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Dark Souls 3 will feature faster gameplay, more intuitive controls

Hidetaki Miyazaki has spoken in great length about the changes fans can expect from Dark Souls 3, among them quicker combat and improved weapon customisation.

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nX3650d ago

Nice, looks like Bloodborne shaped this sequel quite a bit, can't wait to see it in action. Hopefully they don't make the same mistakes they did with DkS2.

iDadio3650d ago

Wouldn't mind a slightly faster more fluid combat but I hope it's different to Bloodborne otherwise having seperate franchises is pointless, I enjoyed the tactically nature of ds2

Canthar3650d ago

Miyazaki, You have a heart of gold.

Serg3650d ago

Don't let them take it from you!

goldwyncq3649d ago

Miyazaki, Don't you dare go hollow.

LegoIsAwesome3650d ago

It looks like Bloodborne is just a experiment on fast gameplay for dark souls 3.

psplova3650d ago (Edited 3650d ago )

If that was an experiment, I can't wait to see what Bloodborne 2 has in store for us!

darren_poolies3649d ago

Mmm the salt, I can taste it in the air.

theshredded3650d ago

will buy Dark Souls 2 now thanks to the awesome psn sale, hopefully the game's combat is good after playing Bloodborne over a hundred hrs which I'm used to now

InTheLab3650d ago

Dont. Just sold Ds2 back. The combat is somehow worse than Dark Souls and the layout of the game is terrible.

Going from DS1 to DS2 was bad but going from Bloodborne to DS2 was a bad idea....

darren_poolies3649d ago

DS2 combat is the worst in the series. If you've only ever played Bloodborne, I highly recommend playing Dark Souls 1 and Demon's Souls but definitely not DS2.

Serg3649d ago

I had the exact same reaction when I first played it. I was so hyped for Dark Souls 2 that I started playing Dark Souls 1 again just before it released. I have Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 Platinum on the PS3 so I know my way around the combat system.

Immediately after I started playing Dark Souls 2 I felt like a fish out of water. The combat was off, the dodging was off, hell even the movement didn't quite feel right. Died my way through to the first boss, couldn't beat him for the life of me and threw the game into the corner. Until I saw the GameTrailers Dark Souls 3 Just Played, I didn't even think about the game. Recently gotten back into it and I must say, after adjusting to it, it feels like a lesser version of it but it is still Dark Souls.

Now, 5 bosses later, I really enjoy the game.

darren_poolies3649d ago

Well I'm glad you're starting to enjoy it but I gave DkS2 a good 18 hours before I was just like 'nope' and stopped. Although I watched my flatmate play though the DLC and it looked like a big improvement on the main game.

Ron663650d ago

This is great news! Miyazaki is god!!!

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5 Of 8 Japanese AAA Game Stocks Just Hit All-Time Highs

Dr. Serkan Toto says: While things do not look great for many studios in the West, things are very different in Japan – and I was shocked how little people in the industry still know and understand about the third biggest gaming market in the world (which is a probably a positive for a Japan game industry consultant like myself).

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gold_drake85d ago (Edited 85d ago )

its funny, i just read something about this yesterday.

Eonjay85d ago

Honestly, it looks about the same if we are measuring a company's success on their all time high stock price. It has nothing to do with the sentiments some in the industry have.

Objectively the two biggest problems are cost cutting and consolidation.

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Elden Ring: Nightreign Could Be Bad Omen For Future FromSoftware Titles

"The more I learned about Nightreign, the more my concerns started to grow that FromSoftware might lean too hard into chasing more mainstream success." - Ethan Krieger

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Dirty_Lemons113d ago

Eh we'll have to see. Elden Ring was/ is very good, I'd personally still put Sekiro and Bloodborne at the top but really FS seem to nail it every time.

jznrpg113d ago

My friend said this was like Fortnite mixed with Sekiro/Souls games. Ugh

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Streamer Finishes All 7 FromSoftware Soulslike Games in a Row Without Taking Damage or Leveling Up

A streamer completed seven FromSoftware Soulslike games in sequence without taking a hit or leveling up.

thorstein115d ago (Edited 115d ago )

"...known as Nico, who completed Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls trilogy, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Elden Ring in sequence"

Those games aren't Soulslike. WTAF?

Words have meanings.

Duke19115d ago

What a thing to get upset over

thorstein115d ago

Are you sure you meant to respond to me? The only angry person on this thread is Isarai. He's always having a go at someone for no reason at all.

But if you were, "huh?" =/= "angry." It's text, people misread tone all the time. No biggie.

isarai115d ago

Literally every single one of those games is a definitive soulslike

thorstein115d ago

TF are you talking about? Words have meanings.

They're literally not. Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne are all Souls games, there is nothing "like" about them. They're literally the OG souls games that other games are "like."

xHeavYx115d ago

@thorstein What am I picturing you on the floor throwing a tantrum? Chill dude.

thorstein115d ago

@Heavy, I don't picture you at all. Lulz.

Isarai is always having a go at someone. I guess I'm his latest target? I guess that makes me special.

If you described him that way it would make sense.

But in the future, just assume that anything you read from me is with a smile on my face relaxing with a drink and watching hockey.

Like my first comment, just me smiling, smh, and saying what the fuck at some journo who doesn't know what "like" means.

adamwparker115d ago

You are correct in the Dark Souls games being "OG" Souls games, but those games with many other similar and copycat games birthed a new genre called "Soulslike" games, which even though the OG Dark Souls games were before the term, are now also in that genre.

If a game creates a genre, it is also in that genre.

thorstein115d ago (Edited 115d ago )

No. Doom is not doomlike, Rogue is not Roguelike, and Demon's Souls is not soulslike.

"Like" is congruent, or similar to not "equal" or "is." Now smile because it's not that serious.

gleepot115d ago (Edited 115d ago )

That's incorrect. The souls games did not create the genre of soulslike, they are souls games. Games that mimic these games are what spawned the genre of "soulslike", as they are like souls games. Dark Souls is not a soulslike.

gleepot115d ago

I'm not sure why you're getting down-voted or disagreed with so hard, as you are correct. A "like" implies that it derives from something, and soulslike is a sub-genre. Souls games cannot occupy a sub-genre that was derived from it, haha.

jsiddlehfx114d ago (Edited 114d ago )

Missing the point. Example: Super Metroid and Castlevania SOTN birthed the genre Metroidvania...
They are still metroidvania games. I believe the confusion is because the genre has the word "like" in the naming. If the genre were dubbed "Souls-Style" instead, I bet this conversation wouldn't even be a thing. I bet everyone would agree that the original Dark Souls Trilogy could be classified as "Souls-Style"

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Relientk77115d ago

How do you kill that which has no life

mudakoshaka115d ago

Haha, rewatched that episode yesterday for like the 10th time.

Sciurus_vulgaris115d ago

Then there’s me with a copy of Sekiro that I will never finish….

Lexreborn2115d ago

I like leveling up to much to not use it. Stat boosting makes me happy

Smellsforfree115d ago

I love articles like this that talk on and on and on about something and never link to it. Fuckers. This site sucks for promoting garbage.

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