What in the world is Dark Souls...

[Azarhac]

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[TheDooD]

Its the "Spiritual Successor" to Demon's Souls.

They decided instead of just making it like Demon's Souls, they were going to Make it an open world game, add more loot, and lots of dragons. And not because Skyrim was doing all of that.

Nope. Definitely not.
Basically, its an Action Hack/Slash game, with RPG elements. The big selling point right now is that its combat is better then Skyrim's. But considering Skyrim is an RPG game with Action Elements, i wonder why....

Oh well. All you need to know is its going to be a decent game that rips many of its ideas off of a game it knows it cant beat.

Its "Darksiders" to "Legend of Zelda". Take the best ideas and try to 1up them.
And dont get me wrong. I really liked Demon's Souls. But its pretty blatant to see what they were trying to do with Dark Souls.

ok, seems like a pretty good description for me. I think i will stick with Skyrim this fall, i love the rpg element, even if oblivion's combat wasn't that fantastic

Yeah, it basically comes down to which is more important to you. Mindless combat with absurd difficulty, or a thick story with amazing characters, plot devices and loot drops.

Demon's Souls combat was no where near mindless and it wasn't hard unless you took the combat as mindless that's when things its difficult. Plus the game had some pretty cool characters and bosses. Biorr of The Twin Fangs, that crazy ass old soldier. Flamelurker one of the most badass fire based bosses in years. Tower Knight was intimidating as fuck the first time I faced him.

Didnt the combat always boil down to "Dodge/block, Spam attack button, dodge/block again"?
It was as simple and mindless as any hack and slash game. The entire game revolved around kiting enemys as far as you could before trying to roll behind them, to kite them some more.

Dont get me wrong, i liked Demon Souls, but i had no trouble beating it. :/ I didnt see a challenge because of how simple the combat was. Even the weapon choices were pretty limited to "Fast Weapon", "Slow Weapon", "Slower weapon", "Ranged Weapon", and "Even Faster Weapon". And 90% of the time, taking the slow weapons was a stupid idea because you would get hammered while your guy fails to dodge/roll.

It was mindless hack and slash, with the only strategic value behind it being "Dodge and attack to win".

That's how sword fighting should be. It's all about the bait, dodge and counter attack. It shouldn't be you can just buffout then go ape shit on everything and that makes the combat more mindless. Plus you're forgetting that you can parry, backstab and don't forget you have magic. Just saying it's mindless is wrong because simple is the best way to have combat you don't want it too complex. Wasn't the combat in past Elder Scroll games pretty simple as well? So it isn't very fair to call out one game on being "mindless" and "lacking strategic value" When the other game can be just as simple if you allow it to be that way. Hell the only thing really bad about Demon's Souls combat is that ranged weapons like bows and crossbows wasn't that useful for a straight up ranged build after a while. You'll have to pick up a blade every now and then.

 

[Stalk3rchief]

I just got my hands on Demon Souls briefly this weekend. =D
It was easily one of the shittiest games I've ever had the displeasure on looking at. Yeah sure, the controls are slightly complex, but it wasn't at all hard and it was just boring... so yeah, I don't get it.

That's cool. You don't have to get it, or understand why others like it. People have different tastes than you. Imagine that.

Oh hey look, a snarky and sarcastic response...that's cool. All I was saying is that I personally don't like the game. The OP asked and I answered with my opinion. I'm not saying "ZOMG WHY DO YOU KIDS LIKE THIS YOUR ALL SOO DUMB BAAAAAAW" Just saying "Oh hey, this is what that is and this is what I think about it."
Get over yourself.

 

[Adam28]

I loved Demon's Souls, but I wouldn't say that it's biggest selling point was it's difficulty, even the developers said themselves that it was never their intention to make it hard, but that Dark Souls will be a lot harder because they probably understand now that it seems to be Demon's Souls biggest selling point. Demon's Souls was just a great RPG which could be very punishing, that's it, just punishing requiring a good amount of patience and concentration.

None of the bosses were truly big challenges (2-3, 3-3's, and 5-3's are a joke) at least in my opinion.

Anyway, OT: Dark Souls is a more open, and harder version of Demon's Souls. A spiritual sequel but in most gamers mind, a sequel made to be a lot harder.