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| Topic | Why has no game even attempted Dark Souls 1 world design... |
| Vertania 12/23/18 10:39:12 PM #44 | SwayM posted... I cant remember anything like that in DS3. Not saying thats its not there I just dont remember. Really? The main plot of the game revolved around it... Plus, From isn't known for "clearly implementing" things story-wise. Vaguely mentioning the character's deterioration in DS2's intro cinematic was probably as clear as they wanted to make it. |
| Topic | Why has no game even attempted Dark Souls 1 world design... |
| Vertania 12/23/18 10:26:20 PM #41 | SwayM posted... Lol theres some far reach fam theories. idk, it actually seems more likely than From just straight up overlooking seemingly stupid mistakes like the Earthen Peak elevator. Besides, DkS3 definitely does establish that it's possible for the geography to be distorted. The Souls games lend themselves to all kinds of fan theories. That's one of the beauties of having the lore told through obscure means. On that note, my favorite one is that Demon's Souls was a prequel to both Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series, depening on the ending. |
| Topic | Why has no game even attempted Dark Souls 1 world design... |
| Vertania 12/23/18 10:16:19 PM #38 | RoboLaserGandhi posted... I just assumed that in-canon the Earthen Peak elevator used some kind of spatial sorcery to link the top of the tower with Iron Keep via portal. I read a fan theory years ago that Drangleic's geographic layout was distorted due to the main character's deteriorating mental state. I mean, it is discussed right in the opening cinematic that the MC is afflicted by the curse (Darksign), has an "ailing mind," and is already losing sense of past and future. According to that theory, the paths between areas like Earthen Peak -> Iron Keep or Heide's Tower -> No Man's Wharf were geographically much longer than how the character experiences/remembers it. I've also seen one more recently that says the areas were physically distorted to be closer together than they originally were. Makes a lot of sense considering Dark Souls 3 did the same thing with its world. I still agree it's just the result of IRL laziness though. |
| Topic | Why has no game even attempted Dark Souls 1 world design... |
| Vertania 12/23/18 8:48:11 PM #14 | SwayM posted... Youre given a lot of freedom in where you can go, even at the very beginning of the game. And if youre going in with a specific build in mind it can change how you play through the game. That's also the main reason I hate Dark Souls: Remastered so damn much. If you go out of your way to hunt down certain weapons and/or upgrade materials early, you can pretty much ruin matchmaking for the majority of your playthrough. The very first thing I did when I bought DS:R on Xbox was make an Intelligence character, loop around through Valley of the Drakes into Darkroot Garden, dash past the Hydra, and get the ember. By the time I grinded enough Green Shards and Blue Chunks to get my weapon to +4 Enchanted, I realized I wouldn't be able to be summoned to help anyone until late game. I ended up trading the game in at that point. |
| Topic | Why has no game even attempted Dark Souls 1 world design... |
| Vertania 12/23/18 8:39:50 PM #10 | Bloodborne kind of did it. Not nearly as well, though. One thing that really made DS1 stand out was that you had to actually walk between areas for the first half of the game. It made getting the Lordvessel a huge reward; and even then, you still could only warp to certain bonfires. Every other Souls game just let you warp anywhere from the start, so you never really cared as much about unlocking shortcuts. |
| Topic | Anyone here own any amiibo? |
| Vertania 12/23/18 8:34:55 PM #3 | Just Lucas. I got it at Five Below just to see what amiibos actually did. |
| Topic | "Hayley Atwell (Marvel's Peggy Carter) nude photos reportedly hacked" |
| Vertania 12/23/18 5:51:34 PM #15 | UnfairRepresent posted... because they want to That's fine, as long as they don't care about them being leaked. |
| Topic | "Hayley Atwell (Marvel's Peggy Carter) nude photos reportedly hacked" |
| Vertania 12/23/18 5:45:06 PM #9 | Why are people, especially celebrities, still taking and keeping nude photos on their phones? |
| Topic | Your favorite album from the past 5 years |
| Vertania 12/23/18 11:11:02 AM #10 | Motrhead - Aftershock |
| Topic | Is Black Mirror one of your favorite shows? |
| Vertania 12/22/18 11:22:34 PM #4 | I've only seen like 5 episodes, but it's pretty good. The Twilight Zone is still the best though. |
