Punished Miyazaki

>TFW Miyazaki is the only dev alive worth a single fuck

The Japanese are inherently nihilistic.

>Armored Core: Last Raven
This game is harder than every -Souls game put together.

>>378501186
This. If asians could properly express themselves without worrying about social stigmas youd see some serious shit and Im not even a weeb.

Actually, only Boletaria was doomed and afflicted by the thick fog of the old one. Other kingdoms were sending people in to see what the fuck had happened.

>Is Miyazaki the most depressed game lead of all time?
FYI, every Armored Core game is basically full depression mode. You're not some hero running after justice for all. You're just a shmuck doing missions that seems to bump into crazy people trying to murder everyone. Aside from 1 or 2 games (specifically Master of Arena, Last Raven and Project Phantasma) in every other game you're just some mercenary in a dying world trying to make a living.

If you want a depressing ending, read up on the ending for AC Nexus. Last Raven is its continuation.
Your character fights a losing battle against suicide weapons. There's nothing you can do to win.

One nice touch is how seemingly secondary characters in Nexus become major characters in Last Raven.

>>378501313

Having lived in Asia and taught Asian students English for about 4 years(and part of my job being getting them to actually express their opinion) this is the truest shit I've ever read.

I mean fuck, most Asian philosophy is, at it's core, very nihilistic, just not in a pessimistic way. It's like that scene in Rick and Morty where Morty goes off about how every dies and nothing matters so enjoy life, except in many Asian countries right now the "enjoy life" part kind of sucks.

What are the stories of From games he was not involved in?
Were the other Armored Cores, the King's Fields, the Otogis, and so on all light-hearted romps?

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It's probably true.

>>378501639
AC3 had a very optimistic and encouraging ending/message and Silent Line furthered that.

Then Miyazaki shows up. Suddenly Nexus ending and Last Raven. Both have Souls-like depressing storylines, along with the other Armored cores to follow.

>unwanted coder

So this is the true power of FROM

>>378501034
bloodborne has a rather positive outcome honestly , like you actually achieved something for the better

>>378501913
>that mission in Silent Line where you see the plane that fell in the opening
Few moments ever hyped me in videogames, and that was one of them.

>>378501774
Certainly not light-hearted, but they all had reasonably happy endings with few exceptions.

AC2 and 3 had good endings and those were done just before Miyazaki was hired after being a cube-locked code monkey for Oracle in the states. Pretty sure he died there, and brought the husk he calls a soul to From.

>>378501351
I thought the fog was spreading past Boletaria's borders?

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Y'ALL NIGGERS SERIOUSLY NEED TO START PRAISING THE SUN ASAP
https://youtu.be/bzJDimvPW1Y

>>378501774
Was he involved with Eternal ring and evergrace?

Those had some odd stories

>>378502317
>AC2 and 3 had good endings
Doesn't everything in AC2 end way worse than it began? I remember the antagonist dies, but now the Corporations can now fuck everyone up unabated.
Compare this to Nexus, where the Corporations are so fucked that they need to join forces, or outright disappear.

>that mission in AC2: AA where you have to fight 3 ACs
Fucking framerate.

>>378501034
I really liked reading your post and I would like to subscribe to your blog

>>378502562
Good post

>>378502540
>Doesn't everything in AC2 end way worse than it began?

Not really. Corps have more power, but you bust up a major coup that essentially frees Mars from Earth's influence.

AA is all about keeping the Mars corps in check after that.

>>378502562
Nobody cares about your feelings. Fuck off with your blog post

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>>378502562
>Talking about video games on /v/ (not shitposting) is blogging

The West needs mandatory Summer School.

>>378501186
Fucking this, on the surface they care but deep down they dont give a rats ass about living or dying. To them its just another life chore like work.

>>378501774
well there's Cookie & Cream

>>378502562
Idiot

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Thank fuck they never let him touch this.

>>378502562
commit sudoku you monumental fucking faggot

>>378502393
Think you might like this. http://www.pcgamer.com/why-we-praise-the-sun-the-story-of-dark-souls-most-famous-gesture/

>>378501034
this looks cool

>>378506357
Now that you say that, I want to see what would happen if he did touch Metal Wolf Chaos.

