DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

YES BUT IS IT AWESOME

this game is insanely good, by the way. game of the year good. rubbing shoulders with Fallout 3 for my top game of this gen. i am probably not halfway through but am already excited about starting again with a different type of character. it really makes an art out of being brutally unforgiving. i never though i would enjoy the experience of playing a game for 2 hours and barely getting a step further along.

five hours in and I'm in the exact same spot.

so is this anything like Shiren the wanderer?

OKAY THIS SHIT APPEARS TO OWN

TUTORIAL BOSS KILLED ME IN 2 HITS BUT THE TEMPLE KNIGHT WASN'T REALLY DOING IT FOR ME ANYWAY SO I'M'A RESTART TOMORROW

tell me if i should buy this or uncharted deux

both iirc

i have a friend playing both at the same time. he says they are a perfect compliment - demon's souls is the darkness, uncharted 2 is the light. whoever said loving demon's souls is like a variety of stockholm syndrome was bang otm.

THIS GAME IS DIGITAL SQUATS

plz expand on that

SQUATS ARE VERY SORE BUT VERY REWARDING THE MORE U PUT IN THE MORE U GET OUT

WHY WOULD ANYONE SQUAT BUT SQUATS ARE THE SHIT

it's basically really hard but amazing, not one to play if u only have 30 mins here or there tho I'd imagine : /

well I figure it will be precisely the type of game I'll be able to pick up whenever once/if I ever get good at it

I mean WELL I FIGURE IT WILL etc.

okay so basically I should get this...?

reasons to not get this game:

1. you are a massive babby who takes it personally when you're not perfect at a game
2. you value having free time in which to not play/daydream about Demons Souls
3. ????

otm x 3

i don't want to drop any spoilers so i will just say that i have just encountered maybe the best idea for a boss in my gaming experience.

the thing about this game i guess is that its really a) engrossing b) good looking c) malicious i told my friend its like dating someone whos gorgeous and treats u terribly but is great in bed also:

DEMON SOUL MAGIC SYSTEM U OWN GREAT INTUIUTIVE POWERFUL I WILL FUCK SHIT UP NOW THANKS

i want 2 play it can i play it

this is still wrapped at home, very excited tho

send it over plz

if i send it you i'll you'll get some kind of sauce on it

nice - like a tomato sauce or

exactly

REALLY WANT THIS BUT PS3 SUX - when is PC version?

NEVAH

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/Brightman/ds.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/Brightman/ds2.jpg

needs more "You Died!"

got over-excited and posted this on wrong thread:

holy shit @ everyone's worlds being pushed to pure black all day halloween. pure genius and pure evil.

finally started playing this and had a full-on belly lol when I encountered the vanguard demon with the big fucking axe

"I'll block this with my shield! Okay maybe I won't, lololololol"

oh man i am so sucked into this game right now

Can you guys give me a sense of how hard this game is? The reviews make it sound absolutely punishing.

Basically, after the first time you die it's basically like slamming your face repeatedly against a wall, only hilariously fun.

^that is a great description. it is the kind of game where you are guaranteed to have that dark night of the soul moment where you have to ask yourself if you are really going to do that same goddamn level for the 25th time, but a bit of perseverance will get you through. and the blue phantom mechanism is a get out of jail free card if there is a boss that you really get stuck on, as happened to me twice.

i couldn't recommend this game enough. it is really a step beyond.

as i mentioned on the dragon's age thread, i compulsively started demon's souls again with a different type of character, but the first playthrough was so traumatic i am now happy to play something else instead and come back to this another time.

you finished demon's souls?

i know, i feel like i am due a parade or something.

we'll get you a prostitute.

that sounds good. i'll bring the confetti.

how the fuck did you do that; how many hours did you put in?

the first three hours are SO FRUSTRATING, but when the game opens up and shows you its depth and payoff it's worth it. When I found my first complete set of armor in a back room I was literally dancing on the couch.

It's like playing dungeons and dragons with a very very pissed off DM who knows what they're doing.

i played about 80 hours and reached soul level 97. the last archdemon i did (boletarian palace) took me almost 6 hours over 2 days and i was literally shaking by the end of it.

haha amazing

every now and again there is something that makes me think i am living in a crappy absurdist novel about america and this is one of those things

Seriously, DO NOT READ WALKTHROUGHS OR FAQs for this; this game is absolutely about fear and discovery and immersion. I read one thing about magic and it sorta spoiled the moment later. Just figure stuff out.

that it's not real?

no, how to use it. as with everything in this game, puzzling out how to do it is half of the fun. dying is the other 50%

lol s1ocks

so u can't pause in this game right? what if you have to pee??

