>demons souls thread
>favorite weapon
>class
>spell
>stories
Also
Anyone have a foes ring? I'm level 60, and I want it to be an invade character but I hate the idea of having to kill freke and yuria and apprentice, then I couldn't switch out my spells on the fly
If you have it'd be cool if you let me have it
I'd:jacknjill56
My answer to everything is Garl Vinland.
>>339124564
>favorite weapon
Dragon Bone Smasher, or Crushing Great Axe
>class
wanderer
>spell
Cursed Weapon
>stories
>>339126763
MY BOY Garl Vinland
Saving Yuria she'sC-cute
not really story but I love stockpile thomas >you have a heart of gold, don't let them take if from you
and helping Brostrava
>>339126763
>not executioner Miralda
>>339127038
Why doesn't she talk in my copy. I go to the white tendency area and she just runs at me but doesn't say anything
>>339127038
Execute the filthy maggots, brother.
>>339127125
she's never talked to me, is she supposed to?
>>339127038
I started playing a female characters because of the armor. This set is great.
>>339127362
Looked at the wiki and there is some dialogue for her
When approaching:
I have you now, wretched traitor to the king!
I, Miralda, shall show you no mercy!
When killed:
Foolish traitor to the king!
When she kills you:
Are you dead already? Oh, you deserve it!
Or does she say that when she's invading you? Never did the black tendency
>>339124564
>Dragon Bone Smasher
>Barbarian
>the blue little magic arrow thing
It was always fun playing as the boss in that one area.
>>339127552
idk I've done both and never gotten dialogue, that's cool tho glad she actually has character
>Never did the black tendency
have you even lived anon?
>>339127727
It's quite a hassle to get black world tendency these days.
>>339127727
I think the only place I did it in was in Shrine of Storms since it's always hovering around black anyway. Of course I could just do it offline
>>339124564
>claymore or meat cleaver
>light or curse weapon
>tfw over 10k invades on one character
so which is true? the opening cinematic that says god placed a demon onto the world, or the beast talisman item description that says god is the old one?
>>339127920
>>339127816
it's not that bad you beat the whole game first making everything pure white, and if you get all of them you have enough stones of ephemeral eyes to make your stones pure black. Not to mention you could always just fucking dupe the stones.
>>339128093
see what had happened was that all the religions (umbasa and all that) worshiped the old one, while thinking it was the god when really it was the demon. At least that's what I believe is what's going on
>beat the game
>on my second playthrough realize you can run
Holy fuck I was retarded.
>>339128440
wow must have been nice have all that time to really take in all those views
>>339128440
how did you even beat the game?
>>339124564
Favorite Weapon:
Blind. Always and forever.
>>339128440
>played for a year before I realized you could sprint in 5-2 swamp
why is the area past the armored spider so fucking hard
the armored spider was also fucking hard
>>339129708
Holy Hell, walking in the swamp...
Penetrating Sword a best
'Cracked' Cursed Weapon
Yuria a best
Only stories I have is knocking Storm Ruler invaders off the side in 4-2.
They tried to cheese me, but they got the gravity dick.
I played late so I had almost no online interactions.
what's the world in Demon's Souls called? Boletaria, right?
so it truly just an ancient version of Lothric, like Lordrain was an ancient version of Drangleic
woah
>>339127125
IIRC the enemy NPCs will only speak to you if you're in body form.
>>339133669
Demon's Souls is a separate series.
>>339134750
"no"
>>339124564
>favorite weapon
Blessed Halberd all day every day
>class
Temple Knight
>spell
Halberd
>stories
My life changed when I realized how the kingdom of Boletaria is similiar to Boletus, making it literally theMushroom Kingdom
Meat Cleaver.
Soldier I guess.
Tie between Second Chance and Warding.
I got Pure Bladestone on my third or fourth try.
