Topic: Dark Souls 2

[The Puritan]

And listen to music.

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[GuyStarwind]

The only whip I had was the spike whip you get in the painted world from the black phantom king guy who uses pyromancy.

[Super Waffle]

Going off rabid Dark Souls fan speculah, Rhea was actually kidnapped and dragged to crystal jail.  You know those Balder Knights that conveniently hang out like 10 feet away from her in the chapel?  Yeah, it may have been those guys.

Rhea presumably went Hollow when she found out she was the next one in line for Seath's bizarre biology experiments.  The squid-ladies that try to escape from the jail are human maidens that Seath injected mutagenic dragon goo into, and Rhea was probably going to turn into one of those.  Seath gets a little lonely down in the crystal caves and he's been trying to create the perfect dragon-lady, possibly to be his mate.  The squids are failed test subjects.  One of the item descriptions (it's for one of the cell keys iirc) actually explains the "failed experiments" part, and there are a couple of non-hostile squids that will start crying in women's voices if you let them live.

Or at least that's what GameFAQs told me.

was I close?

[Viskod]

I thought about getting this, but I looked at some gameplay videos and I dont know. Somehow it just seems so much more bland than the first game. The 'castle' segments in the beginning are beyond dull and other than that all I saw were caves and some underground structures that were also pretty bland and a nearly pitch black place on a bunch of boards that I suppose is Blighttown 2.0

[affinity]

Well how you expect it to look?   Like some kind of Care Bears land?       These games actually look better in the dark/night, than daytime (though in Dark Souls 1, Anor Londo does look amazing when there's sunlight, but it does look amazing and atmospheric in the dark too.)     

I think too much color and brightness would just make the places look too safe and regular.

[Ahasverus]

Well how you expect it to look?   

Like we were promised?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=104037567&postcount=2604
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=104017500&postcount=2371

This is officially the year of dissapointment isn't it :/

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Bar Southpark! GOAT right there.

[GuyStarwind]

Are people upset with this game? I'm only on the first boss but I've been enjoying it so far. Plays like any other Souls games. Only thing I miss is ability to kick around dead bodies.

[Gunlord]

I'm playing it and I like it so far. I dunno what places you guys looked at, but the main village is *beautiful* and the place I'm in right now (no spoilers, but its an outside ruins kind of place) is in the daytime and it looks really nice.

Also, there's a secret little coffin thing near the beginning of the game that lets you change genders whenever you want. I'm gonna write gender hopping fanfic

[GuyStarwind]

Is that what that coffin does? Hmmm I need to check if I'm still a guy

[Aridale]

how the fuck are you guys playin it already? Are hacked 360s and ps3s just that common place now?

[GuyStarwind]

how the fuck are you guys playin it already? Are hacked 360s and ps3s just that common place now?

Huh? It came out on console Tuesday.

[Viskod]

Well how you expect it to look?   Like some kind of Care Bears land?       These games actually look better in the dark/night, than daytime (though in Dark Souls 1, Anor Londo does look amazing when there's sunlight, but it does look amazing and atmospheric in the dark too.)     

I think too much color and brightness would just make the places look too safe and regular.

I expected it to look just as good as the first game, or better. Not worse. I'm still probably going to get it, I just hope some actually interesting areas show up because so far everything seems so bland and terrible compared to the first game.

[Aridale]

oh I thought it came out on consoles/pc at the same time. It doesnt come out on pc til next month =(

[Ahasverus]

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[Super Waffle]

http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-24/ds2-female-npc.html

So who's the Meruru-looking girl?