What we're appreciating most about Dark Souls' marketing campaign is how it repeatedly warns about the game's difficulty. It's not gonna be a "how hard could it be?" situation like Demon's Souls. Nope, the cards are on the table.
Dark Souls prays for you in 'All Saints Day' trailer
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Sep 28th 2011 7:30PM
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What we're appreciating most about Dark Souls' marketing campaign is how it repeatedly warns about the game's difficulty. It's not gonna be a "how hard could it be?" situation like Demon's Souls. Nope, the cards are on the table.
Reader Comments (68)
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:37PM GunnersDream78 said
Darksouls: for the gamer who doesn't mind getting their ass kicked repeatedly.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:47PM Shadowbender said
@GunnersDream78
We all need some discipline every now and then. We're rowdy kids.
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We all need some discipline every now and then. We're rowdy kids.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:54PM GunnersDream78 said
@Shadowbender
Agreed. Take a beating for once.
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Agreed. Take a beating for once.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 8:12PM The Blank Mage Returns said
@GunnersDream78 I thought we had Ninja Gaiden for that?
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Posted: Sep 28th 2011 8:55PM GunnersDream78 said
@Milak Gaiden was hard but like you said, Demon Souls is a fricking nightmare to the impatient.
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Posted: Sep 29th 2011 12:20PM (Unverified) said
@Milak As someone who has played both games extensively (that includes Ninja Gaiden Black/Sigma, and II/Sigma 2, as well as Demon's Souls for 200+ hours) I would say Demon's Souls is harder than Ninja Gaiden until you get up to Master Ninja mode... and then that's just straight torture (which I loved. :P)
VERY excited for the difficulty in Dark Souls!
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VERY excited for the difficulty in Dark Souls!
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:37PM Robborboy said
It is painful waiting for this. Trying to wrap up Gears 3 3D, AM's Alice, and Alice Madness Returns. Maybe Crysis 2 3D if I get the others finished.
But this game, I need it so bad it hurts.
PLEASE HURRY OCTOBER FOURTH
Inb4 SUDDENLY A DELAY
But this game, I need it so bad it hurts.
PLEASE HURRY OCTOBER FOURTH
Inb4 SUDDENLY A DELAY
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 11:11PM Viz said
@Robborboy
Mmm it's like someone who has a cheap car and bragging about it like an expensive car.
"Wanna take a drive in myyyyy Honda Civic? did i mention i owwwwn a Hoooonda Civic?"
I can tell 3d is your format of choice just by looking at your avatar. Let me ask you this, just how bloody are your eyes right now from playing all those 3d games?
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Mmm it's like someone who has a cheap car and bragging about it like an expensive car.
"Wanna take a drive in myyyyy Honda Civic? did i mention i owwwwn a Hoooonda Civic?"
I can tell 3d is your format of choice just by looking at your avatar. Let me ask you this, just how bloody are your eyes right now from playing all those 3d games?
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:43PM SgtDookie said
Have they addressed the freezing problems plaguing the JP launch?
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:46PM SpishackCola said
@SgtDookie
Problems? More like ups the difficulty level another notch!
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Problems? More like ups the difficulty level another notch!
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 11:52PM straw hat said
@SgtDookie
it's not only freezing issue. save data crashing, some even requires HDD re-format, NPC dissapearing, enemy, including boss, falling off the map and dead before you do anything. full of glitches.
it's PS3-exclusive in Japan, so 360 version could be free of these glitches. but if you gonna get PS3 copy, you should be prepared and keep back up of your data.
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it's not only freezing issue. save data crashing, some even requires HDD re-format, NPC dissapearing, enemy, including boss, falling off the map and dead before you do anything. full of glitches.
it's PS3-exclusive in Japan, so 360 version could be free of these glitches. but if you gonna get PS3 copy, you should be prepared and keep back up of your data.
Posted: Sep 29th 2011 3:06PM Vman said
@straw hat That sounds really fishy. I mean Demons Souls was made from the ground up for the PS3. To have the Xbox as the lead platform is counter intuitive and against what the industry is now doing. Always, there will always be problems to fix from doing this, but there is no way of knowing
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Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:45PM dancrane212 said
More Silent Comedy is always a good thing!
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:46PM The Monarch said
HOLY BALLS WHAT IS THAT: http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/xtremeholymuffin/THATTHING-1.jpg
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:49PM (Unverified) said
@The Monarch
Pretty sure it's the first monster you see in the video plehboi
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Pretty sure it's the first monster you see in the video plehboi
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:52PM chrono said
Can't wait for this I want a game that make me want to punch babies because it is so hard.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:54PM The Thing said
ok "The Silent Comedy" you've got a new fan. I mean firstly "Bartholomew and now this?!!! Wow!!!
