EXCLANE'S PROFILE

author=Natook
you could just wait a month

like, you don't have to spend your entire budget

Of course I do, it's my duty as an American! If I don't spend money unresponsively the terrorists win! 'Cause that's how international politics work right?

But seriously, I'm not gonna buy it just to spend my budget. I've just heard that Far Cry 2 and 3 are good games. But if Far Cry 3 is basically Far Cry 2 but better, then I see no reason to spend money on an inferior product.

I might still get it in the future, I mean it's not like it's getting more expensive with each passing day. But I'm getting a 3DS this month so I'm probably not gonna focus on PS3 games for a while, and even then theres a bunch of PS3 I want more then Dark Souls that cost around the same. Plus if I want some punishing and difficult RPGs well...I'm getting Fire Emblem with my 3DS and Soul Hackers is coming out in April.

author=Feldschlacht IV
It's hard to say without you elaborating what you didn't like about Demons Souls.

Well, what I really didn't like about Demon's Souls wasn't that it was too hard, it was that it felt really cheap and unfair. It seemed like everything had an unfair advantage towards you, and the only way to advance in the game was to level up your character and equipment. The only way to do this was with souls, which act as both the games currency and EXP. And the only place you could level up your character was at this hub world where you could also access the other ares of the game. But if you died, you would lose all your souls, and theres a really good chance you're gonna die on your way back to the hub world. You can reclaim your lost souls, but sometimes doing so is a fools errand; IE going to the spot where you were last killed by a powerful foe only to immediately be killed again in the same spot by said foe.

By contrast, I've heard that Dark Souls now has bonfires spread across each level that allows you to level up in the level your currently on. Doing so will cause enemies to respawn, though, so it's not without penalty. I've also heard that Dark Souls relies more on the player's skill rather then statistics, making it possible to beat powerful enemies with low sats.

Basically, what I didn't like about Demon's Souls was that it felt very cheap. And Dark Souls sounds more fair, albeit still challenging, which is why I'm interested in it.

Hey, heard of Dark Souls? Of course you have, no one has shut up about it since it came out. Anyway, the game is only $16 dollars where I live and I was thinking of picking up a copy. I'm very hesitant to though, not because of it's reputation as one of the hardest modern RPGs, but because I didn't like it's predecessor, Demon's Souls. But I've read that Dark Souls makes a number of changes to Demon's Souls formula. These changes, so I've read, are suppose to make the game more difficult, but also more balanced. So Dark Souls is more challenging then Demon's Souls, but presents more of a fair challenge. Not having played Dark Souls I have no idea if this is true.

So, can anyone who has played Dark Souls tell me if they feel it's worth $16 to someone like me, who enjoys hardcore RPGs but didn't enjoy Demon's Souls? Because if it's not I can always pick up my copy of Etrian Odyssey.

EDIT: Damn, typo in the title. Please ignore it. It's obvious what it was meant to say.

I can see the images just fine, but I'll post likes to where they're hosted. Hope that works. If it doesn't I'll post the images on imageshack or something.

http://eurs.blog65.fc2.com/blog-entry-122.html

http://eurs.blog65.fc2.com/blog-entry-367.html

EDIT: I usually use Opera as my main browser, and the images show up fine on it, but I tried looking at them on Internet Explore (which I HATE) and they didn't show up. So I see what you mean now. They showed up on the links though.