Can we talk about this game, Sup Forums?

Can we talk about this game, Sup Forums?

Why is it so fucking good?
And why are Valley of Defilement and Shrine of Storms so fucking awful?
And what happened to the Giant Archstone?

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Even though it's not, I like to imagine the broken archstone leads to the land of the giants from the DaS universe because I'm a faggot

>And what happened to the Giant Archstone?

They ran out of time/money, which is generally what happens when a game development project falls to shit and then is given to someone else (in this case our lord Miyazaki) to save.

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>flying mantas
>with homing needles
>laser ghosts

Why was this allowed?

>memezaki
>deserving any kind of praise

The one game he wasn't directly involved in turned out to be the one that was really really shit. Speaks for itself.

I mean some people are like ds3 poise sucks and the game felt a little bland but it's still on par with DS1.

Because you could munch all your health back afterwards.

There's nothing wrong with Shrine of Storms though. Even the magic laser shitters become trivial when you realize you can hug their left side and never get hit. 3-2 is fucking awful however.

nigga you crazy. 3-2 is brilliant.

Shit, I meant 5-2. After the Leech.

>Adjudicator
>the bird is the boss and not the fat guy

>still on par with DS1
I feel like it fails to match some aspects, yet does some others a lot better than the first game. If you even it out, I guess they're on par but I still feel it goes like this;
DaS = DeS > DaSIII > Bloodborne = DaSII

Honestly, I enjoyed both Bloodborne and Dark Souls II. It's apparent that Bloodborne is far better polished and is designed a shit ton better than Dark Souls II, but I feel like the sheer amount of fun generating content in II makes up for all the shit it pulls.

Yes. 5-2 is objectively the worst level in the entire game. It even has the shittiest boss.

Fuck no. 4-2 is fat worse.

I want to make my own Action-RPG someday.

I just don't know how to take the combat we know and love from Dark Souls, 3D Zelda's, and the like and take them one step further. All of the aforementioned games can be cheesed in one way or another. You can't just circle strafe people in real life.

The only awful part of 4-2 is that very last encounter before Old Hero, where you have to sprint down the hall against a Laser Ghost and the Shadow Dude next to him. Everything else is ez.

One is a level with great vertical spacing, indoor and outdoor alike vs a gigantic fucking swamp with absolutely nothing in the middle where you hug a fucking cliffside through the entire thing and go through a shitty shanty town. 5-2 sucks a big fat dick.

4-2 lacks a shortcut, that's really the only bad thing to say about it.

>flying
>fucking
>mantas
>wasting fucking arrows to kill these fuckers

I literally never killed a single Manta untill I got to the boss with Stormruler. There's an audio cue that means you should roll.

>try to kill yoshimitsu skeleton
>get hit by manta spear while dealing damage
>yoshimitsu wombo combos me
FUCK

yes you are am faggt

get the fuck out of here, shrine of storms is great

Valley is literally the best area after
Latria

Not 2-2 which is so bad they let you skip it, flamelurker is great though, even if I still have flashbacks when I think of that game

2-2 can be skipped?

go down the big hole

Oh yeah the way past Scirvir. I thought you meant it was entirely optional somehow.

I want to worship Maiden in Black's feet!

The Nioh Alpha demo had a great solution to it. Both you and the enemy took heavy damage if attacked from behind, and if you were locked on to an enemy, then running (not sprinting, but that did it too) would cause you to turn your back to the enemy. To keep facing them, you had to walk, backstep or keep your guard up, which made movement a careful and considered affair, where you had to pounce on opportunities to move swiftly or escape. It made the combat feel very samurai-esque and it played out like an oldschool samurai movie.

But because people felt that actually thinking about movement in combat is far too much, and the Alpha came with a survey, based on the feedback they changed it so that you're always facing the enemy and don't even need to bother anymore.

There's a Beta coming up this month, which will feature the changes as well as another survey, and this is one of the things I'm gonna ask them to change the most.

Does DeS even have any quality waifus?

Astrea, Garl's sister, Fool's Idol, and, of course, the Maiden In Black.

>Shrine of Storms
>Bad
Nigger I will fucking fight you.
Literally one of the comfiest zones.
>Not grabbing a simple club and bashing some skellies for dem souls.