Dark Souls II director explains "accessibility"

also they should definitely lose the pyromancy flame (from the looks of the demo they did too, since that sorcerer is using his staff/catalyst to cast a fire spell). giving everyone that easy access to magic (and such powerful magic) without building any stats towards magic is ridiculous. i like it in dark souls and use it on a lot of characters, but it's just way too powerful. or maybe not lose the flame but make it behave like a catalyst by giving it magic adjust based on intelligence (or a new stat for pyromancers)

March 2014 is way too far away....

I know this is somewhat irrelevant, but does anyone else keep accidentally signing out of their account when trying to click in the text box to type a comment because of the poor positioning of the user menu that pops down from the top right?

It's really annoying... they need to fix that. X__X

im gonna roll with the PC version since they arent releasing on next gen consoles

After finishing the first one, I'm not sure I want to play another. LOL

It was a great game, but... I would have preferred an OTOGI 3. C'mon From Software. Next-gen OTOGI 3, PLEASE.

Couldn't they find a way to give players an option to play on hard difficulty as it was in darks souls and demon souls while making an easy mode with weaker AI and more handholding for more casual players ? I really don't get it...Haven't other games already done this for years ? I would say that I'm pretty good at games but I don't like to die.Repeating a level is boring for me.I would definitely be interested in dark souls but unfortunately I don't have the time and patience to repeat a boss battle 100 times.

i'm still reading that the game's getting easier tho. tedious experiences are a big part of the game. when dark souls came out i found it pretty much perfect. then they went ahead with all those patches and suddenly the game got a whole lot more handholding for the player. hey, u don't have to loot those lizards and knights anymore, just kill them and u get their stuff. no more "noooo, the lizard fell and i needed that twinkling" which believe it or not was part of the game for me. now it's all like "need twinkling? just buy it at the giant smith" laaaaaame. the game being hard and unforgiving is essential to my experience and farming for a certain titanite is part of that (and remember there is no bladestone anymore, anything can be farmed quite easy using the item ring and sum humanity). nerfing the elemental weapons and fixing the miracle synergy was surely a good move, but everything that makes the game easier in any way made the game less attractive to me. anybody else feel that way?

They talk about backtracking they want people dont do backtracking at all =easy game and less deaths from yours mistakes Imo

NO GWFL.

I just hope they get rid of that ridiculous soap stone. I want to play with my friend make a party system. That was the only thing I hated in Demon Souls, and Dark Souls. I beat both games, but I hated that my friend had trouble joining me...

The only thing I remember in the gmae that was slightly time consuming and boring, was farming masterials to build or upgrade the weapons to thwe max. And that, I think it should be tedious and time consuming, because getting your weapons to the max is a major part of the hardcore exoperience. Obviously, if everyone is able to get weeapons maxed with ease, part of the charm goes away. Other than that, I don-t see what else was boring and time consuming thst can be cut down without indering the gameplay.

The only thing I would have "fixed" is the multiplayer proportion. I wouldn't lock out party mode, and give the players freedom to co-op the entire experience without all of the technical crap interfering.

Those were my only gripes, though it hardly hindered my experience as I loved NG+ that game all the way to 5-8 more times.

I wish more games featured a NG+, as it really opens the game up for massive amounts of replayability.

DS2, Battlefront and MGSV are most anticipated games.

My favorite part is finding shortcuts/ other ALTERNATIVE routes and different ways of compleition...

Also Collecting EVERY weapon/armor piece in game =)

;3 Also out of no were Boss Fights

Please don't be Dark Souls for Dummies!

I think hes missed the point. The tedium was a big part of the difficulty and frustration in Dark Souls. It wasnt just about the immediate satisfaction of defeating a tough boss, but also dat feel of finding a shortcut, which made it much easier to reach a destination. Finding a shortcut for the first time in Dark Souls was the most meaningful and satisfying experience i had throughout the entire game.

I hope the pc controls are good. If not, I'm getting this for console.

many people will doubt its success