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Play Code Vein Next Week; PS4 And Xbox One Network Test Coming Soon
Starts in May and continues into June.
By Jordan Ramée | @JMRamee on May 23, 2019 at 5:02PM PDT

The dates for the upcoming Xbox One and PS4 Network Test for Code Vein have been announced. As previously speculated, the test begins in May. In fact, it's starting next week.
For the US, Code Vein's Network Test begins May 30 at 8:00 PM PT / 11:00 PM ET and continues until June 3 at 12:00 AM PT / 3:00 AM ET. In Europe, the test starts May 31 at 4:00 AM BST / 5:00 AM CEST and ends June 3 at 8:00 AM BST / 9:00 AM CEST. Though Code Vein is releasing on Xbox One, PS4, and PC, the Network Test will only be live on consoles. To participate in the Code Vein Network Test, sign-up on Bandai Namco's website. You'll receive your Xbox One or PS4 code on May 29, allowing you to preload the demo before the test goes live.
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Fight for survival with fellow Revenants during our #CODEVEIN Network Test! Take on select quests with your friends in online co-op from May 30th - June 3rd.
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In the Network Test, you'll be able to play through the opening chapter of Code Vein and try the game's multiplayer. In Code Vein, you usually travel throughout the world with an NPC companion. If you want, you can also team up with one other human-controlled character for a three-person party. Though Code Vein takes inspiration from Dark Souls--both thematically and mechanically--Bandai Namco's game does not feature invasions.Multiplayer in Code Vein is entirely supportive.
We played through Code Vein's opening chapter during a preview event and had the chance to try the game's revamped Blood Code system. After delaying the game in July 2018, Bandai Namco changed how Code Vein's build system works. Now, thanks to Code Vein's eight unique Blood Codes, you can quickly respec your vampiric character with new stats and abilities in seconds whenever you want. Most of the eight Blood Codes are too melee-focused, but a few do provide interesting abilities, such as a teleporting backstab called Phantom Assault.
Code Vein is a perfect example of how Dark Souls has had a lasting impact on the gaming industry. In our The Most Influential Games Of The 21st Century series, Tamoor Hussain wrote, "Dark Souls' impact on gaming is undeniable. Such is its influence that the term Souls-like has become a genre in and of itself. But describing a game as 'Souls-like' can mean so many things, from challenging gameplay to emergent storytelling, or even a distinct sense of place. The fact that the term can be used in such a diverse way to explain facets of action games, RPGs, puzzle games, or even text adventures is the strongest indication of just how important the game was and is to this day."
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This Dark Souls thing is gonna get ground into mundanity by all these pretenders. I hope it stands up, but I don't think it will. There's a certain competence and magic at play in From's titles that can't be recreated all that easily.

I don't think the level design can hack it.
 
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This Dark Souls thing is gonna get ground into mundanity by all these pretenders. I hope it stands up, but I don't think it will. There's a certain competence and magic at play in From's titles that can't be recreated all that easily.

I don't think the level design can hack it.
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I thought Lords of the Fallen already ran the concept six feet under. Even From Software already teetered on the edge since despite all the charm they still had a lot of issues that were forgiven by the extremely good stuff. Half-assing Dark Souls doesn't produce even an average game.

You can't walk through Blighttown and say with a straight face that it was competent or magical. You use community patches for a reason.
 
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I thought Lords of the Fallen already ran the concept six feet under. Even From Software already teetered on the edge since despite all the charm they still had a lot of issues that were forgiven by the extremely good stuff. Half-assing Dark Souls doesn't produce even an average game.

You can't walk through Blighttown and say with a straight face that it was competent or magical. You use community patches for a reason.
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I disagree with you about blighttown, I felt like it was a welcome change from the kind of games I was playing at the time. it got me into a mood that I hadn't felt since playing stuff like legendary axe back on the turbo grafx.

I do think you're right about the other stuff though, and perhaps the time of souls games is over.
 
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I thought Lords of the Fallen already ran the concept six feet under. Even From Software already teetered on the edge since despite all the charm they still had a lot of issues that were forgiven by the extremely good stuff. Half-assing Dark Souls doesn't produce even an average game.

You can't walk through Blighttown and say with a straight face that it was competent or magical. You use community patches for a reason.
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The curses I said while in blight town could have probably gotten me arrested for witchcraft if I lived in the UK or any other muslim country.

So yes it could be magical.
 
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I'll probably buy it. I've liked what I've seen and my tolerance for Souls-likes is pretty high.

Only thing I'm concerned about is downplaying the lewd aspects... especially since Bandai Namco has said they'll likely need to downplay similar stuff in SAO's next game which is pretty much all that game gets bought for. It's like breaking your own kneecaps before the big race, doesn't make sense. If they were just pointing at China that would be one thing, but they said it had to do with the current climate.
 
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I thought Lords of the Fallen already ran the concept six feet under. Even From Software already teetered on the edge since despite all the charm they still had a lot of issues that were forgiven by the extremely good stuff. Half-assing Dark Souls doesn't produce even an average game.

You can't walk through Blighttown and say with a straight face that it was competent or magical. You use community patches for a reason.
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Recon said:
I disagree with you about blighttown, I felt like it was a welcome change from the kind of games I was playing at the time. it got me into a mood that I hadn't felt since playing stuff like legendary axe back on the turbo grafx.

