There's a steep learning curve but once you get past it the game isn't THAT hard. It's not the hardest game ever. You just have to learn how to play it.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
Speed run!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8RAEGnBGM
― polyphonic, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
you may have overstepped a bit with the macho thing, but i feel ya, there aren't enough AAA games anymore designed around the enjoyment of a difficult game. i think the last game i played in that vein was... Viewtiful Joe?
will probably get DS at some point, though i might wait until it hits $5 on steam or something now that it's gonna be on PC. holiday sale 2012 gooooo
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/11/dark-souls-for-pc-announced-masochism-begins-august-24/
quick glimpse of new stuff in pc release trailer. have to assume they will cash in and dlc this to consoles.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 12 April 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
i'm about 60 hours into this and it's pretty much one of the best games i've ever played
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
the mood of the game fits it so perfectly: i'm having a hard time trying to put it into words but it kinda feels like what i would imagine dying and living in some weird purgatory would feel like. the combination of limited music, bleakness, melancholy, darkness and light, phantoms, and endless monsters all come together in this amazing aesthetic environment
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
yup. so good
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
not to mention it's has probably the best and most fair battle system i've ever played
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
the difficulty is so overplayed too. it's just right. hard & doesn't pander, most of its difficulty is because it refuses to patronise
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
totally
but thats not to say that i havent rushed into boss battles and got my ass handed to me instantly. that's part of the fun: learning to be patient and thoughtful in battle, leading to much higher sense of accomplishment and reward
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
I think I've given up. Can't beat the doggy with the sword or some other dragon either.
― Jeff, Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
okay, RUN PAST THE DRAGONand utilize the jump from high and chop attach for the doggythat chop attack drove me nuts, wasn't in the first game but integral to this one
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
do you guys summon phantoms for boss battles? i tried for the first time last night and immediately fell off a ledge /:
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
i did and dude killed like six major guys and i was standing around going uhhhh UNDO UNDO UNDO i didn't want THAT much help!
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
finally beat taurus demon. i thought that sense of elation you'd received would be kind of negated by the fact that i've read so much of it and naturally couldn't expect myself to go "the part where everyone's happy? it's going on right now! ok, be happy!". so i was pretty surprised when i beat him first try, received a serotonin surge, (in a day... it must've been my 4th try, realistically) and threw out a victory fist, which is something i don't think i've ever done in much anything
― kelpolaris, Friday, 27 April 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://maxgif.com/Jj
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
I think this is a better example of "video games as art" than whatever Xbox Arcade Indie titles striving for that sort of thing. Such a weird, mysterious thing.
― circa1916, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
-a thing
― circa1916, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
i can successfully go for about 2-3 deaths before quitting and starting back up again the next day
each DS session lasts me about 45minutes. this is mostly good in terms of retaining a social and physical life.
― kelpolaris, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
just beat this.
― diamonddave85, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
best game evar.
congrats and otm
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
i'll beat it someday, i feel sure of it.i need a little vacation.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 May 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
congrats btw
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/122/1224905p1.html
additional PC content confirmed as console dlc
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 31 May 2012 10:33 (twelve years ago) link
is it worth getting the flying dragon sword? i finally got up to that dragon but it seems like a huge PITA going back and forth getting enough arrows to shoot his tail off. nb i'm playing a pyromancer w/ heavy focus on melee
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
i shot his tail off, so
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
at that stage of the game, the drake sword is a huge upgrade - i say that having struggled without it in my first run thru.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
you've run thru more than once!!!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
Trying this game out. Was far more intolerable before I got my game pad working.
The approach of Japanese gamedevs doing a Western-looking rpg is neat.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 1 September 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
Dark Souls 2 announced.FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
― ばか ざっぴ (zappi), Saturday, 8 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
PREPARE TO DIE
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (diamonddave85), Saturday, 8 December 2012 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
…AGAIN
Rad
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 December 2012 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?DarkSouls_Resets_3245
Dark Souls in 32 min
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
I just started playing Dark Souls this week
YOU DIEDYOU DIEDYOU DIEDYOU DIEDYOU DIEDYOU DIEDYOU DIEDYOU DIEDooh ooh you made it past that guyoh waitYOU DIED
FFS
― BANJOS ARE ALWAYS RACIST (onimo), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
best game
― ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ kma (cozen), Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
this fuckin' game
― Neil S, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
I keep telling myself I should go back to it. But I don't want to have to learn how to play all over again. And keep losing to that dog with a sword in its mouth.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'm doing the new game plus at the moment, and have cruised it up until the Capra Demon with his stupid dogs. Goodbye tens of thousands of souls!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
best game tho right?
― katz itt (cozen), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
right
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
oh yes, pretty much. Very few other games have the combination of oblique storyline, deep mechanics, beautiful graphics, unique atmosphere and of course brutal difficulty. Really looking forward to the sequel, I hope they retain these aspects of it.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 10:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.minus.com/iAAZ2MpXTZdEa.gif
― Habemus mundissimo ostentus nomen (onimo), Saturday, 16 March 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
― Nhex, Saturday, 16 March 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
i'm finally getting around to playing this! you can get it on demand now for $19.99.
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 24 March 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
i am so, so so bad
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
i am getting better! rang the first bell last night after defeating the...forgot the name. the two beasts on the rooftop. at that point i decided to stop referring to strategy guides whenever i got hopelessly stuck. i then spent 30+ minutes wandering around trying to figure out where to go next. then i looked at a strategy guide and figured out where the basement key could be used so i could move on. sigh.
i grabbed the drake sword, but i'm kinda regretting it. it's very powerful and it made things a lot easier as soon as i grabbed it. all that's nice, but i'm also a wanderer (supposed to be more of a dex character) and i have to level up my strength a bunch to use the drake sword. i feel like now my character is a kind of weird hybrid class that isn't terribly good at anything.
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
THIS FUCKING CAPRA DEMON
my shield isn't strong enough to block his attacks, apparently, and i keep getting killed while messing up the targeting system (targeting the demon instead of his fucking fuck fuck dogs, or targeting nothing at all on accident and flailing wildly) and the shitty camera in the tiny ass room
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:13 (eleven years ago) link