Posted on: Saturday, December 8th, 2012
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Praise the Sun, Dark Souls 2 (Updated)
In an announcement completely out of left field, From Software has revealed their next title to the world!
I have a personal distrust of the Spike Video Game Award’s (VGA’s) and their questionable choices, at least to me, in several aspects of the show. One thing I will not begrudge is when game companies use the VGA’s to reveal their next big game to the general audience of gamers. During one such announcment Namco-Bandai revealed that From Software will be producing Dark Souls 2 for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC!
Many of you from the Angry Army know I am a huge fan of Dark Souls, and have spent over 200 hours trying to change the fate of the undead. An announcment of a new Souls game was only a matter of time given the success of previous games, but to hear that it will be built from the beginning for PC as well brings a smile to my face. For those of you curious, Dark Souls is a Hardcore RPG where your skill as a player determines everything, even if you can beat the game as a level 1 character in NG+7. It is unforgiving, yet fair, and will challenge you the entire way through.
The trailer itself was a CG rendered wonder, and had no gameplay on display, but it did give away some key points, such as showcasing the city of Anor Londo and what appear to be the Dark Wraiths surrounding a would be survivor. Also that dragon at the end looks suspiciously like Kalameet to me.
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40 thoughts on “Praise the Sun, Dark Souls 2 (Updated)”
Dark Souls is one of the hardest games I ever played in my entire life
I’ve seen trailer analysis by a youtuber named epicnamebro. He’s right at the source in Japan playing all versions of the game. I agree, the dragon in the teaser looks a lot like Kalameet, down to the 3rd eye and black hide. Based on what ENB saw in the art book of dark souls, the city in the background was indeed Anor Londo straight out of the concept art. From software has said it the game won’t take place in Anor Londo. Not sure about seeing darkwraiths in the teaser. The porcelain masks indicate lords blade or equivalent. Time will tell
Joe are you gonna do the review of dark souls 1 sometime? you said sometime ago you would, but havent seen it yet!!!!
If anyone wants to know more about more details regarding Dark Souls II, the staff changes, or even is a fan of the Souls games in general and likes to know more about it, I do suggest checking out EpicNameBro on Youtube, he makes very detailed videos about, for example, the recent Edge magazine interview, gives his own oppinion on the directions of the games, as well as pointing out lesser known details regarding the games. I enjoy his videos on my off time and find them, dare I say it, enlightening?
Also Deathrow you CAN parry in Dark Souls. It takes practice but its pretty useful.
Looks to be a prequel when the lords were at the height of their power and the first flame burned brightly.
i really dont know if ima buy this even though it looks utterly bad ass that just the cg i want to see the graphics
Me personally I loved they way Dark Souls portrayed its story/lore it was subtle. If you wanted the backstory of something in the Dark Souls universe you had to go searching for it, granted you’ll die more so looking for it but that’s not the point. However I would like to see a more direct story for the main plot and more character development, but they can still keep everything else a complete mystery. It also wouldn’t kill them to have a better tutorial. As for gameplay there is room for improvement like a counter system (which was probably shown in the trailer) nothing Assassins creed like but something sort of like that. If they do this for the game I’m sure it’ll be game of the year material (not saying it wouldn’t but it would be even better).
Indeed I really hope they actually don’t make the story more blatant as they had said they would in the press release. The fact that Dark Souls story was told through the world and its items made the story much better to me and that you could piece together the story on your own.
This…is….amazing.
My god there have been so many good announcements lately. First the Warhammer IP acquisition of Creative Assembly, then news of a new Space Hulk game ( <– Warhammer 40k) and now this?
Dark Souls was easily one of the best games I have ever played, From Software is such a terrific developer, I hope this game will be just as if not more badass than Dark Souls itself. Considering there track record, I highly doubt this could fail, and if it does, well then color me surprised.
Umbasa! Best news this week!
Awesome news.
Any idea when is coming out?
