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Dark Souls III |OT2| Welcome to NG+, Unkindled One
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robotzombie
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Also, I've come to love the Washing Pole, I like it a LOT better than the Dark Sword
Futurevoid
Member
Christ...
took me like 30 tries.......but I downed that fucker. Awesome looking fight. Frustrating as all hell. Toughest in the game for me thus far. Onto the
Nameless King
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Empty Space
Member
Practicing on enemies I found tough before venturing into NG+...
Is it possible to parry those guys? I feel like that should be impossible, but who knows you can parry Gundyr.
Yes. I walked back in and parried him pretty much straight after getting booted through the doorway there. I feel like the number of different attacks really makes it harder parry.
Practicing on enemies I found tough before venturing into NG+...
Every time I parry them I swear it's totally luck =\
yea, they can be parried but you gotta use those smaller shields for a better window. i just skip them cuz they're not worth it.
EatinOlives
Member
Finished the game today. I did miss a few optional areas and bosses but I think this is a good time to call it in. I'll get back into the whole thing once the DLC drops.
Overall impression of the game is that it's pretty damn great. For all the faults I was finding, the game did end with a great impression on me and I think it's a worthy conclusion to the series. The only thing is, I wish
Regarding the final boss, I think it was a pretty well designed boss and I felt I got his pattern down pretty well, but in the end I was losing for dumb reasons too many times and I did have to resort to using a phantom :/ although I can't say the victory wasn't unearned, since the phantom died halfway through
which is the furthest I had gotten up to that point, so I still had plenty of fight to finish on my own.
Such a great game. It's too bad I tend to get completely consumed by Souls games which ends up with me having to tear myself away from the game in the end, because part of me does want to go back to the optional areas, but right now I'm just too spent to play more of it. 44 hours in 2.5 weeks is a pretty big chunk of time considering my schedule
Overall impression of the game is that it's pretty damn great. For all the faults I was finding, the game did end with a great impression on me and I think it's a worthy conclusion to the series. The only thing is, I wish
the standard ending wasn't so barebones. I was hoping for at least an ending narrative cutscene that concludes the series. Maybe the DLC provides closure.
Regarding the final boss, I think it was a pretty well designed boss and I felt I got his pattern down pretty well, but in the end I was losing for dumb reasons too many times and I did have to resort to using a phantom :/ although I can't say the victory wasn't unearned, since the phantom died halfway through
the second form,
Such a great game. It's too bad I tend to get completely consumed by Souls games which ends up with me having to tear myself away from the game in the end, because part of me does want to go back to the optional areas, but right now I'm just too spent to play more of it. 44 hours in 2.5 weeks is a pretty big chunk of time considering my schedule
Belgian Dude
Member
Game keeps saying it needs to be updated to play online but Steam isn't saying anything
Been like that for basically the whole day. Any ideas?
Been like that for basically the whole day. Any ideas?
I completely forgot about the path up the ladder to the left of the
bonfire so I didn't get to
till after I fought the last boss.
I was level
at the time and I didn't find the
all that difficult. Was I over leveled for that boss?
Dancer of the Boreal Valley
Archdragon Peak
I was level
95
Nameless King
Lvl?
Finished the game today. I did miss a few optional areas and bosses but I think this is a good time to call it in. I'll get back into the whole thing once the DLC drops.
Overall impression of the game is that it's pretty damn great. For all the faults I was finding, the game did end with a great impression on me and I think it's a worthy conclusion to the series. The only thing is, I wishthe standard ending wasn't so barebones. I was hoping for at least an ending narrative cutscene that concludes the series. Maybe the DLC provides closure.
Regarding the final boss, I think it was a pretty well designed boss and I felt I got his pattern down pretty well, but in the end I was losing for dumb reasons too many times and I did have to resort to using a phantom :/ although I can't say the victory wasn't unearned, since the phantom died halfway throughwhich is the furthest I had gotten up to that point, so I still had plenty of fight to finish on my own.the second form,
Such a great game. It's too bad I tend to get completely consumed by Souls games which ends up with me having to tear myself away from the game in the end, because part of me does want to go back to the optional areas, but right now I'm just too spent to play more of it. 44 hours in 2.5 weeks is a pretty big chunk of time considering my schedule
I ve learned to pace myself....as much as it burns me that I move much slower than others and I do get spoiled here and there (sometimes on purpose) my first character had to take a rest before beating the pontiff. I have to learn the attacks to do it right. I cant just learn to parry and raise my stats and beat the pontiff in two parries or summon help just to have him die to ranged magic attacks from the helpers....this is too daunting a task with my schedule so it can sit...I started a new character instead. As demons call backs abound and hyper mode is possible early using the
dancer
swordsman
This iteration is just awesome for that aspect and I couldn't be more pleased that I get to go into places I'm not supposed to be yet and going backward through the game blind is absoulutely true souls! Will be posting videos of my hypermode character that I started. I actually started three in case the patch fixed the glitch, but it didnt (at least on PC). and now that gamesave manager finally got ds3 working I can load old saves to do proper videos of certain areas and things I forgot to record. I am having about as much fun with this version as is humanly possible from my perspective EXCEPT for the aspect that too much was redone...they needed a bit better balance between new and old,,,there really is too much of what I liked from before and not enough newness...but it wouldn't be souls without some imperfections and nothing to complain about.
Sl100 with +10 weapon.
Can only really assume your low level.
If so, makes sense, by time they enter that area, almost all of them will equip the only covenant they found.
Enjoy it while you can, eventually you will start receiving less and less summons. I recommend you get the 60 success items now.
