I haven't played DS3 since I was told it did away with DS1s level design and ended up never checking it out so that doesn't work as a point of reference for me. I also never played Demon Souls so that doesn't work as a point of refrence for me either.
It's the way the information is presented in DS3 that makes the story more esoteric and...hollow feeling.
I wish Cainhurst was expanded a bit more in Bloodborne. It has fascinating lore, cool vampire shit, but it is terribly short. Was originally going to be a much bigger area. Very sad.
I remember genuinely saying "What the fuck!?" During my first playthrough of Ringed City when I got to the second fucking swamp at the tail end. Definitely one of the shittiest sets of areas in a DLC, period.
It seems to me that people, or at least other Tarnished, can 'sense' when you have grace to some extent. They don't necessarily have to see it in your eyes. Characters mention it to you early on, it's like they can just feel it around you.
HEMA is kind of gay and Sekiro did not have very realistic Samurai swordplay regardless.
It is pretty clear that Dark Souls 3 was a mess of different ideas that didn't get implemented fully or was subject to last minute changes. Dark Souls 1 is largely coherent, and every element at play within the setting makes sense and has a fairly solid explanation or payoff, and what doesn't feels less like a shoulder shrug and more like intentional mystery.
Yeah DS1 is guilty of this as well but it got worse in future titles.
I'm not terribly familiar with the developmental woes of Bloodborne but it always felt like there were two competing ideas for the overall theme (Van Helsing style vampire and werewolf nonsense, and eldritch horror), and they should have picked one and developed it more. If there's cut content or any documentation relating to the original concept for Cainhurst beyond any of the stuff Lance McDonald has put out, I'd love to see it.
The OG DS3 leaks looked so wonky at the time I swore they were fake.
No, more like, say, both Nito and Gwyndolin reappearing and being eaten by Aldritch despite being canonically dead (or deader in Nito's case). Gwyn giving the dark sign to hollows despite the dark soul being the entire reason the gods are getting weaker. The deep is the heaviest lowest part of the dark soul but we never find out what the actual abyss has been up to despite it being a world ending threat in DS1. The profaned flame exists as a magic evil flame that never goes out, is somehow not related to chaos and also does nothing but shoot basic fireballs at you. A blind woman somehow overpowers champion Gundyr with a fire poker. Somehow behind a wall in Lothric there is a time pocket with another firelink shrine full of black knights. Animated skeletons, trees and sunlight still existing despite their respective lord souls being gone, and the lords of cinder that replaced them serving no other purpose than to link the fire. And speaking of linking the fire, aside from Friede we never see what happens when someone chooses to be a dark lord, we are only shown lords of cinder.
Yeah no. All indications are that it's mostly what they wanted to make. The cut content and changes are on the level of DeS, DS1&BB, only DS3 had the misfortune of having images of an early prototype leak.
The spaz you're talking to knows fuck-all about datamining. He's just shitting out fanfiction he read on /v/ and pretending it's true There is 0 to indicate it was anything besides what it is now conceptually. There may have been cut or altered geometry, enemies etc., big whoop. That's completely normal.
The images are of a really early prototype. It still used fucking DS1 UI ffs.
Remember when you said DS1's plot was easy to follow? And then you typed this out, proving you didn't follow any of it, nor 3's.
From what I have researched it definitely had pretty radical changes throughout, though it is really unclear if the story was always going to be such a pointless retread of DS1 or not.
I watched a couple streams from Sinclair Lore that Richie did before trooning out where he looked at very early maps and shit, and I have vague memories of there being remnants of cut content for an NPC being in Cainhurst. I can't remember which video in particular might cover it.
Still coping and seething after all this time. Pretty funny. Sorry I'm shitting all over your favorite game, bro. Maybe you should stop at the dilation station and take a breather?
Other than the Lake of Mud where you would fight the Moon Presence's physical form, there's not much cut content from Bloodborne, some friendly encounter with Gascone, a cut snake ball boss, a more pathetic and sympathetic characterization of Gerhman, and some more vague forshadowing.
"Mongrel intruder... thou'rt a moor it seemeth?"
See, I'm not. I'm curt and I call a spade a spade. Spades yet to even try to dispel that notion either. Have good convos with people who aren't spades, fancy that.
This is a completely retarded claim that makes me think you've started taking HRT again.
Ok, explain me the role of Pontiff Sulyvahn on the plot and why you fight him without using any item descriptions. Further explain me how Aldrich ended up in Anor London devouring Gwyndolin without opposition without using item descriptions.
Absolutely. I don’t know if Miyazaki is unaware, or just doesn’t care, but something really needs to be done about the translation and localization team(s). Since DS1 (probably even Demon Souls) they’ve been ruining important lore bits.
It would greatly explain why it's so poorly told compared to Sekiro and even some of base game ER. But at the same time, it's on Fromsoftware so it's good people are voicing issues on the storytelling.
