Demon's Souls Makes Brutalizing Return as Project Dark

[SoopaSte123]

More Demon's Souls? Hooray! It better have the same difficulty... or perhaps be even harder.

 

[Brotherofwill]

Sticky white stuff is all over my keyboard now.

That monster that crushes the guy looks absolutely amazing. Real Demon's Souls Project Dark starts now!

 

[archvile93]

Great, one more game that confuses masochism with fun. Just what the world needs sarcasm/

 

[oranger]

Great, one more game that confuses masochism with fun. Just what the world needs sarcasm/

Its only punishment for stupid people. Really. You will never die in Demon's souls because the game cheats, it will always be because the player is weak in one area or another.
Look at yahtzee's review: he didn't even understand that the backstep is not a magic "can't hit me" move; its a damn backstep and if the enemy swings twice, you gotta move.

 

[Dexiro]

Seems odd to make it a spiritual sequel when it's so clearly very, very sequelish. If they were going to make it a "spiritual" sequel couldn't they change the setting at least?

It seems the safer option, maybe they're going for a different difficulty or gameplay style.

Direct sequels usually result in "they changed it now it sucks".

 

[kouriichi]

Thank god! I cant wait to play it on my 360.
No offence to the ps3, but i HATE *mini-seizure* the ps3 controller.

 

[burningdragoon]

Hell. Yes.

The only thing I want from this game is just a tad bit more narrative.

 

[Jman1236]

Demon's souls gameplay + Xbox live = Epic Win!

 

[archvile93]

Great, one more game that confuses masochism with fun. Just what the world needs sarcasm/

Its only punishment for stupid people. Really. You will never die in Demon's souls because the game cheats, it will always be because the player is weak in one area or another.
Look at yahtzee's review: he didn't even understand that the backstep is not a magic "can't hit me" move; its a damn backstep and if the enemy swings twice, you gotta move.

This isn't a counter argument but what's the point of the dodge move, holding the analog stick back worked just as well for as long as I played the game at least.

 

[oranger]

Great, one more game that confuses masochism with fun. Just what the world needs sarcasm/

Its only punishment for stupid people. Really. You will never die in Demon's souls because the game cheats, it will always be because the player is weak in one area or another.
Look at yahtzee's review: he didn't even understand that the backstep is not a magic "can't hit me" move; its a damn backstep and if the enemy swings twice, you gotta move.

This isn't a counter argument but what's the point of the dodge move, holding the analog stick back worked just as well for as long as I played the game at least.

Actually, its more of a weak dodge, but it -can- be used as a "stutter step" thingy, as in, you do it to break up an opponents' attack rhythm (opponent starts a swing, you backstep and then block, suddenly the enemy is a half length further than he wants to be, allowing you a little room and more control of the fight. Or you could do it to fake him out, like you dodge then you rush.)
But over all I think its a pvp move for certain weapons.

edit: part of what annoys me about yahtzee's review is that he put the lack of basic "win button" crap into the "against" category when it came to demon's souls.

 

[oranger]

Thank god! I cant wait to play it on my 360.
No offence to the ps3, but i HATE *mini-seizure* the ps3 controller.

Oh, you're just trained to use a different style. Remember the old sega controllers? you know, the ones that were shovel sized that little kids like myself couldn't get their hands around? people came to prefer those over that of the SNES. Its just about muscle memory.

 

[Korten12]

Demon's souls gameplay + Xbox live = Epic Win!

oh dear god I hope they make no mics still, I really don't want someone invading my game yelling at me.

I loved the gameplay of Demon's Souls but I didn't even try to finish the third level because I hate Dark Fantasy. It's a shame they didn't take a different route on the visual/narrative style.

but then Demon's Souls wouldn't have been Demon's Souls. The title itself kind of implys Dark Fantasy.

 

[Rad Party God]

Whenever I get a PS3, if this isn't released yet, I'll be getting Demon's Souls and later this... or if it's already out when I get a PS3... I'll still get them both =).

 

[bismarck55]

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Uh... sorry, I'll leave before I further embarrass myself.

 

[theshadavid]

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I loved the gameplay of Demon's Souls but I didn't even try to finish the third level because I hate Dark Fantasy. It's a shame they didn't take a different route on the visual/narrative style.

but then Demon's Souls wouldn't have been Demon's Souls. The title itself kind of implys Dark Fantasy.

Call it Angel's Souls for all I care, just give it moar color, moar dialogue, and moar interesting characters. Demon's Souls was already perfect in gameplay IMO there is no reason they can't focus on story.

 

[Korten12]

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I loved the gameplay of Demon's Souls but I didn't even try to finish the third level because I hate Dark Fantasy. It's a shame they didn't take a different route on the visual/narrative style.

but then Demon's Souls wouldn't have been Demon's Souls. The title itself kind of implys Dark Fantasy.

Call it Angel's Souls for all I care, just give it moar color, moar dialogue, and moar interesting characters. Demon's Souls was already perfect in gameplay IMO there is no reason they can't focus on story.

well I can someone agree on more story if they gave the game more color it would ruin the feeling the game was going for. It was supposed to make you feel alone.

 

[mothmantis]

Awesome news. Just a little history lesson: Demon's Souls was itself a spiritual successor for the King's Field series.

 

[kouriichi]

Thank god! I cant wait to play it on my 360.
No offence to the ps3, but i HATE *mini-seizure* the ps3 controller.

Oh, you're just trained to use a different style. Remember the old sega controllers? you know, the ones that were shovel sized that little kids like myself couldn't get their hands around? people came to prefer those over that of the SNES. Its just about muscle memory.

oh no, nothing like that. I play my ps2 all the time.
I love the playstation controller, but i just cant stand the lack of rumble and the R2/L2 "triggers".
Theyer like buttons, and triggers, and its just uncomfertable to me. I like them one or the other, not both. i also perfure the button layout on the 3 go slightly more.
I mean, i like both, and im comfertable with eather, but its just slightly more comfertable to me.

 

[spider-dork]

Definitely ecstatic about this development especially given the fact that "Demon's Souls 2" probably won't happen [http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/7138.html].

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

So flipping excited for this one. Demon's Souls was my favorite game last year, but it was far from perfect. If they can iron out some of the rough edges while expanding the game world and play mechanics, I'll buy it twice.

In particular, I hope they inject some complexity and variety into the magic system. I favor mages in RPGs, so it'd be nice to see that gameplay style better represented. Playing a pure mage in Demon's Souls takes most of the fun out of the game.