We will never EVER see a game as innovative as this ever again

>Created an entire genre
>Ingenious multiplayer where players can fuck up your world, vice versa and you can change you/other's worlds (world tendency)
>Intricate, explorative level design (for a PS3 game)

There are so many unique unconventional things this game did that would be later polished in Dark Souls. Even the original is still very playable and functions miles ahead of King's Field which only came out a few years ago when this game came out. How does it feel FromSoft will NEVER EVER EVER make this risk ever again since they're basically a triple A studio now and have Sony's infinite money?

  1. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I’m playing the remake. Should I get PlayStation Plus for the online features?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly, I think it's a time and a place kind of thing. I'm unsure how active it is console, and it really depends if you're the type of person who likes invasions/summons/help etc.

      I remember one of the unique things about this series were you'd just be playing, see a red outline and think it was the computer but then realise "wait, it's another player? What the fuck??" To me that was the defining feature of this series and I'm so sad it was nerfed in Elden Ring

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        It would be cool to be able to see notes tbh but not $100 cool. Fuck XBOX Live.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >unique unconventional things

        >unique things

        Play original, moron
        [...]
        Found an even bigger retard
        The game was never in dev hell, maybe read up about its development before making shit up
        The pre-Miyazaki DeS project had nothing in common with the actual DeS we got
        It wasn't even a medieval setting but scifi with assault rifles, retard
        So no, this actual DeS was never in dev hell, development went extremely smoothly, and you are genuinely a subhuman shitskin idiot if you think it's some stitched together asset flip, literally the only reused asset is Vanguard demon and that's because it fit perfectly into the setting. Everything else is new, unique and original.
        They literally traveled Europe to study real medieval castles to make authentic architecture for the game, and this stupid shitskin monkey thinks it's some low effort shit they struggled with.
        Its a masterpiece, it's THE masterpiece. Enough of your ignorance or lies.

        >new, unique and original.

        Why lie? Souls games have unique gameplay no other games before it had, so yes it's a new genre invention.
        Also no, invasions were never a thing in any other games before. Sure is reddit in here, the seething fromkino haters crawl out of the woodworks on que to lie.

        >unique gameplay no other games before it had

        Souls games have unique gameplay but their combat is like a toned down Monster Hunter.

        >Souls games have unique gameplay

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Play original, moron

      >innovative
      nagger that game was a dev hell game stitched together to be finally shipped
      >let‘s just add obscure lore instead of story so we can finally ship it
      >let‘s add multiplayer and multiplayer rankings, maybe people will play it for the multiplayer
      >let‘s add a system that is so obscure, players need multiple playthroughs to understand it and the stuff it unlocks
      >let‘s tie this with the multiplayer so they are forced to play it
      >let‘s just add a few checkpoints so they don‘t realize how small the game really is

      It‘s good but it was just stitched together, thrown multiple things with the hope something sticks.

      Found an even bigger retard
      The game was never in dev hell, maybe read up about its development before making shit up
      The pre-Miyazaki DeS project had nothing in common with the actual DeS we got
      It wasn't even a medieval setting but scifi with assault rifles, retard
      So no, this actual DeS was never in dev hell, development went extremely smoothly, and you are genuinely a subhuman shitskin idiot if you think it's some stitched together asset flip, literally the only reused asset is Vanguard demon and that's because it fit perfectly into the setting. Everything else is new, unique and original.
      They literally traveled Europe to study real medieval castles to make authentic architecture for the game, and this stupid shitskin monkey thinks it's some low effort shit they struggled with.
      Its a masterpiece, it's THE masterpiece. Enough of your ignorance or lies.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >DeS remake
      Why would you do that to yourself, Anon?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      If people are still playing it, you might want to do it so you can experience the old monk fight properly.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >remake
      Yikes

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I think it's an important part of the experience for a first playthrough. Afterwards you can fuck around with old monk and get his funny hat-thingy.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Don’t believe the schizos, the remake is good. The only thing worse than the original is some of the audio design and even then it’s not a huge downgrade. I replayed the original on my PS3 last week and honestly wished I had just played the remake again.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        you're just gonna ignore visual design and ost that completely goes against the atmosphere and aesthetics of the original, or are you actually unable to see how tasteless that is? like, is your taste so golem-tier that it doesn't even register as worse to you?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      nah its not really needed. The only place i got invaded was in my playthrough was in latria.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The old upside to the remake is the Old Monk fight. You can do it properly on emulator as well but I don’t know how reliably, how many players are trying to be summoned for old monk on RPCS3? It’s genuinely a great fight.

