saveweyard
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Finally VA down! And I didn't even need to heal.
Bloodborne |OT2| Praise The Moon
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BlackProdigy
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I hate this game so much..but I cant stop playing.
Raven Prime
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That's probably Henryk.
He is part of Eileen's quest, so if you want help follow up on that first.
There are some bugs with the bells apparently it's getting patched sometime in the upcoming week.
That's how you enter the Cathedral Ward plaza without buying the Hunter Chief Emblem.
LostMyNarbles
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I'm free if anybody wants help on BSB. I'm not sure how useful I'd be since I struggled on him myself, but two heads are surely better than one.
Thanks for this. I did the 'intro' chalice dungeon but I want more elemental blood gems so I was thinking of diving into them further.
I hear you can find special versions of weapons in there? I could really use an arcane-scaling Stake Driver...someone told me its explosion move scaled off arcane and I was sad to discover that it does not. I'm using Tonitrus for now though.
saveweyard
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Ah, thanks. At least I finally managed to get her down. That was the first boss I was having a lot of trouble with.
www.twitch.tv/vinftw33
Gonna give Rom a first try, if someone wants to come in really quick and watch me and let me know a good strategy or what I did wrong that would be a big help!
Gonna give Rom a first try, if someone wants to come in really quick and watch me and let me know a good strategy or what I did wrong that would be a big help!
I found it much easier once I started using pungent blood rituals. It took me about 3-4 attempts, to be honest when I get stuck in a souls game, that is the point I start to frustrate myself and underappreciate the game, caring less about atmosphere and settings.
For reference, my posts about VA 10-20 pages ago, haha.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Fighting
in Chalice Dungeon is just fucking BULLSHIT man...
Rom
IAmRandom31
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All this talk about bad online atm had to jump in and check it out. 2 Amelia fights in like 10 minutes. Only takes a minute or so to get summoned in.
Voidwolf
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I've heard this from a friend and just read a post in this thread that got me wondering, is it true that the more insight you are carrying the harder the game is? What about hoarding Madman's Knowledge? I'm not exactly hoarding these things per se, I just don't really feel the need to use them and I don't summon often, not to mention I offer help all the time.
I was just about to post that lol,
for fucks sake I have to fight this spider fuck again
Insight does open up more moves on enemies but my fight literally did 1 move over and over like I caught it in an AI loop.
HORRORSHØW
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just beat the cleric beast in one shot at level 4. that starting axe is kinda nuts.
Starting playing today. Thus far really fun. I like the more aggressive approach although I feel that the game is a bit easier than the DS games.
Game is a bit glitchy/buggy. Mobs not dying even though they have no hp, me getting stuck in stuff. And just now I fought the second boss and after he had 1/3 hp left he jumped and disappeared... LOL
Game is a bit glitchy/buggy. Mobs not dying even though they have no hp, me getting stuck in stuff. And just now I fought the second boss and after he had 1/3 hp left he jumped and disappeared... LOL
DealWithIt
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The weapons that drop in dugeons have different blood gem set ups. To make a weapon have arcane scaling, you slot in an arcane atk blood gem. this will replace all your physical damage with arcane damage.
More than 15 insight expands enemy moveset. It seems that the higher your insight the more dangerous enemies become. Hoarding Madman's Knowledge is fine. That is a good way to keep your insight low if you want, and still have insight to spend at the insight vendor.
fluffydelusions
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Edit nm
Aztechnology
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Quoting for new page. Yoshi my friend, give me the low down.
He is way to tough.
2 hand axe +4 does almost no damage.
And the other guy is dead anyways.
Was that open all the time?
diablos991
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Oh wow. Didn't know you could summon the NPC for BSB. That made it easy.
It opens right after you beat the
blood starved beast
Also I should note that there is other paths up that elevator, but one of them does lead you to the inner gates of the plaza.
Oh, okay. Yeah my stake driver doesn't have a waning gem slot so I can't put my fire gem in there.
I beat him with my greatsword.
I got him stuck on some gravestones and spammed my long range poke until he died.
XxRampage07xX
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Yep, Vicar Amelia is down. Easily the least difficult boss among those I fought.
Ugh why does a beauty like her have to turn herself into a monster? Such a waste!
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Hell yeah! Beat Blood Starved Beast on my third attempt. Definitely getting the hang of things.
BruceLeeRoy
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This game, this damn game was so needed in my life
well it was not a joke but rather had to do with shifting world tendency to black with suicide.
Superblatt
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Yes please!!!!! How can we connect?
Nice write up Yoshi 
. Don't 100% agree with you're boss ranking though!
