Features Fromsoftware Should've Kept
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- When you make one style of game for well over a decade, you're bound to make mistakes -- it's often best to correct them, and such was the case with many systems that FROMSOFT and the players alike deemed to be bad -- case and point, things like Soul Memory or World Tendency; the question is, was it worth getting rid of some of these features? I feel like sometimes, certain tweaks or minor changes could do the trick, as opposed to flat-out removing them. There's also the argument to be made that some features are ''lore accurate'' to the games they belong to, hence why they shouldn't make a return -- and truth be told, that's completely understandable, but still, I wish we had some of these today, even in a game as polished and great as Elden Ring.
TLDR; gimme ascetic & boss rush.
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00:00 Introduction
01:30 Demon's Souls
03:49 Dark Souls
05:17 Dark Souls II
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The ability to parry with almost every weapon is one of Dark Souls 2's best attributes. It's something that I deeply wish carried forward into the following games. It promoted caution and respect in every fight and deepened the rewards for game knowledge and skillful play. I also wish the weapon and movement animations carried into Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring. They looked beautiful.
I agree so much with all of this. I also miss all those riposte and backstab animations
True -- I only got a Greatsword parry off once and I still remember that moment! It's a fun little mechanic I too think should've stayed.
As for the animations, I think my favourite is the idle 2 handed grip (for swords). I think its the only game that has that unique stance and its so ''gorgeous'', if that makes sense
@@fermyonds Demon's Souls had it as well, so it was actually a return-to-form whereas DS1, DS3, and Elden Ring all downgraded.
Elden Ring just need covenants in general
They need to implement a Covenant system like Dark Souls 2 had. PvE and PvP focused Covenants, with rewards and levels and ways to rank them up offline and online. It gives the game life beyond it's peak and also gives players roles in the game to play along with. I mean Dark Souls 2 rat bros was literally a thing people enjoyed doing and the rivalry between Blue and Red was bigger then ever in Dark Souls 2. It really made the game feel alive. Even had two different arena systems that offered different experiences and one of the better invasion systems too. I honestly think people forget how good Dark Souls 2 implemented some things compared to how they are handled now.
Elden Ring feels like a stripped back experience when you remove the open world aspect of the game. It just lacks a lot of the details and systems 2 offered.
I massively agree with both of these comments. Maybe we'll get something akin to covenants in the expansion (I know I am coping)
it has them, what are you talking about
@@MesaRedonda_what tf do you mean it has them? where?
@@carbonatedphantom8388 bloody finger, furled fingers, hunters and the other two i forgot about. the covenants work in a different way than in other games to facilitate online play, tell me you have been summoned as a watchdog of farron more than 3 times while casually playing.
Actually, I'd say the Bloodborne insight mechanic is a lot more similar to tendency than the umbral world from LotF.
You bring up a good point -- I haven't even thought of that, but yeah Insight is a lot closer to it, and not only that but Insight overall is a fantastic mechanic (imo)
You can actually see exactly how travel changed throughout the games and why
In demon souls you had the hub and the level start and then a checkpoint after each boss
in DS1 they removed the hub so they had more bonfires and allowed you to level up at them which removed the need for the maiden in black.
Later in the game warping is unlocked because the world has become too big to backtrack without wasting time.
in bloodborne they returned to the hub feature and added back the maiden/doll for leveling. But they kept the extra lamps.
at the same time DS2 went full in on the warp feature and it stuck for the rest of the games.
True -- I'm willing to bet that Demon Souls' world being so disconnected from one archstone to the other was probably a technical limitation (or maybe FS just wasn't experienced with this at the time, I can't say for sure) but I'm really glad that traversal itself has evolved so much.
My favourite area design prolly belongs to DS2 -- I like warping from the get-go, and also love how there's a few branching paths you can take early on -- just adds to the replayability, for me at least
@@fermyondsalso DS2 is the only game that allows you to head straight for the castle without needing to kill "4 dudes", it made each playthrough more distinct and accessible.
I really liked bonfire ascetics as well - for many reasons, Dark Souls 2 will always have a place in my heart. Great video !
