In addition, there are a lot of dead ends in this game (at least so far) that are really, really dumb. Like, you wouldn't really see these in DS1. I just fought the
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Dark Souls II |OT| The Dark Souls of Dark Souls
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1. Map spoilers:
2. Statue spoilers:
HOLY SHIT, the thing on the floor in the mansion in the back is the map of drangleic! Super cool!
The girl said she wanted clothes, so, i warped back to majula to buy her some clothes (since i dont wanna give her any of mine) and I come back and she is gone. Where did she go!? Did i lose her forever?
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Summon NPC or deal with one first and then the other. There's a small window of time where the 2nd will jump on the platform but not the 3rd.
It becomes a regular enemy later on in the game because fuck you
Sakura
Member
It's not a dead end. It's a bonfire for you to fast travel to talk to that dude without having to fight through enemies every time.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Are the PS3 servers down?
DarknessTear
Banned
Nobody ever invades me. :c WHY?!
The worst part about this place is that yearn doesn't work on those enemies.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Do you have PSN ports open on your router?
InfiniDragon
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So I've been playing this game (and loving it), and the illusory wall thing stumped the hell out of me until someone said to press X. That simple thing just made me realize why I love this game perhaps the best of all the Souls games already...it's not fully a Souls game.
What this game is in my humble opinion, is King's Field with the Souls battle system. The "press X to open hidden stuff" thing was a King's Field gimmick that I had forgotten in my older age thinking it'd be like a Souls game where you hit it. But more than that, the art direction, the map design, the songs, the crazy traps on walls and chests, even the fact that they put homage to the original Moonlight Sword design
All of these little design choices when put together make this game feel like King's Field to me instead of Souls series. And I absolutely LOVED the King's Field series, so I think that's why this one is clicking so instantly with me.
Only thing I don't love about this game is the damn durability but I think everyone hates that. So yeah.
What this game is in my humble opinion, is King's Field with the Souls battle system. The "press X to open hidden stuff" thing was a King's Field gimmick that I had forgotten in my older age thinking it'd be like a Souls game where you hit it. But more than that, the art direction, the map design, the songs, the crazy traps on walls and chests, even the fact that they put homage to the original Moonlight Sword design
in the Blue Moon Sword that dude near the beginning is carrying.
Only thing I don't love about this game is the damn durability but I think everyone hates that. So yeah.
Nose Master
Member
If anyone is jonesing for some Lockstones, join the
Covenant. You get one for every kill. Really fun.
Anyone else mark out when they found the NPC in Wharf that you could
PS: What does
do and how do you cure it?
Annnnnd, when you kill an NPC, can you
Rat
Anyone else mark out when they found the NPC in Wharf that you could
sell items to? Decent prices.
PS: What does
curse
Annnnnd, when you kill an NPC, can you
temporary revive all of them with a prayer/soul donation? That's how it worked with the backpack merchant.
DarknessTear
Banned
I dunno, but I always do co-op. It seems to do fine... but nobody ever comes to destroy me. Sadface.
Sakura
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You also get them for being summoned and killing the dude that summons you, so you can just hang out there and farm them too without joining the covenant.
Freezasaurus
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(area)
Heide's Tower of Flame
I'm enjoying the durability, I'm maining a rapier with a Falchion for backup, I've had both weapons break a few times, which made me fall back to my Longsword or Mace. They're all good weapons so it's fun to be forced to switch every once in a while.
I'm also not a guy who dumps all of his titanite into one weapon, I've got them spread pretty wide, so I've got a good assortment of weapons to choose from.
Ahahahahha, hahahaha.
Statue spoiler:
Statue spoiler:
She asked for clothes and all i gave her was the prisoner's waistcoat. She thanked me for clothing her even though she is now wearing next to nothing. Wonder if there is anything you can give her in the game that improves what she sells/says/does, etc.
Got a couple of questions soul bros. made some decent progress and made it to the
place.
1) where is the orange soapstone located? Want to write some messages.
2)That lady in the above spoiler area. Is she just an npc summon? Can I get her to come back to home base? I kind of want her mask.
3)I never worried about this in the other souls games but I want to ask here, can I put too many stat points into strength? Got about 25 so far.
Bastille
1) where is the orange soapstone located? Want to write some messages.
2)That lady in the above spoiler area. Is she just an npc summon? Can I get her to come back to home base? I kind of want her mask.
3)I never worried about this in the other souls games but I want to ask here, can I put too many stat points into strength? Got about 25 so far.
