You'll Be Amazed with Demon's Souls PS5 Says Sony

Marketing maestro Eric Lempel believes Sony introduced the “biggest first-party lineup in PlayStation history” during last night’s PlayStation 5 showcase, and one title he’s particularly looking forward to people getting their hands on is the oft-rumoured Demon’s Souls.

[sushimama]

I'm already amazed with the screenshot comparisons. Blown away actually.

[naruga]

...what i get from the trailer is that didnt manage to recapture the atmosphere of the original....though we should wait to see the whole picture ...i m on hold for this one

[oasdada]

There are opinions.. and then there's verbial diarrhoea.

[Sunny_D]

Yes the original with it’s green Vaseline filter from hardware limitations. No thanks. Loved it back then, will love it even more in 2020-2021.

[naruga]

@ oasdada ...ok ... now go wipe yourself clean.because it stinks

[bouzebbal]

have no idea why you say this, the original one was actually very shiny, and not dark at all.
this looks like the perfect remake to me.

[naruga]

@ bouzebbal ...is not only the lighting ...is also the art , the colors , the environment ...and other staff like sound that didnt properly appear in the trailer so that s why i m saying i m on hold ......it s obvious that the remake is made from different developper and not From Soft....if you played Sekiro you ill understand how From Software would have handled the remake ...with its distinct visual presantation

[waverider]

Did You even played the first?

[Hotabang]

I agree with naruga. I think vaatividya, explained what you are trying to point out

[gamerben]

I agree with the art direction being MUCH different. Its undeniable, it doesnt feel as dark and scary anymore. It might be good as its own thing though

[Jsm89k]

I hate n4g community at times. If you don't fully accept anything Sony you're a blind hater, and it's obvious most people here haven't played the original dms. This is a legitimate concern going around and many people feel this way. N4g is fully of Sony fanboys and will down voted anyone who dares have criticism on anything Sony related. Sony is perfect!

[Hungryalpaca]

It looks pretty damn similar to me. Slightly brighter with more realistic lighting but the atmospheres the same.

[Dwarrior]

@Jsm89k
Who cares what anonymous douches on the internet think? You must be a young dude. Like what you like, and fk what anyone else thinks.

[anast]

Atmosphere is a "magical" word. I don't suppose you can clarify this?

[Lilrizky]

As soon as I saw the first screenshot I screamed DEMON'S SOULS.

Definitely recaptured the spirit

[Angrymorgan]

Slither.io didnt capture the original atmosphere of snake either but it's better..

[Veneno]

What the blind Sony lovers Don't understand is that Demons Souls is a FROM SOFTWARE game. That means alot. Everything really. If it doesn't have that From atmosphere then it will lose alot of it's heritage.

The problem here is that Sony is asking us to believe them that this is going to be amazing when they had more than every opportunity to show us actual gameplay a few days ago.

I'm sure the game will be great, but because we got so little of it, it's reasonable to ask questions. The show was supposed to be all about gameplay but for Demon's Souls all we got was a trailer, which is the total opposite of what the PlayStation fans wanted from this event.

[camel_toad]

I haven't come across anything saying this is a launch title. Has anyone else? It would make it for me at least the best launch ever.

[sushimama]

Me too lol. If this launched with the PS5 it would be the best launch ever. I'm sure we'll find out in the next few months

[SierraGuy]

Considering how "important" this game is to shuhei yoshida...I'd say yes it's a ps5 launch title.

[Dwarrior]

It's the one game I am looking forward to the most.

[NeoGamer232]

I expect Demon Souls to be amazing.

They are taking a PS3 game engine and running on 2 generations later hardware. I expect the massive video and audio improvements. The PS5 should run the game engine in its sleep, and the game should be at least 60 fps in 4K. I don't know why they are even talking 30 fps.

[lodossrage]

If this is true that's great.

In fact, if you played the old demon souls, there was that one state that was actually broken. In this remake, it may not be broken anymore and that will be this new world/ area.

But that's just me assuming.

