I am so hyped for this game! I love dark souls, one of my favourite games this gen! Gameplay looks good and it seems a lot of things are the same from previous games, but it looks awesome. I hope it's as difficult as the other two.

When you say damage ratio, i'm guessing your talking about the difference in damage between melee and spells?

umm.. i'm not sure what the words i wrote covey but what i mean is...

...when you get hit by an unshielded attack the amount of damage taken is quite a bit less as a percentage of your lifebar.  previously 3-6 hits would kill you.  now it's more like 5-10.  the game speed is a lot faster though so it might be a needed change cause it looks like you could get hit at a much faster rate. 

i'm not sure iit makes the game any easier.   ..but it does feel a bit (to me) like the shift from killzone 2 to 3 where they tried to make things more up tempo in effort to find a wider audience.  i preferred killzone 2 personally.  i'll certainly play DS2 but for my tastes,. not sure i like the changes.

I suppose that will depend on how they have the leveling system. In the videos you can see the HP/Stamina bars are extremely long and the exact same level. That too me sounds like something that was done specifically for these videos, and demos so players can jump in easily. If it's truly like Demon/Dark Soul's leveling system then I don't expect too much of a difference.

Well 500 hours of Dark Souls soo....yep long wait until this lol

I'm only holding on to my ps3 for this, Once Im done with this game my ps3 goes :P