This game has no story.

[pikmonwolf]

I never understood why people say this game has a good story, since it has no story at all. It has lore, but no story. There is no explanation for your actions, you're just doing stuff. Can somebody who thinks this game has a good story explain their reasoning to me?

[WARBOSS KRUMP]

The story has gaps left in intentionally so the player themselves can question and put pieces together. I like this method of storytelling, not to mention it entices players to speak to NPCs as they can share what has happened and what the areas used to be like etc.

The only direct story telling this game does is in the opening cutscene

[zero]

theres plenty of story, which the lore is an imporant part of, because it's the history repeating once again in a timeless world, the lore is the story.

[EleventhStar]

you are technically correct but to the average person story and lore are synonymous.

the actual storytelling in game is bigger then most people give it credit for tho.
opening cinematic, crestfallen, frampt/kaathe, they all give very direct story info.

[Novi]

You make the story of your own character (which is what a proper rpg should be imo). You can cosplay pretty much anything in the game, or you can just be what the game suggests you to be - a random hollowing undead, trying to fulfill oscar's wish and then being told by frampt that you're the chosen undead and what not.

The lore is, what people refer to. It's rich, yet ambiguous. There's tons of details that you will miss if you try to piece it together and that's why it's so much fun trying to uncover it.

[Pat]

you're the "choosen undead", this could have actually been any undead that makes it out of the Asylum and rung the bells of awakening, but you're "choosen" to either extend the age of fire another thousand years or usher in the age of darkness, in order to do this you must obtain the lordvessel from Anor Lando and collect the four lord souls from Nito, The Four Kings, Seath and the bed of chaos, from there you go and kill Gwyn, and choose to kindle the First Flame or Ignore it.

[Dashiell]

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's hard to know if game has story or not when you don't have friggin game. >.>

And if you just "did stuff" and never talked to anyone or even moved that thing inside your skull to put most obvious pieces together then it's game surely not for you.
Game's main story is a story of grand falsehood plotted by 'gods'.

[Anaverageguy41]

Dashiell eredeti hozzászólása:

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's hard to know if game has story or not when you don't have friggin game. >.>

And if you just "did stuff" and never talked to anyone or even moved that thing inside your skull to put most obvious pieces together then it's game surely not for you.
Game's main story is a story of grand falsehood plotted by 'gods'.

Guy probably has it console? Like me, and the only place to discuss things is steam

[pikmonwolf]

Dashiell eredeti hozzászólása:

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's hard to know if game has story or not when you don't have friggin game. >.>

And if you just "did stuff" and never talked to anyone or even moved that thing inside your skull to put most obvious pieces together then it's game surely not for you.
Game's main story is a story of grand falsehood plotted by 'gods'.

I have it on PS3 and Xbox 360, I HAVE TWICE AS MANY DARK SOULS AS YOU!

[raphi]

Any fix because of GFWL yet?

[axelmonster]

This boring old thread again?
Dark Souls has a very clear story, but it's not presented through badly written exposition, you actually have to figure things out for yourself by talking to NPCs, and connecting the dots on your own.
What, a game that makes you think? Preposterous!

[Lucatiel]

pikmonwolf eredeti hozzászólása:

Dashiell eredeti hozzászólása:

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's hard to know if game has story or not when you don't have friggin game. >.>

And if you just "did stuff" and never talked to anyone or even moved that thing inside your skull to put most obvious pieces together then it's game surely not for you.
Game's main story is a story of grand falsehood plotted by 'gods'.

I have it on PS3 and Xbox 360, I HAVE TWICE AS MANY DARK SOULS AS YOU!

I have it on PS3, 360, and PC. I have.... a third more Dark Souls than you?

[raphi]

^^

[svatem1]

in fact, half more

Schield eredeti hozzászólása:

pikmonwolf eredeti hozzászólása:

I have it on PS3 and Xbox 360, I HAVE TWICE AS MANY DARK SOULS AS YOU!

I have it on PS3, 360, and PC. I have.... a third more Dark Souls than you?

[76561198006416723]

"I have it on PS3 and Xbox 360, I HAVE TWICE AS MANY DARK SOULS AS YOU!" and you still don't have a clue about the story
you buy games just for make them collect dust or something

[Anaverageguy41]

sajtbarn eredeti hozzászólása:

"I have it on PS3 and Xbox 360, I HAVE TWICE AS MANY DARK SOULS AS YOU!" and you still don't have a clue about the story
you buy games just for make them collect dust or something

Story in a nutshell: You are a chosen undead, capable of defeating the trials of the Asylum, and as such have been chosen to go in Pilgrimage to Lordran to ring the bells of awakening and find out your true destiny from a toothy Serpent who may or may not be telling you the whole truth. So you go to the city of the Gods themselves to recover an item necessary for your quest, on return you are taken the shrine wherein you place the item and your quest widens to reclaiming the remnants of the Lord Souls and returning them to the fire. By doing this the door opens to where the first fire was found, after moving through the ruins you come across the Husk of Lord Gwyn merely a fraction of his previous greatness, A lord of sunlight no more, reduced to cinder, hollowed, insane, soul depraved. Finally once he is defeated you have the choice to either begin the cycle of fire anew knowing not if it will succeed, or turning your back on the quest and allowing the fire to go out eventually becoming a lord of the dark. Phew. That's the DkS story in a nutshell