I’ve got friends who can’t wait to get their Dark Souls 2 action on in that punishing game. These friends might also wear full body rubber suits, eyeless masks and speak in “Mmmrrphhh mmmpphhh mmmm” language due to the fact that they’re wearing ball gags.
None of that really matters though, because the trailer above is just pure thrill-power for Dark Souls 2. Plus demon horses scare the pants off of me. Despite the fact that most folks, this chap included, focus on the difficulty of Dark Souls being ludicrously high and punishing for those of us who didn’t learn our boss patterns, it’s the kind of game that still has a solid combat structure.
And as for those complaints and worries about Dark Souls 2 being “for teh noobz”, I can assure you hardcore fans that you’ve got nothing to worry about. As the developers still told me at E3, the game is being designed to be less of a grind, and more fluid. “Oh, you’ll still die a lot”, the dev said to me when I quizzed him on this.
“In fact, if you don’t die right now with this demo, then I’m going to have to go back to the drawing board,” he said to me. And then he grinned that bastard grin as I was torn apart by a mirror knight. Touche Namco Bandai, touche.
Dark Souls 2 is out soon. Very soon actually, as it arrives in the middle of March for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. There’s a very cool collector’s edition on the way, but chances are high that this has been sold out by now. For no one can defeat the “You snooze you lose” boss of the pre-order kingdom.
Last Updated: January 15, 2014
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 07:54
Yoh Yoh Yoh I do not know if my local liquor store/neighbors/ controllers are ready for Dark souls 2.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eSbNm4SWjaA/UfUcKWeEboI/AAAAAAAAN-s/bIccysadYXM/s1600/nope-badger.gif
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:01
Still find this one of the funniest. Just love it
Admiral Chief in Vegas
January 15, 2014 at 07:59
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/a8WmG3Y_460sa.gif
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:12
Sweeeet. Waar kry ek een?
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:00
“And then he grinned that bastard grin as I was torn apart by a mirror knight.” Achievement unlocked. Sadistic Troll.
Hehehe. Can’t wait. Still haven’t finished DS: Prepare to die edition yet. Guess I better get a move on. Let’s go! *BAM* *Dies*.
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 08:12
Me too, me too. *sigh*
Hammersteyn
January 15, 2014 at 08:03
Great, more of this.
http://media.tumblr.com/d93878e7a28174a833b73ef45a34efbf/tumblr_inline_mtuqmqlgiD1raprkq.gif
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 08:06
I want to say that game separates the emotionally strong form the rest,… but you know what, i would be lying… that is one of the best and most insane games out there, and we need more of it..
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:10
Dude this game is so tough. I haven’t gotten to that point yet.
Hammersteyn
January 15, 2014 at 08:13
This is kinda what I did, see you can only level up so much. So what I did near the end of DS is just run from the bonfire to the boss. Avoid all the enemies best you can. It’s a time saver.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:17
Yeah I have rung the first bell. I’m in the depths now trying to get to the second bell. Dayem. It’s not easy going man.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 08:17
He he he, after that it gets “fun”
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:20
LOLZ ….So much more fun…….
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:19
Snap, you didn’t ring all the Bells?….Have fun in Sen’s fortress 😛
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:20
As I said. Going to ring the second bell now
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:23
imo, the true game starts after you ring the second bell
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 08:24
Amen Brother… that is when the true horror starts
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:25
You know as much as the true horror starts then, I still have fond memories of the first time I set foot in Anor Londo…AS gruesome as DS is, that was truly a beautiful sight to behold.
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 09:06
That’s where you go after defeating the Iron Golem right? I should never have stopped playing, I can’t remember anything.
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:23
This is true, the bells are only the tutorial 🙂
RinceThis2014
January 15, 2014 at 09:34
Have you played it while online? You hear other players ringing the bells, and you are like ‘well done chap!’
