Just the name alone is enough to strike fear in to the hearts of the bravest men (and women!). Dark Souls was a game so brutal, it made grown men weep, and its sequel promises to do much the same. It’s got a new setting, new spells and new weapons and they’re all on show in this fresh batch of screens from AGB.
You’ll also get a look at the “deprived” class, which is meant for those psychopaths/masochists who like doing the “naked” runs. Dark souls 2 is out on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in mid-march, with a Pc version to follow.
As much as I loved the first game (and I really, really did) I’m just not sure I have the time to invest, patience or the testicular fortitude to do it all again. for whatever reason, I’m just not feeling it as much; perhaps its the new director, perhaps it’s the new setting or perhaps I’m just a giant, snivelling baby in my old age.
As promised though, here are those screens.
Last Updated: February 12, 2014
LAblak22
February 12, 2014 at 19:05
Why are there no balls? I DEMAND BALLS!
Return of the Space Balls
February 13, 2014 at 04:36
I’m probably going to play it, but I’m also probably going to stop playing it before completing it.
I’m such a baby when it comes to hard games. I want somebody to console me and say ‘you can do it, here have a cookie’
Oh, whatever happened to simple games like space invaders.
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 07:10
I like my men…hollow
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 08:36
With runner beans?
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 09:06
Runner beans? Is that some type of a pseudonym for anal beads? O_o
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:13
lol, that should have been fava beans. Haven’t had a coffee yet!
Hammersteyn
February 13, 2014 at 07:25
Back into the abyss. I am seriously excited for this. Haven’t watch any videos about this game yet. I want to experience the terror myself when I step through a gate and see a boss for the first time. That’s the thing about this series. Every boss is unique. One cant help but stare in amazement and terror when you see it for the first time. Then you fight for your life.
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 08:37
* One cant help but stare in amazement and terror when you see it for the first time, and then die 1000 deaths!” Fixed 😉
Hammersteyn
February 13, 2014 at 09:17
LOL
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 08:54
The Gaping dragon was the biggest surprise so far, and the biggest let down…
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 09:00
lol I agree 100%. Badass reveal, slightly damp & warm left leg, and two minutes later… was that it? Only boss I defeated first time around.
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:02
Agree, totally weak but looked hard as hell
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:01
Mine was Ceaseless..”Oh look, a soul, let’s pick it up….BOOM, boss appears”
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 08:39
I sadly still need to find time/my balls to finish the first one!
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 08:49
Me too, I start shaking every time I think of going back to it. Damn you Borderlands 2 for distracting me, and every other of the 20 odd games I’ve played since then. *cough*
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 08:52
You guys haven’t finished it?…..*snark laugh*
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 08:53
I will join the ranks of legendary as you have Umar I am not giving up with Dark Souls. I see what you meant before I got it, hard but very rewarding.
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 08:55
Yeah don’t be like @disqus_DoEH3TsffU:disqus and @rincethis:disqus who need to wash their and stuff 😛 Trying to be all METRO and stuff.
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 08:57
I wanna get better at Dark Souls but so much to learn, like where to get the magical weapons ect and different rings, but I guess for first time I aint doing too bad.
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 09:04
Sent you a handy “guide” on whatsapp to help with weapon upgrades… And if you didn’t get it, here it is
http://darksouls.wdfiles.com/local–files/upgrade/upgrade-chart.jpg
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 09:09
I have been using guides but sometimes they a little confusing at times
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:17
Like this sentence? *runs
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 09:20
This one is fairly simple. It shows what materials you need to get a weapon from one level to the next and at the end where you can do it.
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:12
You have his whatsapp? Next you’ll know where he lives… Oh hell 0-O
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 09:18
I know where he lives. Now I just need to triangulate where he works so that I can start learning his routines 😀
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:19
0-O Opens Gumtree and starts looking for new flat…
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 09:23
Don’t hate us because we’re hygienic. :/
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:29
Just cus we wash!
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:32
Pah! Washing and stuff. Using this new age Euro trends like using soap….#Metro
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:32
*#metrolastnight fixed 😉 Playing it now, awesome 🙂
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:33
Yeah it’s free on PS+ at the moment, can’t wait to try it out. Still as immersive as 2033?
