Haunted
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I love, how every time you go through an area, it seems to get smaller and smaller. No Man's Wharf seemed like this epic, long trek the first time through on my first character, but now it just looks tiny to me. Same with The Gutter.
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Orthogonal
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That's Souls for you. Experience with the levels, enemies and your own mastery of mechanics can make subsequent plays a lot more efficient.
Now that one I definitely noticed. First time I went, spent an entire evening there. Second character, was done in a half an hour or so, lol (took me a bit longer because I could not remember where the Ring of Life Protection was). It was a real eye opener.
Mt Heart Attack
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So I just had a duel with a guy wearing an awesome golden armor (and he kicked my ass). Anybody has any clue what armor that might be?
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lol I think that might be it, what set is that again?
Gopher, of note in the Bethesda modding community, has started a blind Let's Play having never played any of the games in the series before. He's also insisting on using keyboard and mouse. I'll admit it's rather entertaining in a schadenfreude sort of way to see someone so well-versed and knowledgeable in other games futz his way around the very basics of this game. Will be interesting to see how fast he learns, though.
Mt Heart Attack
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Oh yeah that's the one, so it's not an actual armor as I understand? Pity.
That's the old knight set which isn't golden it is copper.
You might be talking about this set:
Black dragon set.
Yeah, this is something I've noticed in all the Souls games. The more often you revisit an area, the more straightforward it seems. I think it's a testament to how the games force you to play extremely carefully and reward you for exploring every nook and cranny the first time you enter an area.
In other news, I just found the path from the
Grave of Saints
The Gutter
I found that to be the case in the first, too - especially when I did NG+ and ++ in it. The first time through, you crawl, fighting every enemy, opening every door. After a few deaths, you're just running past every enemy, and rolling out of their attacks.
In some of the more annoying areas in this game, I ended up doing that after 2 deaths - just thinking "Right, I'm done here". The games are actually quite small, that way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjF71-lMD5Y
Sorry for the musical choices of the uploader but it's with everyone's favorite monastery scimitar. Insta parry means you can do this.
TheMaidenInBlack
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Finished it.
Ultimately, I think it's an inferior game to Dark Souls in many ways. In fact, with the way that the game is designed, I think this is more Demon's Souls 2 than Dark Souls 2, to be honest. It lacks that sense of being an interconnected world that you're exploring. It's far more "video-gamey" with bite-size zones and lots of warping around.
Is that bad? Of course not, it's a great game. Is it slightly disappointing it's inferior to Dark Souls? Yes.
Ultimately, I think it's an inferior game to Dark Souls in many ways. In fact, with the way that the game is designed, I think this is more Demon's Souls 2 than Dark Souls 2, to be honest. It lacks that sense of being an interconnected world that you're exploring. It's far more "video-gamey" with bite-size zones and lots of warping around.
Is that bad? Of course not, it's a great game. Is it slightly disappointing it's inferior to Dark Souls? Yes.
well gotten as far as the aldia's keep so i'm calling it a day
most bosses were pretty easy but i randomly summoned a npc during the mirror knight fight and i think i missed out on an epic fight for that, so kinda bummed about being weak for it
anyways, i can barely remember which places i should use the
ring on, the three places i remember are:
most bosses were pretty easy but i randomly summoned a npc during the mirror knight fight and i think i missed out on an epic fight for that, so kinda bummed about being weak for it
anyways, i can barely remember which places i should use the
king's
in the castle in forest of giants. tried this one but it only had one of those creepy trees and nothing more i think? kinda cool reaching this place it was cut off before but pretty disappointing
the door in the fork road in shaded woods, which lead me to aldia's keep and i guess is where i should be going
there was a door i found on the black gulch also, but i haven't tried that one yet as i'd rather not visit black gulch again heh
the door in the fork road in shaded woods, which lead me to aldia's keep and i guess is where i should be going
there was a door i found on the black gulch also, but i haven't tried that one yet as i'd rather not visit black gulch again heh
Lack of interconnection was a bummer but I really appreciated the fact that warping was available from the getgo, a lot less time wasted.
