How does it compare to DS1/2? I might consider emulating it.
How does it compare to DS1/2? I might consider emulating it
Luke Diaz
Anthony Cox
Second best game of all Souls games
David Sanchez
>Emulating games
Hello BR.
Jaxon Murphy
It plays more like Dark Souls 3 than either of those.
Ryan Lewis
better in several ways. emulates very well
Brody Cooper
It's better than 720p with slowdowns.
Isaac Sanders
in terms of what ? i would say a little between ds and ds 2
Brayden Hughes
Logan Brown
combat, game mechanics
Lincoln Ross
try it , world tendencies is a very annoying system not to mention upgrading weapons
Jeremiah Kelly
If you've beaten Dark Souls 1 and 2, DeS is going to seem easy in comparison. It's also lacking some mechanics that would become staples of the series like plunging attacks and includes others that would not make it into later entries like item burden and world tendency. It's got a unique atmosphere and great setting and level design, so it's definitely worth playing. Still my favorite game in the series.
Leo Kelly
the phantoms had much better looking effects in this game than in any game since. phantoms in dark souls games are an eyesore in comparison. a lot of effects are way better in demon's souls. i'm not sure why unless for legal reasons they couldn't reuse them
Anthony Butler
you mean the way you use spells ? that's the only thing in common with ds3 ,maybe also weapon upgrades to some extent
Juan Johnson
world tendency is sweet
Gabriel Young
Not currently, it's not. Unless you join a private server it's a huge pain in the ass right now.
Blake Peterson
It's poor. It's notable only for its gimmicks and over-the-top brutality in stage design. Worth experiencing, but only once.
It will make you thankful for the extreme wealth of build options and equipment variety in later games.
Mason Hernandez
the speed of weapon animations, feel of movement, and rolling feels closest to ds3
Bentley Parker
The lighting in general is better. It's just Demons SOULs and not Dark Soulless.
Easton King
>but only once
Finished NG+ and I love it more
Nathan Thompson
If by "once" you mean doing at least NG++ or all trophies, then yes.
Finishing NG once only gives you a slight taste for the game.
Caleb Thompson
yeah now that i think about it, it's true, the lighting is way better. it definitely ages the best in the series.
the fact that a lot of the game mechanics are much more obscure only makes this game that much better
Lucas Carter
?
as a mechanic it doesn't really work if you play online unless you make a lot of progress in a single world in a single session. what do you mean?
world tendency refers to the level design and enemy difficulty changing depending on your long term success or failure streak in a given level. a lot of rare items and characters can only be encountered by changing the world tendency to one of it's extremes. not to mention colorless demon's souls are primarily found in black world tendency
Dominic Campbell
it's top 2 in the series
Landon Campbell
World tendency down with every death in a particular world if you're in human form, which makes the game harder, triggers certain events, etc. Going back to white tendency is a ton harder, though. Your options are very limited, there's a few select bosses you can kill to up your tendency and that's right about it. There's barely any invading phantoms for you to kill to change your tendency back to white. It's all designed with multiplayer in mind. Now that the servers are kill, it's just a big pain in the butt. Doing certain white tendency quests is just not fun anymore because of the hassle you have to go through.
Chase Howard
Rougher, more experimental and obtuse, and all the better for it. Get out the thread and play it, no you don't need to ask questions or know what you're "in for", you can learn that by playing.
Kayden James
best souls geimu
Nathan Evans
Ian Gomez
true but keep in mind the golden rule of white world tendency quests. the fastest way to white is to just leave at least one boss alive in the level. head straight for pure black, kill the special black phantom npc & the primeval demon and that will get you -1 from pure white automatically. one boss kill later and you're at pure white. it's not so bad when you realize you can get 95% of the way to pure white with those 2 simple steps
Jayden Ward
did you apply an extra graphical tweaks there? that looks a tad more anti aliased than my version did
Jordan Cruz
no I'm just a pro gamer
Levi Bell
Cameron Hall
you understand nothing
Joseph Turner
Jordan Stewart
Better than both
Zachary Torres
butt souls
Jayden Clark
I'm playing DS1 prepare to die after having only played vanilla once quite a while ago and there's something that's bothering me. Don't the bosses normally drop souls? As in a boss specific soul. Because I didn't get shit from the gargoyles or capra demon.
Nicholas Perez
David Bell
ultimate thicc
Evan Rivera
those aren't bosses
Liam Reed
das1 is the only game that doesn't do that. only certain bosses do.
Luke Hill
Ah, okay. Thanks. I was worried my version was glitched or something.
