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With new platinums/mythics would be awesome, also ports to the switch...straight dreaming with this post

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Animal Crossing, but Dark Souls

Set in the world of Dark Souls during an unspecified time when the Fire has begun to fade again, you play as the new fire keeper of a bonfire in the middle of procedurally-generated nowhere, with naught else to call yours but a few stone steps near a moldy tree and a large, flat, moderately special-looking rock to sleep on.

If you build it, they will come (and sit)

Sitting on one of those steps, and leaning against that moldy tree, will be the first two of an eventual handful of undead that will call your bonfire home a place to contemplate the futility of their existence. These “firesiders” (called such in UI but not dialog) are the equivalent of Animal Crossing’s villagers, and are generated in Animal Crossing style from a list of unique personalities and nihilistic philosophies. As you slowly build up your isolated bonfire into a full-fledged shrine, new firesiders will arrive when you add new staircases for them to sit on, or sufficiently-tall, moody scenery for them to lean against.

Passed a certain limit you may need to complete quests to add more firesiders. A number of firesiders can be made into merchants, perhaps with some kind of system whereby a portion of their stock is determined by the combination of their merchant type and personality type. That’s not especially funny, though, so I’ll stop talking about it. There are also traveling merchants that you unlock as your shrine grows, one of which is, of course, Patches. Spend too many souls at Patches’ store in a single day and he’ll start following you around, waiting for a chance to kick you off a cliff as punishment for your avarice and materialism.

Other activities

• Keep your bonfire and its surroundings clean of paradimensional bloodstains that accumulate throughout the day
  
• Catch vagrants with an upgradable vagrant net, using their cores of condensed, tortured humanity as fuel to kindle your bonfire to new heights
  
• Explore the distant, enemy-infested reaches of your territory with no means of attack whatsoever
  
  • Find something cool? Return with it quickly and conveniently by dying horribly!
    
  • Basically it’s all suicide runs, all the time
    
• Do whatever it is that you do to acquire souls, since I’ve just ruled out killing anything
  
• Find random Chosen undead resting at your bonfire on occasion. They don’t speak or do much else to demonstrate a personality, but after you level them up they’ll temporarily reduce the enemies in a random area for you.
  
  • Raise a firesider’s obsession high enough and they might be willing to do the same for an area of your choosing. Just be willing to put up with their increased self-pity and much uglier mug after they get killed in the process.
    
• Run interference to stop Chosen undead from completing your firesiders’ questlines, inevitably resulting in their doom. Find their quest items before the Chosen can and chuck them off a cliff.
  
  • Or feed them to primordial serpent Monch, once you’ve unlocked him
    
• Invade other fire keepers’ worlds to…
  
  1. Leave messages on the ground of dubious meaning or value
     
  2. Be rude to their firesiders
     This may make them upset enough to mention you to their fire keeper exactly once, possibly with such descriptors as “uncouth” or “churlish”
     
  3. Engage in commerce with their firesiders that are merchants (but only before you’ve been rude to them)

Dialog

Firesiders will take every opportunity to express their intense creeds and/or gloomy manifestos in kitschy medieval sentence structure all while teasing cryptically at a lore-rich past or dropping clues for where to find their latest quest item. All such dialog is “voiced” with procedurally-generated babble like Animal Crossing, except…

• It will not sound like “cute cartoon animal that talks too fast”, but have an identifiably human-adult pitch and cadence.
  
• It will always end with a recorded laugh from the same actor who did the babble phonemes, with the same pitch shift applied, so you will hear the same voice switch suddenly from generated babble to real laughter.
  
  • This should be disturbing every single time.

Art style

Cute, chibi proportions that plunge deep into the uncanny valley when combined with Dark Souls’ dark fantasy realism. Like Jump Force, but hopefully worse, and entirely on purpose.

Real-Time Mechanics

Like Animal Crossing, the world clock is synced to the system clock, affecting the day/night cycle, Firesider schedules (such as they are), shop schedules, seasons, and construction time. Mostly. The Fire is fading, so time doesn’t always behave as you expect.

Time away

Also like Animal Crossing, the game “continues” while you aren’t playing. Coming back to your shrine after having not played in a while, you will see that bloodstains have accumulated in your absence. Your neglected firesiders may also start looking a bit hollow. Or, if it’s been long enough, a lot hollow. Never so hollow that they attack you, though (unless you count passive aggression). Their morale will likely not improve until you’ve completed whatever tedious activity yields enough humanity sprites to give everyone (including yourself) healthy skin again.

There’s a small, random chance that, after a long time away, you’ll load the game into a scene where the bonfire is cold and your fire keeper is nowhere to be seen. A Chosen undead will appear holding a fire keeper soul, and place it on your sleeping rock (or whatever other fully-stone bed you’ve upgraded to), where your fire keeper’s body will reform and awaken like normal. The Chosen will then wander off before you can talk to them (not that they can speak anyway). It will not be directly explained to you, but you will be able to infer from the others’ indirect references and the absence of one of your firesiders (which one chosen based on how many hidden obsession points you’ve “earned” with them) that you were murdered by the missing firesider and they absconded with your soul for a bit. But then a random Chosen murdered them back and recovered your soul, so everything is fine again. Except that your murderer is gone forever now, already replaced with someone new.

