[Dark Souls II] Go beyond death

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Op vrijdag 12 april 2013 11:11 schreef Quir het volgende:

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Ik hoop dat ze geen zinloze dialogue toe gaan voegen. Deel van de charme was dat je nooit precies wist wat je deed, je moest alles uitzoeken, uitproberen en verkennen.

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Op vrijdag 12 april 2013 11:09 schreef Quir het volgende:
Nu even lezen.

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PC-versie Dark Souls 2 moet beter worden dan eerste

Nieuws | 12 april 2013 -
De PC-versie van Dark Souls 2 gaat meer aandacht krijgen dan de PC-versie van de eerste Dark Souls,

Dat laat de Dark Souls 2 director Yui Tanimura weten aan Shacknews. Tanimura geeft zelf al aan dat de PC-versie van de eerste game een beetje halfbakken werk was. Dat komt onder andere omdat er pas aan de PC-versie werd gewerkt toen de consolevariant al af was.

Met Dark Souls 2 wordt tegelijkertijd aan de PC- en console-versie gewerkt, waardoor de PC-versie qua kwaliteit op ongeveer hetzelfde niveau moet komen te zitten.

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Op vrijdag 12 april 2013 13:16 schreef P8 het volgende:

Dark Souls 2 Gameplay Reveal Discussion

Sowieso een kanaal om in de gaten te houden. Zijn "lore"-video's van DS1 zijn geweldig en ik heb er alle vertrouwen in dat het voor DS2 niet anders zal zijn.

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Dark Souls 2 krijgt geen downloadbare content. Volgens producer Takeshi Miyazoe biedt de game namelijk al meteen de complete ervaring.

"We willen de volledige game, de volledige ervaring, vanaf dag één aan fans leveren die het spel kopen", aldus Miyazoe. "Voor Dark Souls hebben we wel extra content ontwikkeld, maar we overwegen geen dlc voor Dark Souls 2. Koop de game en krijg de volledige ervaring en je hebt net zoveel plezier als anderen."

Verder laat hij weten dat microtransacties ook geen opties worden. Zo komen er bijvoorbeeld niet items te koop voor een klein bedrag die de game makkelijker moeten maken. "En ook geen free-to-play!" Verder meldt hij ook dat een Wii U-versie er niet komt. Volgens hem passen de doelgroep van de game en de console niet samen.
http://www.gamer.nl/game/xbox360/dark-souls-2-1/

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Gamestudio Namco Bandai heeft een cinematische trailer online geslingerd voor Dark Souls II. Naast gigantische monsters en donkere omgevingen blijkt ook nog eens dat er een vloek rust op de hoofdpersoon. Het kan blijkbaar niet elke dag feest zijn.

Dark Souls 2 -- Cursed Trailer

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Dark Souls II, the surprise sequel announced on December 8th on the Spike TV Video Game Awards, is going to be tough, its creators promised in a press release. That's to be expected. But here's a surprise: the series' creator, From Software's Hidetaka Miyazaki, will serve only as a supervisor on the sequel, while the game will actually be co-directed by From's Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura. Shibuya's comments about the game don't shed a whole lot of light on the sequel, other than to indicate that the new title will be faithful to the older ones but also introduce new things (as expected, of course). "This new chapter in the Dark Souls saga presents opportunities for us to drive innovation in gameplay design, develop an entirely new story, and expand the scope of the world in which the player interacts with the game. We have taken these necessary steps with Dark Souls II in order to evolve the overall experience of the Dark Souls series...the entire development team is striving to make Dark Souls II an experience that is fresh while not forsaking its roots in presenting players with challenging gameplay. Our goal is to surprise and delight our fans with new experiences and plot twists while enticing new players to join our dark journey."

According to the game's publisher, the new game "will feature a new hero, a new storyline, and an unfamiliar world for players to survive in while delivering its signature brand of unrelenting punishment that players hunger for." It seems that multiplayer is going to be tweaked as well. Demon's Souls and Dark Souls had an unusual multiplayer system that allowed users to do everything from leaving quest hints for each other to invading each other's games.

So what to make of this bit from the press release about Dark Souls II? "Players seeking to share their experience will discover a revamped server-based multiplayer mode that will put a distinct Dark Souls II twist on the concept of playing with others."

The game's publisher, Namco, is promising a game full of "unrelenting challenge."

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• The game is not a direct sequel to Dark Souls.

• As the game's protagonist, the players will embark on a journey to remove from themselves the affliction of a curse.

• Bonfires and covenants return, as do gestures.

• The difficulty level will remain, with the focus staying on learning from death to overcome challenges. The variety in ways to die has been prioritized but the focus is still on fairness.

• Story will be presented in the same fashion as Demon's and Dark, unobtrusive and discoverable by players who wish to dig deeper.

• Confusion over the usage of the word "accessible" has been clarified. What From means to do is streamline the tediousness by trimming the fat. There will be less backtracking and excessive traveling. Not being able to warp until later in the first game was a specific example cited.

• While characters will not be able to be carried over from Dark Souls into the sequel, the directors mentioned some content will carry over although it is not entirely clear what or how.

• Next gen was discussed and rumored still but the director has said it will be current gen to deliver the game to fans sooner.

• A new graphics engine was created to address framerate issues and give the development team an extra tool in creating atmosphere. PC will run at 60 fps and Console versions will run at 30 fps.

• Online interaction will be server based to facilitate unique experiences. It is unclear as of yet if they will be region based or not.

• Environment traversal will encourage the player to go deeper into areas in darkness. A torch system has been implemented to provide light during these portions.

• Mist will perform the same gateway function that fog walls performed in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls.
• The goal is to get the players to feel the emotional fright of areas and to also have enemies elicit emotions in the players.

• Key Mouths that trigger in game events are also a new addition.

• Gameplay vids showed player using items and firing an arrow while walking.

• Enemies were shown with the ability to backdrop and throw their weapon at players.

• The player character was able to cycle through three pieces of equipment in each hand, and his roll speed seemed to be determined by which weapons he had equipped, rather than his total equipment burden. This is a peculiar departure from the first two Souls games, wherein all equipped items counted toward your roll speed. It is also entirely possible that the roll speed of the character is based upon the over-all weight of equipment visible on the player. This would mean that if equipment is in a slot but not in the main hand it may not count towards the player's total weight.

• Healing gems that regen health slowly are a new feature and will drop from enemies. It is unclear how common they will be. From the various gameplay demos and the network test, lifegems seem to be very common drops, though it is possible that this was only to make the demos and beta easier.

• Dual wield class will have a power stance initiated instead of two handing a weapon.

• Backstabs return although the animation seems to have changed. Remains to be seen how it affects other weapons.

• Kick has been replaced with a shoulder shunt.

• From has said starting classes have changed. The game will monitor your stat allocation and suggest a class based on your trajectory.