Steamforged announced upcoming KS for a Dark Souls boardgame, can we hype yet?
Also KS general I suppose.
>>46631525
No, but you can get Cease & Desist.
Everytime I hear they've announced a DS game it then just disappears
Makes just as much sense a a super mario boardgame.
>>46631732
Isnt that sort of mario party?
>>46631567
Seeing as they're working with Bandai Namco I doubt they'll be getting C&D'ed
>>46631525
What kind of game? Based on that image I am presuming set in Lordran, but I am having trouble imagining a DS board game that can capture anything akin to the experience of the original.
Which is fine. They can do something different with it. But that doesn't answer the question of what that is.
>>46631525
While they look pretty good, the fucks got Smough's helmet wrong , he doesn't see out of the face, he has a visor slit under the face's chin.
Well, their first game, Guild Ball was small but well received. Let's see how they handle this.
>>46631525
I'm gonna need some sauce on that>tfw your gpu decides to take a shit three days before souls 3 releases
>>46631791
I think he means the OP should cease and desist.
Guildball is the best wargame I've ever played and doing my best to become a tourney regular has been nothing but a blast both with the community and the devs. I have pretty much total faith in them to make this good, though obviously I want some gameplay examples before I pledge anything. That said, they are previewing this weekend at Salute, so expect lots of stuff coming in.
Only thing I'm worried about is them accidentally copying Kingdom Death, but we'll see. I think they are really excellent devs.
>>46631525
I hadn't noticed the testicles-with-eyes-chin until now.
>>46631525
Only care if the Spider Sisters, Priscilla; Queen of the Painting and Miss Mega-Milk receive miniatures.
>>46632256
I think it will be more of a gritty Descent clone before it becomes a KD clone. Beyond the mood, the gameplay ideas are different.
>>46632372
I more meant the "ai" system they hinted at. I think KD's implementation of ai decks and hit locations is fucking brilliant, but I also wanna see other options for it. I'm not expecting a settlement thing in the DS game of course.
>>46632324
>Gwynevere miniature
Fuck that, make it a half meter long figure with heaving breasts.
>>46632324
>Not wanting armies of curvy crows.
>>46632324
IT'S GOT WHAT IT TAKES
SO TELL ME WHY CAN'T THIS BE LOVE
>>46632405
This raises the question of scale.
Half the monsters you face are horrifically towering things that even at 25-30mm are going to be 30cm or more large.
Unless scale becomes mutable or they skip all/almost all of the monsters to just focus on a tiny handful of known characters.
>>46631525
You know, for a long moment there I was wondering why you posted a Kingdom Death picture before it occurred to me.
>>46632648
Yeah, I was joking about her size but it actually would become a problem for certain enemies/monster. I guess the miniatures would only consist of humanoids and smaller creatures.
Fingers crossed for a good Quelaag and The Fair Lady sculpts.
Though I honestly don't expect them at all, let alone well done.
>>46632539
Because sex isn't the only thing I care about.
>>46632268
That's where Smough's actual eye-holes are. The head on his helmet is purely decorative and actually rests above his head.
>>46632935
That's confusing but interesting. They still look like testicles with eyes, though.
>>46632935
But that is wrong. The visor slit is under the chin of the false head.
>>46632763
>Fair lady sculpted with all the sadness and absolute waifu qualities
I wouldn't even play the game, I'd just set her up in the center of a shrine and cry for days about how much I love her.
My friend and I always pondered how a Darks Would table top game would work.
You died
Go back to the bon fire and roll >insert dice here < to see how much health you lose when you come back.
Or something like that
>>46635673
I must be autistic or something but what is Xanthous trying to say about fire and her feet?
>>46634714
You aren't the only one, Anon
>>46634779
Honestly, I don't think a lot of stuff would translate over to tabletop very well.
>>46631525
God I hope there are certain characters available separate from the boardgame (like Ornstein and Smough, Lautrec, etc).
>>46631732
Weird thing is there is actually an official Super Mario Board game
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9533/super-mario-bros
It is a bad game, pretty much snakes and ladders, except everyone shares the piece and whoever it is that moves it past the finish line wins.
>>46637422
Could be talking about how it's only capable of setting your hands on fire.
>>46637422
Considering the sweat drops all over him, it's probably just footfag stuff.
>>46634714
>set her up in the center of a shrine
yes
>and cry for days about how much I love her.
>not collecting Humanity to ease her pain
>>46634714
>>46638329
>>46638329
Is this some of euphemism for the sort of figurine stuff that goes on at /gif/
One thing I'd like is a pen and paper Dark Souls game. It seems like it'd be really fitting.
This is just a form of phlebotomy, and a smaller, bloodier version of me is going to crawl out of the corner of her eye.