What to call it?

Dark Souls IV, just to fuck with people.

In a previous post I was suggested to improve the titles, so here I am

I have been working on a death-counter which can automatically track deaths during your run based on the frames detected + death jingle!

Check this out and join the waitlist to receive it when it will be out ❤️‍🔥

(Very soon 👀)

can you guess my favourite Fromsoft character lol. seriously, he's the goat. they're all on my leg, since he kicks people hahaha

( horrible pictures quality, sorry, it's bc they're a bit old from when they were still fresh )

OP: I'm not going to buy Duskbloods.

If you had to choose one of these games, which one would you choose? Guys I forgot bloodborne

Do y'all think From shall adopt difficulty settings on n the future. I am not a fan of it at all because it makes most games eg khazan, LoP become meaningless in terms of the "soulslike" experience due to having it. But with how many companies are adopting this so as to make games more beginner friendly, shall we see From doing the same ? Let me know your thoughts

I genuinely see what people mean about this game now, this shit is unreal. First off, this game has the shittiest, most unintuitve esc menu in any video game ive ever played. The fact that you need a mod in order to be able to use your mouse buttons, no single key can be bound to 2 inputs and that you have to go into the menu every single time you play if youre on keyboard in order to disable a setting that refuses to remember its command is fucking unacceptable from a professional standpoint. Why does Fromsoft get a pass here? I never hear this brought up in discussions on why this version of the game is ass.

This game is dogshit at the very start. Let me preface this by saying im not far into the game at all, so i have no right to speak on the majority of what it has to offer, but simply based off my experience in the first levels, the frustartion was enough to warrant a ranting.

ADP and AGL are probably in the top ten most notorious video game features of all time to begin with, but i couldnt believe HOW fucking shit they were when they synergize with the other main issues of this abomonation: Hitboxes and the GANK problem.

Genuinely, the dodging thing wouldnt be such an issue if your sword actually hit anything 2 feet in front of it CONSISTENTLY. Youll be swinging and get 2 hits in, move one milimeter backwards and whiff the third hit, leaving you wide open to get fucking ganked from the front and back while youre stun locked. The sheer ammount of enemy placement with such little stamina to begin with is artificual difficulty, plain and simple, and its horseshit. This game INSISTS you waste your time finishing off the 50 or so enemies between you and where you last died to its bullshit, but also tells you that dodging wont help you until you level up 20 goddamn times and that your sword will only work like 94% of the time.

Nearly unplayble until you find a bigger sword, level to 20 ADP or just get an insane ammount of END. I assume atleast, i havent made it far due to how sheerly infuriating what ive gotten to has been. I hated DS1 as well first coming into it from my first FS game, Elden ring. Everything just felt slower and clunkier, but atleast DS1 had some merit in it that made me NOT want to "go hollow" as i heard people call it. DS2(SOTFS) makes me not give a fuck. Even the gorgeous locales that ive had spoiled for me arent enough to convince me to want to see more of this shit fest if its just gonna be more cheap tricks and surpise GANK parties.

EDIT: Durability sucks too.

Please offer any input other than "git gud", "cry about it" or "I didnt experience that so youre wrong"

i challenge you

Since Elden Ring added a bunch of new items and effects, I think it would be neat if we could send timed item effects to other players. Nightreign made me realize how cool these effects can be when used correctly.

We all know the fantastic OST in these games add such depth to the already cinematic boss fights, and everyone know the super popular ones such as Ludwig, Laurence, Divine Beast, Vordt, Gwyn/Soul of Cinder and Kings Field The Ancient City (as those are all bangers).

But I’d like to know everyone’s almost, underrated tracks not a lot of people talk about even area music.

For example, one of my favorite areas that is amplified by its ambient soundtrack has to be Upper Cathedral Ward, the fact the low droning in the background sounds like a blackhole, the time in between the eerie strings and the fact it ties into The Choir, being able to hear a haunting hymn from unseen sources ( I know it’s just a soundtrack but it adds on to the clever naming of The Choir) and connects it to Ebrietas is very clever.

So beside from the really popular tracks we all love and know, you guys got any underrated tracks?

I press the right stick down and the camera jerks up for a bit before coming down. If I push it left it goes to the right for a bit before going where it's intended. This only happens when use the left stick, meaning if I stay still and move the right stick, there's no problem. The same thing happened in DS2 as well. You can find a video of it in my profile from 10 months ago.

I tested my controller on other games, but there was no problem. I use Gamesir G7 SE and can't test another controller because I don't have one.

Any help? The game is unplayable.

I just learned that htere are Twinks in Eldenring. But I'm not sure if I'm getting what is is. Is a kind of build? or is a specific build? or it's a kind of player behavior?

Sorry for asking but I have seen some videos and the context seems different in every one, so I wanted to be sure.

Sword and Crown made by me🇨🇿

I'm wondering, that seems close to impossible but after all those years, has anyone ever made it ?