how were you going health-gem wise?
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how were you going health-gem wise?
The thirst is real.
Balder Side Sword, Iaito, and Uchigatana are the boss Dark Souls weapons. Everyone knows this. Also the Dark Silver and Gold Tracers.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
All I wanted was another DBS. A massive sword that scales mostly with STR (less than D for DEX).
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
downloading the real dark souls begins now
I'm probably using a dagger. Have for both games.
Greataxe with an actual moveset again (apparently) calls me.
pedr0theli0n
Neo Member
Used them up fairly quickly. they definitely drop, and I found a vendor and bought a few more, but it was a losing battle. especially with half health I was literally dying after 2-3 hits.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Fuck all melee, gonna scrub out my first run with magic.
Magic looks like so much fun in this.
Magic looks like so much fun in this.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Who said this was going to get slaughtered in reviews eh?
I have a fondness for the Bandit Knife since I first played Dark Souls with the Thief class, and I used that weapon for a good chunk of the game. The bleeding effect was good stuff.
I'm going dual wielding. If possible I wouldn't mind a sword in one hand and a small axe in the other, though I think I lose out on some moves if I use different weapon types.
MyWhiteRequiem
Member
It's all about dat Murakumo curved greatsword. I really hope there's a sword like that in DS2.
Punished_Snake
Member
Now I have arrived to place that only can be described as gorgeous and atmospheric. I'm now 45 hours in and the game keep delivering. I don't know how some reviewers finished the game in 30-35 hours, they surely missed a lot of areas and secrets.
super-famicom
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I started downloading about 15 minutes ago, now at 26%.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
About 40 minutes left on my download, but i'm really sleepy, don't think i will be able to play this now. ;_;
Okay, This is the last reply on the subject. Just because Pacific Standard Time isn't the current time anywhere right now doesn't change it. It's Always GMT-8. Pacific time changes, PST doesn't. PSN promised the dl by 12am GMT-8, not PT or PDT. Unless I remember it wrong and it didn't say PST on the store page.
I wish I was told sooner. Dat superior DS3. Ooops.
I'm hoping hammers (Both large and small) are buffed by the STR changes, since they're the main STR weapons along with axes. I love clobbering people with them.
...Okay, so by this logic I need to level up my INT to use Miracles.
super-famicom
Member
The DS4 works on the PS3 as well and feels even better!
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
It did
Mountains of Mars
Member
13% done with 230 minutes to go, being in Asia is suffering.
It's okay bro. That's what your fellow GAFfer is for. Steering you in the right direction when it comes to game purchases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTVDDSmgdH8
Yep its downloading and I posted my unboxing on You tube: Praise the fuckin' Sun after standing in line in the cold for it though!!!!!
edit: great timing...its all downloaded and the music is ON!
Pretty PO'd that I didnt figure out a workaround for the HDCP BS...anyone with current ideas on the best way to record PS3 using Avermedia Pci card please PM!!
Yep its downloading and I posted my unboxing on You tube: Praise the fuckin' Sun after standing in line in the cold for it though!!!!!
edit: great timing...its all downloaded and the music is ON!
Pretty PO'd that I didnt figure out a workaround for the HDCP BS...anyone with current ideas on the best way to record PS3 using Avermedia Pci card please PM!!
Works fine for me on 360 and PC. What problems do you have?
The perfect Dark
Banned
Magic or Melee?
Magic or Melee?
I can't decide.
Magic or Melee?
I can't decide.
Souls yearns for melee
I tend to agree, while I don't take anything from anyone who wants to play with whatever style that suits them, personally, whenever I watch someone playing a pure sorc type character it just sort of looks cheap and easy or something.
Punished_Snake
Member
For people annoyed with the death penalty (health reduction), there is a ring you can find in an area called
No Man's Wharf that reduce the amount of health taken after death, behind a closet. So hit everything you find in this place. It will make your life much easier.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Magic.
Don't you want to burn people to death, explode corpses, or create a vortex of flame?
Somehow this makes me imagining Sage Freke and Saint Urbain punched each others face.
onimushroom
Member
Are the "early access weapons" within the 5213 MB file or is there a separate download?
Melee. Magic makes first playthroughs too easy and the melee system in Dark Souls is deeper than the magic system.
The perfect Dark
Banned
I don't know, but I encourage everyone to play with the pure experience, at least the first time. this could be sorta like starting out with the drake sword, and it feels sorta artificial, it's not something natural from the design of the game, it's a gimmick promotion decided probably by money people and not by the developers.
AzureSkies
Member
Installing now:
TIME TO GET HYPED.
Also: what's everyone's opinion on the weapons? Broken or not? Used the code just for the theme myself.
TIME TO GET HYPED.
Also: what's everyone's opinion on the weapons? Broken or not? Used the code just for the theme myself.
onimushroom
Member
Sure. I'm not saying I would definitely use them. But I would like to know I didn't miss getting them early, as it was a pre-order bonus and all...
XANDER CAGE
Member
So let me tell you what's sort of bullshit about this game's numerous death penalties.
None of them are bad on their own, but picture this: you're stuck on a boss. You have nowhere else to go right now, and because you've died so many times enemies aren't spawning anymore. You don't have
Any effigies to use to become human, and your health bar is stuck at 50%.
Grinding for levels is pretty much out of the question. Effigies cost 5k souls, but again, grinding is made much more arduous thanks to the de spawning enemies. Fighting the boss is made all the tougher thanks to your lowered health.
Unless you really luck out and ace the boss, you're almost completely SOL. It always felt like there was something else to do in DeS and DkS - I think roadblocks happen much more frequently than in previous games.
None of them are bad on their own, but picture this: you're stuck on a boss. You have nowhere else to go right now, and because you've died so many times enemies aren't spawning anymore. You don't have
Any effigies to use to become human, and your health bar is stuck at 50%.
Grinding for levels is pretty much out of the question. Effigies cost 5k souls, but again, grinding is made much more arduous thanks to the de spawning enemies. Fighting the boss is made all the tougher thanks to your lowered health.
Unless you really luck out and ace the boss, you're almost completely SOL. It always felt like there was something else to do in DeS and DkS - I think roadblocks happen much more frequently than in previous games.
I largely just play melee in Souls games, not because I find the magic cheap or uninteresting, but because I just enjoy the sword combat that much.
However I'm not above using magic for buffs. Those spells are often useful and serve as a nice supplement to melee combat.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Scamco pls
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
360 has tearing and PS3 has slightly worse framerate.
Everything else is pretty much the same.
Snapshot King
Member
What the fuck at the strength scaling. Did they just completely remove strength weapons from the game or what?
Too bad I don't have a DualShock. I will have to use my trash-tier scrublord 360 pad on my xbox and then PC. BibleThump.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
In regards to magic, the way they've expanded it, even going as far to create a separate system in Hexes, makes it seem like something from is putting a huge focus into. The sword stuff is still fun but it's been roughly the same for 3 games now, though dual wielding should be fun. I want to go into magic first this time mostly because it has the most new stuff in it.
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