IS IT END OF DAYS FOR DARK SOULS SEQUEL?


Posted by Geoff G on Feb 1, 2012 18:54 (112 days ago)
 Dark Souls, the follow up to From Software's 2009 critically acclaimed Demon Souls, may be in fact the swan song for the franchise.  In an interview with creative director Hidetaka Miyazaki, the technical issues present in the game have left the future of the series going forward in doubt.  
 
Miyazaki is quoted as saying when asked about the games performance issues,
 
“Yes, there were technical difficulties. I don’t believe that it’s okay to have them, but realistically speaking, it was quite a large-scale game – even in terms of budget and expectations. So we’re very sorry for the trouble we’ve caused by our processing errors and bugs from Japan. It was a title that we haven’t really experienced in all aspects, so there were areas where we felt our technical side couldn’t keep up with the game’s scope, like an increasingly growing ache. I didn’t mind the growing pains. We accept the game as it is, and that it’s just a part of the learning curve.”
 
Miyazki continues...
 
“We don’t even know if we’ll have another chance. We have the confidence that we can improve from our mistakes this time and create an even better Dark world, but we don’t know if the users will forgive us for the mistakes, so I cannot give an exact answer.”

In this day and age of "day one" patches and updates, where many games hit shelves with technical issues galore, one can't help but wonder if From Software isn't being a little too hard on themselves as critiques of the technical functionality of Dark Souls have not been expansive.  Are these comments a simple act of one committed developer striving inward for perfection in his game or are they perhaps the outward acknowledgement that if a small development team can't consistantly be perfect the future will indeed be dark...?
 
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Feb 8, 2012 11:03:42 (106 days ago )

donutman1007
dark souls was my fav rpg ive played on consoles in years.  i went and bought demon souls after beat dark souls 2x.  i would love to see a sequel but ive got hundreds of more hours before i think ill be done with dark souls.  and compared to something like skyrim, dark souls had no glitches.
Feb 2, 2012 04:37:56 (112 days ago )

Greg S.
Well, they are human afterall, nothing is perfect so I don\'t see anything wrong with it. Especially when you try to actually make something new and fresh and go into uncharted territory, you\'re bound to have some issues.
Feb 1, 2012 21:54:59 (112 days ago )

JapanRobin
Not the kind of statement you want to hear from your creative director...at least he was honest.
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