Dark Souls 2

[Chaos2Frozen]

New Dark Souls II trailer! With new enemies and new bosses and all round new creepiness!

[Ak3mi]

Badass is all I can say, shame I have to wait longer to get the PC copy Oh well, I'm sure it will be worth the wait.

[Jazzrat]

Originally Posted by Ak3mi

Badass is all I can say, shame I have to wait longer to get the PC copy Oh well, I'm sure it will be worth the wait.

You should be saying

[Ak3mi]

Sunbro keeping it real, always.

[Jazzrat]

Originally Posted by Ak3mi

Sunbro keeping it real, always.

Brolaire is always there for you. Personally, I'm far more excited to see the Soul series migrate onto the new console later down the line. The game had an amazing design (in both art and gameplay) and you can see last gen limit on the gameplay trailer on the graphics. This is probably the most promising franchise for me out of japan.

[Ak3mi]

I hope we see big hat or other npc's return. They probably will put it onto the new consoles later on, depends on how well the game sells.

[Jazzrat]

Originally Posted by Ak3mi

I hope we see big hat or other npc's return. They probably will put it onto the new consoles later on, depends on how well the game sells.

Big hat won't be returning without disregarding what would have happened if you continued his arc all the way.

Spoiler for just in case:

He went crazy from studying the crystal magics if you bought all his spell in the Duke's Archive and defeated Seath.

Considering how majority of the NPC had very sad ending. The number of NPC that can possibly appear in DS2 is pretty low assuming DS2 is set after DS1. The ones i can think of is

a) Patches
b) Griggs
c) Snuggly (i hope he's all grown up by then)
d) Sieglinde

[Chaos2Frozen]

Don't forget the primordial serpents.

[Ak3mi]

Ah I never played a sorcerer, so I didn't know. Maybe we can find out about the other New Londo sorcerers.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Some more Dark Souls II screenshots

[Ak3mi]

That resolution...

[Chaos2Frozen]

Meet The Characters In Dark Souls II

Before you venture off into cursed lands someone has to arm you. In Dark Souls II that job goes to Blacksmith Lenigrast and Maughlin the Armourer. Here’s a look at some of the characters you’ll meet in the game as a human and, if you die, one of the undead.

The woman from the first trailer is named "Emerald Herald"

[Ak3mi]

Wow they look so awesome, getting more excited about this game, with each new bit of new information.

[Chaos2Frozen]

There's a noticeable increase in news lately... Hard to imagine the game would be out in less than 2 months

[Jazzrat]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

There's a noticeable increase in news lately... Hard to imagine the game would be out in less than 2 months

It's just the right time for teasing out details. It bums me out when company decides to release too much details too early in their development cycle or start hyping it up too early. Only the most hardcore fan will be hyped for so long and other people (like me) will lose interest quickly after a certain point. (I'm looking at you Wildstar, TESO and etc)

[King Lycan]

I really hope we get a PC release at the longest 2 months after its released in March

[Chaos2Frozen]

New information from EDGE magazine's preview of Dark Souls II

Plenty of new information of Dark Souls II appeared in this month's EDGE issue:

- Dark Souls II is FROMSOFT biggest game in the studio's history with the development team roughy doubled.

- Miyazaki is closely overseeing development of the game, unlike of what was previously reported.

- Production of the game was split in two, with Yui Tanimura in charge of battle mechanics and gameplay while Tomohiro Shibuya is in charge of world and design.

- The opening cinematic will be available for public sometime in January.

- Members of the Brotherhood of Blood and Blue Sentinels can fight PvP battles within their own Covenants.

- Hints of a new Covenant that will act as a police force hunting down invaders, adding an element of risk on those who seek to prey on weaker players.

- Dark Souls II world is about the same size of Dark Souls, but in regards of how proceeding through the world the player will be given more freedom to choose their decisions.

- Lifegems are being balanced and tuned, number of items in general will be limited to balance the game progression.

- Dark Souls II bosses will not be necessarily bigger than Dark Souls, just more interesting in terms of design and fighting style.

- Feedback from the beta was positive, the results of the test proved that Bamco's servers in Japan have plenty of capacity, though it will likely set up local servers in North America and Europe too.

- The darkness of Huntsman's Copse was a common complaint in the beta, FROM said that they are not going to make any brighter, there will be critical moments where you will be forced to choose between a shield's protection and a torch's vision.

- The team cranked up the difficulty but it's still debating whether it's too hard or too easy.

- Regarding the PC version, Tanimura says the game development is based on PC and they will make sure that the main PC game features are supported.

- Regarding Playstation 4 and Xbox One versions Tanimura said that "We have not put any thought into this yet, so I unfortunately can’t answer at this point."

More details in the magazine.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=737332

[Ak3mi]

Awesome news for the PC support. Also glad they haven't made the world much bigger, felt like the size in dark souls was big enough. Great about making the bosses more interesting in terms of mechanics etc.

[SidVicious]

Dark Souls II Achievement List Leaked

http://www.exophase.com/game/dark-so.../achievements/

[Ak3mi]

This achivement:

This is Dark Souls
Die for the first time

Don't worry game I will be dying a lot