Another Reason Killzone is Awesome

You know what makes the Killzone series awesome and why Killzone 3 will be extrasexytimes? There won't ever be any fucking dragons in it.

Allow me to set the Demon's Souls. I'm in 1-4, the last section of the Boletarian palace, and I'm all the way up to the red carpet and stairs. I'm within sight of the elevator to what I think is the least enjoyable boss fight in the game, narrowly beating out Maneater because at least the level leading up to Maneater is nearly impossible to fail at; 1-4 is chock full of fat officials, black phantoms, imperial spies and red-eye knights; it's got narrow stairways and plenty of walls for your weapon to deflect off of; it's invasion-central sometimes because enemy players don't want to jump into levels where you'll be hard to track down or there aren't scary enemies to hide behind if they get in over their heads; most of all, it's got that fucking blue dragon in it. I'm getting off track though—I'm up on the red carpet and this jackass I summoned, not knowing he was a filthy, useless coward, was hiding back down the stairs firing 2-damage arrows at the dra You know what makes the Killzone series awesome and why Killzone 3 will be extrasexytimes? There won't ever be any fucking dragons in it. Allow me to set the stage: Demon's Souls. I'm in 1-4, the last section of the Boletarian palace, and I'm all the way up to the red carpet and stairs. I'm within sight of the elevator to what I think is the least enjoyable boss fight in the game, narrowly beating out Maneater because at least the level leading up to Maneater is nearly impossible to fail at; 1-4 is chock full of fat officials, black phantoms, imperial spies and red-eye knights; it's got narrow stairways and plenty of walls for your weapon to deflect off of; it's invasion-central sometimes because enemy players don't want to jump into levels where you'll be hard to track down or there aren't scary enemies to hide behind if they get in over their heads; most of all, it's got that fucking blue dragon in it. I'm getting off track though—I'm up on the red carpet and this jackass I summoned, not knowing he was a filthy, useless coward, was hiding back down the stairs firing 2-damage arrows at the dragon. The dragon with a touch over 6,100 HP on normal and probably somewhere near 14,000 HP in my particular game. Based on the fire speed, I'd estimate somewhere around 70 minutes of solid arrow-firing to get rid of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkohwPmTQW4 See how this guy just runs past? I did that, but I didn't have soul ray/morion blade/clever rat's ring along, so even if I could hit the dragon with one of my spells, it would have taken a pretty long time to finish him off. This other guy though... YES LETS NOT DO THE EASY THING AND JUST BYPASS THE RETARDLIZARD IN THREE SECONDS. Sigh. Here's the kicker: We get invaded. After waiting around for this guy to get his shit in gear, I have to deal with an enemy player. This guy is a blue phantom, so he's not the target, so this guy hides and the phantom runs through the fire as depicted above easy as pie. Does my helper follow? NOPE. Why? Because he's shitty. The BP and I fight it out, but this mage was one of my earlier characters and isn't very well built. I can put up a fight, but I ultimately lose, which means dealing with all those enemies again, which is just dangerous enough to be an issue. So as a big plus for Killzone 3, No dragons. I guess I can't confirm, irrefutably, there won't be any, but I'm thinking dragons would be pretty unlikely. In closing: Killzone good, dragons bad.