| Topic | Looking at Pokemon fusions. Some of them are uncomfortably Dark Souls. |
| Vertania 12/22/18 11:19:07 PM #3 |  |
| Topic | "I don't drink milk, and I never will..." |
| Vertania 12/22/18 10:48:50 PM #8 | catboy0_0 posted... yeah but he isn't gonna make it to 80 ... |
| Topic | "I don't drink milk, and I never will..." |
| Vertania 12/22/18 10:47:10 PM #6 | catboy0_0 posted... no I mean if you're all "I would never drink milk that's for babby's" Well, shit, if he can make it 70 years on hard drugs and liquor without drinking milk, I'm inclined to take his word. |
| Topic | "I don't drink milk, and I never will..." |
| Vertania 12/22/18 10:44:55 PM #3 | catboy0_0 posted... I don't trust someone that has a problem with drinking milk Just replace it with Jack Daniel's. |
| Topic | "I don't drink milk, and I never will..." |
| Vertania 12/22/18 10:40:23 PM #1 | "...you asshole."  Lemmy's last word's ever spoken on film. |
| Topic | Best Mass Effect Game |
| Vertania 12/22/18 9:56:20 PM #11 | Mass Effect 1 was pretty much my favorite RPG of all time. Mass Effect 2 single-handedly made me lose interest in the entire series. |
| Topic | I've still never played Super Mario World 2 much more than a smidgeon |
| Vertania 12/22/18 8:34:37 PM #20 | catboy0_0 posted... none of this bs I don't need people attacking others just over a videogame I never completed. enough lol what I didn't even attack him (despite him calling me a clown); I attacked the game. Because it sucks. |
| Topic | I've still never played Super Mario World 2 much more than a smidgeon |
| Vertania 12/22/18 8:27:41 PM #18 | SMAP- posted... Dont listen to this clown *is hurt*:  ^Hope you really enjoy that crying sound, TC, because you'll be hearing it a whole fucking lot if you play SMW2 |
| Topic | I've still never played Super Mario World 2 much more than a smidgeon |
| Vertania 12/22/18 8:10:06 PM #11 | You're really not missing much. It sucks. |
| Topic | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: *breathes* |
| Vertania 12/22/18 6:32:53 PM #56 | Genocet_10-325 posted... It is not my fault the mods are conservative biased. lol |
| Topic | Sasha Baron Cohen's show may have found an elite pedophile sex ring |
| Vertania 12/22/18 6:14:16 PM #35 | COVxy posted... Someone's butthurt that they are the butt of the joke because they believe in pizzagate lol. >enters topic about the possible uncovering of a high profile pedophile ring >"lol this guy talked about the possibility of high profile pedophile rings like two years ago, butthurt!" |
| Topic | Sasha Baron Cohen's show may have found an elite pedophile sex ring |
| Vertania 12/22/18 6:00:37 PM #33 | TC is now a confirmed conspiracy theorist |
| Topic | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: *breathes* |
| Vertania 12/22/18 5:57:03 PM #50 | Genocet_10-325 posted... Lets see whats going on at 261 literally 2 active topics lol If we're counting inactive topics... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/261-politics?search=trump  yep, conservatives sure are the ones freaking the absolute fuck out |
| Topic | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: *breathes* |
| Vertania 12/22/18 5:44:17 PM #37 | @Hairistotle posted... Vertania i dont get it *54 topics about Trump* "..." *2 topics about Ocasio-Cortez* "conservatives are freaking the fuck out" |
| Topic | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: *breathes* |
| Vertania 12/22/18 5:34:52 PM #26 | Genocet_10-325 posted... And?  |
| Topic | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: *breathes* |
| Vertania 12/22/18 5:29:30 PM #21 |   |
| Topic | I've never played Smash Bros, how fun are they? |
| Vertania 12/22/18 3:55:38 PM #11 | Hayame Zero posted... I've put more than 35 hours into the new one, and have yet to play a multiplayer match. There's a LOT of single-player content in it for a party/fighting game. Lost_All_Senses posted... I agree with this but I also feel like someone completely new to the series would be able to have solo fun for awhile. Yeah, Ultimate seems like it is the first one with a decent amount single-player content. Still, the main appeal for me is to get used to the characters for when I have friends get together and play. |
| Topic | I've never played Smash Bros, how fun are they? |
| Vertania 12/22/18 1:43:26 PM #2 | They're not really fun if you don't have friends to play with. And if you haven't played Smash by now, it's probably safe to say you don't have friends that play it. |
| Topic | AC Syndicate is pretty good. |
| Vertania 12/22/18 1:10:38 PM #6 | MuayThai85 posted... Why? They aren't needed in the slightest. There are some important present day story connections at the end of Syndicate. I know most people don't care about that though. |