That smough is off model as fuck, looks like a knock off done from memory without looking at the actual character
>>46633273
Correct. Here's Smough's concept art. He would have to be neckless in order to see out of the neck fat on his helmet. The eye slits being just below the face's chin makes way more sense; it lines up perfectly where I imagine his head would be.
How are you guys enjoying DaS3 so far?
>>46631525
Pretty hype. It will be way easier for me to games in of this rather than Descent or Kingdom Death because I can rope in my /v/idya friends pretty easily instead of having to rely on my board game group for games.
I've also picked up some Guild Ball. The game is great and the minis are a fantastic quality for a kickstarted game, even when you compare it to the 3D renders. With that in mind I'm fucking hyped looking at Oreo and S'mores in the OP.
>>46639811
i just kill pic-related
it's okay i guess
>>46639811
Uninstalled and refunded after 58 minutes.
25 FPS with lagspikes on minimum settings? Fucking horseshit. I can run DSII on max with ENB on top and never drop below 50.
>>46640205
It was the same for me with SLI shit. After I turned it off it worked. Granted it would be nice if it was just fucking supported
>>46631525
>a Dark Souls boardgame
Another one?
>>46639811
It's better than 2
>>46640338
Low bar m8
>>46640244
>SLI
?
I don't remember seeing this option. I dropped everything in the video settings tab to minimum. Is this something else?
At any rate my refund already went through, so it's moot. I'm just going to do what I did with the other two games and give it 6 months or so for a community patch to come out.
>>46632763
This is wish-list territory but I'd suck some serious dick for a 28mm Kirk.
>>46640506
most people have had luck lowering settings to low or medium and turning off online, that seems to keep it at 30 fps or above
you might as well wait until the Scholar version comes out
How long until we get a Giantdad model?
Goddamnit, Captcha. Those aren't pies. Those are quiches.
....Soooo why did people not like DaS-2 as much?
Setting aside it's superior mechanics, and inferior level transitions.
It's nowhere near as cult-classic as DaS1, but it isn't clunky either.
>>46640905
I didn't like it because it's linear AS FUCK.
Most of the bosses suck and some are even repeated in a shitty way (HAHA YOU FIGHT TWO DRAGON RIDERS! XD).
Oh the bosses sucking, they're mostly easy, don't have a large variety of interesting attacks, and basically spam 2-3 moves at you.
The last boss was especially shitty and boring (avoid the cloud whooooooooooooo).
Weapons are mostly uninteresting, there's not as many lazer/explosion swords.
A lot of the generic enemies are fucking lame or have annoying mechanics.
Did I mention your shit breaking 24/7?
>>46640905
>superior mechanics
The only good thing was power stance, which almost no one ever used it, and incremental hollowing. Agility was an abortion, hitboxes were wonky on everything, bosses were boring and constantly relied on killing people with tracking overheads, the writing was sub par, Soul Memory was atrocious, there was obviois power creep, and they just kept buffing Katanas over and over again
Beating anything never felt like an accomplishment, rather who whole game just felt like a complete chore, and it left more questions than answers and introduced pointless olot elements to introduce a shitty Cycle narrative that was honestly done much better in other games.
In all honesty, you could skip 2 to go straight into 3 without really missing much at all.
>>46634779
Video games don't often translate well to tabletop because video game mechanics often only work well IN video games. If talking about RPGs it works even worse because even most of the mechanics that could work are there for the sake it being a video game and are just plain stupid in an RPG.
I've always been an advocate that if you want to run a campaign based on a video game, don't try to emulate the GAME. Care only about the aesthetics and lore, not the mechanics, and you'll have a much better time of it than you would worrying about how to stat endurance meters and bonfire respawning.
Playing DaS 3 now.
Combat feels like Witcher 3 / 2.
I don't know why.
I played the shit out of DaS 1 & 2, and played DaS 2 AFTER playing Witcher 3. They didn't feel like this.
>>46642383
Also: Bloodborne OR Demon's Souls first? Haven't played either yet.
>>46631525
At least painting Smough would be easy.
Hopefully we get some nice minis out of it in a good scale. Not gonna lie, if they're 28/32 mm I'd buy the game just for proxy minis.
>>46641140
>hat was honestly done much better in other games.
Which ones?
>>46642407
Demon's Souls is clunky and broken so if you play it at all, make it first.
>>46641140
This, and frankly the game felt half-assed as hell. Like, the level design itself just felt rushed and disconnected. The whole 'take an elevator up from a windmill and come out underground' segment in particular, but the game was basically one portal area and a shitload of instance portals.
Enemies too, in placement and implementation. There were a lot of "kill rooms" that were essentially a room with a small door filled with some mob and if you went in without knowing beforehand you got fucking rushed and killed. Just shit game design all around.
>>46642407
Demon's. Combat will feel so slow afrwe Bloodborne.
