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http://kotaku.com/5750116/first-look-at-dark-souls-the-demons-souls-successor-in-action

Who else just wet their pants a little? :whome:

Damnit so many games I want this year and I'm not made of money. :crazy:

Also From Software is the king of having the most promissing games with the most incredibly generic titles. Still better than Demons'ssssusu Souls.

I know I'm definitely down for getting spanked all over again!  :beer:

also on 360 now nice

This looks like an Atlus game.

Yep.

The core gameplay in Demon's Souls was damn near perfect, I hope they don't change too much.

They're also apparently going for open world instead of individual levels and they're beefing up the exploration aspect. Sounds awesome!

@Dragonmaw: It's not an Atlus game. It's also quite possibly the best fucking Action RPG ever (Demon's Souls 1 that is).

I don't remember being hyped so much.

Well I guess it's because you don't have any

*puts sunglasses on*

souls.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Can't wait!!! Easily my most anticipated game.


So I guess we're never gonna see the sixth gate dlc?

And then we find out that the whole new game is the sixth gate!

Actually I'd just be happy if we could go to that place in this game.

I know, I have Demon's Souls. It is indeed fantastic.

By "this looks like an Atlus game" I meant "this looks like a game Atlus would publish." I know it's developed by From Software. Just meant that it looks crazy hard, super Japanese, and amazingly fun. AKA most of Atlus' catalog, haha.

Not gonna happen, unfortunately. Sony owns the IP, Dark Souls isn't *officially* Demon's Souls 2 so it has no relation to the setting and story of DS.

There are rumors that SCEJ are working on their own official DS2 though. As far as I can recall the story bits from DS1, the land of the giants (sixth archstone) got their shit fucked up before the events of the game, so it's possible that Sony's DS2 might be a prequel set in the land of the giants. That's just speculation though.

I'm honestly having palpitations of anticipation.  No other game this generation has the same effect.  It can't be good for my heart!

The sixth archstone would have been awesome though, check out this 'Land of Giants' concept arts:

(http://www.demons-souls.com/wall_9_1280_1024.jpg)

If only!

I'm lookin' forward to this, although I still have to beat DS. (Fucking ps3 ate my harddrive. :() Looks pretty awesome, and it's nice that it's not gonna just be exactly the same game with some new dungeons. I love the melancholy atmosphere in DS, and it looks like that's staying in this, which is cool.

I kinda hope that if they go with this, DS2 doesn't pop out, too. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really like trying to keep up with branching shit like that. Also, would it just be some other devs making it, like a Bioshock 2 deal? That'd be pretty lame, all around.

That's what you get when you let other people own your IPs.

Probably. But hey, no matter whether the Sony DS2 rumors are true or not, Dark Souls is going to be "real" DS2 anyway, seeing as it's being developed by the exact same team responsible for DS1 (as far as I know). Kinda like Risen is the "real" Gothic 4.

Also, as far as changes from Demon's Souls 1 go, I think the multiplayer is going to work fundamentally the same way, but the FromSoft guys have hinted at a new mechanic they call "shared roleplaying" or something. Wonder what that's gonna be about.

And lastly, to shorten the wait a bit, here's a great interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki, the lead designer of both Demon's Souls and Dark  Souls, about DS1: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/souls-survivor


 

Dark Souls looks much more polished than Demon Souls, which was my only real gripe with it, I'll definitely be picking this up Day 1.

What's the problem with this? The way I see it, this will be just another developer taking a shot at this great concept. Worst case scenario we got Dark Souls, best case we got double the awesome Demon's Souls sequels.

yeah, but then you have to worry about whether you should get rock band or guitar hero

im not gonna get into why it's sleazy for a publisher to throw devs at an ip when the real devs are working on a "real" sequel

Besides, Demon's Souls 2 sounds stupid.

Well slapping a 2 onto a stupid name never made it sound good right?  ;)

Demon's Souls 2: Demon's Harder

I got Demon's souls very recently, and loved it so far. Cant wait to see what comes out of this one.

Guys, mark my words: The day Dark Souls comes out, I'll make a thread about it here on TIGSource and call it "Dork Souls".

And don't anyone dare steal that idea from me!  :-X

Nononoo. Well, you can do that, too. Sure.

But "Dork Souls" has got to be the inevitable 2D indie gamer spinoff. That way we have THREE to look forward to!! And at least one we can all afford to buy! ;)

Dark soul is a classic rpg maker game which push the boundary and win many prize in 2002

http://www.rpg-maker.fr/index.php?page=jeux&id=172

Wait ??? did we got there finally?
Game name take their noun from a very small pool ...

Note the plural "s".  ;)

How so? I thought Demon's Souls was very well polished. (:

Also, one little thing I don't like in the video: saturation. Please reduce down saturation, I like it better with less saturation!  :beg:

I don't see no saturation there, what are you talking about.

Is this gonna turn into Diablo 3's "Back in my days we had no colors dangnabbit!"?

Well, anyway, this is an obvious day one purchase for me.  :handanykey::blink: __ :blink::handknifeR:

I never got round to playing Demon's Souls - despite it sounding precisely like my cup of tea - so the fact it's got a sequel (and better, that it's coming out in Europe within a sensible timeframe) is great. Consider me sold, and then shortly afterward, dead.

I got inspired to play DS again. I'm doing a bow-only run. Got pissed when I lost one of my shots at the spiderstone gecko. >:( It's interesting how it changes how you tackle some stuff. Fighting silver skeletons without a shield and with a slow-ass weapon is fun. :wtf:

I'm just happy I got Flamelurker in one try.

Yeah, I love how differently plays based on your character and which weapons you use. I did my first playthrough as a magic user, then started a new melee character and found out none of my old strategies worked anymore. I had to basically relearn the game from scratch.

Must resist.... going back too... Demons Souls... So much work to do.... Ah shit.

On my first run now. All melee I was able to get him down to barely any health.

About ten times. >:(

Magic's the way to go with him, but arrows and bolts seem like they'd work well too.

Is it wrong to leave "Do not go forward without sticky white stuff" behind all the dead horses?

A good melee strategy against the Flamelurker is equipping armor light enough so that you can roll properly and dodging him. Blocking isn't a good idea because you'll want to preserve your stamina for your attacks. I'd also suggest using a weapon that deals magic damage. The Crescent Falchion you find in 4-1 is a good choice if you're on your first playthrough.

It looked like there was quite a lot of saturation the first time I saw the trailer. It seems there isn't much difference when I look at it now.

Oh, and, yes, the grey look of Demon's Souls is fitting the game very well, I don't want it out. :wtf: This has no relation to Diablo analogy either.