DS2 really had so many fun ideas and I wish more of them stayed relevant in the future FS catalogue; I'm thankful that there's a good number of said features present in ER at the very least. Anyhow, thank you for your words! x)
Something I miss is the rally mechanic from Bloodborne. Namely, the ability to regain health after damage from hitting the thing that damaged you. I think Sekiro, which emphasises aggressive play, would have benefitted the most from it
Am pretty sure sekiro encourages playing tactically rather than aggressively
Rally promoted Trading hits. The damage in both Sekiro and ER are do high, it discourages hit trading.
The two latter promote measured aggression, while BB went for mindless button mashing.
Sekiro already has a self sustain mechanic, is one of the earlier techniques u unlock, gaining HP whenever u deathblow something
A rally system + the deathblow HP technique would be too OP
Rally to this day is one of my favourite mechanics as well! I still am simping over Trick Weapons like no tomorrow but the Rally mechanic itself is amazing. I also like how quite a few other games tried to have some sort of Rally system (Lords of the Fallen, Lies of P, and I believe Thymesia has one as well) while also putting their own spin on it. It's great
@@fermyondsI liked the one in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak because it also nerfs your potions and you have to sheathe to use them for most weapons anyways, so it absolutely promotes aggression, plus it even goes beyond your red health, too. You can wind up healthier than when you got hit!
First thing that popped into my mind when you said "Demon's Souls" was the Dragon Long Sword. My absolute top weapon during my first playthrough. I still keep the tradition alive by upgrading the basic Longsword in each new Souls/FromSoft game I play into the fire damage path.
That's me with the claymore :) I think I will have to do a Dragon Long Sword playthrough sometime soon, seems like a fun idea!
Man, I have always loved tail weapons. I have not used most of them, but just having an alternate objective during boss fights is really cool. I was really disappointed when tail cuts were gone in the following games.
My mind was blown when I discovered I can cut down the tail of the dragon in Ash Lake. That was such a memorable moment for me -- overall, yeah, I absolutely loved this lil system
THE DS2 TORCH MECHANIK IS REAL
I love almost everything about the torch mechanics except for the timer. I'm not joking, I ran out of them all the time! x))
Oh yeah, my point on covenants, they're cool but I think they could do with being different to just "the invasion ones", "invade this area ones" "the co-op ones", "the help against invaders ones", things like that. Maybe to do with schools of magic, where using certain spells to kill enemies gets you progress? Don't terribly mind the area ones, actually, but they are held back by if anyone is in the area or not. So, I think another thing that could be useful is that, with a setting you can change whether to opt in or out, if you're offline, or online trying to invade for a certain time without an invasion, you get to invade a bot, and there's random as well as the scripted invasions they currently have. Or make covenants more like guids, with big community interaction. It's a linear game and not an mmo but i think it could work out. I mostly just want an actual Radahn festival raid boss event with 40 players i guess. Or a bunch of clan war events between people siding with specific demigods, like though the Shattering ended, the tensions are still high.
not sure how they'd manage to implement something like that since the netcode's a bit of a mess at times (lol) but jeez man you made me wish Radahn could be tackled with 40 players like a classic-WoW raid.
ugh x) hope this becomes a mod one day in the far distant future. all of it sounds cool
One thing I like from DS2 was that you had you had to make an effort to not get invaded instead of the reverse nowadays.
It meant much less gank squads.
I never experienced DS2 pvp in its glory days but I hope to be able to one day. Its just that all the mechanics with the Effigies seem cool
Read the TL:DR I knew this was gonna be bonfire ascetics. Most relevantly, i just want to fight the bosses conveniently again.
Bonfire Ascetics / Boss Rush baby, one of the best things to exist!
I CLOGGED THE TOILET MOW ITS OVERFLOWING HEELP
Oh man that brings back memories x) hope you had a fun time with that!
Good plunger. Heard a lil dish soap can help.
As someone who goes for platinum in ds1 2 3 and has knights honour achievement, i dont get how people dont like the tail cutting mechanic. Its really nice. And grinding for channelers tridrnt is way worse
I still haven't gotten my Trident lol! Congrats on getting 100% on all 3 games, I don't know if I'd be able to commit to that. Hats off!