>>46642679
Off the top of my head
Bastion
Final Fantasy X
Eternal Sonata
Dragon's Dogma
Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver
Metal Gear Solid 4
TES:III Morrowind (especially when you realize and understand the Lore involving Convention and Interplay)
And I'm sure there are even more.
>>46642954
>Legacy of Kain
Aw shit, I just replayed Soul Reaver again for the first time in like ten years. I forgot how much of a weird, dark and fun setting Nosgoth was, and how great the voice acting was in those games as well.
>>46642954
Thanks mang.
>>46642999
>I am the Engine of Life, the source of Nosgoth's very existence.
>I am the hub of the Wheel, the origin of all Life, the devourer of Death.
Why is Tony Jay so perfect?
>>46631525
I can only hope the ornstein model is as good as that looks, I fucking want 7.
>>46643074
Because he copied other people's good ideas.
>>46643134
I'm talking about a voice actor anon, how can you steal other people's ideas as a voice actor?
>>46643134
Sorry I thought you were talking about a writer.
>>46643096
Right? I pray to god they make an Artorias one too and give him the hunch.
>>46642999
I was just reminiscing about this today.
>Conscience? You dare speak to me of conscience?
>>46631525
we kingdom death now boys
>>46640901
wat r u? casul?
>>46637422
You cant be autistic.
If you would, you would flame that they had to split her name than incease the left picture border for space.
>>46637422
I think he's offering to warm her bare feet with his pyromancies, while she wonders if he won't accidentally end up burning her feet.
>>46639811
I'll tell you when my new computer arrives.
>>46643134
>>46643172
>insulting someone that you don't recognize at all for doing a poor job at something they don't even do in the first place
Is this how most shitposters operate? That's fucking awful man and you should feel embarassed with yourself.
>>46643239
>You're a righteous fiend, aren't you?
>>46631525
Please have a onion bro mini.
>>46631525
Hmm. Now I am imagining a system where you spend stamina on moves with various inititive values, and your move plays out at whatever speed it was....Resulting in Ornstien and Smough rape. The game has to have that at least.
Even a skirmish miniatures game with various dark souls characters could be neat.
>>46631732
Ya know, i laughed an sort of agreed with your post at first. But no.
Its actually a rather different thing.
Dark Souls was specifically crafted by a crazy asian man who seriously loved and wanted to try the sorts of worlds and stories that say....Dungeons and Dragons for instance was designed to portray.
The issue really comes from the the fact that in D&D damage is random and frequently expected. In Dark Souls damage is ALWAYS your own damn fault.
I just started reading Band of Bastards though. Maybe that will help with this problem.
>>46632648
28mm isn't the only scale. Drop it to 10mm or something and you can get the monsters in ezpz.
>>46645976
>temptation to someday finish homebrew rising
>>46646216
>Implying it'll be any scale but Heroic.
Please. It'll be 30mm for the same reason everything is 30mm.
>>46646009
>search for Band of Bastards
>pornhub
>>46632648
We don't know if it's going to be grid based tactics. The board could be locations with unlimited space or slots like in Dead of Winter. The player can even be not represented as a miniature. Or just a really tiny one.
>>46646776
>>46646216
>scale
It by all likelihood won't be in a consistent scale of any kind.
I do think this could work though, and it could go several ways in it's design with being incredibly abstract and having the character move about different areas on a board fighting the various challenges there or it could go for a far more literal interpretation as more of a dungeoncrawler. I suspect it's going to be more of the former though, miniatures for boss fights but not regular enemies.
"Further to the exciting announcement we made last week, it's time to share some details about the upcoming Dark Souls board game.
Designed from the ground up, the Dark Souls board game is a brutally hard exploration miniatures game for 1-4 players. Prepare to die. Because this will be the hardest board game you have ever played.
Featuring an exciting "fast setup, long reveal" mechanic that gets you into the game faster and builds the location as you explore. The sense of danger is palpable as you discover new locations and the monsters that inhabit these dark places. The core combat mechanic and enemy behavior system forces deep strategic play and clever management of stamina to survive.
The game will ship with numerous boss and mini-boss encounters, and as mentioned above, will utilize an innovative behavior mechanic that will mean no two encounters are ever the same, thus giving the game near infinite replayability.
Using our advanced miniatures pipeline and working with one of the finest board game manufacturers in the world, the quality and detail in the miniatures will be world class. As Dark Souls fans, and with the entirety of the Dark Souls universe available to us, one of the hardest decision has been to narrow down which enemies and bosses to include in the core game. We wanted to be sure to use both old favorites as well as new enemies from Dark Souls 3.
We are pleased to reveal that one of the boss fights included in the core game will be the Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough.
From the start of this project, Steamforged Games has worked closely with the team at BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment; Dark Souls fans can be sure that this board game will give an experience that captures the very essence of the original video games.