>DBS
>Temple knight for minmaxing
>cracked cursed weapon
One time I got summoned by a streamer that kept getting invaded and I kicked every invaders ass.
>>339124564
>favorite weapon
BBS
>class
I don't even remember them
>spell
light weapon
Only downside to BBS is it takes a specific build and fucks you out of using anything else, but god damn it's fun
>>339127816
You pretty much have to be offline if you want to do black tendency. I remember replaying it a while ago and did that and as soon as I went online they all went back to neutral/white because of the network shit
>>339124564
>fav weapon
meat cleaver
>fav class
temple knight
>fav spell
fuck magic
>stories
what
Also why not favorite build instead of class? HP regen build is GOAT.
>>339134780
My dawg, the halberd is best (also used it blessed) though I prefer the thief getup.
Loved killing those idiots that only used Dragon bone smasher or any other meme weapon.
>>339124564
>favorite weapon
A three way tie between the Lava Bow, The Meat Cleaver, and Bramd
>class
Hard Choice. Priest starts with my favorite armor, but I prefer the Temple Knight's starting stats.
>spell
I love how Anti-Magic field makes The Tower of Latria a joke. Seriously, fuck those Mindlfayers.
>stories
On my first playthough, I had to use a walkthough to find the Monumental. It's my greatest shame to this day.
>>339127125
She talked for me when I went to her area after killing the False King.
>>339128093
It's implied that God is real, but that the "God" the religions worship is the Old One.
>>339130273
>the armored spider was also fucking hard
If you run up to it and hide in a corner, yes, but If you dodge its projectiles and fight it face to face whilst occasionally running back to avoid its giant fire attack it's one of the easiest fights in the game.
>>339138406
Or if you are using magic it becomes a ratchet and clank boss.
> it shoots
> press circle twice and push stick left/right
> press R1 until it attacks again
> rinse and repeat.
>>339124564
>favorite weapon
Probably the Dragon Fag Smasher.
Going to try a DEX playthrough, but I really don't like the idea of using a fucking katana.
>class
Always gone Royalty. Having long-range options from the getgo is just too good to pass up. Also it destroys the first Vanguard.
>spell
Never actually tried spells beyond the first one for the Royalty class.
>stories
Okay, I actually managed to find a summon not so long ago and they went and fell off a fucking ledge. Found their summon sign again not long after, at the precise point I had to be to progress the level. Middle of nowhere otherwise, dude predicted the shit out of it.
Co-op is fun.
>Bloodborne is my first "souls" game
>Decide I want to play the rest as well
>Buy DeS because I might as well start from the beginning and the thing only costs 5 euros.
>Dust off my PS3 and get to playing
>mfw Tower of Latria
And I thought Bloodborne was supposed to be the scary one.
Blueblood Sword was my weaponfu.
>>339138809ding ding~
>>339138809
Tower of Latria is a bit of a joke on repeat playthroughs, but yeah nothing in Bloodborne really manages to capture the dread of that first playthrough.
Honestly I'm not even sure they tried, the only "fuck you" enemy in Bloodborne is the Winter Lantern and any dread is quickly replaced with annoyance at that line of sight crap.
If they remastered this game and added the 6th archstone, what features would ya'll add or remove? 'Cause I'd tweak the world tendency mechanic a bit so that it'd be easier to achieve pure black, maybe with an item you get after defeating an archdemon that also opened up new paths and added new bosses or something.
>>339138964
Just fucking remove World Tendency entirely, all World Tendency events are now normal sidequests with normal triggers instead of some retarded arbitrary system that's fucked if you play online anyways.
Wow, look, absolutely nothing of value lost.
>>339138964
Make world tendency an offline thing. It kept getting reset to neutral every time I went online and it was a pain in the ass. Also keep invasions as they are. Do not fuck with it Miyazaki. You got a hard on for crippling invaders. It was perfect in this game.
>>339138954
>you'll never feel that pure sense of dread you got in 3-2 ever again.