Most of why I think people don't like it is literally trying to get the tail for the MLGS from Seath is just....pain. A lot of pain.
i feel my biggest complaint about tail cutting is that you cannot reface bosses, if you dident know or killed one by accident then that weapon is locked away unless you restarted the run or go to new game plus, but i think bonfire ascetics would be a answer for this issue :p. also on a side note i would like parrying to be a "better" and more common skill, i feel to often its situational at best, and often over powered, even in blood born the beasts cannot be parried most of the time :o.
Oh you bring up a good point. It recently happened to me with the Moonlight GS in DS1 where I killed Seath before cutting the tail and it was annoying that I couldn't get it anymore for that playthrough -- so yeah, that's absolutely unpleasant and as you said, could be fixed with ascetics (if only we had em..)
As for parrying, I almost never do it UNLESS its a specific boss (Champion Gundyr, Crucible Knights, etc) -- I kinda like that its "designed" for certain encounters but yeah, against someone like Malenia, it was near useless for me (and I had to rely exclusively on being lightweight and proper dodging/running for waterfowl)
I feel the problem with tail cuts is not the mechanic itself, but the bosses it was put on. (Mainly seeth)
Yeah, some of them were definitely worse than others, specifically Seath and Kalameet -- still, it was a great feeling when you finally get it cut off. The worst part was if you accidentally killed the boss without getting the tail weapon -- that felt bad x))
Red phantoms are hands down the most underrated feature in the souls series, especially how it was implemented in ds2. I was so disappointed that only scaling was effected in ER Journey 2 and DS3. It's just such a rich and enjoyable feature of those games.
With the tail cut, im not sure if the achievement has much to do with its controversy since you have to play through the game multiple times to get all boss weapons anyway, so you get multiple chances at tail cuts.
One feature that wasnt mentioned that I absolutely love are the vagrants in DS1. Those little guys are so unnecessary yet so god damn cool to see, it's one of those features that shows how much love was put into DS1.
You brought up a good point with tail cutting. Maybe it's just not a "fan favourite" in general due to how tedious cutting some of them can be
That said!! DS2's ng+ was phenomenal and I'm upset we don't have that anymore. Same for the vagrants. In around 200ish hrs on DS1 I only encountered 1 while I was in Darkroot Garden. Felt like meeting Bigfoot tbh!
I think there is something else from bloodborne even better then trick weapons
not having to farm for weapons and clothing (pretend blood gems don't exist)
Yep. Farming is not fun.
Good point actually -- you know, I've been trying to get the Magma Blade in Elden Ring for a while now. Still haven't had the fortune to get it! x)
I like world tendency, it makes the game feel more connected to other players playing when online. I would like to see it return with some tweaks to the game, it would also be interesting since it works somewhat as a “karma” system.
This is exactly how I feel about it too -- doubt we'll ever get something like this again but a man can dream, eh? x)
The sheer amount of Caster support and utility of DS2, as DS3 and Elden Ring are almost barebones by comparison.
I get that 100% - I tried playing a caster in every single game and the only ones I thoroughly enjoyed were Hexes in DS2 and Pyromancies in DS3. Had fun with FTH in ER although tbh that was mostly just for buffing and stuff
Hexes in general are my favourite implementation of dark magic
Tbh even DS1 had FAR better caster options and even spellblade options compared to DS3. From was REALLY aggressive when it came to bringing casters down in that game to the point where it felt genuinely pointless to a degree. Elden ring spell casting is....okay. But compared to DS2? Jesus christ. DS2 at least is the ONLY GAME IN THE WHOLE SERIES to tie spellcasting to....ya know....SOMETHING A PURE CASTER WOULD ACTUALLY NEED TO INVEST IN?
I am still bitter that of all the weapons they reused in ds3, the Silver knight Spear and Sword are not there. They even have the assets in the game, and they give us the shield, armor and bow! We also see the silver knights use what would have been the weapon art, a long sliding thrust for the spear and a lightning powered overhead chop for the sword.
Oh man I completely get this. Not just with DS3 but in Elden Ring there's the kusarigama wielding vulgar militia. I spent like half an hour farming them only to then google it and find out they don't drop those weapons. Was so disappointed
@@fermyonds But they do give us the butt-ugly saw!