We launch the Kickstarter project on the 19th April."
Well, that's something.
Also
>Dark Souls
>the hardest board game
inb4 arbitrary RNG difficulty rather than just requiring observation, planning and care.
>>46643226
As soon as I read that, I came. Now I need it.
>>46647645
>RNG difficulty
What's this?
>one of the hardest decision has been to narrow down which enemies and bosses to include in the core game.
So we're probably going to get the 'iconic' enemies of each. the ones that feature in the commercials and such, rather then the unique and popular ones.
I'm interested but I hold little hope for it personally.
>>46647645
I don't think Steamforged will make it RNG instadeath difficult. They built their first game, guildball, from the ground up with competitive depth and fairness to the player in mind, and did a good job. Though it sounds like this game is either cooperative or hybrid competitive/cooperative, I doubt they will suddenly switch gears and say fuck the player.
I have the terrible mental image of a Giantdad mini.
It's the worst. The absolute worst.
>>46646376
>reads this
>dat timing system
MOTHERFUCKER, GET YOUR ASS ONTO GEAR ON THAT BEFORE I TACK YOU DOWN AND BREAK SOMETHING OFF IN IT.
>>46647645
>inb4 arbitrary RNG difficulty rather than just requiring observation, planning and care
Yeah, I'm kinda dubious after reading that too. I don't mind losing in Elder Sign, for example, because it's part of the learning curve, but if the game is just going to be an unavoidable deathfest because "lol that's what you people like about Dark Souls," that doesn't really inspire much confidence.
>>46648047
That's the nicest thing anyone ever said to me about it.
Thanks to your words of encouragement, I'm spending a bit of time on it now.
>>46648208
>That's the nicest thing anyone ever said to me about it.
they were clearly deficient in the brain...
small gripe...the cards in their current format are hard to read...that is all.
next, with the new weapons art mechanic out, would you be able to include such things on a weapons listing? it may be interesting.
...I tap my greatsword for rapid pommel strikes...
>>46647769
>>RNG difficulty
>What's this?
DSII had a major problem with conflating player deaths with difficulty. Many of the features advertised as being difficult presented the player not with a real challenge of skill, but simply slapping you in the face with a near-impossible obstacle passable only after dying repeatedly. Not as in "it takes a few tries to beat", but rather "the solution is visible only in hindsight." There is simply no indication of the threat until a response is too late.
Take for example the area in the Undead Crypt where you're dropped into a large chamber full of headstones. Thanks to the drop, you cannot see the layout of the room until you're already in it. Once you drop, you have a scant few seconds to immediately rush the specific hollows who, rather than attacking, instead run away to ring bells which summon an unlimited number of pyromancer ghosts, who are unaffected by the maze of tombstones and use powerful AoEs in a tight space. There are several paths out of this room, all but one of which lead to dead ends. Thanks to the way the game generates Firestorm's pillars in tight hallways, this results in certain death as what's supposed to be a scattered attack which lands only one hit instead becomes a death ray that lands three at once and fills the entire area. Killing the ghosts does nothing, because they will respawn every time the bells are struck.
One of the bells is down said dead-end hallway.
The only possible solution is to know where the exit is before dropping down, which is only possible by panning around the camera after your first effectively unavoidable death.
Also, terrible hitboxes mean you often take damage after what should have been an effective dodge.
And bullshit overhead tracking.
>>46648284
Yeah, stances and weapon switching are definitely a thing that I plan on doing, as are "special moves", which is basically what weapon arts are.
>>46641140
I liked power stance. There was just something satisfying about killing some dodge bitch with a pair of ultra greatswords.
>>46641140
>Soul Memory was atrocious
You mean doing matchmaking so that staying lvl 5 but having +10 gear to go seal clubbing wasn't possible anymore?
>>46648503
It was definitely a lot less aweful than being a level 54 guy getting either invaded or matched with some level 165 Havel Mages with an enchanted RITwinblade.
And yes, this happened to me. On multiple occasions. I'd righter fight a dozen minmaxed giantdads than a continuous stream of over leveled assholes, especially since in the previous example I could eventually scale up to their capabilities and equipment to meet the challenges, while it's near impossible in DS2 since those faggots just keep scaling higher as well. It also punishes players who want to be able to play through the game multiple times and/or play different areas with more than 2-3 types of weapons.
>>46648503
The problem they were trying to fix being legitimate doesn't make the solution they attempted any less bad.
>>46648642
Can't say I ever ran into issues outside of PVP heavy areas, and even then it was pretty sparse.
>>46631525
Nito model when?
>>46648765
Then you never sunk 4 different character runs or tried to give co-op support much in those games.
