DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

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

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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

online players can tough yr pee stain and see a special message from u

* touch!

is it a picture of u peeing

someone knocked on my door and my dog went berzerk and I'm yelling at girlfriend upstairs asleep to get door and she gives me a serious WTF face on the way past and I want to apologize because IS NO PAUSE BUTTON and sorry u r a DEMON SOULS widow now

if you need to step away you have to find a safe nook. you are usually safe from monsters as they don't tend to roam, but once i came back from the kitchen just in time to witness my poor guy being disemboweled by another player invading my game as a black phantom.

would also recommend hitting the PS button so that if you are clumsy like me you don't drop the controller on the R2 button and watch your dude do a strong attack off a cliff.

is it me or is there totally a superfluous apostrophe in this games title? is there a character named demon in this game?

i think it should be demons' souls

no

I would have called it "Demons, Souls"

haha

Demons/Souls

de mons' souls: a jah rastafari rpg

Knocked out the tower knight and the spider last night back to back, though of course I'm dead again. Boosted my strength enough to finally use the compact bow. in the deep tunnels now, falling from platform to platform and beating the hell out of giant fireworm beetle larvae from behind. Still no magic! Still no miracles! perhaps I misread my spoiler. I'm playing as a wanderer, falchion +6/heater shield +6/brush armor all around. Kinda doing the tank thing so very very happy to finally have a distance attack. Have not visited world 3, only barely stuck my nose into world 4 and thought it looked like such an eyesore mess that I better wait.

there's actually a lot of funny discussion of the apostrophe on the internet--

the question is, how come none of you brought this up yet? hmm?

i'm going to go ahead and call this my game of the year

I am reserving judgment until after I play NSMBWii but otherwise yeah, and this year has at least two other games I'd put in my top 10 of the decade (Uncharted 2 and Bowser's Inside Story).

speaking of which, are we going to do a Coint & Plick for the decade too?

plz don't for my sanity

ditto, but i might if i have too much free time

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?