The Dark Souls Thread

[The Schwartz]

because we need both of them on the front page

[copstache]

bullied by torsan

[copstache]

moved my preorder to 360 for controller supremacy. hopefully it doesn't suffer from port-itis as noted above

[riley-o]

Sir Schwartz has defeated all demon's in a record time of 59 total hours.

didn't you just start playing this like a week ago too ?

[monsterod]

I was waiting to read 'bout some krunk 69in action.

[The Schwartz]

Listen buddy it was like 2 weeks ago and you forgot the mourning and farming periods I mean its not that bad really, if I hadn't killed the filthy man for being dirty in my presence you could easily shed 90% of that

[riley-o]

i'm just saying, taking on a full-time video games job is sort of hilarious

not like i haven't done it myself but

you know

[Spooky Apparition]

going to my first ever midnight opening to get this

[Friendly Goatus]

One more week

[copstache]

i know man, it's tripping me out. i seriously haven't fully wrapped my head around the fact that the fall deluge is here

[doomeddisciple]

Its not out here til the 27th so I shall play through Arkham City while I wait.

[Friendly Goatus]

i know man, it's tripping me out. i seriously haven't fully wrapped my head around the fact that the fall deluge is here

I seriously get panic attacks thinking about whether or not I can actually finish Dark Souls before Skyrim comes out a month later. I don't know if I can do it man. I just don't know.

[The Schwartz]

yea I think it's pretty awesome how I'm gonna have to put 6 hours a day into a game again next week

[Comrade Slinky]

I may try to finish demon's soul's this week even.

[Friendly Goatus]

3 more days

[spacehamster]

tbqh I'm skeered of what this game's gonna do to me.

[CoconutBackwards1]

So, this game is geared to be more helpful towards the players?

i.e. They're gonna do a lot more explanation of the story and give hints throughout the game as to what to do?

[fallbacktostone]

So, this game is geared to be more helpful towards the players?

i.e. They're gonna do a lot more explanation of the story and give hints throughout the game as to what to do?

my impression is pretty much the opposite. like it's probably more intuitive but twice as brutal. less confusing but more complex.

[Wang Mandu]

From what little I gleaned watching a QuickLook and reading the IGN review, it sounds crueler and more difficult but deeper...yeah what fbts said. Also, Magic got retooled and is more limited...for the better I think. It was far too easy to just blast enemies and bosses over and over with spells. The bonfire stuff sounds awesome, if you save at the bonfire all the enemies in the area respawn. . Invading games is supposed to be harder too, someone correct me if possible, but you have to join a covenant or something. Also you'll have to rely on your hand to hand more instead of magic to deal with invading players with magic getting re-tooled. Everything just sounds right on the money and exactly what a sequel should be.

All the voice acting seems like you could swap it out, put it right in Demon's Souls and not miss a beat. I will miss, "You've got a heart of gold, don't let them take it from you."

[fallbacktostone]

i mean i never beat demons souls but i still have no idea what world tendency means or how to change it or even how its implemented at all

[Comrade Slinky]

Went to load up Demon's Souls tonight to try to finish it, forgot my ps3 hard drive got corrupted and wiped months ago.

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

[copstache]

i mean i never beat demons souls but i still have no idea what world tendency means or how to change it or even how its implemented at all

it's fucking bullshit is what it is

it's cool in theory, and kind of useful in practice but the fact that you only have a certain number of attempts to get a world into pure black and that it automatically slides towards some unannounced median value is total, total crap

i know you can play offline to keep it from shifting on its own but that really defeats a lot of what makes the game unique

hopefully that's one of the things they've addressed

[fallbacktostone]

yeah they axed it.

[copstache]

thank christ. it's one of the most clever things i've seen in a game, but it just didn't really pan out in practice. if there was a practical way to farm ephemeral eyes it would have been a little less awful

game is gonna rule

[spacehamster]

I dunno, there were so many stones of ephemeral eyes in the game, I really never had a problem getting pure black if I wanted to. I'm pretty sure I did all the black world tendency events in one playthrough when I got the platinum. White world tendency is a different story, though, you pretty much get one shot at it, sometimes two if you're lucky. And I agree the whole business with the global median didn't work. I seem to recall there are other mechanics in Dark Souls now where what other players do affects your game, so hopefully they've taken the cool part of the idea and turned it into something that actually works this time.