Demon's Souls Coming to America.

[Pagz]

Is there any way I can get this to Australia without having to go through E-Bay?

Thanks!

[ghost]

Barbarian and Thief seem to be the hardest classes to begin with for me.  You really learn melee with the barbarian, because if you don't learn to block and dodge you will die pretty quickly. 

[Morfiend]

Ironically so far what has stumped me is some stupid thing in the nexus after you kill the first boss, the chick tells you "the monumental awaits thee above" - I ran up and down that place for a solid 20 minutes and didn't find any fucking "monumental" awaiting me. It was frustrating because I know it's something totally obvious I probably ran past three times. Eh, it was bedtime anyway.

This also stumped me for like a day. I was going insane.

[Nerf]

Is there any way I can get this to Australia without having to go through E-Bay?

Thanks!

Ask someone in America to pick it up for you and paypal/wire them the money?

[Cyrrex]

I don't think I've ever played a game where I can play all day long and yet accomplish almost nothing...and yet still enjoy it immensely.

[jth]

Is there any way I can get this to Australia without having to go through E-Bay?

Thanks!

www.dvdboxoffice.com ships games worldwide, they have deluxe editions in stock too. Mine is on it's way (to Finland).

[schild]

Bleh. Game bugged and I got nearly no White Tendency for beating the ever-loving shit out of Boletaria. Bleh. Gonna have to start over.

[Nerf]

When does the game end btw, 1-4?

[Kageh]

I think 1-4 locks the leveling with Maiden in Nexus if you haven't completed all other worlds, but I'm not sure. AFAIK, you need to complete all of the worlds including all of the Chief demons to move on past 1-4. There's a bit of stuff still coming afterwards. I usually do it in this order:

[stray]

I'm kind of afraid to play this game.  

I mean, I AM playing it. I'm just afraid of playing it. Fucking corpse hunting. Bosses I can't beat. Corpse hunting right in the face of bosses I can't beat. Etc..


I started as a Royal.. Sorta making some East Asian Shaolin type of dude. ;P Are there other oriental swords in the game besides katana later on? I want a floppy Crouching Tiger type of blade.

edit: Geez...

I will probably sell this. Seriously.. I already have enough titles to remind what a shitty gamer I am. 

[AcidCat]

This may be a dumb question, but everyone refers to the levels like "4-1" but they are not referenced that way ingame any way I can see. If the first level stone is 1, is the next up the stairway 2, one at top 3, etc. ?

[stray]

That's what I gather.. Boletarian Palace (sp) is "1", I guess.

And..... that fucking Tower guard is a bitch. Can't even get past the first level in this game. 

I say I want to sell it, but it's compelling.

[Elerion]

This may be a dumb question, but everyone refers to the levels like "4-1" but they are not referenced that way ingame any way I can see. If the first level stone is 1, is the next up the stairway 2, one at top 3, etc. ?

Correct.

[Kageh]

Yes. Starting from the left archstone (Boletaria) and moving to the right, the worlds are:

1-x Boletaria
2-x Stonefang Tunnel
3-x Tower of Latria
4-x Shrine of Storms
5-x Valley of Defilement

With "-x" being the archstone you use to enter. 5-2 is the level starting at the second archstone in Valley of Defilement.

Bleh. Game bugged and I got nearly no White Tendency for beating the ever-loving shit out of Boletaria. Bleh. Gonna have to start over.

Why restart though? Just finish NG and go there NG+. What were you looking for, body form Miralda? The colorless demon soul can be gotten at pure black WT too, the pit will be open, you just get to fight BP Miralda instead.

[schild]

Yes, I wanted body form miralda. I'm playing a girl and want my executioner armor.

[Oarix]

I just wanted to post in this thread as a long-time lurker who rarely posts because I want to show my support of this game with others who love this game as much as I.  I read the review of the Japanese version on here months ago and never pulled the trigger because apparently I'm a dumbass of the highest order. 