Yea, this is just stupid
IF they ever put a trick weapon in the DLC, guarantee it will only be a single weapon, it will also be somber. It will either be almost busted, or hardly mediocre. Second. I think that the Dark Souls one feature to indict players and have a covenant focused around invading them was great. Dark Anor Londo was also a fantastic idea.
honestly? even if the potential (copium) trick weapon we'd get sucks, I'd still end up using it purely because it might be cool -- I remember when I did a playthrough of DS3 with Valorheart. man that thing sucked but I loved the aestethic of it x)
but yeah, something akin to Dark Anor Londo would be great!
Trick weapons are really cool, tho a big issue in implementation would be the fact there is no 1 handing and 2 handing a weapon in bloodborne in the Dark Souls way.
In DS 1-2-3 and ER you can use any weapon both onehanded and twohanded. In onehanded R1 and R2 control the right hand and L1 and L2 the left.
In BB R1 R2 and L1 control your trick weapon even when onehanding it and you can't choose of you want to onehand or twohand each weapon: some are only 1 handed (saw weapons, cane, tonitrus...) And the rest only go from onehanded to twohanded when they change form.
You bring up a good point and honestly I didn't think much of the implementation (my mistake) -- I just think about some of the transformation combos and I end up wishing I still had some of that present in the other games x)
withholding like button until confirmation that covenants are not mentioned
Yeah, the thing with covenants is that on one hand, I think they provide variety and fun to the online gameplay. On the other hand, kinda sucks that some genuinely great rewards are locked behind notorious grinds, like the Anor Londo Silver Knights x)
@@fermyonds I think the other hand more so relates to how awfully tuned FS made covenants in DS3 for offline farming, and even online some like the Faithful and the Watchdogs were far worse off then others cuz of how they were locked to one area.
I miss the rally mechanic from Bloodborne, even if it wasn’t a base feature in another game but as a passive effect from a ring/talisman
Oh absolutely, that'd be great. The closest thing we have are some items that let you leech HP on kill/hit (like Malenia Great Rune or Blasphemous Blade) but sadly its not the same as Rally :( hopefully we get a talisman like that in SOTE!
@@fermyonds Malenia's rune is actually fairly true to what rally is.....the issue is from applied a heavy nerf to the crimson flask just for using it, which is really frustrating.
If shadows of the erdtree wont have any old weapons in any possible way (Moveset or literally) i will commit Sir alonne
Man I am hoping we get the Ringed Knight swords, those were some of my favourite!
If not, then I too shall commit Sir Alonne. We're in this together
DS2 did some great stuff with the menus/inventory that they never did again. This makes me sad.
Yeah I like how in DS2 if you open up the main menu, your character also takes another stance, letting anyone you co-op with know that you're doing something.
Or just the overall QOL with the inventory ''look'' -- such a massive step up in comparison to DeS/DS1
@@fermyonds even just consuming a bunch of soul items, not coming out of the menu each time was great. And then we see it go in BB. I don't care about seeing the animation, I just want to go through my consumables quickly! 😅
@@fermyonds DS1's overall UI is arguably the worst in the entire series (I can't compare to Demon souls or Bloodborn because I don't have a playstation lol).
God I’m so glad they didn’t keep any of these. Besides the trick weapons, they were cool
Whats wrong with a boss rush mode
Aw man, I think the boss rush and Ascetics were great, although I understand why you'd feel that way
Can always play Nioh for the trick weapon style game play with all the stance, weapon switching and yokai skill comboing.
You're right -- I have played a bit of Nioh 2 but still not enough. I'll have to make more time for it, but yeah, Nioh2 and its combat is phenomenal (I haven't played Nioh 1 yet but that's something I wanna do in the near future)
Tail cutting is cool! I want more bits like that! I love part destruction! The bosses in DS1 are way too hard to get the tail cuts, so I'd like bosses with tail cuts or other part destruction to have at least one incredibly high commitment attack to create an opening to attack the tail. Or other parts! Could be cool to cut off or perforate wings of a thing to stop it flying.
That's even better, honestly I'd be cool with any sort of dismemberment x) Another person pointed out how in Bloodborne, certain beasts will get stunned if you 'break' their limbs (Ludwig, Amelia, etc.) and that as well is something I genuinely liked
Trick weapons are kinda just a good, game-synergised one hand/two hand mechanic, if they added a transform attack tied to the hand button, and generally changed back up the one-hand/two-hand movesets since they kinda homogenised them in Elden Ring that I really disliked. Greatsword just has horizontals! MLGS just has the horizontal beams! There's technically minute differences I'm sure but nothing big springs to mind.