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:34
Actually didn’t play. I hear it is more so though.
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:43
Oh okay, now 2033 was on e hell of a fps
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 09:35
#metrolastnight? We don’t want to know what you did last night with those runner beans O_o
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:42
You shut up you. It’s an awesome game!
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:30
Yeah, I want to see you saying this when you are level 110 and your save file, you know, the ONE you are allowed to keep and cannot back up, CORRUPTS!
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 08:54
I want to but, but, um.. I have to… wash my hair. And I have a headache. Yes.
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 08:56
I know what you mean. Every thing, from Isidingo to fruit flies distract me, even when I ‘legitimately’ want to play! I mean, what’s with that?!
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 08:51
Well you can try again after you done with Metro, which you say is a GREAT game, you played first metro?
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 08:57
I do think it’s a great game and nope, not played the first one.
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 09:00
are the stories linked?
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:03
Yeah. Starts a bit after the first and the story is directly linked. But they fill in everything that happened in the first one.
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 08:41
Sometimes no pants is the way to go. You move much faster & Havel was one-shotting me in armour anyway.
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 08:43
I still haven’t finished the 1st one, maybe I should put Mass Effect on hold till I am done with Dark Souls
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 08:49
Just finish the one you like more first, I am having a blast with Dark Souls atm but suffering at the same time trying to get better weapons and find the bloody female undead merchant to get that curse to kill ghosts lol. Then must take out capra demon, then get a good bow to take out that damn moonlight butterfly!
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 08:51
You don’t need a bow. Just a nice pointy stick & a magic resistant shield.
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 08:51
So a spear or something would work?
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 08:53
Yip. Just run around avoiding it’s attacks as much as possible, after a while it gets tired & lands, then you whack it. It’s not very strong.
Try get yourself a lightning spear as soon as you can, I find it very useful.
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 08:54
I have yet to know how to get magical weapons, gonna try and get the Drake sword tonight, been using the black knight sword as weapon of late and reinforced it 3 times.
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 08:56
http://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Upgrades
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 08:52
Just upgrade your weapons, and just go into the sewers and get cursed by those frog things. The ghost drop the transient curse as well
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 08:53
No, those frog things Halve you life and the curse remains….Transient curse is better
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 08:55
Do I have to kill Capra demon before I can get to undead female merchant? I wanna buy some Transient curses!
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:00
Like Una mentioned above, you can get them as drops quite easily and if I’m not mistaken, that merchant is before You kill Capra. in the sewer, I think..
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 09:01
how you get to sewer?
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:04
Well, there’s a door by the Red dragon that leads down to where you fight Capra in the lower Undead Burg. She’s in that area. You need the Basement Key to access that area
TiMsTeR1033
February 13, 2014 at 09:07
I have used the basement key and fought the dogs and undead assains ect down there even the dude with flame torches but yet to find her.
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:09
She’s at the end of a sewer, think somewhere further in the area
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 13, 2014 at 09:12
Near the Capra demon is a room with a spiral staircase & an archer skeleton on a platform about half way up, go to the top of that, go through a door & she’ll be down the passage to your right. It’ll also open up a short cut to get to her from the first bonfire.
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 09:14
Thanx! All I could give Tim was vague directions lol
RinceandLeSIGH
February 13, 2014 at 09:01
Indeed she is.
Unavengedavo
February 13, 2014 at 08:57
I know, but the guy in New Londo can cure curses. That is what I did and I have no issue with trancient curses as the ghosts drop them a lot if you have around 10 humanity… Either that or just use the ones that you get from the corpse in the urn just before you cross the bridge
Umar Reborn
February 13, 2014 at 08:59
Yeah, is he always there though? Can’t remember if he was always there. And I just get iffy playing with playing with half life. I like my character to be healthy lol
Azazel
February 13, 2014 at 13:28
I wouldn’t recommend going to new londo until quite a bit later though anyway. Also, if you picked the master key as your gift at the beginning, you can skip the shit-house that is blighttown