Dark Souls (& Prepare to Die Edition) [PC/PS3/360]

[laughin man]

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen :happy:

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Just started playing this tonight and I really like it. It says "Prepare to Die" on the box and you must do just that.... you will die alot.
It's a hack and slash RPG with everything that entails (magic, levels, items, weapons) The story so far is pretty basic but in saying that I haven't gone far and the aspect of it I have encountered I like, the starting demo had some very impressive graphics and I'm looking forward to more of the same.

The stand out feature of the game is it's difficulty and it's insane bosses, it's a challenge more than anything for those with the patience and ability to play such a game. Some of the boss fights are infuriating.... then you beat them and you feel proud of what you have accomplished.

So far so good for me anyway.

 

[Jonno394]

Played Demon Souls, was a fan for a few hours, got bored, quit. Will probably pick this up when sub £15.

 

[laughin man]

Played Demon Souls, was a fan for a few hours, got bored, quit. Will probably pick this up when sub £15.

With an attention span like that I wouldn't think it's the game for you Jonno, some of the tougher bosses have taken me nearly an hour to kill.... yeah more than one of them and I expect more of the same.

Met one guy that did to be fair look good but I thought to myself yeah i can take him (he was about my size), walked upto him and gave him a slap of my sword to which he replied by landing a massive hammer on my face killing me instantly. Being determined I thought alright I'm gonna have to be clever here and fight him with some clever shield work. Walked down to him again with my shield up and again he landed the hammer on me........ killing me instantly.

Now I met this guy guarding a door so I knew he was guarding something good so I decided to go around him, he walked up the stairs towards me as usual and I jumped off running around him and bolted through the door... laughing. A lovely new land lay before me to my excitement so I proceeded at speed knowing my death was following behind me... what did I run into.... a big massive Hydra that made short work of me.

I swore to one day get my revenge and went a different way.

Epic.

 

[Jonno394]

My attention span is all well and good thanks Laughing Man, it has nothing to do with my interest (or lack thereof) for Demon Souls, it just wasn't the sort of game I was in the mood to play at that point in time.

 

[laughin man]

My attention span is all well and good thanks Laughing Man, it has nothing to do with my interest (or lack thereof) for Demon Souls, it just wasn't the sort of game I was in the mood to play at that point in time.

Wasn't meant to be disparaging, I was wrong anyway you really don't need an attention span for the game. The longer you play it the more you appreciate it and what it has to offer, which it turns out is loads, just got into upgrading my weapons and getting some magic. It's after taking a lovely turn with the level of customization, that and the fact I just got into the online side of it have me very much entertained.

The online side of it is class, wait for it.... invading other peoples games haha you could just be strolling along doing what you have to do and you get a message "Your world is being invaded", along comes someone from the interwebz to try and kill you :happy:

Excellent game.

 

[Jonno394]

The online side of it is class, wait for it.... invading other peoples games haha you could just be strolling along doing what you have to do and you get a message "Your world is being invaded", along comes someone from the interwebz to try and kill you :happy:

Lol, it was exactly the same in the first, I even managed to invade another players game when I collected a certain item and killed them! Didn't do it again though.

 

[Sabatasso]

Dark Souls - Prepare to Die Edition! [PC]

OK, I bought the PC port, unseen, because I've read so much about how great it was...

IT SUCKS!!!

Completely ass poor game that should never be allowed to sell for cash.
It's not a problem that it's a bit hard, the problem is that it sucks... completely. There are so many issues with graphics, keyboard, mouse and what no but there is a "home made" fix for that. But still, the camera is annoying, movement is very arcade and the fighting is, quite honestly, BAD. I guess the combat is a step up from Skyrim, but not by much.

Feel free to give a proper review, mine is short and very negative...

 

[Sweey]

I'm enjoying this so far but a controller is an absolute must. A number of the default keyboard mappings are laughable but you eliminate that with a controller and turning the camera with the mouse never felt comfortable which sort of makes keyboard + mouse utterly unusable.

I also had to aplpy the DSFix mod to get the game displaying correctly at 1920x1080 rather than stretching/upscaling a 1280x720 image to the selected resolution.

Unfortunately, after four hours of play I realised that accidentally killing the first merchant you encounter was going to cause me too many problems (no Drake Sword option) so I started again late last night and, unlike with my first playthrough, discovered the cemetary and the Zweihander that can be found there.

Suffice to say I've died a lot and may not get lucky enough the second time around to get a Black Knight Sword from the first black knight I happen to encounter.