>>378502562
You are what is wrong with /v/ lately.

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>>378506925
>Last boss fires all the nukes off as a deathrattle, assuring mutual destruction.

Kind of worries me Miyazaki is all but confirming AC6 and has a bunch of souls game plots under his belt now for practice.

AC5 was just bleak. Coming off DS3 and BB, I expect AC6 to be about zombie pilots in a long dead world piloting ancient worn-down doomsday robots.

Maybe it's time for an armored core souls?

>>378502130
You become a great one and will be the next one to pull the strings. The hunter, however, doesn't seem like a good person at all, much the contrary.

The endings seem to be: run from the nightmare, stay in the nightmare, become a nightmare.

Didn't he also make pic related?

It's a super fun happy go lucky party game about cute animals with super innovative gameplay.

Your screen is split in 2 with each character on 1 side and you use left stick to control 1 and right stick to control the other side character.

And you try to get to the end helping overcome obstacles.
It's a mindfuck to play.
Your brain might freeze.

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>>378508830
Forgot pic.

>>378508380
Please don't ruin my mechs.

>>378508904
Maybe it wasn't Miyazaki but it was certainly made by FromSoftware at one point in their careers.

>>378508774
>The hunter, however, doesn't seem like a good person at all, much the contrary.
i guess that might be depending on how the player wants to erp as the hunter but i dont really see how the Hunter wasnt a good person.
also its not about becoming a nightmare, its about transcending to a higher plane of knowledge, and you dont necessarily screw over anyone trying to obtain it, infact you sort of unfuck everything that went down.

"When the world rots, we set it afire. For the sake of the next world. It's the one thing we do right, unlike those fools on the outside." - Clearly Miyazaki's opinion on both the Dark Souls franchise and the real world

>>378501351
The fog was spreading beyond Boletaria though so eventually the whole world would be covered in fog.

>itt autist learn that the Buddha taught all existence is inherently suffering and that Buddhism impacted Asia

Miyazaki is a hack and never made a truly great game except Bloodborne and Demon's Souls.

>>378501250

Oh thank god.

Nobody ever talks about this game. I was always worried it was just me.

Fuck the Leviathan.

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>>378508904
Wasn't by Miyazaki. He was busy making For Answer as depressing as possible at the time.

>Anatolia's Mercenary? Great! An opportunity to destroy something both beautiful AND personal!

>>378509017
Anything involving transcending reality and becoming something with imcomprehensible morality gets my dick hard. Still, the hunter in Bloodborne is generally a very rough person. For example, he knows that Great Ones impregnate women as they voraciously desire to have children. Now, from a "playing" perspective, killing all the newborns just seems to end up happening from you following some questlines, but seeing this from a "story" perspective, it's very likely the hunter actively visited the potentially pregnant women after Paleblood has risen to murder the newborns.

Obviously, he is entirely on the right on killing them, not only as an individual but as a human in general, they are a potential menace. But it still brings out the rough personality in him. Hell, the whole design of the hunt is to kill Mergo, an innocent baby.

Not to mention his way of fighting, it's brutally visceral: that's one of the main themes of the game. But when you don't look at this from a "game" perspective, and try to apply his way of fighting into a narrative perspective, stuff starts to get kind of dark when you think about some of the enemies he fights in his fighting stance.

This is something I enjoy very much, though. I'm not complaining.

>>378509375
Buddhism and Taoism typically get lumped in other Asian cultures to establish some form of balanced normalcy.

Japan has the added "bonus" of Shintoism basically encouraging thinking about death constantly on an overcrowded hellhole of a small island with no escape. There's so many added layers mental isolation relative to most other Asian cultures.

Miyazaki should just move to fucking Wisconsin.

>>378501034
>Is Miyazaki the most depressed game lead of all time?
Nah Yoko Taro is.

