Not really. Fast/strong hits make that fight a cake walk. Just got to find the right one and kill it as fast as possible. Another fight they're gonna hit eventually is the same, but with a time limit.
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SbF: Super Best Friends Play Thread: ReBoot
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Not really. Fast/strong hits make that fight a cake walk. Just got to find the right one and kill it as fast as possible. Another fight they're gonna hit eventually is the same, but with a time limit.
ClayStatue
Member
Reboot 8+9
MillionStabs
Banned
Somehow Reboot 9 got uploaded before 8 so I was really confused who this French guy was talking to Woolie and why they were suddenly playing as a tiny child.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
MIke 0 dude to be the end of woolie.
The weird thing with a lot of Dark Souls 3 bosses is the more you overthink them, the harder they are. Like Crystal Sage, Deacons, etc. are a chumpuses if you're just hyper aggressive. Seeing ENB and Patrick Klepek struggle a bit with Crystal Sage and then die once or twice on Deacons was kind of amusing. Over-analyzing fucks you over in Dark Souls 3. It carries over a lot of the NO, GET IN THERE AND FUCKING KILL THEM momentum of Bloodborne.
To be fair, that boss is pretty easy. Over levelled or not.
Basically. People simply want to see their reactions to something. It's why their lets watches are in high demand.
Reading the vessel/Reddit/YouTube comments make me wonder why they still do these lps because they can never seem to please anyone.
Like I know this all of these complaints can come from a singular collective, but fuck man, the mixed signals they keep getting from people amazes me they still keep doing these LPs.
-Play the game blind Pat
-How the fuck did you miss that Pat? Its not like you are playing a blind Lp and are constantly talking with 2 other people, so how could you miss the blue glow behind a couple of boxes. (Cloranthy ring). I've even seen people complaining that he missed joining the mound makers.
-How the fuck did you find that Pat? He must be playing ahead/someone told him. (Silver Serpent ring)
-Don't get help with the side quests Pat.
-How did you miss that part of the side quest Pat? (The sleep gesture from Seigward)
-He is so overleveled, because he can't go to new areas naturally because Mat and Woolie need to be there to see progress, and he wants to play the game so he just explores and replays old areas.
It always amazes me they keep doing these LPs since BB, since the comments are always like this.
MillionStabs
Banned
"Possible"? Nah, some quests in that game are way worse. MM is just going to an area and approaching an enemy. Probably the hardest part of it is finding that specific area.
think it was the fact he didn't use a single estus which amazed me
now I remember he has the life steal spear & ring @_@ that fight makes a bit more sense in retrospect
Approach an enemy the game has already 'taught' you about and gives really no indication that you should be treating it any differently than the five others you've fought leading up to that point. It's specific as fuck.
yeah there's another random non-aggressive monster like 20 feet away that tells you something super cryptic about what you need to do that is really not obvious.
MillionStabs
Banned
The monster isn't aggro to you, which was a sign to me immediately that something was up with it. And the prompt to examine comes up before you're close enough to BS. But I can see people missing it if they use ranged attacks on lots of enemies
Quality gameplay.
Imperfected
Member
Honestly, the game just seems to be going for obtuse for it's own sake:
The conditions for the extra NPC scene in the Cathedral of the Deep are just moronic. The amount of doubling back through areas you would have no reason to go through, at points you would have no business being there, is just needless and frankly, kind of fucking rude.
There's a similar micro-aggression at the entrance to Irithyll, where to get a scene to progress you have to double back across an area immediately after clearing it. There's no reason you would ever, in the entire game, need to physically go through this area again (there are no enemies, no items, and there are literally bonfires on either end of this completely linear path, in a particularly bizarre choice of placements considering how conservative the levels are with bonfires otherwise, basically guaranteeing that if you ever wanted to go back to the previous area for some reason you would just warp anyway).
I'm pretty sure it's just Miyazaki saying, "You guys like this shit, right? You liked that shitty questline that we didn't really get around to polishing in the first game and everyone in QA complained about, didn't you? Here you go, eat up you dogs."
It's not quite as bad as Dark Souls 2 in that regard, but it definitely feels like someone was consulting a checklist of Things the Internet Said Make Dark Souls Good rather than just putting this together organically.
