DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

boost your stamina so you can roll around/ jump back loads and practice your parry-riposte.

the thief is a class that needs agility to stab people in the back and avoid heavy attacks.

so get a good shield and practice blocking/parrying and on boleteria castle 1-1 practice running past opponents and stabbing them in the back.

both actions will get you a slowed down animation so you know you have done it right.

play sessions in this game are a mix of level grinding and skill grinding.

each time you play you get better, unless you are trying to rush and then the entry level guys will serve you good.

just get used to doing the early levels over and over again and try different techniques to see what works.

Thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I thought. How is the EXP or whatever that you're skillgrinding accrued? The only pickups I seem to be getting are the souls.

btw everything else aside I like this game! It reminds me of the way games felt when I was a little kid. I like that somehow it's not fucking infuriating despite the fact progress is so glacial

ant, until you beat the first level you don't up your stats. so don't worry about anything but play control and getting one decent weapon/armor/shield and not so much even then. Near the end of the game, I was routinely dying and leaving behind 30K souls. You'll get em eventually.

OK! Good advice! Now: is there any less-annoying way to lock on a target besides allatime clicking R3-- and is there any better way to engage multiple guys without either getting clunked in the back of the head by the guy you're not fighting or trying to lure them into single combat one by one?

ha, this reminds me that i was on THE FINAL TWO BOARDS before I discovered the R3 lock on by accident. I played the whole game without that lock on. This was probably only possible because I played a wanderer who always fought with a curved sword, so broad attack hits. I don't know whether that made difficulty higher or lower. It certainly meant that I almost never got crystal lizards or slugs.

Dont worry too much about locking on.

I only use it in dark tunnnels where its more to see where everyone is.

its good for making sure long range stabbing hits connect, but if the camera decides to go haywire, you're screwed.

souls are equipment currency and EXP, So you are constantly deciding if better gear or a better character is the way to go.

dont worry about losing souls, like forks says eventually you get ways to quickly farm souls.

I like to go to the tower knights archstone, kill the 2 blue eyed knightas then do the blue eyed knight from 1-1 and then the red eyed knight.

In early days that would have been an impossible feat but now I'm riposting the blues and 2-hit-killing the red.

still to afraid to meet the flame lurker though....

I did my old deal of over-levelling for final guys and then charging in and tanking my way through final folks. Don't be afraid to use the stones that bring you back to life for final battles! I finished the game with like twenty five of those things in reserve. If you're ALMOST beating a guy, those will make all the difference.
And get you a bow ASAP!

Thief comes with a bow but arrows seem to be in short supply

dude in the nexus sells them for thirty souls a pop, right?

also ffs NEVER start a fight with a merchant. Even fucking hyena boy. You'll regret it. Oh, and DON'T pay too much for equipment; save your souls for leveling. If you're a diligent adventurer, there's nothing you can buy that you can't find within the game.

forks did u not pay attention to the tutorial?

http://images.art.com/images/products/large/10204000/10204244.jpg

obi-waaaaaaaan why ya gotta be a playa hata

pssssht, "tutorial"

So do you just get a certain amount of souls and then head back and spend them when you're grinding the first level? I don't quite get it. Can you bank the souls in the nexus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOZ7HPu9yU

Don't sweat it too much, you'll figure it out. I don't want to ruin it; just fight your way past the phalanx and nose around a little and it'll be evident soon enough.
Bear in mind that i think it took me ten hours to beat the first level.
Have you found the boletarian merchant yet? That's REAL DEMON SOULS BEGINS NOW

but one thing you should know is there is no banking of souls, like ever.
use em or lose em or find your corpse or get the hero soul rocks but that's it.

I'm keeping all my heros souls for a that thing that allows you to teleport back to the nexus, souls intact. that's gonna be a better day than Christmas when i get that beauty.

yeah, that was THE BEST
do you want a minor spoiler though?

I think I might have figured this game out! So you die 5000 times and each time you die you get a little bit better at the game, right? And then by the time you die of old age in real life you're good at the game.

sub "die of old age" for "in-game hour 20" and you got it.

Why can I only reliably backstab sucky guys? I get enough of that in real life

OKAY, LET'S DO THIS.

I DIED

let me know when the despair sets in

I have a secret weapon -- I do not expect to be any good at this game at all, so any success I have will be a delightful surprise.

The despair set in when my PS3 drive broke the day the servers went pure white WT, and I have about 2 weeks of prime Demons souls playing time till my GF & the baby come back from holiday and the machine wont recognise discs....

the only thing worse than playing Demon's Souls is not playing Demon's souls

FU H3LG3SON
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lol. for a second i was high on the mountain top of ALREADY??? and a split second later i was deep in the trough of "hilarious". why aren't people being more ashamed about getting whipped by this game and crying about it?

This game worked me so hard that I am scared to go back.

pssssht. it's not THAT hard.

coming to Europe apparently...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/demons-souls-coming-to-europe

REAL EU DEMON'S SOULS SERVERS START NOW?

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day 1

+1

coincidentally am reminiscing with a friend who picked this back up recently and is burning through some of the later stages. so many golden memories. would love to play again but the torment is still so fresh in my mind that just thinking about it gives me the Fear.

man i wish i had gotten the deluxe package

while i am in the neighbourhood i figured i would stop by and say that this is maybe possibly my favourite game ever of all time and always and also platinum trophy *braggin*

woah that is worth a *brag* tho

finally out tomorrow in the wasteland

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get ready for pain

YOU DIED

I am all up in this bitch now.

Dying sucks. Im also having a hard time figuring out just wtf is going on in the menus. I spent a bunch of souls on some shield I cant even use because I didnt understand the notations.

eh this games not as hard as everyone makes out, i mean ok i've died a few times but not that many really holy shit what is that dragon doing ohh shiiiiiiii YOU DIED

The difficulty to overcome is within you, not the game...

compare those adverts where a whole family is playing Super Mario Brothers on the Wii and laughing and dad comes in and he's brought snacks... and everyone laughs more...

now look at yourself at two in the morning, when an end of level boss pounds you and you have to walk through the entire level again...YOU CRIED

The difficulty to overcome is within you, not the game...

Whats with all the goddamn 'HELP ME I AM IN TROUBLE RECOMMEND THIS NOTE' messages

no fuck you

if you recommend them, they get a health boost.

New Super Mario Bros. did in fact bring me close to tears at some points