>>378509791
i think you're projecting a lot on the hunter's personality on something we never even see in the game, mainly everything past the scene of becoming a squid. not all the old ones want to kill newborns, infact moon presence just did it because Gherman and the gang asked him to. and we cant assume that all the old ones want to repdroduce. also from all we know, the hunter is the only human that has transcended to an old one, and we dont know if the other old ones were at some point human or just otherworldly beings. so who knows how the hunter might choose to do things because he was a human at some point
if anything you could say the humans were evil judging from their "ends justify the means" standpoint, which is basically the reason why everything went to shit in the first place. so you can largely put all the bad things on the humans that caused the whole shitstorm because of raping a squid whale, abducting children, doing horrible experiments on humans, fusing moldy blood into all its citizens, etc, and the old ones were just simply beckoned and in a way tried to help to give them knowledge.
also the hunters fighting stance seems rather reasonable considering that you have to acquire blood to get stronger so you have to go full edge mode, let alone the fact that you're fighting hyper werewolves and shit
theres also the trophy for the secret ending saying you will lead humanity through a new beginning, so at the least the hunter decided just to take the opportunity and take matter in to his own hands before another micolash came along and starts beckoning random old ones by fusing a bunch of people together into a disgusting blob of bloody meat

why are miyazakis always sad as fuck?hayao thinks the world is doomed as well

>>378511286
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki

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>Project 3: A brand new IP that’s ‘something different from what the company has been doing previously’ and ‘a bit weird’.

I hope 'different' means "not depressing as fuck" and 'a bit weird' means "Miyazaki took happy pills and is making a Katamari-tier crazy funtime game"

>>378509493
>>378501250

>tfw after all these years i still remember Zinaida being fucking impossible

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>>378501639
>One nice touch is how seemingly secondary characters in Nexus become major characters in Last Raven.

That just depressed the fuck out of me. All the major players like Genobee and Protag from Nexus are dead.

The world is 24 hrs from shambles, and the only line of defense are third string rookies and (You)

>>378511597
Nah, it will be 'different' as in "every play-through will end in a suicide attempt," and 'a bit weird' meaning "Miyazaki slit his wrists while making the game."

>>378511451
>literally /a/'s poster child

Holy shit

>>378506925
He'd just look at Donald Trump's America and give up. Nothing is more depressing than that.
If you are triggered by this, learn to take a joke you miserable fuck

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>>378502393
LE PRAISE LE SUN LE INTENSIFIES

>>378511451
>In 1984, at the age of 21, Miyazaki began to watch child pornography, which was legal in Japan at that time.
what

>>378513656
Are you really surprised?

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>>378511597
>It's an insanely anime-esque game with an immensely jovial and cheery plot, constantly encouraging the player to fight past the game's inherent challenges and rewards you constantly with Advance Wars DS style peppy music and flashy UI's
>Every single ending is whiplash-inducingly depressing, with each one clearly not being the true ending for the game, which begins to portray itself as hopeful, before showering you in despair, as all of your beloved comrades are painfully slaughtered in order to maintain the happiness and idealism of the world around you, with yourself being made to be the executioner
>This is something that has happened with every adventuring party since the game's start, of which there are plentiful, and since the game is so cheery normally, and them vanishing off screen is usually handwaved as "I guess they gave up? Seemed too tough for them, huh?", you naturally think that they just went home

Fuck, all this talk about AC makes me want to get into the series, but there's so many games. What do?

>>378513923
I guess I'm more surprised the new transformers is coming out next month.
That shit better have grimlock

And I mean, I just find it odd it was still going in the 80s.

>>378509597
>Dat music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl9FQIT-6iY

This mission was baller.

>>378514025
Armored Core for PS1
Master of the Arena for PS1

Still like?
Armored Core 2 for PS2

Really like 2 enough to not progress with better controls?
Another Age for PS2

Want more with better controls?
Armored Core 3

REALLY having fun now?
Silent Line
Nexus

>That was really fun! I want to love Armored Core forever!
Skip to Armored Core 4 and then For Answer

>Nexus was too easy and AC4 isn't doing for me
Last Raven

>I still don't hate the series enough after having my anus devastated by LR
AC5/Verdict Day

>>378514025
Start by playing AC3 and move all the way into ACLR. Then play AC4/A, then ACV/D. You can go back to 2nd gen if you really want, but it's not really impressive. AC1 is just plain garbage, don't waste your time.