| Topic | AC Syndicate is pretty good. |
| Vertania 12/22/18 1:06:50 PM #4 | Unity did a few things right, like making the combat more difficult so that you had to rely on tools and stealth more. Syndicate was an improvement on Unity in pretty much every way and added a lot of nice features, but... it still just felt like an improvement of Unity. Didn't live up to the rest of the series. |
| Topic | What series had the hardest/worst transition from 2D to 3D? |
| Vertania 12/22/18 12:56:46 PM #12 | davyheinz posted... Sonic wasnt the worst transition, but it got pretty bad. Sonic was the most consistently bad. Castlevania and Mega Man may have had a few bad 3D games, but they quickly realized they were better off going back to 2D. Sonic, on the other hand, just kept pushing out turd after turd. It wasn't really until Generations did okay that they realized people wanted something like Sonic Mania. |
| Topic | AC Syndicate is pretty good. |
| Vertania 12/22/18 12:50:38 PM #2 | I didn't like it. It and Unity were the two worst main games imo. Both games were confined to one big, congested city that wasn't fun to navigate (though the grappling hook helped) and had bland protagonists. Really happy they decided to go way back in time and spread out the map with Origins and Odyssey. More modern settings just don't work that well in AC imo. |
| Topic | buy ass ODYSSEY or buy ass ORIGINS |
| Vertania 12/22/18 8:09:25 AM #5 | Both are great, but Odyssey is better. |
| Topic | Which Smash DLC character would prompt the biggest reaction? |
| Vertania 12/21/18 7:47:17 PM #12 | Fortnite character Little kids would love it and the rage from gamers would be like 100x worse than over Piranha Plant. |
| Topic | Any love for the Vita? |
| Vertania 12/21/18 5:55:54 AM #48 | Starberry posted... What would you recommend? Root Letter is a really good one. The only bad thing is that the ending you get pretty much nothing to do with how you play the game and that you can only get the "true" ending on a replay. Apparently the game had a big following in Japan, as they're doing a "live action VN" remake with actors portraying the characters and photos of the real-life locations for the backgrounds. There's also Steins;Gate, of course. |
| Topic | mods sure aren't doing overtime today |
| Vertania 12/20/18 8:26:18 PM #67 | Lost_All_Senses posted... He responds a lot. He gets it more than the roadkill sex guy. Cause roadkill sex guy mocks his mockers. That just supports my first theory So now we're back to "he responds a lot, so it's fine to keep harassing him?" |
| Topic | mods sure aren't doing overtime today |
| Vertania 12/20/18 8:21:07 PM #66 | Lost_All_Senses posted... You completely misinterpreted my post. I meant 2 people might be cool with busting each others balls. But if in a completely different topic with 2 completely different people someone is busting the balls of someone who doesn't like to participate in it type of thing than it could be taking away from everyone. And suddenly I can't have fun with a friend cause some asshole ruined it for everyone. Like what happens with literally anything fun. If both parties are cool with it, they presumably won't mark each other's posts and nothing will happen. Hell, you could flat out call me a "bitch" right now and nothing would happen if nobody marked it. If one party isn't okay with it, they would mark the post and, ideally, have the other person moderated. That's not happening though and that's the problem. The mark never goes anywhere and the flaming/harassment/bullying continues endlessly. |
| Topic | PSVR is too expensive imo |
| Vertania 12/20/18 8:01:14 PM #3 | Sony has such a shitty history of support for their peripherals that there's no way I would risk that much money on it. |
| Topic | Does anyone else hate "meme culture". |
| Vertania 12/20/18 7:39:16 PM #3 | dOeS aNyOnE eLsE hAtE mEmE cUlTuRe? |
| Topic | now accepting applications to be my friend |
| Vertania 12/20/18 7:38:14 PM #11 | What's the pay rate? |
| Topic | mods sure aren't doing overtime today |
| Vertania 12/20/18 6:56:25 PM #61 | Lost_All_Senses posted... When we go down this road where does it end tho? Obviously there are some extreme cases of flaming but if you build everything to protect the most fragile people, you start taking away what other people view as innocent fun. I think we're just in the middle of an imperfect balance with a few biases involved. But you kind of just gotta deal with it or leave. You can't build every place around thin skinned people just cause they don't want to find a different place to go What if I think it's innocent fun to, for example, constantly mislabel the gender of one of the transgendered users on here? That's, like, the one thing I've consistently seen users marked and suspended for. Wonder how it would go over if you just told those users to "get thicker skin" or "deal with it or leave." Also, do you think it's just "innocent fun" to constantly mock one specific poster about shitting his bed? Apparently the mod staff does, because I've never once seen one of his trolls modded. |
