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When your message gets recommended, you get healed to full. So even though you can't plan when you'll get healed, you might end up back at full health in the middle of a rough fight/duel. And it means you don't need to spend souls on healing items.

I think my favorite part is when you get one message trying to ***** people over which then prompts one half the player base to spawn warning messages and one half to spawn encouraging ones.

:P

I actually never got very far in DS. I enjoyed the game quite a bit. But I got it right before school started up again and it was part of a buy 2, get 1 free deal, so I had two other new games to play. :P


P.S. I'm logged into PSN. :D

Dying in DS never made me angry, like in other games.

California is up now.

Also to note, it seems that online multiplayer isn't completely up, even in green areas that were able to log in/change their password (I could also access hulu).

Demons Souls couldn't connect, even though I was logged in. Didn't try anything else though.

I know that. My point is that by adding that as an option, it means that everyone spams the damn thing. There's not even any point in reading the messages because most of them are completely inane and not helpful at all. In the rare event that someone is genuinely trying to help, they're too restricted by the limited selection of messages to actually say something useful. The whole system just left a lot to be desired.


This, too. I enjoy a challenging game, but DS is a game of memorization, not skill. Once you memorize where the ambushes and traps are, and how the enemies move and attack, it's incredibly easy. Until you reach that point, the penalty for messing up is getting to do everything all over again. It's really hard to enjoy that very much.

There's a difference between a game becoming less challenging when you know where everything is, and a game being challenging only because you don't know where everything is. Combat in Demon's Souls is incredibly easy, unless you haven't fought that particular enemy before. Every single enemy has wholly predictable timing, attack patterns, and movement patterns, but if you don't know what they are, you're going to die, and often. Like with the enemies in the very first world, they're really weak and not hard to take down. But I died the first time I fought one. Why? Because after one of their attacks, they appear to be off balance, then suddenly thrash their whole damn body and do massive damage if you're nearby. I can't avoid that with quick reflexes; my only recourse is to know about it beforehand. That, to me, isn't fun. Fun is being able to see a new type of enemy and defeat it based on reaction time alone, not rote memorization.

There were definitely harder enemies mixed in too though. The red/blue-eyed knights, for instance. Yeah, there were strategies to take them down, but those strategies were always specific to your location. Because unless you had awesome stats and great gear, they could take you down 1 on 1 (granted, you had a chance of winning if your shield absorbed all physical damage).

If the whole game had been populated with enemies like those, it would have sucked, imo.

I never felt like I had the same problem you did. What you are describing is definitely true (at least to an extent), but I never felt the way you did. I think part of it is heavily specific to where you die in the level and how often. The beginning of... 4-1(maybe?) for instance, I died a TON. So the beginning of the level ended up as being mostly auto-pilot. But for most levels, I didn't die as much, so I still usually had to actively pay attention in the early moments of the level, or I would definitely die again.

It's a good bet that all the PSN users who cared either camped the blog or hit "Sign In" every hour.

Sony announced the list of free games for PSN users. It's not a terrible list, but nothing spectacular either.



I'll probably grab inFAMOUS and Wipeout HD. I sold my PSP, so no real opinion there.

Also:


I have no idea what that home stuff is all about since I've never used it, but it's more free stuff for those interested.

Source.


Edited, May 16th 2011 6:55pm by Turin

I've got Super Stardust and Wipeout, so I'll be going with Infamous and one of the other two, I guess. I'm leaning towards Dead Nation.

Not a bad deal, really.

So I can sign in, but the Store is still down? I didn't even know PSN was back up... can ps3 users play games online now (held out buying MK because a friend said it had to go online to save...)?
So confused, and I even read the last 20 posts
>.>

But free games? That is cool.

I updated my PS3 and tried to sign in. I got the prompt telling me that I had to change my password and that an email would be sent to the address I have registered. It's been almost two hours and still no email. That's quite a bit longer than I expected it to take honestly. Most times when you get an automated email it only takes a couple minutes. Anyone else have to wait an excessive amount of time?

Sony mentioned the delay in a blog post. Apparently, they've had to start submitting the password changes from users in bursts, because letting them all come in at once was clogging the system and the emailing system just couldn't keep up.

So, once your password's batch is submitted, you'll get an email.

Oh, and I've played both AC:B and Black Ops without any hiccups.