[ALL] Dark Souls

[Maynard]

you guys thank him for posting pics i posted 2 weeks ago. you guys got me on a pay me no mind list or what?

 

[BrntO4Life]

you guys thank him for posting pics i posted 2 weeks ago. you guys got me on a pay me no mind list or what?

I thanked you for them, dillweed.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

you guys thank him for posting pics i posted 2 weeks ago. you guys got me on a pay me no mind list or what?

shiiiiit i thought they were different. but im sure a lot of people have you on ignore and didnt see them so i win.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqaysjKcw-g[/ame]

:fap:

 

[Handleit_44]

Link: Pre-order Collector Edition for Dark Souls at same price as standard edition

Namco has announced a Collector Edition for Dark Souls, which is slated for release in October on PS3 and Xbox 360.

The Collector Edition, which you can see below, can be pre-ordered for $59.99 and includes a limited edition art book with illustrations of characters and environments from the game, as well as a mini-strategy guidebook, behind-the-scenes videos, and the game soundtrack for digital download.

It included in a custom-designed metal case.

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Link: Kotaku Preview

There's no mistaking it. Dark Souls is as much a Demon's Souls sequel as we're ever going to get, at least any time soon. It's the more beautiful Demon's Souls. It's the game more willing to run wild with its unique brand of twisted dark medieval fantasy.

It may have been touted as a more difficult Demon's Souls, with more relentless enemies, crueler environments and more trademark brutally. But Dark Souls feels like a more refined, better produced, more mature Demon's Souls not just a sequel with the difficulty knob cranked to a game I just had my first real-time gameplay demo of earlier this week.

 

[Twigg4075]

I still can't believe I bought Demon's Souls. WTF was I thinking?

 

[Buzzman]

the same reason I did. It was $15 and you thought any game was worth a shot at that price. Kill me now.

 

[Maynard]

harder than demons souls? i will pass. i game for fun, not for frustration

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

i learned my lesson not getting the special edition of demons souls with the guide. i was on the wiki-guide the majority of the time i was playing it. normally i dont use guides cause i feel like its cheating but for demons souls you HAVE to use a guide or you will be insanely lost.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

official release date = October 11th

:chewbacca:

 

[red33]

hell yea. i bought demons souls greatest hits and it has been one of the best games ive ever played. I beat the whole game recently, took me 45 hours, gonna start the NG+ to mess with the world tendecnies and stuff.

The hardest boss were the maneaters for me, holy sht they took me a long time beating them, i finally just used gods wrath over and over again to beat them. Flamelurker i beat on my 2nd try, didnt seem that hard and Old King Allant probably took me 10 tries but once you get his pattern down and you are good at rolling its not too hard.

Im happy i got the servers back up, been wanting to get the yellow head wrap thing. I could easily see myself put 100 hours into this game.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

my first run through was about 50 hours. i started NG+ for a bit but was a little burned out on the game so i put it down and haven't played it since. im gonna start a new game soon and try to go all melee which seems the hardest route. long range magic seemed a little cheesy. i found going into different world tendencies was a pain in the balls so i only did it once or twice.

and flamelurker was by far my hardest boss. almost made me quit the game for good lol. maneaters came in a close second. that blue dragon on the castle was a bitch too. fuck that dragon.

 

[red33]

my first run through was about 50 hours. i started NG+ for a bit but was a little burned out on the game so i put it down and haven't played it since. im gonna start a new game soon and try to go all melee which seems the hardest route. long range magic seemed a little cheesy. i found going into different world tendencies was a pain in the balls so i only did it once or twice.

and flamelurker was by far my hardest boss. almost made me quit the game for good lol. maneaters came in a close second. that blue dragon on the castle was a bitch too. fuck that dragon.

flamelurker was easy on 1st playthru, just lock on and fire soul arrows, cant imagine beating him melee only though.

the blue dragon is easy just need lots of arrows.

i agree on the long range stuff. my second playthru im doing a lot more melee.

 

[Twigg4075]

I beat the whole game recently, took me 45 hours,

my first run through was about 50 hours.

Holy fuck. I said it before and I'll say it again. WTF was I thinking buying that game?!?

 

[red33]

Holy fuck. I said it before and I'll say it again. WTF was I thinking buying that game?!?

twigg on 2 occasions i thought of quitting the game cause it was too hard. maneaters without a doubt was one of them and i think 5-2 trying to beat one of the BPs was the other, i just gave up and avoided so many enemies that level.

