DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

i ordered this the other day along w/ nba2k13 :)

nm i thought this was the dark souls thread

i gotta get in on this

you really do

dammit I wanna play this again right NOW but my parents are in town all weekend and staying with us

I suppose I could just give them the keys to the car and tell them to explore but it's the weekend of their 50th wedding anniversary so that might not go over well

YOU ARE A BAD SON

(with accompanying bassline/chaindrop effect)

http://demonssouls.wdfiles.com/local--files/enemies/mind-flayer.jpg

http://forums.demonssouls.info/images/ranks/Rank3-Fat-Official.png

are you playing this now?

yes. i am a glutton for punishment i guess

good man

how does it seem, going backwards from dark souls? i feel like it shouldn't seem obviously 'older' or lower-spec.

it is harder if anything. the world tendency stuff can really undo you. the game basically gets harder the worse you do, to a point. and without bonfires some of the levels can seem really long.

i'm still sort of early game which seems to be where main difficulty lies with the souls games. i don't think its that bad though since i've leveled up a bit but i've only beaten 4-5 bosses so far. combat is still the same except i think there's no jump. the archstone as respawn point takes some getting used to but it seems like most levels have shortcuts you can open up to ease the grind. the one thing that made me notice its age is some of the a.i. like ostrava strutting around like a robot. i don't rly pay attention to the tendencies but i also don't fully understand its workings.

one thing i've had trouble with in a few areas was lock-on targeting not working right

i had a good recent invasion u might like (dark souls tho - currently stuck inside the painting world). i get invaded in anor londo right before u make across the rafters. i peek outside the broken window and the guy is standing on the balcony. i bow and he looks like he's bowing but something is at his feet. he points down at it and i think oh he's giving me something but i stand where i am. he points at it again and sort of moves to the side. its obvious i'm sure but i'm a noob casul idiot and i go and pick it up and promptly get one-hit backstabbed back to the bonfire. u prob figured out by now what he dropped for me - an indictment :-)

^i've never played the game but i love this story

lol @ invasion, that is quality trolling

world tendency in demon's basically means that whenever you die in body form the mobs get harder, up to pure back tendency when you get additional souped-up black phantom enemies to contend with

that explains why it hasn't affected me yet. what is this "body form" u speak of ; )

currently the things i haven't been able to kill yet are red eye knights and red eye dual wielding skeletons. basically if its eyes are red i'm fucked. i found this games talking bird tho lol "gimme twinkly"

maneaters :(

oh-oh here they come

that whole level was a fucking disaster for me first time

the level itself was easy for me except stupidly trying to melee the prisoner horde, all 30 arms hacking me. i ended up cheesing the boss using arrows through the fog on the first one and even then the 2nd one killed me a bunch until i used full armor and warding

guessing thats a good level for soul farming?

the prime soul farm points are the start of 4-2 and 4-3. have you done those levels?

not yet, 4-2 is next up

4-1 is a good early farm particularly if you can one hit kill the skellies, they are worth a decent amount each. but without giving anything away, almost the first proper enemy you meet in 4-2 is good for iirc 7k souls and when you know what you're doing you can run in, kill, suicide and repeat in like 10 seconds per go

also, there is a 'trick' to 4-2, to one particularly hard part. i did a couple playthrus before finding out about it. i wouldn't necessarily encourage you to research beforehand, but if you are having any kind of hard time i would bear that in mind. it make a bitch of an area significantly easier.

also, i don't know if you have picked up on this, but bows are way more important and relevant in demons than dark. not entirely a tangent...

