DARK SOULS: if you need me i'll be in an induced coma so mvrch comes tomorrow

I tried it and gave it up and then went back to it a year later before it finally clicked.

not deleted it yet! and glad i tried it - i can see it being awesome at scaring the shit out of me, if i didn't always get killed before i could even get scared

The secret is that you need to look at the game as an extended and complicated puzzle, not a survival horror or adventure game. Every situation in the game has at least one "right" way to be done.... And often many more... And each right answer leads to the next, often in successions of twenty or more. If that sounds arduous and pointless, this is not the game for you. But the rewards if you get in the groove are SO viscerally enjoyable and the mental map of the space feels more real than my memories of high school.

Actually, that sounds lots of fun. But a 15-month-old running about the house and a massively impoverished amount of spare time as a result suggests I might not be able to give it the proper attention within the next few years!

Twitch playing it is like giving a monkey a rubicks cube

oh man twitch plays. im surprised they made it out of the cell

still in the asylum :B

they're gonna have to turn on democracy if they want to get past the tutorial

three days, 10 hours in: still in the asylum

it's sort of the perfect summation of all the depressing, lonely aspects of DS

ok i get it now, and that is insane.

it's sort of the perfect summation of all the depressing, lonely aspects of DS

well said, it's a pretty good simulation of a player having gone hollow.

lol, they're back in the pool

still in the pool

wootilinkx: So you guys are going back for the doll right??

they keep going up the ladder and falling into the pool

2100 people watching this!

oh shit, they're at the door of the inmate asylum

asylum demon promptly killed him on the spot

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bF1JctMFB6GBECFAGa5gRaz5EjCeXBefaVML-8ptAOg/pub

Perhaps the funniest moment of the stream so far was when Twitch Plays Dark Souls equipped an item called the Darksign. When deployed, Darksign allows you to sacrifice whatever souls (aka experience points) you’ve accrued during a run in exchange for showing up at the last bonfire (aka save points). Twitch found itself unable to do anything but keep using Darksign.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mxOF7sqP--/1391100859911958340.gif

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mxOF7sqP--/1391100859911958340.gif

Dammit

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--3pwyVuMK--/1391100860011042116.gif

lol

i love the insurmountable futility of this

Replaying for the nth time. Parry & Reposts are ESSENTIAL.

twitch plays seems broken? it's just a guy in full armor staring at a wall.

oh i see, they added a "delay" switch
still at the tutorial

alright, i just got scholar of the first sin, let's see how much i remember.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--nhnNLwiU--/1391100860143425860.png

they just got to asylum demon using some kind of delay pause in the controls

twitch just killed asylum demon, just barely

???? no way

the blessings of the pool god bear fruit

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/1393619612350622277.png

look at that sliver of health

shameful performance by the asylum demon tbh

i guess they aggro'd crestfallen guy at firelink and killed him lol

Oh, so it looks like they have been pausing the game and then tallying up the votes before the next unpause. Kind of really cheating imo. Like anyone could probably beat Dark Souls if it paused every 10 seconds and you had a minute or two solid to consider every single move.

Maybe I have it wrong but it looks like what they are doing.

agree but the twitch pokemon did something similar. also even with pause its still hundreds of people fighting over the controller at every move

here it is with pauses edited out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6kMBIci_cE

whew, that is unlikely

Yeah that is pretty cool. When he ran out of pyromancy.....whew....

feel like they should keep another stream running that isn't turn-based

turn-based Dark Souls is kind of a fun concept on its own, not that i would want to play it.

http://kotaku.com/twitch-is-cheating-at-dark-souls-1725367972

Already w the controversy.

Yeah I think it is 100% cheating. I mean how many times have I died bc I couldn't pause the game and went to use the restroom or simply tab out and check my email? Not pausing IS the game.

i have def experienced the full gamut of no-pause kills: surprise monster kill, got invaded while getting a soda kill, and the super frustrating put my controller down and accidentally strafed off a cliff kill.

i invaded someone who was afk in Bloodborne last night, right before i had to leave the house. i killed him but now it occurs to me i should have just surrounded him with shiny coins and left without a trace.

is kotaku reading this thread

Twitch have just beaten the Taurus Demon

since they got the pause/play element added, i can't really get into this anymore.

yeah, watching action-pause-action is far less weirdly compelling than watching them climb up and fall down a ladder in real time