DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

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

appropo of nothing but i went to the premiere of the new Richard Foreman last night and it was basically a point and click flash game with actors and no controls.

felt so fucking smart about getting behind the giant arrow shooting weapon on the bridge, then promptly GANKED by black phantom

hit a major frustration point and then discovered that 4-2 yields a solid 25K+ souls if you cruise through all the way to the boss door
started grinding to get all stats up to 20 and bang there goes three hours and I'm still not even close to straight 20's. Got my first miracle and the "return to the nexus" option is like where the fuck have YOU BEEN all this time silent tears of thankfulness
such a vicious lover this game
frustration ebbing, character stronger, gonna go back and fuck up that pair of maneaters any minute now.
the sickness level is so vertigo inducing

anybody else still working this?
As you may recall, I bought a ps3 with four other games and none of them have even been put in the drive yet.

I'm a hairs breadth away from shaming myself on ebay for this game. (importing to UK)

Can I pick up the normal edition, or do I need the one that has a guidebook with it.

Seeing as Legends of Wrestlmania has a guide in English, its just Atlus player hating that you cannot get an English Guide for DS seperately

Or should I go for the one that has an artbook & a CD and just accept that I'll want something to stare at as I rock back & forth.

i wish i had gotten the guide, mostly for obsessive purposes.

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?