The whole system was bonkers, and it was a major problem for many players who wanted to be able to enjoy repeatability, test out multiple weapons, or even just wanted to use those rings to have fun and play alongside your friends.
So basically, despite respeccong being an option, it wasn't really all that useful since Soul Memory all but required you to build entirely new character if you wanted to upgrade and try out different Weapon and armor combos, making fashion/cosplay Souls much weaker and impractical than it was in DS1
it was a multiplayer killer, and only went to make the entire online community even worse. It caused rampant escalation issues, especially since trying to get Souls to buy more items only jacked up your SM, so you had to keep pushing more and more into poorly balanced waters.
The only way to mitigate it was to use that ring they patched in, but all it served to do was handicap players and force you to munchkin run if you wanted to get it early enough to matter.
At least in DS1, if one had the skill or patience they could easily deal with all the giantdads and other minmaxers. In DS2, there's virtually no way to close the gap other than to be an exploitive shit like the overleveled assholes who are invading you.
Seriously, fuck Soul Memory with a rusty lucerne. If it wasn't for the fact I like helping other people with runs and bosses, and hosting Fight Clubs, I would've gone offline ages ago.
>>46648961
Bet that'll give someone a boner.
>>46648996
>tried to give co-op support
To specific people? No.
In general? Quite often.
>Then you never sunk 4 different character runs
No idea what that even means.
Also, no, respecing wad quite useful, just not at lower levels because you sank more souls into +10 lot instead of your character.
>>46649012
Fuck off carlos
>>46645630
That seems in character with the style of Priscilla comics you see. Surprises me they didn't do one with the Painted World crew coming and telling her this weird Hollow had started wandering around and her saying "Oh he can't possibly be THAT weird, have him come over to say hi" and then he shows up and it's weird...
Because you know, he IS really weird. At least his hat. Which is ridiculous.
>>46648317
This. So much this.
It's very easy for a Dark-Souls-like game, either vidja or in this case, tabletop, to latch on to what is actually bad game design, because of all the advertising and culture about Dark Souls being hard as to what defines it, rather than all the stuff the games manage to do right, like great environment and enemy design, interesting combat that requires patience and timing more than item stats and so on. Sudden difficulty spikes of the beating your head against a wall bullshit kind of situations reminiscent of so many bad games trying to pad their run time through impossible to predict level design is the consistently worst aspect bit of Dark Souls games, not the thing that should be focused on. And yet all too easily is.
Blight Town's toxic-damage sniper midgets for another major example, though at least the level design let you deal with them without death if you were super careful and observant. Mostly.
I really hope the devs of this game don't do that. But they so easily could, so... fuck it, I'm gonna have to see more of the models and get in on the kikestarter for them alone and just hope the game itself isn't shit as a secondary thing.
>>46649626
Damn those midgets. All of the lonesome ones are easy enough to deal with if you pay attention, but that cul-de-sac with three or four of them behind a narrow little branch-bridge was the worst. I used to rush them to try and kill as many as I could before succumbing to the poison, since there was no way to have your shield facing all of them.
>>46649702
Thinking about that more, It was a smart design decision to not have them re-spawn once they'd been killed. A lot of the bigger or more annoying non-boss enemies were like that, too. It was an interesting design choice, justifying certain tough or painful enemies by making them only a problem once, and I wonder how this Cardboard Souls will handle that kind of thing.
>>46646009
I heard he was inspired by game books by former GW founders.
>>46649702
It was possible, you just had to pay attention and remember to carry some blooming grass. Also, that shield the bandits start with is good for that area.
>>46648317
It's the difference between having an objective marker on the other side of the field and dying 15 times trying to cross it, and having a sign next to the field saying "Danger! Mines."
Neither makes it any easier to get across the field, but at least you know what's going on, what's killing you, and can try and figure how to get around it, instead of just going by trial and error with no clues as to what's going on.
>>46649783
The Spider Shield is great, and you don't have to be a bandit to get it, you find it about that Giant Rat if you drop down from the first butcher's room.
Thinking back, I want to say the midgets' area had three you could face pretty safely, but the fourth was off on the other side and would invariably shoot you in the back or flank while you were dealing with his friends-- who you had to deal with fast, or he would get you a second time. I guess if I farmed more grass it would go a little better, but I always found that tedious, especially since you got the red or purple stuff so much more often.
>>46649783
>>46649932
Yeah the game gave you that shield shortly before you got to the place you'd need it, which is good design.
You could also snipe the little bastards right back with poison arrows if you could use one of the basic bows that took pretty much nothing in terms of stat upgrades to use. Though it was a pain in the arse.
>>46649742
It really was a small mercy to not have them respawn, but honestly I think the game would have lost nothing by not having them in the first place. Or have them do poison not Toxic damage at least. They'd still be annoying but not quite so annoying.
