So someone has beaten Dark Souls in under 1.5 hours. CRAZY SHIT if you ask me...

Source:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2050462/Dark-Souls-Man-beats-hardest-videogame-time-2-hours.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

One gamer has somehow beaten the whole game in one hour and 26 minutes - and in case anyone doubts him, he's posted the whole insane feat on YouTube.

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The swords-and-sorcery world of Dark Souls is absolutely merciless - packed with monsters who can kill you in one blow. Even worse, when you 'rest' at a bonfire, they all come back to life

 

Dark Souls is brutally difficult right from the start: You have no 'lives', there are no checkpoints, and almost every opponent is deadly

Gamers often post videos of 'speed runs' through games - but even so, game industry insiders have been astonished that someone has beaten Dark Souls in such a short time.

The video guide, posted by a gamer called SexyShoiko, is already being pored over for tips as to how he did it. 

 

 

 

Alex Simmons, UK Editor-in-Chief of games site IGN said, 'Speed runs are not a new idea - people have been posting them online for years. But for someone to complete a game this hard, this quickly verges on unbelievable.'

Gamers have pointed out that the game came out in Japan in September - but even so, it's an astonishing feat. 

The bleak role-player is a sort-of sequel to Demon's Souls - itself pretty stern stuff. Gamers were united in proclaiming Dark Souls to be even worse

The video shows the gamer running through the game at full pelt, and downing most monsters in one or two hits. It's usually the player who is 'one-shotted' in this manner in Dark Souls - a sort-of sequel to last year's brutally hard Demon's Souls, and hailed as 'even worse' by game fans. 

IGN's review of the game said, 'If you play games for fun, this is not for you.' 

Keen-eyed gamers have spotted that the video appears to show Shoiko with magical items that he should not have by that point in the game - and have said that the video must be fake, or he must be using a hitherto undiscovered cheat mode.

 

 

 

 

I wonder if the guy 'cheated' somehow.

Anyone have an opinion?

Ahh the good old Pyro. It's also the only class feasible to do a Level 1 run too. Not because it's the only class that starts at level 1 (you can attempt similar runs for the base level of each character), but because pyromancies are way too powerful and useful.

Who needs armour when you've got Iron Flesh? Who needs Fire protection when you need Flash Sweat? Who needs weapons when you got Great Fireball? Just upgrade your Pyro's Flame to Quelaana's Pyro Flame +5 and destroy everything in your path XD.

Also, it's always the japanese players doing these things first XD. It was the same with Demon's Souls Level 1 run and, in an unrelated game but with a much higher difficulty level challenge (if not more), Order of Ecclesia Hard Mode Level 1 run (I attempted it, got through it and trust me, as much as I love Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, their difficulty is child's play in relation to it).

Nope, it's very feasible. You need to have the Master Key as your starting gift, that will allow you to bypass a shit ton of bosses and paths and just pursue the main objectives.

Both bells can be rung in 30 minutes if you go to Quelaag's first and then Gargoyles, directly to Sen's Fortress and then Anor Londo and just warp your way through the bonfires to get to the four lords.

You also need a shit load of skill and know every enemy attack and location xD.

impressive

AMEN to that!!!

no no, i mean i haven't beaten dark souls yet but it is the same general idea as demon's souls.  the game itself is really short, what makes it take a long time (first play through) is learning enemy locations/attacks/weaknesses.  once you learn how to play the game, things can progress quite quickly.  my first demon's souls playthough was like 60 hours.  my next one was under 10 -- and i wasn't going for a speed run.

Yeah, each subsequent playthrough gets shorter and shorter. My NG+++ on Demon's Souls was about 3-4 hours, since it was just a matter of going through the levels and killing everything on sight (at that time my character was very OP too, everything went down quite fast). 

On Dark Souls, it's even faster because of it's open world nature. Once you know every shortcut, you can take a trip from almost every place in the map in a couple of minutes.

yeah that's what i'm figuring out ... i should have taken that damn master key.  the friend i'm "playing with" keeps bragging about it.  i just have to keep telling myself -- this damn witch's ring has a use right, right?!?   i'm just really glad i didn't take the binoculars lol.

You wanna hear the truth, or do you want to continue to think it has a use?