DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

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

Dear Customer,
Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,
We are writing to let you know that the following item has been sent

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

hooked on this so bad

still dont understand a fucking thing about world tendencies..

So I beat this on accident earlier today. I killed the boss with minimal effort when it just sat there when I shot it with like 15 fireballs..

yeah, the end guy is an odd cakewalk; especially when compared to some of the other final bosses.

just got added to the Greatest Hits lineup, anyone who has $30 and passes on this deal is a butt

o nice

this game is too fuckin easy

lol

1. oh hey, this isn't so bad!

2. ...okay wait if I am reading this message from the US server administrators correctly I am basically playing on easy mode. Until about a week from now, when it will be flipped over into bastard mode for the rest of the month.

3. BALLS

4. YOU DIED

actually that could also be 1a

I actually didn't die that much! I may even still be in the single digits. I'm using a Thief, playing slowly + cautiously, and making sure to take some time blocking and watching enemies to figure out attack patterns. After that it's just been a matter of using the right weapon (I have a scimitar for soft things and a mail breaker for hard things) and counter, stab, Bob's your uncle (and is also dead). Groups can be a pain, though, and that first boss (the big writhing fuckpile of shield-spear-blob-things) is a GOD. DAMN. ASSHOLE. It doesn't help that I wasted all my firebombs on my first attempt and I'm too lazy to grind up a bajillion more souls so I can buy more.

yeah, you know I watched somebody play this when it was all white tendency and it's about, oh, half to a quarter as hard as it is on all black. Good luck with that.
Btw, do NOT try to grind before you beat the first boss. You start grinding after that.

http://kotaku.com/5666793/how-to-beat-demons-souls-in-under-an-hour

Now I will pretend that I have beaten this game.

Demon's Souls beaten from the beginning in 1 hour:

http://www.youtube.com/user/alternalw#p/u/3/KWi6t8Psv9w

0_0

Sequel, bitches!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc8fsve6u8M
YOU'LL DIED

fyi for anyone who has been keeping up, ^this is rebranded Project Dark. seems like they started out making something 'similar but different' and as Demons Souls kept blowing up (comparatively) the suits told them to make it 'similar but very similar' instead. The Cursed Crusade, due out this summer from Demon Souls' publisher, is also a notional successor, supposedly with some themes/elements retained.

"Dark Souls is not a sequel to Demon’s Souls by any means. However, it’s created by the same producers and director and so the ideologies, concepts, and themes have carried over and are similar. It’s a totally new game with similar concepts."
sounds like a sequel to me

apparently no online play as they dont want to have the upkeep of servers.....

I might have read that wrong....though.

servers offline May 31. if you haven't played it yet, now is the time.

is the combat in dark souls better than in demon's? i have no problem with pointless numbing difficulty (much love for etrian odyssey) but i felt like the camera and getting hung up on the environment contributed to way more frustration/death/soul loss than the deliberate system quirks (which i really liked).

via brief stints w/ both, i can say that they're the exact same game. almost. the sole difference is that demon's is set in a continuos, "open world" map whereas in dark you have a hub in which you select levels to travel to. it's like purgatory, kind of and is actually sort of nice just to set the controller down within and let the music play while you toast your freeze-dried egg mcmuffins you bought from costco

also, most people say it's easier in dark souls considering that when you die you don't restart w/ half-life

yeah no pause is a dick move (i know it's for online purposes but still)--there's a tension in having inventory management in real time and i appreciate that but no excuse for not having a regular old pause no-menu kinda option.

there are a number of significant differences in terms of world and mechanics but the gameplay is very similar in each.

no pause is great. coming back from the bathroom to find yourself being invaded by some asshole is a key part of the experience. you can always just quit to menu if having no pause is really riling you.

hmm... can you pause with the PS button? I never tried that.