I'm surprised, I thought more people in this community had reached NG+Inf. I have on my original character, but I can understand why not many people do it. For me, it's not that it's challenging to get there (it's not; there are very easy ways to get there--try Int...), personally it's just that I don't see the point. Enemies get more health, they deal more damage, you're more-or-less capped because of the diminishing returns. But other than bosses taking a bit longer to kill, NG+8 is the same as NG. Most of my toons are either NG+, +2, or +3, depending on whether I just want to get them to SL120 or whether I need to do more playthroughs to get more spells. But once my toons are complete, I see no point in keeping on piling on the +s. I prefer to start a new toon, instead. The only reason I even went to +Infinity once is because I was going for the platinum trophy and messed up
a lot! (Also, this was before it was known that you could get the trophies on different characters... although, in hindsight, that should have been obvious!)
I guess others are just more PvE-minded than I am. For me, PvE's just become about leveling my toons for PvP. For someone who enjoys PvE more, then sure, I can understand why they'd keep progressing through +s.
DoughGuy wrote:I think you can get the same feel of going through NG+++++++ by going through the game with low level toons. I just started my SL 8 run and its what I imagine NG+++++++ would be like.
If you give yourself equipment restrictions on top of level restrictions, then it could be pretty close. Otherwise, with an elemental weapon, a mask, and the right rings, your SL really doesn't mean anything. In NG, regardless of your SL, you can easily destroy bosses with the right gear. When you get along in +s, they get
a lot more health, whereas your damage output is almost capped. Other than that, there's also the freedom of choice callip mentioned. Whether consciously or not, by the time you get to NG+Whatever, you'll have collected a lot of equipment and spells! So you can easily wield and attune whatever you fancy, which you can't do on NG--especially not with a low level.
Anyway, all this to say: NG+Inf has its appeals to some players; I'd probably recommend everyone get there at least once, like I recommend to try everything else in Dark Souls.
(Btw, hate to say it, but my attendance and posting on these forums will diminish drastically. This isn't a great place to say this, but I thought I'd say it here since this is probably the only post I'll write tonight.)