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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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Just suicide in the nexus when you go human again. There are convoluted world tendency related reasons to avoid playing human as well.
Cannon Goose
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My experience has been the opposite. I've been doing nothing but pvp over the past few days and it's been completely free of hackers.
https://twitter.com/alex_navarro/status/426785940691255296
https://twitter.com/jaredr/status/426776164518993920
Things that make you go hmmmmm.....
https://twitter.com/jaredr/status/426776164518993920
Things that make you go hmmmmm.....
Likewise, I only ever had one hacker invasion on Dark Souls PC and it was on a new character in Undead Parish. The dude sent me a message claiming to be the "Dark Santa" and dropped me the max number of every regular soul, boss soul, and type of titanite then bailed out after making the praise the sun gesture.
So that was weird.
So that was weird.
Yeah... made me think about that too.
HappenstanceUK
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Yep thats what I came here wondering about as well.
A guy with loads of streaming experience would be perfect. Ian's replacement, but as a full time GB guy?
paradox121
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I'd be down for that. Someone into streaming and always seems to get along with the gang.
NumberThree
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And the real twist is that the game actually revolves around spelunking.
HappenstanceUK
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I would assume if Jared joined GB it would mainly be on camera stuff as they've got Rorie for the community manager position and it could possibly mean Drew going back into the control room to replace Ian.
Infinite Justice
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Most of the guys getting bit by the Souls bug is pretty fucking great
God bless Vinny and the GB fans
God bless Vinny and the GB fans
UpsideDownAce
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Just now watching part 3 of Brad Souls. So far his deaths in 4-1 are amazing.
Die Squirrel Die
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Yeah, Vinny being into it turned Dark Souls into more of an endurance run, but now it's done I'd like LOLS to go back to its original format. He still hasn't returned to Ninja Gaiden.
his continued shock that there are three guys at the top of the stairs is priceless
Best episode so far. Utterly broken by the end.
ToastyBanana
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Yeah, it has been a while since Vindog broke out his Xbox.
Are you looking up guides?
No, but I'm inevitably gonna become aware of the solutions to every problem I run into in a given episode, since people tend to send hints on Twitter, Tumblr et al as soon as it's over. I already know the score with the Adjudicator's sucking belly wound, for instance. Kinda unavoidable.
Yea, I'm expecting people are gonna send a bunch of tips your way. But that's fine, all about the execution.
Cannon Goose
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Catching up on the third part now and the extreme lack of blocking during the Adjudicator fight is making me laugh. Brad spent all that time blocking the skeletons' attacks pretty well then completely neglects it during the boss.
I'm liking this series a lot so far. I wish I had known about the skeletons' weakness to blunt attacks when I was going through the fourth area.
Edit: Welp, I guess you can't effectively block his attacks with that little stamina. I've never fought the Adjudicator from up there so I didn't run into that tongue attack. That boss music is so awesome, hopefully Dark Souls 2 gets more great music.
I'm liking this series a lot so far. I wish I had known about the skeletons' weakness to blunt attacks when I was going through the fourth area.
Edit: Welp, I guess you can't effectively block his attacks with that little stamina. I've never fought the Adjudicator from up there so I didn't run into that tongue attack. That boss music is so awesome, hopefully Dark Souls 2 gets more great music.
Freedom = $1.05
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I once lost over 4 hours worth of souls on 4-1. I didn't know what to do with myself for the rest of the day, haha.
I've only seen one person who was clearly hacking (as far as I know there's no legitimate way to steal levels from a person, and I lost 18 SL after he invaded), but in early areas there are a ton of jackasses who at the very least get the best gear they can on a low level character to mess with players new to the game.
Even when people know everything, it's still actively entertaining when they die. I've watched LPs for both the blind plays and the ones where they know the game front and back. Still fun to watch either way.
The true joy with watching Brad's run to me is seeing his reactions to the the enemy designs and locations. Vinny still guides him around so it's not like he's going in super blind. If we wanted a true blind experience, Brad would be playing the game by himself without chat.
Thanks thanks. Been meaning to rewatch this for a while.
Fleet_of_Foot
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I know how beloved the Souls series is so I'm not exactly shocked that people are so excited that they're playing yet another one. And I didn't mind watch Vinny play Dark Souls sometimes. I played plenty of it myself.
That said, watching Brad do the exact same thing for over two hours was very boring.
That said, watching Brad do the exact same thing for over two hours was very boring.
Vinny is very subtle and careful about guiding him though, and has only really fucked up once on that part (shouldn't have told him about the unintended 4-1 shortcut that Brad would never have discovered on his own)
I guess people watch for different reasons, i think it would be better if there wasn't any audience interference, Vinny would still be there after all. It also messes with the natural order of such a playthrough, because next time Brad will most likely just go straight to the 4-1 boss, and beat him on the first or second try because someone told him exactly what to do. If he doesn't know on the other hand, it's more likely that he would explore more of 4-1 or go chip away at another level.
I think this is one of the funniest things about the Souls community. There exists a portion of the community that goes out of its way to make the game as easy as possible to a new player by giving them every bit of helpful/exploitable information possible even at the cost of the player never having to think for themselves and then the portion that then completely flips out over altering the experience by doing anything but playing it blind to any available information.
Jeff Gerstmann starring in a ripoff of Zumanji where he gets trapped for 20 years in an Atari 2600 playing Pitfall? I'm in.
It's cool how Vinny is working with the chat. He doesn't relay anything unless Brad is super stuck or they're confused about something. I am also annoyed people are sending tips to Brad in other places.
that's exactly what it looks like to me
Different places will be easier or harder depending on your build, and you can go where ever you want. The levels aren't actually numbered in game, it's just the easiest way to refer to them.
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If you're careful you can handle the enemies there, the loot is extremely good for early gameplay and the amount of souls you can farm from the enemies is fairly high. It's worth giving it a shot early in the game.
Not to reignite an earlier argument at all, but if that dude wasn't stream sniping Brad, he must've gotten incredibly unlucky. I just completed a ~23 hour run through every last bit of Demon's Souls in human form, and only now in 4-1 in NG+ have I gotten invaded. Thankfully my invader wanted a fair-ish fight, didn't have a scraping spear, and I won
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