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My everything is ready~

I'm probably going to go with Knight as my first character. Maybe Deprived for a challenge.

>/v/ mode engaged
>implying JAPANESE video games aren't /JAPAN culture/ related
0/10

>>7836526
>greentext
we /v/ now

Yes.

Release date delivery from Amazon. I am very ready.

I still need to finish Demon's souls, stopped at 4-1 or something.
Still, I'm eagerly awaiting for this.

Reported.

Also, a new preview.
http://www.gamesradar.com/dark-souls-preview-look-size-thing/

We’ve just watched a lengthy, detailed demo of an area in Dark Souls called the Duke’s Archives, full of huge halls, winding staircases, bizarre enemies, and humongous bosses… and at the end we learn that this entire section probably won’t be encountered by players until the second or third playthrough. That’s right: Dark Souls is so enormous that it has vast sections designed to only be discovered by the most dedicated delvers, and yet these sections are as detailed and full of challenge as a core level of any other game.

We’re worried by the size of Dark Souls’ world because as any Demon’s Souls player knows, incremental forays deeper and deeper into enemy territory, cautiousness, and trial-and-error are central to the series. With Dark Souls, instead of using a hub world to venture into other areas, you’ll have one continuous world where simple camp fires will be your only respite from the slavering monstrosities lurking in the shadows. A single camp fire is your spawn point and your opportunity to get free healing as well as your connection to other players. If you choose to save your game at a fire you know you’re safe, but if you push past a fire and risk trying to reach a further one, your rewards will be greater. If you use a fire’s free healing ability, all nearby enemies respawn, so you have to think about what’s worth more to you. You can also sacrifice some of your Humanity (Dark Souls’ new attribute) to kindle a fire, which will heal other players in their own single-player games.

I hope they nerf magic a lot (PvE-wise, PvP was fine) since you could kill almost every single boss with just Magic Missile (the first spell you get) spam or 1/2 shot them with Firestorm. Also, please make bow characters more interesting to play.

I'm prolly going as light armored/heavy weapons melee first since that was my favourite in Demon's Souls.

>>7836557
Wasn't Duke's Archives supposed to be in Demon Souls?

>>7836533
>>>/b/
>>>/soc/
>>>/a/
counter sage

>>7836557
So there you’ll be – moving from fire to fire, judging how much help you should take from them, and always, always afraid of what deadly traps or monsters might wait around the next corner to punish you for your bad choices. As we saw in the Duke’s Archives, camp fires may be rather far apart, increasing the game’s tension. In the Archives we saw a gigantic library room with a winding staircase ascending high above the floor, naturally populated by snake-headed humanoids that can do horrific damage in a few swings of their wickedly curved swords. The player began stuck in a cage – a simple swipe through the bars killed the guard outside for an easy snatch of the key, but once exiting the cage, the player triggered an alarm. A snakeman activated a device that looked like a phonograph, creating an eerie chime sound that echoed throughout the Archives, releasing bizarre, serpentine creatures with squids for heads (think Cthulhu with no face). In a neat twist, the snakemen and squid-heads began fighting each other, but this didn’t mean the level turn into a cakewalk – oh no – it just became more chaotic.

We were told that what Dark Souls wants to do most is make Demon’s Souls players say “Whoa, I wasn’t expecting THAT.” This doesn’t mean the game isn’t similar to Demon’s Souls – it’s full of familiar gameplay, but Dark Souls will not be content to provide more of the same. It also aims to draw in new players with its continuous, exploration-focused world, using the difficulty to subtly nudge players toward the main-mission goals. So if you go randomly wandering, you might find areas just a tad too dangerous for you, so you’ll go another direction, at least until you get powerful/skillful enough to return to those initially daunting places.

>>7836571

Fuck off retard.

>>7836572
Dark Souls also plans to make the unique multiplayer component of its predecessor even more compelling with the introduction of Covenants. You’ll be able to swear allegiance to a particular god, gaining special benefits and befriending other players who worship the same deity. You can only have one allegiance, so if you really want to gain another benefit you’ll have to consider estranging those previously friendly players, since you won’t be able to interact with them any longer. It sounds like Dark Souls will have a more complex approach to multiplayer where it was already built on an unusual premise.

At the end of the demo we got to see a boss we can’t give away, but we’ll just say that it’s a huge, frightening beast hidden away in a secret area of the Duke’s Archives. Let that sink in: a spectacular boss inside a secret nook, inside an area of the game most players won’t see on the first playthrough. That’s the kind of multilayered, deep and vast world Dark Souls has created. Many of the devs have been playing the game for hundreds of hours and still haven’t seen everything in the game. And we thought Demon’s Souls swallowed up our free time…

>>7836575
go be >>>/b/utthurt somewhere else f>>>/a/ggot this thread is /jp/ related

>>7836562
I played DS with light armor for easy dodge and heavy sheild for blocks+massive hp regen.

It was kinda OP and almost too easy.

..I will probably do the same in this game.

>>7836587

Trying too hard kid, go back to /v/.

>>7836570
Demon's Souls*

This thread needs some lyrics.

>>7836562
Re: bow players. In the last Dengeki there was an interview about DS and this point was mentioned:

-There is a new weapon category called "giant bow," which is a bow that is as big as the player and fires projectiles the size of spears.