YOU DIED

I’m fighting the Orphan today, my first time, I’m excited

Another minor issue with Bloodborne is that the scenery can sometimes get in the way. More than once I jumped, thinking an enemy was sneaking up on me and it turned out to just be a foregrounded buttress

I never made it to he end of Bloodborne. It didn't really feel like a short game to me because of the toughness of the levels and how often you had to run back through them

I love how that one interlocks, maybe the best on that front aside from the first Dark Souls. Plus, shortcuts, inter-dimensional travel, looming evils that have been there the whole time but which you've been unable to see ... I also kind of like its hub the best. All the Souls games and Elden Ring are just more variations on a roundtable. In Bloodborne, it feels different, and is better incorporated into the game as more than just the place you go to level up or whatever, imo.

Bloodborne seemed like an impossible challenge for me the first go-round, I actually gave up around Ludwig because I just felt like I was struggling so hard. But now, after two years of Dark Souls 1 and 3 and Elden Ring, it seems comparatively very fluid and easy. I did the thing this morning that most people on Reddit seem to believe is the domain only of "liars": I beat Orphan on my first try.

I quit at Micolash (I think, the guy who runs around crying and laughing?)
Also hit a wall with the wizard you fight on the rooftop

Sekiro never seems to be available for cheap, does it?

I beat Orphan on my first try.

Wow! I remember taking a good few tries, but not as many as I took on Ludwig and Laurence (and also for some reason Vicar Amelia is always a wall in my playthroughs, at least at the level you first encounter her). My big revelation with Orphan was that when it leaps up off-screen, you can stand in one place and start charging a big attack. If you stand still, it won't hit you and you can get a bunch of damage in once it lands.

Put this down for a few weeks because I just couldn't bear to face the Swamp if Sorrow.

My fears were confirmed. Absolute nightmare of a place

Wasn't bad with the ring that lets you move, iirc.

I think you can only get that if you do black world tendency somewhere. If I've got pure white on most of the archstones except this one, is there any reason not to turn them pure black? Does it affect the ending? I've p much done the little added quests in them

bosses in dark souls are so much harder. i've done 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1 and 4-1 and haven't found anything on the level of gargoyles, capra demon or quelaag

Yeah they're mostly about shock and awe compared to other games. A couple gave me a hard time - especially 2-2 guy

yeah I guess the swamp ring was some black tendency thing, at the bottom of tower of whatever. I guess the best bet would be to beat the boss on white, then work your way to black to get the ring? I think it's a remake only thing, which means they added it for a reason!

Well, it was painful and tense but I made it. It's kind of hilarious how easy some of these bosses are after such a tough slog through the level. Beat Dirty Colossus on first go without any trouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sxAYybHF8

The only way to do those levels is slowly and stealthily. Those Giant Depraved Ones are so tough, and I struggled so much with the pair just after the second swamp section so many times. They just chase you into the bog so you can't move and whack you. Still managed it without the Sodden ring in the end

Those giants sucked, can only imagine them in slow mode, even harder to see.

Yeah they're mostly about shock and awe compared to other games. A couple gave me a hard time - especially 2-2 guy

― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Wednesday, March 29, 2023 6:12 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

just beat flamelurker on second try. i may be a bit overpowered (and i did eat a lot of grass) but didn’t find it too bad. seemed like he went super aggro mode on his last 20% of health and that was a bit tough to figure out how to adjust to. took a peek at the 2-3 boss (dragon god), such a genius over the top design. love this game

Okay so can anyone tell me what's the deal with Maiden Astraea?

Like... I know some of the boss fights are easy, but this was ridiculous for what I assume is the penultimate boss. I just went up to her bodyguard who let me hit him a handful of times with barely any retaliation, and then she kills herself? Is the challenge meant to be solely emotional because I feel like I just kicked a puppy. The only tough part was making sure I got to the end of her dialogue without dying of plague

Just watched a YouTube video where her protector knight seems to chat to you all through the fight. He didn't do that to me - just stood there while I whacked him

Apparently it is so pro cheese there is a special achievement for killing him with range weapons from across the arena. For sure those soul creatures at the bottom are pretty op.

It never occurred to me to play music while playing Demon's Souls, and indeed some might call it sacrilege, but as it's a game largely free of BGM I thought I'd try playing it in tandem with SunnO))) and Scott Walker's darkly arresting collab "Soused", and mannnnnn this is an experience! 🤣

Completed it tonight after umpteen attempts at False King Allant. Not entirely sure what was happening at the end but, hey, FromSoft's gonna FromSoft.

It wasn't until I completed it that I found out there's meant to be a ticklish of things you should do first (like killing all the NPCs for their gear etc). But oh well.

There were a few quests I didn't manage to do - Ostrava got himself killed, I didn't do Mephistopheles quest, whatever that is.

So roll on NG+. I really really enjoyed this game

The guide I followed noted that this is one of those games that's impossible to 100% in one playthrough. You want to do everything there is to do - all quests, black and white tendency events, etc. - apparently you need to play it something like three times.

Yeah, I getcha. I'm actually loooking forward to playing through again, despite having spent a good bit of time on it - I'm guessing about 90 hours?