...How could we know?

Demon's Souls is the hardest out of the trilogy so far. I'm having real trouble with one of the bosses... so I picked up Dark Souls 2, but in saying that if you like DS then you'll love DeS despite the changes. Boy, are those changes gonna get you killed at some point.

Speaking of which (like I need an excuse,) really loving the PvP in DS2, despite the negativity towards it on most community sites slating it to be cheap and honorless, and I do see their point whenever I get ganked by area enemies and invading magic/miracle/hex spammers but, hey, it's part of the game. And besides, there's no greater feels whenever you come out on top in a 2/3v1 scenario.

Now, is there anyone who plays DS2 on the PC, for that matter who would be up for a duel? Later on, of course. But sure add me on Steam anyways if you're interested and we'll get her setup, I'm SL 81 by the by.

Dark Souls is hard. Demon Souls is unfair.

Dark Souls is the better more refined game. It's also more fun to play if you're not a masochist. I can't speak for Dark Souls 2.

I'm currently playing around with some ideas for a Maximo: Armies of Zin single-segment speedrun. Props to anyone who's ever heard of that game!

It's the second game in a series that is considered one of the hardest on the PS2. Possibly harder than Jak 2. The first game is universally accepted as being harder, and I've never even finished it. Kind of on theme with what Joe was saying though, Armies of Zin is only an easier game because it's actually fair.

The platforming is all fairly straightforward, albeit frustratingly dated at times. There are a few sections with stupid narrow platforms that I can't see anyone ever thinking would be fun. The combat is really engaging and keeps you thinking, even though most of it will be skipped. Once I get the level layouts and basic jumping a bit more under my belt then I can really start refining the fighting, and figuring out how to take down each section fastest. To my knowledge the game has never been run before, so I'd like to make a few videos showing some sections off and send them to people who speedrun PS2 games on Twitch to try and hype it up a bit before I actually take a good shot at it.

I'm also mapping out the entirety of Ratchet and Clank, including how many bolts you get from each group of crates, to eventually plan an optimal speedrun route for that.

I'm suffering with fatigue stuff again :/

Jak 2.......wasn't that hard......

Maybe challenging is a better word then. I still find the game fairly demanding to play, and I've spent a lot of time playing all of the games in the series. Part of it comes down to when you're forced to interchange platforming with the weird auto-aim gunplay. Part of it comes down to ridiculous sections, like when you ahve to escape the palace.

As far as PS2 games that I've played go it's definitely one of the hardest, and I've played most of what I'd consider "mainstream" PS2 games.

e: Plus I hear it referred to as a really hard game all the time so I threw it out there as a point of reference. Stylistically it's a bad comparison to make.

I wrapped up Sleeping Dogs last night. Ultimately it was OK, and I really loved some of the ideas on display, but it wound up suffering from the same problems most open world games do.

The combat system is really, really swell, and goes a long way to making the game stand out from GTA et al. There’s hardly any guns until the final leg of the story, and beating triads to bloody pulp with dirty martial arts really goddamn satisfying. I also really enjoyed the ambience of the Hong Kong setting – there’s something calming about barreling a motorbike in the pouring rain down a city street lit up with neon and the wet roads reflecting everything.

Unfortunately, the story just doesn’t go as far as it needed to. Playing as an undercover cop is a nice twist on the genre, and I liked how the writers really wanted to push how stressful that double life can be, but it just kind of flatlines after the first act, and nothing much of interest happens until the big climax.

It’s a fun game to play, but I can’t help but be a little disappointed that it wasn’t more. It felt like it should have been.

Really? I found it to be tough as nails.

It's mostly because it's really unforgiving and the checkpoints are few and far between.
Also. Fuck Onin's mini game.

I finished Transistor just a few minutes ago. I wish it didn't have so many bugs, the game had small freezes pretty often and my save file got corrupted when I was about 3 hours into the game and I had to replay all that and then they released some hotfix that resurrected my original save but screwed over my new save so I, again, lost around 1,5 hours of progress. Annoying.

But despite all that, it was a very good game, visuals, gameplay, voice-acting, music - all top notch. Story was a bit... confusing I guess, but it was decent. The combat system is very cool, but it lost a bit of its uniqueness and charm because they just start throwing enemies at you very frequently and it gets a bit tedious. I wish they would have made the levels a bit more open and/or explorable, most places are super linear, not a fan of that.

I'd probable give the game like an 8/10 rating despite the technical issues I had. I should play Bastion again to see how it compares to this.

Picked up Dark Souls to see what all the hubbub was about.

Oh my. It's so... good. So very, very good. Won't bore you with details you already know but it's easily one of my favourite games from the last generation (feels weird to say that). This one's gonna be lastin' me a lonnnnng time, I can tell.

You may be surprized how complex story the game has. It rarely shows it, at some point you might forget it even has a story.

It's out free for Xbox live Gold users in June, as well, it really is worth checking out. The only thing that's bad about it is the low level invasions. That shit was hard.

But that's my plan for the whole of June. Red eye the undead burg with my SL1.

Aha, I had a feeling Dark Souls talk would awaken Ridg3 from his coma! Sup man?

I've got the game on Xbox 360. Level 43 right now, and the game is seriously starting to kick my ass. Hard.

I can barely scratch the Gaping Dragon before he decimates me, the Catacombs seem nearly impossible as of now (FUCKING SKELETONS NEVER DIE), the ghosts in the New Londo ruins are simply overhwhelming, and that Hydra in the Basin? Fuck that, can't even get close to it. Oh, and the valley of Drakes seems to be pretty far outta my league, too. Guess I gotta grind.

