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Dark Souls |OT3| This thread moves faster than the Blighttown framerate
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duckroll said:
The localization is pretty damn good imho, and the voice acting is much better than Demon's Souls.
The only issues I've really noticed are some of the text strings being overlong and screwing up the formatting; and strictly speaking thats a straight up C-class bug that someone should really have caught during QA.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Kyoufu said:
YOU DEFEATED
Defeated is a transitive verb and requires an object.
Otherwise though the translation does seem pretty good, not that I pay close attention to NPC ramblings.
plasticpassion
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I'm just got the Lordvessel and decided to try out being human so I could PVP.
WHY DID I NOT DO THIS BEFORE? The game is 10x more entertaining when people invade. I've started leaving the game running and waiting for invasions. I need to get that Fog Ring to compete with others who have it though. It's a bitch to try and hit them with my pyro spells.
Is it customary to bow before battling? I totally slayed some guy as he initiated the bow animation unaware he was about to do that. Sorry man!
WHY DID I NOT DO THIS BEFORE? The game is 10x more entertaining when people invade. I've started leaving the game running and waiting for invasions. I need to get that Fog Ring to compete with others who have it though. It's a bitch to try and hit them with my pyro spells.
Is it customary to bow before battling? I totally slayed some guy as he initiated the bow animation unaware he was about to do that. Sorry man!
The Tiny Being's Ring is straight up incorrect in its description on the gift screen.Kyoufu said:
I find it very satisfying and compelling to bow and have the bow returned. I also feel that someone not bowing is a decent indication that they might be cheating/griefingplasticpassion said:
Kyoufu said:
Equip the Tiny Being's Ring and wait for your health to regenerate.
hey_it's_that_dog said:YOU DEFEATED
Defeated is a transitive verb and requires an object.
Otherwise though the translation does seem pretty good, not that I pay close attention to NPC ramblings.
But the object of DEFEATED is the boss. It's not explicitly rendered in text but in context it's obvious. Splitting hairs over usage guidelines when the idea being communicated is by no means unclear is pure pedantry.
I wholly endorse From's refusal to conform to stodgy old prescriptivist dogma.
You shouldn't have it, be glad you didn't choose it.Kyoufu said:
Description says it regens HP (what?! awesome!), in actuality it raises your HP by 30 (...are you kidding me).
Rofl. This isn't splitting hairs, "you defeated" is straight-up nonsense in the way it's presented in-game. That said, I have no doubt that it's intentional and I love it.ixix said:
Sniper McBlaze
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So I decied to reroll a new character since my old one had killed off some of the more important NPC and hoooooleeeee shit how much faster progressing goes now. I'm already level 21 now and going to The Depths after 2 hours and 50 minutes. Last time I think that took me atleast 15 hours.
Last time I think that took me atleast 15 hours.MomoPufflet
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Akuun said:
I used a fire+5 gargoyle axe to farm skeleton babies for many hours. Kills them all in one swipe easily. the R1 sweep is very good for this. it's a great weapon
Rolling through early areas like a boss once you know what you're doing is so satisfying. I had to do this getting my bearing in Demon's Souls and it made me love my second character so much.Sniper McBlaze said:So I decied to reroll a new character since my old one had killed off some of the more important NPC and hoooooleeeee shit how much faster progressing goes now. I'm already level 21 now and going to The Depths after 2 hours and 50 minutes.
lol blightown is the shittiest looking, most awkward and hostile location possible, made worse by the framerate, yet I wouldn't have wanted it any other way (ok, maybe better framerate). So memorable. Loved the feel of that comforting bonfire tunnel with all the messages and player ghosts.
I just beat him (5 minutes ago).Jadedx said:
i need 4 more points to int, to have the light spell so i can slain Nito.
It'll be a chore, since i need like 50k per level.
So anyway, Tomb of Giants and then Lost Izalith.
You r armor of choice.BeeDog said:
Personally, i like heavy stuff, so i'm doing Black Iron Armor chest and Giant Armor head/legs.
And i use Smough's gloves.
I heard the Elite Knight Armor is a decent one, when buffed up (and it's pretty light).