Also this sounds interesting > You’ll be able to swear allegiance to a particular god, gaining special benefits and befriending other players who worship the same deity. You can only have one allegiance, so if you really want to gain another benefit you’ll have to consider estranging those previously friendly players, since you won’t be able to interact with them any longer.

I hope it's somehow easier to play with people you want to play with, though.

>>7836570
Oh, this is a couple of weeks old but I haven't seen it yet. Gameplay demo of this area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDjNVOoiGx4

>>7836594
>>7836595
shut the fuck up f>>>/a/ggots and go spam more simulator threads you weaboo pieces of shit

Those games are hard, aren't they?
I'm not very good at hard games.

>>7836616

Do you have any idea of incredibly retarded you look right now?

>>7836616
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

>>7836614
They are hard to a degree, but it's not out of control. It's more like you have to go through the game slowly and figure out where enemies are, shortcuts, boss strategies etc. So it's hard in that you might die a lot, but once you run through it it's a lot easier. Summoning players to help you makes it considerably easier, though.

>>7836625
your the one saging a /jp/ realted thread and yet you call someone else retarded lol

>>7836614
It is a trial and error game to be honest.
Everything kills you once.

But once you learn how enemies work and so on its not that hard at all.

Soul of the mind, NIGGA, soul of the mind!

>>7836616
>countersage

I've never seen someone trying so hard to fit in and failing in the most basic aspects.

>>7836634
>/jp/ realted thread
>realted

Also this is pure /v/ shit and you know it. At least pick a less obvious topic if you're going to be an "epic troll".

>>7836611
Can't wait!

>>7836614
If you are a patient person, you should have no trouble with this game.

>>7836634
>saging

I'm being a newfag and no one can't stop me.

>>7836634

Get out.

>>7836642
>>7836647
>>7836653
same butthurt spamming f>>>/a/ggot go cry more faggots video games are /jp/ related

>>7836638
I remember first starting the game in October when everything was pure black and I never could summon anyone as I was always in soul form. I can beat the game in a little over an hour now but I think my first playthrough was like 45 or something.

>>7836535
Are you importing? I know all of the cool stuff in the NA collector's edition is now digital, but I didn't know until recently that the PAL collector's edition is still getting physical copies of everything.

Please stop falling for such obvious reverse tolls, /jp/.

>>7836659
What? WHAT WAS THAT? Sorry I must have misheard, I thought I heard a giant faggot mouthing off at me with something he sure as fuck could never back up, but it must have just been my imagination. Because after I imagined hearing that, I proceeded to imagine how good it would feel to break that persons fucking spinal cord over my knee. I imagined how my next step is usually to rip out one of the persons fucking ribs and jab it straight through their nose into their brain cavity. I imagined pulling that rib back out, and then brainfucking that dead faggot through the new massive hole in his face I created.

But I didn't really hear anything, right? no one would be fucking dumb enough to talk to me like that on here.

so many angry >>>/b/utthurt sagefags but on topic great game can't wait for it come out :D

>>7836642
>>7836647
>>7836653

The only newfags here are you three dimwitted skunkfucking idiots.

>>7836659

I know it hurt you to not use greentext and some shitty meme at the end, kid.

We are not saying anything about this thread, we are talking about you, you fucking mongoloid, get out.

This b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc
faggots needs to be banned. He has already ruined figurine threads.

I really hope the multiplayer is a bit better than DS.
Still.. It was quite fun running around in hell with another bro.

>>7836673
Seconding this.

>>7836674
Just one?

I love Demon's Souls. I used to carry players through Tower of Latria all the time just to be their boss in the end of it.

In fact, I'm going to go play right now. I'm still in the process of remaking my character.

And for Dark Souls, I'm going to bump it up for a faster delivery. I fucking can't wait.

I WILL BE PURCHASING THIS.

And I will play a barbarian or the equivalent.

Because Out of all the classes I had the most fun starting as it.

Also I will be frustrated because my character is a dude and I keep picking up girl armor.

Though I gotta say starting a barbarian on the holiday was AWESOME. I got Biorr's armor before fighting legion and did the entire playthrough over encumbered just because.

(got my dragon bone smasher the same day and just dumped into str HUGE HUGE HUGE)

Depraved or Wanderer that is the question~

>>7837450

who NEET here

>>7837325
You can kind of see a DBS type sword in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A03BQEemvvw

Sup /v/.

I'm going into Dark Souls with really not much knowledge of the systems of Demon's Souls. I played through it once, with a Royal, so I didn't really get the full experience. Going into Dark Souls, I have a few questions about the class and stats system.
I was sort of confused, in another thread they were making out picking a class to be something that makes a huge difference in the end-game, but I had been told that in Demon's Souls the class you pick will only affect the beginning of the game, and that towards the end characters will end up similar to eachother because of the fact that magic stats and equipment are all easily customizable. Has that changed in Dark Souls?

I should probably get around to finding a pure bladestone for my platinum before I start this.

A boy died in 1932 by a homicidal murderer. He buried him in the ground when he was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried him. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little boy. In the middle of the night he will be on your ceiling. He will suffocate you like he was suffocated. If you post this, he wilI not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.

I overgrinded in Demons souls to get the +3 katana or whatever and pretty much dropped the game after that