Breaks your lore

What user meant I think was that Miyazaki didn’t originally plan on 3 dark souls it was only due to the success and memes of dark souls 1 they made let B-team make dark souls 2 which was shit so they rushed out dark souls 3 to end the trilogy on a somewhat decent game

making ds1fags mad makes miyazaki a god

What's with this thing?
Is it more important than it seems, or just Fromsoft tradition?

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>muh no sequels
they signed a CONTRACT with bandai namco for three games

I really didn't get the impression DS1 was just another linking. It seemed like things were wearing down to an end and your journey was special and of grave importance.

"Lol it's just another cycle and didnt matter" really doesn't sound right

just a neat little thing they like to put in their games, just how patches is a little thing miyazaki likes to put in most of his games now.

Just a neat little Easter egg
Demons has the best one

a leftover from the time when the game was going to have a more discrete phase system for the firelink shrine area. the initial plan was to have pontiff sullyvahn be the final boss, and he'd show up at the end of the game when firelink shrine is completely darkened. now, untended graves exists as a sort-of easter egg at the end of a path that has really nothing to do with the main plot of the final version of the game.

the entire consumed king's garden and untended graves area is basically leftovers from the game's alpha, from the initial plan. oceiros was going to have a bigger role that actually made sense in the alpha.

isn't dark souls 1 the second linking? (gwyn being the first)

should i buy the DLCs?

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DaS1 establishes that linking the fire was a stopgap measure and everything will eventually descend into darkness no matter what you do. The idea that it's a "cycle" completely shits on the theme. The later games should have been completely different and featured the age of dark, but they opted to be lazy and rehash the same shit again.

I think they have the best bosses in the game, go for it.

yes, that user is retarded

Gwyn was the first to do it. And you can walk away without linking the flame.

Bro the point of dark souls lore is you’re supposed to put the pieces together and fill in the blanks yourself. That’s the reason it’s so confusing, it’s not supposed to make sense it’s supposed to be open to interpretation.

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Does anybody have a link to that video that goes into the lore of the ash lake, the giant skull there and it's overall the best lore video of dark souls?

>copy pastes its own starting area
>copy pastes firelink shrine twice which was already a rehash from the first game
>copy pastes the catacomb area and puts demon ruins paint on it
>copy pastes half the npcs from the first game
>copy pastes enemies from bloodborne >rehashes half the world from earlier games, and then turns the other half of the world into swamps and cathedrals cause they ran out of ideas 3 games ago
>retard is surprised the lore is fucked

DaS 3 is nothing but pieces from DeS, DaS 1 and BB stapled together, lore is the least of its problems.

>caring about the "lore"

It's just neat vague shit that serves as backdrop to the level design and cool bosses. Quit listening to faggividya.

Ringed City is very much worth it. Ashes not so much.

You were the first to link the fire after Gwyn. Hell Gwyn is the final boss you need to kill to link the flame for the first time after the Age of Gods.

You don't know what "copy paste" means.
>HURR ENEMIES ARE AGGRESSIVE THAT MEAN IT COPIED FROM BLOODBORNE!

>Souls lore
I like reading the item descriptions and going no further. Games like this are best with only a surface level interpretation of lore and shit like Vaati just pisses me off.

>DaS1 establishes that linking the fire was a stopgap measure and everything will eventually descend into darkness no matter what you do
That's exactly what cycles are about you fucking retard. Linking the fire doesn't matter because it's going to fade anyway, the darkness descending doesn't matter because someone will eventually link the fire.