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Release Date:

10/4/2011

 

What Is Dark Souls

 

Dark Souls is the spiritual successor to PS3 Xxclusive Demon's Souls which in turn is  spiritual successor to King's Field. Dark Souls focuses on Dungeon crawling  in a Open World Dark Fanatasy Setting. The Theme is "Tension and Fear That arises when players encounters enemies in this etting". Dark Souls has been said to be significantly Harder than Demon's Souls with more enemies nd encoounters. It futher builds upon Demons Souls with More Weapons, Armors, larger areas and bon fires that act as  respawn points can also be used to replinish health.

Plot

* NB is being hush hush on the plot but here is 4 prologue trailer that sheds just a little light

 

Classes

 

Warrior: A Fearless Warrior nd Wepons expert with high strength and dexterity

Knight: You Star as a low ranking knight with high HP and solid Armor. Your not easily toppled

Wanderer: The aimless wanderer has high dexterity. He/She wields a schmitar

Thief: Gult-ridden, thief deals high critical hits and has a Master Key

Bandit: Savge, but with high strength, the bandit wields a battle axe

Hunter: The hunter wields a bow and arrow; perfect for close range> However, this class is vulberable to magic

Sorcerer: Trained at Dragon School, they cast Soul sorcery.

Pyromancer: They are armed with  hand axe and can cast fire spells.

Cleric: The cleric cast healing miracles and wields a mace

Deprived: The deprived class starts the game with only a club and plank shield. he has no clothes.

 

Online:

* as of now there has been no updates to the online segments of Darks Souls as From has not released ny and Japans servers have just went up today. Will updat as soon as info is given but heres what he had to say about it.

The story telling in Dark Souls is still a secret, for now it seems Namco has decided to use a cinematic approach, similar to the one used in Demon's Souls. We caught up with the Dark Souls QA lead, David Humbart, who walked us though the review edition of the game, and further explained how multiplayer will work. You can check our interview with David below. The expanded universe of Dark Souls far exceeded our exceptions. While still being slightly restricted in some areas, and going with the always connected theme feature in Demon's Souls, Dark Souls will again allow you to place messages and helpful hints, or even summon other players into your game to help you. This new and improved version of multiplayer, has created some features that make the online play in Dark Souls reflect most MMO's


Players online in areas of the world near you can be affected by what you do, and are susceptible to an attack at any time. How FromSoftware determines whose close and who's not is partly based on where they are in the game, and which server their playing on. However, crossing over to another persons world will required some upgrades and rare items to grant you access. Some items and abilities bypass the need to upgrade, and will allow you to affect the other persons world without you ever going there. Spell casting is one of those features.

Players now have the ability to cast spells across worlds to help or hinder other players. Be advised, sabotaging another persons world( though satisfying) is not always a good idea. One spell in-particular will allow you to make another persons world harder during their single player play through, if they want to reset the difficulty( and they will) they will need to find out who did it, and defeat them to break the spell. If and when that person comes after you, you have no way of knowing until they're issuing that deadly kidney shot, sending you back to soul form.

There are a number of new cross world multiplayer features in Dark Souls that players can experience. The one thing that's still left to question is how to play with friends. Namco has been unclear on if players will have the ability to invite friends to single player games. The overall concepts for non competieve multiplayer modes in Dark Souls seems to be pretty random, making things feel slightly disconnected from a social aspect. Also not helping with the making of friends is a return of the emote system. With no voice communication confirmed just yet, you may find yourself wanting to stab your helper because they dont understand what you need them to do.

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Trophies/Achievements Hunters

*carefule secret trophies are showing*

 
The Dark Soul
All trophies obtained. Congratulations!  
Knight's Honor
Acquire all rare weapons.  
Wisdom of a Sage
Acquire all sorceries.  
Bond of a Pyromancer
Acquire all pyromancies.  
Prayer of a Maiden
Acquire all miracles.  
Covenant: Way of White
Discover Way of White covenant.  
Strongest Weapon
Acquire best wpn through standard reinfrc.  
Crystal Weapon
Acquire best wpn through crystal reinfrc.  
Lightning Weapons
Acquire best wpn through lightning reinfrc.  
Raw Weapon
Acquire best wpn through raw reinfrc.  
Magic Weapon
Acquire best wpn through magic reinfrc.  
Enchanted Weapon
Acquire best wpn through enchanted reinfrc.  
Divine Weapon
Acquire best wpn through divine reinfrc.  
Fire Weapon
Acquire best wpn through fire reinfrc.  
Chaos Weapon
Acquire best wpn through chaos reinfrc.  
Enkindle
Light bonfire flame.  
Estus Flask
Acquire Estes Flask.  
Reach Lordran
Arrive in Lordran.  
Ring the Bell (Undead Church)
Ring Bell of Awakening at Undead Church.  
Ring the bell (Quelaag's Domain)
Ring Bell of Awakening in Quelaag's domain.  
Rite of Kindling
Acquire the Rite of Kindling.  
Art of Abysswalking
Acquire the Art of Abysswalking.  
Reach Anor Londo
Arrive in Anor Londo.  
Lordvessel
Acquire the Lordvessel.  
 
