Maryokutai Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Doesn't seem to reinvent the wheel but I like the overall tone and atmosphere. It's also not as sombre as Souls, a bit more colour here and there. Some animations are really stiff and overall it doesn't really look like AAA, which IMO Bandai should make sure these guys have the means to do so by now. The artstyle saves it though, looks really nice all things considered and despite the mid-budget, cross-gen shortcomings. Definitely a game I'll check out. I really enjoyed the short glimpse of the world map, there's already a bunch of areas and locations you can spot that make you want to go there and explore. Hopefully traversal won't be a pain à la Witcher, but there seems to be no fall damage, or at least not from reasonable (in videogame terms) heights, so that's already a positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 I only skimmed through it but it looked pretty AAA to me but I'm not sure what the standard measure is for that anymore. The map stuff also reminded me of BOTW and TPP. I'm guessing it'll be like BOTW in that you can just use the natural landmarks to find your way around. Go north of the giant glowing broccoli to find your way to Berserk reference tower, where you will fight horse corpseman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, Maryokutai said: And for anyone wondering what we're talking about: Reveal hidden contents I posted that in the post just before yours... It's not a spoiler either. We only have to use spoiler tags if we put more than 3 videos/photos/twitter links etc. in a post or of course if there's an actual spoiler in a post/thumbnail etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Which I didn't see because it was on the last page and the spoiler was there to keep the post smaller. But alright almighty Blakey, I have deleted the unecessary information out of my text block, so people now can enjoy their trip back to page 3 for additional suspense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Fuck page 3, that shit is passe. Never clicking on that shit again. Thank god Blakey quoted the repost of that video or I wouldn't have anyway to watch it Back to Old Ring edit apparently that stat screen I posted was fake? I got bamboozled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 15 minutes ago, Maryokutai said: Which I didn't see because it was on the last page and the spoiler was there to keep the post smaller. But alright almighty Blakey, I have deleted the unecessary information out of my text block, so people now can enjoy their trip back to page 3 for additional suspense. Sorry man, meant no offence. As a side note I don't mean to come across as high and mighty and I apologise if I come off that way, that isn't my intention at all. I was just reiterating the rules as there isn't a Mod in here available to do so at the minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 1 hour ago, DisturbedSwan said: I was just reiterating the rules as there isn't a Mod in here available to do so at the minute. This being the whole point though, Blakey. The one that keeps being reiterated. You are not a Mod. There is no need for you to say anything for them. All of them are perfectly reasonable and capable of doing so themselves. Not that they really would for such trivial things. Yet through you, all it is doing, as opposed to informing, is irritating people. So stop doing it. Anyway, back on topic. I watched the whole video and I had mixed thoughts on all of it. I made notes... The open world bit, including "magic" horse, was Very Darksiders. Like if Darksiders had a bigger budget, it would be identical. Crafting... Sigh The fact that the catacombs and even the chest inside was clearly lifted assets from DS 3 was disappointing. Speaking of which, aside from a closer jump mechanic to Sekiro. The Souls fighting, as echoing above, seemed at odds with the rest of the game. Even the ripostes didn't look right. The Spirits. They at once look very cheap and potentially OP. An "easy mode" feature, more than an adaptation to the fighting mechanics. They might look different by the finished product. But I was not encouraged by them being there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, OCH said: This being the whole point though, Blakey. The one that keeps being reiterated. You are not a Mod. There is no need for you to say anything for them. All of them are perfectly reasonable and capable of doing so themselves. Not that they really would for such trivial things. Yet through you, all it is doing, as opposed to informing, is irritating people. So stop doing it. Who is it being reiterated by exactly, your post here is the first I've heard about it, and I apologise again if I come across as a bore but I'd rather that then rules repeatedly ignored or broken, if folks want to think that of me then so be it. As said in my previous post, I only do it as there is no Mods in the thread and I will continue to do if I feel its needed, with Mary, I was just pointing out a mistake, I didn't think he realised I posted the same video in the previous post is all so was pointing out the double post. Am I not allowed to nicely say, 'sorry mate, I posted that in the previous thread' which is all I was trying to do? Tone and intonation is clearly lacking here but I think you're getting me all wrong. All I'm trying to do is gently point to the rules whenever I see them mistakenly broken, I'm not dripping with sweat angrily dribbling at my keyboard going 'ThEy BrOkE tHe RuLeZ!!!!!!!!!!!!' As I've said before, this isn't GTM. I won't change the way I'm post. I'm sorry if I irritate people sometimes and I don't mean to come across as some kind of ogre or forum nazi (we already had one of those) but I will point to the rules now and then if there aren't Mods to do so. Anyone is welcome to put me on ignore if they wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 I barked at you before about it blakey, sorry about that. I won't put you on ignore cause I value your posts around here (even if the mod thing triggered me a bit 🤣) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 I might put you all on ignore 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 I never feel the need to officially ignore anyone. I don't get that excitable in real life, let alone on the internet. But Dwarf mentioned it before and I did previously too. When it comes to "spelling out the rules", if the post author is underscored with "Mod", I will listen and comply. Anyone else, I will not even acknowledge anything was said at all. As there is their call to make and no one else's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Oh man please don't drag me into this one. Water under the bridge, it wasn't a big thing. Text on a page without intonation etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Yeah time to just move on and talk about yet another Souls game I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 I'm not sure if I'm going to keep my ER preorder after seeing that. I was hopeful, post-Sekiro, and with George RR Martin's involvement. This wouldn't be as "Souls" as it is. I know, from pre-DeS games, that From Soft isn't a one-trick pony. But this gameplay video suggested otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 ER looks a lot better than I thought it would and a lot less souls like than I expected having skimmed through the gameplay demo. It doesn’t look as trial and error as DS and a lot more adventuring and non linear. I’m sure I’ll still dislike it and become sick of people streaming it over and over and talk about it’s deep lore that they don’t understand but it still somehow the best thing ever. But it at least looks more accessible and less like a game taking the piss out of your limited free time. 2 hours ago, DANGERMAN said: I might put you all on ignore Please don’t leave me with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 I watched the thing again but in higher quality. I know it shouldn’t matter but I think I’d be more impressed or hype if they called it Dark Souls 4. At least that way I would have been like holy shit look what they did to Dark Souls Opposed to when they give it a new name I expect it to be a new thing but with that filter on instead I look at it and go it just kind of looks like Dark Souls. Does that make sense? It shouldn’t make sense but it does to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 It makes sense in that you wanted them to go in a new direction but there’s so many fans of ds and FS in general that it wouldn’t make sense that suddenly they tried anything completely new and unexpected. People want from fs a game with a ds foundation (again) and that’s what this is. Which is why I’m not too fussed but intrigued enough to maybe try it in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 I think if it was called Elden Souls people would have a different take on it. It's just the Demon's Souls -> Dark Souls thing again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 Just to add my main takeaways: It looks AAA to me, that hill shot where you can see the entire world sprawled out in front of you was a real wow moment for me. The huge scale of this world is not something we've seen in a From game before. Yes, the animations, visuals etc. are all decidedly From (IE. A bit shit) and it doesn't look 'next-gen' at all really. But then it's a From game, that doesn't matter. It seems to me that there is an added focus on Magic, which is cool to me as it often felt like a bit of an underutilised thing to do in the Souls games, but could be OP if you mastered. Obviously we don't know if the character in the video was like a magic build and you can definitely spec to be a tanky lance armour dude as shown towards the end of the video but I think magic looks super powerful here and could perhaps be as OP as in previous games but it's difficult to judge. It seems a lot of enemies and bosses will have strong magic attacks of their own, perhaps they you pick up new spells by defeating them? The horse and exploration just looked extraordinary. I don't expect the world to be super gigantic like AC Valhalla or anything but for a From game it looks huge and dense. The most important detail for me is that there will be proper Soulsy dark, dangerous dungeons. I know it doesn't reinvent the wheel but it looks very new and different to me in a lot of ways. The combat is Souls combat (especially the sword/shield stuff) you know and love but they're trying something different with the exploration aspects, having a world map, having a horse, having spectres and a huge amount of spells at your disposal. I want From to continue trying new things, I know open world games aren't exactly new at this point in time, but this is From's take on one, their take on a sprawling RPG and I can't wait to see what they've come up with given the taste that gameplay video yesterday gave us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Yeah I think it looks really good, really my only issue is From have such a curated approach up to now and it's going to be interesting if their gameplay systems complement open world as well. Like fwiw it's the most Berserk looking From game I've seen. Maybe this is just my recency bias tho. Where I think it could be interesting is if there's really a good degree of freedom and you can just do the map in many different orders and use certain builds to do certain things earlier. I think the series got away from this after Dark Souls 1, where everything was more curtailed. You can go to the Catacombs straight away in Dark Souls 1, I think there's even a way to go to Blighttown early on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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