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[Talbain]

I wish there were less shields with faces on them.
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[another god]

[Toptube]

[TXTSWORD]

Stick it on the template but imply that the rest of the shield is a transparent .png in fine print and resubmit

[diplo]

Would anyone here be interesting in professionalizing (read: photoshopping) an idea of mine? I have a small sketch, and I wouldn't mind if whoever helps uses their name instead of mine. I'm just motivated to contribute a good design.

[Brooks]

Was hoping they'd scale up to a full armour set contest but this is still a nice thing

[Bennett]

So, reflecting on this, I think Miyazaki has been put to work on the 'real' DS sequel, for next-gen consoles, which will have a thematically consistent name like 'Doomed Souls' or 'Dank Souls' or whatever.

DS2 is their Majora's Mask, or (less optimistically) their Final Fantasy X-2, meant to be pushed out quickly before the next gen consoles hit, and to significantly reuse the old engine and assets to make that possible.

Possible reasons they are keeping this secret: 1) they don't want the next-gen game to cannibalize sales from Dark Souls 2, or 2) the real sequel is exclusive to an unannounced console.

[TXTSWORD]

1) X-2 is at least better than X

2) they said in an interview that ds2 doesn't reuse any assets from the old engine.

3) I hope you're right

[Iacus]

Apprently they said they don't even use the same engine, to which I say bullshit. They are showing almost finished content too sonn for them to have developed a new engine, especially since the resources spent are hard to justify at the end of the generation. It's probably just marketing speak and they "merely" rewrote/optimized parts of their existing Phyre base.

Also, the contest shields that will appear in the game will be hand picked by FROM from a pool of the 30 most voted, so I have faith that they will use their good judgment w/r/t silly community injokey shields.
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Guayaba 2600

[TXTSWORD]

But I had already planned a video in which a friend and I find creative ways to discard the ENB shield, one of which includes the equivalent of selling it to frampt and using the gained souls to buy dung.

[Toptube]

[rye]

At least that ENB shield is tastefully done.

I've watched a bunch of his videos and he strikes me a pretty humble, kind dude. He also spends a lot of time working on his videos, and responds to comments pretty actively. There are far worse internet gaming personalities out there. Yes, the people who end up popular aren't always the ones that are most deserving, but the world is full of injustice. It's a damn shield. He didn't make the shield, and I'm sure he isn't encouraging people to vote for it either. There are better players to hate.
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[remote]

never said i hated the guy. sorry for being somewhat critical of a super popular youtube dude? forget i said anything, i guess.
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letterboxd | last.fm | steam

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[Iacus]

[Broco]

Using stable middleware and not spending much time improving it is exactly appropriate. In fact, it's one of the underappreciated reasons for the success of Dark Souls. Why was a medium-sized developer like From able to create a huge world? They just focused on churning out assets and designing gameplay for an existing engine, instead of wasting artists' and designers' time on engine churn like ambitious game usually devs do. It also seems that From is one of the only Japanese developers that really is utilizing the middleware out there.

As for the definition of "new engine" it's pretty vague, every engine is an evolution of an existing one. A lot of modern engines still have little bits of Quake 3 engine in them. So the marketing team can claim whatever they want, fine. I'm sure whatever it is will have some nice improvements.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

is there anything in the previous D. Souls games like how in the most interesting dungeon in Skyrim, there's a 'unique' dragon if you yell your "get ragdolled" shout at a glowing thing that is never mentioned anywhere in the game (the dragon or the thing you shout at)? A hidden easter egg-ish mini-boss?

I figure there has to be, but I don't know these games, obviously.

[diplo]

Ssssort of, if you're counting the world tendency events, and the harder-to-find aggressive NPCs, in Demon's. I have yet to meat at least two of the characters (whose existence I only know of because of the loading screen pictures), and have no idea how to do so. Understanding of world tendency varies from person to person, though. For Dark Souls', slightly possibly its additional content; but, iirc, the original trailers show where Shit Goes Down. So once you find a new enemy and dropped item in an old haunt, you probably will know where to go with said item. And everyone'd know that there was new stuff, anyway. So Demon's is closer to what you're asking about.

[Toptube]

Darks Souls pre-DLC has a couple of encounters that you have to figure out how to have, by accident or being especially exploratory.

Also, The Great Hollow would arguably fit with this sort of thing.

[remote]

i mean, finding your way back to the asylum and then realizing a boss has been there all along is sort of along those lines
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[diplo]

Yep, all of those things are true. I'm just not sure how DAIS is defining "hidden easter egg-ish."

[rye]

I probably didn't read remote's post closely enough, and I was probably grumpy or something when I posted myself. I should pay better attention.
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[Iacus]

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Guayaba 2600

[Toptube]

Check out this shield design submitted for the Dark Souls 2 contest, by "McNicol" of Canada:

"Tide Warden"

[TXTSWORD]

https://apps.facebook.com/darksoulsii/?gallery&action=view&id=2948

Some guy from reddit made three shield, one great one (this one), one decent but better than most one, and one not very good one that is on the first page (ordered by votes).


If this shield were in the game I would be satisfied with this contest.

Oh P.S. the ENB shield is in first place.

[remote]

the enb shield has been #1 for a while, but since from are apparently choosing from the top 30 i have faith they'll overlook it

i mean, it's not an interesting design

should it actually end up in the game, though, fuck it — it's not like i'll be likely to use a greatshield, anyway
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letterboxd | last.fm | steam

[diplo]

Why are all of these shields being stuck into the same shape? Is that a condition of the contest?

[TXTSWORD]

[Toptube]

[TXTSWORD]

I had to google this because I'm not familiar, but apparently a green man is a drawing or sculpture of a head made of leaves/foliage which exists in many cultures and without any one specific mythology. The Wikipedia said something like the common symbol was created independantly by each culture in which it appears. Idk maybe im just misreading. That all spuds kind of interesting though, as it comes with a sort of lore blank slate. It also works with From's love of pulling from real world items, designs, locations.

[Talbain]

Does anyone mind posting some of the shields to a place that's not Facebook?
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[Toptube]

[Talbain]

I won't but, is there anything in particular you're worried about? I can re-host the images, unless that's a problem?
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[Toptube]

I'm assuming free accounts have monthly bandwidth caps. If there are no caps, well then is mostly ok.

[DJ]

shhhh...
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[rye]

TXT, what is stopping you from creating some tastefully designed dark souls t-shirts?

(no offense DJ rad shirt. did you go to a press event thing?)
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[Brooks]

Would wear a decent polo with a little embroidered Dark Souls something (humanity icon? Solaire praise-the-Sun silhouette?)

[CubaLibre]

[TXTSWORD]

Honestly it's more about care and time and resources.

[analogos]