Still finishing demon’s soul. And I have bought dark soul but have not started to play it yet. :S
hope it rocks and kills me many times ahahaha.
Later
FuriousAngel.
dark souls was one of the hardest games ever with stunning graphics and now from software made a sequel its like a dream that i gave up on just reared its head
I’m not gonna lie, but I hated Dark Souls. I did not hate it because of the difficulty, on the contrary. The battles were epic, and it is a beautiful game to look at. After about 50+ hours however, of running back and forth and back and forth to bonfires in order to respawn enemies so that I could get enough souls to level up to where I could actually do some damage in a more difficult area made me realize that this game is literally nothing but filler. There is no substance, no story, no conclusion, and no motivation. You get to the end and you either light yourself on fire, or become the ruler of a dying/dead world. “Yay! I rule over a bunch of zombies and nothing else,” or “Yay! Mi pantelones es en fuego!”
Actually that is the entire point, the story isn’t obvious and is very deep. You get the story from the item descriptions, from how people describe the world and its events, and from the enemies themselves. There are entire youtube channels that dedicate themselves to deciphering and presenting the Lore that is in Dark Souls and breaking down step by step how to find it.
Also you never have to level up to beat the game or do damage, as was proven by Emarrel who set the world record for beating Dark Souls in New Game + mode 7 as a soul level 1 character. Leveling makes it easier but it is possible no matter what level you are at.
Yes. For people who says Dark Souls has no story, they had never paid attention on the game’s details. I don’t blame them. Even me after I completed the game for the first time, I never had cared for the game much either beside from its gameplay. One day, as I was browsing on the blog, some guy posted a lore article of dark souls. I read it and it enlightened me (seriously, I just used the word Enlighten). For the first time I realized Dark Souls lore’s complexity and its genius presentation From Software had provide us. When you first walking into Ceaseless Discharge’s place, he will never aggro you on default. Not until you attack him or loot stuff from a corpse at the altar. At first I never understood it. I always thought it was just the way From Soft trying fill up spaces for the boss encountering, trying to make bosses more dramatic like and interesting. However as I learnt more about the lore from item descriptions and dialogues, and of much pure speculation, I finally began to understand Ceaseless Discharge’s motive and his oddball harmless behavior. The sadness on his face, the eternal suffering from the constant discharges of lava – the only thing that eases his pain is by watching over his sister’s remain. And there are much much more within the Dark Souls universe. The biggest candy to me in Dark Souls, is the roleplaying element. Because (from the surface) the game is in such a way of minimalism, many people will not discover the beauty of this game. Which is always something that sadden me, as I had experienced it first hand. RPG, this is the part that are hard to explain, but if you played the game you will know what I mean. Playing this game, and even after beating it multiple times, there are still many questions that haunted me in my sleep. The game never truly explained what moral of the covenants are sided on. Constantly asking myself: Am i the good guy? Am I the bad guy? Who’s the bad guy? Who’s the good guy? Most of time I find myself feeling like an ASS for killing some of the bosses. And finally at this point in Dark Souls, I see no black and white, but only shades of grey in utterly everything. Dark Souls is not Skyrim where you have much the freedom of action, but there is a reason for it. In Skyrim the dragons are coming back and you are the chosen one thus the only person to stop the blight.. BUT you have all the time in the world because “EVERYONE” is still alive! Oh there are even people don’t know what the heck is going on. So you can go around and do your own thing~ Tamriel is big anyway, It will will take more than a week to destroy it so I do whatever fuck i want. Dark Souls on the other hand, the world is already in the process of dying, decaying. The future is grim. Even if you choose the link the fire ending, is only the matter of time before the world get consumed by darkness again /flame will fade again/. And we know abyss does more than just covering things in shadow. Dark Lord ending is essentially the most selfish ending I’ve ever seen. Reason for that I will talk about it later. In