Dark Souls 3 Video Game • Page 20

The Ringed City is great thus far.

First boss was no joke.

 

I'd say 3 of the 4 bosses are the hardest in the game, so much health

 

Like that second stage of the first boss was unreal. Lucky I popped the dried finger, and got some extra peeps.

Lv108 currently. Still going with a quality build.

 

fuck gael so goddamn hard with his bitch ass cape extra hits. love the dlc tho.

 

This is random af but I really want a pirate soulslike game. Just imagine it, all the cool pirate mythology they could use (Calypso, Davey Jones Locker, The Flying Dutchmen, the Krakken, Army Of The Damned, Jolly Roger, The Devils Triangle, the Cursed Crew, the Black Pearl, Queen Anne's Revenge, etc) and all the awesome pirate lore characters we could meet or find their weapons/items or embark on the same adventures. Using your ship as a home base, customizing it etc. Maybe large podium mounted compasses could act as the bonfires and you collect doubloons as "souls". Maybe integrate the trick weapons from BB with cutlasses and tridents and nets and flintlocks and such. Call it Dark Seas or something. Idk I'm just hyped I've been playing The Surge and I also just saw the new POTC movie (which I love, I can't help myself I love that series and the pirates mythology) so this is just wishful thinking

 

After listening to the recent Alestorm album, I'm with you on a Pirates souls like game.

 

I beat the last Ringed City Boss the other week, and assumed a cutscene would have ensued or something. Do I need to bring an item he dropped somewhere to "complete" the dlc? I still have to kill that optional dragon boss

 

nah. that's it.

Actually nah I forgot, take his blood to the painter in the first DLC above the final boss

 

That DLC was real good I'm happy they went out on a strong note.

Oh also I want a cowboy/Wild West soulslike game pls

 

Yeah I figured that painting from the first dlc was connected to this one.

 

The only Soulsborne game I can think of that would be different enough would be sci-fi/space souls.

 

Replaying Bloodborne has been a joy, as it often is. There's just so much depth to that game, both storywise and gameplay wise. Please From, make a BB2.

There's so many fun details that make the world of BB make more sense. Like the messengers for example, at first they just seem like quirky little creatures until you realize they're essentially the white blood cells that are a byproduct of the diseased blood. Or the reason the students at Byrgenworth look like deformed flies is because Master Wilhem believed that insight was the key to contacting the old ones so he physically tried to put more eyes into his students heads. I always thought the robed figures with the big swollen heads in the DLC were their brains but it's actually a bunch of messengers fused together. The "Make Contact" emote is based on a real life theory involving Pythagoras's triangle, the idea being that if we come across an alien species and use our arms to form a right angle we would demonstrate that we are intelligent, likewise the emote in BB is probably intended to show the Old Ones that we are intelligent. The Amygdalas in Yhargul and Cathedral Ward are strongly implied to be Mensis students that actually survived the rituals. There's just a lot of neat touches and story implications that I could go on and on about. I didn't realize at first that the Old Ones aren't just one race, all of them are unique and incredibly distinct from each other. It's also implied, given that the Hunters Dream was made BY an old one to kill other old ones, that they don't really like each other very much and have their own agendas. It's sad to think that Ebreitas was probably the only one that would've cooperated with us and helped us, and the healing church decided to lock her up and siphon blood from her forcibly.

I just love this series so much and I love the lore and I just fucking love Bloodborne more than anything sorry I'm just babbling ignore me

 

The Surge fits sci-fi souls really well. It's very Bladerunner-esque and it has some unique mechanics to the soulslike genre like dismemberment for parts and such.

 

This is a good post about the best game of all time.

 

I agree that Bloodborne is probably the best of the series / definitely the coolest story and lore. BUT if there is a Bloodborne 2, Miyazaki won't be writing/directing it and thus all the brilliant details that make the game probably won't be up to par. After Dark Souls 2 (poor fanfiction), I'm incredibly skeptical of a non-Miyazaki helmed Soulsborne game.

 

Yeah I definitely don't want a Bloodborne 2 without him. I just want him to keep making new and interesting world's and games.

 

:D glad we're on the same page haha. I wouldn't want another game without Miyazaki either.

There's just SO MUCH to unpack with BBs lore I just love it. I love the idea of this church coming across a so called "miracle cure" with old ones blood and then incedentally infecting the entire city with this plague and turning them into deformed beasts. I love that the game could've been just a hack n slash "kill werewolves because they're werewolves" adventure, but instead they choose to explore Lovecraftion Mythos and this larger than life concepts (humanity, our place in the universe, how far we'll go to achieve perfection, etc) which is just fantastic.

Another thing I noticed recently is that the townsfolk in the beginning levels will actually speak to each other when you're not sighted. They'll mumble about the night and say prayers to Ludwig/Iosefka and such. Also Gherman will mumble about the nightmare if you find him sleeping out in the field in the Hunters Dream. He pleads to be released from the nightmare and starts softly crying, it's so sad :(

 

Holy shit I stumbled across something that blew my mind.

So, we know that the Great Ones/Old Ones are all different creatures. We know that theyve impregnated human women, which seems to imply that a lot of them are "male" so to speak. Its interesting to note that the "female" Great Ones we've met are: Ebrietas, Kos, and possibly the Moon Presence. Its interesting to note that these 3 were "left behind" in some way. its also been noted that when the "male" great ones produce an offspring with a human woman, its distinctly a wormy, otherwordly looking creature (which is really the only unifying trait amongst the Great Ones) whereas the Orphan Of Kos, so far the only known offspring of a female great one, is very much humanoid in its appearance and it even has a human-like face. So what if, and I know this is a stretch but bare with me, what if ALL the female great ones offspring were more humanoid and this caused the males to abandon them? what if this is the reason why the Moon Presence creates the Nightmare and essentially gives humans the means with which to kill other male Great Ones? now obviously theres a lot here that just simply cant be explained because the game only gives us so much info on these great ones, but its a neat little thought that i wanted to share and wanted to expand upon since i just came across it in a message board.

 

This is awesome, and I didn't know any of this!

 

theres A LOT of great vids and posts on youtube and the darksouls subreddit that details some of this stuff, but yeah some of it is also stuff ive noticed that may or may not be a stretch like the Amygdala thing.

Gehrman is my favorite character in any soulsborne game

 

I never realized how much these games draw from anime and manga. Not just in how stylish the games are, but just how the story is presented and some of the tropes that carry over (constantly elevating threats, ancient artifacts that are just kinda around, warriors that are mythologized, stories that don't initially make sense but come together and have a lot of rich details, etc) pretty neat.

I've been on a big Souls/Soulslike binge as I'm sure you can all tell.

I know it's nonsensical but I'd like to think Nioh, Souls, Bloodborne, Surge, and my PirateSouls fake game all take place in the same universe I have a very weird head canon as to how they would all fit.

 

Highly recommend checking out the Berserk manga (with a caveat/TW for extreme gore and sexual violence). Lots of enemy designs were even lifted whole cloth in a few instances, not to mention it being cited as a huge source of inspo for the game designer.

 

Yeah Miyazaki doesn't even pretend he's not ripping off Berserk constantly haha

 

Yeah I'd heard about berserk manga and how a lot is lifted from it like Artorias