Dark Souls, the sequel in everything but name to PS3 action-RPG Demon's Souls, comes from developer From Software and publisher Namco Bandai.

Achievements

• Dark Souls Achievement List

Reviews

• Co-Optimus
• Kotaku
• IGN
• Destructoid
• 1up
• Joystiq
• Game Informer
• Games Radar
• Eurogamer

Strategy

• The Dark Souls Official Guide is printed by Future Press. It's hardcover, 384 pages, and apparently very nice and useful. Amazon sells it for $25 or less.
• Dark Souls General Guide - for beginners
• Soul grinding:
  
  Here is a great grinding location. Check the Soul Grinding thread for more details.

I have been watching Dark Soul streams on Justin TV way too much.

Starting to get that sports fan mind set where every little mistake they make, I start thinking that I could do better.

Come game time I just know as soon as I snap the ball a 280lb Defensive Lineman is going to bust through and pulverize me.

next week =]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/119/1196640p1.html

Let the lady move on. twitter questions

Got it on 360 this time around. Hope I made a good choice. I was on the fence for a while but I went with the 360 in the end.

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I didn't play Demon's Souls, but I'm really looking forward to this.

Originally Posted by eastx I didn't play Demon's Souls, but I'm really looking forward to this.

Yeah, me either, but it looks SICK.

IGN's review is up, BTW, they gave it a 9.0: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/119/1197544p1.html

Anyone else watch the 24-hour live run? I watched several hours of it.

"If you play games to be entertained Dark Souls isn't for you." Lol. D-bag statement of the year. Why the hell else would you play a video game?

Might have to pick this up. Looks pretty good.

Press copy arrived with a reviewer's guide and a t-shirt. WIll most likely give away the t-shirt for the Extra Life charity giveaway through Team CAG:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/blog.php?b=22621

So is this the thread that we should all go to for emotional support once the game comes out? I briefly played Demons Souls but I am very much looking forward to a hard core challenge.

Theres no party chat or private chat allowed in this game apparently.
Not that anyone wants to hear me screaming anyways.

Originally Posted by Monsta Mack Theres no party chat or private chat allowed in this game apparently. Not that anyone wants to hear me screaming anyways.

I like that personally. Helps keep the mood--

I just watched Giant Bomb's quick look: Link

It's pretty entertaining, but the one guy playing got on my nerves at the end when he kept going "OMG!...OMG!...OMG!.."

Yeah, I'm very glad there's no chat allowed in this game.

You can keep the 'intended' mood in other games by simply not going into party chat. There is literally no benefit to not offering it other than making the 360 version more on par with the PS3 one.

Demon's Souls was the reason why I bought a PS3 and it is my first and only Platinum. I'm getting Dark Souls for the 360 though.

Can't ing wait for this tonight. I was planning on getting Rage too, but you know what? Rage.

Finally a Japanese dev does something right.

Yeah, this game's been getting great reviews. Don't have a PS3, so I never played the first one. Not sure I'd like the incredible difficulty, but everyone seems to say that it's still fun. I consider myself a fairly proficient gamer, but I have a feeling I'd get crushed in this game. For these reasons I'm probably going to wait till it's $40 or lower. (Unless I can get it for my birthday next week.)

I do really like that they're not having ANY DLC in this game. Finally, a game where you actually pay for the whole game.

So who's getting it at midnight tonight? Anyone?

...(crickets chirping)....

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...re-incredible/

Dark Souls review scores go live, are incredible 9's across the board for Namco bruiser Dark Souls reviews have flooded the internet and From Software's punishingly difficult RPG is currently the talk of the town with an overwhelmingly positive response from critics. Click to view larger image OXM has awarded it a 9/10 and describes the game as "depressingly evil but utterly addictive". The review makes it perfectly clear Dark Souls is likely to be "too brutal for most newcomers" but also says it's "more exciting than anything, ever". Xbox World says Dark Souls is a "stern but deeply rewarding experience" and thinks its "stupefying breadth will surely capture your imagination like few other worlds you've explored in games". It awarded the game a 9.6/10 score. GamesTM has also given Dark Souls 9/10 and comments: "Dark Souls is a fine example of how great forethought and a less than tepid attitude towards taking risks pay dividends in the hands of real gamers. It is nothing short of extraordinary, though perhaps a couple of years on from Demon's Souls, it is also less surprising." "Dark Souls is brutally uncompromising yet practically unparalleled in the sense reward it can offer to those who persist. Its inaccessible nature will put many off, but those who brave it will discover one of the deepest, most fulfilling gaming experiences available", Beefjack concludes, awarding the game 9.4/10. Dark Souls earned a 5/5 from The Telegraph, which says "It is a game that brazenly proves game design fashions are just that; transient, fleeting trends that, in attempting to lay down a set of rules only throw down a new challenge for how things might be done". Electronic Theatre went with a score of 89%. It says Dark Souls will be recognised as a success for being "a videogame experience that grips the player and doesn't let go, despite the additional investment that may be required as players break their controls in a fury of anger." NowGamer's 9.0 verdict calls Dark Souls a "compulsively difficult RPG that all genre-fans must seek out. It's a dark, hesitant world that you won't be able to resist". "Dark Souls revels in its abstruseness: it goes out of its way to make those who wouldn't say they were RPG veterans feel like they missed a crucial class at school. To prosper in it, you almost need to operate like a detective, seeking out hidden areas and objects, and mining its endless menus (in gloriously old-school fashion, they can only be traversed using the D-pad) for tiny little edges that eventually add up", says The Guardian, it pegged Dark Souls with a 4/5. IGN's review explains that "If you take the time get into Dark Souls' mindset, to begin to understand the twisted way in which it operates and taste the rewards behind its cruellest challenges, this is one of the most thrilling, most fascinating and most completely absorbing experiences in gaming." It awarded the game an overall score of 9.0. "If entertainment is fun without failure and progress without pain, you'll have to find it somewhere else. But you'll be missing out on one of the best games of the year," concludes Eurogamer. It added another 9/10 score to the pile. Finally is GameSpot's 9.5 review, which states: "Dark Souls doesn't just surpass other dungeon crawlers; it skewers them with a razor-sharp halberd and leaves behind their soulless corpses".