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 10:21
Never picked up on that. I’m always connected to the net when playing. Mmmm. I should listen more carefully
RinceThis2014
January 15, 2014 at 10:22
Where do you think all the runes on the floor/ghosts next to bonfires are coming from? 😛 As a player you can put them down and others will see 🙂
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 10:41
Oh I know that part. The hints and ghostly figures. I just never heard the bells ringing before heh.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:25
I’m seriously struggling with the monsters that seem to be getting super strong and I don’t lol
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:27
Lol your character never really get’s much stronger. Have to play strategically and carefully. But man, you’re in for some good times in the Depths lol…Epic Boss battle ahead
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:28
I’m amongst a whole bunch of walkways and stuff now. With dogs that breath fire at me and guys who shoot instant I poison you to death blow darts. GAH. And those Ogres! Lucky they are dumb and I just kinda make them fall off ledges
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:31
Wait, are you in Blight Town?Not in the Depths?
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:32
Blight town is further up isn’t it? Hold on. *runs to google quickly*
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:32
I can’t recall the poison dudes in the Depths or Ogres. Butchers yes
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:36
Oh wait. Sorry you are right. Blight Town. Deep down. Heading towards some swamp
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 08:48
Oh I remember that, those poison darts 🙁 Luckily those guys don’t respawn.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:50
Thankfully yeah
Hammersteyn
January 15, 2014 at 08:21
LOL you still have a long long way to go.
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:13
BEYOND hype for this game. Probably gonna suck months from my life just like the first one did. My only concern is not about the gameplay really. It’s they are going to make the story more direct. The beauty about DS was that sense of wonder and exploration. Finding out about the people and world around you. You could actually let your imagination dictate the story
Hammersteyn
January 15, 2014 at 08:21
Yeah the sense of wonder when you first walk through a fog gate not knowing what boss awaits you. The HORROR!
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:23
More like the sense of pity and sadness when you don’t want to kill Sif 🙁
Hammersteyn
January 15, 2014 at 08:24
Well maybe it the damn Wolf didn’t have a FF sword in his mouth
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 08:25
or the d..d..d..dragons…
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 08:34
That Gaping Dragon boss was just plain easy. After a little while fighting it I started getting paranoid that I was missing something.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:38
Easy??? EASY!?!?!? Are you insane? It took me 2 days to get past him!
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 08:40
lol, that’s the only one I beat the very first time I encountered it.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:44
You know who was a bastard? The Capra Demon. Maaaaaan. But once you figured out the trick he was a piece of cake. It was just the first 3 seconds of the encounter that make or break a person
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 08:53
That’s the one you fight in the tiny room right? That was not a nice surprise.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:58
Yeah that one with the 2 hounds that attack you instantly as you enter
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 09:04
Just wait until you fight Crossbreed Priscilla in the Painted World. You’re in for a surprise lol.
CaptainNemo42
January 15, 2014 at 08:45
Gaping Dragon was easy, then again I think I was lucky. Had help with that fight. Sif… Not so much, I’m stuck.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 09:50
Not Him, those lightning shooting bastards..
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:53
It really is a bit of joke its so easy, one of the simplest patterns to exploit.
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:28
LOOOLs, freaking Buster Sword in his mouth
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:24
SHUUUUUSH. Spoilers!
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:28
Oh !! Sowi!!! Get carried away sometimes
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:29
Lol tis ok.
Admiral Chief in Vegas
January 15, 2014 at 08:15
I just hope the damn controls are better, man, seriously frustrating! Forget the game, the effing silly port controls man!
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 08:17
That is why I have a controller for such situations… Still wonky as hell but better
Hammersteyn
January 15, 2014 at 08:18
Worked perfect on console 😛
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:18
Controller dude. DS not made to be played with KB+Mouse
Admiral Chief in Vegas
January 15, 2014 at 08:20
I am actually jamming on controller, MS+KB would be torture how bad it is on that game.
Umar digs KOS-MOS
January 15, 2014 at 08:22
Extremely bad. Though the developers said this time around they are developing the game on PC alongside the console. So no shoddy ports 🙂
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:20
Controller. Like I did. Got a cheapo PS2 controller and then a program that catches the controller requests and maps it like it is meant to be on an actual console. Suddenly the game is far better.
Admiral Chief in Vegas
January 15, 2014 at 08:22
Yeah, I got controller though, but the thing is, it keeps on popping the gesture menu up, so annoying
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:23
Hence why you should use that program to capture the controller commands to be mapped correctly to avoid such things.
