Demon's Souls Successor Named Dark Souls [Updated]

by Steve Watts, Feb 01, 2011 10:00am PST

Related Topics – xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Dark Souls

[Update: 14:00pm] 1UP points out that Namco Bandai will handle the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 publishing for Dark Souls in both the US and Europe.

[Original Story] Project Dark, successor to the notoriously brutal RPG Demon's Souls, has been renamed. Siliconera reports that the game is now called Dark Souls, and shares more details on what we can expect from the most masochistic follow-up of the year.

Demon's Souls

Dark Souls is said to be just as hair-pulling hard as Demon's Souls, and the game carries some of the same thematic elements, but the two are unrelated plot-wise. Jobs have been removed from the character creation, but Dark Souls features a wider selection of weapons and spells. From Software is continuing its online innovations with the ability to leave messages, and is adding both cooperative and versus online play.

The game is planned for Xbox 360 and PS3 when it comes to the US later this year.

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By: jahulio2 x Show Full Post

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Removed jobs from the character creation? just another example of developers dumbing it down for the console gamers.

Feb 01, 2011 10:26am PST

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Removed jobs from the character creation? just another example of developers dumbing it down for the con... : jahulio2
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  Not at all. The classes in Demon's Souls only differed in name and starting equipment. You could use any : David Craddock
- Er...does that make 360 users a subclass then? Because this was originally a PS3 game. : radioactivez0r
- GTFO... : razlebol
- guys, don't feed the troll : X-GOUKI
- Just another example of dumbing down the front page : rodneystubbs
- I liked the jobs initially, then after playing awhile they became more of an outline for what i wanted do... : technotica

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My friend convinced me to buy Demon's Souls last night... He insists it's like Zelda + Resident Evil 4 + Oblivion, so, we'll see. The messages he's seen people leave sound shitty, though, purposely giving bad advice. I'll probably play offline.

Feb 01, 2011 10:12am PST

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My friend convinced me to buy Demon's Souls last night... He insists it's like Zelda + Resident Evil 4 + ... : jacobvandy
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Only reason to get a PS3.

Feb 01, 2011 10:18am PST

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Only reason to get a PS3. : Xulu
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Demons' Souls was surprisingly fun, I'll definitely give the sequel a shot.

Good to hear they're keeping the difficulty high, and probably keeping a similar style of online coop/PvP. I'm also glad they're removing some of the frustrating BS like the world tendency events, which were hard (and not fun) to manage, especially playing online.

Feb 01, 2011 5:07pm PST

Demons' Souls was surprisingly fun, I'll definitely give the sequel a shot. Good to hear they're keepi... : Dr_Tran

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By: David Craddock x Show Full Post

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I can't wait. I'm going to start a new Demon's Souls playthrough later today. :D

Feb 01, 2011 10:09am PST

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I can't wait. I'm going to start a new Demon's Souls playthrough later today. :D : David Craddock
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  I hope DS will be even better than DS. : briktal
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    I fully expect DS to trump DS in every possible way. : David Craddock
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      Nothing beats getting your D S'ed while playing DS. : badcaps
      
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- I really need to go back and play through DS again. Maybe I'll do it right before this comes out :D : carbontree

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Hopefully the enemy AI won't be as easily exploited as in the first game. It seemed like half the bosses could be cheesed by staying at range and plinking them with arrows.

Feb 01, 2011 12:09pm PST

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I hope I can sell things this time.

Here ya go, why don't you hold onto ANOTHER bastardsword for me, it's not like they might be worth something to someone.

Can't fucking wait for this game!!!!!!!!

Feb 01, 2011 11:43am PST

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I hope I can sell things this time. Here ya go, why don't you hold onto ANOTHER bastardsword for me, i... : Finchypoo
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  But it made sense that you couldn't sell things! The other "adventurer" NPCs (that appeared in the di... : Dong Patrol
  - This. Having to either spend your souls or lose them through death upped the tension and made you more ca... : David Craddock

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Cool... maybe I can finally see what this game is all about. I hope the sequel is as good as the original because I keep hearing about this stupid game... but I don't have a PS3 to try it out.

Feb 01, 2011 12:44pm PST

Cool... maybe I can finally see what this game is all about. I hope the sequel is as good as the origina... : Gwyndion

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