that situation of the undead, you don’t really have the time to lollygagging around like you in Elder Scrolls. Good undead or not you still have to do something about it. Dark Souls is a harder game because they want to tell you that life is harsh, but there are more beauties in failure than there are in success, and that is why your achievements are such rewarding. You learn from mistakes and improve for the betters. This game makes you think. Most games out there don’t encourage that because they wanted to explain almost “everything” to you. In Dark Souls you are in the perspective of an undead. Your character learnt the story along with you. His or her background setting is develop by you and along, this in fact is what From Soft intended. In by the end of the game if you still have no clue of your motive and reason of your chosening, then so will be the character you are roleplaying as. Your character are then likely be subjugation in manipulation by either the serpent or deity, or more. I can keep on for hours talking about the lore and moments I had in this game. But I should end here when I still have the chance. This game is more than just a masterpiece. This game is an art. And will be forever remembered. Thank you SetchDreskar for supporting Dark Souls. I would love to have lore discussion with you in the future. About the news of Dark Souls 2, I have mixed feeling about it. First of all, the director changed. Mr. Miyazaki is not longer the director of the game, instead he acts as a supervisor. That can really change things up. New director often mean – new direction. Also the new director mentioned Dark Souls two will be more direct and approachable. Is that mean they gonna going all Elder Scrolls on us now instead of puzzling pieces together? Like I said earlier Dark Souls story is deep but not all original. It is amazing because of the presentation, they way they interpret it (such as in Ceaseless Discharge’s case). IS the game going to be more generic? As a hardcore fan of Dark Souls, I really wish this is just another Miyazaki’s trolling like he did with the pendant. He maybe laughing in the corner somewhere as we’re speaking. Last, he said Dark Souls two will feature a new “HERO”. Okay first of all, what the fuck is he talking about? Wait, my chosen undead was a hero? I was the biggest Asshole in Lordran. One thing in dark souls that I really like is that they never given you any renown and titles other than “undead”. Sure Darkstalker called you the chosen undead (and from the other serpent), but is your choice to ignore them or not. This is what I like about this game, the roleplaying. The trailer I saw is just so out of place. At first I thought it was a prank, Then I looked at my calendar – Nope, is not April.
Why is letting the flames die out selfish? How is delaying the inevitable any better?
I am truly curious and would love to hear some of your thoughts and ideas, please share!!
My franchise is back! It’s time to be refrustrate, again and again. I hope this would be a good sequel: the first one but better.
man i would love to play dark souls 2 !!
unleashes a cry of both the greatest horro yet greatest pride and happiness which combines into a bestial cry, ready to face down the new threats. a joy beyond words and human mentality.
controllers all across this globe tremble in fear as they await their doom by the hands of their owners as they play this beast.
*Reminds of Tomb of the Giants, the constant falls of Blighttown, the evil archer in anor londo.
* Breaks controller, again.
I just finished DS last week, excellent news.
the pc port for DS was a total piece of shit!! it was the first time that i abandoned a game because of its horrible controls(i wont even munching the low resolution problems). and maybe its just me, but i really hope they make it a little more of a sandbox/open environment game.
Bluesy, it is possible to use a standard XBox 360 controller to play the PC version, which makes life a lot easier. Furthermore, PC is the realm of the mods – visit Dark Souls Nexus to find and download the latest version of DSfix (v1.9 right now). DSfix will put an end to all your resolution and fps problems, adds the possibility for custom textures and turns the PC version into the prettiest, smoothest version of Dark Souls.
maybe they fixed it, but when i tried the DSfix i saw the game in small windows on the top corner of the screen and the rest of the screen was black. i tried a cheep controller that i had at home and it worked horrible with the game, i dont remember why but it got something to do with the analog sticks. maybe the xbox controller would have done the trick, but as a pc gamer that hate controllers ill be honest i wont bother to get one.
