Topic: Demon's Souls (Read 6679 times)

Ziiro · « **on:** February 11, 2010, 03:51:52 PM »

Anyone around here playing this game? I've dumped about 50 hours into it myself and it is definitely one of the more unique experiences I've had with a video game. The challenge, atmosphere, and systems together make it great. The different pacing and environments of the levels are also amazing. (Fuck the survival horror prison level. Fuck it.)

Norondor · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2010, 12:30:36 AM »

You've taken a Human's Soul
What a superb Demon!

(i wanna play this game pretty bad you guys.)

Ziiro · « **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2011, 12:41:44 AM »

Demon's Souls Sequel, Dark Souls: The difficulty has been increased greatly over Demon's Souls.

I can't find an image that accurate depicts how I feel about this.

Bal · « **Reply #3 on:** February 01, 2011, 01:18:32 AM »

Norondor · « **Reply #4 on:** February 01, 2011, 01:32:06 AM »

yep, that's the one

Smiler · « **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2011, 01:40:34 AM »

I am ready.

Bal · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2011, 02:17:42 AM »

Anyway, I'm playing Demon's Souls now and I just beat the first boss on my first try, because I am a fucking boss, and I feel like one, though I know it will all turn to ash in my mouth soon enough. I really enjoy the deliberate pace of the game. Everything has such amazing weight to it, which makes it all the more horrifying when a man in plate armor gets tossed around like a rag doll, because you know the motherfucker that did that eats trucks.

Things of note:

Dragons, why did it have to be dragons
Men in full plate do not roll well.
Fire is both friend and foe

Norondor · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2011, 02:23:18 AM »

You can roll and run at full speed in plate if you get your Equip Burden to below half of maximum. Basically there are three speeds; don't exceed that burden limit unless you really want to know what it's like to have a shitty life.

Norondor · « **Reply #8 on:** February 01, 2011, 02:25:30 AM »

and yeah, the weight and pacing of the game is great. It reminds me of Monster Hunter, which i like for the same reason.

Ziiro · « **Reply #9 on:** February 01, 2011, 02:59:03 AM »

I turned the game on again because Bal got it, and I felt like playing it. I loaded up my character (55 Hours played, so I quit shortly after I posted this, I think.) and tried to get my bearings.

It was a journey of discovery. Recovering repressed memories.

"Why do I have 0 souls? In spirit form? Why am I in 1-1? How far did I get in this New game+?"

I went step by step to discover that I had actually made some decent progress in New Game+ - I didn't remember any of it, I only recall starting it before saying "Fuck this". I realized that the boss I was working on before I quit was Penetrator. So I pulled out a blue stone, helped a player kill him for practice to get my body back. (Total souls now: 64,000). I then felt like I was ready to kill Penetrator.

I was murdered. I ran out of mana to cast Warding before reaching him, and thus was killed in a impale and toss. The 66k Pool of souls is sitting in that boss room now.

End result: Now standing in 1-3, with 0 souls again. In spirit form.

Bal · « **Reply #10 on:** February 01, 2011, 04:00:40 AM »

So I'm doing the infamous dragon run across the huge wall area, I get right to the end, and a fucking night jumps out from behind two archers and cuts me in fucking twain. I don't even get the dignity of going out to a dragon. Also I was alive at the time. All of my hate.

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2011, 05:15:53 AM »

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TA · « **Reply #12 on:** February 01, 2011, 05:18:18 AM »

Aren't the servers for this game shutting down in a few months? How fundamental is the online play to the rest of the game?

Smiler · « **Reply #13 on:** February 01, 2011, 05:30:11 AM »

Quote from: Smiler on January 15, 2011, 07:47:52 AM

Atlus already said that they are trying to keep the Demon's Souls server up as long as they can. Before they announced that, it was supposed to be sometime in February this year, but then the game became a greatest hit. I would almost expect the servers to stay online until Project Dark comes out.

The online play adds a lot of flavor to the game, but it isn't essential. Seeing a black phantom join your game and chasing the chump through the level is the best thing though.

Bal · « **Reply #14 on:** February 01, 2011, 05:49:18 AM »

Mostly of what it adds is what I would term, in the most corporate buzzword fashion possible, emergent ambiance. You see how others died, or clues they purposely left to warn you of danger, or point you to a new item. Occasionally you'll see the phantom of someone else playing in the same area, before they fade away, and sometimes someone comes and tries to steal all your souls. You can also help people with bosses at basically no risk to yourself. You could very easily play through the game without any of this, but personally I think it would lose something a lot of you did. If nothing else, you would die a whole lot more.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #15 on:** February 01, 2011, 07:30:38 AM »

The online play exists only so that you can be griefed. Good riddance, I say.

Smiler · « **Reply #16 on:** February 01, 2011, 09:38:05 AM »

You only lose your body (which is easy as hell to get back) if you die. If you are a giant baby you can stay in soul form and never experience one of the more entertaining mechanics in the game. I am glad you are contributing to this conversation Bongo.

Bal · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2011, 10:04:57 AM »

Tower Knight is a jerk. Almost killed him on my first try, but that was after like three hours of getting killed by the knights and archers at the end of the dragon doom gauntlet, which I now have to run again just to get stepped on my a giant knight again.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2011, 12:54:22 PM »

Yeah. That's pretty much how it goes.

Bal · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2011, 01:28:56 PM »

Made it to the tower knight again and rocked his shit right out of his giant suit of armor. The bosses in this game make you feel like a fucking MAN.

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