| KylieDog said: Are they going to use a proper co-op system and include voice chat or are people still going to get annoyed trying awkwardly to play with friends and seek an a out of game method to chat anyway? |
I understand your frustration. Trying to have a co-op experience with your friends, brave the challenges of the game with them and develop strategies via chat methods.
But this is not what the game experience is about. If you'd played Demon's Souls, you would have seen that your "helpers" are faceless, nameless ghosts - or phantoms if you prefer. One or two out of millions striving to survive in the most unfriendly world, some of them managing to do so only with the help of others of their kind.
Thus, the multiplayer experience is altered compared to the standards of most games. Their is some unnatural sense of understanding, when a white phantom appears, runs by your side silently, knowing exactly what to do and how to do it. You can't tell a person how to defeat a boss better than his own experience dictates. Experience built upon death after death after death - a hundred times over.
You simply accept that this person (whoever hir or she is) decided to help you. Again, if you'd played Artorias of the Abyss you would have witnessed an arena like place, set for players who want a more... traditional form of multiplayer experience.
The current form of multiplayer action is one of the many innovation this franchise ushered into our age, not a flaw.
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