 

[Saluki]

Pretty long e3 demo. Dudes dead for the 1st time about 45 secs into playing lol.

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/53462/dark-souls-e3-gameplay-demo/

 

[killgod]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuG4FZNnuBA[/ame]


:yeah:

 

[Saluki]

Just got the Demon Souls for 15 bucks with overnight shipping. :yeah:

 

[Saluki]

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/119/1195837p1.html

This is Part One of our Dark Souls review diary, where we tell you how we're getting on with the game in the run-up to review. SPOILER WARNING: minor spoilers about the early stages of the game ahead!

I already know that reviewing Dark Souls is an experience I'm never, ever going to forget. Putting in 10+ hour daily shifts on huge games isn't an alien concept to most people in my profession – but a game that's this dark, this punishing, this emotionally demanding? And – of course – a game this fist-eatingly, heart-achingly, soul-crushingly difficult? This is a whole other thing. Having spent 12 hours of the last 24 immersing myself in its world, Dark Souls is actually starting to affect my mental health.

I'd love to say that things get off to a gentle start, but they really don't. Dark Souls' first proper boss is still the hardest of any I've faced so far – partly because you are, by necessity, so underpowered when you meet him. He's called the Taurus Demon, and he's utterly hateful. You stride out onto a bridge, and he drops down from nowhere, a bull-headed, winged, aggressive satyr ten times your size, sporting a club that can end you in two hits if you get unlucky. Run away from him, he chases you. Attack him, he crushes you. Get behind him, he steps back and spikes you with metal protrusions on his legs. He is proper hard, and he lives at the top of a tower that you have to climb every time you want to face him. He is, all told, a woefully obstinate introduction to the game – and one that seems to set the tone for the rest of this mammoth, psychotic endeavour.

Dark Souls Prologue

I can't quite explain that special gamer's psychological process that enables you to fail at something over and over and over again and still maintain the will to go on. I think you have to be a certain type of thrill-seeking masochist to even entertain the notion of a game like Dark Souls. Every death at Taurus' hands brought me closer to sheer mental exhaustion. Time after time I'd get him to within a few hits of death, then feel my hands turn to jelly as the nerves ruined my reflexes and he caught me in a one-two attack loop, dispassionately ending my life over and over again on the end of that massive club.

I slayed Taurus – after more than three hours of continuous failure – with a final, desperate swipe, a death throe, milliseconds before he crushed me beneath his club for what felt like the 600th time. As "YOU ARE DEAD" flashed up on the screen, I was ready to give up games journalism and go become a lawyer like my school careers advisor always said I should – but then, in the background, just before the screen faded to black, I saw that bull-headed bastard fall to his knees, felt the head-spinning rush of triumphant adrenaline that only games have ever given me, and I knew that Dark Souls now owned me completely. Just like Demon's Souls did before it.

Things are so difficult in Dark Souls that, after the first fifteen hours, the question I keep asking myself is "have they gone too far?" Truth is, for Demon's Souls devotees, there's *almost* no such thing as too far. The bigger the challenge, the bigger the reward, and the more thrilling the final victory. For anyone who hasn't played through Demon's Souls before it, though, I'm not sure that Dark Souls does enough to tease you with that thrill before dropping you straight into the deep end. You have to fight tooth and claw here right from the off.

More Dark Souls Videos

It's also huge. In the Chain of Pain – the little email support group that a collective of Dark Souls reviewers is currently relying upon for tips and moral support, in the absence of the online community that will grow up around the game when it actually launches – one of my fellows reckons he's about a quarter of the way through the game after 60 hours. This is something that people will spend months playing.

This a very different game from Demon's Souls, with a different rhythm and structure. The bonfires change the way you play entirely, removing the option to run back to a safe haven and regroup before heading back out into the fray. And without wanting to give too much away, its tone is different too; it's darker, more distressing, and more claustrophobic despite its open-world structure. It encroaches subtly on your mental well-being.

I'll be writing more about that in the next instalment of this review diary. For now, though, we can answer at least one question: is Dark Souls harder than Demon's Souls? Well, yes – much harder – but for some reason I've not quite put my finger on yet, it's not more dispiriting.

:yeah:

 

[red33]

man idk know why i bought gows when this is gooing to be coing out so soon.