  2. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Give it a few years you homosexual zoomer and you will see new types of genre.

  3. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >innovative
    nagger that game was a dev hell game stitched together to be finally shipped
    >let‘s just add obscure lore instead of story so we can finally ship it
    >let‘s add multiplayer and multiplayer rankings, maybe people will play it for the multiplayer
    >let‘s add a system that is so obscure, players need multiple playthroughs to understand it and the stuff it unlocks
    >let‘s tie this with the multiplayer so they are forced to play it
    >let‘s just add a few checkpoints so they don‘t realize how small the game really is

    It‘s good but it was just stitched together, thrown multiple things with the hope something sticks.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      that game was a dev hell game stitched together to be finally shipped
      the jank has always been part of the souls charm

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Most great things are born by accident.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Like all of us 😀

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >dev hell stitched together
      that's Dark Souls 2
      Demon's Souls was a
      >well the people funding us seem to believe it will flop so let's experiment while we're in this deep

      You're spinning around a bunch of interesting and consequential moves as a bad thing because.. why, exactly? Nothing you have said actually counters the point- that they were innovative.

  4. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Baby's first 3D metroidvania.
    >FROM was so shit at programming back then they couldn't even add a jump button or it would fuck with their game design AND code.
    How the fuck is this innovative? Soulscucks are fucking deranged.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >>Baby's first 3D metroidvania.
      What are the others?

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        actual castlevania games for starters, which were a thing since the ps2

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          This shit was way less like Castlevania than Demon Souls and you'd be crazy to think otherwise. PS2 Castlevania games were after the DMC/Ninja Gaiden audience.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >PS2 Castlevania games were after the DMC/Ninja Gaiden audience.
            congratulations on proving you're retarded anon
            then again i never expected much from a fromdrone

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              I played them well before any Fromsoft game and loved Curse of Darkness deeply. I begged for an extra rental from Blockbuster so I could keep unlocking stuff and leveling up my familiars.

              It felt nothing like a Metroidvania. Dark Souls was the first one to hit 3D Metroidvania right.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          The lies are getting more pathetic than I imagined possible
          Those games suck terribly much and they are a single linear path of completely empty rooms where enemies spawn for you to fight. They are not metroidvanias.
          They are like Dmc but if they forgot to put anything into the rooms or have level design.
          DS1 is the only 3d metroidvania in existence.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You are thinking of DS1 and it's everyone's first 3d metroidvania, considering its the actual first one ever made
      In fact, it's the only one ever made to this day

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >FROM was so shit at programming back then they couldn't even add a jump button
      Why do you think this wasn't a deliberate choice?

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Bravo hayao

  5. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    an entire genre
    What genre did they create? Souls-like isn't a genre. How exactly is it innovative?

    >Ingenious multiplayer
    How exactly? Lots of games before had this.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >How exactly? Lots of games before had this.
      please point out to me one game that plays 80% similar to souls, before DeS.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Why lie? Souls games have unique gameplay no other games before it had, so yes it's a new genre invention.
      Also no, invasions were never a thing in any other games before. Sure is reddit in here, the seething fromkino haters crawl out of the woodworks on que to lie.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Souls games have unique gameplay no other games before it had
        being an action game except shit is not being unique
        asinine control scheme is not a good thing either

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          They gave better combat and controls than any other sub genre of action games however
          Thanks for outing you have a terrible taste in gameplay

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >asinine control scheme is not a good thing either
          yeah. i guess we should make it like DMC or NG where the camera faces in a direction where it isnt needed, or we need three specific button presses to do a dodge roll (thats almost worthless anyways).

