It's not like I spent $10 on DLC for an F2P game I don't even have installed. Oh, wait.
Actually if you don't rush through the bridge it's avoidable (you should NEVER rush anywhere in the game, it's an unwritten rule. another one is, shield always up!). But yeah, can be considered cheap, but that's the only death like that you'll get in the game. Demon's Souls had more cheap deaths like that. Also it's not a big deal getting back there once you have defeated the boss you mentioned.
Totally.
FUCK, and I passed on the GTA complete pack for $10 last sale
Yup just bought it.
The video shows off the one strength of the keyboard and mouse setup: grappling. You can aim the grapple just a little better with a mouse than you can with an analogue stick. Awesome. But grappling your way up an elevator shaft is like 5% of the game. Getting stuck in a room with like 50 goons all around you and you can't leave until you beat them all up is 90% of the game, and that part is relatively hard with a keyboard and mouse.
I don't get that achievement. I played the game last Friday night with a friend (none of us had bought the game at the time) and beat 2 campaigns, but didn't get the achievement. Did I need to have bought the game before?
Haha, that's my EXACT experience with the game. I even had to ask for some tips here on GAF regarding that boss, as I missed the piece of advice in the tutorial that taught you
Achievements only unlock when you own the game. If you owned it and your friends did not own it, you would get the achievement. If you and all your friends owned it you would just get the normal achievements.
I was late to the party for Demon's Souls and haven't played Dark Souls yet, but they share the same reputation. I died like a million times in Demon's Souls 1-1. Took me forever to reach and kill the first boss. Got frustrated, quit. Came back, rolled a new character, and steamrolled 1-1 at SL1, kept going and got I don't know how far without dying just by being hella cautious. Never turn a corner without your shield up, always use your bow's zoom to scope out the upcoming area, always know where you're going to run if you get swarmed, turn the sound up and listen.
Thanks for this, I'll try playing tonight with someone who doesn't own it to get the achievement.
I'm ashamed to say I don't know how to do that. I also don't have humanity nor know how to be summoned, lol. I guess I just suck at the game!
The shield is really necessary, yes. I hate how a single strike from an enemy can take a lot of your health, I have to take care even with the lowest tier enemies. Why do you say the sound is important?
At least in Demon's Souls, all enemies make sound. The red-eyed knights of Boletaria had a distinctively ominous breathing sound, the jailers of Latria had chimes (that you could listen for to know how far they were or if they had spotted you), the flies in the Valley of Defilement were loud but at least you could hear them coming. There are a lot of times where you're walking along and you hear noise above you and that should clue you in that someone's waiting up there to drop down after you walk by. I don't know if Dark Souls has the same audio cues, but they were real life-savers in Demon's Souls.
Wow, I feel overwhelmed, the game is terribly complex. I don't know what "reverse hollowing" means (I guess it's something related to what you said about using bonfires to gain humanity), nor "kindling bonfires" or "attuning equipment" (something I recall hearing a couple of times), but I also don't want to spoil all of this by reading a Wiki. Is there a way to find out this stuff in game, or is the only way having someone tell you about them?
It's all YMMV. Personally, I found it easier to direct my attacks with an analogue stick than with KBM.
And the end of the day, the starting class in DS doesn't really matter, you could start with a Mage and end up with a full melee tank warrior. :lol
This is true later in the game, but you can't build a mage from a character starting with a knight class in the first hours of the game (or the other way around), because you won't have the appropriate piece of armors/weapons. So that's why I suggested to try with different classes and replaying the tutorial and maybe the first hour of the game. Knights are strong but their armor makes them slow, thieves and ranger have to rely a lot on rolling because they start with very light armor, mages are awesome at long range but it's a pain to learn spells and managing the limited uses between bonfires, I don't dig them a lot.
