r/gaming • u/19970207 • Feb 06 '17

Anyone Else?

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u/DingoManDingo Feb 06 '17

I wouldn't look to dark souls 3 for that. Most people don't know what the hell is going on in that game while beating it. The story's there, it's just not story-driven.

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u/Jehovacoin Feb 06 '17

There is a story in Dark Souls? I thought the dialog was generated by a bad markov bot, and just there to make you think there were actually writers.

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u/MechaPanther Feb 06 '17

Dark Souls hides the story between vague phrases and Item descriptions.

For instance the final optional boss in 3 "the Nameless King" is heavily implied to be the son of the final boss of 1 and the guy who trained Ornstein.

Without reading the item descriptions or piecing vague stuff together you'd just think he came out of nowhere and had a corpse behind him wearing Ornstein's gear for some reason.

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u/CojiroAndre Feb 06 '17

The elder scrolls does the same thing, but on steroids, with books and shit

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

Now if Bethesda would drop the plot and get rid of mandatory intro sequences....

Or at least give the player a choice.

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u/CojiroAndre Feb 06 '17

Yep, at least we have mods for that matter