How would you improve Dark Souls?
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There's a good reason why FROM didn't originally release Dark Souls for PC. Demon's Souls was made for the PS3, so the controls and mechanics work best on console. They only released it for PC due to fan requests.
Demon's Souls wasn't region locked, I got my copy from the States (I'm from Holland) and I could play online with practically anyone in the world.lapan said:
The game wasn't region locked, but each version had its own servers restricted by version, so there was (at least) one server for Japan, one for EU and one for NA(USA etc.) People with the EU one or JP edition could not play with people from the states, unless one of them imported the other version. I think that was what he meant. EU server was pretty empty and vacant a few months ago, so I was considering getting the NA edition, but I decided I wouldn't bother. We never know when they'll finally shut down the servers.Casual Shinji said:
To answer the question, I would change the following about Dark Souls:
Bed of Chaos: Redesign the whole fight.
Multiplayer P2P system: Make it have dedicated servers similarly to how it was with Demon's Souls.
Regular patches: Keep patching glitches and buffing bad weapons to make them viable in PVP.
Covenant balancing: give some more sentiment to join WotW covenant, let you offer multiple covenant items at once.
I would've mentioned "Add more TP bonfire locations" as well, but with PtD edition for PC they already did that. It'll prolly be patched in for the consoles with the release of the DLC.
That's the things I can come up with at the moment. I really love the game though, so all except the multiplayer P2P are minor complaints for me.
Kind of confused by this. Not sure what this practice accomplishes besides wasting time. What good is saving every step if a death will just send you back to the bonfire and immediately overwrite that save anyway? Does someone dump the game to dashboard/Alt+F4 out right as they're about to bite it and risk corrupting their game? Sounds like a riskier practice to me than simply playing in the intended manner.CrazyBlaze said:
If someone wants to go through that much hassle to save themselves a few minutes of play, more power to them, I guess?
ed-- This also seems to miss that the game saves your state after every kill and item acquisition anyway, so even if you dump to DB, it's still going to resume probably at the last enemy you killed, not where you told the game to save.
There's no re-loads in Dark Souls. Not without gaming the system in ways that weren't intended.
http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/onlineCasual Shinji said:
Regions and Interoperability
There is no region locking for online play based on the region your account or the console are in. However, the three versions, the Asian, the Atlus North American and the Namco Bandai European release of the game use different servers. You can only connect for online play with individuals using the same version of the game as you.
While I disagree with the more squad-based AI because I really don't want to imagine fighting three Silver Knights all at once, and I like the weapon-space constriction the way it is with my Black Knight Sword, I agree wholly that enemy weapons should bounce off of walls and whatnot. In particular it would make line-of-sighting Smough while separating him from Ornstein a lot easier because his stupid hammer wouldn't hit me from the other side of a pillar. Or Ornstein wouldn't be able to thrust his spear through a pillar... yeah, I might be having issues with Ornstein and Smough at the moment.Kalikin said:
The best way to deal with Ornstein and Smough is to summon another player or Solaire to distract them. And don't waste time whittling down both of them, because when you kill one the other absorbs him and regains health.
A pause button. The one thing I really wish they would add is a pause button. It's not a matter of adding difficulty, sometimes shit goes on in the real world that I can't just ignore. Someone needs help carrying something in the house, or an important phone call rings, I can't just ignore it because I'm playing the game. Also, quitting is not a pause button. You can't quit during a boss fight for one, and I dont want to load the whole game again when I could just unpause it.
I'd remove Tomb of the Giants (or at the very least put some fucking lights in) and try to balance out PvP...that's about it really.
Just from reading item descriptions and talking to NPCs you can infer these things:poiumty said:
The Four Knights of Gwyn are his most loyal and powerful knights. Ornstein and Smough are two of them. Ornstein was a dragon hunter (as is stated when you make his Dragonslayer spear), and Smough was ejected from the Order because he was a cannibal who ground up the bones of his victims (as is stated when you make his hammer).
The Dark Soul equates to 'humanity'. The Pygmy in the opening cinematic is the progenitor of 'mankind', and, as you notice by meeting Manus in the DLC and talking to the mushroom, he is a corrupted human. The reason you can infinitely respawn is story related, as you can keep respawning and not go mad (which is what happens to other Undead).
Quelaag, who you fight at the end of Blighttown, is farming humanity off of invaders so she can ease her sister's pain, who (as we see through talking to her servant) swallowed the Blightpus at her own behest. Now she is in pain and all her eggs are dying, et cetera.
There's tons of stuff like this scattered all around the world, and the most prominent one you discover which is a mystery is the divide between Kaathe and Frampt, the two servants.
One tells you that you must light the fire to continue Gwyn's legacy, and the other tells you that once you destroy Gwyn and walk away, the age of the Gods is over, and the reign of the age of Dark (aka the age of Mankind) begins.
This is just random stuff I've come to learn just playing the game myself, and there's tons more I could tell you just from what I've done platinuming the game. I didn't need to go on youtube or something to figure any of this out.
I loled, this is so right.fuzz said:
Err I disagree with everything you said OP, especially the difficulty setting stuff.
You are playing the default difficulty when you play Dark Souls dude. Your reasoning makes no sense.Jerry Pendleton said:
Yes I'm one of those massive hardcore Dark Souls fanboys, by the way haha.
But nah, Bed of Chaos, have a -proper- ending, harder optional bosses and...some other stuff that doesn't come to mind yet.
The story is actually vast, you're just not looking for it close enough. Some people don't like this kind of storytelling, but others love it. Guess it's a matter of preference, but it's the FromSoft way eh, so I doubt it'll ever change.poiumty said:
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Don't bother replying to me Poiumty; seen that you've had to deal with a lot of other people saying the same haha:].