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, zero sense of achievement, just a sense of relief that I dont need to bother doing AD again
Hexs, Faith and Pyromancy are all superior to pure sorcery. Sorcery doesnt really become "OP" till endgame, its also ok in the very beginning, but for most of the mid game it lags considerably. Sorcery isnt paricularly easier than playing with a good ranged weapon.
I got done by that infamous Pursuer one, though in fariness thats not an issue with the hitbox, its an issue with the animation, I saw it clip my leg but it was still funny that next second Im dangling in the air.
Ancient Dragon
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Hexs, Faith and Pyromancy are all superior to pure sorcery. Sorcery doesnt really become "OP" till endgame, its also ok in the very beginning, but for most of the mid game it lags considerably. Sorcery isnt paricularly easier than playing with a good ranged weapon.
I got done by that infamous Pursuer one, though in fariness thats not an issue with the hitbox, its an issue with the animation, I saw it clip my leg but it was still funny that next second Im dangling in the air.
is the biggest piece of shit area ever.Sinner's Rise
It's not too bad if you make use of the summon sign for a certain NPC after the ride down.
Also, the fast enemies are easy kills with any fast weapon (fire broadsword especially) while the large guys can be taken out purely by your helpful friend. Also, since their attention won't be on you, you can get easy backstabs.
Well fuck. Just tried it myself on some enemies in FoFG, it seems difficult to pull off at least
The characters and the sidequests weren't that interest, either, for me.
I have to agree. I still enjoyed it quite a bit, but I'd say it's inferior to Dark Souls in almost every way. The core combat, the storytelling, the level design, the characterization, the boss/enemy design . . . pretty much everything. One big exception being online play, certainly. I love the game, for sure, and I plan to go back to it in time to see how it holds up. 78 hours later, though, I think I'm done for awhile.
It's funny you mention Demon's Souls, because I'm about to play that for the very first time. I realize it's a very different game in terms of world design, but I'm hoping the levels and the combat feel more Dark Souls-y. I don't really know what to expect, but knowing there's much more overlap in teams between Demon's and the original Dark, it would be funny if I felt more at home playing Demon's than I did playing Dark Souls 2.
Just be prepared to get less different weapon attacks.
TheMaidenInBlack
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Perfectly put
You are probably nearing the cut off for it as you can nearly open the shrine of winter and most people would have long surpassed the copse.
DeS has the best world of the three imo, probably my favorite game overall in the series still as well.
Make sure you have no other controllers connected to your PC, or things that can be viewed as controllers, OR bluetooth receivers that have had a controller connected to them at some point.
DSII only recognizes the first controller that's connected.
That could work, but they would absolutely need to get the percentages right to where you didn't feel completely gimped.
There's less variety in movesets, you mean? I usually stick to a handful of weapons, anyway, so I'll probably be good if I can find at least a few standouts.
Both less variety and that you have less attacks to use. I can't remember exactly, but I think there is a lack of a jump attack, perhaps something else.
It was one of the first things I noticed when moving from DkS1 to DeS.
Haunted
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Drangelic castle for ring of blades +2 maybe but's that all I can thing of unless you want the butcher's axe(scaling is crap so infuse it and enjoy), crypt black sword and dragon slayer great bow. In that case that would be the second black gulch bonfire and efygil's idol in iron keep.
The Illiterati
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Finally beat it. Anyone got any good lore video links? I'm kind of interested in checking some out.
There seems to always be hit detection issues with that boss fight.
Stratosphere
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How does the Old Iron King go from super easy in NG to a royal pain in my ass on NG+? Even w/2 summons I'm struggling to take this dude down......
All attacks are telegraphed a bit plus you can poison it if you like.
You'll probably find him easier without summons.
Well, I'm doing
Earthen Peaks
Both of them are easy you should have enough soon but if it goes a bit slow try the old iron king.
Stratosphere
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Yeah I'm just really bad at predicting those delayed slams. I always end up rolling too early. Also I still cant figure out the best way to handle that fire palm attack....
Stand to the side of the palm and hit away.
I haven't even been there yet on my own. D: I'm mostly dicking around trying to get the medals just in case the online dies in NG before I worry about that.
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