MomoPufflet
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Septimius said:
This game needs some sort of arena mode so bad. I would pay for it, and I think a lot of people would. I think the spontaneity and panic of invasions encourages cheeze, especially when you get people farming invasions and playing the game like it's dudebro. I don't think an arena would eliminate retards, but it would probably encourage more actual fighting. You could at least set gentleman's rules with people you know.
I'm sure for the developers the concept of an arena is a major point of contention though.
Backfoggen
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Smough and Ornstein are some effers!
Hawkian said:
"Nonsense?" Pish-tosh and balderdash. You don't need a proper noun rendered in text to know what you defeated because, hey, you're the one that just defeated it. From is merely being judicious with their language usage. Stating the obvious unnecessarily would merely detract from the austere jubilation that YOU DEFEATED embodies.
plasticpassion
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I'm in Anor Londo (archives) and I love the environment. That music is so chilling and incredible.
Ah well. I'm sure you preferred some area that didn't mesh with a speedy ninja like myself.Johnas said:This is what I was getting at.
I really didn't care much for Anor Londo as a level.
I didn't mean it was nonsense semantically, just grammatically. It's not a case of prescriptive vs. descriptive either- "to defeat" simply isn't used like that by native speakers of English. If being judicious was the ultimate goal, they could have done the job in six letters- would "you won" really convey a lesser sense of austere jubilation?ixix said:
That said, I fully support the awkward, not-quite-grammatical construction they've used here. It fits. Actually made me laugh out loud the first time I saw it, and I certainly wouldn't have it any other way. But I'm not about to argue it makes any sense!
Backfoggen
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Anor Londo is my highlight so far. The detour through the church, the
, invading
, just the look and feel of the area... great stuff.
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Lautrecs world
corrosivefrost
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I am about to snap my disc in half.
I am extremely sick of running from demon's ruins to bed of chaos through the shortcut only to have bed of chaos OHKO or push me into the hole. >_<
Also, screw the dark phantom and vengeance asshat who invaded and killed me while i was trying to kill the area -- i went back to get my soul and kill kirk for the last time and i got invaded before i made it through the shortcut, killed and all my shit gone.
I am extremely sick of running from demon's ruins to bed of chaos through the shortcut only to have bed of chaos OHKO or push me into the hole. >_<
Also, screw the dark phantom and vengeance asshat who invaded and killed me while i was trying to kill the area -- i went back to get my soul and kill kirk for the last time and i got invaded before i made it through the shortcut, killed and all my shit gone.
Yeah. You guys may want to spoiler this stuff, but indeed. One of the most memorable boss battles ever for me, maybe the most, by the time I "won" it. There was no "FUCK YEAH!" after that one (like when I firebombed Ornstein with 1/20th of my life leftSeptimius said:I feel you
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indigo-cyclops
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HAHA, love the new title.
I'm working my way slowly through Izalith, UGH.
I'm working my way slowly through Izalith, UGH.
What's the problem with that boss? You just kill the first glowing root, then carefully work your way back to the entrance area, then go slow to the next root. Just block his attacks and watch for the areas of the floor that crumble, then just jump to the root back in the middle.corrosivefrost said:
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corrosivefrost said:
Don't use the shortcut for the boss unless you have no other choice.
Go the proper route via Demon Firesage and Centipede Demon, and there's a bonfire out in the lava field much closer and easier for the repeated runs for BoC.
If you've got good fire-resist gear and access to the pyromancy flash sweat you can possibly get by without the charred orange ring... but it'll be a push.
corrosivefrost
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Hawkian said:
That's where I'm going from -- I've only been killing the capra demon, the taurus demon, and the prowling demon.
sixghost said:
The last part -- I'm on NG+ -- getting hit while running for the root in the middle is the problem. It manages to clip me one way or another and 1 shot me or push me down the hole.
Augemitbutter
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i'm still confused about why i'm getting summoned by japanese people 95% of the time. if i try to play on early morning japan time, i'm not getting summoned at all.
this is weird and i have no solution to this problem.
this is weird and i have no solution to this problem.
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