Sheikah

There's every need for pures. Get moon weapons maxed to stack magic damage on top of physical (good for magic users). Use dragonstone to add fire attack to stun lock enemies. Use bladestone for certain katanas. Or get a maxed blessed phosphorescent pole, adjudicators shield and a regenerator ring to stack all 3 HP regen effects (seriously good).

Bollocks. Pure ores are quite rare; you don't just find them by killing the occasional lizard (unless very lucky). And you don't know how good the Morion/Clever Rat setup is because you never had the Morion Blade (although it did dictate why my arrow shots were something like 5X more damaging than yours when we were killing False King Allant). Hmm that sounds very reasonable apart from a few small details. First, the European version has not been out for very long, so the chance of people having these weapons lying around to give away to stranges is slim. Second, I very much doubt that the duplication glitch still exists, or that most Europeans even know of it. Third, maybe some people like to make their weapons? They are very, very useful weapons to make (and you only need the best weapon by ---stone, so you're free to choose whatever weapons you wish to make). Just wait for new game +. Oh wait, we were on NG+! And you missed a hell of a lot of them. Also, remember that large cave in 2-1? There must be at least 10 lizards in that room. Should you walk in, even with the thief's ring, they all start running and you'd be lucky to kill 2. Morion setup essential. The thing is, MOST of the ores you can get from quests or as treasure; still, killing lizards is good to get hold of chunks since they're not exactly that common (some types). Sorry Daft, I've got the US version and I haven't tried playing since the FW update. I could try during the weekend (at my girlfriend's atm).

World 4 is amazing, definitely my favourite world. The first level has a crescent falchion+1 literally on the floor near the entrance, which instantly does great damage as it stacks magic damage on top of the hit damage, as well as constantly regenerating your MP. Worth just grabbing that sword and doing another level if you like, as World 4 is probably one of the most difficult worlds.

Nope it's really easy. You basically defeat the second boss in world 2 (so it's a good idea to do that sooner) which is the Flamelurker. Then in world 2, somewhere before you fought the first boss you'll have encountered a blacksmith like the one in the Nexus, but this one is called Ed. After you talk to him a few times you basically give him the Flamelurker's demon soul (have it on hand) and he'll offer to forge good weapons with demon's souls. Basically for many of the weapons you want to make you just bring along a specific weapon and a demon's soul. Here's a great tip for a weapon. Go into world 4 and defeat the first boss - take that soul, along with a club (bought from the dregling merchant in the first level in world 1). He'll make the meat cleaver, my favourite weapon. :p Pump stength now to be able to equip it though.

Another good thing to remember is that if you plan to platinum the game you can save yourself a whole playthrough (so 3 playthroughs instead of 4) by using a little trick. It lets you play a new game + after completion and you keep your character stats and items, but everything gets a lot harder in NG+. If you hang onto the demon souls of the bosses from world 2, 3 and 5 and don't use them to forge weapons until you have obtained every other weapon required for a gold trophy, you can basically go to the blacksmith, forge these weapons without closing the menu, let the trophy ding and quit the game. You'll have the trophy but when you reload you'll still have the souls unused (so you can then use them to get spells). You might not make much sense of that now, so just remember to hang onto the demon soul of the final bosses in worlds 2, 3 and 5. It'll all make sense later.

No, it's definitely because you practically bum ReZ. You're clearly impressionable so whatever. But I digress. The purpose of crystal lizards is pure ores that come only rarely. And it's to make the best weapons, not just for the sake of trophies. And if you ever want to kill other players / fend off invaders, it's definitely worthwhile. ...Except we're typing this for Daft and not the general population. I know that Daft has a good few platinums so it's hardly rocket science to make the connection that he likes to complete games. Because as you often pointed out, you didn't have the Morion Blade. Without the Morion Blade equipped at the same time the damage is absolute shit.

Well if you would take an eye away from ReZ's thesaurus for the mentally impaired you'd realise that the clever rat's ring is useful straight off to kill the many crystal lizards you encounter throughout the game. World 3-1 is realtively easy. It's creepy, but by no means hard. I say go for it. My advice regarding body form and world tendency is incredibly poignant: it's up to you whether you wish to try hard to maintain good world tendency to get good weapons this playthrough, or just play for a laugh. But it's a choice you kinda need to make at the beginning, or else it's too late.

Or just refer to this thread? I don't know why you're being an ass about me giving some very clever advice. Especially since it has often been you coming to me for advice (and me spending a great deal of my time always answering you). Don't forget that I defeated your blue dragon (and nearly all of False King Allant on new game+) for you. :p I mentioned some things he could do; he'll eventually know how to forge (so it's good advice to keep in mind), and there's nothing hard about world 3 up to boss 1. In fact, it's easily one of the most atmospheric levels and definitely one of my favourites. The fact it has a great ring in it just adds to the awesomeness of the level.

