Demon's Souls Price Slashed By Gigantic Halberd

Tom Goldman

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Demon's Souls Price Slashed By Gigantic Halberd



The price of entry into the challenging world of Demon's Souls has been cut in half by a 10-story tall demon knight.

When nearly quadrupling sales expectations [http://www.amazon.com/Demons-Souls-Playstation-3/dp/B002AB7TX8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1284600570&sr=8-1] after only four months. It looks like that sales success continued throughout 2010, as Atlus has announced that Demon's Souls is now a proud member of Sony's Greatest Hits line and has permanently slashed its price.

The incredibly challenging, yet vastly rewarding game that once set back gamers $60 is now a cool $29.99. The red label Greatest Hits line is reserved only for certain games that meet its requirements, which in regards to the PS3 are said to be sales of 500,000 copies or more after being on the market for longer than 10 months. It's been almost a year since Demon's Souls' release outside of Japan, while the game only recently made it to Europe on June 25, 2010.

Those that want the full Demon's Souls experience should strike while the iron is hot, because Atlus has made it known that it will have to end support of its multiplayer servers at some point in the future, though not until March 2011 at the earliest with more continuations possible. Atlus planned to end server support just six months after release, but outlandish success inspired the company to keep the servers going.

Demon's Souls is a great single player game, but its multiplayer aspect is something that every player should experience. Even if you don't want to hunt alongside friends or hunt them down for your own gain (both are possible), you still can be treated to visions of how other players died and receive warnings and hints.

Now at a bargain price, action-RPG fans that are ready - and please, make sure you're absolutely, positively ready - should give Demon's Souls a go. Once I figured it out, it became one of my favorite games of all time.


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Enzeru92

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that's cool but what about Demon's Souls 2, where is the news about that ?!?!?!
 

Brotherofwill

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If they cut the servers they'll essentially kill the game.

Anything other than a Demon's Souls 2 release before they cut them would just be a dick move.
 

Gigaguy64

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Nice.
the only thing is that once im able to get a ps3 the servers will probably be long gone....still.

Iv always wanted to make a Guts(Berserk) character with that game.
 

Julianking93

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Good god, only 30 bucks now? Sweet. This shall make buying a present for a certain friend much easier now >>
 

Keivz

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I've heard so many good things about this game, though at first blush it doesn't look very impressive. Just got a PS3 (PC is my main) so I've got a HUGE backlog. I may give this ago early though given the price drop and the threat of the servers going down.
 

snowman6251

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I consider Demon's Souls the second greatest game of all time (losing to OOT).

If you haven't played it, BUY IT NOW!
 

emm1t

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Always been interested in the game, just haven't been gaming for about a year and don't have a ps3, maybe in a few years...
 

Korten12

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SomethingAmazing said:
I sold this game for 40 bucks a while ago.

Score!
YOU SOLD DEMON'S SOULS! *Cue thunder background* YOU SHALL BE PUNISHED! XD
 

andypants

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So where's the price drop for Modern Warfare 2, since that sold like a quadrillion billion mcgillion copies? :p Activi$ion?
 

DanielPowell33

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I love this game, beaten it one and half times, but I don't own it (rented it 3 times). Now I'll probably buy it.

I'm not too mad about the loss of multiplayer in the future, I rarely used it anyways. Most messages aren't very useful, and I still don't fully understand the other aspects of it. Also, I randomly get a weird machine gun sounding audio glitch when "playing" multiplayer.
 

Suskie

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I managed to beat Demon's Souls and I still kinda hate it. The challenge level is really the only thing the game has going for it, and the it's way too consistently cheap for a game with no checkpoints. A good portion of this game's fanbase sounds like they're overcompensating for something to me, specifically the people who tell me I'm a pussy because I don't like being frustrated and overwhelmed.
 

Burst6

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Suskie said:
I managed to beat Demon's Souls and I still kinda hate it. The challenge level is really the only thing the game has going for it, and the it's way too consistently cheap for a game with no checkpoints. A good portion of this game's fanbase sounds like they're overcompensating for something to me, specifically the people who tell me I'm a pussy because I don't like being frustrated and overwhelmed.
Actually the only cheapness i felt in that game was with the flame lurker boss. Other than that i didn't think any part of the game was cheap. Was it hard? sure! but after a while of playing it got a bit too easy for me. Then i started using harder and harder weapons (trying out the hands of god now). Difficulty that can be overcome with practice, not luck, is what i like, and that's what Demon's souls gave to me.

But hey, opinions right?
 

Jumplion

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Demon's Souls was a damn good game, heavily underrated in my opinion. It's really not as hard as everyone thinks it is, but it's still challenging and very rewarding after slaying the gigantic dragon thing-whatever after 50+ deaths (exaggeration, but you get my point).

I really think people should give it a chance, but I admit it's not for everyone.