Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: Series 1 commentary Episode 3

[Perversion]

Yes, I jumped on the bandwagon and made my very first blog. First order of business was the obligatory introduction. Second was a critique of Demon's Souls, the first of hopefully a few.


I've never made one of these before, so there might be a lack of polish, but I'm sure I can touch it up. For now, I just wanted to get some ramblings out there.

[Perversion]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: My new bandwagon jumping

I'm on a roll. For once, my motivation to be creative has lasted almost the entire day. This is a second critique of Demon's Souls.

I'm going to try to get to a film next.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

You just wanted an excuse to make a giant text block about Demon's Souls didn't you?

[Perversion]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

There will be more than that eventually. That's just the way I started.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

However, there are times where an enemy that normally does not pose much of a threat will either take me to within one more swing of a blade of succumbing to my injuries, or will kill me outright.

Seriously? Did you even read that after you wrote it? It's like torturing my brain with excess prepositions.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

[Perversion]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

Seriously? Did you even read that after you wrote it? It's like torturing my brain with excess prepositions.

Heh. But at least everything I've written so far is grammatically correct.

[IamPinhead]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

I personally liked your post, Perversion. I would have liked to know the premise of the game (which you just lost) other than a comparison to Devil May Cry 4. Now I want to play Demon Souls to prove my action-adventure prowess (I beat God of War on God mode).

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

Beating God of War on God Mode wasn't really all that difficult, to be honest, and I suck at action beat-em-up games most of the time.

Also, Perv, I didn't mean to insinuate that I disliked your blog or anything. It was just that one line that screamed pretentious wall of text for the sake of wall of text. It has no flair, and its structure is somewhat confused at the moment, which at least you'll get used to and improve upon if you continue to plug away. Your blog posts thus far have been interesting but they seep at the edges because of lines like the one I quoted. Is it really so hard for you to get your point across without vomiting inelegant but grammatically correct walls of text?

[Perversion]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

New guy: I never mentioned Devil May Cry, nor is this game anything like Devil May Cry. Also, if you'd read critique number 1, and had clicked the link as I suggested, you'd realize why I did not bother "reviewing" the game or spelling out exactly what it was. Many, many reviewers had already done that, and it would have been redundant if I had done so as well.

Bagel: Yes.

[Valkysas]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

oh man, just imagining anyone picking demon's souls up expecting devil may cry or god of war... from what I've read and been told about Demon's Souls, no matter what you've played, you dont know what "hard" is no matter what games you've played in the past.

[John Mora]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

Why did you correct him? }:3

[Perversion]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

Just for you, Mora, I'm gonna try to put up an in-depth critique of Flower, my other GOTY (besides Demon's Souls), within the week. It'll spoil the game for you, but as you probably do not plan on playing it anyway...

[Toaster]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

Beating God of War on God Mode wasn't really all that difficult, to be honest, and I suck at action beat-em-up games most of the time.

I had a pretty hard time on Hard Mode, and didn't dare touch God Mode. That boss gauntlet in the end really took a lot out of me. :s

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Stupid Idiotic Ramblings: A blog of mine...today feat. Demon's Souls

As has been stated in the past by many people more oriented with action games of present and past generations, people expect their current action games to be fast-paced and button-mashers with little to no real difficulty or drawback to charging in and dying a few times to learn the lay of the land and figure out what you need to do to progress. I approached the regular mode or normal or whatever on God of War with the mindset that I should pace myself, try to tackle enemies one at a time, etc. Then I finally beat it after losing interest halfway through because the game offered no challenge. Just figure out how best to beat an enemy, then repeat whenever they show up. So I tried God mode next, and wondered what it would be like to rush through as quickly as possible, just demolishing things and wrecking everything with practical abandon. Sure, it was harder, but it still didn't take much patience.

But from what I hear of Demon's Souls, my tactics with regards to my first playthrough of God of War will actually lend themselves well to my playing of Demon's Souls. I'm excited to try it out when I have more than $40 to my name.

See how I brought us back on topic? Eh, eh?