Dark Souls 2 Wishlist
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1. Rule consistency. If something applies to the player it should also apply to the enemy. Nothing is more aggravating then having your weapon rebound off a wall while the much bigger enemy with a much bigger weapon swings it around free of restrictions.
2. Completely reworked magic system. The melee combat is almost perfect, but the magic needs a lot of work.
3. Completely reworked multiplayer, with a very strong focus on eliminating lag. Gave up on DS PvP because it was just so bullshit.
4. A completely different approach to characterization and narrative.
5. For shields to still exist when on your back. Like Mount and Blade. If i put my shield on my back and then someone shoots it, the shield should absorb the damage.
2. Completely reworked magic system. The melee combat is almost perfect, but the magic needs a lot of work.
3. Completely reworked multiplayer, with a very strong focus on eliminating lag. Gave up on DS PvP because it was just so bullshit.
4. A completely different approach to characterization and narrative.
5. For shields to still exist when on your back. Like Mount and Blade. If i put my shield on my back and then someone shoots it, the shield should absorb the damage.
Lots of that stuff was concept art from a Chinese artist that people were speculating might be hired by FROM. Turns out he was hired and a bunch of that concept are was in fact for Dark Souls.Mikejames said:True, it's not a happy setting Lordran. Most of the consistently nice characters are goners unless you stop talking to them.("I'm sorry Laurentius, the Chaos fire is mine and mine alone!") But it's a consistent tone. Lonely and atmospheric.I do wonder if Dark Souls 2 is changing anything up though. Some of the new concept art almost looks like there could be a living village,Qvar said:
Though it could just end up being another Blighttown...
The heck with Dark Lord being the bad ending. My dictatorship will be a benevolent one.
I know Shibuya and a few other guys wanted to have different ways of traveling around the world like ships and chariots. I think that might just be something they ended up cutting out though. Lots of ideas like that which appear early in development have a way of getting cut as time goes on.
A lot of people were skeptical about the towns and the possibility of having that peppy looking girl ruin the dark atmosphere. I don't know if I share those views. There are plenty of spooky looking areas in the game that I know have made it into the game. Plus... minor spoilers from here during the beta
In the beta, the filthy female merchant states that you are in Drangleic, and that everyone has "run off" from the wars that happened. So if everyone ran off, there shouldn't be a town, at least not in that particular area. However, there is a map out there of Dark Souls 2. And it has multiple locations. 12-15 last I checked. So who knows. All I know is I'm getting hyped
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I think a lot of the enemies we've seen so far have confined to the beta area. Plus those guys and The Mirror Knight Boss have a distinct Roman look to their armor. I think they're going to go far and beyond with the aesthetics in this game.
It's confined to a single areaQvar said:
Huntsman's Copse and the next area called Undead Purgatory. Currently we've only seen two bosses in the beta, one main boss and what looks to be a miniboss. Also there is the Mirror Knight, but that was in a different demo.
This video... Wow. I was about to start begging for a decent explanation of what was the story really about (I know, lord of flame, the fires are dying, you must sacrifice yourself blabla... Too many unexplained things). And this video makes a lot of sense. IT MAKES TOO DAMN MUCH SENSE, curse you Gwyn!!Ishal said:
Glad that I've decided to go for the dark lord ending this playthrough. By now, I'm quite convinced that it will be used as the canon ending. Gwyn dead, Nito dead, Seath dead, the Izalith witch dead, the pygmy (Manus?) dead, the dragons long dead and I would bet Gwyndolin dead too. Humanity is finally free from "lords" and able to search for a cure for the curse.
Well, I'm certainly hyped now.
The only thing I want is to be able to go human and summon help without getting invaded. Player invasions don't make DS harder, only more annoying because they will always abuse the system.
An anti-cheating system and an actual inventory system would be nice. Also, perhaps limit endgame weapons to be found towards the endgame...I ran into a black knight halberd early on and it was pretty much easy mode from there. I had to actually bottomless box the damn thing, it was making my game too easy.
I like the minimalist storytelling style of Dark Souls; it reminds me of an amazing Civ 4 mod called Fall from Heaven, in which bits and pieces of the setting would be revealed when you built certain structures, came across certain items, ran into certain characters / bosses, etc. None of it was conventional setting description either; rather, you might click on one character and get part of an anecdote from his or her life. Later, you might run into a few other characters that have the rest of the anecdote, or maybe even the same story from a different point of view.