>>339138964
I really liked how vague some of the mechanics were when it came to the environment. Granted the items you obtain from pure black/ white playthroughs became pointless when some phantom just dropped the stuff for you.
Also it's a shame how with an established meta it won't be as fun to play online.
>>339138964
What this guy said:
>>339139064
Fuck world tendency.
>>339139064
>>339139075
>>339139236
So what if all the worlds were pure white by default, but after defeating an archdemon, you got an item that could make it pure black and added shit and made the level bigger?
>>339139436
And for the sidequests that require shifting from black to white? Or if you just want to tackle the sidequests in an order you choose?
>>339138964
>>339139064
It was insanely easy to get pure black, the hard part was getting pure white.
It was easier to go from pure white to pure black, not the other way around
>>339138964
There's nothing inherently wrong with World Tendency, but it'd be nice to have an option to change it easily at the end of the game.
I'd remove infinite stunlocks, the balance is fucked but this is the only aspect that doesn't feel fun to witness on either side.
I just started demon souls and fought the first boss. It was easy but now how do i even beat tower knight in 1-2?
My class is knight
Should i wait and visit other worlds?
Is there a way to level up your character/ upgrade weapon and armor?
Tips?
>>339139526
I'd go with the later, but my main reason for the change would be to have the world tendency not be some arbitrary thing that made the game harder or easier just because you failed this or killed that. I'd make it something that uncovered the dark nature of a level and therefore revealed a hidden route or greater evil hiding within.
>>339140201
you don't have to do it in order, visit somewhere else if you're stuck.
attack his ankles until he falls, then attack his head.
level up in the Nexus, talk to the Maiden in Black.
upgrade in the Nexus, talk to the crotchety stoneskin.
remember that Latria and Valley are the best worlds.
>>339140217
See that's fine, but as it is World Tendency is just arbitrarily getting locked out from sidequests over arbitrary triggers.
People complain about tendency but it was an important part of the tension I felt going through the game the first time, it was part of the reason why Latria was harrowing in addition to the atmosphere.
>>339127125
>>339127552
Also fuck I never knew she had dialogue.
>>339140201
I'm gonna assume you already know to kill the archers, but just in case... KILL THE ARCHERS. Then stay behind him and attack his ankles until he falls and attack his head. The key is avoiding the shield.
>Should i wait and visit other worlds?
Before the tower knight? Not necessary.
>Is there a way to level up your character/ upgrade weapon and armor?
The Maiden in Black levels you up and the dude next to Stockpile Thomas upgrades your weapons. You can't upgrade armor.
>>339127362
If you're in human form, she talks.
>walk into boss room
>die
>don't even know what happened
>didn't even see the boss
>make my way towards the boss again
>walk into boss room
>die again
>walk into boss room for a third time and start running/rolling
>fall down somewhere
>boss was below me and hitting me with his tongue/dick or something
>>339140638
If you do anything but bumrush Adjudicator, you're getting Lickitongued.
There's a good 10 seconds before he deploys the tongue-fucking though, not sure what happened to you.
![fools-idol[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/SGs8cou.jpg "fools-idol[1].jpg")
>>339140638
Adjudicator was my second favorite boss design next to this sexy lady.
>>339140449
Tendency only sucked for those going for the platinum trophy. Otherwise, it really added a lot to the gameplay by making the worlds more difficult after you die, balancing your newfound knowledge of the level layout with more challenging enemies.
>>339140924
>by making the worlds more difficult after you die
What was it, like a 10% difference between Pure White and Black? Like barely any, man, nobody noticed that shit.
Apart from that one Black Phantom on Latria's stairs, ehehe.
>>339140983
you had less health in soul form also.
>>339140924
>play offline
>kill yourself in the nexus
>never have to worry about black tendency
Extra challenge shouldn't be a punishment, it should be a reward.
