Dark Souls 2 coming to current gen

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Good news gaming fans, the fan favorite Dark Souls 2 is coming to next gen with DLC. Just one of the recent remastered games. Anyone interested in getting this?

I'd love to get the full version of this game. I love the Souls series

@Jimmy_Russell

Now thats hardcore... ! :)

YES!!! I had a feeling that this game would have a current gen port which is why I've held off from getting the game before. This is awesome news and I'm really looking forward to picking this up in April.

Woah!! you really don't like Dark Souls

@thehig1

Or maybe getting cancer is just his way of upping the challenge because Dark Souls 2 was too easy for him. ;)

Dark Souls 2 on Super Hardcore difficulty

@thehig1

Dark Souls doesn't have difficulty settings.... Not real ones anyway.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2dDF4B9a4

Cool for the souls fans. But im more interested in Bloodborne.

was taking the piss, never played Dark Souls

cancer is so 90s

get diabetes, diabetes is alpha

Totally!! lol

I would be interested but I'm pretty happy with the PC version.

-Byshop

I don't see a reason getting another game then unless you're hunting the trophies or achievments

I am a hardcore gamer but I am not a fan of dark souls its for people with incredible amounts of patience.

Only reason I'm getting it is because it includes all the DLC expansions, which means more souls to obtain and more lore to uncover.

The only reasons I can see would be moving to a different online pool of players or to get away from hacks if DS2 PC gets all hacky like the last one. DS1 got pretty bad.

-Byshop

Isn't there pvp in DS2?

@The_Last_Ride: Yes, and like Demons Souls and Dark Souls it's awesome. I'm not big on multiplayer, but I -love- the systems they use for the "Souls" games because the multiplayer is actually incorporated into the gameplay/story and not some tacked on feature. The idea behind the work in Dark Souls is that everyone is dead and this is the afterlife, but everyone has their own version of the afterlife world and the dead can visit (or invade) the worlds of other dead people. There are various items you can acquire throughout the world that allow you to move to other worlds, invite people from other worlds, or even stop people from invading. There are "Covenants" you can join by talking to specific NPCs that exist to dictate how you can interact with other players. Some are combat oriented, others are co-op oriented. Some are evil (invade and kill other players) whereas others might be neutral (for example in DS1, you could join the Forest Hunter covenant which meant you could be summoned by the forest god to "defend" the forest, aka kill players who enter the forest who are not in the same covenant) or good (invade and kill only players who have commited an "evil" act like attacking friendly NPCs or killing players in an invasion). There's no menu selection or anything like that, you have to -find- the covenants you want to join. Also, there's no "offline" mode. You can be invaded by other players while you are trying to play your single player game, although the exact rules regarding when you can and can't be invaded vary from title to title. You can pretty much ensure that you are never invaded (if that's what you want) using the in-game mechanics.

But dueling is aweome and takes quite a bit of skill and tactical thinking. Combine that with how -wildly- different you can make character builds and it's a lot of fun. Some people make strong but slow, brute force characters designed to smash down defenses, others make quick and agile fencers who rely on parries and ripostes, while others make spell casters who use crazy combinations of melee and magic, to everything in between.

Like I said, I'm pretty anti-multiplayer but if every game handled it as well as these games I'd play online a lot more.

-Byshop

@Byshop: Seems cool, but i am not really into that series. I have Demon Souls in my backlog, but i am just not interested in it

@The_Last_Ride

Try it.... I hate it... Considered that an endorsement that it just might be for you.

meh, i am not that interested in it

@The_Last_Ride

I was at some point.... Given the state of the industry at the time I was eager to try out the so called most difficult game ever....

Why are the best current/upcoming games on the X1 and PS4...slightly updated games from last gen?

I don't remember this happening as much in previous gens. It's as if all of the publishers aren't taking these consoles seriously, and are simply trying to make money with minimal effort.

Good news?

Honestly who cares about the crap they call Dark souls 2, also its on pc so it doesn't really matter if it comes on next-gen consoles.

It's not really the afterlife. Everyone may be undead, but they still occupy the same world as the living. The curse just means they cannot truly die -- they'll just keep coming back to life until their mind has completely eroded. Though even then, that doesn't seem to free them from the grasp of the curse, if the constant respawning foes are any indication. Locations like Lordran and Drangleic are merely hubs where the cursed congregate in search of a cure, based on either legends (as with Lordran and the tale of the "chosen undead") or rumors (as with Drangleic and how Vendrick supposedly knew of a way to stop the curse).

The justification for the co-op and invasions in the lore is something about the flow of time being distorted in those lands (Solaire explicitly mentions this when you first meet him), and that somehow allows undead to connect to one another. They've never really delved into that aspect of the lore for Dark Souls, so it's a mystery as to how that all actually works.

Some like it though, so they can buy it on next gen

All in all, Dark Souls 2 seems to be a step down from Dark Souls 1. Not a HUGE step down though, just slightly not as good but still great. Then again, i never played Demons Souls and its my understanding that most fans of that game saw the first Dark Souls as a step down... I dont know, all i can say is Dark Souls was a truly spectacular experience. No game ever brought forth the kind of emotions and attachment as that one and i dont think anything else ever will in the future, even if the game had some flaws. The second game just didnt quite capture the same feeling but that could just be that it is no longer a fresh concept.

I would be more excited to pick up Bloodborne instead of DS 2 though, especially since i already have DS 2 anyway.

it's not the most difficult game ever mate

@The_Last_Ride

I know that now, :).

Its a shame really, I am genuinely intrigued by the lore and the world's structure. :(

and when did you start saying "mate"..... I swear I don't remember you saying it this much. :o

i use it from time to time dude

@The_Last_Ride

Never noticed it before.... :(

waiting for bloodborne i skip upgrade version of DS2

@The_Last_Ride

Never noticed it before.... :(

Does this mean the game will finally look like what was initially promised to us?

Thanks for clarifying. The game isn't big on story but it's got a pretty rich lore.

When someone as anti-multiplayer as me starts making dedicated PvP builds, then the game is doing something right in how it does multiplayer.

-Byshop

Wasn't interested last gen, why would I be interested this gen?

@speedfreak48t5p

Because of that 1080p Goodness ! ;)

as if that makes it a whole new game. LOL.

Of course! lol

@speedfreak48t5p

I think I know whats going on.... Obviously the the last gen versions are not Technical Marvels infact its performance issues are more than just minor..... So heres the weird part.... You'd think those who bought the game early don't really care about optimum smooth performance, and yet I have a sneaky suspicion that those same people are gonna buy the game again for the better performance.... So, exactly how important is performance to them.... Enough to buy the upcoming game but not enough skip the 1st release.

I would have preferred Dark souls 1 since its better but still cool anyways since I didn't play ds2 DLC. I just want bloodborne mostly

Don't know :P?