You're right -- I am certain they could prolly figure out a proper implementation of it, but on the topic of the GS.. I miss the Greatsword moveset of DS3 especially, that was way too much fun. I might have to start another playthrough sometime..
Bonfire ascetics are literall god send of feature
Big agree -- One of my favourite items ever implemented.
Also holy fuck its Schnoz from Berk!
@@fermyonds it's schnozing time
Had chalice dungeons been less of a pain to get players into, and was focused more on being a co-op environment, they couldve pulled it off in DS3.
The randomness was cool but it also didn't make it particularly any fun. If they were specific areas tailored for the experience they wouldve been more fun.
Spot on - I like chalice dungeons as a way to get stronger / get a specific item and I also enjoy how relaxing they can be, but damn they are a wasted opportunity. If they had more to them than just ''pull x lever / go kill boss'' it would've been great
1. World Tendency was honestly such a weird thing and I'm kinda glad they dropped it.
2. I think that they kinda evolved "tail cutting" in bloodborne with the addition of "limb break" of some bosses(I remember breaking Cleric Beast's and Amelia's arms). Currently I think they just don't know how to properly implement it in a really meaningful way(ER has like one instance of "tail cutting" - you can cut off giant octopus' front tentacles).
3. I think Bonfire Ascetics wouldn't work well in open world parts of the game. They'd only be reasonable to use in the legacy dungeons. Although Michael Zaki probably thought that getting to NG+ just to get the second item from boss' soul is lame and made the whole Walking Mausoleums thing. So Bonfire Ascetics aren't really needed.
4. I miss trick weapons so much(Church Pick and Rakuyo, my beloveds).
5. I wouldn't mind covenants but ffs no covenant locked weapons/spell/talismans. It was so ass to farm Silver Knights in Anor Londo.
6. Them not adding the ability to refight at least remeberance bosses is beyond me. And they could probably makes some stuff like gauntlet e.g Tree Sentinel - Margit - Godrick
1 - Completely understandable, I just have a weird fixation on it and in some ways I do like it, but I understand why they aren't doing WT anymore
2 - I forgot about the Land Octopus limbs getting cut, thanks for the reminder on that! And yeah, you bring up a very good point for it with Bloodborne in specific. I remember the first time I beat Ludwig I had no idea how I kept getting him stunlocked -- it was because I was hitting certain limbs, just didn't realize at the time. That was a genuinely great thing and I loved that
3. True, Mausoleums indeed fixed a good chunk of what Ascetics have been used for -- and admittedly the whole shtick of fighting bosses again can be traced to the Sekiro boss-rematch as well, so in that sense it's understandable why there's no Ascetics -- but we still need that refight mode! x) hopefully with SOTE
4. Man I hated getting the Rakuyo but once I got it, I felt so happy. It was absolutely worth it to struggle with those sharks
5. 100%, I like what DS2 did where you could get almost all the covenant locked stuff in NG+2 (with some exceptions, I think the Heirs of the Sun had to be farmed) but yeah, nothing locked behind a grind would be ideal. Just having them around would be great for various gameplay activities. I feel like people would do them even if there was no reward tied to them
6. Hopefully coming soon!
anyhow thanks for the lengthy comment, was a pleasant read :)
There are some who dislike Covenants for the same reason as you said some didn't like the tail cutting mechanic. Trophies/Achievements.
Funny enough Elden Ring fixed this by NOT having "collect every X" in the game, but instead only having trophies for collecting all the Legendary Armaments/Ashes/Spells/Talismans. So if they added Covenants to Elden Ring or if they return in a future game, all they have to do is NOT have achievements/trophies locked behind getting max rank in all covenants and we'll be copacetic. Sure the players that have that compulsion that they "MUST" collect every item to exist in the game will complain but that's on them, they know they sign-up for a grind whenever they set out on that goal no matter what game it is.
As for Trick Weapons returning, the best way I can see that happening in any kind of way is if they made a game with a Bloodborne approach to Weapons (Quality > Quantity) and had every weapon be a Paired Weapon in some form or another.