Here are my impressions after 1 play through. Let's get the negatives out of the way first:
- First things first; this game has serious technical issues. The framerate is frequently a problem, the load times are absolutely awful, and to be a little nitpicky the game could really have used some more antialiasing. The load times were the worst for me though. In the early game when I was dying a lot getting against FG I was seriously worried it would ruin the game for me. I got used to them eventually but it really is something that needs to be addressed.
- I think the game is a little too dark. It lacks some sense of humour that was in dark souls, and there is just no reprieve; even the hunter’s dream is creepy and lifeless, in contrast to fire link or the nexus. In fact the game gets darker as it goes on. Like I don't have a problem with dark, but for a 30+ hour game it could use a little light relief imo. I just found it to be a bit exhausting.
- Not all the bosses are good. I did not like
- I felt like the game needed some more NPCs, there weren’t that many and they were hard to find or hard to know about their side quests. Just some more characters to for some light relief is what I mean. This is partly due to unifying the shop with the messengers, which is another think I’m not too fond of.
- There’s a couple of areas I didn’t especially like. I didn’t mind
but I just didn’t really like the ascetic of that area (apart from those super fucked up pig designs. I dunno that might just be because I was playing it while tired. I definitely didn’t like the start of
These are just small parts of the game though, to be fair.
- Runes seem way underpowered compared to what rings used to be which removes some of depths from builds.
- Estus >>>> grass. I am glad they put a limit on it so you can’t just have 99 heals all the time, but I don’t see much benefit to letting you run out. Farming sucks, straight up.
- My playtime clocked at 38 hours. I feel bad even saying this because of how long games usually are, but for dark souls 2 I think it was 60 for me. Just sayin’. I also think the game could have used a few more good trick weapons and maybe an extra area or 2 to really make it feel as huge as the dark souls games. But really this is such a bullshit complaint so let’s move on
.
Let’s be clear, aside from the technical issues all the problems I just said pale in comparison to the games strengths.
+ The game breathes new life into the souls series. This is how you do a sequel (I know it’’s not really a sequel but come on!): new universe, new art style and meaningful gameplay changes while still keeping all the stuff you loved from before. The trick weapons, regain system, bloodgem system, lack of shields, changes to how backstabs work; these are fantastic additions to the combat formula. I am also totally ok with them removing equip burden.
+ The trick weapons are insanely cool, and the vastly increased movesets leads to greater depth to the combat. The combat flows brilliantly, it really feels great. It may even be tough going back to dark souls! The hunter fights for example that are interspersed throughout the game felt amazing, I hope pvp is like that.
+ The game looks incredible. The art style is a breath of fresh air, and performance issues aside I think it’s quite technically impressive too. Certainly can tell it’s a next ten only game and not being held back by old consoles which is how I feel about most cross ten games. Also from a fashion souls perspective the game is pretty great, lots of beautiful attire.
+ The atmosphere…I don’t even know what to say. Areas like
, bravo From.
+ There are tons of great bosses in this game, and not many bad ones. Few of my favourites were
…just realised I’m listing most of the bosses. Seriously I feel like the percentage of good ones is way higher than previous games. And the final boss (
) was fantastic (unlike certain other final bosses I could mention, Nashandra, cough).
+ The return of the interlinked world! It’s so well designed, lots of great “oh wow I’m back here” moments, especially going from the
.
+ I love that the game is packed full of surprises and wtf moments.
, all really memorable.
+ Finally, I don’t understand the lore yet but I was really intrigued throughout the whole game and it was a great backdrop. I’ve always enjoyed watching videos on youtube of dark souls but this is the first time where I really was getting into it while I was playing. Hopefully it makes sense when you piece everything together properly.
Overall despite some imperfections this game is a masterpiece and an early GOTG contender. The technical issues are a real shame but it speaks volumes that even some pretty serious problems did little to diminish the experience for me. I bought a PS4 for this game and it was worth every penny. If you don't have a PS4, find a way to play this, it's not to be missed.. Hidetaka Miyazaki is a genius.
And to think I’ve barely done any chalice dungeons and no pvp. Hopefully those aspects of the game don’t disappoint but even if they do, at the end of the day the game is still one of the best single player experiences I’ve had in years.
. Don't 100% agree with you're boss ranking though!Here are my impressions after 1 play through. Let's get the negatives out of the way first:
- First things first; this game has serious technical issues. The framerate is frequently a problem, the load times are absolutely awful, and to be a little nitpicky the game could really have used some more antialiasing. The load times were the worst for me though. In the early game when I was dying a lot getting against FG I was seriously worried it would ruin the game for me. I got used to them eventually but it really is something that needs to be addressed.
