[rye]

i wouldn't doubt their cleverness, in that they could play on player's expectations of bonfires always offering refuge and respite.

it would be interesting if there were more ways to loose bonfires.
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[apfEID]

Huge relief here:

[mauve]

bring back thomas

thomas was the best.

especially when he made 1 item into 1000+ items.
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[thestage]

I love backtracking :(

do not love the souls series inventory system

[thestage]

[Broco]

I feel there needs to be something interesting to do while you backtrack, and Dark Souls didn't always do a great job of delivering that. Too much of the game is just simple jogging through areas you've already seen before. Warping is not very purist but I prefer it to tedium.

Hmm, I wonder if warping could be done better with some kind of flying mount that only agrees to land on above-ground bonfires. It would be a nice way to justify warp and contextualize the landscape at the same time. No sign that they'll do that though (might require PS4-level power to do properly).

[luckystrike]

I really liked the weight behind the hand axe in that video. It had a little bit more inertia than I think a lot of the one-hander weapons had in Dark Souls, and that is something I can get behind. I don't mind if daggers and katanas cut like lightning, but I always wished the straight swords and axes and clubs had more differentiation between weight, speed, and damage instead of being mostly differentiated by movesets. In fact, I wouldn't mind if they slowed down the battle speed in Dark Souls 2 in general.

Also, I would like more variation on the backstab and riposte animations, or animations that actually fit the weapons, so it doesn't look like I am beaning a dude in the head with the handle of my Crescent Axe, or shoving my great scythe right through the guts of a dude.

[Brooks]

Backtracking would be finer if enemy spawns were a lot more random than they have been

[Talbain]

[rye]

[Ronnoc]

I'm down with phobias in my video games

[A New Duck]

Whenever I read you all talking about how easy Dark Souls was and how health recovery items, estus or otherwise, were never in short supply, I realize how much I suck at these games.

But still like them better than basically anything.

Um.

Dark Souls II looks neat.
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[thestage]

auditory hallucinations?

I guess that's like that area from the demo where he's like there are no enemies here but SO SCARY

dunno how I feel about that

[mauve]

hey, it's not like i didn't die a lot my first time around.

i just make a point of playing in such a way where if i get hit at all, i probably did something wrong. be patient, observe the scenery, spend time watching enemies, figure out when you can/can't hit them. there's no time limit here.
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[Rud31]

dark soulsii
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[Mr. Apol]

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[Brooks]

[diplo]

Cool. I'm not going to be playing this on PC since my computer is a MacBook from 2006, but I hope for the sake of those who do that you don't have to sit through the corporate logos before getting to the main menu every time you quit the game. What a huge oversight on that port.

[Mr. Apol]

oh yeah, since no one has brought it up (i think): notice the helmets on the hollow dudes in the gameplay demo being silver versions of leeroy's helm. probably intentional, possibly plot related.
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[Felix]

PC native and no GFWL is actually way better news than I expected.

I am expecting this game to feel a little less foreboding and more playable? like, the diablo 2 to the original diablo? I'm okay with that, I honestly just hope they don't get too caught up in designing around multiplayer.

[remote]

I guess it requires facebook but somebody with talent here should give their all to designing a shield that could end up in the game.
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[TXTSWORD]

I'm guessing the EpicNameBro tribute shield is going to win. :|

[remote]

ugh, fucking hope not.

sick of that guy and waaay sicker of his fans.
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[Joachim]

this is hella nexus
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[remote]

looks great!
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[CubaLibre]

So the world might be mended.
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[diplo]

[remote]

24 days and 16 hours as of now.

ENB is just not ... that interesting, most of the time. His lore videos were good, but it's like — well, Quelaag was the first to start doing that sort of thing on youtube, and then he started his channel about a month later. For whatever reason, his videos became far more popular. Maybe because they had some kind of "production values" or something, while Quelaag's videos were mostly just her talking to the camera. Basically it seems like he got the idea from her and ran with it. He has a good speaking voice, though I find a lot of his mannerisms grating. He's always straddling a line somewhere between actually thoughtful and "this is for mah bros." Many of his videos that aren't the small series of good lore videos are basically just of him playing offline singleplayer (often poorly) and rambling about how he's tired from work, but his viewership is HUGE and extremely devoted.

I don't know. He's not the worst youtuber by a long shot, but I guess I just don't think he's terribly special in the realm of outspoken DkS players and the idea of a shield made in his honor (the Marcus Shield, currently ranked #2) actually ending up in DS2 kind of grosses me out.

At least the current #1, the Tally Shield (literally etched with what appears to be a running tally of defeated enemies), looks pretty cool.
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[internisus]

I've watched a good deal of ENB's stuff. He seems like a pretty cool guy, his videos are informative, and he really, really loves Dark/Demon's Souls. I think the majority of his material is about Dark Souls and talking about various equipment and strategy, and I haven't watched that stuff yet. But for Demon's Souls, he makes an effort to divulge every lore detail built into the world (for example making deductions based upon an equipment description and the location where it is found to say that the community thinks that this corpse might actually be such-and-such). He talks about how much he admires From's level design. He has a good capacity to appreciate game design in general; I was watching him fight an Ys Origin boss today and he talked about how the dynamics between the various attacks led to a lot of movement on the player's part around the arena. It was a smart observation. I think it's great that someone with such valuable content has actually acquired such a following. I hear a tongue-in-cheek element to the "this is for mah bros" personality turns. He teaches English in Japan, so he only makes videos as a hobby. I don't see any reason to be down on the guy. But I've never heard of this other Quelaag person either, so.

[CubaLibre]

Do I have to say bro more often to get his viewership????

The editing on his lore videos is pretty great. Production values go a long, long way.
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[remote]

He's done some good videos. Mostly I just resent cults of personality and I don't want to see a tribute to some guy on youtube in Dark Souls II.
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[internisus]

[luckystrike]

Sanctus was a user submitted design, but it looks cool, isn't in-jokey, and is also fairly useless. Instead, here's a picture of the Marcus Shield for those of you who don't want to search/can't see it:

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/528178_376699052449065_1179262796_n.jpg

It is not particularly good looking (I apparently haven't watched enough ENB videos to get the pig head reference) so I can see why people would be bummed if it won simply because he is probably the most popular Dark Souls player in the US (and is stumping to his viewership for it), particularly when some of the other designs are just so goddamn great.

[mauve]

i spent some time playing dark souls pvp tonight for the first time in awhile. this will also be the last time in awhile.

now #1 feature request: NETPLAY THAT ISN'T LAGGED TO HELL AND BACK AGAIN

alternatively: get rid of poise because poise + dark souls style no-compensation netplay is, still, over a year later, the most idiotic thing in the history of netplay.
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[myxozoa]

Drew the most Heavy Metal shield I could think of.
It's probably not eligible though.
edit: Got rejected :(

(and now i spot the typo...OTL)

[Rud31]

Only tangently related to this thread, but hot abandoned castle pictures
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