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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition |OT| Durante Does In 23 Minutes What From Can't
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Phonomezer
Banned
This thread has given me the Dark Souls bug again. Just got mauled by one of those chests ;_;
IoCaster
Member
I still don't know what I'm doing and it took me a dozen tries but I finally killed some big armored dude in Undead Burg. Bastard was tough and didn't drop anything worthwhile like I was hoping. I guess I'll shut it down for now and figure out where to go next when I play tomorrow. It's a hard game and my pace is slow since I'm not looking anything up, but I'm still plugging along.
TheMixta43
Neo Member
I swear
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farming for souls in the Painted World on those Phalanx things is much better than the Darkroot Garden method
KennyLinder
Member
I wonder if the PS3 disc re-release of this will have another set of trophies? LOL Platinium double dip 
That one was a pain for a sorcerer. Tried 20 times to take him down with a new strategy that worked for me.
Did it by using crystal soul spear and soul spear. To defend his hard hitting attacks i used strong magic shield. When hes standing still and charging I rescharged my shield with strong magic shield.
Team Filler
Member
Might be a longshot question, but has anybody tried this with the FF14 pad? (I really do not want to install motionjoy on my computer, I had enough of it on my laptop.)
Dog Problems
Banned
Is there a helmet that looks similar Fang Boar Helmet? I swear I saw one somewhere that looked like it has a lion's mane on it with horns.
I'm pretty sure that area is meant to be farmed like that. There is a whole covenant for hunting people who farm there, so they must've made it a good farm spot on purpose to keep people there so they can be hunted.
There's gargoyle's one?
Dog Problems
Banned
That's not it. I don't know what the heck I saw lol
Just out of curiosity: what were your first impressions of the game, guys?
I got really interested in the game after reading a lot of posts in several different forums, but when I started up the game it was a huge disappointment. Graphics was downright ugly (even with Durante's awesome mod), controls felt clunky and unresponsive, character animation was really bad - all in all it felt I was playing a very unprofessional and unpolished game from 10 years ago.
I keep reading the forums, and I'm really wondering - does the game get a whole lot better if I give it a real try (I just played until the end of the asylum) or given the above first impression should I just forget it?
I got really interested in the game after reading a lot of posts in several different forums, but when I started up the game it was a huge disappointment. Graphics was downright ugly (even with Durante's awesome mod), controls felt clunky and unresponsive, character animation was really bad - all in all it felt I was playing a very unprofessional and unpolished game from 10 years ago.
I keep reading the forums, and I'm really wondering - does the game get a whole lot better if I give it a real try (I just played until the end of the asylum) or given the above first impression should I just forget it?
A dragonhead or ornstein´s helmet?
Awesome, now I will be able to get through this game even faster.
Killed Capra Demon tonight too and the Gargoyles also. Playtime 110 Minutes... whooot.
Last year in october I needed about 10-12 hours I guess.
This game is really a skill game and I have so much fun again.The game looks good mostly due to atmosphere and art direction.
The melee combat is awesome because everything is so weighty and not instant. It actually takes time to swing a weapon, and that time varies with weapon size/weight.
Try to keep playing with a focus on mastering the melee combat. If you can get good at it, you may like the game more.
That really doesn't address any of what he says. I agree the weapon combat is awesome but the controls are still clunky and kinda bad lol.
If he's playing with a keyboard and mouse, yes. It's not bad with a gamepad imo.
I personally saying with a controller there is a need for an improvement. But DkS on PC so I am gonna shut up and play lol.
I'm reading some Dark Souls stuff on tvtropes and can't stop laughing at this part:
Why do you find Paladin Leeroy's body and armor in Gravelord Nito's chamber? Remember how you can stir up skeletons by moving into certain places of the tomb, and how the fight is generally easier if you stay out of the southern area (where all of the Giant Skeletons are)? Looks like while Leeroy was attempting to fight the Gravelord himself, he lived up to his original namesake.
LEEEROY A JEEEEEEEEEEENKINS!!!
LEEEROY A JEEEEEEEEEEENKINS!!!
Have you tried joining
forest hunter covenant or darkmoon blade covenant
na i´m darkwraith right now, don´t really know if i should change it.
hm, i would say you need atleast half of new game+ to get every armor. And yes every chest respawns in new game+. So you get every armor from chest a second time for example.
dragonlife
Member
I said "OMG" at the Capra Demon. I'm so glad I've grown wary
. I never stood a chance. I can't believe
Luckily I only had 2K souls at the time. I must have died in less than 10 seconds. It didn't help that my framerate seemed to be really choppy for some reason.
The way the levels connect is so damn good. Finding those shortcuts and seeing where they lead is really mindblowing at times. The level design in this is fantastic.
of those white screens and leave them for last
you get attacked right off the bat by those fucking annoying dogs and the boss D:
The way the levels connect is so damn good. Finding those shortcuts and seeing where they lead is really mindblowing at times. The level design in this is fantastic.
Phonomezer
Banned
Has the dreadful Forest Covenant 'bug' been fixed yet?
UGH!
That thing almost had me give up on the game.
UGH!
That thing almost had me give up on the game.
H_Prestige
Banned
Unless you have low stats, physical > elemental, before and after patch.
Thats what i did with mine to do catacombs with - was great - might revert it back and do a straight +15 with it at some point. fire/chaos is always good for it too and will prob outclass divine unless you crank up the faith
cleveridea
Member
So I started a new pyromancer as I wasn't too impressed with the faith spells (eg force) of my last character.
I plan on mixing my upgrades half and half between melee abilities (strength and endurance) and half sorcery (int, attunement)
Is this gonna work or does the game reward a focus on just melee/just sorcery?
I plan on mixing my upgrades half and half between melee abilities (strength and endurance) and half sorcery (int, attunement)
Is this gonna work or does the game reward a focus on just melee/just sorcery?
Haunted
Member
Easily the most impressive thing about the game.
Yeah, they have to use a couple elevators to connect the different height levels, but there's no tricks involved, only two areas (with the DLC now three) are separated by loading screens and are physically located in a different place than the rest of the world.
Really, considering the scale of the whole game and the individual areas, having them logically connect like they do is a grand achievement. Impressive world design.
Pyromancy is not affected by INT but only from pyro glove level.
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
Praise the sun! I beat the
. After a few attempts that had me falling off the bridge by trying to cheese him with firebombs I decided to straight-up melee him to death. Pretty strange for a Pyromancer but it worked!
Taurus Demon
cleveridea
Member
oh yeah, I didnt say there but really its about being a sorcerer (just way prefer pyromancer start class vs sorcerer), I plan on focusing on sorcery spells like soul arrows etc.
Actually, does int greatly affect power of spells like soul arrow or is it more about just unlocking new ones?
Sentenza
Member
There was a much simpler way to handle that miniboss.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Yeah, I do
. Is your NAT open?Same actually. Not sure what I'm doing wrong a lot of the time.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
while you can it's far easier to backstab by not locking on to an enemy.
I found this out by playing a no hud run on the ps3 version. I was getting backstabs 100% of the time.
edit: I forgot with the no hud option it still let you invisibly lock on to an enemy but for whatever reason it made back stabs extremely easy to pull off.
Yeah, I just remembered what the Asylum taught me and used that. Also the buff item I found at a house beforehand.
Felix Lighter
Member
If you're having trouble backstabbing the most common reason is because you are not lowering your shield before you attack.
Audioboxer
Member
Did they patch any bugs/exploits on the PC version? Hope when the DLC hits consoles some exploits can be fixed (bottomless box one for starters - I want to see the starting areas full of people with relevant weapons again )
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