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Souls games have unique gameplay but their combat is like a toned down Monster Hunter.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          No...
          What?
          Mh gameplay is like controlling a tank or other vehicle but they made it look like a human
          You have way less control over your character in Mh

          Ah yes. It invented lock on and sword combat. Really innovative

          >unique unconventional things

          >unique things
          [...]
          >new, unique and original.
          [...]
          >unique gameplay no other games before it had
          [...]
          >Souls games have unique gameplay

          More seethe and cope from jealous haters of the undisputed kings of game dev

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            You need higher quality bait

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              You need a dictionary, facts are never bait

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                I bet fromsoft drones think dictionaries have the best lore

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              does it really qualify as bait when fromdrones are that deranged unironically?

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >You have way less control over your character in Mh
            Weak bait. I was a surgeon with the GS.

  6. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >armor is useless
    shit game

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >looking cool and aesthetics are useless
      look I found npc devoid of any self
      I on the other hand "an intellectual" drip until I drown

  7. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Dragons Dogma was just as innovative even if the execution is a bit clumsy

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      No? There were tons of open world RPGs before DD

      >PS2 Castlevania games were after the DMC/Ninja Gaiden audience.
      congratulations on proving you're retarded anon
      then again i never expected much from a fromdrone

      He is right and you are the one who made themselves look retarded
      The ps2 Castlevanias are Hack n slash games with no level design, they are the closest to musou games if we would look for a genre
      They are not metroidvanias. DS1 is the only 3d metroidvania ever created.
      No need to get upset over the reality that only Lord Miyazaki can create what Konami wishes they could.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >DS1 is the only 3d metroidvania ever created.
        >blocks ur path

  8. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >risk
    King's Field asset flip wasn't a risk. From are a very smart studio and have been pumping out one game per year for decades. Demon's Souls was another small step following hundreds of prior ones. Going mainstream hasn't changed their approach.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It doesn't use any KF assets
      People sure lie about FromSoft a lot here lately, being the best gets them a lot of hate huh

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >The Moonlight Sword
        From uses and re uses content. I also wasn't hating on From. Praising Demon's Souls is fair, being a histrionic retard who acts like it was their first risky foray into gaming when a majority of its DNA had already been established in prior games is something else. And From hasn't changed. They keep quiet, make their games, and usually have at LEAST one title per year. Be it ER, Sekiro, DS, AC, King's Field, or any of those nameless RPGs or action games they made for PS2/Xbox/360. From aren't psuedointellectual retards like From fans. They're work horses who eventually created an extremely popular franchise. Nothing wrong with that. Plenty wrong with you annoying dickriders, though.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          > being a histrionic retard who acts like it was their first risky foray into gaming when a majority of its DNA had already been established in prior games is something else.
          please point out the established 3d hack and slash dungeon crawlers that even play like remotely like souls. the best you can do is zelda and there's still vast differences in them.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >please point out the established 3d hack and slash dungeon crawlers that even play like remotely like souls
            Ocarina of Time

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              >Ocarina of Time
              still has tons of differences between the two games.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >Remotely similar
                >Now "tons of differences"
                Pick one

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                i pick both.

                you're infact a fucking retard if you think theyre similar beyond '3d hack and slash dungeon crawlers'.

                surface level indicators of them playing entirely in terms of controls, how they present their stories, how they design their dungeons, and multiplayer characteristics would tell you so.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                >I pick both
                Then learn what words mean.
                >Rest of post
                >"Yeah they're similar like I requested but so what?"
                Jesus christ you fanboys are fucking retarded.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Having a single item reappear as a motif, which has a different model and attacks in every game, is not "reusing content." You'd have to be an irredeemable sperg to believe that.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >You'd have to be an irredeemable sperg to believe that.

