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Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:55 am
by The Schwartz
because we need both of them on the front page

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:58 am
by copstache
bullied by torsan

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:16 am
by copstache
moved my preorder to 360 for controller supremacy. hopefully it doesn't suffer from port-itis as noted above

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:05 pm
by riley-o
The Schwartz wrote:Sir Schwartz has defeated all demon's in a record time of 59 total hours.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :tup:

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

:moreawesome:

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:04 pm
by monsterod
Zerohero wrote:I was waiting to read 'bout some krunk 69in action.

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:34 pm
by 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

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:53 pm
by 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

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:02 pm
by Spooky Apparition
going to my first ever midnight opening to get this Image

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:43 pm
by Friendly Goatus
One more week :drooly:

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:48 pm
by 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

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:00 pm
by doomeddisciple
Its not out here til the 27th so I shall play through Arkham City while I wait.

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:50 am
by Friendly Goatus
copstache wrote: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.

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:10 am
by 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

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:13 pm
by Comrade Slinky
I may try to finish demon's soul's this week even. :shock:

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:28 pm
by Friendly Goatus
3 more days :drooly:

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:32 pm
by spacehamster
tbqh I'm skeered of what this game's gonna do to me.

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:16 pm
by 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?

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:24 pm
by fallbacktostone
CoconutBackwards1 wrote: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.

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:27 pm
by 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. :moreawesome: . 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."

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:30 pm
by 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

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:44 pm
by 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
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Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:35 pm
by copstache
fallbacktostone wrote: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

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:44 pm
by fallbacktostone
yeah they axed it.

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:49 pm
by 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

Re: The Dark Souls Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:46 am
by 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.