My commentary: DAAAAyum that hammer!

Edit: That is a big ass hammer.

• New armor and weapons
• Hammer timestamp: around 11:45 minutes in.
• Yep, it seems like there are AI Hunters walking around the world. They're quite powerful. Dude juggled two werewolves into the air. It leads to more fun ragdoll hi-jinks
• Boss time.
• Awesome Boss music. This is a Souls game.

Someone finally uploaded the demo:

The cloth physics seem a bit overly energetic in a weird way.

I wish they were showing other weapons and armour sets.

Other than those 2 things this looks fantastic.

YATTA!

Those are some speedy dodges.

@aegon: Oh. I thought they had released a public demo. Like, "The demo is now live."

Well. This is alright, too.

Same. ;_;

We have ragdoll! Silly ragdoll confirmed!

That's some fast-ass healing item use.

Finally! New locations, new bosses, and co-op shown!

:D

I finally feel like I have a decent idea of how the rest of the game will be, and as what appears to be a gothic Demon's Souls, I'm on board. Best show of the game so far.

@truthtellah: Show of the game or game of the show?

@fredchuckdave: Best show of the game. Previous looks were pretty limited, but this showed a greater variety, with a demo that showed how it will really look to play, different locations, and different enemies. The best "show" of the game.

Could be game of show, but not sure yet.

Combat seems to be faster with more on the fly type of action which is cool

Looks slick as fuck. Enemies behaviour seems a lot more interesting this time around. I always do love when the AI fights each other.

not going to lie, graphically this game is phenomenal. not sure if it's due to the fidelity or art direction; more like a combo of both i suppose. dem shiny cobblestones and filthy rags.

That embedded video is a live stream. You lied to me you monster!

A live stream is still a video. And I gave a starting time for the demo. You can watch it or not. Your choice.

• Setting and atmosphere look great, I might have misheard but, I think that some of the enemies spoke some english so they might be human?
• The way the fire bomb hit the guy's arm and caught fire looked awesome. It was a shame he missed the boss with it.
• Also the way the blood stayed on the floor and the player was pretty cool.

It is a shame that it is a PS4 exclusive I may have to settle with watching it on youtube or something.

Have souls fans already decreed the game "too easy" ?

I love the look of that European-gothic architecture so much. I also like the focus they have put on evasion, I never liked playing with a shield in the Souls games. Being able to basically play as Van Helsing is such a cool idea, I can't wait.

When you say co-op, do you mean this has actual support for real ass co-op, or the janky shit all the other souls games have?

EDIT: Why are all the enemies taller than you? Are they giants or are you just really short?

EDIT2: Sounds like I missed out on the longer demo. Damn, I want to hear the audio, and the offscreen footage is of middling quality.

uhhh Not sure. But it showed two characters working together, rolling around, and slicing away at a boss.

@truthtellah: Hmm. That could mean anything. Just saw it in the trailer.

I would suspect something similar to Dark Souls.

I mean, it was clearly a human player working with you, with different equipment. Didn't seem to be local co-op, but normal online co-op.

Yeah, not fussed about local, but I would love a Diablo style online co-op experience in a Souls game.

@bollard: I could dig that. Not sure if they're interested in that, but maybe they'll consider it. Have a lot of fans asked for it? It isn't one of the things I've heard a lot.

@truthtellah: No, I get the impression most people reject the multiplayer that exists for fear of making the game "easier". I just like playing with friends :P Went through a lot of the original Dark Souls just summoning my cousin at every available opportuntiy.

Being able to choose who you summon in to specifically work with friends would absolutely make the game significantly easier. I can understand if that doesn't jive with one's preferences for how they want to play co-op, but the isolation of playing by yourself, and the uncertainty of how much help you'll get from summoning has been a pretty core part of the atmosphere in these games and I hope they don't change it.

Meh, to each their own, I installed the mod that made it easier to summon your friends on PC before I even launched the game. I can totally appreciate the isolation/atmosphere type thing, I have the exact same preference in Elder Scrolls games (which is why I hope they never add co-op). But TES is much more a role playing series, and I actually found the teamwork aspect of DS more intriguing than playing alone.

Both with DS and DSII when I played alone I got bored after about 20 hours and stopped. I finished DS when I played it co-op.

@aegon: Didn't seem like I could skip to it but maybe that's because I was on my iPhone.

It's up top now. Someone managed to upload it.

I wonder how "exclusive" it will be. Forever exclusive, or maybe we'll see it on other systems in a year or so? Hoping for the latter.

Sony's team is helping with development so there's no chance of it coming onto anything other than a Sony platform.

I still cant believe this comes out in February. Seems like it should be ages off still.

This is one of those games where I feel like I should be excited yet so far I give zero shits. maybe its because DarkSouls 2 is still fairly fresh in my mind.

*Looks at top comment*

"Easy mode. Instant health recovery items, Regain system gives you a veritable eternity to recover health after taking hits, mindless enemy AI which appears to be a downgrade even from Dark Souls II—better known as Diet Souls: Edition Casual"

Yup lol.

But holy hell the trailer was amazing. I need this game in my life.

that top comment made me feel sad...

There will always be people like that.

The thing is, there's a ton of enemies to fight, and you still have to manage your stamina.