Dark Souls 2 Hype Thread GS score 9.0 (56k warning)

Man im hoping this game gets better once I get used to it, but so far the controls feel really sluggish compared to the first dark souls. Not sure if raising adaptability will remedy that or not... oh well back to leveling.

It controls the same, I've played Dark Souls with a 360 and a PS3 controller and it feels the same. If you're talking about character movement then DS2 actually feels more fluid than DS1.

@NoirLamia777:

Yup, it works with the Dualshock 4.

A helpful video for new mechanics you need to know in Dark Souls 2

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God I want to play this so fucking bad, why do I have to wait a month.

But I don't want to double dip again, Shiit.

741,719 death toll.. woooot!! we can make it to 1 million before midnight!

Not worth waiting a month, actually it's like 7 weeks so more than a month.

Thanks for reminding me T.T

It's what I'm here for :P

Now time to play some Dark Souls 2.....and see how many times I can die from not falling off a cliff...

What are the torches for?

To burn forum trolls

They are used to scare off some mobs, light up dark areas ect ect

For the benefit of all us European players that don't get this until Friday, please post your thoughts and opinions so far guys!

Aaaahhh. Makes sense.

Thanks!

Yeah Skate 3 gets many views. I can imagine it's difficult to keep the Skate 3 videos fresh and interesting from your perspective.

Are there any games that you wish you could play more of on your channel, but just don't get the views to support it?

I bought and just leaving it in the wrapper to spite the europeans #bwahahahah

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Well that's just...

so...

mean.

Anyone every told you you're a meanie Hazy?

it's pretty great! the Dark Souls experience is back! where you go to an area uncertain and you was right to be worried. They did set up a lot of cheap tricks on this one. Such as some enemies are just pretending to be dead on the floor once you walk pass them they'll arise to attack you in the back. Also the character feels a lot slower and sluggish now so you can't get away with a lot of things you could have in DS1. For example the reaction time between attacking and dodging out it's slower ( meaning there's a noticeable delay now ). You start with 1 Estus flask yes, 1! and if you went depraved like me then you're gonna have fun times with the durability of the first 1 weapons. lulz. Just for extra at one point i had this enemy pinned against the wall and i hit a barrel i still don't know exactly what happened but a huge explosion happened that even destroyed a wall.. then i went into this dark place and all of the sudden there's 5 ballistas pointed at me and i gtfo. LOVING IT!

So tempting to buy this game now. I got to hold it off until the pc version comes out. I don't want to buy the game twice. Arghhh so difficult.

I hope the PC version has a serious graphic upgrade.

It's good that the gameplay transcends the visuals with this game, but damn...those textures and that lighting...ouch.

Everything just feels slower, dodging, raising your shield, strafing, chugging estus.... its not like dark souls 1 where I got the sense I could essentially beat the game without leveling... seems like this time around its alot more like a traditional stat based RPG, i find myself spamming attacks and trading blows alot more... as i no longer feel nimble enough to simply avoid damage. Kinda disappointing as that was my favorite part of DS1, but in the meantime ill just keep on trucking and see how things play out.

So far I'm liking it a lot more than Dark Souls 1. I've put a good 6 hours into it since last night, I've toyed around with

Swordsman- It's alright and dual wield still feels like it needs to be fixed/useful, I felt like I needed to constantly not dual wield and pick up a shield. Also from what I hear SM pretty much sucks/lacks in playstyle tell you unlock powerstance

Knight- Knigh is Knight, same as it was in Dark Souls

Explorer- Kinda reminds me of a Thief class but with a crap load of starting items

Cleric- Currently what I'm playing atm, they're pretty op and I have to say Cleric is the best starting class (their starting mace is ridiculous)

If I'd give it a score from what I've played so far, a 10 would be it.

Attack/block animation speed is pretty much the same except using Lifegems which are ridiculous with their long cast animation. Also there's a stat (starts with an A I believe) that increases your cast,attack,block and over animation speed.

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Sounds sweet. Thank you for trying out the classes and telling me, they're what I am very interested in. Are there enough items near the beginning to make the deprived feasible? (Without giving too much away)

What's powerstance?

Have you by chance seen a bit from the Sorcery class? Any Pyromancy?

Apparently, most Str based weapons were nerfed substantially and replaced with a cool boost from Dex

Such as the Zweil and Claymore :[

Its a bit disappointing From decided to change these, considering I've always gone with Int/Str builds.

