Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 1932

On May 12 2014 23:39 WaveofShadow wrote:
Oh and speaking of shit in Dark Souls you're given no information on, how in the fuck are you supposed to figure out how covenants work without reading it somewhere? There's other stuff in there too that I feel like nobody would ever know how/what to do unless it was explained---I don't think that's necessarily the hallmark of artificial difficulty per se (especially in an age where information is very quickly widespread, it's possible it may have been done intentionally knowing most if not all players would eventually have access to that information) although then again now that I describe it it certainly sounds as such. Does not explicitly explaining how to do non-basic things in a game count as artificial difficulty or do we expect to be hand-held too much ingame these days?

On May 12 2014 23:42 Numy wrote:


I believe those were some faults they tried to fix in Dark Souls 2 but I haven't played it yet so maybe someone else can say. There's a fine line between omitting too much information and omitting just the right about. For the most part they did it well in Dark Souls but some stuff they definitely missed the mark.

On May 12 2014 23:45 Nos- wrote:
dark souls 2 doesn't tell you what your covenant does either, a lot of new players joined the first one they found which immediately changed the game to ng+ without telling you about it.

On May 12 2014 23:48 WaveofShadow wrote:

What the fuck?
Why would it do that?

On May 12 2014 23:52 Nos- wrote:

They put it right in Majula too, so it's basically the first covenant you're likely to encounter, and there is no prerequisites to join. You wouldn't think that it'd fuck you over cause it's in the safe haven of the game but you know, From Soft.

Also I'm pretty sure if you decline to join said covenant the game gives you an achievement that calls you a pussy

On May 12 2014 23:30 Scip wrote:
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On May 12 2014 23:57 WaveofShadow wrote:

So fucking silly. I totally would have joined that shit too. Can't tell if annoyed that I know this now or relieved.
Oh well I'm sure it'll be ages before I play DS2 anyway.