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Dark Souls II |OT| The Dark Souls of Dark Souls
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legacyzero
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Kinda off topic, but funny:
My favorite band SEVENDUST must be Dark Souls fans. They have a new album coming out called "Time Travelers & Bonfires" lol.
http://www.sevendust.com/
My favorite band SEVENDUST must be Dark Souls fans. They have a new album coming out called "Time Travelers & Bonfires" lol.
http://www.sevendust.com/
Incendiary
Banned
I think that's the biggest difference I've seen so far. In Dark Souls, even when there were mobs of enemies there were ways to get them separated and fight one on one. In this game I've been have to fight three and four enemies at once with no choice because they all aggro together. Keeps you on your toes for sure.
My favorite band too!
The perfect Dark
Banned
Wa wa wa ...where?
I can't wait and you heard that man. You're a firekeeper now so since all firekeepers have some sort of disability what will yours be? No legs, hunchback lots of facial hair?
CountAntonius
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KingGiddra
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I just
. Awesome!
fed the birds silky smooth stones and got a Demon Great Hammer
DarkSoul520
Member
Wait, where is this blacksmith?
Snapshot King
Member
Can someone explain to me how the Blue Sentinels actually works? I can't figure out a way to fight my fellow sentinels, or help people in other games, despite having the ring equipped.
I am 14 hours in now and am loving it.
I am very impressed with the way they've upped the intensity of resource management. I think if this game came out first, instead of demons or dark, it would have a reputation like Shadow Tower's, where people are afraid to play it because of how scary it is that your weapons break so fast.
Handing out one flask at a time is brilliant. I a up to four flasks now and I treasure each one and make constant calculated risks where I only heal if I think I can be one-shotted. It's making me play way more carefully than I did in DkS.
The weapon degrade system may be my favorite thing. I think it's the absolute best across the souls, king's field and shadow tower games. I have a fire long sword +4 as my main weapon and always at least a dagger in reserve. In larger areas I have a second heavier weapon just to be sure I can make it to the next bonfire. This additional pressure/friction had come into play several times for me and it's added another layer of tension and release, it's completely genius.
Also when my only good weapon broke early on and I had to switch back to the dagger until I found the goddamn key for the blacksmith, well, let's just say that people's worries that this game wouldn't continue the Souls ethos about actions not having consequences turned out to be absolutely wrong.
I am very impressed with the way they've upped the intensity of resource management. I think if this game came out first, instead of demons or dark, it would have a reputation like Shadow Tower's, where people are afraid to play it because of how scary it is that your weapons break so fast.
Handing out one flask at a time is brilliant. I a up to four flasks now and I treasure each one and make constant calculated risks where I only heal if I think I can be one-shotted. It's making me play way more carefully than I did in DkS.
The weapon degrade system may be my favorite thing. I think it's the absolute best across the souls, king's field and shadow tower games. I have a fire long sword +4 as my main weapon and always at least a dagger in reserve. In larger areas I have a second heavier weapon just to be sure I can make it to the next bonfire. This additional pressure/friction had come into play several times for me and it's added another layer of tension and release, it's completely genius.
Also when my only good weapon broke early on and I had to switch back to the dagger until I found the goddamn key for the blacksmith, well, let's just say that people's worries that this game wouldn't continue the Souls ethos about actions not having consequences turned out to be absolutely wrong.
When you exit the tutorial path take a left instead of forward to the bonfire.
You can use homeward bone during bosses now.
I still don't "get" what is fun about weapons breaking. So instead of rolling with one weapon am I supposed to have a minimum of two that I always use? It seems like you need to carry a couple weapons now in case one breaks or gets weak.
Deified Data
Banned
Dude's an ass-kicker when solo. I heard summoning help to man the ballistas trivializes things, though.
Does anyone know if the stats on the official Namco Dark Souls II site is legit? It seems kind of wrong, at least when comparing the 360 to ps3 stats.
For example only 3 people cleared the game on ps3, while over 1500 did on 360? Doesn't seem right
For example only 3 people cleared the game on ps3, while over 1500 did on 360? Doesn't seem right
Snapshot King
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Also, can someone explain the hollowing out process to me? I'm not getting any more human after beating bosses, either myself or while summoned. But now, despite being hollowed the hell out, I'm still at 90% health and it doesn't decrease. Could it be because I have a bunch of tokens of fidelity from helping people?
The perfect Dark
Banned
Again, the art design is outstanding. Atmosphere at it's best.
Senor Whopper
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i cant put a summon sign anywhere, network glitch/maintenance?
So does this game perform better when purchased digitally on PS3? Because the optical drive is whirring like crazy while playing and it has pauses as it's loading each section.
No idea why Sony still doesn't let us choose to install the entire game like the 360. It's causing it to perform like shit since those 1/4 second pauses every 20 seconds sometimes cause control issues in a fight.
No idea why Sony still doesn't let us choose to install the entire game like the 360. It's causing it to perform like shit since those 1/4 second pauses every 20 seconds sometimes cause control issues in a fight.
Manus
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You do know repair powder still exists right?
No one really knows the best way to build at this point. If you want to play without spells, a mix of VIT, END, ADP, VIG, and either STR or DEX seems like it would be decent. There are going to be hard parts no matter how you build. I went heavy on INT, and some bosses are just destroying me. Other's I just plow through.
whenever I hollow I go get summoned for a boss and I turn human again, so you can definitely use that method. You might need to do it multiple times if you're really low HP, I haven't tested it much.
I have tons of those tokens too but I haven't been super-hollow since the beginning of the game when I was jumping off everything trying to find secrets. Are you wearing the
binding ring
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Website is not working properly yet until next week IIRC
As long as they don't break completely, they repair at bonfires.
MiamiWesker
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I'm fighting the
what does more damage in a short amount of time? Dual wielding attacks or two handed strong attack. Think weapons of equal power. I can only get two swings in before I have to move away with two handed.
Old Dragonslayer
They did have server trouble so that might be the case. Also if that invasion rate is true they fucked up invasions big time i haven't even gotten invaded by a player once.
eot
Banned
Pretty sure you can do that in DkS
Snapshot King
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I am, but even when I take it off, there's nearly no difference now. And Im at the max fucked up hollow state. Weird.
I did not know that. Thank you sir!
DownLikeBCPowder
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Okay, sometimtes when I'm assisting someone as a shade, everything is fine - they challenge area boss and I go in. Other times when they go in the same gate it simply says they've left the area. Any reason why this could be?
I'm actually learning about this for the first time now! Had no idea you could do that in DkS. Holy crap, sort of takes that fear of losing my souls away just a bit. I mean I realize a lot of the time you just dont have time to home bone before you get crushed by the boss, but still...
a white one? I got mine from
Pate. I just went into that area he said was trapped, and talked to him afterwards.
Also since I have a knack for posting right at the end of a page, if anyone can confirm whether or not the turtle knights drop their weapon I'd appreciate it.
legacyzero
Banned
#HIGHFIVE!
Bah didn't talk to him enough. I'll make sure to talk to people 20 times or something now on.
resting at bonefire. a 'broken' weapon needs to see a black smith afaik.
Lost Fragment
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What a complete crock of shit. Rember this?
You know, the one you can buy in infinite numbers from Oswald at 5k a piece? Guess what, it's the same mechanic. Except instead of buying several copies, you just pay to have it repaired. Or is it super-casual now that it's 3K instead of 5K? Come on.
Rings of sacrifice were 100% not infinite in DS1. There are several other things that make it super blatantly not the same as it is in DS1, but I'm not gonna know exactly how I feel about it until I know more about the game as a whole.
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