>>339137419
Blue Blood sword is so fucking good but like you said really locks you into using only that or maybe some other weapons that your build can equip but not nearly as good as the BBS so what's the point.
I really need to make a Faith/Miracle build sometime, I thought WotG was really strong in DeS but I never tried it.
>>339141038
I thought that was character tendency.
>>339141041
You sound like a fucking baby. You're the reason git gud exists.
>>339141093
He's right, though. And you're the reason why people think the Souls fandom sucks.
>>339124564
>Dragon Bone Smasher and Winged Spear
>Royal
>Homing Soul Arrow
>story
When I first started out playing Demon's I started as a Wanderer. I didn't really get the game and was really butthurt about losing my souls, when my gear was broken down I thought I had permanently fucked over my character.
I have ... uh ... destroyed ... a few controllers because of this game.
>>339140983
>>339140924
I loved how fresh that system felt, I encountered two black phantom enemies at least that I think were tendency based and I wasn't prepared for them. Also loved the mystery surrounding that closed gate in the very beginning of Boletaria that led to the executioner chick. Finally fighting her was fucking awesome.
Also fuck yourself if you complain about any fight in the series without having fought this cuntwithout a shield
>>339141093
If you play well, the game should give you an extra challenge. If doing well makes the game easier, it loses its fun. The opposite is equally retarded and in the context of DeS, it's just an arbitrary annoyance that's so easily circumvented, it might as well not even be there.
>>339141262
No, he's not. Proper balancing always requires punishing the player, otherwise you might as well run through the game with /win and /godmode.
>>339139064
>>339139436
maybe an item that transports you from pure white to pure black, and you get to do the area over again. Idunno. The system is kinda faggy but it has its charm desu. It's Demon's in its purest form.
>>339138406
>If you run up to it and hide in a corner, yes
oh ok my bad
>>339141423
The game already punishes you by putting you in soul form, making you run the level again, and taking away all your souls if you die again.
Making it more difficult if you lose and less difficult if you win is awful balancing.
>>339141404
>If you play well, the game should give you an extra challenge.
And this is why there is level scaling in Oblivion. Hope you had fun with that.
>>339139105
>>339138954
>>339138809
what is this meme? One of my "comfiest" gaming experiences is when I accidentally slept all day and woke up when it was dark already and played through latria 1, 2 and 3 for the first time
Fuck off with your meme game
there is literally no reason to play Demon's Souls if Dark Souls or Bloodborne are available.
>>339141381
>roll behind
>backstab and wail on them
Don't roll backwards, you dunce.
Honestly the only absolute bastard fights in the series are Sir Alonne and Fume Knight.
>>339141630
Maybe people really like those games and want more of that kind of game?
Besides, DeS has its own charms.
>>339141537
Except it doesn't become easier if you win. If you continuously win, you are putting yourself in new challenging situations constantly and the difficulty remains the same. If you lose however, you have to repeat a challenge to which you now know the solution, so by increasing the difficulty via tendency, you bring the challenge of this previously done challenge closer to its original level.
>>339141630
>He thinks Dark Souls is better than Demon's Souls
bloodbabby here, I've been using the halberd since I got it and upgrading it, pumping str all the way but valley is kicking my ass. am I doing something wrong?
>>339141552
Adding tougher enemies to the world as you progress isn't a bad idea, Oblivion just implemented it poorly (amongst other things).
>>339141552
That's also why MGSV had the feature where enemies adapted to your tactics.
Which was one of the better parts of that game.
>>339141726
Repeatedly punishing a player for failing, the punishment growing more severe over time, to "maintain" difficulty for one boss, sounds really shitty and a chore.
>>339128197
>Demon Souls stealing lore from Gothic
I still love both games to death.
>>339141761
>Adding tougher enemies to the world as you progress isn't a bad idea,
It's a horrible idea and is always the worst part of any game, be it Max Payne or R&C. Having a constant difficulty level is the only good option.