The conditions for the extra NPC scene in the Cathedral of the Deep are just moronic. The amount of doubling back through areas you would have no reason to go through, at points you would have no business being there, is just needless and frankly, kind of fucking rude.
There's a similar micro-aggression at the entrance to Irithyll, where to get a scene to progress you have to double back across an area immediately after clearing it. There's no reason you would ever, in the entire game, need to physically go through this area again (there are no enemies, no items, and there are literally bonfires on either end of this completely linear path, in a particularly bizarre choice of placements considering how conservative the levels are with bonfires otherwise, basically guaranteeing that if you ever wanted to go back to the previous area for some reason you would just warp anyway).
I'm pretty sure it's just Miyazaki saying, "You guys like this shit, right? You liked that shitty questline that we didn't really get around to polishing in the first game and everyone in QA complained about, didn't you? Here you go, eat up you dogs."
It's not quite as bad as Dark Souls 2 in that regard, but it definitely feels like someone was consulting a checklist of Things the Internet Said Make Dark Souls Good rather than just putting this together organically.
I would assume Trigun gets more credibility due to the manga which is apparently more fleshed out and superior.
Yeah the manga's a lot better. Still hold out hope that we'll get a FMA:Brotherhood-like remake.
MillionStabs
Banned
I remember the first time I fought Greatwood, I was like "Huh, wonder where the boss is. It can't be that tree thing in the corner, that's way to big to be a boss. Wonder where it i-OH SHIT DAMN"
*attacks harmless bounce off its supple tree flesh*
You died.
Next time, bring in summons to figure how to damage it, we kill the boss, he's in his dying animation
"Connection to the DARK SOULS III servers has been lost. Returning you to the main menu"
noooo.jpg
Fight boss 2nd time, burn his corpse to appease the Mound.
*attacks harmless bounce off its supple tree flesh*
You died.
Next time, bring in summons to figure how to damage it, we kill the boss, he's in his dying animation
"Connection to the DARK SOULS III servers has been lost. Returning you to the main menu"
noooo.jpg
Fight boss 2nd time, burn his corpse to appease the Mound.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Relevant to this playthrough:
That bonfire may be hard to find for some. A guy on the subreddit says he had no idea it was there and he's done three playthroughs already.
To be fair, as Matt noted, the daylight makes it a bit harder to see there.
True, but at least he realizes they are terrible. It's funny how many times he's launched into an accent only to follow up with "I don't know what accent that was supposed to be".
E_Darkness
Member
A lot considering he's messed several items and a bonfire in clear sight.
Imperfected
Member
It's a combination of the lighting, textures, and the fact the natural viewing angle the player's likely to swivel the camera to entering the area, yeah. There are a couple like that.
DeadPhoenix
Member
The one at the beginning of the road of sacrifices in today's episode. Right after fighting the frost knight thing.
Man, I've been watching the Team Four Star Pokemon Nuzlocke run (about 40 episodes in now) and it's just absurd how much better their run is compared to the Best Friends considering how similar the layout is (Nuzlocke rules, 3 people, similarly timed episodes). I think it's mostly due to the insane amount of enthusiasm the TFS guys have throughout each episode, while the best friends seemed to lose interest almost immediately. I didn't really mind how lame their Nuzlocke was because I figured it was just the nature of doing an LP for a game like Pokemon (though their stream finale was great), but seeing the TFS guys pull it off has me sad thinking about how good the series could have been if they didn't give up on it so fast.
Glitchesarecool
Member
None of them really like Pokemon, so that's really why it had so many problems.
Everyone except Matt seems to be pretty into it. Woolie considers himself a pretty staunch genwunner, doesn't he?
"I'm proud of my genwunness!" -Woolie.
E_Darkness
Member
GenTooers to deef
DeadPhoenix
Member
To many good pokemon post gen one to be a gen onner. Sometimes it takes some time to get used to them. Like I honestly never cared for swampert, but I spent some time with him in Diamond/Pearl and now he is one of my faves(although mudkip still looks terrible). Sure, plenty of shit ones too, but real talk, gen one has plenty of shitty and boring ones as well.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Damn, Matt's been gone a lot lately. Hope he's okay.
That or married life keeps him super busy.
DeadPhoenix
Member
...I want that poster in the preview vid.