Dark Souls II Announced

[Forlorn Drifter]

Now I have to pick up Dark Souls.

I was waiting to get a PS3, seeing as I thought Demon Souls was connected. According to a friend, I'm apparently wrong.

There isn't a storyline connection between the two games, but Dark Souls is a gameplay sequel of Demon's Souls.

It was made out to me as if it was a sequel, continued story and all. If I had known it was only a spiritual successor, I wouldn't have had a problem....

Ima pick it up now.

[Goregasm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_JFDPCtXFY
what does everyone think?

[Dylan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_JFDPCtXFY
what does everyone think?

Dark Souls II is such a graphical upgrade from the first, it looks really good from what we've seen so far. There are some strange things in the trailer though, like did the player block a huge attack with just a torch?

[Goregasm]

The lighting and shadows look amazing! Yeah I did notice him blocking battle axes with a torch haha although the hit did completely deplete his stamina bar. One of the youtube comments pointed out that the little symbol next to the health and stamina bars could mean the game has a day and night cycle.

Oh and another thing I noticed is how easily he killed that cyclops thing.. That has me a little worried.

[flex wood]

I forgot there was a thread for this, but yes I'm excited after seeing the trailer.

I like that the lock on ring is now that blue color instead of that grey white that sometimes didn't show up on certain enemies.

I liked the enemy types shown off, looking back on Dark Souls I feel like there wasn't enough variety.

I kind of hope they do a proper special edition this time. I felt let down by the Dark Souls special edition, the art book felt extremely cheap and the mini guide ended up not being a physical guide but a download code that didn't even work for most people.

Also I wish I hadn't watched the trailer they spoiled some things I didn't really want spoiled like that bone dragon.

[flex wood]

Apparently Dark Souls 2 is going to be releasing in March of '014 according to a recent post on Destructoid. If it's true, bummer it was one of the few games I planned on picking up at launch this year. I am glad though if From needs more time then they should get more time instead of being rushed like they were with the first one.

[Xeogred]

First time I'm seeing that video, and it honestly still looks awesome to me.

[IcKy99]

I'm extremely looking forward to DSII, I put more hours into Dark Souls than any other game last year and 2011 and if FROM is taking their time, I'm going to be patient because it should be worth the wait.

[flex wood]

Anyone else been in the beta? I had an awesome time last night. The game is going to be amazing, I'm already thinking it's going to be the game of the gen for me.

The beta was extremely hard though, not sure if I was just sucking or being over confident and not taking my time. Either way I died way more then I expected to.

I'm not sure if there's an NDA so I won't say much but I really like some of the changes.

[EvilRyu2099]

A bit upset I missed the beta last night... Just totally forgot..