Joseph Wright
good but extremely overrated by fanboys, some who are the last burning vestiges of ps3 fanboys, some who are just nostalgia-blind
Owen Bennett
Not as good as either of them but worth a play
Landon Cooper
it's better than DaS2, I can tell you that at least.
What's with the cat icon?
Bentley Martinez
cat's ring. that's the fall damage reduction icon. it's the best icon in the series.
Caleb King
cute
Landon Wright
IIRC killing all or almost all the bosses in a world will raise it to pure white tendency. Then you can just kill yourself in the world repeatedly with stones of ephemeral eyes to drop it to pure black. My memory might be betraying me since I always played online and everything was usually skewed white.
Why is the humble one-handed mace always such a good weapon in these games?
Brandon Lopez
Bentley Ramirez
Dark Souls was cranked out quickly while the hype for Demon's Souls being a surprise hit was still high to get a multi-platform clone, then it exploded and lot of the cut corners became iconic to them and were kept in the sequels.
Cooper Bailey
Hunter Parker
makes sense. i wish they'd do a proper return to form though
Ryder Rivera
Julian Scott
Better than 2 and 3 for sure
I still like Dark 1 ever so slightly ahead of it
Hopefully one day I'll get a powerful enough rig to emulate it. Still looks decent on PS3 though imo. Good art direction, level design and all that. Gonna stop talking about it now cause it's making want to do a new playthrough and I have a backlog that needs going through.
Jayden Thomas
Julian Torres
Jordan Myers
Jose Wilson
Is that the equivalent of the Elite Knight Set?
Aiden Brooks
red eye knights > black knights
John Cox
it's pretty good t b h
Jaxon Gomez
a lot of the animations are better too especially moving/attacking looks more real somehow and fits better
Austin Rogers
it's the best one out of all of them
Isaiah Perez
No, it's the equivalent of the regular knight's set.
Blake Johnson
it's elite knight set's daddy, yes
Evan Lewis
Christian Jones
Great game, quite a bit grindy compared to the other games especially in terms of weapon upgrading unless you dupe of course. Really the amount of necessary grinding depends on how good you are at Souls games. Healing items, levels, weapon upgrades, etc are pretty much your main grinds
Jackson Walker
come to think of it, i think satsuki is the only NPC in souls that actually sprints instead of runs when you agro him.
Noah Martin
Jayden Jenkins
Also much faster load times. Makes dying less painful.
Jordan Scott
lol
Andrew Baker
Best souls game.
Juan Cox
Henry Barnes
out of all the souls games it has the most SOUL
Justin Clark
How come there was never any remaster or PC port? Is it because Sony owns the IP? Oh well, at least we have emulation and private servers.
Isaac Wilson
Feels pretty much exactly like DaS1. Level design is different, bosses are much easier, but the core gameplay feels the same.
It’s very good. Definitely one of the best Souls games
Nicholas Rogers
Hudson Howard
>unzips morion blade and clever rat ring
Oliver Baker
Its the best one.
Gavin King
Is it open world-ish like DS1 or completely linear? Are there any loading screens or is everything streamed on the fly like in DS?
Hudson Gonzalez
Daniel Allen
yeah sony owns the IP. no remaster because we can't have nice things.
Noah Flores
neither. its like megaman where you have all the levels available at the start (well after you kill the first boss in this case) and you just choose which one you want to do
Cameron Reyes
So there's a hub level that connects everything together? How does it work exactly?
Landon Carter
>asking Yea Forums about an obscure video game whose sequel became wildly popular
Lmao wow, cumbrians, everyone
Parker Cruz
It's neither. There's a central hub (The Nexus) and you use archstones to warp to the various stages. There are warps back to the Nexus at the start and end of every level. Once you complete the first level you can pick any Once you're in a world you can generally pass from one level to another after you've completed it, but there's little reason to unless you just want to start the next level without going back to the Nexus.
Leo Evans
surprisingly the only game that had climbable ledges
Nicholas Thompson
Eli Reed
Samuel Evans
>soul sucked
It's disappointing they never bring this back. Fucking 5 games they release since then and still haven't done anything as cool as this.
Hudson Wright
They were only used occasionally and there was usually little indication that the area was climbable.
Levi Parker
I really liked how they made light weapons useful. Like you can use a dagger and fight a warrior in heavy armor and actually have a chance since every hit will stun them.
In other souls games over half the enemies and all invaders will just smash you through your attacks.
Anyone know what I am talking about? I loved playing a caster and using Baby's Nail.
