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[Overcast]

I got married. Not sure I liked the process.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Overcast

I got married. Not sure I liked the process.

Wait, wait, wait.
Stop the presses.
Stop everything.

...You can get married in Dark Souls 3?

[Overcast]

To one specific NPC yes. It is a traditional Londorian wedding, specifically with rituals tied to the creation of a Monarch.

[Solid Snake]

Aww yeah
...If there's one thing Dark Souls desperately needed, it's an NPC who I'd care half a damn about.
My spouse and I are totally going to wreck bosses together if that's a thing you can do, we're gonna take 'em all down

[Overcast]

I would uh, keep your hopes a smidge lower. Learn a bit more about Londor and perhaps embrace the Dark.

[Solid Snake]

...Heh.
Well, I won't spoil it for myself, but...

...Hmm.
You know, I think my dream action-RPG at this juncture would basically be: Give the Dark Souls team the gameplay and give Bioware the story.
I mean, can you even imagine that game? The combination of Dark Souls gameplay and an actual supporting cast to interact with and genuinely care for?!?

I know there's an underlying logic for the Dark Souls team keeping their lore all abstract and ambiguous, but even with such a vague backstory, they could actually write personalities into their characters. And give me dialogue options and let my character live and breathe in the world. I'm just saying, if I actually cared more about the story in Dark Souls and it had epic fights like that, I'd practically have a heart attack every time I played. In a good way! I'd be so thoroughly invested in the characters and the adventure that it'd be exquisite anguish to make it through every fight.

[greed]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

...Heh.
Well, I won't spoil it for myself, but...

...Hmm.
You know, I think my dream action-RPG at this juncture would basically be: Give the Dark Souls team the gameplay and give Bioware the story.

We can go bleaker.

YOKO TARO on the writing.


Serious talk Bioware has always been junk food writing to me, I'll take Souls style anyday. If I wanted a more expansive style Obsidian would be preferred.

Or Yoko Taro. Get some NieR up in here.

[Overcast]

Heh, well there is a bit more power to the NPC's this time. But as always there is a methodology to how the game is written. Everything is somewhat secondhand knowledge and piecemeal considerations. You may learn to love our current version of the Onion Knight, Seigward of Catarina. He's a great story to follow, in its own way so is the story of Anri of Astora and the machinations of the Londorians. Everyone has a piece here, and it feels stronger than any other souls before it in that regard, but it doesn't change to anything easier to achieve it.

[Solid Snake]

Obsidian would be great too, but I still think Bioware writes the best NPC companions, and Inquisition was a huge step up for them in the writing department overall.

But you really can't go wrong with anyone involved with NieR.

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

I still think Bioware writes the best NPC companions, and Inquisition was a huge step up for them in the writing department overall.

Could you elaborate on why you think Inquisition's companions are so good? I tried the game close to launch (so a long while ago) and the only companion I remember liking was Iron Bull. I remember seeing people on here (I think) talking about how good Sera was, but when I met her I just found her annoying. I think I stopped playing shortly after that.

I feel I should give the game another chance, but every time I think of booting it up I remember how little I cared about the companions and don't do it.