>>339141752
Grab the Adjudicator Ring and Regenerator Ring from Shrine of Storms and the coupled HP regen effect offsets the fucking poison swamp effect.
>>339141891
Are you baiting?
>>339141867
The difficulty only increases for that one level and after beating that level's boss, you tendency decreases severely so it shouldn't affect any other portion of the game negatively.
>>339141891
Stop posting
>>339130273
Just drop down directly to Flamelurker.
>>339141726
>Except it doesn't become easier if you win.
It does in DeS. Defeating a boss moves the world towards white which makes the enemies easier. A better system would be to have the world become harder so you're always having to improve yourself. Redoing the level is punishment enough (and I wouldn't say no to the current mechanic of losing and having to retrieve souls), but making the enemies harder is just a dick move (and one that the current system has, as mentioned before, a stupid easy way of avoiding anyways).
>>339141423
This, you cheat yourself out of some extra challenge if you play offline to avoid tendency (as I did for a good portion of my first playthrough.)
Also you miss out on some differences to the story and immersion, but most of you can only see the mechanics of a game so that shouldn't matter.
I recently did a SL1 run
>mfw I had to kill Old King Allant with poison cloud because I couldn't get good enough
Thinking of running through the game again, what's the fastest way to get OP as far as weapons go
>>339142272
Apparently cheesing Doran is a good way but I've never been able to do it. It's literally easier to legit play through the game than to cheese that cunt.
>>339142352
>parry, fondle his nuts
>repeat 10 times, win
>>339124564
Meat Cleaver
Soldier, don't care too much about starting class in Souls though
motherfucking Soulsucker
here have a screencap from when /dsg/ was stream sniping DSP
>>339142221
I actually initially played offline because I didn't want to install a system update. I'd have gone black on some levels, but killing yourself over and over again seemed like too much of a chore and NG+ already adds the extra challenge I crave.
>>339142421
After Dark Souls 1 I can't get the parry timings right in any other souls game. I can pull it off on some basic enemies in DeS and DaS3 but that's it.
>>339142230
>That pic
I wonder if people still remember the source of that.
>>339142510
Backstabs are weird in DeS too if you started with DaS.
>>339142704
Yep. But I'd argue that's a good thing, means I don't cheese basic enemies as much.
![GarlAstraea_zps447cb5e6[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rAI5HRe.jpg "GarlAstraea_zps447cb5e6[1].jpg")
This fight made me feel bad.
>fuck up Garl
>wail on Astrea
>notice option to talk to her
>feels.jpg
She just wanted to help those poor jews.
>>339142421
>>339142510
I only ever parried in Demon's where I carried a shield most of the time, and occasionally in Dark Souls where you could parry while two handing a sword, could you do that in 2 as well?
If you carry a shield or caestus for the sole purpose of parrying you're not good enough at the core combat of the game and also you care too much about whether you win or lose a pvp fight.
>>339141730
>Not loving memes XD
>>339139552
You have to eat something like 6 Ephemeral Eyes to go from neutral to pure black. It's a bitch.
What's the best way to get white character tendency? I want the trophy for all the rings, but it seems I fucked up a bit by doing Mephistopheles' quest first. Not it will take a while to get the Friend's Ring being almost pure black.
>didn't know shit about world tendency
>stonefang tunnel now forever stuck at one level before pure white
Is my only option to wait until NG+ and try again?
>>339143965
You can raise it by killing a black phantom online so... yeah.
>>339140449
I dunno, Tendency was kind of irrelevant on my first run through. You kill the boss, bump it up a point, then probably die and bump it down a point. Stones of Ephemeral Eyes are too rare to pop every time you need a health boost, especially on a first time through, so you end up spending almost all of your time in soul form.
It'd be nice to see something like Soul Tendency return in a game like Dark Souls, where Humanity, Human Effigies, and Embers are so common that people would actually pop them all the time, making them more vulnerable to lowering their world tendency.