And so far, Knight, Warrior and Cleric have been receiving the most positive rep so far which nice.

Read around in Gaf, that around 30-40 Adaptability brings it back to base Dark Souls 1 speed.

Which would make it all the more important to amp up points in there.

Its crazy.

Ahh alright, thats what i was hoping.

heh heh heh

@_Matt_: Mmmm to an extent yes as long as you look everywhere, you might lack a few items here and there

@tonitorsi: Haven't tried Sorc yet but Clerics are just Temple Knights basically

Thanks, think I will risk deprived and hope I find something to defend myself with.

Anyone else fearful of removing the disc from the Black Armor Edition case? It feels like it's got a death grip on my disc.

Yup Dark Souls 2 is sooooo much "harder" (aka cheap) than Dark Souls 1. Still love this game so dont get me wrong but GD some deaths should not have happened....

So far the only things I dislike about Dark Souls 2 is the lack of a hit box/hit detection. The over all new death system is flawed, decreasing your health everytime you die when the games main focus is you dying is one of the worst if not the worst mechanic I've seen put int a game to date and add fuel to the fire of the new death system, everytime you die you're looking at a good 20 sec loading screen (PS3 version btw). Also the new parry system blows...

@Ballroompirate:

Sure sounds like a 10. :P

It would be nice if they could improve the hit box/ hit detection in a patch, In Darks Souls it was nearly perfect.

Atleast the wait's a little less horrible now, hopefully the console plebs will continue to beta test the game and fromsoft will fix these abhorrent issues.

@ReadingRainbow4:

Chances of them patching it is highly unikely since it would require way to much work, so lets hope they make it better in the next Souls game

I'd still give it a 10 since in a lot of ways it's better than Dark Souls 1. Also there's no such thing as a perfect game, so a game being a 10 is almost perfection.

Just so people know, the Graphics probably look the way they are just so the game could have better frames.

Remember Blighttown?

Aye, well reviews suggest that that frame rate is pretty stable throughout DS2 on both platforms, so no complaints from me.

I'm annoyed that the game is visually very scaled back compared to the showings months ago. All that lovely specular is gone and the dynamic light from the torches is severely toned down

yet the game is still said to have frame drops. PC save us

@_Matt_: Yep. I'm liking it so far.

@seanmcloughlin: Yeah, but it is a lot smoother than Dark Souls 1.

Also It almost feels like there will most certainly be a X1 and PS4 version.

There needs to be a law or something for that cause it seems a lot of devs lately have got into the habit of showing us totally different concepts of what they are trying to sell to us. I know games go through a lot of dev time and tweaking here and there but it's getting ridiculous when they are down grading the final product in a lot of games recently.

Also I'm gonna have to say I'm gonna add another thing that's pissing me off about Dark Souls 2, the new stagger system completely blows...makes blocking almost pointless and blocking is freaking crucial in Dark Souls -.-

Oh snap! Nice. I want this.

Can someone please tell me where to find Faraam Armor set the Armor thats on the cover?

game has been pretty stable for me, no frame rate problems. Would be nice if it was smoother but it's all good. Though the game looks a bit ugly it's an insignificant detail that could only get better.

Anyone get up to "The Pursuer"?

Screw all you Americans already playing :(

What you think it's fun? Let me tell you this....The game is HARDER than dark souls. FS didn't skimp out on shit i mean the first 4 hours of the game I played most of the enemies have halbreds and they know how to use em. And that streamlining stuff they talked about it turned out to be a damn joke to us fans.

Front runner for GOTY? Front runner for GOTY.

From what I've heard it's not that it's flat out harder, it's just cheaper to make it seem harder.

I guess I should wait and see though, no idea when I'll find the time to bloody play it properly though

Yeah i'm being a bit dramatic. It's not cheaper per se. But they changed the combat flow up a lot so instead of being 2-3 steps ahead in a game like darks souls, you need to be 4-5 steps ahead. You really have to plan out your stuff. The boss combat arenas are smaller at the moment to make it seems harder as hell. But once you learn the patterns it begins to kick in like muscle memory. Plus learning those games and the areas are the toughest parts. It's the unexpected surprise or two that has a tendency to get you until you learn your areas.

Now this I would buy