Tale

Trying out Demon's Souls. Wow, they really moved up when they made Dark Souls. My Royal is just murdering everything with soul arrows.

Yes, grounded Kalameet gave me trouble. He would dodge my spears, then start chaining me with his breath. And by "trouble" I mean I only tried once.

I beat Dark Souls. Good game. I skipped over doing Kalameet and Manus though. Tried Kalameet and got crushed. So I just went for Gwyn, and that was a pretty unfair fight for him.

Made it through Lost Izalith and the Demon Ruins. I decided I was too scared to fight Manus or Kalameet. Maybe I should do that now.

If you're playing with Steam, check the Steam guides section of the overlay. I got 20 keys from what they listed there. It's probably the same as the IGN list with an expired.

Dark Souls! Beat Artorias with 1 hp last night. Then made it through to the next shortcut. Died a few times, lost 2 humanity, then was able to grind it back and an extra humanity in an hour. Oolacile Township gives humanity like nobody's business. White Dragon Breath is very disappointing. For 50 int, I was hoping for more than that. But I guess the number of charges explains it.

Starring dah Orkz! It'll never happen, but I can dream. Sad to hear about Vigil. They did good work on the two Darksiders games.

I guess that's going to completely kill Dark Millenium. If it was even still being worked on at all. I'm fairly okay with the idea of Ubisoft picking up South Park, if that's how it ends up being sorted out. Who knows, they might request "changes" that amount to a longer production time and more work for Obsidian.

Company of Heroes doesn't strike me as a valuable IP without Relic, so I don't know why anyone would buy it. It's World War II, the RTS, but made by a popular developer. Take the developer out, what do you have? So I'm just going to be skeptical of that. Homeworld, on the other hand, that's something people can get hyped for on the name and promise of sequels even from someone else.

Oh geeze.

Oh. I heard that demo was very buggy too. The demo's fine. Not seen any bugs with it. Maybe you're thinking of the HD collection, which has some slowdown problems.

It's out? Really?? edit; Where did you get it? ;_; I've had it for over two months. It came with Zone of the Enders HD. Though rumor has it the one dropping today has more content.

I think I'm addicted to the Metal Gear Rising demo.

I hit Artorias in Dark Souls. And died a few times. I think I could do it, but I'm dying simply because of not having the timing perfect on a roll. So I'm not very compelled to keep at it. Taking a break for Borderlands 2.

I think we'd get better analysis in writing than over youtube. So I'm siding with a blog.

I didn't care for the demo of MGRR the first time I tried it. But I seem to have gotten a much better knack for it today. I'm looking forward to this really badly, now. Monsoon looks like a bit of a beast to fight.

While it seems counter-intuitive, a way to enjoy the combat system a lot more is to avoid optimizing damage. In the original titles that was what the style meter encouraged, but now it's completely tied to damage :/ Also color-coded enemies kind of ruin that, but that should be mitigated by the additional demon/angel weapons in the final game. I don't think that's the problem I'm having with combat or with the game overall. Combat, I didn't hit my stride with in the demo. I kept pulling out the wrong weapon/shifting into the wrong stance. I think that's something I might be able to get over with more practice, if I felt compelled. It's something that may be paced out better in the game too, starting with only rebellion, then getting one demon/angel weapon, then getting the other. But I think it was more an issue for me that I only had like 3 fights in the non-boss level. And then just running around looking for platforms. There was no challenge, either, not even in those challenge rooms. I'm playing on Nephilim and essentially fumbling at the controls, and the only dying I did was to the boss when I didn't figure out it wanted me to hookshot to another platform to avoid the barf. I think that's what impressed me least about it. That the dialogue was a trade of juvenile insults and swearing while fighting a barf monster.

Some more Dark Souls. Then I tried the DmC demo. Was not impressed. The dialogue in the boss fight is actually worse than I'd expected, in that it's precisely what I'd heard and it was not exaggerated in the telling.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/228280/ On Steam now.

That doesn't sound a bit heavy handed to you? Perhaps a bit pandering. I like a game to have a message as much as the next guy, but targeting Fox News as evil seems like low hanging fruit. Akin to jokes about airline peanuts at this point.

Had to resort to co-op to defeat four kings.

Magic weapons are underpowered in Dark Souls. My Enchanted Balder Side Sword is more powerful than half my soul spears. It's doing pretty well. The sword you're talking about requires a higher strength stat than I have an interest in investing in.

Neither is the main character, so who precisely are we supposed to relate to? Oh okay

Neither is the main character, so who precisely are we supposed to relate to?

More Dark Souls. I think I'm getting addicted. So I've made it through Anor Londo. And I'm looking for a place to farm blue titanite to upgrade my sword. Dark Souls 2 is on my definite pre-order list at this point.