[Movefasta1993]

I would only want the people who worked on demon or any souls borne games to touch that arch stone, all 5 archstones have great varied level design, blue point should stay way away from that archstone if they do not have the talent to make a world on par with the rest of the game, it will stick out like that entire lava section in Dark souls 1 which imo prevented from being the best souls game, let's not encourage a bed of chaos situation.
Assuming some OG devs of from software aren't helping them , I am sure they are.

[ocelot07]

Thing is the archstone was completed but cut and was never released. Bluepoint could revive it.

[Movefasta1993]

@ocelot if it was completed then that changes things.

[Silly gameAr]

Japan Studios helped with Demon's Souls, so I guess the people who worked on Demon's Souls are helping with the remake, minus FromSoftware.

[IamTylerDurden1]

I read this earlier on Push Square, but supposedly the game is incredible according to hands on. Sony certainly appears to be confident with it, just like Bloodborne you had Shu introducing the game and saying how proud he was. If this is a PS5 launch, it'll be a monster. Demon's Souls, Spiderman, and Returnal would be enough by itself to justify a decent launch. I'm sure there will be more, and all the 3rd party (non Sony published) exclusives/timed exclusives coming to PS5 willl help, but things are looking great in PS5 land.

[AirJohnston]

Demon's Souls has always been my favorite Souls games. So pumped for this

[oakshin]

PS3 game was a first gen game so it ran like crap the emulator isn't much better and alot of people never played it this game needs this remake

[Tiqila]

what do you mean "it ran like crap"? Was good on my PS3...

[Hungryalpaca]

It has a lot of frame rate issues on ps3. Not blight town bad but it didn’t perform that well. It hovers between 25-30 fps a lot of the time and usually dips when there’s a lot of dust

[oakshin]

Frame rate dropped that led to inconsistency in gameplay (half the time a input was in time half it wasn't)

The only first gen PS3 game I remember that was crazy bad was brother at arm's now that you got me thinking about it but yea demon souls deserve this bottom line

[Tiqila]

I was amazed with Demon's Souls PS3. Best random buy ever.

[crazyCoconuts]

Yea, looking at the PS3 graphics, they looked really good as well. That game and Bloodborne left marks on me. Don't know if I have it in me to return...

[Darkborn]

Same. I bought it just because it sounded interesting and it completely changed how I looked at any game from then on. Games like skyrim that I had previously put like 300 hours in, I just couldn't continue playing because the combat didn't feel as tight.

[S2Killinit]

Those comparisons! I cant wait

[Atticus_finch]

DS looks insanely good.

[tulholdren]

Demons Souls always was one of my favorite Sony Exclusives and favorite out of the Souls games. Was pumped from the video can't wait more action.

[Asuka]

I don't need convincing Sony. You had me at Demon's Souls PS5.

[on_line_forever]

I will be Amazed if you bring back the original demon souls atmosphere

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Game of the show for me. This game alone is reason enough for me to buy PS5 day one and so far it’s the only PS5 game I want.

[whitbyfox]

There are 2 graphical choices for this game on PS5. A remake of a decade-old game can’t have both great fidelity and resolution. We have to choose between the 2. So much for next gen.

[VenomCarnage89]

Considering it's a remake, the age of the game isn't really relevant. This was remade to push the hardware just like any modern AAA game

[mkis007]

Why are no xbox/ps5 games running at 8k240fps!!?!?!?! Next Gen is a lie!!

This is how you sound.
Graphics/Resolution/fps...all have unlimited heights, you cannot ever hope to hit those heights.Why does next gen =4k60fps for people when more is going on than resolution and frame rate...

[whitbyfox]

8k 240fps isn’t even possible so i definitely don’t sound like that. You must have spent too much time in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory listening to the umpa loompa’s all day.

[QuePasa87]

I'm amazed it's actually happening :0

[anast]

bro, Xbox has Halo.

[jznrpg]

Who was asking ?

[GamingInFrames]

Well, I would be amazed with native 4K/60.

[GreatSako2020]

These companies should stop overhyping their games.

[AK91]

We already are.

[BloodyBorne]

Not if it’s 30fs.

[silenthillstrangler]

It looked great but needs to be 60fps.

[Emme]

I will be amazed by GTA5, too, I guess, for the 3rd time after 360, PS4 :/

[The7Reaper]

"But does it have an easy mode?"

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