Bloodborne/Souls games.

Honestly I hope they use very little to link Ds3 to ds1/2. I didn't really care for the fan service in ds2. I also hope hexes will be making a come back. Hexer builds are my favorite mage builds.First play through though I will be going quality build or fth/str. I also hope dual wielding will be added for greatswords. Dual greatswords > sword and board.

I don't mind if they hint towards things from DSI/DSII, and there's definitely some of it, such as the Abyss Watchers having swords almost exactly like that of Artorias's sword.
Although I do hope they stray away from it with the enemy/bosses, no repeat of Ornstein again.

Never used Magic much at all, I was always a Sword and Board type, with the Bow available for range, although with how much I played Bloodborne, I may stray towards avoiding the shield for a while with how mobile the character now seems to be.

I stopped using shields in dark souls 1, for the most part, after I finally got the hang of it. now I'll only using them in areas too difficult to progress without. But that's because I prefer high stamina builds and fast rolls. The playstyle isn't for everyone but it's worth giving a try.

Haha same here. Fashion souls > armor rating

One of my current pc playthroughs of ds2 I am running a quality build dual greatswords with the imported pants and hood from the first set you get. One mistake and I get nearly one shot haha but it's a real fun build. I'll probably go through the light armors I've collected so far and mix n match them for the best appearance before hitting the dlc's though. I don't know how anyone can do a naked run through of the old iron king dlc. I hate that place.

I never played the vanilla ds2. I waited for sotfs to be released on xbone before picking it up. And then during Xmas I picked it up for pc on the steam sale. It's been years since I gamed on pc so I'm slowly rebuilding my collection for it.

I actually like ds2 better than 1 for its combat mechanics. That's the main reason I still play it. It just feels smoother to me. But it will never beat the atmosphere of dark souls 1. That game was just fucking glorious and has ruined most rpg's for me. I am really hoping dark souls 3 will have a comparative atmosphere to 1 with the improved combat mechanics of 2.

DS III is almost upon us! I am looking forward to it so much right now. I've watched a few pre release vids on YouTube and the atmosphere looks so much better than what ds2 had. I haven't looked into what the new stats are since I like going in blind my first play through so I can't comment on that. But the combat mechanics look like they've been greatly improved. I've heard a few youtubers say that bow builds might actually be viable this time so I'm definitely going to try that out.

I already pre ordered it on steam so I'm hoping it will live up to the hype. But as long as it's better than Ds2 I'll be happy. Not to say ds2 was a bad game, it's a great game, just a bad souls game.

Anyone picking it up on pc? It'd be nice to have more folks on pc for me to get some jolly co op in with. No one in my Xbox friends list play the series which is why I got it on pc instead. Also pc has the second largest playerbase after ps.

Didn't see that. Hope they bring pyromancy back to how it was in ds1 and not tied to any stats. It did make it op but every buil d was able to use it and it tied in with the lore, better than what they did to it in ds2. the pyromancer was also a starting class in ds1. It was a good class if you wanted to make a good min/max PvP build.

I rarely tried the magic out in all of them I've done, outside of Falchion + Power Within + Sunlight Blade, I didn't dabble with them at all in combat in DSII or Bloodborne.