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

Man, I just stopped cold on this about 3/4 of the way through. Combination of Skyrim coming out and a hesitancy to go back because it's a bit of a time investment to fight your way to the next save point. Still maybe the most fun I've had with a video game in years though. I know it's cliche at this point, but its difficulty makes it genuinely rewarding in a way I remember games used to be. Feel like a big part of me losing interest in gaming in general is just how easy shit is these days. Anyway, want to go back but I'm honestly a little scared.

Feel the same way. Having a hard time going back after mass effect.

honestly spent 15 minutes trying to decide between arkahm city and this at gamestop yesterday. i'd read the back cover of one before reading the back cover of the other, before actually picking up both copies and flipping them atop eachother in my hands while i pretended to look at other games and not appear insane. finally i just remembered how fucking frustrated i was on the very first level of demon's souls and figured my quality of life would be better with a beat-'em-up

still tempted, tho. secretly hoping i can beat batman in a week's time and return it, claim all my cash back, and buy a copy of DS. the catwoman levels make such a move very hard.

i mean in demon's souls, i died in the fucking tutorial. boleteria (?) i attempted 6 times before returning it a friend, congratulating him on every bothering with the game, and vowing never to think masochism in videogaming is an admirable thing. in a weird sense, the souls series almost bears akin to videogaming's equivalent of jock-like behavior: pushing yourself too the limit, "quit being a pussy", struggling through shit. everyone who vehemently vouches for these games often come to remind me that even videogamers need opportunities for really being macho/masculine.

and yet still, i want this shit bad as ever.

the fuck did i write

There's a steep learning curve but once you get past it the game isn't THAT hard. It's not the hardest game ever. You just have to learn how to play it.

Speed run!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8RAEGnBGM

you may have overstepped a bit with the macho thing, but i feel ya, there aren't enough AAA games anymore designed around the enjoyment of a difficult game. i think the last game i played in that vein was... Viewtiful Joe?

will probably get DS at some point, though i might wait until it hits $5 on steam or something now that it's gonna be on PC. holiday sale 2012 gooooo

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/11/dark-souls-for-pc-announced-masochism-begins-august-24/

quick glimpse of new stuff in pc release trailer. have to assume they will cash in and dlc this to consoles.

i'm about 60 hours into this and it's pretty much one of the best games i've ever played

the mood of the game fits it so perfectly: i'm having a hard time trying to put it into words but it kinda feels like what i would imagine dying and living in some weird purgatory would feel like. the combination of limited music, bleakness, melancholy, darkness and light, phantoms, and endless monsters all come together in this amazing aesthetic environment

yup. so good

not to mention it's has probably the best and most fair battle system i've ever played

the difficulty is so overplayed too. it's just right. hard & doesn't pander, most of its difficulty is because it refuses to patronise

totally

but thats not to say that i havent rushed into boss battles and got my ass handed to me instantly. that's part of the fun: learning to be patient and thoughtful in battle, leading to much higher sense of accomplishment and reward

I think I've given up. Can't beat the doggy with the sword or some other dragon either.

okay, RUN PAST THE DRAGON
and utilize the jump from high and chop attach for the doggy
that chop attack drove me nuts, wasn't in the first game but integral to this one

do you guys summon phantoms for boss battles? i tried for the first time last night and immediately fell off a ledge /:

i did and dude killed like six major guys and i was standing around going uhhhh UNDO UNDO UNDO
i didn't want THAT much help!

finally beat taurus demon. i thought that sense of elation you'd received would be kind of negated by the fact that i've read so much of it and naturally couldn't expect myself to go "the part where everyone's happy? it's going on right now! ok, be happy!". so i was pretty surprised when i beat him first try, received a serotonin surge, (in a day... it must've been my 4th try, realistically) and threw out a victory fist, which is something i don't think i've ever done in much anything

http://maxgif.com/Jj

I think this is a better example of "video games as art" than whatever Xbox Arcade Indie titles striving for that sort of thing. Such a weird, mysterious thing.

-a thing

i can successfully go for about 2-3 deaths before quitting and starting back up again the next day

each DS session lasts me about 45minutes. this is mostly good in terms of retaining a social and physical life.

just beat this.

best game evar.

congrats and otm

i'll beat it someday, i feel sure of it.
i need a little vacation.

congrats btw

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/122/1224905p1.html

additional PC content confirmed as console dlc

is it worth getting the flying dragon sword? i finally got up to that dragon but it seems like a huge PITA going back and forth getting enough arrows to shoot his tail off. nb i'm playing a pyromancer w/ heavy focus on melee

i shot his tail off, so

at that stage of the game, the drake sword is a huge upgrade - i say that having struggled without it in my first run thru.

you've run thru more than once!!!

lol

Trying this game out. Was far more intolerable before I got my game pad working.

The approach of Japanese gamedevs doing a Western-looking rpg is neat.

Dark Souls 2 announced.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

PREPARE TO DIE

…AGAIN

Rad

http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?DarkSouls_Resets_3245

Dark Souls in 32 min

I just started playing Dark Souls this week

YOU DIED
YOU DIED
YOU DIED
YOU DIED
YOU DIED
YOU DIED
YOU DIED
YOU DIED
ooh ooh you made it past that guy
oh wait
YOU DIED

FFS

best game

this fuckin' game

I keep telling myself I should go back to it. But I don't want to have to learn how to play all over again. And keep losing to that dog with a sword in its mouth.

I'm doing the new game plus at the moment, and have cruised it up until the Capra Demon with his stupid dogs. Goodbye tens of thousands of souls!

best game tho right?

right

oh yes, pretty much. Very few other games have the combination of oblique storyline, deep mechanics, beautiful graphics, unique atmosphere and of course brutal difficulty. Really looking forward to the sequel, I hope they retain these aspects of it.

http://i.minus.com/iAAZ2MpXTZdEa.gif