It equates to a death. If you're in human form you'll go hollow. It's pretty much just a max HP drop.
Cannon Goose
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Oh christ, I'm only SL 66. Thankfully I've got other areas to explore! I really like that there are heaps of places to go all the time.
1. it's an option in your menu. hit start and look at messages. NO item needed.
2 i think just a summon.
3. I think 40 is the most you should ever do.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Finally arrived from Gamefly for PS3. Really addictive so far as expected. Looks like toasted butt, sadly also as expected. Someone should be ashamed, but I'm having enough fun right now to just pretend I'm playing a PS2 game.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
I had the same problem, then opened up the ports on my router and now i'm able to host summon and invaders. You should try.
No way. Didn't know you could
get rid of the poison. I beat that boss with the poison on the floor and it was a pain in the ass.
on the bonfire
Thanks soul bro.
Enjoying the game so far but if there was ever a game where "too open" can be used i would use this game as an example. I'm kinda roaming around dunno where to go. It was funny for the first misdirect they throw at you, now not so much now. Maybe too open isn't the right term? it doesn't really give hints in which direction you should set forth. Demon's Souls you knew you could take chances with X world levels based on the lowest to highest number. Dark Souls the "correct" path is much more obvious with the skellies being a big fuck you to newcomers and you find out about the bells and lord souls early on. This game not so much. You get the lady in green telling you you have to do X but that's it from her.
It's funny a good majority of poeple thought this game would be the one with a full story but to me it's even more obscure that the predecessors.
It's funny a good majority of poeple thought this game would be the one with a full story but to me it's even more obscure that the predecessors.
Lion Heart
Banned
Alright I'll take your advice, thanks.
Freezasaurus
Member
I'm currently an SL54 Warrior, and I'm thinking of tossing some points into ATN and INT for Pyromancy spells. Does pyromancy require heavy stat-point investments to be effective? I really just want some ranged attacks for situations where they're helpful.
MrCookiepants
Member
Huh, my health maxes out at just over half the bar. Did I get inflicted with curse at some point or is this just a thing when you're Hollow? I forget.
Comfort Jones
Banned
So guess my ore stone chick is glitched then. Not selling any titanite shards or any other ores in fact.
Good. Gooood.
Good. Gooood.
Disclaimer: I don't own/ haven't played any of the Souls games.
I want to experience at least one of the games in the series, & despite DS2 being developed to be accessible, I feel like I'd rather start off with Demon's Souls for various reasons. Would this be a smart thing to do or should I absolutely start here? I'm prepared to get my ass kicked either way.
I want to experience at least one of the games in the series, & despite DS2 being developed to be accessible, I feel like I'd rather start off with Demon's Souls for various reasons. Would this be a smart thing to do or should I absolutely start here? I'm prepared to get my ass kicked either way.
Soyongdori
Member
Ok. I can't beat
. Summoned two phantoms to help me fight twice but we all died. I had to use the effigy 3 times to fight with phantoms but everyone dies.
How the fuck do you kill this thing...
the pursuer
How the fuck do you kill this thing...
Freezasaurus
Member
I want to say that DS2 is a bit too hard early on. You're better off starting with Demon's Souls, IMO. It's got a more centralized hub-world format, and is probably the easier introduction to the franchise.
Parry one of his attacks in front of one of the
ballista, then run behind it and fire away
There are two ballistae on the battlefield, if you can hit him with one he will take almost enough damage to kill him.
vas_a_morir
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I'm meta-sunbroing. That's what us Sunbro's do.
If only I knew about (Sinner's Rise Spoiler)
How you could illuminate the room with the Lost Sinner boss fight.
Comfort Jones
Banned
Bacon_Boss
Member
So what's the fat white knight in
for? I've thought of trying to stab him a bit but he was silent and i figured he might be important down the line. So ideally with no spoilers, stab or leave him alone?
by the tree in the forest of giants, and later on near the beginning
You can go in order. or at least go to DS1 first. Dont think you would want to start with 2 imo
Soyongdori
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He's keep moving and cant pin point his exact location and he dashes around. Plus he destroys the ballistas while we dodge around.
Somnium986
Member
So where is my precious Zweihander? I just got to harvest valley, and Found the item that cures the statues. How much farther do I need to go?
Bacon_Boss
Member
Parry him
and he'll be stunned long enough to shoot.
Short answer is I don't know, but the weapon's probably worth a lot more than the 1 or two soapstone runs worth of souls you'd get for the soul itself.
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