Yeah, I was worried when the gameplay vids showed everybody just breezing through enemy ranks. Also, they added way too much explosion effects for no reason. I still don't like the fact that your avatar disappears, hits enemies, and cannot be attacked back. It's an imbalance skill attack and being able to completely deflect projectiles. It's become more of an action RPG, which is fine if they can do it right without screwing their fanbase.

I'm pretty sure the game got harder as more people joined the game. (better drops too)

Quite frankly, Demon's Souls isn't that hard either when you figure it out. It's just setted against you - if you die or play uncarefully, than you are out of cookies, it punishes you with having to restart collecting souls and the entire level - the gameplay itself, the enemies and the bosses, they aren't that hard, some are even easy if you just think what you are doing.

I'm pretty sure Diablo III will be around the same difficult, maybe a bit more complex on strategies, but it won't punish you as much. Anyway I can't wait to get my nerdy hands on Dark Souls and Diablo III later, specially since back in May 9th there were even a console version talk. Now I'm officially excited, although I'll probably get the PC version also since it shall release before and the game looks just too good to wait.