Owen Jackson
>played ng+ des recently
>this guy still kills me
what a beast.
Hudson Sanchez
It's the lack of a poise mechanic. Also why armor is so useless in DeS beyond aesthetic appeal.
Joseph Edwards
What the fuck I've been playing Demon's Souls for years and years and never seen a climable ledge.
This is like the time I found out there was a skeleton blacksmith in the catacombs in DAS1 like 5 years after i completed the game. I need to read wikis more not really I like blind play throughs more than anything
Bentley Martinez
Seems like it just had a lot more time in the oven compared to the rest. Only having the PS3 in mind when developing may have helped.
Aaron Nelson
you have to blind in 5-2 noob you just forgot
Henry Hughes
Whereabouts? Granted I haven't played in like 2 years but I really can't remember anything about ledges, not the animation or anything.
Hudson Diaz
I know right, there's always something new to find out about.
here's some animations
youtu.be
Ayden Perry
Just how well does this game emulate? I've got a 6600K but I'd only bother playing if it was a straight upgrade over the console, otherwise I'd just replay it again on the PS3. Too often people say something "emulates perfectly!" when what they really mean is that the game boots and you can beat it but there are glitches, slowdowns, graphical errors and hours of configuration necessary. What's the rub?
Easton Hill
Anyone have this Yurt image?
Daniel Perry
The music is absolutelt fantastic, really uncanny and strange. The menu theme that is like an homage to classic Resident Evil save room theme/Berserk OST is a personal favourite of mine.
The OST has real character compared to later games when it just became kind of generic orchestral arrangements you'd expect in a fantasy movie.
Joshua Moore
its the best of them all
Mason Nelson
Nothing infuriates me more than when people say that demons was just a prototype for dark.
Like did you actually fucking play demons?
Christ
James Green
>did you actually fucking play demons?
Of course they fucking didn't. They listen to someone who they believe to be informed and parrot their opinions verbatim.
Ayden Garcia
Releasing Dark Souls on PC so Steam zoomers could ruin it was a mistake.
Should have all been Playstation exclusives, how it was meant to be.
Bentley Edwards
I'm 30+ hours dry and still haven't found a pure bladestone
Jonathan Cooper
my favorite souls comic ever
James Clark
It's the best Souls game.
Christopher Jones
That one is top tier. Flawless recreation of my first time in 5-1
Jace Bennett
Grayson Richardson
It was used quite frequently in Latria. Slayer of Demon's would steamroll through most of Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 with this hidden technique.
Ian Fisher
Brain suckers were the closest we got
Fuck those guys though
Nathaniel Nelson
I only have good memories of this game, despite the hellish farming.
Caleb Stewart
the only time i remember farming was when i made a dex character
Samuel Price
Where can I download built 6697 of RPCS3? Apparently it's the best build for Demon's Souls.
Jose Allen
just get the newest ones, the regressions are fixed
Eli Bell
Apparently not, because I just tried running it and none of the textures loaded.
Mason Diaz
It's the best of the series, the most innovative and the most consistent from start to finish even though it's smaller. Best level design and boss battles etc etc etc
Christopher Lee
i'll pm u the fix
Alexander Brown
Delete the shader cache, LLVM cache, and make sure Write Color Buffers is on in the GPU settings.
Nolan Wilson
based goddammit BASED
Anthony Morris
>putting souls in item slots and spamming them
soul
>using multiple versions of the soul at once from the item menu
soulless
Luke Gomez
kino poster right here
Leo Campbell
des was the only souls game i didnt finish despite having it for over a year
i regret it bc i dont have my ps3 anymore
Brandon Taylor
i didn't notice any issues but if your ps3 still works i'd just play it on that for online's sake
Levi Nelson
>you can climb up chest high walls
wtf from
Brandon Carter
this track freakin' rocks. totally agree, most memorable music in the series. i wonder what happened exactly
Jacob White
The composer who did the Demon's Souls OST never got brought back for the later games, and the newer composers fell for the film score Hollywood tier orchestra music meme.
youtube.com
Juan Rivera
It has the coolest gimmicks and most sensible lore in the series, even though the combat is pretty janky and dated at this point.
Landon Williams
>can go over chest high ledges
leave the path to drangleic castle to me...
Brandon Morales
the dark souls character creation music is also really RE save room
Liam Martinez
oh snap really? that's mighty lame then. bring this guy back for elden ring PLEASE!
Andrew Nelson
Adam Clark
Literally why was this never implemented?
