I by no means claim to be an expert, but here is my 2 cents on the semi-recent admission that Dark Souls 2 will be marketed as a AAA title, and why that probably spells bad news for the franchise.
"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
Dark Souls 2 remains a divisive entry in the landmark RPG franchise, but Hidetaka Miyazaki believes it led to the success of Elden Ring.
DS2 was fine. While there was a bit of recycling assets or ideas for bosses, it was a bigger more open Dark Souls. The Fume knight boss is one of the hardest bosses in the series until Sekiro and Elden Ring were released.
The problem with Dark Souls 2 was the same problem when a different director takes over for a sequel to an outstanding movie. It typically (there are exceptions) doesn’t have the feel and vision of the previous movie.
I wouldn’t say Dark Souls 2 is terrible. Had Dark Souls 1 never been a thing and we got this, I think it would have been praised more. The problem is it didn’t have the Miyazaki touch to it and felt pretty derivative. The soundtrack is a banger though.
And it will happen in the future when he doesn’t touch them as he is planning on.
I like DS 2, might even be my favorite of the 3. But it's a hard sell, there's so many obscure things you need to do to make it an enjoyable experience. So always find it hard to recommend, but it is worth the trouble.
I think DaS2 will be great (we've already seen live gameplay, after all). What I hope is that the game tightens some screws and fixes some issues that have been in both DeS and DaS (things like the abuse of backstabs or spamming certain spells). The single-player is great. It's the online play that needs to be tweaked, and I think they'll do a fine job.
prepare to cry or buy? i say both, i will buy it and cry when i get punish and be happy when i platinum it the same way i got my plat on demons souls and dark souls. hopefully the game improved a lot from its predecessors. im also hoping that the new game that was announced by fromsoftware is a true successor to the demons souls franchise.
DS2 will be dumbed down for Skyrim fans sake.
I expect Dark Souls 2 to be even more dumbed down in difficulty just like Dark Souls was from Demon Souls.
Dark Souls is probably the most overrated game when it comes to being 'hard'. It really wasen't, especially the last half of the game.
I don't expect Dark Souls 2 to be either, since they want to reach a wider audience
By the time I finish dark souls and demons souls , dark souls 2 will be free on ps+