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The Cockatrice
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None of their videos indicate what they just said. The game is releasing soon and we have not seen anything remotely close to a human playing the game normally.
Punished Miku
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Bosses are also my least favorite part of souls games so that's 80 chances to piss me off or miss the difficulty balancing.
I'm really interested in the art design and setting but this is likely waiting for a price cut for me. For every Lies of P that I did enjoy, there's about 10 souls clones that I hated.
I'm really interested in the art design and setting but this is likely waiting for a price cut for me. For every Lies of P that I did enjoy, there's about 10 souls clones that I hated.
The Infectious Paradox
Gold Member
Sounds Elden ring copy pasty
saintjules
Member
Ain't no way we're seeing 80 bosses. Perhaps mid-bosses/reskins of others most likely.
squarealex
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splattered
Member
Crossing my fingers for this one
Slothbeing1209
Member
My guess is 81 bosses. In originally story, they encountered 81 adventures. Not every adventures involving with demon/monster but Chinese like that number.
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FunkMiller
Gold Member
Until I see actual, live gameplay of a human being playing this game, and get some independent feedback, I'm still going with idea that this thing is bullshit.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Well, at this point we can forget about this game being just a boss rush game, aren't we? But over 80 unique bosses? Get the fuck outa here, it's in-fuckin'-possible.
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TropicanaTwista
Member
Ugh that doesn't sound good. The souls games that had a ton of bosses (like DS2 and ER) fell off from quality. Would rather just have 15 to 20 that are designed well.
Really hoping this just means there are some reskin mini bosses or something.
Really hoping this just means there are some reskin mini bosses or something.
GymWolf
Gold Member
Didn't they had a free demo during an event and people actually played the game?
I think there is a lot of footage already, hellblade 2 is out on a day and there is way less gameplay for that one.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Length, 80+ hours? I'll bet it's even longer than that.
Gideon
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
What makes you think this? It's had plenty of coverage and hands-on from press... ?? What's the issue?
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Yes but they're showing us key scenes of the game in a curated form, of what they want us to see. The actual moment-to-moment gameplay loop will remain a mystery til we learn more.
The Cockatrice
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midnightAI
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Gideon
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
The monke game keeps looking better and better, can't wait to try this one out.
The Cockatrice
Member
You know what I meant. Demos showed at cons rarely represent the game.
Better but I will still remain in team "doubt". I will be glad to be proven wrong at launch, but I know when somethings too good to be true.
demigod
Member
Vaporware
What hands on? All I saw was some dude in the back with a headset on. Girl is cute tho.
What hands on? All I saw was some dude in the back with a headset on. Girl is cute tho.
Stafford
Member
With that many enemy types I am hoping for some nice locations to explore and with enough time between bosses.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Those giants throwing their hats look interesting. A lot of the bosses from the trailers look good. Let’s hope they nail it.
rodrigolfp
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Danjin44
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What!? Bosses are the best parts.
Punished Miku
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I like the exploration and chances to use stealth or creative attack plans. Part of why I think Demon's Souls is the best one. That one also de-emphasizes sweaty bosses and instead has more puzzle / creative ones. I like bosses in action games, but I've never thought the Souls combat system is good enough to truly push it like they do in the later games. It's more suited to slower exploration imho.
Danjin44
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I highly degree I loved combat in FROM games and they make amazing boss that compliments the combat.
March Climber
Member
Based on what happened with Cyberpunk and Anthem I agree, but man you are doubling down really hard on your 'we haven't seen enough' take lol.
I'm just going to chalk it up to them wanting to leave an air of mystery/surprise to the game and hope for the best. I'm more curious if they're trying to make this a competitor to Sekiro or Elden Ring, and by that I mean with how the areas themselves are designed.
midnightAI
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The Cockatrice
Member
Well yeah. My hopes for this game being genuine are below 0. I will gladly eat crow if its great but my gut is telling me to be against this fake shit all the way.
March Climber
Member
Ah I think I see how you're picturing this game now. You feel it might be another 'The Day Before' situation?
The Cockatrice
Member
Exactly.
EDIT: another example was Atomic Heart and while it certainly did not look as good as they marketed, visually, no raytracing, blablabla, it did turn out to be good and I had below 0 hopes for it as well and I thought it was fake for like up until rls day.
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March Climber
Member
To be fair to both situations, The Day Before had only one small slice of a gameplay demo shown and they went radio silent for a long time until the other demo which was an obvious huge downgrade.
Wukong on the other hand has had consistency in graphics and gameplay since the second showing, and they have shown more and more lately in large gameplay increments(especially recently since it was shown off at a showcase in another country). It would be an immense waste of time to show this much for it all to be smoke and mirrors. This is at least an hour plus of gameplay footage. That's quite a lot of footage to completely make up.
At this point, what could be the smoke and mirrors here would be the game's length and structure. We've only seen a handful of biomes and my one worry is that this is a linear narrative experience being touted as something much grander than it is. I can't quite remember, but there was a game not long ago that appeared to be huge and open but you were still simply running down a linear path with just pretty environments to your left and right with no items/no level design/no exploration/etc. That would be the disappointment for me, or at least it would set my expectations that this is just a game about fighting enemies and nothing else.
nial
Gold Member
That's the coolest part, tho.
Dorfdad
Gold Member
You're just looking for reasons for it to fail so you can say I was right? What we have seen looks leagues better than some of the games in this genre and most of these hands ons were a year ago, game has been polished by now most likely. will it have some issues 100% im sure it will so we need to see how they respond to that. However im really looking forward to it looks like a smaller version of Elden ring with a true story component from what we have seen being based on a novel journey to the west.
a 40 Hour Elden Ring - Dark Souls game would be a welcome addition to the genre IMHO. Especially with different character playthroughs