My runs through 5-1 have been embarassing.
I just beat the game. Before I logged out I left messages saying “good luck” and “remember” because I am a pretty big sap.
I considered remaining logged in until the end. Maybe someone would evaluate me. Maybe something special would happen. But this left me feeling oddly sad and waiting around would probably make me even sadder so I logged off, unhooked my PS3, and put it in the closet.
I’ll probably never touch it again unless I find people to play Spelunker HD with. That game was the Demon’s Souls of 2D platformers, in case you didn’t know. It’s also free on PS+ for a few more days. You should download it.
This game is very easy now, and I like that. I replayed Dark Souls 3 recently and I died a lot, even though I’ve played the game many times. Here I felt like game knowledge was more important than combat skill. It’s very easy to break this game. I don’t even remember what most bosses look like up close. I prefer that. I think I beat every boss on the first try except for Old King Allant. I had him down to a sliver of health and I could have easily thrown a fireball at him and finished him but I said “No. I will stab him. I want to feel him die.” But he stabbed me first, and I died. Typical ending for me, but this time I wasn’t being impatient. I was calm. Maybe I knew I deserved to be punished. That is an awful thing to want to feel.
I beat him on the next try.
Then I walked around the beach a bit. Then I walked inside, finished the king, and stepped on a head, which is also an awful thing but it seemed right.
My final Old Monk was linkman666420.
My final partner was TheMilfDestructor.
I wanted a port but they’ll fuck it up. They’ll smooth out all the edges. The edges are part of what make this game special. I’d somehow forgotten just how From it was. Frequently ugly and unrefined and uneven and ours. I know everyone keeps saying this, but it’s amazing that this became a thing. It seemed like a massive triumph when it simply got released in the West and now it’s almost a decade later and Mario games are paying tribute to it. What in the world.
I’ve largely stopped caring about corporations digging up the corpses of things I love but I know I’m going to be sad when I see a marketing campaign based around “This is harsh. Evaluate me.”
I feel haunted.
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Left my sentiments in Final World Tendency. Show that 
(it won’t be taken from you)
I super slacked on getting another playthrough in time. But this also motivates me to experience it anew, sans the layer of player interstices.
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I am so sad I don’t have a PS3, I really wanted to be in on this last month 
This is harsh
Man now I just want to play a Dark Souls game in the Terminator helluniverse
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Hopefully this isn’t the end. Hopefully you won’t need CFW.
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i would not be surprised if demon’s souls was the #1 motivator for rpcs3 online support.
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dark souls, but on a derelict space station full of aliens and broken AI
also you have to go out into space sometimes
it’d be like dead space, but good
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Was the Japanese server shut down at the same time? As I recall I think that server was handled by either From or Sony and the Western servers by Atlus?
all servers have been shut down.
here’s screenshots of final disconnection/server notice from a demon’s LPer.
personal guess: it’s an order from sony, who wants to wind down ps3 support.
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Remember that Atlus wanted to shut the servers down in 2012. I wonder if Sony has been giving them money to keep the NA servers going, so they could sell more DeS copies on PSN/hype up Bloodborne’s return to “Latria” atmosphere.
It’s also possible that Sony requested the shutdown in preparation for a PS4 remaster, but that could be wishful thinking. Would love a version with the dedicated server/P2P hybrid we’ve gotten in recent Souls games, that can indefinitely preserve the online.
suddenly feeling a bit sad and regretful i didn’t make time to dust off my ps3 and play this over the past month.
the true demon’s souls ends here.
Emulation is in a good place for this now. If you have an i7 or higher clocked i5, performance is as good as a PS3 (30 fps cap), maybe a little better in terms of consistency and framedrops?
As far as I know, all visual issues are resolved, too. And cranking the resolution doesn’t require a beefcake video card.
did they fix shader compilation stutters? That was the only real issue when I checked a few months ago
I don’t know. I haven’t taken a dive, yet.
- the March update/progress notes for RCPS3 are pretty interesting. Big changes in how they handle SPU threads and some other stuff.
According to their reddit, you still have to cache your own shaders. I dunno if that makes the game awful to play, like BoTW in CEMU or what. The devs do say they are working on improvements to how RPCS3 handles shaders.
it’s probably not awful, but it does need a solution long-term
plus it was such a wild achievement for dolphin https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/