DARK SOULS: if you need me i'll be in an induced coma so mvrch comes tomorrow

the community put together a really nice patch for DS1 on PC. fixes most, if not all, issues people had with the port.

Oh yeah I never unlocked the fps. Suddenly everything is smooth as butter!

Just beat Dark Souls! YESSSSS!!! I have been having trouble w Gwyn for a long time and I never tried the Fire Stoneplate Ring, I threw it on and beat him in one go!

congrats man

!!!

Namco will announce Dark Souls 3 at E3, a source familiar with the matter has told VG247.

In news guaranteed to delight fans of the series, Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne director Hidetaka Miyazaki is again heading the team.

Miyazaki, the father of the Souls series, moved onto a supervisory role for Dark Souls 2. Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura co-directed the sequel.

The platform to be used for the announcement is as yet unknown, but our source guessed the title may come during Sony’s E3 press conference on the Californian evening of Monday, June 15.

We received no specific details of the game itself.

Dark Souls 2 settled two points higher on Metacritic than the original, but some fans and reviewers disparaged the sequel over the fairness of its approach to Souls’ trademark ultra-hard difficulty level.

Series-watchers may be shocked at the announcement’s timing: Sony dev boss Shuhei Yoshida confirmed in late May that Bloodborne is to be expanded, and that more details will be announced “later this year”.

E3 takes place in Los Angeles on the week commencing June 15. We’ve reached out to Namco for comment.

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Yes plz!!! Would do w Bloodborne 2 (or PC port) but this is still the best news.

good to know i won't need to start playing other games for the foreseeable future.

Feel like the new Flying Saucer Attack also being announced today is super appropriate.

shadow tower (early fromsoft game for ps1) is on psn now btw

ps store i mean not ps now

shadow tower controls are terrible. cool game, like fps dark souls, but unplayable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6iMjSQ9uOk

Dark Souls playing as Ceaseless Discharge and unleashing the lava demon giant's might against several foes. What is to be able to control such a huge boss and be as powerful as hell? Watch how Ceaseless Discharge protects my character in my custom mini game - Player protector. In this video I moved Kirk Knight (Invader) to the arena of Ceaseless Discharge and left my player uncontrolled while taking control of Ceaseless Discharge. The goal of my custom mission is to beat Kirk before he kills your character since there is no way for AI to fight Ceaseless Discharge back - since it will fall to death trying to reach him, so I left my character as a bait and and had to protect it with Ceaseless Discharge.

Dark Souls III will release next year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and possibly PC
1-4 players, as in past games
10 classes, 45 new enemies, and 15 bosses (returning foes aren't counted in those figures)
12 areas equaling an amount of content similar to the first Dark Souls
60 minutes of cut scenes, most of which are in-engine
"Sacrifice Ceremonies" can be used to visit other players' worlds
Bonfires can be created by sacrificing
A "Heat Up" mechanic can be used to alter bosses (as shown in the boss screenshots below -- that's the same dude, apparently)
There's something called "Sword Fighting Arts," including moves like "Rush In" and "Circle"

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http://youtu.be/dyRJ5u-L8qw

sounds more like more of a cash grab but hopefully the construction and care will still be there.

As long as it's better than Dark Souls 2 I'm all in.

more footage:

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awesome, reposting to got thread

lol

!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FULtUmhnEnU

day one buy of course; they've yet to disappoint and i prefer the aesthetic and game play of dark souls over bloodbourne

the apparent scale of the bad guy in the trailer was giving me shadow of the colossus vibes

for a moment there i was terrified that this was going to be Xbox-only

ps vita exclusive

http://gameidealist.com/wp-content/uploads/dark-souls-3-3.jpg

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dark souls 3: bloodborne 2 ?

http://gameidealist.com/wp-content/uploads/dark-souls-3-4.jpg

YESSSS been playing through the first 2 a bunch and they are great but don't really look the best. A Bloodborne-level of graphical polish plus combat tweaks would be sweeeet.

https://vine.co/v/ee0bv2ZrpXL

chosen undead's toilet

https://imgur.com/a/l4X5t

maybe he was just cleaning up after the giant rat.

Hah it is US Independence Day and I spent half the day playing this Japanese videogame.

I am doing a sorcery-only run. It's pretty fun, and a different way to play if you've already played through. Some parts are harder, some are easier. Got into a magic arrow battle with another magician in the forest earlier that was so cool!

this is insane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsdaoYejijk

the Bed of Chaos fight alone is genius, i've never seen anyone do it like that.

around what time?

20min in

ty

haha that is excellent work

nice. the o+s fight is like 10 sec too

dark souls speedruns are endlessly fun to watch

best bit: where he nearly gets fucked up by the wagon wheel skeleton dudes

i still have the free Games W/Gold version of this sitting on my hard-drive but I have not yet touched it. Dare I?

I am p shitty at video games tbh

yeah, definitely. in a lot of ways i find the difficulty level of the souls games much easier to take than others because pretty much every time you die you'll know exactly what you did wrong and have an idea of what you might be able to do differently the next time. it's tough but fair, and it's a great teacher - you'll find yourself coming back to areas you struggled with before and breeze through them because you've become a much better player in the interim.

also, dark souls is flat-out the most atmospheric and engaging game i've ever played - it's worth giving it a shot just for the experience of exploring the world

yeah just give it a try stevie, being good/bad at games is p much immaterial, no one is waltzing thru these games, but i think most ppl who try find the core gameplay fun enough to mitigate the frustrations until you have more of a handle on it.

one more thing: if you find you're not getting on with the game, try another character build - it's amazing how much putting points into different stats can palpably affect the experience of playing

okay, cheers dudes, i shall go on in later this week!

liveblog please

yeah, reading about new players navigating their way through souls games is endlessly fascinating to me - post yr impressions!

deadblog more like - will def get back with details once i'm in the dungeon!