Edit: never mind... I saw your post above
Maybe it will be same for me in that area now that I'm level 90
I have a question for you parry kings. (I never liked parrying, was bad at it, and therefore tended to try to focus on dodgin attacks and winning that way
)...but I think the time has come to finally get better at parrying..I love the Farron greatsword with its little parry knife, but is this knife a viable parry item? Is the fact I can almost parry nothing with it mean I am still bad at parries or is it not the ideal parry tool?
Nope, in fact the whole
skip and
glitch is possible solely because you allow the
to die in the boss fight, quit out of the boss fight, then re-summon him to come back and he is
.
)...but I think the time has come to finally get better at parrying..I love the Farron greatsword with its little parry knife, but is this knife a viable parry item? Is the fact I can almost parry nothing with it mean I am still bad at parries or is it not the ideal parry tool?
Nope, in fact the whole
dancer
swordsman
swordsman
invincible
I feel like it comes in bursts. There will be spans of 10 minutes where I get zero summons and then all of a sudden I would one immediate after each session. It's so weird.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
All done. Fire
. Overall I really enjoyed it. I hit a wall hard with only 25 in Vigor at
though. It's clear I needed more than that for the end game. Once I focused on pushing that up things felt a bit better though. It'll be interesting to see what kind of DLC we get. Hopefully there are some details soon.
usurped
Dancer
Augemitbutter
Member
got platinum a couple of days ago. i hope from puts skill based trophies in their next game and not so much of this collecting nonsense.
still no trophies for beating bosses solo etc.
still no trophies for beating bosses solo etc.
I feel this way with many enemies. I have far more confidence in crushing guards and getting a riposte in through that method or just fishing back stabs.
Newtype-001
Member
I can finally pvp again now that ive got to PS.
Im using the washing pole and its so good i feel like damn samurai
Im using the washing pole and its so good i feel like damn samurai
il Diavolo
Banned
Just got done with the
.
I don't know why I had such a hard fucking time with them. Died like 10 times before I was finally able to grind out a victory. Ive always been terrible at managing multiple bosses in these games but even the second phase was a bitch and I'm usually great in duels. Ive been breezing through the game up until this point.
I almost never utilize parrying so maybe that was the key but ive always been shit at doing it. I'm not too worried though because I always hit a wall at some point, even with bosses that are considered easier.
Abyss Watchers
I don't know why I had such a hard fucking time with them. Died like 10 times before I was finally able to grind out a victory. Ive always been terrible at managing multiple bosses in these games but even the second phase was a bitch and I'm usually great in duels. Ive been breezing through the game up until this point.
I almost never utilize parrying so maybe that was the key but ive always been shit at doing it. I'm not too worried though because I always hit a wall at some point, even with bosses that are considered easier.
theSlacker
Member
Not even going to try it and get my hopes up. Spent 5 hours earlier at the planed Darkmoon event with no summon at all.
I do.
SRTtoZ
Member
Finally beat my 2nd run, this time with a Sorcerer. Clocked in at 23 hours (first run was 32), so a lot quicker but thats to be expected since I knew every area pretty good. Overall I didn't enjoy it as much as my pure STR build but it had its fun moments. Magic definitely needs a buff though, especially casting speed. Some areas of the game make you want to pull out your hair because the enemies are too fast and you just can't react with the slow ass casting speed. I dinged 60 INT towards the end there so my Crystal Soul Spear was hitting like a truck but man it costs so much mana. I'll probably start NG+ on my STR character now or maybe even run a NG dex build with faith. Still lovin' this game!
I think I'm also starting to approach burnout. It's weird how these games always get me but also have a really strong cooling effect. Makes me wish budgets for indie devs were bigger so they could make more Souls clones. Think I'm gonna continue with Hyper Light Drifter.
Thanks pa22word, was confused given all the talk about 1.06 but guess Steam is still behind (as usual, heh).
Augemitbutter
Member
try the NiOh alpha.
Obviously that's part of the intent, but they're still more or less blood effects and that's the easiest way to get the gist across when someone's wondering why their skin keeps going all the way to the ebony adonis side of the slider randomly.
Personally I think the effect just gets in the way, but you can say that about a lot of the touches on the game's character models, like the dumb cinder effect that makes your character look all plasticy and actively impedes fashion souls
Sadly I'm not sure there is one. Everything I've heard or seen basically says you can either take forever farming them in
Carthus
Seems to be the easiest of the Souls brethren, but the tightest out of all. I'm with Miyazaki with how the Souls series needs to be "over." Good thing I'm going to be kept busy with the upcoming jrpgs.
Also, cage bro npc best npc.. All about that creepy "Nana" song..
I did. It was cool.
I don't think it's the easiest by a long shot, I'd probably reward that to DS1 pre-DLC or Demon's Souls. Part of it is also just that it's impossible to give a real assessment on difficulty once you've played a Souls game or Souls-like. You have a really acute sense of what you're getting when that terminology is thrown around (whereas a jRPG is far more vague and could be one of any number of different design practices and ideologies - from strategic management sims like Etrian Odyssey to do whatever the hell you want Final Fantasy games).
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
While I disagree with your ranking, the bolded is a damn good point.
Don't farm or invade, join a fight Club at high wall or ps bonfire by putting down a red sign soapstone mark. If you're decent at pvp you'll easily have 30 shackles in 2 hours or less.
Jumping back into my NG++ run. I'm up to the Catacombs and it's been ridiculously easy so far. Cruising through it even easier than I did NG+. Not exactly going fast though since I'm determined to loot every single item in the game even though I already have everything outside of the +2 rings.
I'll be wearing my Way of the Blue thing the whole time so it gives more Darkmoons/Blue Sents a chance, but I'm level 195 which is pretty high. Hopefully there's enough range that it gives some people opportunities.
I'll be wearing my Way of the Blue thing the whole time so it gives more Darkmoons/Blue Sents a chance, but I'm level 195 which is pretty high. Hopefully there's enough range that it gives some people opportunities.
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