Seriously I want to be challenged to the point were i want to throw my controller at the TV or punch a wall..............its a great stress reliver :D

There isn't any reason to be dissapointed. All they are doing is axing the extremely unplayable difficult mode. I'm pretty sure they did make the game more challenging but only to the point where it would make sense...just making it hard just to say so is just cheap.

I simply do not understand why studios keep walking away from the unique things that make their games great. Instead of feeding off of the energy of what made their first title great(which they have to admit was underproduced and under advertised in the West), they instead are going to dumb it down into just another sub-par RPG / Survival Horror game set in a fantasy world.

DS is one of the top 3 games I own and finished this generation. A significant reason for that was the difficulty and the unique systems of encouraging you to use the in game messages and bring in other players souls to assist you in difficult battles.

Now they will dumb it down with the hopes of a greater audience. It pains me to see this and what was once a day one purchase for me has now moved into a definite wait and see.

A sad day indeed as it is simply another victory for greed and mediocrity.

I think computerandvideogames.com are misleading us with their info. According to the article on eurogamers.com, Miyazaki stated that the game will be more difficult that the previous game.

"This game will actually be more difficult," he says. "We plan to continue to challenge players and make the game even harder."

Read the 2nd paragraph on towards the 3rd: http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

Here is a thought. Let's wait and see, shall we? I am sure that they are not going to just water the whole experience down. They have said that it will still be plenty difficult and have even said at one point that it will be even harder in some aspects.

Still, we will not know either way until we can play it. I am betting that it will be every bit as good as Demon's Souls, if not better in many ways. Such as having a more open environment to explore, which will lead to more traps and surprises as well.

When the news broke about this game being a mulitplat the very first thing that came to my mind is that it will be dumbed down a little.

Thieves ring and a powerful bow makes the game much easier.

i hope they implement the same kind of online system that we see in demons souls. it was a blast to invade someones world while they were making their way through a level and crush any hopes they had of making it to the end haha. on the flipside, it was just as much fun to join a room and cooperatively defeat the boss. it was a pretty unique system.

This seems consistent with how they developed Demon's Souls.

In Demon's Souls, there was an interview given that said they played around with the idea that if you died, it would corrupt the save...(Now that is insane)

They are saying all the right things so far. They acknowledge there is a small yet dedicated legion of fans of Demon's Souls who crave the difficulty level. They "said" they want to meet those expectations.

So, let's just hope FromSoftware stays true to their vision and NamcoBandi doesn't try to influence it by making it IN ANY WAY more casual.

I'm looking forward to this so bring it down, tone it up... make it impossible... do whatever you did with Demon Souls and I'm sure the crowd will be won over...

but in saying that I've only had a very little experience with Demon Souls... and from what I played/seen it is a nice game that seems refreshing to play despite of the difficulty...

so I can only assume Dark Souls will continue this refreshing type of gameplay... it makes you actually sit back and plan out the strategy..

Dark Fantasy with some horror elements.

Gothic Horror - “the battle between humanity and unnatural forces of evil (sometimes man-made, sometimes supernatural) within an oppressive, inescapable, and bleak landscape.”

eh what?

its always been a gothic horror inspired game.

not sure anyone thought different

Horror simply means fear, shock, and disgust. I felt all of those things my first time seeing the Gaping Dragon.