TPV's Dave: "Apparently, From Software, the makers of the hardest PS3 game in the universe; Demon Souls and makers of the soon to be hardest cross platform game; Dark Souls have dreamt up a rather nasty little trick for folks who get hold of and by some means or another play the game early. They have sent out what they are calling ”Black Phantoms” and these are basically high end hunter bad guys with with a rank of 145 & 1900 hp with 9 abilities all maxed out at 99.
Now this set me thinking lets just suppose Microsoft and Sony followed this strategy when C.O.D, Halo, Forza or even Assassins Creed or any other big hitter came out. They send out these super soldiers or drivers into players games or into the pirates or the folk who some how manage to get their games excessively early, these titles would become essentially unplayable."
Brandon writes: "I could find you 10 companies that have pitched a bloodborne sequel, spinoff, or remake, including my own. It's just not going to happen unless fromsoft decides they want to do it."
Everyone was criticizing Sony for not pushing for the BB remake. Turns out they gave it the green light. The original still holds up really well
Man this just fucking sucks, I respect Miyazaki and Shohida's wishes, but Bluepoint would have been the perfect studio to take on a project like a Bloodborne remake. It's still an absolute masterpiece, but the performance and frame pacing could easily be solved on the current hardware now.
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Sony's bold entrance into the console market back in the '90s heralded the use of CD-ROMs instead of cartridges, which convinced several companies to jump on board the PlayStation train. It turns out FromSoftware was one of those companies lured in by the appeal of discs.
Of course this could backfire and create an umber gamer.
Not cross platform, multiplatform. And it's not what they "call" Black Phantoms, it's what they are.
I can't see Ubisoft putting some uber dudes in their games to detour playing early.
Its just something that suits the type of game Dark Souls is.
It is a pretty good idea actually. I agreed that many game developers could do something like this. However im pretty sure if the person was for instance signed out of PSN these guys wouldn't be a problem. How does it tell without an internet connection?
however like i said the concept is cool, hey maybe it just detects the time/date on the system. For other games it could also do that and prompt a message that "the game has not released yet" or something.