Dark Souls II launching March 2014

I dno guys... I've got a bad feeling about this one.

I wish it was sooner but i'm glad they're putting so much, effort and money into it. Dark Souls was one of the best games of this generation, and I can't wait till 2 hits the shelves. I'm going to turn off my phone, call in sick with something terrible, and play and play...

@diablo184 @WolfGrey

Maybe but for now it has become a skill crutch. Especially in combination with other items.

@WolfGrey @diablo184 the dogs man the dogs. but i agree poise made it really easy to just heal threw damage and thus made people learning moves a bit less common and pvp annoying at times, maybe if they implement it better it could be more balanced =/

@diablo184 @WolfGrey

I would say no to poise anyday.

In Demon's you had to time your attacks with larger weapons and being in heavy armor. You had to really learn the game.

In Dark it's like you get a free pass to just swing recklessly and chug estus when you get hurt. Actually learning is nowhere near as important, hence all the black phantoms abusing it.

Nooo! I can't wait until March 2014, I need more souls, I'm going Hollow!

If it is getting a PC release as the lead platform then that could mean PS4 / X1 ports though couldn't it?

Praise the sun!

@WolfGrey i didn't find either one all that bad. but to an earlier statement of yours poise made dark souls so much easier then demon souls including eye frames during recovery. but i think for what dark souls is they had to have poise

March 2014 is so far away. But it's good they're taking their time unlike most companies these days.

So let's hope gimmick bosses don't exist this time.

No Bed of Chaos + thank you.

Also i would like faster bosses too, something more akin to the flamelurker and Manus.

@marioSNAKEeyes @WolfGrey

How so when i only mentioned people coming from Demon's Souls?

I even said it had a fair difficulty to it.

I only stated myself when i said it was easy and made that clear.

Loved Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, the only true RPG coming from the east in recent times, in my opinion anyway.

And thank you for making the PC version the lead platform this time and not a shoddy console port. Also basing the game on PC might pave the way for a next gen port because of the similar architecture.

@WolfGrey ok. sorry, but it made it look like it should be easy for everyone

@marioSNAKEeyes @WolfGrey

Also with the update you need to have below 25% equip load to have the effect now. Not 50%, so it doesn't matter anymore.

I also avoid all of that crap.

Wow that huge wall of replies o_o.

@marioSNAKEeyes @WolfGrey @mattress805

Lmao.

Nope. I was naturally good at Dark Souls and Demon's Souls thanks to my experience of gaming.

I have played Monster Hunter, Devil May Cry, and other games in those areas for years.

When you apply spatial awareness, adapting to animation delays, observation of audio and visual cues, and so on, the game becomes fairly easy.

Sure not for everyone but some of us yes.

This may sound like bragging but that was how it was for me.

But then again...put me in a puzzle game or racing game and i suck really bad.

Tetris makes me eat the dirt hard....hell i can maybe get past the first level...sometimes

I wish i liked this game.

Probably was hoping for too much to have this in my hands before the end of the year. But it would be nice if there was a PS4 version as what better game can there be right now to show off the flexibility of the social aspect to the new console than a Dark Souls one?

@WolfGrey @marioSNAKEeyes @mattress805 Once you complete the game and learn every single corner like I did, then it's easy, but don't come here and say Dark Souls is easy. And I was never a poise happy player. I hate being slow. Have you heard about the dark wood grain ring? i bet you watched some walkthroughs and came here to do the expert

@lokizarro @Imperiacommando

And even then , people coming from Demon's had a fair idea of what to expect when we saw visual cues, hear audio cues , and in general could react better.

Which made the game a lot easier for us.

Before we even turned the game on the first time, we had an idea of what build what we wanted to do based on our old Demon's builds.

@marioSNAKEeyes @mattress805

Hmm its tough to say. I think of Dark Souls as easy, and honestly less exciting than Demon's Souls.

Gimmicks, exploits, trolls , poise, and a number of other things really take a bite out of Dark Souls enjoyment.

That said i do love the game.

As long as you don't go poise/lightning happy, Dark Souls is fair in difficulty.

@mattress805 I've earned every single achievement on Dark Souls, but easy? hell no! one of the best games i've ever played.