ZEPHYR'S PROFILE

I suppose I should point out that the hold key-option is not flawless. It wasn't in my game at least, judging by my own experience and several others.

I had a feature that charges an attack when you hold the button and maintains the state until released, but it would occasionally release the key-state when still holding the key. I first thought my code caused issues, but even something as simple as the code in the screen at the top had the weakness. Luckily enough, it's not a frequent problem. This was rm2k3.

Dark Souls sticks with its familiar formula pretty much.
Souls are the currency. You die, you go and retrieve it. You die before you retrieve it, it's gone.
As you mentioned, bonfires replaces the hub and archstones.

The game is more open-world and mostly the things stopping you from going out of order are difficulty barriers. The game is said to be harder, but so far it has kept itself similar to Demon's Souls.

I haven't played the whole of Dark Souls, but for me it still has that relentless difficulty that I'm having problems coping with.
But I suppose it has been refined quite a deal.

author=LockeZ

author=Feldschlacht IV

Narshe totally didn't. The south end of the town was the front gate, and the north, west and east ends of the town went all the way up against the cliffs. There were a couple buildings up in the cliffs without doors, but that's not really the same thing. Meanwhile most of the towns in FF4 are entirely contained inside town walls, just to make absolutely sure that no one mistakenly thinks they keep going beyond what's shown. I know it's supposed to be just kind of a symbolic representation of the town; but actually doing what you said and making it look like it's a real representation of a small part of the town seems both less painful and more interesting.

Vector certainly did this. You can walk around in a fairly small part of what is assumed a large industrial metropolis. Even walking to the top of the Imperial Palace shows an industrial landscape in the background which you never access.

The same goes for Midgar I suppose. What I remember you only partially explore two or so sectors and that's mostly just the slums which is not the actual city.

author=1625974

Just like that? No credit added? No after-dialogue? It just freezes?
I've never run into that, so it's weird that it would happen now...

Seriously, how glitchy is this game still...
Other people seem to run into glitches more often than I do, which makes it harder to proof-code.

Are you running the latest version of the game? I hope it's not too much to ask for, but could you test and see if it happens again?
The only reason I can think of is bad luck with the battle being finished in some very unlikely condition...
If not, perhaps I could borrow the save and see if I can replicate the problem.

You might want to fix the SCP-087b link.
It points to Part 19 of Profit Motive.