Example: Daggers, 2-handing daggers is just awful and ridiculous, they should be like Claws and Fist Weapons where "2-handing" them just pulls out a second dagger. OR they could get fancy with it and instead have "2-handing" just swap how the character grips the dagger, swapping between Standard Grip and Reverse Grip, each one obviously necessitating a different moveset and even "Trick Attacks" for when you change grip style mid attack combo.
That's the only way I see them giving "Trick Weapons" a return and I'd be fine with that, I'm all for them updating their weapon animation library with more interesting and fun weapon movesets.
You're right about the covenant rewards aspect. To this day I think DS2 did that the best, where you can get them in NG+2 by straight up buying them from an NPC as opposed to having to slog through any grind (with the exception of Sunlight Medals I believe) -- still, not tying any achievements to obtaining them would be even better IMO
As for the trick weapons bit, yeah you're right too. They'd be "tricky" to implement although deep down I'm still hopeful we'll see a return to them sometime x)
My list:
Never Played Demon Souls
Bloodborne: Trick Weapons by far.
Dark Souls: Humanity healing
Dark Souls 2: Hexes and Resonant Soul tree. Best Faith spells outside of Elden Ring. Resonant in particular.
Dark Souls 3: Lothric Straight, Dark Pyromancies and Pyromancy in general. This is the game where they got pyromancy balancing *Right* imo.
Elden Ring: Good Faith weapons. Most of the games have pathetic Faith weapons and offensive spells. This game has both, and the Pyro being folded into Faith is wonderful!
I agree with a lot of these points. I was a massive fan of Hexes in DS2 and Pyromancies in 3. Those two are prolly my favourite playstyles to this day
6 player limit on invasions.
I even made up a system that is basically for 1 summon you get one invader (thus 1 phantom equals 1 invader for 2v1, and 2 phantom equals 3v2. Tougne equal random variable from 3v3 or having 5 invaders. Should any of your summons die, a blue will replace their stead unless resumoned.)
Frankly I already accepted that Fromsoft is incompetent at pvp and multiplayer balance that I doubt anything will be done with pvp in elden ring in general. And I want to be proven wrong and actually see something done about it, but yeah...
That would actually be so sick! Love that 6 player idea!
Though personally I don't think its a FromSoft pvp/multiplayer issue. I felt this way till I played AC6 and I was genuinely blown away by both the netcode and overall balance of the game. Here's hoping the guys who worked on the AC6 side of pvp will contribute heavily into whatever next project FS has for us!
@@fermyonds honestly its rather strange how the most financially successful soulsborne game has the most backwards pvp. I am hoping to god they do fix it and add in previous features from dk3, because it’s kinda regressive in nature.
I'm too happy I just bpught Dark Souls trilogy collectors edition some stuff with that elite knight and bonefire figure cheaper than 3 games togethar. Why collect all of their good stuff on one game when you can play all of them one by one? None of us needs something peerfect, we just should enjoy with the things we already have!
you're spot on, and I mean it when I say it, I love all of their games equally; Sometimes I just wish I had x,y,z in other games too (thinking about the Farron Greatsword) and I love talking about that, hence why I made this x)
But yeah, not trying to downplay the greatness of these games at all here
I wish they kept the soul gems from ds2. Or something similar at least. In elden ring your only optiond to heal are the flask or using fp, whether thats a healing incantation or the warming stone, both require fp. I just want to crush a rock in my hand and slowly heal up. Its great if the health missing is too little for a whole flask or youre just trying to conserve the flasks before a boss
I'm surprised they didn't keep them too! I like what Sekiro did where you still had alternative ways of healing (rice, pellets, deathblows, etc) -- would've been nice to have more options like that with Elden Ring too.
Or at the very least, being able to keep your Great Runes as you go into NG+. I'm still upset at how little usage Malenia's gets, and that'd be a fun way to heal up x)
My issue is they're just too strong, to the point where it feels more benefical to heal with life gems over flasks and kind of degrades the usefulness of a flask simply because lifegem HoTs are so strong. ESPICALLY if you stack them.
