Dark Souls Follow-Up May Not Happen
Dark SoulsAlthough both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls enjoyed critical success and strong sales, developer From Software may not get a chance to create a third title.
According to what Dark Souls creative director Hidetaka Miyazaki told EDGE, despite all the positives that came out of the first two games, a third isn't an inevitability. Said Miyazaki:
"We don’t even know if we’ll have another chance. We have the confidence that we can improve from our mistakes this time and create an even better Dark world, but we don’t know if the users will forgive us for the mistakes, so I cannot give an exact answer."
He talks about the frame-rate issues that hindered Dark Souls, and admits there were some "technical difficulties" in making the game. He adds that due to the sheer size of the adventure, it was difficult to get everything to flow smoothly. However, Miyazaki "doesn't mind the growing pains" and given the opportunity, he'd like to make things right...you know, in a third entry. He didn't say that, but we know it's what he's thinking.
Dark Souls wasn't exactly a sequel to Demon's Souls, but will we ever see another "Souls" game from...uh...From Software? ...I hate it when studios have weird names that screw with articles.
Tags: dark souls, demons souls sequel, from software, dark souls 2
1/31/2012 8:49:29 PM Ben Dutka
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BigBoss4ever
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 @ 1:30:33 AM
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Oxvial
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 9:59:20 PM
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Game pretty much great there aren't real problems like that ''other'' rpg.I would love to see the next Soul games going to Vita and let rest the franchise until the next consoles arrive.
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Palpatations911
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 10:14:20 PM
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I'll just keep moseying through the game and hopefully I don't have any of the aforementioned framerate issues or anything else.
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Oxvial
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 10:44:43 PM
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sirbob6
Thursday, February 02, 2012 @ 6:40:06 PM
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Clamedeus
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 10:53:17 PM
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Playstation_Fan
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 @ 12:11:57 AM
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BigBoss4ever
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 @ 1:32:59 AM
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A third game without technical flaw will be more than a blessing.
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Palmetto
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 @ 7:55:20 AM
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SoulController
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 @ 8:33:56 AM
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Dark souls improved on Demon Souls in every possible way. The difficultly got more balanced, better variety in the levels & the addition of the covenants was a nice touch. Farming is more balanced as well except for when your trying to acquire a rare drop. I've been trying to snag a titaine slab from a Darkwraith for a week now urggh! Lol
Oh yea, & there's more Story in Dark than Demon but they they need to push a little further
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shadowscorpio
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 @ 1:20:16 PM
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duomaxwell007
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 @ 10:42:13 AM
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berserk
Thursday, February 02, 2012 @ 5:16:25 AM
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Otherwise i ll be really sad about no more game like it .They are probably among the top 5 game on ps3 for me and that is even tho i did nt finish either ( have about 60/80 hours of playtime on each one ) .
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JofaMang
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 9:46:48 PM
I might be biased: Demon's Souls is one the most memorable experiences in my lifelong experience of gaming (Started with smurfs on Colecovision at about age 4, heh) and that Dark Souls was able to induce similar emotions and responses even being a second stab at the concept, is endearing to me. Dark Souls is wonderful asterisk to the current generations King's Field franchise, and if that can be improved upon technically without losing the style and emotion of the Souls series, it should be done. But only if...