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              That's low even for here.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >unironically defending low effort memberberries
            wasted digits

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Souls games have unique gameplay no other games before it had
      being an action game except shit is not being unique
      asinine control scheme is not a good thing either

      >armor is useless
      shit game

      >innovative
      nagger that game was a dev hell game stitched together to be finally shipped
      >let‘s just add obscure lore instead of story so we can finally ship it
      >let‘s add multiplayer and multiplayer rankings, maybe people will play it for the multiplayer
      >let‘s add a system that is so obscure, players need multiple playthroughs to understand it and the stuff it unlocks
      >let‘s tie this with the multiplayer so they are forced to play it
      >let‘s just add a few checkpoints so they don‘t realize how small the game really is

      It‘s good but it was just stitched together, thrown multiple things with the hope something sticks.

      le reverse psychology low effort bait. Didn't read past the first 3 or so words of each. Go die.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      play KF before actually saying shit like this, mong

  9. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Ah yes. It invented lock on and sword combat. Really innovative

  10. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I played it on my PS5 and it was honestly pretty shit

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You have not played Demons Souls, it does not exist for ps5

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yes it does retard.
        Your shitty proto-dark souls is shit and now that people can actually play it there's no more hiding.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Nope. It does not and you have not played it, Pablo.

          I bet fromsoft drones think dictionaries have the best lore

          israeli claws typed this

          an entire genre
          ???????

          Yep
          Invented new combat style, invented new pvp style, invented the only 3d metroidvania ever, invented the best way to do story in the videogame medium

  11. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    while growing up i played a ton of ocarina of time. it always felt so awesome fighting those skeleton knight enemies. probably some of the best combat i ever experienced as a kid. then fast foward to the release of dark souls. my first souls game. i remembered thinking "this game is like fighting those skeleton knights in oot but for the entire game" and it instantly became one of my favorite games in existence

  12. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >FromSoft will NEVER EVER EVER make this risk ever again
    Eh. Miyizaki might try it, but it would probably be alongside another Souls game in case whatever other game fails.

  13. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    an entire genre
    ???????

  14. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    t.me/MitraThret

  15. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Degenerate ripoff.

  16. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Created an entire genre
    The 3rd person action genre???? You mean "subgenre", retard

  17. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >Short seething Mexican pops off
    Telling, short king yaaas

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >n-no u!
      Solid argument you got there shitskin mutt
      You got BTFO

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        No use talking to a sperg, keep your power level in check next time you weird basement dweller.

  18. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  19. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I like demon's souls but it isn't "innovative" at all, unless you mean the shitty half-and-half multiplayer elements.

  20. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why did the servers have to go offline? And yet Dark Souls is still up.

  21. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Demon's souls is shit
    Only Dark Souls (1), Bloodborne and Elden Ring are good

  22. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Kappa chungus

  23. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >mfw getting hatemail for using the scraping spear or DBS after invading or getting invaded

  24. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    playing the original one on PCS3, feels good to be able to play a from's souls for the first time again and it's interesting to experience the game where the whole genre started (even if you could trace back some little things all the way to King's Field). some things are good, like the level design and the aesthetics, other are terrible like enemies' behavior and movesets, build making and the complete lack of QOL features (something that's relatively true for every from game). not a masterpiece, but a good game that laid the groundwork for a great series.

  25. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Created an entire genre
    stopped reading (You)r retardation there

  26. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's sad that they catered to coop trannies and pretty much gutted every innovative multiplayer feature. They killed their own PvPvE appeal and left the niche for asset flip trash like Dark and Darker.

    >Look at this covenant where you can infect other player's worlds with harder enemies and the only way to remove it is to defeat the eye of death user. Can we fix this in the sequel?
    gone
    >How about this covenant where you add traps to the level to make it harder for the host to progress. This can be iterated on to really make it shine.
    gone
    >Covenant-specific arenas are pretty cool. What should we do with these?
    gone
    >This covenant lets you pay items to enter challenging PvE bonus zones, with a secret boss at the end
    gone
    >Maybe getting 30 kills for a spell reward isn't the best idea. How can we improve covenants for Elden Ring?
    gone

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Proves Covenants are garbage
      >Still cries because they removed it

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Proves Covenants are garbage
      >Still cries because they removed it

      What did DeS do better than DaS?

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        DeS has Latria

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        nothing

  27. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Incredibly overrated game.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      but enough about OOT

  28. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Created an entire genre
    Anon, Monster Hunter created the genre and it predates Demon's Souls by decades.

  29. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    True.
    DeS PS3 remains the best Souls game together with DaS (PC non-remaster).

  30. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >created an entire genre

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