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>>378513983
That's just Persona by Miyazaki

Day 0 Pre-order

>>378514213
ACVD is legitimately one of the most technically demanding games to ever exist. The amount of shit you need to calculate second by second eclipses virtually everything I've played before or since. Even Strategic ARPG's like Mount and Blade only demand you keep focus on a few primary details and allows the player to simply react to the rest.
>Need to keep constant tabs on towers, walls, and buildings to maintain aerial climb
>Constantly jumping either up the side of or off buildings, with some legs throwing you miles into the air and others barely pushing you up inches at a time
>Boosting everywhere when there are so many places you can get snagged on and the momentum will staple you to the wall for a few seconds if you boost like a retard
>Turning off boost in midair is a high level strategy, as is Blue-Locking and Guard Break abuse in a post-GB-buff world
>Tri Defenses means that certain weapons are useless, but since most weapons have a purpose in abusing someone's weakpoint, every weapon can technically be viable
>Sawas are considerably OP, but the only legs that make them broken are also insanely drainy and deplete your generator too fast to be comfortable with

>>378514497
I believed this too until one shot spawn snipe and bad netcode abusing piledriver builds.

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>>378514213
I can't possibly play through whole series so I'll just go with what this anon >>378514226 says and see how far it gets me.

>>378514860
AC are relatively short game anon you can do it.

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>>378514860

I recommend AC2 because that's where i started.

Nexus, Last Raven and For Answer are my favorites other than that.

>>378514213
I swear I'm the only person who enjoyed Project Phantasma.

>>378501034

>i-i didn't ask all that money! I just want to live on the streets!


fucking hate faggots like him

>>378514213
>>378514226
What about Formula Front?

>>378517456
Are you a retard or an underage edgelord or both?

why is he so acclaimed if he's only made 1 good game and ruined 2 entire franchises?

>>378514226
Shit taste. AC1 is great and far better than any of the terrible HD games. Miyazaki killed the series.

>>378501034
New Armored Core as good as 4 and For Answer when?

>>378501034
>Selfishly doom the remnants of a doomed world, snuffing out even the smallest chance at rebirth for an even smaller chance of reincarnating it
How is this Demon's Souls in any way?

The Old One was an unstoppable force that consumed souls. You either put it to sleep again or become its henchman to have souls for yourself, quickening the end of the world. There's no rebirth themes.

>>378518351
>as good as 4 and For Answer
I'm sure there are plenty of shovelware Gundam games to meet your standards.

>>378518037
Not many people can accomplish that

>>378518037
He hasn't made a bad game yet, that's the point.
learn to read

>>378518037
>last raven
>4/a
>des
>dks
>bloodborne
Learn to count to 6?

>>378518351
Those are the worst in the series that only appeal to autistic manchildren.
Fuck off.

>>378518573
But you only listed four good games.

>>378518503
>>378518617
Go be contrarian shitposters somewhere else.

>>378518667
Those are all fantastic.
Shit taste, my friend.

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>>378501136
pretty much this maybe with Icefrog.

>>378518689
>take a good franchise
>ruin it by removing all the depth and appeal

>hurr you can fly infinitely wheeeee so fast haha
You're actually autistic and the reason why armored core is dead, fuck you and fuck off.

>>378518752
No.

>>378518364
Putting it to sleep is only temporary -> you become a monumental guarding over it -> rebirth

>>378518573
For Answer is only decent
DeS is only decent
Bloodborne is his only "good" game to date but is still riddled with flaws

>>378518752

You are an idiot. And the only reason AC is "dead" is because Souls is a cashcow.

>>378518902
And Last Raven...?

So how difficult is Bloodborne? Not played any of the Souls games before.