Admiral Chief in Vegas
January 15, 2014 at 08:27
Yar, I prolly need to play around with the settings, but too busy with Planetside and FO:NV and Desktop Dungeons and Reus
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:29
hehe. Too many games, too little time. Super 1st world problems
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 08:27
Heh, it took a while but I got used to them. Once I remembered which key was yellow, red, blue or green anyway.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:30
The worst is when you want to open a door because you are running away and you end up pressing the dodge backwards button instead of the action command button. I do that waaaaay to often
Admiral Chief in Vegas
January 15, 2014 at 08:31
Mine are numbered, and each game numbers them differently, so 1 will become 4 and 2 will be 3 and then next time 3 is 1 and 4 is 2 and AAAAAARGH!!!!!
TiMsTeR1033
January 15, 2014 at 08:46
I have so far to go aint funny! still need to beat gargoyles on roof, that headless limping boss throws lightning. Level 23 now. getting easier and harder at same time.
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 15, 2014 at 08:47
I cursed those gargoyles. A lot.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:48
The gargoyles were a breeze for me oddly.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 08:49
+1
TiMsTeR1033
January 15, 2014 at 08:52
what level were you when fought them?
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:58
I can’t really recall hey
TiMsTeR1033
January 15, 2014 at 09:15
higher than 25 you guess?
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:21
Your level is pretty much half of how you measure your survivability only.
The rest is your equipment level. Dont underestimate the importance of upgrading your armour and weapons. Quite a lot of the time it is more useful to upgrade equipment than to upgrade stats, of course that theory is situational.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 10:21
at that time less than I believe
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 08:49
Pro tip for Titanite Demon (Headless limping boss) If you are on the steps behind him, his physical attacks don’t hit you as long as you stay lower than him.
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:35
Another way, use the R2 attack with drake sword, you can stay out of his melee range, and just roll to the side when he shoots the ball at you.
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
January 15, 2014 at 10:22
Can’t get the drake sword as I am a melee character and HOW THE DUCK does one even aim right to hit the drake from below as a ranged character?
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 10:52
doesnt matter if you are melee character, anyone can equip a bow.
you time it with the swinging of the tail, shoot a few test arrows to get used to how long they take to get there, then find the sweet spot and just time your releases, if you have about 100 arrows even with missing a bunch you should be fine
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:12
What class are you playing?
TiMsTeR1033
January 15, 2014 at 09:49
Pyromancer
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:52
Ok cool choice for first time, you will be very thankful as a large amount of the bosses are weak to fire.
If you want a bonus advantage for the first section of the game, then get the drake sword, will give you a bit of an op weapon until you get to sens fortress.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 09:53
That Drake sword was the Bomb.. took me 5 hours to get it though… 🙂
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:54
why so long?
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 09:55
he would fly away, instead of sitting on the wall, so i could shoot the tail… then it was either exiting the area/returning the whole time, or it was reloading, trying again..
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:56
lol thats weird, must have been a bug. did you play on pc?
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 09:57
Yup.
After getting the sword, the game became somewhat easier, and when i finally managed to wield it in one hand 🙂
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 09:58
yeah that was very anti climatic, you get the sword, all happy, and then see you dont have the stats, dammit! off to grind…..
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 09:58
Grind…grind…. DIE… Damnit
Grind..grind…DIE
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 10:00
DIE, make a stupid mistake on your way back and die again and lose all the souls youve been collecting, throw a shit fit and stop playing for a few days to calm down.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
January 15, 2014 at 10:01
Yeah …. hence me not being sure how much booze/controllers i need for this one… and trying not to swear too much, after loosing all those souls…
Brenz
January 15, 2014 at 10:05
My control managed to survive funnily enough, i did throw it once and luckily it bounced off the couch and not the wall.
I also grabbed the disk out the machine and was about a half a second away from flinging it across the room, but stopped myself.
Yes I got angry a few times while playing….
sunil
March 13, 2014 at 15:02
Early Dark Souls II reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, suggesting that the latest instalment of challenging and atmospheric RPG series is a worthy investment of your valuable March time.
Here’s what the critics are saying in their Dark Souls II reviews:
Dark Souls 2 Gameplay