I do think you're right about the other stuff though, and perhaps the time of souls games is over.
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I find it funny how even in DS2(despite its faults), DS3, BB, and SSDT, FS still seems like the only ones who put an emphasis on level design, meanwhile it seems like Namco and Team Ninja (even with Nioh 1) are more interested in making hack ‘n slash/soulsbourne hybrids
 
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I find it funny how even in DS’ 2(despite its faults) & 3, BB, and SSDT, FS still seems like the only ones who put an emphasis on level design, meanwhile it seems like Namco and Team Ninja (even with Nioh 1) seem more interested in making hack ‘n slash/soulsbourne hybrids
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I don't think it's even the level design that really cinched it, it's that FS had this brass balls-attitude of grinding their heel into the player without letting up that really drew a following. The harder that heel pushed down, the more rewarding the win finally felt - something that game journos just can't fucking grasp because they don't even finish the games they review. That revive in Code Vein's gameplay around 8-minute mark made me blow raspberries at the screen. Sure you can beat any game the hard way, but FS made the hard way the only way (discounting the wackadoos that thought the hard way wasn't hard enough for them). There are no last chances or close calls, just the words "YOU DIED"

It's a niche market and Soulsies hit it dead on, you can't pussyfoot around it.
 
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I don't think it's even the level design that really cinched it, it's that FS had this brass balls-attitude of grinding their heel into the player without letting up that really drew a following. The harder that heel pushed down, the more rewarding the win finally felt - something that game journos just can't fucking grasp because they don't even finish the games they review. That revive in Code Vein's gameplay around 8-minute mark made me blow raspberries at the screen. Sure you can beat any game the hard way, but FS made the hard way the only way (discounting the wackadoos that thought the hard way wasn't hard enough for them). There are no last chances or close calls, just the words "YOU DIED"

It's a niche market and Soulsies hit it dead on, you can't pussyfoot around it.
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There’s still some hope for it, for a while we all thought SSDT would be Babby’s First Soulsbourne and it wound up being even harder than Bloodborne with a death system that didn’t just take things away from you, but also made them fucking worse with an NPC plague system.


Though, I’d say my favorite part about FS’ difficulty system is that it often encourages to think outside the box instead of just being a cheap grindfest.

If you try to brute force a boss like a moron, the game will fuck your butt until you’re shitting blood, leaving you with only three options: using your brain, using a walkthrough, or grinding like pigroach
 
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Dark Souls: It's infuriatingly hard (if you don't get that it's effing with you), so it must be good.
Dark Souls 2: People said the first game was good, so it must be good.
Dark Souls 3: It puppets around stuff people remember from the earlier games, so it must be good.
Bloodborne: shrugs
 
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Dark Souls: It's infuriatingly hard (if you don't get that it's effing with you), so it must be good.
Dark Souls 2: People said the first game was good, so it must be good.
Dark Souls 3: It puppets around stuff people remember from the earlier games, so it must be good.
Bloodborne: shrugs
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Don’t be shittin’ on DS3 and BB
 
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Bloodborne was Dark Souls for tweakers.

I kid.
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If you imitate a single game frequently enough you'll wind up with a separate genre.

Having a whole 3rd person genre based around player interaction and not scripted events or movies is not a bad thing.

Eventually you'll get competing series just like how all Video game RPGs can be traced back to Ultima and then the genre wound up with Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy competing against each other.

Or in a more recent example how the FPS genre split off and made a single game mode an entire game with PUBG which was later usurped by Fortnite.

Also certain series will favor specific aspects of the genre. Some might want more hard as fuck bosses and put the entire focus on that, others will focus on level design and exploration and have intricate levels with hidden short cuts.
 
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If you imitate a single game frequently enough you'll wind up with a separate genre.

Having a whole 3rd person genre based around player interaction and not scripted events or movies is not a bad thing.

Eventually you'll get competing series just like how all Video game RPGs can be traced back to Ultima and then the genre wound up with Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy competing against each other.

Or in a more recent example how the FPS genre split off and made a single game mode an entire game with PUBG which was later usurped by Fortnite.

Also certain series will favor specific aspects of the genre. Some might want more hard as fuck bosses and put the entire focus on that, others will focus on level design and exploration and have intricate levels with hidden short cuts.
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Where did the Dark Souls/Demon Souls hard boss fight type of style develop from? The earliest I can remember is Batman Arkham Asylum that used a sort of 3rd person with a rotating camera when battles occured. But I'm sure there were other precursors that I don't know about.

I've seen many games use the same boss fight telegraph/memorize moves games, like Monster Hunter. Is that where it originated? I have no idea, someone more knowledgeable can take the reins.
 
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Where did the Dark Souls/Demon Souls hard boss fight type of style develop from? The earliest I can remember is Batman Arkham Asylum that used a sort of 3rd person with a rotating camera when battles occured. But I'm sure there were other precursors that I don't know about.

I've seen many games use the same boss fight telegraph/memorize moves games, like Monster Hunter. Is that where it originated? I have no idea, someone more knowledgeable can take the reins.
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Uh...they put King’s Field in third person?
 
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