This is the first game I have ever played that makes me want to tear my own testicles off because of it's difficulty, whilst at the same time constantly has me either playing it, or thinking about playing it. 

God have mercy on the souls of those that just don't understand nor ever will. 

... and the multi-player aspect?   Who on the From Software design team sold their soul for that brilliant concept?   That poor bastard will truly burn for eternity for all of our sakes.  Let us pray. 

... while you are at it, go ahead and pray for me to encounter just a SINGLE 'live' person who can make it to the god damn boss without dying halfway on 2-2!!   No more Phantom-time for me, please!!





 

[stray]

Strange.. Phalanx turned out to be a cinch compared to that guard.

[schild]

Most of the bosses are relatively simple, which struck me as odd. When I submitted the bug list to Atlus, I also submitted a long list of "These are simple ways to make the bosses as hard as they should be" like removing the nook/statue from the 2-1 boss area and changing how the large knight holds his shield, etc. Obviously, none of these made it in.

[Oarix]

like removing the nook/statue from the 2-1 boss area

Well, soon after I discovered that nook, I let my entire family out of the cages designed to keep them from bothering me while I fought the god damn spider, built a shrine on that spot in the form of 5 different messages to other players, and was finally able to clothe myself.

[Elerion]

If the bosses were any harder, the game would probably become tedious. Given how hard the levels are, how long most of them take to run through (even after short cuts are opened) and how everything respawns on death, it's a relief not having to attempt bosses 10 times to beat them.

Hell, I'm such a pussy that I spoilered every boss past 1-2. I didn't want to die while figuring out their gimmicks.

If you want the challenge, you can always try to melee them. With intended gear/level.

[Oarix]

If you want the challenge, you can always try to melee them. With intended gear/level.

... waitaminnit!!!   What do you mean 'if you want the challenge'?   How else am I, a valiant Knight, supposed to do this?  Have I been needlessly torturing myself? 

NO!  Don't tell me. Don't you dare say another word.   Let me suffer in my own ignorance!  I refuse to believe I am doing it any other way but the RIGHT way, you understand me?   There is no other way!   

... no, I'm not crying.   Shut up. 

[Morfiend]

I read the review of the Japanese version on here months ago and never pulled the trigger because apparently I'm a dumbass of the highest order. 

Told you so?

[Morfiend]

If you want the challenge, you can always try to melee them. With intended gear/level.

... waitaminnit!!!   What do you mean 'if you want the challenge'?   How else am I, a valiant Knight, supposed to do this?  Have I been needlessly torturing myself? 

I think what he is saying is that attempting to play this game as pure melee is "slightly" harder than having a ranged option.

[Trippy]

Strange.. Phalanx turned out to be a cinch compared to that guard.

If you are referring to the Red Eye Knight you aren't expected to be able to kill him in the beginning. Depending on your character and equipment you might be able to cheese him to death early on and the strat guide has a way to kill him though that never worked for me.

[Kageh]

The top 3 bosses that have given me the most trouble (I'm mostly a melee guy) were:

1.) Flamelurker on all difficulties
2.) Maneater at NG+ and above,
3.) Dragon God
EDIT: I gave in at some point and started using bows as well though. I thought it was very un-magic and thus not against my character concept. Makes life a lot easier. Actually I'm a lot more comfortable with bows than I ever got with offensive magic.

[Morfiend]

The top 3 bosses that have given me the most trouble (I'm mostly a melee guy) were:

1.) Flamelurker on all difficulties
2.) Maneater at NG+ and above,
3.) Dragon God
EDIT: I gave in at some point and started using bows as well though. I thought it was very un-magic and thus not against my character concept. Makes life a lot easier. Actually I'm a lot more comfortable with bows than I ever got with offensive magic.

Maneater was the boss that gave me to most trouble. Dragongod was really easy.

Flamelurker is pretty tough but
Trying to kill tower knight on my first character was really hard, as I was all melee at the time, and didnt have very good weapons or grasp of the game mechanics.