>want to play Demon's Souls again
>have to hook up my ps3 in my tiny ass room
>remember it's 30fps
fuck man, i really hope they release it for PC one day
>>339145015
Yeah, I'm really hoping for that. It's one of my favorite games and I don't have my old PS3 anymore. Petition maybe?
>>339144465
I was so worried about tendency that I put a lot more value on staying alive than I have on any of their games since.
Like, I unfortunately knew about the Keel Smasher sword requiring pure white tendency before I even fought the Flamelurker, so I used the purple flame shield for that fight and it was one of the best fights I've had in the series, him pummeling and haymakering fire everywhere and me just weathering it under a shield. Then I used that sword for the rest of the game.
>>339145147
there's no reason for them not to
Demon's Souls isn't a system seller anymore, they could pull a Dragon's Dogma and just rake in the money
Valley of Defilement is still the best shithole area in all Souls games
>First playthrough took me SIX HOURS
I was moving at a snails pace and horrified the entire time.
Anyone remember the "Wow what a shithole" MSPaint comic? That was my first experience.
>>339145147
>>339145591
>>339145683
hey thanks for that quality post!
it's not like the thread was getting along fine with platform shitposting
>>339145591
They won't because Sony owns it. I know there was talk of a ps4 release of it, but that was probably a rumor.
>>339145917
i know sony owns it. but it would be stupid not to release it on pc. as i said, we're in the 8th gen now, Demon's Souls isn't a system seller. it would be more profitable to release it on pc than to do nothing with it
>>339146010
It would be stupid. Playstation division is their only division that's making good profit so why would they release something on a competing platform?
>>339146229
because you can't play demon's souls on ps4 and the publisher would still make money from the pc port
>servers are back up
Anyone want to PvP or coop?
>>339124564
>favorite weapon
I like bows so the White Bow I think. Even though there are better ones, I like the way it looks
>class
not sure about class, I like Dex builds, though
>spell
idk
>stories
On my first playthrough, I was really looking forward to using magic (I hadn't started as a mage, though) so I was really excited when I rescued Zeke. Back in the Nexus, I was looking for him, I didn't check his corner properly, though for some reason. I just went upstairs to have a look around and when I came back down I accidently dropped off the ledge next to him and basically fell on his toe, which the game of course registered as an attack. So from then on he was just like "at my age, I can't teach you anything". I actually considered starting over but decided not to.
>>339145853
mentioning petitions and bringing up PC ports for japan studio games should be a bannable offence
the only thing demons souls is doing is getting an outsourced remaster for the ps4 because of no more new souls games
>>339146426
If anything they'll release it on ps4 or put it on psnow.
>>339146753
>mentioning petitions and bringing up PC ports for japan studio games should be a bannable offence
lol get over yourself
>>339146793
you'd think they would have done that by now.
tell you what though, if they do release demon's souls on ps4 with 60fps, it would bring me one step closer to possibly buying that console
>>339146892
It would have detracted from Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 hype.
Yuria is the best girl in Demon Souls?
>>339147427
yes
and that is the best doujin of demon's souls
>>339147525
Iwished Dark Souls dojuins
>>339147525
Not a hard competition
DEMONS SOULS REMASTER WITH 5TH ARCHSTONE FUCKING WHEN SONY YOU FUCKING RETARDSinb4 they release it, but 'upgrade' the graphics and we get the game at sub30 fps again
>>339148414
>remaster
I mean, remasters don't exactly change much, it'd just look exactly the same and the 5th archstone would require a lot of dev time for an antiquated game they no longer probably even have the assets for.
>>339148414
I thought we agreed that the broken archstone is Dark Souls?
>>339147427
obviously. I just wanted to stay with her in the nexus
>>339147427
>liking sluts
>>339148762
Pretty big archstone.
>>339148762
Wouldn't it be DaS2 since it was the archstone for the giants?