They're not the kind of problem I think could be modelled well in a boardgame though since so much of dealing with them is about long term preparation (gathering moss/arrows/items) and then timing in movement to avoid their darts. That doesn't translate well to set-up a dungeon and go forth gameplay.
>>46650037
Even the ear;y ones were a pain, because while you could handle them pretty safely once you know they were there, the way you found out they were there in the first place was usually getting hit once, which was often a death sentence unless you were close to a bonfire or decided to use a grass-- further lowering your stock for when you would really need them, against the group.
>>46649626
Why would anyone live in Blighttown? The Depths is the place where people go when they're banished from the Undead Burg, and it's full of giant rats, basilisks, the Gaping Dragon, and poo water. And even they think that Blighttown is so bad they had to build a gate to keep everything in Blighttown out.
Speaking of which, I gathered an awful lot of souls of proud knights down in Blighttown... Which seems like the result of an ill-fated crusade to purge the place.
>>46631525
I bet they'll make it on chassis of some eurogame. Enjoy your wooden blocks of souls and hours of calculating optimal tile compilation. Also, no interaction between players/
>>46650379
I think it was to cure the plague there that a certain bastard wizard caused is where the crusade came from.
>>46631525
Will there be mechanics for players on one board to invade another group's game for giggles?
>>46650553
I really hope they have a GiantDad mini included in the set. They probably won't but I will absolutely lose my shit if he's in the set with the "well, what is it?" pose.
>>46650433
You sound like a kind of person who was barely passing math classes and doesn't even do his own taxes.
>>46631525
Feh. I might have cared about Demon's Souls instead.
>>46631525
Might as well get Kingdom Death instead. The monster designs are better.
>>46651491
>>46651676
Most of the monsters in Dark Souls doesn't really stand out in any significant way compared to the Kingdom Death monsters.
>>46651733
I rather liked this guy, but to each his own i guess
>>46651943
I wasn't really that impressed by that design. I doodle stuff like that all the time.
>>46652024
really?
cool, you draw them digitally? I'd love to see them.
>>46639684
Smough was said to be a Giant.
Giants in Dark Souls don't even have faces.
>>46652024
>I diddle stuff like that all the time.
For some reason I believe you.
>>46650802
You sound like typical, arrogant eurogamer.
>>46652218
There seems to be two races of 'giants' in dark souls: the hollow faced monsters actually called giants, and the very tall people from anor Londo
>>46645976Is it just me or this looks exactly like the first page of some shady doujin?
>>46652128
I do all my doodles with ink and paper. Here is something I have been doodeling on for a while now.
>>46652310
Thanks, Anon.
>>46652393
They might be the same, you never see a giants face except for the ones with hole faces and Yhorm from Dark Souls 3 seems to have a big hole face.
>>46639811
Currently on my wishlist
Trying to play the series "properly",this means 1>2>3,but i'm kinda stuck because Manus is a dick
>Captcha:choose boats
>one of the pictures is a fucking terryfing humanoid-spider hybrid
>it's looking at you
>>46639811
I'm thinking about waiting for the Ultimate edition to not get jewed on the season pass.
>>46652470
If you drew that:
Daaaamn son
>>46653781
Yes I did. I started using a white acrylic gel pen and it's one of the best things I bought in years.
>>46645976
I've never tabletopped before so my homebrew rules for this are going agonizingly slowly.
The issue is needing to track stamina, a constantly changing value, in addition to HP constantly changing. You'll go through a lot of pencils in combat.
>>46652470
That's pretty cool, anon
>>46652470
>doodle
Fuck man, if that's a doodle, I want to see what a real drawing looks like.
oh im fucking cumming
>>4665427
Use chits or tokens.
>>46646376
>>46654272
Shit you've done a lot more work than I have.
I had the idea of each weapon class having specific moves. Each move has a damage value, a stamina cost, a damage type, and a speed value.
So your weapon stats are going to be a page or two each, unfortunately. The trade-off is with a standard straight sword, you can slash, thrust, pommel strike, two handed slash, and half-sword.
Damage types are mostly for armor, so a slashing attack might do half damage to plate.
I love the frames system though, and generic weapon attacks means more focus on other things and less walls of text to read.
>>46653505
same here
>>46640266
There ways a first one?
>>46648503
i have a SM 30k twink with maxed everything though anon. you just drop it from another character who is slightly up in the brackets. all SM did was steal one of your ring slots.
Mini wishlist, go!
Kirk, Spiderlady, Giantdad, Artorias, Sif, Gaping Dragon, Havel the Rock, Velstadt, Fume Knight, the Toxic Dragon with the Spear through its chest (sunken crown boss), blacksmith, Sunbro
>>46656520
Gwynevere
Just... Gwynevere
>>46656520
Lautrec, Onion Bro, Sir Alonne, DS2 giants
>>46649780
That is what someone on Dakka who had lunch with Miyazaki said, that he was a fan of Heroquest and Warhammer Quest. Also hinted there is a decent that chance that he will play something of a role.
is kickstarter the only way to get a game published? i have a game i want to try to get published and i don't want to use kickstarter.