>>378519792
it's not that bad after you get used to the movement. still mostly trial and error though, sometimes bosses will hit you with unexpected shit or you'll fall into a trap here and there. pretty much the epitome of the souls series is "prepare to die by falling of an ambush"

also be ready for staggeringly shit frame drops to sub-30 and long ass loading times

>>378519954
Lol master race here, they STILL haven't fixed the frame drops, let alone the loading times?

>>378519954
or an ambush*

>>378520013
>japs
>fixing technical issues
I guess they did "fix" the load times a while ago by making them take 1 minute instead of 2, for whatever that's worth

>>378501034
He actually enjoys these stories because it reflects reality. He grew up on legends like Beowulf, with all their grim endings.

>>378501186
This.

Japs need Jesus.

>>378501034
Dark Souls is anything but depressing. The sense of progress and accomplishment is what makes the games some of the most enjoyable experiences in years for a fuckload of people. The bleak dying world is only there as a counterpoint to the sense of achievement and accomplishment.

>>378518739
>Abdul Ismail
>worth a damn

I'll never forget what he did to this game with patch 7.00

>>378518739
>Icefrog
I legit believe he is off his fucking rocker, still based though.

>>378520306
Buddhism has a thing or twenty to say about suffering and pain so it's not that strange.

Dukkha is the realness.

>>378520472
This. I didn't feel depressed when I finished DaS. I felt some kind of fulfillment. You either renew the fire, or delve into the age of dark, which could actually be even better, since you don't know at that point. And the Nameless Song leaves that feeling of hope, serenity.

Now DaSIII... Dark ending actually made me feel bad.

>total darkness even though you fell you can control your character
>"can you hear my voice yet?"
>the song is depressing as well and makes you realize that eveything is fucked beyond repair and forever will be

Fuck that.

Am I a faggot for using the boom hammer?
I'm doing a str/arc playthrough (first playthrough) and the boom hammer makes everything a joke with firegems on it

>>378521249
>Am I a faggot for using the boom hammer?
No, it's a shitty weapon.
Good job for not using cookie cutter shit that makes playing with boom hammer feel like a waste of time.

>>378521249
Nope.
And isn't the boom hammer dlc? So you're already a good bit into the game (unless you looked it up and ran there to get it underleveled)

>>378521371
The whirligig saw?
I never even bothered upgrading, never liked the moveset that much

>>378521467
No I'm at gherman, and just beat the living failures

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Demon's Souls Remaster when

>>378521643
Realistically probably never.
But I wish.

>>378520539
7.06 dota has the best balance though

>>378501034
Reminder there are multiple endings to most of From's games.

>>378501639
Atleast AC3 had an ending with some hope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sqjbvqv--s

The Ringed City had a happy ending

>>378513543
Jokes are meant to be funny

>>378501034
>>Dark Souls III (2016) – Director
Not really. The "co-directors" (i.e. the B-Team directors of DaS2) started it while he was still working on Bloodborne. He was brought on near the end of the project after he was done with BB. He tried to salvage what he could but there's only so much a man can do once the core foundation (level layout and everything else) has already been laid down. Miyazaki did not craft DaS3 from the beginning like he did with DeS, DaS1 and BB. They slapped his name on the box for the purposes of marketing/sales, but DaS3 was not really his baby. It was by no means an inspired passion project of his like his three main souls games were.

In fairness not only was Miyazaki sick of making Souls games by that point. All of From were burnt out of it at that point. DaS3 was a game they made due to contractual obligations with Namco, nothing more, and it really shines through with its utterly uninspired feel.

Inb4 nu /v/aginas who came late to the Souls games defend this utterly mediocre and boring Souls offering.

>>378524467
It's the best Dark Souls game though.

>>378521643
Dark Souls 1 Remaster when?
>60 fps
>DS3 graphics
>second half is changed to be as good as first half
>proper PC support

>>378525732
thats what a retard would think, yes.

>>378508241
>I expect AC6 to be about zombie pilots in a long dead world piloting ancient worn-down doomsday robots.
That sounds pretty rad to be honest.

