I should probably take back perfection, I just remembered the framerates in Blighty.

Ringed City is great. Crushing my virtual body and real soul at every oppurtunity. Proper Dark Souls. Found Lapp chilling, killed a knight with a ridiculously big chopper after a few tries. There has to be a bonfire or a shortcut around here somewhere, right? RIGHT? You cannot seriously expect me to go into that swamp after fighting through all this other shit. Can you Dark Souls? Can you?

Here's the podcast I did with the development manager of the Dark Souls Boardgame.

http://werenotwizards.podbean.com/e/dcdarksouls/

In case it was missed, cross posted from the podcast thread.

They will be launching the Resident evil 2 boardgame this month on kickstarter.

Bollocks. 

Gonna get back to it like a motherfucker.

About time they did a HD re-release on current gen though.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Feb 28th 2018. Demon Souls servers will be switched off permanently. Like me if you've never played that particular entry, you better get on it before then or after Feb 28th, you will be playing it solo I.e. Offline.

Shame. I played through it again a couple of months ago - it still has a really good population.

Gonna be a Switch exclusive, heard it here first lads

hylian_elf wrote:

About time they did a HD re-release on current gen though.

Surely it already was HD? But yeah, a re-release would be great. Surprised it hasn't happened seeing how much the rest of the series has been milked.

I’ve seen Dark Souls and Bloodborne fans go back and struggle when playing Demon’s for the first time. They want to dodge and be all Dex build Katana Leet, and wanna read item descriptions for lore. They often don’t get that the game is much slower and is generally played more conservatively, and that the more (as it is) comes from the environment design and npcs (many of whom can be missed without playing with World Tendency).

There’s also quite a few who bitch that the bosses are too easy. Which they are if you are a Souls veteran - a lot of the bosses are slow and exploitable because that’s was the game was. The games became increasingly about multi-stage dodge fests so going back to Demons can make bosses feel like a cake walk.

I think a lot of first timers would be disappointed with Demons if they tried it for the first time now, even though it’s my fave.

Parts of Demons can be fucking nails. Depends on the weapon you're using.

Childintime wrote:

There’s also quite a few who bitch that the bosses are too easy. Which they are if you are a Souls veteran - a lot of the bosses are slow and exploitable because that’s was the game was. The games became increasingly about multi-stage dodge fests so going back to Demons can make bosses feel like a cake walk.

Sounds good.

Played as far as Anor Londo on Dark Souls again recently. It's all about knowing the environment and enemy placement, rather than things being very difficult to kill. Even bosses are more based on strategy than skill. Just what I want.

Great weapon that.

JonB wrote:

Childintime wrote:

There’s also quite a few who bitch that the bosses are too easy. Which they are if you are a Souls veteran - a lot of the bosses are slow and exploitable because that’s was the game was. The games became increasingly about multi-stage dodge fests so going back to Demons can make bosses feel like a cake walk.

Sounds good.

Played as far as Anor Londo on Dark Souls again recently. It's all about knowing the environment and enemy placement, rather than things being very difficult to kill. Even bosses are more based on strategy than skill. Just what I want.

Aye. I love the bosses in Demons. They’re more about the atmosphere, strategy and experience than frame-perfect dodging until the boss opens up a new attack set.

Plus, Dark and Bloodborne ripped from Demon’s hard, so it’s no surprise that Souls veterans figure out the bosses quick.

It’s a fucking great game with some of the best bosses and areas in the series. Nothing in the entire Souls series has topped the Tower of Latria or dat swamp. Plus, Demons has the saddest and most melancholic Boss in the entire series.

Childintime wrote:

It’s a fucking great game with some of the best bosses and areas in the series. Nothing in the entire Souls series has topped the Tower of Latria or dat swamp.

Interesting to read, since some of the areas in Dark Souls are my favourite bits of level design ever. The Depths to Blight Town to the swamp is amazing, as is the Catacombs to the Tomb of Giants. But I think Sen's Fortress is probably the pinnacle - it's a stunning achievement and never fails to make me nervous as I get near the bonfire at the top. Plus there's all the hidden routes in it.

I've played loads of Demon's in co op this year so I'm sad to hear the servers are going down. Just hope it means that they are announcing a PS4 version.