- I think the game is a little too dark. It lacks some sense of humour that was in dark souls, and there is just no reprieve; even the hunter’s dream is creepy and lifeless, in contrast to fire link or the nexus. In fact the game gets darker as it goes on. Like I don't have a problem with dark, but for a 30+ hour game it could use a little light relief imo. I just found it to be a bit exhausting.
- Not all the bosses are good. I did not like
Rom at all, was super easy and the main boss doesn’t even attack for the first part of the fight. The real threat is the adds which I didn’t like. I really enjoyed the witches but it does rely a bit too much on the gimmick so once you know what to do it becomes trivial, not great for multiple playthroughs. And The One Reborn, I dunno about that one. One of the only bosses I beat in one, figured out the gimmick instantly and the just stayed behind it R1 spamming. Darkbeast Paarl is also one I didn’t find particularly interesting.
- I felt like the game needed some more NPCs, there weren’t that many and they were hard to find or hard to know about their side quests. Just some more characters to for some light relief is what I mean. This is partly due to unifying the shop with the messengers, which is another think I’m not too fond of.
- There’s a couple of areas I didn’t especially like. I didn’t mind
the bell maiden’s in the unseen village
Nightmare of Menis though, with the constant frenzy build up. I never figured out how to stop it in that area and I just ended up dashing through (after many deaths).
- Runes seem way underpowered compared to what rings used to be which removes some of depths from builds.
- Estus >>>> grass. I am glad they put a limit on it so you can’t just have 99 heals all the time, but I don’t see much benefit to letting you run out. Farming sucks, straight up.
- My playtime clocked at 38 hours. I feel bad even saying this because of how long games usually are, but for dark souls 2 I think it was 60 for me. Just sayin’. I also think the game could have used a few more good trick weapons and maybe an extra area or 2 to really make it feel as huge as the dark souls games. But really this is such a bullshit complaint so let’s move on
.Let’s be clear, aside from the technical issues all the problems I just said pale in comparison to the games strengths.
+ The game breathes new life into the souls series. This is how you do a sequel (I know it’’s not really a sequel but come on!): new universe, new art style and meaningful gameplay changes while still keeping all the stuff you loved from before. The trick weapons, regain system, bloodgem system, lack of shields, changes to how backstabs work; these are fantastic additions to the combat formula. I am also totally ok with them removing equip burden.
+ The trick weapons are insanely cool, and the vastly increased movesets leads to greater depth to the combat. The combat flows brilliantly, it really feels great. It may even be tough going back to dark souls! The hunter fights for example that are interspersed throughout the game felt amazing, I hope pvp is like that.
+ The game looks incredible. The art style is a breath of fresh air, and performance issues aside I think it’s quite technically impressive too. Certainly can tell it’s a next ten only game and not being held back by old consoles which is how I feel about most cross ten games. Also from a fashion souls perspective the game is pretty great, lots of beautiful attire.
+ The atmosphere…I don’t even know what to say. Areas like
old yahram, the host of the nightmare boss fight, the forbidden woods
+ There are tons of great bosses in this game, and not many bad ones. Few of my favourites were
Farther Gascoigne, Vicar Amelia, Blood Starved Beast (I never got hit by the one shot 
), Mergo’s Wet Nurse (dat mist phase holy shit!), Martyr Logarius
), Mergo’s Wet Nurse (dat mist phase holy shit!), Martyr Logariuswhich apparently isn’t the final boss!
+ The return of the interlinked world! It’s so well designed, lots of great “oh wow I’m back here” moments, especially going from the
forest to the start of the game, and from the unseen village to old yharnam
+ I love that the game is packed full of surprises and wtf moments.
Being kidnapped (twice!), the source of the dream, the guy that turns into a beast, jumping into the lake
+ Finally, I don’t understand the lore yet but I was really intrigued throughout the whole game and it was a great backdrop. I’ve always enjoyed watching videos on youtube of dark souls but this is the first time where I really was getting into it while I was playing. Hopefully it makes sense when you piece everything together properly.
Overall despite some imperfections this game is a masterpiece and an early GOTG contender. The technical issues are a real shame but it speaks volumes that even some pretty serious problems did little to diminish the experience for me. I bought a PS4 for this game and it was worth every penny. If you don't have a PS4, find a way to play this, it's not to be missed.. Hidetaka Miyazaki is a genius.
And to think I’ve barely done any chalice dungeons and no pvp. Hopefully those aspects of the game don’t disappoint but even if they do, at the end of the day the game is still one of the best single player experiences I’ve had in years.
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