Demon's Souls and Windows 7

So, last night I installed Windows 7 on my PC. Pulled out my 2 raptors, which were configured in a raid 0 array and replaced it with a 640 GB single drive. Didn't have any problems with the install, 7 recognized all of my settings and hardware.

Over all it took maybe four hours from start to finish. I never do a straight upgrade in a situation like this--I always do a clean install. It took my about 30 minutes to backup all of my data one final time; pull out my old drives, and put in the new one. The actual install of 7 took maybe 45 minutes. And it took about 2 hours to re-install all of my software back on the machine. Had no problems at any point in the process. 7 recognized everything just fine, and I had no driver issues. And on the plus side my space issue has been resolved now.

Tonight I'll probably spend a bit more time tweeking settings, and maybe looking into some of the new features of the OS. And for now, Golden Axe girl is gone from my wallpaper, replaced by FF13 Chick!

Because I knew I was going to be bored and w/o a computer, I ended up going ahead while at the store and bought Demon's Soul. I've heard so many good things about it, and I was wanting a new game, so I picked this one over Brutal Legend.

So far, I'm not impressed. Everyone talks about how 'hard' this game is. But they mistake poor game design with difficulty. The bleak setting, lack of narrative, and the fact that the game provides virtually no information on what you are supposed to do makes the game very fucking frustrating. And for such a 'hard' game, stuff seems to die easy enough. The only time I have problems with it so far is in tight quarters, where targeting simply fails to function (this happens a lot, but once you know where these places are, it's easy to run in; back out and then target the monsters in open areas where targeting actually works).

Admittedly, I'm still in the first section of the game. Equipment is limited, I have virtually no abilities, so maybe it gets better later. Because quite frankly the crappy targeting, and lack of variety in combat moves, and spell abilities was really wearing thin on me last

Hopefully, the game will improve after I get past that first section (I had to go onto gamefaqs to figure out WTF I was supposed to be doing, and after that I found it much easier). I made it to the first main boss, but stopped at that point because it was 11 and it was time for bed.