From Software It's another Demon's Souls thread god damnit

[Exhuminator]

Another thing with regards to difficulty is that much of the difficulty of KF and Shadow Tower can be alleviated through online guides

Very true. When I played through all the KFs and STs, I did not use guides. Yes that made the games much harder, but also more fulfilling. In the past I've found that guides can spoil surprises and suck all the mystique out of an experience. I tend to not touch a guide unless I'm absolutely ridiculously stuck. And then only for that one instance. Anyway my point is, definitely don't go into KF or ST with a guide in tow. Rely on yourself and the experiences will be more rewarding and more exciting.

 

[sullynathan]

So I started a third playthrough even after I said I wouldn't play the game and the game still fucked me. I got red phantom garl vinland this time but his stupid sister doesn't spawn in game. Another flaw is the way difficulty with NG+ is handled, it ridiculously ups the health of certain bosses like the storm beasts, and drags the fight far longer than necessary.

 

[Socur Toxanarosa]

So I started a third playthrough even after I said I wouldn't play the game and the game still fucked me. I got red phantom garl vinland this time but his stupid sister doesn't spawn in game. Another flaw is the way difficulty with NG+ is handled, it ridiculously ups the health of certain bosses like the storm beasts, and drags the fight far longer than necessary.

Why the fuck are you still playing this game if you didn't like it?

 

[sullynathan]

So I started a third playthrough even after I said I wouldn't play the game and the game still fucked me. I got red phantom garl vinland this time but his stupid sister doesn't spawn in game. Another flaw is the way difficulty with NG+ is handled, it ridiculously ups the health of certain bosses like the storm beasts, and drags the fight far longer than necessary.

Why the fuck are you still playing this game if you didn't like it?

I haven't played it in a 3 weeks now, that was the last straw for me to be honest. And the bullshit upgrade system is a drag, so I said fuck it Demons Souls is shit.

 

[Socur Toxanarosa]

I haven't played it in a 3 weeks now, that was the last straw for me to be honest. And the bullshit upgrade system is a drag, so I said fuck it Demons Souls is shit.

So I started a third playthrough

 

[sullynathan]

I haven't played it in a 3 weeks now, that was the last straw for me to be honest. And the bullshit upgrade system is a drag, so I said fuck it Demons Souls is shit.

So I started a third playthrough

Yeah, 3 weeks ago

 

[Elwro]

I forgot to thank Exhuminator, better late than never!

 

[Socur Toxanarosa]

Yeah, 3 weeks ago

Nigga i love Demon's Souls and it took me about 2 years to do 3 playthroughs, you're doing in it in like 2 months despite hating the game, you're a true hero

 

[sullynathan]

Yeah, 3 weeks ago

Nigga i love Demon's Souls and it took me about 2 years to do 3 playthroughs, you're doing in it in like 2 months despite hating the game, you're a true hero

I'm pretty good at these games and demons souls is really short. You can beat a world in 30 minutes - 1 hour. Since northern regalia is so op and nearly all bosses are weak against magic, it's easy to run through but I'm frustrated by how broken it is

 

[Socur Toxanarosa]

I'm pretty good at these games and demons souls is really short. You can beat a world in 30 minutes - 1 hour. Since northern regalia is so op and nearly all bosses are weak against magic, it's easy to run through but I'm frustrated by how broken it is

Still doesn't make sense to me, but whatever.

 

[Villagkouras]

I borrowed a friend's PS3 and started the game. I had to play DeS. I beat 1-1 easily, but 1-2 is kicking my ass (fucking dogs). Also, Phalanx was a very strange choice for first boss, aside the one that fucked me in the tutorial without even seeing its name.

I'm really impressed by how good this game looks considering it its age and obligatory 720p. I expected it to be much worse.

Also, I hate the PS3 controller. It is really small. How on earth do people play with them?

But the thing that puzzles me is that when I try to restart the game after a break, my TV simply refused to change resolution other than 576p, when at first everything was fine. A lot of people seem to have this problem, but there are no final solutions. I did the 2 beeps startup of the console, but didn't work. Does anyone know what to do?

 

[Jasede]

Hah, I hated the XBOX 360 controller, so used to the PS3 one! But now I have used one for the PC for a few months and find it hard to go back to the PS3. All a matter of getting used to it. (And not having freakishly large/small hands...)

 

[Viata]

3-1(Tower of Latria) is my favorite place in this whole series, I really wish there was more places with that creepy atmospheric world.

 

[Siveon]

3-1(Tower of Latria) is my favorite place in this whole series, I really wish there was more places with that creepy atmospheric world.

Dude the screams of the prisoners, the song of the former royal, and those Cthulhu guards.

It's a gud level.

 

[Jasede]

It's the best world. But I also like the part with the walkways and the horrible swamp at the bottom, 3-2 I think? It was so dark and weird.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Tower of Latria as a whole is the best area in any Souls game.

 

[sullynathan]

Also, I hate the PS3 controller. It is really small. How on earth do people play with them?

You can use a PS4 controller on a PS3. I did so while playing demon's souls

 

[Socur Toxanarosa]

Great video by Matthewmatosis, sums it up very well why Demon's Souls is the best game in the franchise.

 

[Jasede]

Pff, I always loved DeS. Still hoping for DeS 2... it'd be so nice. First, the Soulsborne gameplay never gets old, and second I liked the strange atmosphere in DeS a lot, and the 'world-stage' arcade structure, too.

Edit: that was a good video. Relevant:

 

[sullynathan]

Great video by Matthewmatosis, sums it up very well why Demon's Souls is the best game in the franchise.

more like sucking off Demons Souls. It's the first to do something, it wasn't the best

 

[Jasede]

You know, coming back to that Demon's Souls stuff, it's actually embarrassing for someone on the Codex not to like at least DeS. Some common arguments (on the Codex)

1) It's too anime. (What?)
2) It's too twitch-focused. (What? It's one of the slowest action RPGs in the world; the focus is on tactics.)
3) It's on a console. (That's like saying Chinese food is worse because you eat it with chopsticks.)

DeS and DS are shining examples what the Codex is supposed to love: innovative, interesting games with non-standard lore, a pleasant aesthetic and no handholding or dumbing down, made with no consideration for the mass market at time of inception. If anything I am surprised it didn't rank higher in our Top Ten of all time RPGs, but I suppose that's still good enough, considering the amount of people who never played it, but rated it 0.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

You know, coming back to that Demon's Souls stuff, it's actually embarrassing for someone on the Codex not to like at least DeS. Some common arguments (on the Codex)

DeS and DS are shining examples what the Codex is supposed to love: innovative, interesting games with non-standard lore, a pleasant aesthetic and no handholding or dumbing down, made with no consideration for the mass market at time of inception. If anything I am surprised it didn't rank higher in our Top Ten of all time RPGs, but I suppose that's still good enough, considering the amount of people who never played it, but rated it 0.

but its console action game with huge animu swords so its weeb shit

Spoiler

 

[sullynathan]

Demons souls can't rank higher because dark souls and all its sequels exist.

 

[Viata]

Pretty sure because only people that owned a PS3 played it.

 

[Villagkouras]

I think it's too dumb to judge the game by 2017 standards and after 4 successors. Of course it has its flaws that make me throw the controller and smash the TV, but I appreciate everything it has to offer and it's a lot.

It's like saying that the first Black Sabbath or Metallica or Iron Maiden album is trash because it has worse production than the others.

Anyway, I tackled world 2, 3-2 and 5-1. In every world I see things that were copied into other souls games like mobs, bosses and entire levels. I seem to find that DS2 had the least influences by DeS, all other games touched by Miyazaki have the same ideas at least once.