Did read some good strategies on beating the sewer dragon, though. Lightning seems to be my friend. Just not sure if my weapons are really, well, good enough. Rockin' a crystal straight sword and a Halberd +5, and generally they're great, but against the Gaping Dragon? They're like plastic forks and knives on a fat man. Ineffective. Also took me ages to defeat that giant donkey dick wielding motherfucker in the tower that connects the Basin to the Burg.

Guess it's just trial and error. Constant.. trial... even... more.. error.


yet I can't get enough of it

Enjoying the absolute shit out of Wolfenstein: The New Order.

It's an excellent shooter with great visuals, plot and setting. It's also a good throwback to the original.

I would say Shadow Warrior is a better game if your looking for a old school style shooter as it's got much better shooting mechanics and it has the best melee weapon in a fps ever.

I've got the game on Xbox 360. Level 43 right now, and the game is seriously starting to kick my ass. Hard.[/QUOTE]

You're darn tooting, in fairness, I miss DS1 and I can't even play it :'( but yeah, man, hit me up on Xbox Live; Gamertag is my OWF tag... easy enough. I'll be going gold, as I said, for June.

Trust me when I say that you'll wish you were back to square one. The game is laughably easy once you know the ropes. You have the DLC?

I've been playing Tropico 4, at the minute, and even though Sim games aren't really my style, this one has got its hooks in me. Maybe I get a slight rush out of being El Presidente and having the authority to eliminate strikers/protesters/competition/unemployed/foreigners and/or anyone else I desire with a tip of my dictatorial hat.

Don't have DLC, no. Just the regular game. Gaping Vagina Dragon is giving me some trouble but I think I'm ready to take it on after learning you can cut off it's tail (that's a seriously fucking cool mechanic that more games need to implement). Too bad I wasted all the lightning enchants before I found it was a dragon's bane..

...and I think I just wasted like 20k souls on a keystone that I could've gotten for free pretty easily.

fuck this game

Oh, and has anyone here ever played Monster Hunter? Might pick it up after watching ProJared's One Minute Review of it. Kinda reminds me of Dark Souls. Except Capcom. And I fucking love Capcom.

Andre wouldn't relinquish that key so easily, he'd drop kick you from the parish to the burg. Besides, you really don't want to go killing off NPC's... it can very easily fuck up your play, I still remember killing Laurentius by accident, bad times. There is another, free, way into the forest, all the same.

git gud scrub.

I thought you could get the keystone from the Hydra.

I wouldn't dream of killing Andre, he's fucking metal.

I get you now, but no, the Hydra doesn't drop it but that is the other way into the forest.

I recommend going through the gateside, it's loads of fun.

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I beat the gaping vagina dragon!!! Time to celebrate by drooling over an axe I probably won't be able to use for another 30 levels.

Woohoo.

Oh yeah and I'm about to boot up Black & White for the first time in years. Game's a big part of my childhood. Always sucked at it back then (could never, ever get past world 3) but now I feel I'm ready. Ready.. to become... the ultimate God.

Super Time Force. It's like Contra mixed with Braid after smoking crack. Very fun. Not terribly hard to play, but extremely challenging to get really good at. There's a lot of strategy involved if you want to get good times on the levels, and unlock all the characters, but you can brute force your way through it if time challenges aren't your thing.

I've almost completed Nimble Quest, and I've really enjoyed my time with it. It's basically Realm of the Mad God crossed with Snake, with cutesy character designs for pretty much every RPG stereotype you can think of.

I caught Ghost Trick Phantom Detective and Last Window: The Secret of Cape West at a gamestore a couple of days ago. Two of my holy grails of gaming alongside The World Ends With You.

Ghost Trick is as amazing as I was dreaming it would be.

I bought Jet Set Radio Future on eBay a while ago because I've been wanting to play that game for a long time now and it's pretty great, I'm kinda stuck at one part now though, missing one graffiti and I don't know where it is...

I also cleaned the dust off my 3DS and started playing Animal Crossing New Leaf again, it's the perfect summer game definitely.

Man that game was so good, the soundtrack is great and Missile is the cutest side character ever. The main plot twist was also pretty wicked.

JET SET RADIOOOOOOOOOO~

Seriously, that game is good. The soundtrack is fan-fucking-tastic though.

The soundtrack would be great if this little beauty wasn't on it...

I started this the other day and totally loved it. I didn't get very far through it, and I haven't had a chance to get back to it, but the battle system looks really interesting. I never thought that I'd enjoy a real time game revolving around the stylus so much.

Plus it has a great style. Definitely keen to get back into more soon.

Well first off, I enjoy this song, but whatever, personal tastes.

Secondly, and more importantly, this song wasn't in Jet Set Radio, it was in the sequel.

I've been playing Risen, thanks to the most recent humble bundle. The game is a lot of fun, but rather difficult. You have to be careful with enemies. No rushing. Even the little monsters can hurt a lot. The plot can get stupid at times. Often it's "Do work for me and I'll give you gold" with an overall tone of "GOLD RULES!!!" The main character is witty and fun though.

Dammit, I really wanted to play it, but I don't have the console

Oh, I was under the impression we were talking 'bout JSRF because that's the one, you know, I was talking about in the first place. But yeah, the original Jet Set Radio is definitely better in my opinion, not a bad song on that soundtrack.