12 minute Gameplay Premiere on IGN tomorrow

morte wrote:I've been thinking about the time when this is set and I keep coming back to the idea of the prequel or a parallel timeline to DkS I based on this game-play trailer and the interview. The boars that attacked you had the same moveset as armored boars in DkS I, but they didn't have the armor, which means they may have been the "beta version" so to speak. The stones of healing may have been prototypes of the crystal of immortality, using estus flame instead of dragon scales, which would give the connection and the use of estus discussed in the interview. This, in my opinion, and based on the areas we were given names for seem to indicate the involvement of dragons, the gods, and experiments on the dragons, so it is probably one of seathe's abandoned laboratories from before he became the duke.


Here's one thing that concerns me: cutscene deaths like the ones with seathe in DkS I. The bridge looked like a cutscene as did the silver chariot (there was a clear and open window to dodge left, and dodging into something or to the side is always preferable to running from a horse-drawn chariot, which makes me think it might be a cutscene death.....I despise cutscene deaths unless they are for lore reasons and getting items or doing things in the area will alleviate them)

Frank_White wrote:

morte wrote:I've been thinking about the time when this is set and I keep coming back to the idea of the prequel or a parallel timeline to DkS I based on this game-play trailer and the interview. The boars that attacked you had the same moveset as armored boars in DkS I, but they didn't have the armor, which means they may have been the "beta version" so to speak. The stones of healing may have been prototypes of the crystal of immortality, using estus flame instead of dragon scales, which would give the connection and the use of estus discussed in the interview. This, in my opinion, and based on the areas we were given names for seem to indicate the involvement of dragons, the gods, and experiments on the dragons, so it is probably one of seathe's abandoned laboratories from before he became the duke.


Here's one thing that concerns me: cutscene deaths like the ones with seathe in DkS I. The bridge looked like a cutscene as did the silver chariot (there was a clear and open window to dodge left, and dodging into something or to the side is always preferable to running from a horse-drawn chariot, which makes me think it might be a cutscene death.....I despise cutscene deaths unless they are for lore reasons and getting items or doing things in the area will alleviate them)

He obviously could have dodged the chariot but didn't for demonstration purposes. Gather yourself man.
Also when you see an unsafe looking bridge surrounded by 50 or so wyverns, common sense goes you shouldn't try crossing it. Players fault for falling for that, kind of like the Wyvern bridge in the Burg.

morte wrote:

Frank_White wrote:

morte wrote:I've been thinking about the time when this is set and I keep coming back to the idea of the prequel or a parallel timeline to DkS I based on this game-play trailer and the interview. The boars that attacked you had the same moveset as armored boars in DkS I, but they didn't have the armor, which means they may have been the "beta version" so to speak. The stones of healing may have been prototypes of the crystal of immortality, using estus flame instead of dragon scales, which would give the connection and the use of estus discussed in the interview. This, in my opinion, and based on the areas we were given names for seem to indicate the involvement of dragons, the gods, and experiments on the dragons, so it is probably one of seathe's abandoned laboratories from before he became the duke.


Here's one thing that concerns me: cutscene deaths like the ones with seathe in DkS I. The bridge looked like a cutscene as did the silver chariot (there was a clear and open window to dodge left, and dodging into something or to the side is always preferable to running from a horse-drawn chariot, which makes me think it might be a cutscene death.....I despise cutscene deaths unless they are for lore reasons and getting items or doing things in the area will alleviate them)

He obviously could have dodged the chariot but didn't for demonstration purposes. Gather yourself man.
Also when you see an unsafe looking bridge surrounded by 50 or so wyverns, common sense goes you shouldn't try crossing it. Players fault for falling for that, kind of like the Wyvern bridge in the Burg.

They both looked cut-scenish to me, if only because the movement was slower and struck me as different, but maybe that was just me.

Longshot wrote:A little on the side note, the translator does a really good job.