[stray]

Strange.. Phalanx turned out to be a cinch compared to that guard.

If you are referring to the Red Eye Knight you aren't expected to be able to kill him in the beginning. Depending on your character and equipment you might be able to cheese him to death early on and the strat guide has a way to kill him though that never worked for me.

I almost cheated him.. Didn't work for me either. Seems like I can only kick his ass with sheer firepower.. But I sort of went heavy on dex after the level up (I already regret it.. makes me want to reroll as a heavy caster now.. At least for these early levels).

I also killed that NPC in the Nexus (the weary soldier dude).. So I probably should reroll. Haha

[Nerf]

The weary solder dude kills himself if you talk to him enough times, also, through the magic of pestering people after helping them beat the monk, I found someone who didn't want their yellow soul, and although it is nodrop, the insanity catalyst is not, so he upgraded a wooden catalyst for me and gave it to me.

You get the monks headwrap every single time by dropping your black stone at the base of the stairs and playing as the boss.  It's actually really satisfying playing the boss, I killed about 6 people in a row and it felt much better than just straight up ganking folks, as they were already at the end of the level and all they had to do was beat me to win.

Monks headwrap+kris blade+ring of magical sharpness+insanity catalyst== a metric fuckton of damage with my magic at 40, I can 1shot every single thing in 1-3 if its not blocking by about double its HP.  One-shotting players in pvp with soul ray too, good times.

Maneater cheese easy-mode win - DO NOT READ THIS

[Kageh]

I also killed that NPC in the Nexus (the weary soldier dude).. So I probably should reroll. Haha

Killing that guy makes no difference really, but shifts your character tendency to black. I don't know how much though.

As for CT impact: it is something like "alignment". There are two weapons in the game (three if you count that the two of them can be combined for a new one - and all of them are large swords) that change AP bonus based on your alignment, and two rings that can only be gotten from quests you get if you are pure black or pure white CT.

You can always improve your CT at a latter time. Actually, if you plan to get all the rings (for the trophy) you'll eventually want to get your CT both to pure black and pure white, which isn't that hard once you know what you need to do.

Other than that, no worry as long as you don't hit Stockpile Thomas. Everyone else can probably be done without  

[Cyrrex]

Okay, so I saved Sage Freke and was hoping for him to teach me some shit...but all he says is "I'm too old to help you" or some shit.  I have four or five boss souls now, and have no idea what to do with them.  Help?

[schild]

Okay, so I saved Sage Freke and was hoping for him to teach me some shit...but all he says is "I'm too old to help you" or some shit.  I have four or five boss souls now, and have no idea what to do with them.  Help?

Have you beaten 2-3 yet and given the dragon's soul to the blacksmith at the bottom of the lift thingy in 2-1?

[Cyrrex]

No.  Haven't even tried 2-2 yet, let alone 2-3.  Guess I'll get on that?

[stray]

Rerolled.. Funny how quickly I made it through to Phalanx.

Downside is that I had more than twice as many souls the last time around. There are benefits to dying.

[Azazel]

Is there any way I can get this to Australia without having to go through E-Bay?
Thanks!

Link in top right corner to Play-Asia. Pick yourself up a couple of other cheap games at the same time and save yourself a bundle, even with 3-day UPS.

[Kageh]

No.  Haven't even tried 2-2 yet, let alone 2-3.  Guess I'll get on that?

Hmm Flamelurker soul is for weapon upgrading only though. Shouldn't bother Freke.

You freed him in his 3-1 cell, zoned out to Nexus and he is in the Nexus and not helping you? Or still inside his cell?

Do you have Willpower of at least 10? You can't learn magic with less WP than 10.

Try talking to his apprentice. If the apprentice says something about you being a brute and doesn't teach you anything either, then probably one of them aggroed you and you're now SOL for the rest of the game with them EDIT: checked the Wiki, the wiki says that is also due to the Willpower stat being too low, not because of aggro.