Talk:Dark Souls III

Testing of new Template:Video game review score for Metacritic (Wikidata)

I will shortly be removing the Metacritic scores from this article and replacing them with the new template Template:Video game review score. This is a test run, and can be reverted if there is an issue. If so, please report what the issue was so I can work to address. Dark Souls III has been used as the test data throughout building the template so no issues are currently expected.

The new template pulls review scores and the related reference from Wikidata. Dark Souls III is the Wikidata entry for this article. Using Wikidata allows the template to pull the exact same scores for Dark Souls III both here and at Souls (series). Scores need only be updated on Wikidata to affect both articles. The template provides an "update" link that will take you to Wikidata. The scores are stored in a statement called "review scores". Each entry under review scores should have the full score, i.e. 90/100. Once the score is added, qualifiers should be attached. These are "score by", which should be set to Metacritic, and "platform", which should be set to the system such as "personnal computer" or "PlayStation 4". Wikidata will try to help you out with a lot of autocompletes.

Once a score is added or updated, a reference needs to be added (or updated). References have several properties, that the template uses to build a cite template. Reference URL contains the URL. Title contains the title, publisher the publisher, and publisher by the "work". Retrieved is "accessdate". Under each score item there will be a collapsed "References" link. Expand it. You can add a new reference if one doesn't exist, or update the attributes of the existing one.

The Dark Souls III entry is fully flushed out right now, so should serve as a good example. I have also added scores to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls II, but have not yet attached the references. (References since added to Demon's Souls)

Again, this is a test run for the template, and if it has any issues, feel free to revert, just please let me know what happened. -- ferret (talk) 21:36, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• Are they automatically listed by lowest score first? I'd prefer it if they followed the status quo, if possible. (which is PS, XBOX, then PC) ~ Dissident93 (talk) 22:07, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• Currently, it is simply the order they were first entered into Wikidata. I can explore sorting in different ways though, but I'm not sure any method that would result in PS / XBOX / PC. What the pattern there? -- ferret (talk) 22:10, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
• Note, this could be done manually by deleting Xbox and PC from Wikidata, and re-entering them in the preferred order... But that's a little clunky too. -- ferret (talk) 22:22, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• Well it's just the status quo that pretty much every modern game article uses, so it would be preferred. There should be a way that forces this order, no matter what order they were originally entered in. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 22:56, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• Hmm, I'm not sure I'd agree that it's status quo. Articles are in all sorts of orders, and the IP review maintainers who buzz through usually reorder most of them by score. -- ferret (talk) 22:57, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• Now that you mention it, I see that Witcher 3's is just listed alphabetically. I don't think we should do them by score though, we should settle on a standard, such as simply listing them alphabetically, or in the case of later ports, the system(s) the game was released for first. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 23:11, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• Swing by Template talk:Video game review score and let's talk about sorting there. -- ferret (talk) 23:18, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Seems to be quiet with no major issues, but please report any issues to Template talk:Video game review score instead of here, as I'm expanding testing. -- ferret (talk) 21:50, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Videos

commons:Category:Dark Souls III Have fun  czar 00:18, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

• How common is this for video game articles? Can't recall much of it. And I'm not sure we should have commentary videos included, they seem like they could be promotional. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 00:38, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
• A short, uncommented gameplay video could very well be useful when it comes to illustrating a video game. But trailers are obviously not neutral (movie articles don't have them either) and commentary risks promoting the commentator. The particular commentary video on the page at the moment seems especially inappropriate; it's overly long at nine minutes and 237MB, takes a while to even show game footage, and the "commentary" is largely incoherent yelling. 122.59.108.158 (talk) 06:35, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

"Dark Scrolls"?

Why does the picture of the game cover in the infobox say Dark Scrolls III, instead of Dark Souls III? Can someone please put in the correct picture of the cover art? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:B825:4B80:ECC4:2ADD:BB58:725B (talk) 03:41, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

• It was just some vandal who attacked the page, but it's fixed now. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 04:54, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Open world

Is this open world like the previous dark souls games? Or is it linear? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.246.25.148 (talk) 21:07, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

• It's the same as the other Dark Souls games, so in my opinion it's not open world (which implies you aren't prevented from exploring the entire world at the start). ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 16:46, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

The thing is, Dark Souls and Dark Souls II have sources stating that they are in fact open world games. Dark Souls III does not.Dohvahkiin (talk) 14:58, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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Themes section (name subject to change)

I'd like to add a small section that describes some of the more commonly-discussed philosophical ideas, themes, narratives, (etc.) within the game. This isn't intended to be a section that argues any one particular perspective, nor expound at-length about niche fan theories or the exact details of the lore, but rather just provide some additional context about DS3 as an artistic work by describing the philosophical subtext underpinning the game.

Specifically, I'd like to add some mentions of

• Miyazaki's comments on the feeling of "accomplishment by overcoming tremendous odds" (WIRED magazine)
• The themes of death and "ending things" (YouTube)
• The ways that power, conquest, "lordship", (etc.) are portrayed as transient / impermanent; the opening cinematic (YouTube) describes Lothric as "...where the transitory lands of the Lords of Cinder converge."

I'm new to editing Wikipedia, so I'm still figuring out what the consensus is on what "good" edits are; any advice is welcome.

Rielith (talk) 20:52, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

trilogy, not series

the description of dark souls 3 reviews stating 'fitting conclusion to the series' is inaccurate. The series is not in fact over; as FromSoftware continues making Souls games, or Soulslike games.

It was only the dark souls trilogy which was being concluded with Dark Souls 3.

And this ain't even a damn bold edit, why the hell was BRD required for this.

Cerebral726 Becausewhynothuh? (talk) 19:17, 2 August 2023 (UTC)