>>378521643
The PS4 can already handle it to be in 1080p 60FPS. That would already be a good enough excuse to rerelease it and make a lot of EZ money, so probably never.
Just borrow someone's old PS3.

>>378518739
>icefrog
>alive
Kek

>>378525787
>>378525787

I would cream my pants

>>378524467
DaS3 is utter garbage. It's karmic punishment for DaS2 haters that now have to pretend that it's worth shit since Miyazaki was part of the dev team. Enjoy that piece of shit, faggots.

>>378525825
Nice insult but it's true.
>>378530534
But DaS3 is better than DaS2.

>>378518902
God I hate FAggots.

>>378501034
>Selfishly doom the remnants of a doomed world, snuffing out even the smallest chance at rebirth for an even smaller chance of reincarnating it.
That describes Dark Souls more than Demon Souls.
Demon Souls and Bloodborne both have rather upbeat endings.

>>378501913
>>378523283
AC3 had the same ending as MoA and we all know how that ended. Why would something nice happen this time?

>>378501034
The guy stole my heart

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>>378501034
Is he the Urobutcher of vidya gaems?

>>378501186
Literally too intelligent to live

>>378524467
Still good, DS3 is one of my favorite games

>>378530534
DS3 is great you parroting cuckold.

>>378524467
>In fairness not only was Miyazaki sick of making Souls games by that point. All of From were burnt out of it at that point. DaS3 was a game they made due to contractual obligations with Namco, nothing more, and it really shines through with its utterly uninspired feel.
Nevermind the fact that the entirely of Ashes of Ariandal can be summed up as "we are sick of making this series".

>>378525787
>DS3 graphics

no thanks.

>>378531978
Your loss, no, really, your loss.

>>378531978
Best graphics in the franchise.

>>378524467
Wait, DaS III also had a troubled production like II? This is the first time I heard of it.

Honestly, I don't think DaS was every meant to have sequels.

>>378532075
everything looks washed out and drab, the fire effects and the like are nice, but thats it.

>>378520984
>delve into the age of dark, which could actually be even better, since you don't know at that point.
DaS I's dlc shoots down the idea that the "Age of Dark" is somehow great for humanity.
And I kind of had the opposite feeling for DaSIII's dark ending

>The First Flame quickly fades.
>Darkness will shortly settle.
>But one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness.
>Like embers, linked by lords past.

>>378532396
>everything looks washed out and drab
But that's the point of fucking Dark Souls.

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>>378531978

>>378533303
if that's the point of dark souls then why is dark souls 3 the only game in the series that looks like that

also everything looks really ugly up close, doubly problematic since many boss cutscenes feature close ups of the bosses plasticy ps2 textured faces/armor

when i first fought abyss watchers there were parts of the cutscene where i legitimately couldn't tell what i was looking it because the textures were so muddy and ugly

>>378532396
It's almost like it's intentional that you should feel like you are in a desolate and hostile enviroment that is void of sane life most of the time, with the only glimmer of hope being the not insane people and the fire that keeps everyone alive.

Really makes you think.

>>378533609
thats just not true, you must be playing on console or a shit tier pc

>>378501034
>Dark Souls III
>>Snuff all remaining light from a decaying world. True redemption lies in ultimate defeat. Teach everyone this before teaching it to yourself as all light fades around you.

You make "linear stroll through a shitshow" sound so deep

>>378518902
>DeS is only decent
Please kill yourself, thank you.

>>378533991
Shut up shitter.

>>378534421
you seem to take deep personal offense when people speak critically of an entertainment product you like

>>378533778
All the stones and brick look wet and have a strange shimmer to them. 90% of the game consist of grey and wet stone with no other color palette like dark souls 1 or 2 had.

>>378525787
I want another DS1 expansion.

>>378533783
it was a pc on max settings

also just look at the armor sets, they all look like the same plasticy shit, by far the worst fashion souls in the series

>>378536340
This guy speaks the truth.

How do people understand the Souls games? I played through every soul game and I still don't understand what the hell was going on. There's long videos of people explaining these games but I don't remember any of this shit in the actual games

>>378537976
Environmental story telling and connecting the dots with item descriptions.

