I beat Demon's Souls back on PS3 but can only remember like 5 things.

I remember the Flame Lurker cause that took me a bunch of tries to beat.

I remember some big Cthulu type boss that kept knocking me off a ledge and getting real annoyed.

I remember there was a Chtulu wizard enemy on a staircase on the way back to that boss which was SUPER annoying to have to kill every single time I just wanted to get back to the unfun boss fight.

I remember you were better off killing yourself in the main hub area for some reason? I think you wouldn't lose as much when you died in a world? Oh wait, no I think it was "world tendency"? If you died too many times in a level it'd get all evil or some shit? That system never seemed to do anything from what I recall.

And I remember killing a big dragon with a crossbow or bow and arrow. It was cheap, but a good way to do it.

And I never played a Souls or Souls-like game again. Always said someday I'd go back. Dark Souls, Bloodbourne, or something, but I never did.

GameGodOfAll posted...

I remember you were better off killing yourself in the main hub area for some reason? I think you wouldn't lose as much when you died in a world? Oh wait, no I think it was "world tendency"? If you died too many times in a level it'd get all evil or some shit? That system never seemed to do anything from what I recall.

yea, if you kept dying in your body form in any level outside of the hub, it would eventually turn that world to "black world tendency".

the enemies would become more difficult, but I think you got better chance for loot(?)

I remember being invaded by a guy with a spear that broke all my stuff and just trolled me until I killed myself and then I turned off online play in all souls games forever

GameGodOfAll posted...

I remember there was a Chtulu wizard enemy on a staircase on the way back to that boss which was SUPER annoying to have to kill every single time I just wanted to get back to the unfun boss fight.

It's best to try knock him off the staircase with a backstab IIRC.

GameGodOfAll posted...

And I remember killing a big dragon with a crossbow or bow and arrow. It was cheap, but a good way to do it.

There isn't really a good way to fight the dragons. I always used poison.

MagiMarthKoopa posted...

I remember being invaded by a guy with a spear that broke all my stuff and just trolled me until I killed myself and then I turned off online play in all souls games forever

lol, yea there were a lot of trolls whose mission was to grief as many players as possible.

MagiMarthKoopa posted...

I remember being invaded by a guy with a spear that broke all my stuff and just trolled me until I killed myself and then I turned off online play in all souls games forever

Yeah I had this happen to me too. The scraping spear. Assholes would invade low level people and cripple their gear so they couldn't even afford to repair it thus unable to damage enemies and get in real trouble.

It was fun times those days

Baron_Ox posted...

lol, yea there were a lot of trolls whose mission was to grief as many players as possible.

I mean the mechanic is literally for trolling people.

It's a risk vs reward thing for opting into the online component.

true.

stuff like that conditioned me to never play online unless there was a boss I was having difficulty with.

and that's with all of the Elden Soulsbornes.