I think the same thing. I hope they don't hold back demos/other free content for a week or so before free users can download them. The idea I have is that in such a case, it's not like demo's are being constructed and released quicker so that they get them out a week earlier to people who pay. It would definitely be a case of them holding back a service slightly for free users, who've never been hindered before. It's still great that PSN is free, though. I've never gotten over the fact that on XBL I had to pay to play the games I spent ~£35 already on, on top of broadband costs, simply to use my own broadband connection to connect to others.

Ostrava was the glowing yellow NPC guy in 1-1 that you may not have noticed. He reappears throughout world 1 and you get some decent stuff out of him should you help him out each time. Play world 3 when you can, especially for the clever rat's ring. Then try forge a morion blade using the world 4 final boss demon's soul for mega damage.

Yeah, it's inside the castle area and I think you have to move against the wall to auto-jump down and land on a platform. It's where Ostrava stood while he first wanted you to take down dreglings.

Mario storyline is best left in the gutter where it belongs. Sorry, but no one who is down to Earth is playing this game for the storyline (because Mario storyline's are historically garbage). So if there's less cutscenes and dialogue, good.

It's probably the best ring in the game (along with clever rat's ring). It even works on bosses; some don't see you if you're too far away (including Flamelurker). And essential for killing crystal lizards for rare ore. Oh, and it makes you invisible to players in PvP from a reasonable distance. So it's great for launching an ambush.

Sorry to be pedantic, but you really always have your soul (hence soul form). It's all about getting your body back. :p Body form has its cons (namely losing world tendency when you die), which in turn bars you from obtaining various weapons (see Demon's Souls wikia). As you defeat bosses your world tendency goes closer to pure white; don't die at all in body form in any world (as you kill a boss and regain your body, suicide in the Nexus as that has no world tendency) and you will progress to pure white world tendency as you kill the world's final boss. On the other hand, if you don't care about technically cheating you can go online and use the colorless demon's souls farming glitch and set yourself to pure white world tendency that way. So you needn't worry about dying in body form Either way, being in body form can make things much more easy and interesting since you can summon blue phantoms (other players) to help you either at the beginning of levels or before bosses using blue bloodstains on the floor. If you're playing the game for fun, just stay in whatever suits you. Did you get the thief's ring? It's in the first level and is easily one of the best rings in the game. Also, I wouldn't say all bosses are pretty piss. Some are abusable, but this requires you to find their AI flaw by looking online. Some bosses can be actually quite challenging.

Damn, in before me. It has the best app store ever. :p

It actually saves most of the time. :p You can get around it (there's sometimes a short delay before it saves), but generally doing most things saves the game. Entering/exiting dungeons, or connecting to other players is a good example. But yeah, if you select quit game it will always save your position and everything else (unless you're in a boss in which case it starts you just outside the boss area). This game is possibly my favourite on the PS3. It's awesome. The online (PvP, messages, bloodstains), the gameplay, the lack of the gaming nanny culture with easy retries and a resilient main characters (who somehow take 20 times as many hits as your regular enemies).

Anything you do as John Marston on single player will not affect online multiplayer. But you can go online and just play by yourself and take down gangs and whatnot. If you see an indication of dollars/XP in green come up on the screen, you're getting XP.

Doesn't mean it's not new, but doesn't mean it is. There should be no element of uncertainty for someone parting with a fair amount of cash. Plus, if it's a store display copy I certainly wouldn't consider it in the same league as an actual new copy. Lying around for a while gathering dust and handled by employees is hardly new.

Yeah if you're new to online it will likely be like that. The reason is that at L1 (you level up with XP online) you basically have really crappy weapons. As you level up you get new weapons, horses and titles permanently. On the other hand, you're free at any time during an online session to go to a gang hideout and take one of the weapons (as indicated by the grey gun symbol on the map). In fact, that would be a very good idea if you plan to play online for a reasonable amount of time in one session. The reason is that you keep those gang hideout-obtained weapons (and they automatically restock ammo upon death) only for the duration of that online session, disappearing when you quit. You can also pick up someone elses (better) weapon if you kill them. And another tip - look out for dead eye refills scattered randomly on the map. With dead eye online, which you activate like in single player, you essentially get guaranteed kills with 100% accuracy.

... That's what she said?

Went to town earlier and bought a comic/terrible DS game with no discernible quality/recently reintroduced chocolate bar of limited production. It was epic whynzapon. Can't wait for the upcoming N-Europe meet/Rollercoaster-/sausage-fest! It'll be the biggest and best.* * P.S. That's what she said.

It will really make such little difference. Many purchases are rounded to .99 anyway. Most games that you get on sale are typically around the same range, or seem to be getting cheaper and cheaper these days. Travel will go up, but it always does anyway. And even then, bus prices tend to stay at the same price for a while then periodically go up by 20p or something. In short, it should hardly matter.

If you were really poor and getting £21k or less you'd have an increase, as it says... Most of those things you list are down to companies as well as the government. You say train fares go up every year - since this has been happening every year, and therefore when the Tories weren't in power, how is this the Tories' fault? And they did say they will increase tax credit for poorer families. So clearly they're not just 'looking after their own' like you say.

Hardly: And increasing tax will ultimately result in higher spenders paying more money (the rich).

that 80 pounds sounds worth the cost of having warranty to me...