DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BE POSTING LIKE THIS IN THIS THREAD

almost done with ng+. almost quit at maneaters

planning on playing this once a friend of mine decides he's done with his PS3 forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyX72JKp2J4

i played the other side of the old monk fight, got summoned to fight as him. if you hide right by the side of the door, the inexperienced player will walk right by you and not even see the firestorm coming. then you get to wear this everywhere

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/square_small/1/12096/1748693-old_monk_s_wrap.jpg

That's a sick hat. I was using that to one-shot lower lvl players in PvP. Flip side- you can accept one hit at maximum

glass cannon

im using the stockpile duping glitch, how did they not patch this

well, this is happening.

doing a dex build (wanderer) to stay in shape for Bloodborne. i tried doing 4-1 after the first boss and it was just not happening with starter gear, but i'm making progress through 1-2.

i'm sure i'm missing lots of stuff but was very happy to stumble on the Cling Ring.

i thought i would be better than this, f u Tower Knight. when fighting a boss for the first time i need to resist the urge to use up crazy amounts of grass and accept the death gracefully (it was close though).

im doing a level 1 playthrough. not too bad but finally got stuck on maneaters and 5-2

those maneaters make you work hard

lol that sounds fucking awful tbh. 5-2 is disgusting under normal circumstances.

what did you start as and what gear are you using?

yeah its ridic. i think level 1 is royal class so you get the one magic slot. shield is buckler +10 lol and using a fire sword or crescent one from 4-1. my friend who introduced me to souls series is doing it too, i co-oped with him on maneaters and killed them first try. then he helped me and it all went to shit, prob 10 deaths so far. 5-2 im just trying to speedrun to open the fucking shortcut but those fucking giant goon things and fucking mosquitos and fucking poison

i did kill the tutorial boss though, first time for that

jesus is that ever the fucking trap with 5-2, the desperation to get to that gdamn shortcut. how many times did i fuck up by trying to dash there.

sounds cool as well as awful but i don't think i could subject myself to it. nice work on tutorial boss, i never killed that fecker.

you can't dash there is the problem too many enemies and the swamp slows you down. i think i can do it, its just getting a long part of the way there and dying is really crushing on this level. i mean at least i'm not this guy doing SL1 NG+7 PBWT WTF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs4jtMrCPV4

haha gtfo

he's running around with 10% health the whole time so he can use that clever rat ring

good luck jordan

i felt stuck on this for awhile but things are moving along now. it definitely felt harder than Dark Souls but maybe that's just the early stages of any of these games, or because i was being super stubborn about getting through Shrine of Storms 1.

finally beat Flamelurker by getting him stuck on the rocks, whew. and the first Tower of Latria stage lives up to the hype, such a well-designed level.

also it's crazy hard to get the right upgrade materials in this game, huh

the upgrade system was over complicated in DeS IMO

also, if you roll royal (or whatever the sorcerer starting class guy is) this game is a snore, difficulty wise, after the first zone. also also, it's good fun to get that monk head wrap (that hat that increases your magic attack) and any other +magic items, and then just camp pvp areas and one shot people. it's like 50/50 whether the other guy has a chance to hit you once (usually all it takes) before your homing soul mass melts his flesh.

i did Wanderer thinking i was going to do a dex build, but i haven't been able to upgrade any dex weapons past the crescent falchion yet, and i've found myself putting everything into magic anyway.

i've been going back to this once a month or so and it still feels harder than Dark Souls. i do like how the last stage of each world seems to be a boss fight setpiece.

got all the way through Shrine of Storms and Stonefang Tunnel, haven't touched the Valley of Defilement but i guess i'll get that over with next?

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

― am0n, Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:08 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i liked this one a lot, but ended up running past all of the reapers/spooky ghosts after the first set.

maaan, i hate the one-chance-only events in this game. like, pulling the giant sword out in the Dragon God level -- i had too much weight to pick it up, but after going back to the Nexus, it was gone forever. then i died helping Ostrava in 1-3, and that's a wrap.

that said i did have a very exciting experience playing 5-1 a few days ago. i was waiting for a ride to the airport and having my first really good run, and i ended up defeating the boss on the first try mere moments before i had to walk out the door. :)

dear lord 5-2. it's my last regular level and you really have to learn the path inch by inch > die > repeat.

yep it is traumatizing. make sure you open the shortcut before attempting the boss.

word, i don't think i've ever been happier to hit a shortcut/checkpoint. got through Garl Vinland using the shotel, now i just have Allant left.

ok, i don't feel great about i how i did it (Warding > Fire Storm > spice > repeat), but it's done. now i can go into Bloodborne with a clean conscience. :)

AGH TOWER KNIGHT MAKE IT GO AWAY

I survived for a little while by going up the staircase at the back and killing a couple of crossbowmen, but I can't quite work out the timing to attack the Knight when his shield is up- he seems to only lift it while he's attacking. I guess I could try and circle him from the back next time, but frankly I'm scared to get close to him.