4-2 broke me, i give up, fuck this game.

i am not going to front, it gets worse still. 5-2 is...let's just say, fuck 5-2.

haha i posted that and then tried 10 more times and made it through. 5-2 does seem like its going to be painful

went through all the bosses except 1-3. the old monk fight was interesting in that if you're online it summons another player to be the boss. its lame that it lets that player heal and just becomes your average pvp bullshit so i beat that one offline

i thought that was a neat and pretty original idea in theory tho

its a great idea. i might put a summon down to see if i can get picked for it

dragon god was like a bed of chaos precursor

weird ending! fake allant had some nice moves.

the lore is so confusing. who is the old one and why does the maiden in black need to slumber with him

the old one is existential angst, the monumental is purpose, and the maiden is duty

or the old one is something vaguely bad that was asleep and got woken up and now is going back to sleep

so obviously you didn't kill the maiden. did you go back to 1-1 to fight old king doran?

no, ostrava didn't appear in 1-3 or 1-4 to give me the damn key and then suddenly hes a black phantom

well tbh alls you did is save yourself a headache there

just watched a vid of him. one gripe i have w/ this game is the armor is in general pretty shitty looking. like king doran looks like he's wearing jorts and just walked out of a deck of playing cards

speaking of armour, the user-submitted shields for dark souls 2 are p.good
http://www.destructoid.com/these-winning-community-made-dark-souls-ii-shields-rock-258343.phtml

ancient king's jorts 19 / 19 / 22.8 / 19

fluted denim

i like this

Still another theory is that the player actually died in the tutorial and
everything that came after is a form of Hell. Perhaps the player was sent to
Hell for the sin of pride, the belief that they were the one hero who could
save Boletaria. So they gave the player a quest which can never be completed.
Side with the Old One or the Monumental, it makes no difference, The player's
quest will begin again and be harder than before. That means that the
Monumental and the Old One are just the good cop / bad cop of Hell.

So this has completely consumed every free moment I've had this past week and a half. So, so good. I've finished everything but world 5. Character's around level 65. I'm gonna nerd out about it a little bit.

- It's challenging, but not putting my through the wringer like I expected. Might be because I played Dark Souls and was already familiar with the mechanics. Also doesn't hurt that I've just been pumping points into Vitality and Stamina. Plenty of HP and swinging/blocking power. Maxed out Dragon long sword has been taking good care of me. Dragon weapons have high base damage and don't rely on STR, DEX, or MAG, which are relatively low on my character. Good fit for the time being.

- Managed to nearly take out Flamelurker on first attempt. Got him down to about 10% health before I depleted my grass stock. On the next go I summoned a blue phantom who promptly destroyed him in under 10 seconds. Have no idea what kind of equipment that guy had, but damn.

- Maneaters were a pain until I found out you could kill one of them before even entering the fog door.

- I also cheaped out and arrowed Old King Allant down to next to no health. After losing 3 Soul Levels to that guy, I didn't feel too bad about it. Little bit of controlled self-injury + Clever Rat Ring can really speed up those tedious sniping situations.

- I sweated my way through 3-1, got to the boss (floating witch type character with all the clones), nearly had her killed, then my roommate enters the room and yells "DEMON LORDS! DEMON LORDS! DEMON LORDS!" just to be a goofball dick. Distracted me and I DIED. I had to pretend like it wasn't that big of a deal, but I wanted to punch him in the face.

- Beat 4-2 on first attempt. B)

- I plan on messing around with world tendency stuff before closing out world 5 and opening up the end game. I'm curious to see how rough Pure Black is gonna be.

- I'm placing stats with an eye for lvl 120, which seems to be the commonly accepted PVP range. Going for a (super common, but apparently effective) Blueblood Sword build. This will likely limit me, because it's very specialized (gotta pump up Luck), so I hope I don't hate it.

- After I burn out on this, I'm gonna run through Dark Souls again. Never completed it. Fucking Anor Londo Archers.

- I also cheaped out and arrowed Old King Allant down to next to no health.

u can also poison cloud him from the stairs

PSHAW you could also MAN UP and die to him 20 times then call up a couple of phantom dudes who know what they are doing and let them get busy

old king was the hardest boss for me first time through, by miles. i never died to him again.

did you go back for old king doran? he was even harder imo. i only ever killed him once, and that was cos he got glitched on a barrel. one day i have to go back and beat him straight. it's not like i haven;t tried.

I sat around hoping to summon someone for Allant, but no luck. I wasn't about to waste any more levels on that guy unless it was necessary. NO REGRETS. Doran is on my list. You've made me a little worried.