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:57PM jocaju said
I'm playing Demon's Souls right now and I'm stuck at the world 2-2 for 6 hours already. I lost about 60000 souls from dying dozens and dozens of times. This game is brutal.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 8:13PM wrongThinker said
@jocaju 1-2 I think is the biggest hurdle in the game. If you got past that, just keep at it. However... you don't have to beat 1-2 to get to 2-2, so perhaps you have yet to defeat the Tower Knight?
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Posted: Sep 28th 2011 8:55PM MBP said
@jocaju http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/home this site helped me out immensely
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Posted: Sep 28th 2011 10:04PM DrSpakles said
@jocaju so...yeah 2-1 is probably the most frustrating level. You are usually ill-equipped to deal with it when you get there and....Flamelurker is probably the toughest boss in the game. Try beating all the "1" levels first then the 2s. ie. 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2011 10:14PM 343 Guilty Fart said
@jocaju
Don't forget the shortcut down the shaft to the Flamelurker. Takes a while to get it down, I advise watching a video of someone doing it before you try though.
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Don't forget the shortcut down the shaft to the Flamelurker. Takes a while to get it down, I advise watching a video of someone doing it before you try though.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 10:42PM kentuckyfried said
@wrongThinker
Couldn't agree more. World 1-2 is frustrating b/c it is probably the only portion of the game that's truly trial-and-error.
It's where I stopped playing the game certainly and didn't come back for a couple of months. Once I got over that hump, everything else was golden.
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Couldn't agree more. World 1-2 is frustrating b/c it is probably the only portion of the game that's truly trial-and-error.
It's where I stopped playing the game certainly and didn't come back for a couple of months. Once I got over that hump, everything else was golden.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:58PM whylekat said
I've romping my way through Demon's Souls recently and can not wait for Dark Souls!!
FYI: I played for 3&1/2hrs straight last night and made ZERO progress!! it was awesome!!!!
FYI: I played for 3&1/2hrs straight last night and made ZERO progress!! it was awesome!!!!
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 8:05PM kentuckyfried said
@whylekat
Reminds me of that stupid dragon bridge in World 1-2...damn that was tedious!
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Reminds me of that stupid dragon bridge in World 1-2...damn that was tedious!
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 8:33PM LockeDaemonfire said
@kentuckyfried
Killing the dragon on that bridge... now that's tedious! :P
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Killing the dragon on that bridge... now that's tedious! :P
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 8:46PM (Unverified) said
@whylekat
Wow, lol.
If someone can have fun playing a game for 3 1/2 hours while making 0 progress that must be some kind of game. I'm new to this series and pretty intrigued now. Going to wait for a review, but may pick this up.
& that trailer was epic. Great music.
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Wow, lol.
If someone can have fun playing a game for 3 1/2 hours while making 0 progress that must be some kind of game. I'm new to this series and pretty intrigued now. Going to wait for a review, but may pick this up.
& that trailer was epic. Great music.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 9:29PM RagingStormX said
@LockeDaemonfire
Ha! that was nothing....try farming for pure bladestone! To get that sucker took me the better part of 4 days, soul sucking the phantom black skeleton in nothing but sandles and my skivvies.
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Ha! that was nothing....try farming for pure bladestone! To get that sucker took me the better part of 4 days, soul sucking the phantom black skeleton in nothing but sandles and my skivvies.
Posted: Sep 28th 2011 9:37PM Zolbrod said
@whylekat This is the exact reason I stopped playing Demons Souls. I actually really liked the game and thought the difficulty was high (obviously) but manageable/fair, but after playing the game for 2 hours and making literally NO progress AT ALL, I thought "eff it, I have a backlog the size of a small European country, I could be using my time to actually GET somewhere."
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Posted: Sep 28th 2011 10:44PM kentuckyfried said
@LockeDaemonfire
That's actually the solution I came up with on my one and only run of this title, b/c I was getting tired of trying to beat the....
*spoilers*
two blue-eyed knights of whatever they were that are at the other end of that walkway.
*end spoilers*
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That's actually the solution I came up with on my one and only run of this title, b/c I was getting tired of trying to beat the....
*spoilers*
two blue-eyed knights of whatever they were that are at the other end of that walkway.
*end spoilers*
Posted: Sep 29th 2011 9:35AM ultrabiome said
@LockeDaemonfire bah, took only 10 minutes with a lava bow and about 30-40 arrows... granted this was at lvl 40 or so...
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Posted: Sep 28th 2011 7:58PM Faenix said
I just hope arrows and magic cant cheap the bosses like in demons' souls.