Gabriel White
*ahem*
fuck belfry sol and fuck dark souls 2
Jordan Jackson
Someone post that webm every time "which Souls character is the strongest" threads show up.
Zachary Mitchell
Better than the shit that followed. Maybe best ps3 title out there.
Dylan Fisher
my guess is that all of the volumes for it had to be placed manually and it became too much work to keep up with as the levels got bigger and more complex
Jackson Lee
yeah, 2nd best character creation music. also a very good track
Luke Flores
how do I delete the cache?
Tyler Barnes
So I just realized this game is over a decade old now. Fuck.
Jonathan Morris
Right click on the game in the game list. Just hit remove all caches.
Jose Powell
Thanks, the issue was the Write Color Buffers being turned off on the new emulator by default. I forgot about that.
Andrew Bennett
What about SPU cache? Should I delete those as well?
Lucas Wilson
youtube.com
this is the best and most memorable boss fight in the whole series. change my mind. best music too
Leo Jackson
crazy huh
Isaiah Bailey
>mess up a single parry
>garl golfswings me into the swamp
Ethan Walker
you can always delete whatever cache. it will just get rebuilt at the cost of a few frames here & there at some point
Jayden Robinson
& you do not wanna be in that swamp
Landon Campbell
Tower of Latria is absolute ambient kino from the dungeon to the towers. The monk boss fight won't be as good since you can't do it as an online PVP match. They tried to recreate that battle over the series like with the shield knight, but the 1v1 against a human as the final boss of the area was great
Anthony Torres
*gets eaten by skinless babies*
Luis Robinson
Thanks man, I was finally able to get rid of that disgusting black frame bug, I tried a bunch of other shit and none of them work. Thank you so much.
Asher Sanchez
Noah Robinson
private servers?
Zachary Jackson
Liam Brown
hell yeah! may the good blood guide your way
Nicholas Lee
the reason they're there is pretty fucked up too. just another reason this fight is the most memorable in the series
Oliver Hughes
demon's souls and dark souls 2 are the only fun games in the series
Caleb Bennett
>kino
can i get a qrd?
also yeah, 1v1 as the boss was unforgettable. also when you first get summoned as the boss it's a total wtf moment
Luis Perez
Noah Edwards
there's a private server for ps3, but the emulator doesn't have network support. so until someone adds it there's no online in emulation. on the other hand, solo is the way demon's souls was meant to be played. the lack of messages sucks though
Aaron Davis
It's excellent, but you'll find it's unrefined compared to the rest of the series.
On the other hand, it takes a few more risks that I find interesting.
PLAY IT
Ryder Phillips
google "the archstones" and you can play online again with a private server or whatever. i never see any more than 20ish people play but it's nice to see people ghosts, bloodstains, and messages still. i even got invaded the last time i played.
Jayden Cox
Hunter Reyes
Andrew Jackson
Best game in the series
Joshua Martinez
Bretty good, but consider that it has less weapon and armor variety, some of the build paths barely make sense, and without a guide and a fuck load of farming, the soul and world tendency system is almost impossible to use or understand.
I loved it, but be aware, you won't find another Dark Souls, you'll find a sort of Dark Souls beta
Ethan Robinson
90% of DeS messages were just "I'm in trouble! Please recommend this message!" That's one thing I'm glad didn't come back in later games. At least put down something marginally helpful so you have a message worth recommending.
Samuel Powell
lol
Jose Fisher
3-1 is a claustrophobic hell of hallways patrolled by mind flayers, and often the only sound you will hear is the tingle of a bell that heralds their approach. It's all very dark, and the soft green glow of the flayers moving along their patrol routs is unnerving and stressful. You fish keys off walls, desperately try to avoid flayers (who will paralyze you with ranged magic then rush you down to grab you to siphon off your spinal fluid with their proboscis), and traverse through worn-down cells full of degenerated madmen. As you work your way further along, more horrible creatures become known, and you encounter more and more traps mean to stop escapees. The boss is a mimic of the long-dead queen, and defeating it gets you abducted by gargoyles, who drop you off atop the tower and into an ever worse location.
The towers stand atop a fetid swamp full of chimeras created by the mad king, and you need to destroy supports for a giant mutated tumor that blocks your ascent. The maneaters are a great boss to top off the 2nd area, and make your height a real threat.
Finally, the Old Monk was a great PvP boss, where anyone invading or trying to be summoned could be forced to act as the archdemon. Full PvP boss - frantic and tons of fun.