Anyway, what made Fall from Heaven more satisfying than Dark Souls was that each time you got part of a part of the story/setting, it was several paragraphs, maybe a page or two of solid material. The setting was still highly minimalist; you pieced together what happened by piecing together various stories of people's lives. But Fall from Heaven understood that you can have minimalist, vague setting while still telling a lot, and writing characters that players can really relate to/empathize with/hate/etc. Dark Souls just doesn't have too much...sad things happen to lots of people and we feel bad about it, but the characterization of those people is almost nonexistent.
So, my suggestion: keep the storytelling style, but put more material into little unrelated side story. Stick a few good paragraphs of storytelling in the item descriptions of each piece of gear; tell a lot of anecdotes from different people's points of view, some totally unrelated to the main backstory, some offering small glimpses of what went down, but obviously from a biased/unreliable perspective.
I like the minimalist storytelling style of Dark Souls; it reminds me of an amazing Civ 4 mod called Fall from Heaven, in which bits and pieces of the setting would be revealed when you built certain structures, came across certain items, ran into certain characters / bosses, etc. None of it was conventional setting description either; rather, you might click on one character and get part of an anecdote from his or her life. Later, you might run into a few other characters that have the rest of the anecdote, or maybe even the same story from a different point of view.
Anyway, what made Fall from Heaven more satisfying than Dark Souls was that each time you got part of a part of the story/setting, it was several paragraphs, maybe a page or two of solid material. The setting was still highly minimalist; you pieced together what happened by piecing together various stories of people's lives. But Fall from Heaven understood that you can have minimalist, vague setting while still telling a lot, and writing characters that players can really relate to/empathize with/hate/etc. Dark Souls just doesn't have too much...sad things happen to lots of people and we feel bad about it, but the characterization of those people is almost nonexistent.
So, my suggestion: keep the storytelling style, but put more material into little unrelated side story. Stick a few good paragraphs of storytelling in the item descriptions of each piece of gear; tell a lot of anecdotes from different people's points of view, some totally unrelated to the main backstory, some offering small glimpses of what went down, but obviously from a biased/unreliable perspective.
Not necessarily 'forced' pvp removal, some enjoy it and I get that. Just a way to opt out of it without constantly staying hollow and making the entire game harder on yourself as a result.Qvar said:You mean cheating? Shouldn't you ask for an anti-cheating system, instead of forced pvp removal, then?idarkphoenixi said:
1: Balanced, and fun-to-use magic, looks like they're working towards it from what I saw in the beta videos, (You can replenish spells with items, so I don't have to save ALL of them for bosses >.>) so I'm fairly optimistic on this.
2: More optional bosses would be nice.
3: Atmosphere, atmosphere, atmosphere. It's a souls game, so I don't think I should worry too much, but Lost Izalith and Ash Lake both are excellent examples of this.
4: Ties in with 1, I would very much like for PvP magic to not instakill people.
5: Ties in with 1 and 4, more armor diversity past "more stability=more weight" I'd like it to actually matter how I deck myself out a bit more then just stability
and 6: Less ability to twink? Now that we cannot escape invaders (From has confirmed that you can be invaded at all times) I worry that the beginning areas of the game will become clogged with people who take a level 1 character, get the dark wraith (or similar) covenant, and grab high level magic/weapons to use on lowbies. If you've never seen this, try taking a new character (Especially on PC) and stand in human form in Undead Burg before the gargoyles >.> that is like, Twink central and it ticks me off, especially when I play my sunlight warrior and end up trying to fight them off.
2: More optional bosses would be nice.
3: Atmosphere, atmosphere, atmosphere. It's a souls game, so I don't think I should worry too much, but Lost Izalith and Ash Lake both are excellent examples of this.
4: Ties in with 1, I would very much like for PvP magic to not instakill people.
5: Ties in with 1 and 4, more armor diversity past "more stability=more weight" I'd like it to actually matter how I deck myself out a bit more then just stability
and 6: Less ability to twink? Now that we cannot escape invaders (From has confirmed that you can be invaded at all times) I worry that the beginning areas of the game will become clogged with people who take a level 1 character, get the dark wraith (or similar) covenant, and grab high level magic/weapons to use on lowbies. If you've never seen this, try taking a new character (Especially on PC) and stand in human form in Undead Burg before the gargoyles >.> that is like, Twink central and it ticks me off, especially when I play my sunlight warrior and end up trying to fight them off.
Just play the game offline. And playing the game hollow really isn't that hard. I never used summons or anything like that when I played the game (to be honest, I'm not even sure I knew how to) and I wouldn't call myself particularly skilledidarkphoenixi said:Not necessarily 'forced' pvp removal, some enjoy it and I get that. Just a way to opt out of it without constantly staying hollow and making the entire game harder on yourself as a result.Qvar said:You mean cheating? Shouldn't you ask for an anti-cheating system, instead of forced pvp removal, then?idarkphoenixi said: