Dark Souls 2

[Chaos2Frozen]

The person playing was pretty terrible lol, but I like the showcase of all the different 'backstab' animations...

OPM Dark Souls 2 Info - Covenants, Summoning

• They're trying to make multiplayer more interesting, but not necessarily more frequent than in previous games.
• Intending to further balance invasions by adding penalties for invading and failing.
• 7-8 total covenants in-game.
• Trying to expand on the idea of hunting down wanted players for a reward, similar to Blades of the Darkmoon in the first game.
• If you're offline, AI phantoms will be used in place of player phantoms for invasions and boss fights.
• Areas in the world feature puzzles and "gimmicks" to help keep exploration fresh.
• Storytelling style remains largely the same. From Software knows that fans will theorycraft with each other based on the trails of breadcrumbs left in dialogue and item descriptions, so they're not going out of their way to make things more explicit.
• They're listening to feedback from the network tests: Animations and movement are being improved, there will be some way of avoiding invasions.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Dark Souls II Japanese box art, pre-order bonuses

Originally Posted by kayos

Cover looks simple. Can't wait for the west to get a cover of everything mashed together.

The Black Armor Edition looks pretty badass, I don't really care for the soundtrack but that boxart...





This is the 'generic' edition...

[Jazzrat]

I like the Japanese boxart slightly more than the NA boxart. The NA boxart looks a bit too BF-esque (back shot of lone dude). Other than that, not much interest in the rest of the collectors stuff... I've long gone digital with my game purchases on the PC and probably will do the same once i move over to PS4 sometime in the future. Artbooks are usually what makes collector's edition worthwhile for me personally.

Looks like last week there have been a media event and here's an hour of Giantbomb discussion on what was shown.

Not a whole deal of info that hasn't already been talked, mostly revolved around the tutorial part of the game since they didn't get much time with the game.

If you don't wanna watch it, here's a short summary of new info from the video
- Snuggly is back in Dark Souls 2.
- You can only level via talking to NPC (ala Demon Soul)
- being able to freely warp between bonfire you've lit
- no longer needing to rest at bonfire to be saved to it (litting one is enough so you dont have to fight respawns like DS1)
- You can heal with Life gem (consumeable like water crest in Demon Soul) and Estus but healing is over time instead of instant
- Being able to move a bit while healing but there's a slight recovery lag between healing and blocking & dodging.
- dodging seems to have less i-frame than before if not removed
- Dying will penalize your maximum health incrementally, need to go human to recover back to full health (?)
- PC version release date is unconfirmed as of yet.

[Chaos2Frozen]

A tiny bit of lore spoiler, nothing major but just in case you're planning to go in completely fresh...

EDIT: I also should add that he's describing the beginning of the game, tutorial part and all.

[Ak3mi]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

A tiny bit of lore spoiler, nothing major but just in case you're planning to go in completely fresh...

EDIT: I also should add that he's describing the beginning of the game, tutorial part and all.

Really nice video, well explained and just made me extra excited for the game. If that's even possible at the moment Still have to wait a bit longer to get the game on PC, but I don't mind.

[Ak3mi]

Dark Souls 2 weapon pack makes getting started easier (brave players can opt-out) The Dark Souls 2 Black Armor Weapons Pack will dish out an arsenal to those who buy the Black Armor or Collector's Edition.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/dar.../1100-6417694/
Not really bothered about it like some of the people in the comments of the article are. If people want to use them they can and most people who played demon souls and dark souls wont. Simple, also the Black Armour edition costs the same as the normal game for the PC anyway, so getting that one

[Chaos2Frozen]

The weapons are kinda ugly anyway.

The only reason why I'm getting the Black Armor edition is because the cover looks cooler than the regular edition's.

[Jazzrat]

Meh, hopefully it doesn't trivialized the difficulty of the game for people. Then again, the Zweihander and Winged Spear was ridiculously good for how easy and early you can obtain it.

I rather folks get something physical from the amount of money they spent on a collector's edition (like statue/trinkets/maps/artbook). Ingame rewards tends to be shit for most part and not worth the extra money people paid for.

[Chaos2Frozen]

^
Black Armor edition comes with the soundtrack.

There's a Collector's Edition that comes with a bunch of other stuff including the statue of the warrior, that one cost a bomb though.

[Ak3mi]

Yeah I was thinking about getting the Collector's edition, but then I really don't need it. Black Armour one looks cooler anyway.

[YISUG]

i dont know what about the character stats
what if they changed from the past souls games

cuz im plalning to jump in with wandrer like demon and dark1

[SidVicious]

New trailer Hollow Lullaby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVAmgEXvLI

Warning: Contains spoilers of the first Dark Souls.

[Ak3mi]

I've hyped myself so much for this game, still no news on pc release date

[Chaos2Frozen]

Lol, that has got to be the most motivational trailer I've ever seen from any game

[Jazzrat]

Peter Serafinowicz (comedian and actor) talks about Dark Souls 2. Though it's mostly him just fanboying about it but it's still oddly funny how unscripted rambling it is than actual edited transcript that you usually get when it comes to games and tv personalities.

Also Dark Souls 2 confirmed to have sex changing coffin. XD

[Kyero Fox]

Hearing that guy nerd out makes me feel even better about being a fan. to know the makers are fans too... not like CoD's creators, or how Lightning's husband is only a fan of his own creation and thats it.

[Chaos2Frozen]

A celebrity? Liking Dark Souls?! well colour me impressed

Anybody can say they like CoD or Mario, but dark souls? That's something else.

[Ak3mi]

pete from shaun of the dead and darth maul voice guy likes dark souls

[Chaos2Frozen]

The making of Dark Souls II

...Part 1

[Hooves]

Originally Posted by Ak3mi

I've hyped myself so much for this game, still no news on pc release date

Still better to have a pc-version that actually is meant for the PC. I'm hyped for the game, but I'll simply just watch other people play it.