Secret Trophies
 
To Link the Fire
Reach 'To Link the Fire' ending.  
Dark Lord
Reach 'The Dark Lord' ending.  
Covenant: Princess's Guard
Discover Princess's Guard covenant.  
Covenant: Blade of the Darkmoon
Discover Blade of the Darkmoon covenant.  
Covenant: Warrior of Sunlight
Discover Warrior of Sunlight covenant.  
Covenant: Forest Hunter
Discover Forest Hunter covenant.  
Covenant: Darkwraith
Discover Darkwraith covenant.  
Covenant: Path of the Dragon
Discover Path of the Dragon covenant.  
Covenant: Gravelord Servant
Discover Gravelord Servant covenant.  
Covenant: Chaos Servant
Discover Chaos Servant covenant.  
Occult Weapon
Acquire best wpn through occult reinfrc.  
Defeat Gravelord Nito
Defeat the Soul Lord Gravelord Nito.  
Defeat Bed of Chaos
Defeat the Soul Lord Bed of Chaos.  
Defeat the Four Kings
Defeat the Four Kings, inheritors of souls.  
Defeat Seath the Scaleless
Defeat Seath the Scaleless, inheritors of souls.  
Defeat the Dark Sun Gwyndolin
Defeat Dark Sun Gwyndolin, the Darkmoon God.  
Defeat Crossbreed Priscilla
Defeat Crossbreed Priscilla, the Lifehunter.  



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Sorry bro. Someone already posted this type of thread.

Link: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=134658&page=1#6



ThePS3News said:

Sorry bro. Someone already posted this type of thread.

Link: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=134658&page=1#6



are you blind? Thats clearly a discussion on the Classes of DS..wheres Classes are discussed .. this the actual thread for game period.

Xxain said:
ThePS3News said:

Sorry bro. Someone already posted this type of thread.

Link: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=134658&page=1#6



are you blind? Thats clearly a discussion on the Classes of DS..wheres Classes are discussed .. this the actual thread for game period.

LOL. Well i thought it was rather similar to the thread you just made.

Anyways, If this is different then i guess i am all in for it.  :D

Will post shortly...



Mod's askin' for an official thread in http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=134144&page=1# , so Xxains efforts are perfectly legit.

and now that this is out of the way - make it a brilliant one. ^_^!

Was thinking about the Knight Class,but Thief actually sounds sweet..!



I'm a Foreigner, and as such, i am grateful for everyone pointing out any mistakes in my english posted above - only this way i'll be able to improve. thank you!

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Crystalchild said:
Mod's askin' for an official thread in http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=134144&page=1# , so Xxains efforts are perfectly legit.

and now that this is out of the way - make it a brilliant one. ^_^!

Was thinking about the Knight Class,but Thief actually sounds sweet..!


Its thief or wanderer for me..maaaaaybe Hunter. I wanna play Dark Souls differently the Demon's Souls

Xxain said:
Crystalchild said:
Mod's askin' for an official thread in http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=134144&page=1# , so Xxains efforts are perfectly legit.

and now that this is out of the way - make it a brilliant one. ^_^!

Was thinking about the Knight Class,but Thief actually sounds sweet..!


Its thief or wanderer for me..maaaaaybe Hunter. I wanna play Dark Souls differently the Demon's Souls


i have to admit that ive taken the cheapest path in Demons Souls, i went Royalty. But i didnt know about class imbalance, since i've bought it spontaneous after seeing a few gameplay videos. (Second one was temple knight.) .. but i miss both of them, and they really should have been in Dark Souls too, imo.

but thats just my Opinion. sadly, i am absolutely not into magic, which kills half the classes for me.. xD but well, thats a fault on my own, and i am sure that, in the end, it doesnt matter what class one chose at the beginning, just like DemonsSouls. (Or is it different this time?)



I'm a Foreigner, and as such, i am grateful for everyone pointing out any mistakes in my english posted above - only this way i'll be able to improve. thank you!

ok.. so I gotta go to work, I will definitely have this finished buy Thurs.. most likely sooner. If I am missing anything as I collect more info thread please let me know.



good work on starting a thread...looking foward to a good read

I really hope their are friend invites...me and a couple of my buds are dying to get a group(3-4 people) together and tackle Dark Souls

Edit: don't know if I got the "embedding videos "right but just wanted include a trailer from Dark Souls(one of the best trailers I've seen)



Xxain said:
ok.. so I gotta go to work, I will definitely have this finished buy Thurs.. most likely sooner. If I am missing anything as I collect more info thread please let me know.

The 4th trailer is the whole prologue, remove the others.

You can get your screenshots from here , they even have GamrReview logo ;)

And use this at the top , made it just for you :p

Finally , an official thread :D