@scorpiowarrior7841 but the thing is the life gems are over time. Flasks are near instant and you can improve them to heal more, you can only heal more from gems by using larger, rarer ones. They're also just good as a backup if you run out of flasks
@@mr.bucket3710 Yeah, the only difference between them is life gems are less limited, borderline unlimited, hell the amount of healing items in ds2 compared to any other game is insane. It just requires you to play safer then you would with a flask. I just think it kinda heavily negates the attrition style gameplay the series is known for that I kinda prefer.
nice vid keep it up
Thank you very much, I'll try to x)
The only feature I want, is opting out invasions. I just wanna run around with my buddy, explore and defeat bosses. If we don't want to engage in PvP, we shouldn't have to.
I get that, it can be pretty frustrating. I haven't done a lot of co op besides just bosses but yeah, getting invaded out of the blue can be a bit of a pain when just casually roaming around or exploring x)
I mean for elden ring specifically there is, seamless co op mod.
@@scorpiowarrior7841 What do you mean? Because as soon as I summon a friend in Elden Ring, we get invaded. Some areas more than others, but it always happens.
@@freddogrosso9835 There is a mod for elden ring that uses different servers compared to the main game called seamless co op. It's a form of co op where evrey boss death counts in both worlds, essentially allowing to progress normally as you would in a proper co op game. It's not apart of the base game, but it DOES exist and it is relatively easy to install.
One feature i still question is them giving you a item that just kills you and brings you back to the last bonefire without your souls or any way to retrieve them.
Has anybody actually used that item in any of their playthroughs?
Really only in Demon's Souls
@@lumethecrow What for?
It’s useful if you get locked somewhere and don’t have many souls / humanity on you and no homeward bone and speedrunners use it all the time
It's useful in case you're glitched in some debilitating way and don't have a homeward bone
It's useful as a last resort, I mean majority of the early games didn't have fast travelling as a thing and homeward bones being a consumable item means you could run out. So if you got glitched or stuck somewhere you'd be out of luck unless you could kill your character in some way. So they added the Dark Sign, it's basically a last resort die and return to a safe spot item but they tied it in with the lore of our character and it being a representation of the curse of the undead and why we keep coming back. So it's two pronged, a safeguard item and a lore item.
Cool video....I loved Lotf its a great game that FROM could learn from.
Thanks for your nice words! I remember when I first played LOTF I wasn't a huge fan of it but it grew on me and I genuinely enjoy it nowadays. Fun game
Have my like, ashen one!
Thanks Ash Ketchum
Covenants, trick weapons and to sack the leeches that impose deadlines. I'm tired of these games being close to great.
Fromsoft only really struggled with deadlines for DS1 and arguably DS2. For DS2 there were overall more production issues than just deadlining but I digress. DS1 is the only game that majorly suffered from deadlines.
to be honest I was really glad whenever Elden Ring got delayed a few months. I think it could've still used maybe another 2-3 weeks (due to the performance issues at launch) but yeah, in a game like DS1/2, as BlacklistedSoup mentioned, it's so much more clear how the deadlines messed the games up. Still wishing we had a better Lost Izalith!
No, world tendency did NOT have potential
It was bad. end og
Sekiro's version was bad aswell
I completely get that, I'm mostly just a sucker for it but you're right, WT sucks -- I didn't mind Sekiro's dragonrot too much though (I assume that's what you were referring to?)
dark souls 2 > all
Hell yeah brother, you can say that again
Ok, actual controversial opinion, I LOVED the fact that enemies stay dead after killing them enough times in DS 2!
It’s bad because it makes it so you can’t farm items anymore. Of course, the covenant of champions exist but it basically makes everything ng+ difficulty
@@rigorm136 the fodder enemies that are common in the early game don't really drop anything, I'd be fine with knights and ogres still respawn
@rigorm136 they could always up the number of times, and have a modifier that checks their drop list to your inventory/storage and if it's the last death before they stop respawning it drops all those items if you don't have them. It makes it so you still have to grind for them, but you don't have to worry about the abysmal drop chance like say the bone plow in Elden Ring has
@@SelkieGirl You'd be surprised at the items some enemies do drop. The falconer's drop sunlight medals for example and the hollow soldiers dropped lifegems. I think most enemies dropped at least one useful item besides their armour and weapon sets.
@@TheAverageNerd I enjoy the rare drop chance in these games, it's another factor adding to the difficulty and re-playability of the games. If everything could be farmed in one playthrough in a couple hours then it would remove a lot of the replay factor.