@Tanir

Aww man, that really sucks. I personally don't have Dark Souls yet, just Demon's Souls, though I've played a bit of it just today at my friends house and it definitely seems a bit harder than Demon's Souls.

Damn man, you must have some pretty bad luck and an uncanny ability of attracting a-holes to your game.

Tanir, That was a NPC not a player. FROM planted a few throughout the game that pop in when you are human.

@eak3
Same here. But then I got cocky with my second invader and he destroyed me with magic.

Dark Souls is definitely a more brutal experience than Demons'Souls. I thought it was a picnic until after I defeated the armored boar. Keeping that gate open is a huge pain in the ass.

@vickers500,

Did you get kicked off a cliff also? If so, that was probably me XD

You people are gutless.

Damn, I feel your pain tanner. I hated that area with the curse frogs.

Thats why I play offline or in hollow form most of the time. I really am struggling to survive against the computer, I dont nee black phantome of people who beat the game already with 5 characters coming tofight mee too.

Also the new factions or whatever that will invade you. Like one that steal dragon scales or whatever. The really rare thing to upgrade your rare weapon. yeah not risking that, id be pissed. And why bother with humanity if your just going to die and loose it, or survive and keep fighting off black phantoms whlie trying to make progress.

I just stay hollowed unless I want co-op people and I have like 20 humanities in my inventory that I just use right before summoning, turning human or kindling the fire.

lol whenever someone invaded my game and it was clear they were stronger than me i ran to my router and turned it off

I've found that 9 times out of 10, invading black phantoms have no idea how to fight properly, and if I'm in an area cleared of enemies, I take the invader off guard by going straight at him/her.

I see it as an opportunity. They may be the invader, but I make sure I'm dictating the fight, which is generally the opposite of what they were prepared for. The best feeling to be had in these games is getting the back-stab animation against a fleeing invader.

I got invaded yesterday while I was in Darkroot Garden. I saw the message that someone had invaded so I stopped what I was doing and went and found him. The dude threw lightning that tore right through my shield and he attacked really fast, but eventually I got in close range with the drake sword and took him down. My worst experiences so far is when I got cocky after beating the Bell Gargoyles I thought I could hang with the Capra Demon. I had like 20k souls on me and got slaughtered once then again before I could reach the bloodstain. I've also been cursed and had to give up 60k souls for absolution because I accidentally attacked two NPCs. But none of that matters because I LOVE Dark Souls.