>>739529263real opinion. New Londo is really good but dukes sucks, it looks pretty but its a bunch of reused enemies and overall repetitive level design. Prison is an exception. Crystal Caves is even worse. ToTG would be cool but the first half is way too short, the second half is just linear dogshit. fuck that guy for shittalking catacombs though
>>739521416interestingly equal mix of genuine downgrades from des, problems that were already present in des, and completely awful opinions
>>739520157So soulful it is the ultimate game of all time. Gaming is finished. Its over and there will never be anything that can hope to match it. The world should just end.
>>739520376>5 year dev cycle>4 years of preproduction>1 year of dev time
>>739521416Every complaint you made is stupid.Dark Souls is better than Demon's Souls in all ways except one: the level-up lady is hotter in DeS.Just the fact that DaS has a fully connected open world instead of separate retarded bingbing wahoo Mario levels makes it 100 times better.The fact that it has poise, meaning heavy armor is actually useful for once, makes its gameplay massively richer.
>>739520157What the fuck were they thinking with blight town? and sens fortress? and anor londo? and new londo ruins? and
>>739533337Blightown was great. Anor Londo supreme. Sen's Fortress FUN. New Londo Ruins SOVL
>>739520157second half sucks
>>739533337They were thinking lets make some fucking good levels? Literally all of those are good except anor londo
>>739534427how is anor londo bad?
>>739526664Still better than Elden Shart
>>739520376I think we're living through the second death where everything sucks
>>739529263I always thought New Londo was underrated. New enemies, spooky vibes, half decent boss (even if it was a DPS check), cool environment... I never understood the hate. I guess there aren't a lot of cool items to find there?
>>739520376you should've seen how often fromsoftware pumped out games before miyazaki worked for them
>>739520376DS1 + DLC, DS2+ 3 DLC, Bloodborne + DLC, DS3 + 2 DLCS. All over the course of 5-6 years. Insane.
>>739524674reddit fucking hates japan now, though
>>739533337I just played through blighttown right before opening this thread. It really isn't that bad. I can imagine most of the hate it got is because the game ran at 5fps there on the ps3.
>>739520157Skyrim is so much better it isn't even a contest
>>739520376take a wild guess :/ The gaming industry got infested with goblins, they make everything worse with their DEI & pozzed narratives
>>739534472Its quite linear in its approach and really empty. I get that its empty for a reason but its still not really a fun level to fo through. It has its moments, like with the archers, but they dont last long. Just a bit underwhelming. Even though I dislike both the games I think DS3 Irythll and ER Leyndell are better anor londos than anor londo.
>>739535418the emptiness is what makes it memorable tho. and besides onionbro and solaire are there to make it *less* empty
>>739520376Constance, my beloved..
Played this with my buddy in college, we would invade worlds as smough and orienstien and laugh our asses off. haven't spoken to him in 6 years now, he just deleted everyone off his steam friend list and vanished off the face of the earth. game was unique and special, you had to be there for it. doubt I will ever replay because it will prob be boring and generic.
2 is better
>>739529263>Tomb of the GiantsThe others were cool but FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ZONE.Patches was alright.
>>739536803>the emptiness is what makes it memorabledamnStarfield was always peak....
