Talk me down from the edge Dark Souls folks. I totally love this game, my GOTY no doubt (edging out Jamestown) but I'm really running out of steam for the final push. I've pretty much just got Demon Ruins, Lost Izalith and the End Game left to go (have 3 lord souls already). I'm stuck a bit currently on Ceaseless Discharge and I just don't feel the desire to go on anymore. I think it's just a case of burnout, I got this game day one and it's been pretty much the only thing that I've played since then. My game clock is around 80 hours or so which is like 4-5 times the amount that I've spend on any game in the last few years.
It seems so odd in this age to complain about game length. But I actually would have loved to have all four or so of these final areas combined down into just two or so. They just don't seem to have the same spark as the early areas, and while I enjoyed The Duke's Archives I really can't say that The Tomb of the Giants, New Londo Ruins or The Crystal Caves did much for me. Am I missing out on good stuff if I stop now?
I agree that the later areas don't feel nearly as special. BUT, for what its worth, I enjoyed Demon's Ruins more than Tomb of Giants and New Londo Ruins. That area's really not bad at all, except the Ceaseless Discharge fight (you can kill him the "easy way" but I haven't been able to do this since I did it the first time. My level 15 character is stuck there, I lost 36 humanity to that bastard). But killing Capras in Demon Ruins is certainly more fun than killing those god damn skeleton dogs in Tomb of Giants. Then you have Lost Izalith left which has quite a frustrating boss. There's also a fairly annoying bit with tons of lava and big dinosaur type enemies. Thankfully you can skip this area if you're part of the chaos covenant and give her 30 humanity. I suggest doing this. You will most likely still save some time even if you need to farm humanity. THEN there's the final boss which imo is quite hard - you will be best off if you're good at parries and have a shield with good fire defense (black knight shield). I was stuck on that fucker for like 3 hours my first play through.
In short, it is worth beating, you made it this far. Demon Ruins should provide some fun and Izalith will most likely just be frustrating. But you're so close!
On an unrelated note, last night I was summoned to Sen's at level 15, man what an awesome time. Sen's Fortress is
so good. We killed the titanite demons and one of the big golems. Host gets knocked off a ledge by a serpent so I follow, we get back to the boulder area, and we somehow lose each other.. I run back up the stairs from the mimic chest and I see him running down the stairs. As we go to meet each other and continue our adventure we fail to realize the bad timing of being in that certain hallway, and we get crushed by a boulder. I get summoned by him again in the beginning of the level. Not too far up a lightning bolt pushes my character back and makes me get hit by a swinging blade and I fall to my death. Tried to get summoned again but no luck. But man, co-opping a whole level and not just a boss is a ton of fun.
SpaceBridge said:
Eh, my first playthrough was about 90 hours by the end of it. Tons of co-op and general fucking around tho. And plenty of dying of course.