BRING ME MORE DEMONS SOULS. take all the archers out and then attack the ankles from behind to cripple him then hit his head

Okay, so I'm on the right track! I'm trying to avoid wikis as much as possible, except in a couple of circumstances- I had to look up what exactly "quality" weapons were, since the game itself does basically nothing to tell you. In retrospect, I could have figured it out if I'd reread the manual a couple of times, looked at the second screen of stats for upgraded items, and consistently been able to remember the symbols for each attribute, but as much as I'm willing to stick my neck out for this game, I'm not quite there yet :)

I've got most of 1-2 down to a science (<3 Thief's Ring; I dunno how the dogs in the underside of the bridge or that mob of crossbowmen PLUS a blue-eyed knight would work without it) but I still kind of dread those two Knights in a row. Usually by the time I've finished the first one- in cramped quarters to avoid dragon breath or, god forbid, aggroing the second one- my heart is pounding enough that I can't quite calm down, string him along, dodge and wait for the right moment to get a parry kill.

My proudest moment so far was finally realizing on a repeat visit (after setting the game aside for a couple weeks) that the Armor Spider wasn't immune to ranged attack as I'd somehow thought after my first couple of attempts. I must have somehow missed with my crossbow- maybe I shot it as the spider was rearing up above the archway to shoot webs? Anyway, I went back, ground up enough souls in 1-1 and 1-2 to buy a bunch of arrows for my fancy new compound bow, bought Soul Arrow (reasoning that Flame Toss isn't going to do diddly-shit on a fire-themed boss), panicked when it looked like Soul Arrow didn't work, realized it just has awful range, and boom, done. I had to make another wiki visit just to see what was up with the alternate rewards for bosses' souls, though- and I'm glad I did, because I'm not sure I would have ever figured that out.

you can do tower knight w/ soul arrow too, just stay up above and dodge

Working on it. Took a swing through 2-2 until a crystal lizard (still haven't managed to kill a single one) led me straight to a couple of glowy red knights and I panicked, RAN back to the elevator and barely made it up to the surface; used the proceeds to buy a short spear and then immediately had a winged spear drop from a random guy in 1-1 while I was grinding up enough to start it down the upgrade path. I'm still 1 strength too low to use it, though, so I'm sticking with my +5 rapier/+3 quality dagger (which I seem to exclusively use for killing dogs) for now.

The Tower Knight is coming along. He's fast for such a big fucker. I'm still having some difficulty taking out the archers on the tops of the walls, since getting close enough to target lock them leaves me wide open for the Knight's lance throwing move, so I just ignored them and tried to work on the boss. I'm getting a better handle on his movement, and pretty much never die to that shield slam move anymore. Managed to get in and slash away at his ankles, which started venting that green gas (souls, I guess) that dead enemies bleed out, but he didn't take any visible damage or start behaving differently. He'll be my project for tomorrow evening, I guess...

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http://imgur.com/Znkm2Zs

the dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UQtBMKCipk

there's a Demon's Souls sample on this track ;)

just playing this for the first time. holy shit, it is awesome. definitely better than DS2. maybe DS1? i don't know, i still have a long way to go. highly recommend playing this after DS3 - it is the souls game it feels closest to!

really great level design in this. it feels like DS3 is a conscious effort to remake a lot of DeS, maybe to bring the series full circle. there is the Nexus and Tower of Latria, but also the laughing Evangelists and red eyed knights, the dragons on the bridge, etc. lots of the stuff in DS1 and DS2 also copied from DeS. even Bloodborne! there are octopus-faced evil wizards, w stacks of coffins.

Any luck summoning people these days?

i don't know, i don't have PSNow or an account, this is a used console. i thought they shut down the servers. or did they not?

i bought this in the January sale, servers still seem to be on

don't know if i like it yet, but i'm maybe in the wrong head-space

you can play online w/ PS3 for free. or at least that used to be the case. if so, worth firing up. playing offline is no way to play a Souls game.

Demon's was the only one I played offline. I definitely missed the interaction, but it was also kind of cool knowing that I couldn't cave and summon help if I was having trouble with a boss. Increased the sense of isolation that these games are so good at conveying.

Might have to play this again. Nearly the equal of the first Dark Souls, but Dark gets the edge because the interconnected world is a lot cooler than the hub system.

Think I'd rate em something like:

Dark Souls 1 >= Demon's Souls > Bloodborne = Dark Souls 3 > Dark Souls 2

i loved demon's souls, which i played and never beat at a time when i had neither internet nor a smartphone. the sheer incomprehensibility of it all was kinda sublime in the burkean sense, something i never got from the other games (perhaps because i was more plugged in by then).

if dark souls 3 captures some of that magic i might gotta check it out

I don't think anything other than Demon's or the first Dark Souls ever really captured it. Could be because I've spent so much time with these games, but I played Demon's years after Dark 1 and I got the same juice. Not so much with the other ones.