>>46660170
You can self-publish, but it costs money. Kickstarter is not for publishing per say, but for making the money to publish.
>>46660293
i just simply don't have the means of production. as of right now each play set of my game costs about 80 dollars. i would much rather sell the distribution rights to a larger company that has the equipment to mass produce and market it.
how far-fetched is the idea that a gaming company would look at my game and want to buy the rights?
i'm assuming because you're on the internet you must be an expert in this subject.
>>46658377
>he was a fan of Heroquest and Warhammer Quest
Man of taste, then. Those games are choice.
>>46660368
You don't know till you try. I assume the big gaming companies get loads of "Look at my game!" type of stuff, but hey, maybe you can make it.
One thing's for fucking sure, a Sif and/or Artorias mini would have me cumming buckets..
and, you know getting them.
>>46631525
>>46649626
You have articulated my fears as well.
>>46660412
No, they're not. Heroquest rolls dice for movement. That's fucking dumb.
>>46660412
Learning more about Miyazaki's tastes kind of explains why Demon's Souls and Dark Souls wear their Western skin so well despite being made in Japan, same possibly goes for King's Field.
>>46660368
typically the one thing companies have in abundance is ideas. ideas are cheap as hell.
you could survey places and see if any of the publishers have a process for receiving pitches. If any reputable company says "YES ACTUALLY we do have a slush pile for game pitches," you can give it a shot. otherwise, you'd be stuck hustling in some other way to get your game noticed, like doing indie sales or events at cons to build publicity.
if you have a full finished game and a solid knowledge of its production costs you're a million years ahead of most amateurs with dreams and I applaud you for your hard work, but i have a feeling that most publishers are already churning out all the games then can manage from designers they already know or from in-house dudes with big dreams.
>>46661428
you're fucking dumb
>>46652496
No, he has a face. The cgi cinematic doesn't match his in game model. In game model, he's got a skull visible under his chain mail coif
I can't wait to play this game with all my friends.
>>46662297
>>46660368
thanks, we'll see. i've easily put a thousand hours into this game and i've only actually shown it to my girlfriend and the guy with whom i playtest it.
other than some slight balance issues it's pretty much done. i looked into patent law and that shit is impossible. i'm sort of a workaholic and now that it's done i need to actually do something with it before i get caught up designing my next game.
for what it's worth i can't find any games similar to it. i feel like most games i see try too hard to be like video games or simply imitate other games that already exist.
>>46662791
You can't patent game rules. You can trademark and copyright product identity and certain terms though.
>>46654272
Naw, you are making it too hard.
Stamina, and HP aren't whats important.
Having to make calls and watch them play out is where the dark souls feel can come in during a game.
If you haven't tabletoped before, I'd recommend against trying to create a game from scratch.
I'd just rip off a game that can fit the tone you want and work from there.
>>46647470
Try band of bastards table top rpg.
that found it for me. Course i got it the first time through /tg/.
http://www.grandheresy.com/anatomy-of-a-bastard/
Its a little indie but it seems fun.
>>46632372
I see this. A mix between Descent and SDE and less like KD:M.
>>46656520
>Velstadt
My fucking Nigger, one of the best dudes from DS2
>>46665881
The main idea I had, honestly, was the concept of your character's will to survive being a tangible resource. One that's invoked to stand up from massive injury, strike just one more blow, or hold the line against all odds.
The key being that you can only burn so bright for so long. "I fight for my children" might be motivating, but sooner or later you'll start to forget their faces under the pain of old injuries that never fully healed.
"I defend the weak" may be noble, but watching peasants scatter after your shield shatters may shatter your faith along with it.
What keeps you going when all other hope is lost?
The hope is to engender moments like that one with Sam and Frodo climbing the slope of Mount Doom. To be larger than life in a way that only the truly small can.
>>46660368
Your idea seems fucking great. I can't say I'd play it for certain (I have five games I haven't played yet on the phone I'm typing this from) but the idea of timing mechanics in tabletop is too good to pass up.
>>46641049
At least the bosses were better than the bosses from Bloordborne. You can tell what is going on with bosses from DS2. In Bloodborne, it's like I'm fighting some kid's flash cartoon from 10 years ago. There's so little you can actually take in and learn when your bosses are covered with so much hair/moss/half-flayed skin that you can't tell what exactly they are. How many of you fought the Blood Letting Beast and thought, "Oh yeah, I know what that is. It's like a cleric beast but with half of it's skin flapping out and around all the time. Totally digestible."