| Topic | mods sure aren't doing overtime today |
| Vertania 12/20/18 6:23:25 PM #57 | Whether or not the target reacts to the flaming isn't really the issue ITT though. The problem is that most flaming and bullying happens very openly here and the mods do jack shit to stop it. What if one of the targets, for one reason or another, does take the recurrent flaming/harassment overly personal and ends up getting seriously depressed or killing themselves over it? It's no secret that many posters on this board likely have at least some degree of social/mental issues. Yeah, most people are able to brush it off, but you never really know just how much what you're saying effects the person on the other end. |
| Topic | Freedom or Security - which is more important to you? |
| Vertania 12/20/18 5:58:13 PM #4 | Extreme freedom can be just as bad as extreme security. |
| Topic | mods sure aren't doing overtime today |
| Vertania 12/20/18 5:54:44 PM #49 | Lost_All_Senses posted... But why care if people flaming you don't get modded? Just ignore them. You shouldn't put any stock in the opinions and words of people you don't respect. I can't believe so many people think this actually works. Let me tell you how it really goes around here. Let's say your having a debate with someone on here. They don't like what you're saying, so they wait for you to make a post in which they can twist your words. Suddenly, that poster starts following you into unrelated topics going "hey look it's Lost_All_Senses, that guy that (insert misrepresented point here)." Other people see that post and ask what happened, then that poster further misrepresents what you said and the other posters hop on board. Now, even though you have the first guy on ignore, you have to deal with an ever-growing list of posters popping into your topics to harass you about some unrelated thing you didn't even say. No amount of marking their posts ever results in something happening, either. |
| Topic | Colorado bakers are back in court, but this time over a transgender cake order. |
| Vertania 12/20/18 2:12:05 PM #265 | Darklit_Minuet posted... artowen74 posted...Folks could argue that the LGBT community should be "shamed and mocked," into "believing the right thing," doesn't make it right though. Did shaming and mocking the LGBTQ community get them to be quiet and conform? No. No it fucking didn't. It made them louder and louder until they started being heard. Not saying that's a bad thing, but it's what happened. But yeah, just keep shaming and mocking everyone you don't agree with. I'm sure they'll just be quiet about it and won't, say, vote in more and more politicians that openly defy everything you stand for. |
| Topic | Any love for the Vita? |
| Vertania 12/20/18 11:13:23 AM #41 | Starberry posted... Would you recommend playing the game first or seeing the anime? I'm not sure. I probably wouldn't have been so disappointed by V3 if I'd watched the anime of 3 first. rikasa posted... Can you guys stop w/ the Danganronpa spoilers? Rude as fuck. Do you not have spoiler tags enabled? If you chose to turn them off or click on them, that's on you. The only thing we didn't tag as spoilers were when we vaguely discussed our like/dislike of the ending. |
| Topic | Colorado bakers are back in court, but this time over a transgender cake order. |
| Vertania 12/20/18 9:14:56 AM #11 | Chicken posted... Seems like they went to this guy on purpose to try to start shit again. They did: She asked for the cake on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would consider Phillips' appeal of the previous commission ruling against him. |
| Topic | Is it unfair to judge historical figures by today's moral standards? |
| Vertania 12/19/18 10:51:02 PM #89 | LogicWings posted... Was Obama born the same race? Same race? Bo Obama isn't even the same species; he's a Portuguese Water Dog. Bad_Mojo posted... It is, just like it's wrong to bash people of faith because of what The Bible says since it was based on society back then No, it's still fair to bash people of faith. Religion should adapt to today's standards, not the other way around. |
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