General Discussion V: We will miss you dearly Adam Adamowicz. - Page 16

Mass effect 3 is have a special 25% xp bonus this weekend. I'm going to take full advantage of this to level up and earn credits.

I'm not a fan of pointless difficulty so I'll probably give it a rental first. Don't think that much of XIII-2 as a fan of the first.

quote Celes Leonhart

I'm not a fan of pointless difficulty so I'll probably give it a rental first. Don't think that much of XIII-2 as a fan of the first.

Dark Souls isn't pointless difficulty. None of the difficulty in the game is cheap, whenever you die you always feel like you're the one that messed up.

Except when you get invaded by other players. *bleep* playing online can be so frustrating sometimes.

quote Celes Leonhart

I've heard you fall down random holes etc. The game is built on the premise that it's going to be hard and that doesn't appeal to me in the slightest personally, especially when I mainly enjoy RPGs for the writing.

You fall down ledges and holes if you don't throw a prism stone it to test if you'll die or not. Or if you're stupid and don't pay attention to your surroundings.

The writing is... different. You get the lore and background of the world from the description of armor sets, weapons, etc. and it isn't directly fed to you. It's actually pretty interesting, but I feel it's left vague on purpose because the developer isn't known for outstanding writing anyways. The reason why people love Dark Souls is because the difficulty isn't artificial. When you die, you feel like it's your fault, not the games. Plus DaS has the most creative online system this gen, it makes playing the game really dangerous.

I enjoy good writing in RPGs but I also put hours and hours into Diablo 2.

quote The Pursuit

Demons Souls was so treacherous. But everytime I died I maned up and said "you really suck at this". Until I continued to improve.

Haven't played dark souls though. Any improvements over demons souls?

Better weapons, more interesting areas, better designed bosses, more armor and weapons, more balance, it basically improved on it in every way except for atmosphere... which is sort of lacking compared to DeS, but isn't a huge deal.

You missed the game in its prime now. Invasions happen a lot less often, I bought the game the day it came out and the first week was crazy.

quote The Pursuit

Hmm sounds really cool actually I may try it out once I am done with the games I am still working on.

So the multiplayer is like a PVP mmo in a way?

It's exactly like DeS. People put down summon stones, you can summon them while playing singleplayer if you're playing online, and while you're going through areas other people can invade you.

Plus there's different covenants in the game that add another layer of depth. Like a blue phantom and a red phantom can invade your world at the same time, but they usually start fighting each other instead of the host because they never got along

Hey kids

quote The Pursuit

Halo

So overrated.