Gavin Ramirez
i remember people used to be so oblivious to my gestures towards the windmill. then we'd finally get to the boss and the hosts would die in 5 seconds and waste my time
William King
iyes, and it is called fluted armor
Gabriel Morales
Is that proxy method to the private server still working? I know they shitcanned the official server.
William Ramirez
It was replaced with "Praise the meme" and two-year old tier jokes about ass eating
Jaxon Russell
Joseph Johnson
Is there a 60fps hack for it yet?
Carson Russell
It's just as infantile, but I genuinely miss "Sticky White Stuff" comments.
Hudson Parker
i know all that but what the hell does kino mean
Jace White
i believe so. when did they do that? crazy. i remember when they were about to do it, but decided to leave it online anyway indefinitely
Xavier Wright
someone in the other thread mentioned that it runs at 2x and breaks stuff. but you could always give it a try
Owen Barnes
>not spamming visions of fatty near the cathedral of blue
Jace Murphy
Looks like Feb 18 of last year. You're right, though, they were planning to shut them down a few times previously and didn't. Too bad. :/
Dylan Diaz
Isaiah Young
Samuel Brooks
I liked how it made light weapons more viable. You could get is 4-5 swings and then have enough stamina to try and avoid the other players attack after he recovers.
Colton Watson
armor in NG is actually pretty decent. you can tank hits pretty well with the brushwood set. once ng+ hits you might as well play naked though.
Jose Carter
the eternal armor vs roll debate
James Flores
It's a great entry. It's got solid level design (arguably the best in Souls), gimmicky but fun bosses, and memorable characters.
Only real flaws are that the online is dead, it's not too challenging compared to 1/2, and that tendency is not well explained (but it's not something you need to pay attention to as a first-time player).
Ignore anyone who claims it's "dated"--they're graphicsfags or people who can't handle the inventory weight
Zachary Torres
>or people who can't handle the inventory weight
lol
Ian Morgan
A few in 2 don't IIRC, I remember Prowling Magus/Congregation give a slab instead
Adam Flores
I miss having worlds infested with Red Phantoms. There was one part where you had to walk around a narrow ledge and there were like 4 red knights that you could not attack since you weapon would hit cliff wall every swing.
Daniel Edwards
they should have got the ring of herculean strength.
Wyatt Brooks
I liked it.
Much more ominous than Dark Souls, but the outright level-based structure might be a disappointment if you were hoping for more of a Dark Souls/King's Field open map with shortcuts and shit. More Severance: Blade of Darkness but without the part where it just gives up halfway through and becomes a special-attack spamfest.
Dragon Fag Smasher is always a glorious playthrough.
>or people who can't handle the inventory weight
That was only ever a problem in like 3 instances where you're trying to pick up some heavy armour, otherwise the game is extremely liberal with what you can carry.
Anthony Young
Demon's Souls is like an arthouse director's last masterpiece before they were given Hollywood money and a larger audience and lost all their individuality and daring.
Yeah their later films are quite good, but they lack a certain something that the earlier films had.
Carter Jones
in my latest playthrough i missed that til like the very end of the game. someone i hit one of the chains and not the other and i forgot all about the ring. nothing was lost though.
i still remember my first time in 2-2. i got overloaded with shards and walked back to the archstone at a snail's pace from the bottom of the cliffs to dump my inventory
Carter Murphy
agreed but i'd say bloodborne is the triumphant return to form
Charles King
i just gotta say boletaria palace is cool as fucking shit and the fact that the tower where allant's throne room is is build under a fucking hollowed out mountain is metal as fuck. also given the position of the tower, false king was probably watching you your entire trip through the level.
Lucas Ward
Yeah that's very true. Though I felt they dropped back to 'just okay' as I struggled to connect with DaS3 and by the end was just wanting it to be over so I could play something else.
Dominic Lewis
black phantom sounds way cooler and more menacing than dark spirit
Ethan Cruz
It's better since it doesn't have cloth draping over any shiny parts.
Isaac Garcia
If you're going to emulate be sure to fallback to the last 0.0.5 version or whatever since its so fucking stable compared to the latest versions of the emulator
On later versions the black flicker and locking up when entering it sometimes leaving the Nexus fuck you up so hard as you keep playing
Chase Cox
>I was defeated and captured by the golden elder beyond that dungeon. Beware of him, for he manipulates souls. He has power over dark souls, those susceptible to madness and paranoia.
>power over DARK SOULS
Henry Nelson
>dumping FIFTY grass or TWO HUNDRED arrows is enough space to let you pick up a full armor set once hitting the limit
No it was retarded how stacks also added more weight