From Software Dark Souls 3

[Morgoth]

Menu music from the Stress test client:

 

[StaticSpine]

is the stress test available now?

 

[Morgoth]

is the stress test available now?

Not until next week, I believe.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Uh, so on PS4 people are gonna be able to play the beta?? How much of the content is gonna be in it? Is there gonna be online (for duelling)? Is it free? Can anyone enroll by simply preordering? Can you give me any details? I got a PS4 that's collecting dust in the corner.

 

[Gentle Player]

Menu music from the Stress test client:

Very nice, but far too much pomp. Sounds much more fitting for a boss battle than character creation. I prefer the more subdued menu music of the others:

 

[Morgoth]

Pomp is what the unwashed masses want.

I'm not even excited for DaSIII anymore. Just port DeS to PC instead and I'll be happy.

 

[Shammy]

Pomp is what the unwashed masses want.

I'm not even excited for DaSIII anymore. Just port DeS to PC instead and I'll be happy.

I mean this is also just a stress test. For all we know this music could just be that: pump up music. Definitely not a final indicator of the final product, but only time will tell if that's true or not.

 

[toro]

In the end, we will all realize that B-Team was great.

 

[Gentle Player]

In the end, we will all realize that B-Team was great.

I don't know about all this A-team and B-team stuff. I agree with the general consensus that the original Dark Souls II was disappointing compared to the first, but that the crowns DLC was fantastic. I also hold the unpopular view that Artorias of the Abyss is wholly overrated.

In any case, Miyazaki had absolutely nothing to do with From-Software's greatest masterpiece

 

[LivingOne]

They always had different music in their stress test menus compared to relese game menus. It was also composed by Yuka Kitamura who has only made boss music so far(Executioner Chariot, Velstadt, Old Dongslayer, Ruin Sentinels, Ebrietas and Sir Alonne).

 

[Gentle Player]

They always had different music in their stress test menus compared to relese game menus. It was also composed by Yuka Kitamura who has only made boss music so far(Executioner Chariot, Velstadt, Old Dongslayer, Ruin Sentinels, Ebrietas and Sir Alonne).

I seem to remember hearing the Dark Souls II menu piece for the first time here at this forum, long before release, when it too was used in a Network Test thing - then again, my memory may be faulty. In any case I don't think this new piece will be used for the final menu, it certainly does seem like more of a boss battle piece.

 

[Murk]

In the end, we will all realize that B-Team was great.

We ambidextrous disciples of Tanimura are always lurking in the shadows. Waiting for our moment of glory to reveal an opportunity so that we may strike. Once with the left hand, then again with the right hand, and again with the left hand, and once more with the right...

 

[Machocruz]

Nexus theme is still best Souls chillax theme.

I also hold the unpopular view that Artorias of the Abyss is wholly overrated.

Remember, the majority are always wrong. /blakemore

In any case, Miyazaki had absolutely nothing to do with From-Software's greatest masterpiece

Shadow Tower Abyss?

 

[Gentle Player]

Shadow Tower Abyss?

Nope, though Shadow Tower Abyss had a great melee attack system (but a poor magic system, as with the first Shadow Tower) that I wish they would have expanded on. The best FromSoft game, with Dark Souls a close second, is King's Field IV. I honestly think that that game is a masterpiece of design. My favourite game developer was Looking Glass, which should be telling as to my attitude towards the Souls games and my dislike of the action-gameplay and MMO-style PvP focused crowd which has infiltrated the FromSoft fanbase (and whom I view as akin to the Persona fans in relation to Shin Megami Tensei). If one were to ask me what games are comparable, in terms of level design, to King's Field IV, as blasphemous as it is I would have to reach right out to the top and say Thief, Ultima Underworld (which inspired King's Field) and System Shock 1. I am almost positive that, if KFIV were a Western game and had a PC release, it would be widely mentioned in the same breath as the Looking Glass canon. Instead, it languishes in semi-obscurity, which is a travesty.

 

[toro]

Nope, though Shadow Tower Abyss had a great melee attack system (but a poor magic system, as with the first Shadow Tower) that I wish they would have expanded on. The best FromSoft game, with Dark Souls a close second, is King's Field IV. I honestly think that that game is a masterpiece of design. My favourite game developer was Looking Glass, which should be telling as to my attitude towards the Souls games and my dislike of the action-gameplay and MMO-style PvP focused crowd which has infiltrated the FromSoft fanbase (and whom I view as akin to the Persona fans in relation to Shin Megami Tensei). If one were to ask me what games are comparable, in terms of level design, to King's Field IV, as blasphemous as it is I would have to reach right out to the top and say Thief, Ultima Underworld (which inspired King's Field) and System Shock 1. I am almost positive that, if KFIV were a Western game and had a PC release, it would be widely mentioned in the same breath as the Looking Glass canon. Instead, it languishes in semi-obscurity, which is a travesty.

Nobody is asking for MMO-style PvP. Where did you get this idea?

 

[Gentle Player]

Nobody is asking for MMO-style PvP. Where did you get this idea?

I didn't say that people were outright asking for it. It's a simplification, sure, but I do say, or at least it is my belief, that there is a large contingent of Souls fans that became attracted to the games due to action gameplay and PvP, as opposed to the world and dungeon design and mechanics not directly related to reflexive-action that endeared me to the series. I don't say that any one camp is right or wrong in their tastes; we merely appreciate wholly different design philosophies, and there is a conflict there. I think that, if the Souls games didn't exist, there would be large swathes of the fanbase who would be favouring games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Devil May Cry, etc. while there would be others, like myself, probably smaller in number, who would champion Looking Glass games, King's Field, Dark Heart of Uukrul, Wizardry VI, and whatnot. My fears are that the former camp, having a much greater presence with their Twitch streams and YouTube meme videos and PvP commentary and whatnot - which vastly boost the popularity and sales of the games - will be those that end up having a greater influence on the design of future games, to the detriment of players like myself.

 

[Murk]

They are definitely not in it for MMO style pvp, but rather, fighting game style pvp where-in they also impose an exhaustive list of things that are and are not taboo.

 

[Metro]

Will it have a story capable of comprehension this time?

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

Will it have a story capable of comprehension this time?

you can always try twicher 3 with its 11 hours of all-explaining cutscenes

 

[Higher Animal]

Gentle Player

Thanks for bringing some sanity into this thread. MMO PVP is a great putdown to Tanimura cock-riding, hipster tryhard faggots who bitch about Miyazaki's adventure role playing sensibilities. You'd think these people would prefer f2p shooters or watching old International matches on jewtoob to posting in an RPG forum of all fucking places.

My favorite in the series is DeS. Hard combat, hard exploration, and unique/esoteric online and story elements.

 

[praetor]

DeS... hard?!

 

[Ivan]

stahp

 

[Metro]

you can always try twicher 3 with its 11 hours of all-explaining cutscenes

I'm not the pollak here.

 

[Higher Animal]

DeS... hard?!

DeS is hard in relation to everything else. It also used to have interesting adventure elements, until they were wiped away by dudebro buttfuckery in DaS 1&2.

 

[felipepepe]

Demon's Souls is certainly the hardest game in the series, at least regarding the areas. There's nothing in Dark Souls 1 & 2 that can compare to the second half of most Archstones.

I borrowed by DeS to a friend who beated DS1 & 2, he gave up on 4-2, with those skeletons in a cliff and the dark cavern full of insta-rape.