DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

the guide owns; also with the box you get the awesome original cover art

http://www.edge-online.com/blogs/the-most-boring-game-year

massively otm article. choice quote: "people who tell you that it’s hard just aren’t being boring enough about it"

sadly otm; i wish i could pretend it wasn't.
i love this game so much though. it perfectly replicates the never-ending feel of junior-high school ending when beating a game was sometime far off in the 90's.

whoa, I didn't know Chris Dahlen wrote for Edge! I used to love that dude's Pitchfork column.

okay, so it's down to boss battles in three worlds and sojourning the poisonous wastes and avoiding that fucking big sword black phantom on the wall. Still about ten points short of rolling all twenties and would love to find some moonstones to finish off my sword to a +5. It's either going to be a hard grind to up stats now or I'm gonna figure out how to beat these guys. Need to set aside a few hours.

i can't even beat the first dungeon.

ALRITE I OWN THIS BITCH.

WHAT DO I HAVE TO BLOW TO GET A SWORD THAT INSTA-KILLS DRAGONS AND LOOKS RAD.

Executioner Miralda and even then it ain't really happening.

hamildan, you could import from VG+, renchi or axelmusic (to avoid the perils of ebay)?

oh

too late

DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3 [Started by hope u get ♋ (Lamp)

When I want to read about the game... I pore over spreadsheets.

got it for too much money from an importer here in London.

thought that any cheaper offers on the internet would probably bring a VAT charge so it was easier just to go and pick it up.

the plain version is selling in import shops here for £65 ($110)

Hella glad I bought the version with the guide though. What are they thinking not including it with every game?

will have to wait till the weekend to put some time into it though, just chugging through the guide on the bus to work.

thinking about a Knight who rocks the magic weapons.... I normally go magic based but I think I dont have the skills to play the defensive game in DS.

i went wanderer which was idiotic.

THE ONLY THING MAKE THIS GAME BETTER IS A FISHING MINI GAME AND JIZZMOS CONTINUE NOT FUKKEN BLOGGING ABOUT IT

I CANT MAKE A FISHING ROD IN UNICODE

---- DIED -----

Killed the Phalanx last night and now the game seems less pointless as I can actually upgrade with souls.

no magic or ranged attacks so I poured turps on my sword and lit that bitch up.

Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

apparently eb doesn't sell the demon's souls guide? wtf

guide is available only with the deluxe edition of the game. it's a bummer.

that moment when you get to the point where you can actually start improving is absolutely REAL DEMON'S SOULS STARTS NOW

Played for 3 hours, lost all my souls & didn't get a step further.

need to skill up before steppin' to the Tower knight.

REAL DEMON'S SOULS STARTS NOW

ha that happened to me last night. anyone know why i can't equip cling ring? is it because i'm a pussy weakling magician?!

Is it cause you is not a soul?

i'm dead man i still haven't beat the first dungeon!

15 hours in and a few questions.

Can I sell items? (or what happens to the million slave's shields I have?)

If I scare off a crystal lizard, that's it gone for keeps right?

Are there any non scarey boss's? I got to the spider boss and didn't even go in his room.

15 hours in and I have said some bad words to the screen....some very bad words.

You can't sell items, though you CAN improve some of them with stones to the point where they become useful. You can chuck the slave's shields.

Crystal lizards disappear once they're fully dug in and that after-image fades, yes. You can always go back to the stage and they often will reappear.

There are no "non scarey boss's". Everything in this game will fuck you up.

The Crystal lizards taunt you if you hit them but dont kill them and they dissapear....the cunts.

On the flamelurker boss. Or rather got to it, decided I didn't want to fight it, tried to get back to the start, fell to my death, lost 10,000 souls.

okay, i got the dragon god (this looks like the obligatory God of War puzzle boss), the big king soulsucking motherfucker (how am i supposed to beat this guy?) and two levels of plagueworld. I'm close now, right?

56 hours and soul level 80 something and falling cause of king boletaria shithead

i'm going to start his game over. what kind of character should i use this time?

*this

fascist

According to Playstation twitter: Heroes of Boletaria, take heart: rumor has it the Old One's power will falter in the days following the winter solstice #demonssouls

and in English probably PWWT or nearabouts from 21st December.

So all enemies will be easier but drop less loot, and WT events will trigger.

well, i beat it but it was a bit anticlimactic. don't know if it couldn't have been though.

re-started as a knight. finally beat the first dungeon and came back to life. that was fun. what's next.

-YOU DIED-
^^^^^^^^^^

xxpost - next is hatred for dragons and blue eyed knights growing till you have your first dark night of the soul experience where you have to mentally psyche yourself up to do that bridge level again.

then you died.

i can see this game taking over one's life

so now that it's beaten, you apparently just start over?

I got this game. Pointers pls

beat the bad guys (with weapons and magic iirc)

how do I get out from behind this picnic table

-YOU DIED BEHIND A PICNIC TABLE-

-YOUR NICE DAY OUT DIED-

I died twelve times and then went to bed. How long realistically are play sessions in this fucking game if you hope to make any fucking progress at fucking all? Did I err when choosing the Thief class or does everybody get killed this much?

boost your stamina so you can roll around/ jump back loads and practice your parry-riposte.

the thief is a class that needs agility to stab people in the back and avoid heavy attacks.

so get a good shield and practice blocking/parrying and on boleteria castle 1-1 practice running past opponents and stabbing them in the back.

both actions will get you a slowed down animation so you know you have done it right.

play sessions in this game are a mix of level grinding and skill grinding.

each time you play you get better, unless you are trying to rush and then the entry level guys will serve you good.

just get used to doing the early levels over and over again and try different techniques to see what works.

Thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I thought. How is the EXP or whatever that you're skillgrinding accrued? The only pickups I seem to be getting are the souls.

btw everything else aside I like this game! It reminds me of the way games felt when I was a little kid. I like that somehow it's not fucking infuriating despite the fact progress is so glacial

ant, until you beat the first level you don't up your stats. so don't worry about anything but play control and getting one decent weapon/armor/shield and not so much even then. Near the end of the game, I was routinely dying and leaving behind 30K souls. You'll get em eventually.

OK! Good advice! Now: is there any less-annoying way to lock on a target besides allatime clicking R3-- and is there any better way to engage multiple guys without either getting clunked in the back of the head by the guy you're not fighting or trying to lure them into single combat one by one?

ha, this reminds me that i was on THE FINAL TWO BOARDS before I discovered the R3 lock on by accident. I played the whole game without that lock on. This was probably only possible because I played a wanderer who always fought with a curved sword, so broad attack hits. I don't know whether that made difficulty higher or lower. It certainly meant that I almost never got crystal lizards or slugs.