Keyboard+mouse vs controller is always a matter of personal taste in the end, so I’m not going into a hyper deep discussion about this with you
. However, in my experience each setup has its advantages/disadvantages and Dark Souls, which was originally designed for consoles exclusively, is probably best played with a controller on the PC. The game’s mechanics are best suited for a controller, just as – again, from my viewpoint – kb+m is much better suited for FPS/RTS games than a controller. Too bad the cheap controller didn’t work out!
As for DSfix, I never had any problems with it, but I read that it started working well for most people from v1.4 and up. Maybe you tried v1.3 or earlier? Also, carefully read the installation instructions (for example, did you turn off the in-game AA option? that one messes things up usually) and don’t forget to play around in the DSfix.ini file (all options are explained with comments) until you have a result you are happy with. Just check the Dark Souls Nexus, Durante wrote down all the info you need.
Wow, maybe this time they manage to actually make a good game for once.
I know its just opinion but I don’t think they have ever made one that isn’t good, if not great.
You gonna have to explain why Dark Souls isn’t a good game. Like setch said it’s just a matter of opinion, but also please define whats make a good game?
Hells yeah! Any details? I kinda had a suspicion it would be set in Balder (where the the badass rapier knights are from), on account of it being overrun by undead prior to dark souls, or playing as the son gwyn disowned or something. Either way, i can look forward to more illusion boobs, jolly co-operation and being kicked down a well by a bald dude (again). Praise the fuckin’ sun.
I am not sure, I kind of hope that Solaire is Gwyn’s son, heard some strong arguments for it, plus he is a bad ass. The details are scarce, though it has been confirmed for PC from the start, so its just guess work for now.
-Sunbro 4 Life
Yeah. I heard that one. But while being the son of a god is cool, gaining the ability to throw lightning bolts that would make zeus cry like a little girl through nothing but training is king kong levels of badass. ‘sides, dark souls story was subtle and ultimately what you and your character made of it. I liked the idea that Solaire was trying to do the same. It made his (possible) death that much more of a deal. At least to me, anyway. Either way, i’m hoping that the Sunlight covenant’s in the next one. Any opportunity to be glossy and incandescent (i think that’s how ya spell it). I just hope it’s not a direct sequel. And that patches is in it. Is it odd that i like a guy who tried to kill me 5 times over 2 different games? I think that’s odd.
The Soul series is really crazy and really awarding to the end again and again.
When the first soul game came out (Demon’s Souls) I thought this will be one of those rare jewels that I and the few people enjoyed it turns out it slowly grew as it devours more and more souls. To what you see now as a state of pure Darkness; just devouring more and more souls that are brave enough to face evil of the undead and demons. This evil force now is what you see today (Dark Souls).
WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PREPARE TO DIE AGAIN BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And no fucks were given about the phantom pain
Definitely great news that they are going to bring it to PC. Hopefully they take their experience and feedback from Dark Souls to make a proper port this time around. I also hope that it will be easier to connect to other player’s worlds, the constant failure to summon a friend can be a little frustrating to say the least. I also hope that the PC version will not have Games for Windows Live and maybe do just Steam DRM instead. I can’t wait to sink many hours into this game when it gets released.
Best news all weekend for sure. Can’t wait! Beat the first game 3 times, the DLC twice. I just hope they don’t add another Bed of Chaos type boss.. just.. it’s just annoying…
Oh, you know they will. Remember the dragon god from Demons souls? As long as they have another dodgy name boss like ceaseless discharge, i won’t really care. Maybe,,, scrotum demon? Or the penetrator? Oh, wait,,,
This news made my weekend. From Software knows how to craft an absolutely breathtaking world (I adore the dark city and its atmospherics in the Prepare 2 Die edition) and then pair it up with a superb game system. What’s more, single and multi player gaming elements are blended together so brilliantly that I just crave to be online – considering that I generally abhor multi player, that is nothing short of an amazing feat.
I can’t wait to dive into the action again, yet I am content to happily wait until From has polished the new adventure to a mirror finish. The IP – and consequently From’s budget – more than deserves it.
TLDR: Praise the Sun, Amazing Game Ahead!