>>46656520
A model of pic related would begreatWhat? You didn't really think I would stoop to that level, did you?
>>46656520
Just give me 4 lords (Gwyn,Nito,Izalith witch and Manus) and 4 knights of Gwyn.
Oh and Gaping Dragon
And Yellow guy Jeremiah.
Not played DSII yet but Deamon of Song looks like something I would want.
Just give me 1:1 version of Dark Souls
This news has really activated my almonds.
Going to keep a good eye on this. Super keen for some dark souls minis, the game could even be crap and I'd still be chuffed.
I'm still trying to find a group to come play KD:M, and I've had that since the fall :(
>>46669553
You'd want Velstadt, trust me. Dude is legit
>>46632232
I feel you. Just built my first rig all excited to experience a dark souls on launch. Gfx card got faulty and needs sent away. Feelsbadman
>>46672190
And he has Garl Vinland's squid hat, tooa
>>46656520
royal knight
knight starter
I went through the full game a few times through in the knight starting armour with the elite helm, because it reminded me of demon's souls. If I can do that in mini form I'll be pretty happy.
>>46653505
I've never gotten what the point of season passes are. Can anyone explain how they work and why they are a thing?
>>46672522
Basically you pre-order DLC. Some companies make this include all DLC, some(looking at you Gearbox, EA, Activision, and Ubisoft) make it include only some of it.
>>46672668
That sounds like gambling on that company putting out enough applicable DLC to make it worth the buy. I can see why it's controversial now.
>>46672826
Especially when they don't even announce what it will be.
Fucking Fallout 4.
At least the Call of Duty series tells you up front what the season pass gets you, even if it is just more multiplayer trash.
>>46672826
Yeah, it can be a crap shot. Some are more open about what the pass includes than others.
>>46634714
>>46638329
...I... don't explore the Catacombs of Carthus in 3 then, guys.
>>46654633
Actually, I don't seem to be having fun doing real drawings. I just enjoy making most of my stuff up as I go rather than set out with a complex idea of what I want the image to be. I usualy just start with a concept and decide later what my image has turned into.
So I don't think that I will ever be doing it for a living.
>>46668846
I might not have been able to recognize every single detail, but I think I could generally recognize what the Bloodborne bosses were supposed to be.
In a way I like how they didn't make transformation a clean process.
>>46677320
I rather liked that all of the Lovecraftian monsters weren't based on seafood like they seem to be in most other videogames.
>>46680170
Is this thick enough for /v/?
>>46680170
God damn it Siegmeyer and Sieglinde were so good. What a rad, sad sidequest.
>>46672861
the only reason to buy call of duty season passes are for zombies.
which is a pretty big jew considering its 50$.
i don't know how many times you MAKE EVERYTHING DARK SOULSfags need to be told this, but DARK SOULS DOES NOT WORK ON A TABLETOP SETTING.
>>46680313
Toughest Souls girl, I'm so glad her descendants survived until the end of the fucking world.
>>46682353
I'd like to see them try at least. I may even kick start it for the minis if nothing else.
>>46656520
Add Syan, the fact we didn't fight him in a memory in SotFS is yet another example of the B-Team fucking up bad.
Oh, and the Black/Silver Knights.
>>46631525
My Body is never ready for this.
>>46631525
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBfv3cYJBEY
I cant wait to make a Chaos Ball player with one of these.
>>46682353
This. Tabletop can never replicate the feeling of getting summoned eight times in a row by some dolt who wants to fatroll through Sens and keeps getting knocked off by the first set of pendulums while I'm already clearing out enemies on the level above, and then getting summoned about a dozen times by the same dolt for the Gwyndolin fight then watching him eat every single spell to the face.
Based snaketrap, I'll avenge you.
>>46638375
Kirk really is a neckbeard under that armor, because hereturns in 3andhe's part of another covenant involving giving shit to a waifu
>>46640905
My only problem with it was shields were useless.
3 has me genuinely debating between 2 handing and shielding
1 interestingly enough, Shields were so OP I could never imagine not using one.
>>46631525
I haven't even finished assembling my Kingdom Death: Monster board game.
>>46682353
Yeah, it can't replicate the feeling of being invaded and then the invader decides to play hide and seek for an hour.
>>46686546
Shields were terrible in pvp in 1 unless you were consistently able to parry attacks with them. And pvp was bound to happen frequently unless you played offline or were permanently in skeleton mode.
>>46686959
I don't know why people even played PvP for fun in Dark Souls 1. Shit was always laggy as hell and it almost always revolved about who would get the first backstab. Whenever I got invaded I would just cut the connection instead of wasting my time on doing that retarded dance. The only multiplayer part that worked was coop.
>>46665050
Thanks for posting this, I'd never seen the full thing.
>>46686928
Should have just ran for the boss room, dummy.