>>378537976
Some of it is context clues from either item descriptions or dialogue.

Most of it comes from people spreading crackpot theories.

>>378537976
>There's long videos of people explaining these games
Don't listen to these people. Instead come to your own conclusions via item descriptions, dialogue, etc.

>>378501034
Where do I start with Armored Core? Do I just play the new ones or is there a story?
I have ForAnswer lying around

>>378538402
The stories are separated in different eras:

Original - Project Phantasma - Master of Arena - 2 - Another Age

3 - Silent Line - Nexus - Last Raven

4 - For Answer - V - Verdict Day

3 is usually the best way to start the franchise.

>>378518739
mate hes on only in name

valve has a team of actual balance people now (as you can see the horrible shit that is 7.00)

i'm just about to beat dark souls 1 for the first time

should i go on with the series or go back to armored core

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>It's a "I understand the story to souls games" thread
The story is window dressing. There's nothing there to get. No secret truth. Miyazaki doesn't know what's going on, either. So you definitely don't

>>378538548
>For Answer
So what was Old King's deal again?

>>378539352
Fanwank theory is that he lost his daughter and said "Fuck all of it"

>>378539631
Don't know how valid this is, but a friend of mine told me that apparently the League and ORCA are both being controlled by the same faction and that when Old King learn about this, he decided that the extinction of the human race was a valid price to pay for giving the illuminati puppet masters the finger.

To be honest, I never really paid any attention to the story in Fromsoft's games.

>>378531808
I don't watch anime, who is Urobutcher?

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>>378540872
Yeah Maximilian is Omer's fuccboi. Omer also blackmailed OG White Glint back in 4. AC games usually revolve around circle jerks only they replace jerking with back stabbing.

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>>378525787
>Dark Souls 3 graphics
>with the shitty textures DS3 has

No thanks.
DS1 looks better.

>>378541506
>AC games usually revolve around circle jerks only they replace jerking with back stabbing.
I'm starting how "fuck it, kill everyone" is a somewhat valid option in For Answer.

This thread survived the night?

>>378524467
He wasn't really on Last Raven fully either, and just a programmer for the end of Nexus. Still managed to change the tone of both games. They were and still are a fairly small studio.

>>378511991
>Zinaida
Apparently she was literally impossible on the psp version without a very specific cheese strat

>>378539137
Its not really that complicated, the base story anyway.

Some people do look too deeply into it, but the actual basic storyline is pretty simple to get

>>378543101
She was doable if you were playing it on the Vita or emulating it on the PC. PSP controls expect from you to have six fingers. They did buff her however, now she stays in the air above you constantly.

How was AC5's gameplay?
I never got around to playing it.

I hope it was more like AC3. I liked the ACs being clunkier and not anime robots that zoom around everywhere. Not that I don't appreciate that sort of thing, I loved ZoE, but I liked having the slower clunkier bots.

Though I hope they improve the control scheme.
>>378539108
Continue Souls

>>378543101
>LR on psp

I can't even imagine that horror with 1 analog stick.

Is armored core 6 in development ?

>>378544571
I both hope it is and hope it isn't.

>>378544667
>>378544571
I believe From said it is

>>378545098
They didn't. Miyazaki just said they really care about AC because it's their well respected franchise and how he wants to revisit it.

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>people retroactively making out that AC4 was good

Let me guess, all the shitters who played it in their youth are hitting their late teens/early 20s?

>>378545586
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-souls-dev-confirms-new-armored-core-and-a-wei/1100-6443789/

>>378531913
>Ashes of Ariendel is an analogue for FROM
Shit.....
Miyazaki is the good father, seduced by the tales Friend tells
Friede is namco, promising greatness and everything they could ever want
Damn all of a sudden "bring my mine flail" is a lot more depressing

>>378539137
Story and development can be two separate things.

In souls games they absolutely are. And no matter what you do, the outcomes are: "everything is fucked".

>>378526225
This. Holy fuck that sounds great

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>>378541797
Just add it proper environmental reflections and lighting and it would be perfect.