i'll maybe make an proper effort to get into it this time round, i want videos and graphics

Im set and ready to go, I suck at Dark Souls so I expect no change here.

gonna try get my shitty recorder dongle thingy to work then il stream it.

Hoe do i politely phrase 'i know ive not seen you all day, but i don't want to see you all evening either'?

gonna try ps3 version now

In!

Very dark souls. Got miles, died, no hope of regaining those souls!

I got no where but summoned and was summoned. This is dark souls + really.
More of what you love with some slight changes.
And it's a definite day one purchase for me.
Recorded eighteen minutes of it. If anyone is interested.

Summoning now keeps failing for me. And no divine weapon . Is there loads more after the boss??

so I'm kinda out of practice, so gave up at the boss and tried some other classes.  Hope you don't say I just did the beta's prelude and then it got amazeballs.  suspect you will .

Thoughts then:
 - it's not been dumbed down
 - it's VERY derivative from the original, perhaps unsurprisingly.  Not clear how much of that is the bit chosen.  But nearly all the baddies felt familiar, the jumpy guys from the parish underground, the skellies from the catabombs etc.  and even the areas 'felt' the same - catacombs, hint of votd, hint of Demon's Souls 4-2, etc.
 - interesting changes - life ember (or whatever it was called); three slots per hand; 
 - I didn't have a torch, but that dynamic lighting did seem interesting.  in the first room, breaking the windows to see what was going on was a nice touch
 - network code let me down after the first half hour.  or maybe everyone was passed the boss by then apart from me!!
 - stuff like keys to unlock bonfires felt good
 - you could buy humanity!
 - graphics pretty similar really, dynamic lighting aside
 - dual wielding is fun, but frickin risky!

BONE WHEELS ARE BACK...

So, I got in a full two hours play and I can safely say it's fucking fantastic.

It's more Dark Souls definitely. All the stuff is there:- invading with cracked Red Eye Orbs, estus flasks, summoning with soap stones, darkness, etc.

I managed to see pretty much everything that was on offer as far as I can tell. (There is a hell of a lot more to those first sections than you initially think.)

Enemies are far more aggressive now, and much harder to get behind. They jump around loads and can really lay into you if they're not alone. I got a few good parries in but the repostes seem to be harder to pull off. The new back stab animation on some of the weapons is fucking awesome.

Movement is much faster and very slick. Switching from one handed to two handed now takes a little more time to complete the animation. The parry animation is longer and harder to time. Graphically it looks nice, textures didn't seem as smooth but i was on a different tv so hard to tell. Animation is lovely, as are the spot effects. Combat still has that lovely oomph behind it.

The menu system has been refined nicely, although I couldn't find the option for some item descriptions. I played as warrior and the ability to carry three right hand weapons seemed a bit overkill, and didn't appear to have any impact on my equipment load, again, maybe it's just the beta test.

I invaded a few times, (you now turn yourself human with a human effigy, not humanity?) I beat the first two people I met. It all seems fairly normal and can't see any radical changes to the whole system: - even down to the placement of signs and waiting around for an invasion, I was a little miffed that nothing more seems to have been done with this aspect of the game but time will tell. There was a red phantom waiting at the top of the bridge right at the start, anyone else see him?

The whole thing was very solid and it's all very promising. I enjoyed it thoroughly. My only concern was that the whole thing was very easy, even by normal game standards. I died ten times in two hours and three of those deaths were from cliff falls. Also not sure about the life gems - they were in abundance and enemies dropped them regularly. The fact that you can use the scenery like trees to move behind while you heal with them might make them a little OP. I'm fairly certain you wouldn't get that amount in the final release. I finished with over twenty and if uninterrupted, they fill your health bar completely. They are a good idea though, as estus now takes even longer to swig.

So a solid two hours with my most anticipated game of 2014 and I'm impressed. I'm very glad it was only two hours...

Try the first one, it's what all the fuss was about and it's usually at most £15 in every shop

Well I've just discovered there were two bosses in the beta! Must've missed something somewhere then. Kind of glad really. I can't be believe we've still got six months to wait, it's agonising.

Looking good. Can't wait to police you scallywags who think they can just jump in a random's game and slap his shit.

suposedly up today for ps+ members too.