Dark Souls

I'm gonna rent this game later today. Supposedly it's a pretty WookieMode RPG that's unforgiving. I think I'll like it just because of that.

The game kinda snuck under my radar with Skyrim making all the RPG headlines. I think I'll like it if it isn't a total piece of shit because I have nearly no expectations or hype for it; seeing as I only learned about it a week ago.

So yeah... if the game sucks I'll edit this post rather quickly telling you all how much it blows, and if it's good I'll vanish for a few days like I did when I rented Deus Ex.

Meh the game is alright I suppose... nothin special but not too shitty. The controls take a long time to understand and so do the mechanics of the game (attributes and such)

Combat seemed sloppy and frustrating, but that could be because I didn't master all the controls before I stopped playing.

I only played for about 2 hours with the Knight class, and then for about 5 minutes with the thief class.

From what I saw there wasn't really much difference between the classes that early on into the game... no different moves or special abilities or anything really... I didn't even see any kind of stealth options for the thief, and the game manual shouldn't even be classified as a manual (6 pages hardly does this complicated fucking game justice).

I didn't see an ability sheet or anything that would really make different classes stand out from one another the only difference I saw was starting equipment and starting attributes (health, strength, intelligence, etc.).

The game manual doesn't describe the classes in detail, and neither does the game when you're choosing one, which is really fuckin annoying.

There's also a Multiplayer mode that allows up to 3 players I believe... no idea how that works or how laggy it is cause I don't have Xbox live.

The only reason I'm not sticking with playing this game is because RAGE just came out too, so I'm gonna rent that before all the copies are gone.

Almost reminds me of the old D&D pc games. Is it turn-based or real-time?

Rage is also pretty good, btw.

It's real time.

I agree, RAGE is pretty good. Although I like Fallout and Borderlands more; But that's just cause I prioritize RPG over FPS.

The checkpoints fucking suck, though. I essentially finished the sewer part underneath Wellspring with the contaminated water, and the fucking elevator crushes me, sending me all the way back to the beginning of the mission.

Motherfucker.

Fuck you guys and y0 early release dates, still gotta wait till the 7th for RAGE.


Oh well, at least their giving me the collectors pack as a free upgrade, but then again, they probably wont delivery the damn thing till next week.


And I heard about the save system, or rather the lack of it? Really id? You guys practically invented the fps genre and your stumbling over stupid shit like that. no autosave isnt WookieMode, its just dumb.

Isn't too bad, remind me of playing Morrowind w/out that buggy autosave. Just gotta remember to save.

Skreshavik wrote:

Isn't too bad, remind me of playing Morrowind w/out that buggy autosave. Just gotta remember to save.

Ive become too used to autosave. I remember having to constantly spam F5/F8 to quick save in the older PC games, then I played Halo CE and was like "WHAT SORCERY IS THIS!!?!?!?!" when I saw the "saving checkpoint" checkpoint. The only time I save is if I know im about to walk into something very buggy or theres a bossfight coming up.

haha I used to tap the quicksave button like a lunatic

Every room I cleared out... "Quicksave" lol

Did that in Fallout with the Louisiana or whatever it was DLC, freakin' 1000hp ghouls...

Dark Souls is awesome and you all suck. It seems set to be /v/'s GOTY. The combat is responsive and precise, and though it's hard it's not actually mean. You have to be careful and controlled, or you will fail miserably. Love that you can't choose difficulty for a new game, you get what you get.