Namco on Dark Souls 2 marketing: "treating it as a massive AAA title, would be nice to attract Skyrim players"

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yo_john117 said:

SnakeDrake said:

yo_john117 said:

SnakeDrake said:

yo_john117 said:

If they add different difficulty levels, have a more standardized save system, and allow for pausing the game whilst in single player, then I will give this series another chance.

Demons Souls and Dark Souls had so much potential but the lack of the above made the games quite simply unplayable for me.

If they added the things you mentioned then i will abandon the series. 

Honestly, that's one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of. Since when did options become such a sin in gaming?

For masochistic people like you (which I am assuming that you are since you are a fan of the absurd difficulty from the game :P ), the game would be just as hard as before.

Whining about these options is just as pointless as whining about all of the optional assists in the recent Forza games. Having them there does not affect you in any way whatsoever. It's actually quite a selfish notion to have the mindset that only you (and others like you, obviously) are allowed to have fun with the game.

All the things you had listed, you list them as an negative of the series. When in retro spec they help made what made this game great to me and fans of this series. This game appeal is not the difficulty, but the feeling of accomplishment when beating through a stage. And so what if its selfish of me and the fans. We brought the games and we actually played though them.

I get that but why do you think the addition of such things would take away the feeling of accomplishment you get when you beat a stage?

You would still be on the hardest difficulty (which I'm sure they would make just as hard if not harder than Demons Souls) so beating bosses and tough parts would still feel great. There would still be no autosave except whenever you beat a section (or sit at a bonfire ala Dark Souls) and for people that want to; they could save whenever they want manually. And being able to pause during the single player game would not effect you in the least since you wouldn't have to do that either.

I find myself saying this very often on this site. I simply can't understand how people think options are a sin in gaming. Options are never a bad thing. Even if an option sucks or is pointless it's still an option so it won't effect you because you don't have to use it.

I bought Dark Souls and found it to be near unplayable so why am I the one who has to be punished for not being one of the few people that has the patience or time to play through the entire game.

So again, explain to me how those three things could possibly negatively effect you if you never have to use them.

Oh I had used them in a lot of games this gen. 

 

Dieing is an essential part of the game cause it has consequence losing souls, humanity progress. It keeps you focus at everything you do or see in the game, it keeps the tension up like a really good horror game should make you feel. Over coming the consequence by beating a stage it gives the player a sense accomplishment that would far weight out the frastration the player had during that stage. Add in manually saving and you take that all away from the player. And what would be the point of an easy setting if you add in manual saving.

Now about pausing the game I dont actually mind it Dark Souls has auto save you just go to a quite spot and quit the game and comeback at the same spot. As someone mention a pause wouldn't work online with players invading or joining your world/server. So it should only be done office.

Option that sucks or pointless are not a sin, they're just plain stupid.  I guess investing time and patience from a player is too much to ask for nowadays, especially for an rpg.