Dark Souls 2

    nah, talking about it is way better.


    -Okay, I'll give the world of the first game something, it was pretty cool and nicely designed from what I played (I just stopped partway through Undead Burg)

    -I never felt like i was progressing, just that I was getting lucky with the AI routines. It felt just like a grind.

    -I wouldn't say satisfying. It feels like a last gen third person game trying to balance realistic animation and playability and just ended up losing that battle.

    -I really don't like how the game looks, it's so brown and muddy. sepia tone photos contain more color.

    how edgy and provocative. those are entirely your opinions, and they are all demonstrably wrong.


    - design is intricate and clever, interconnection of the world follows your progression, as you explore it becomes more open and unfolds at the same time as your understanding of the world does. if you stopped at babby town you just need to git gud.


    - git gud, if you can't figure out that enemies have set attacks and you don't figure out how to read those at even the most basic level then you're just rushing in headfirst instead of being patient. dark souls is the ultimate test of your patience and endurance


    - you're not making sense. stop. what i presume warby alludes to is the mapping of your weapons and equipment - the way you use items from your belt, and how you deal with spells, the strong/weak attacks with either hand, parrying, rolling running jumping moving all draining your stamina which you have to carefully manage, and all of it being driven by how much gear you are wearing, forcing you to balance survival and armour with the ability to actually move out of the way. the meta game is deep, and it's not easy to get there. git gud.


    - [Blocked Image: http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/DarkSouls/n.jpg]git gud

    anyway now we talk about the game.


    i got to a bit of a wall with the gargoyles. for some reason they are giving me a massive fucking headache. i just can't seem to git gud enough to beat them. it's like i can't keep them from swarming 360 degrees around me and it's fucking annoying.

    summon someone, probably help if they have split attention.


    Been killing people for the rat king the last few nights when I have had time. Want to get the lvl 3 ring he gives.


    Rat king area is bullshit for the invader too. I have all the enemies on my side, there is deep water, etc. Even if I wait till they kill the AI I still kill them because they are stressed out.

    Quote from Vilham

    summon someone


    beta souls


    though enemy health scales based on player count now at least. I ended up summoning help for the 3 dicks before sinners rise. I felt appropriately bad afterwards.

    Quote from Erratic

    I ended up summoning help for the 3 dicks before sinners rise. I felt appropriately bad afterwards.


    totally killed those on my own *smugface* on the 50th try or so *exhaustedface*

    Quote from Erratic

    beta souls


    though enemy health scales based on player count now at least. I ended up summoning help for the 3 dicks before sinners rise. I felt appropriately bad afterwards.


    wow. you fucking scrub. i solo'd those pricks and it took a good few attempts, there is a moderate amount of luck in that fight just because you can get a bad pattern or you get lucky and have them throw their shields at you which leaves them open to get a solid and thorough dicking.


    i beat the gargoyles FINALLY tonight. it gave me so much trouble that the mobs leading up to the fight stopped respawning (that's +15 attempts at that fight, that seriously tested me). I ended up using the giant club boosted to +3 just so I could dps single targets down fast enough that i didn't end up with more than 2 on screen at any time.

    god it felt so good to beat those guys after such hard work.


    now i am just roaming around leveling up a little until i find a large titanite shard to +4 the club and boost it to a decent S rank. it does over 400 damage in a single strike without any buffs so it feels pretty stronk, the slowness is a little problem but i can still get a hit in and dodge backwards, now it's just about learning the max reach. after using the heide knight sword for 50 levels i have gotten way too used how that behaves. still. fuck yeah. such accomplishment. much personal victory.


    /edit microsoft is cancer. i am using a UK account, but i can't plug in my Swedish visa because reasons. i finally got them to migrate the account, but now it's been offline for 48 hours, after they said it would take 24. the long and short of it is that i can't go online, so i have to solo everything, i can't read or write messages, i can't invade or be invaded (which sucks cause i have already done the bell tower), and i just feel really alone and disconnected from the other souls. it makes the game more atmospheric in a way, i don't see messages next to the cat with content like "tongue but hole", or "woman ahead, try but fist", it also removes any co-op crutch for defeating the bosses and makes victory that much sweeter, but it still feels like i am missing out.

    i'd go and buy the PS3 version in a heartbeat if it didn't run at sub-30 fps. fuck it, look forward to jolly co-operation on the superior PC version. it could have worse graffixx for all i care, i can just totally do without the fucking shitty console performance and the dogshit online. fuck microsoft. stop supporting them, cancel your gold, sell your xbox, pirate their software, send dog shit in brown paper bags to their offices. fuck them.

    Gotta say their servers are pretty shit and unreliable, playing at lunch had a fine connection. Playing now I'm getting people back stabbing me from directly infront of me and hitting me from 10m with a sword, utter horse shit. Load up CS:GO got a 10ms ping.

    Quote from Rick_D


    beta souls


    though enemy health scales based on player count now at least. I ended up summoning help for the 3 dicks before sinners rise. I felt appropriately bad afterwards.


    wow. you fucking scrub. i solo'd those pricks and it took a good few attempts, there is a moderate amount of luck in that fight just because you can get a bad pattern or you get lucky and have them throw their shields at you which leaves them open to get a solid and thorough dicking.


    i beat the gargoyles FINALLY tonight. it gave me so much trouble that the mobs leading up to the fight stopped respawning (that's +15 attempts at that fight, that seriously tested me). I ended up using the giant club boosted to +3 just so I could dps single targets down fast enough that i didn't end up with more than 2 on screen at any time.

    god it felt so good to beat those guys after such hard work.


    now i am just roaming around leveling up a little until i find a large titanite shard to +4 the club and boost it to a decent S rank. it does over 400 damage in a single strike without any buffs so it feels pretty stronk, the slowness is a little problem but i can still get a hit in and dodge backwards, now it's just about learning the max reach. after using the heide knight sword for 50 levels i have gotten way too used how that behaves. still. fuck yeah. such accomplishment. much personal victory.


    /edit microsoft is cancer. i am using a UK account, but i can't plug in my Swedish visa because reasons. i finally got them to migrate the account, but now it's been offline for 48 hours, after they said it would take 24. the long and short of it is that i can't go online, so i have to solo everything, i can't read or write messages, i can't invade or be invaded (which sucks cause i have already done the bell tower), and i just feel really alone and disconnected from the other souls. it makes the game more atmospheric in a way, i don't see messages next to the cat with content like "tongue but hole", or "woman ahead, try but fist", it also removes any co-op crutch for defeating the bosses and makes victory that much sweeter, but it still feels like i am missing out.

    i'd go and buy the PS3 version in a heartbeat if it didn't run at sub-30 fps. fuck it, look forward to jolly co-operation on the superior PC version. it could have worse graffixx for all i care, i can just totally do without the fucking shitty console performance and the dogshit online. fuck microsoft. stop supporting them, cancel your gold, sell your xbox, pirate their software, send dog shit in brown paper bags to their offices. fuck them.


    yeah, finished the rat king bullshit, got the ring. And then went to do those 3 dicks, took 4 attempts, just take one down up top, then drop down and kill the 2 other guys. Wasn't too hard, now I'm doing blighttown 2.0.

    i can't play this game offline, so fucking annoying, so i went back to dark souls. i never actually finished it (haters gonna hate), so now i'll finish this while i wait for the PC release. or maybe i'll just go back to DS2, i dunno, they are both fucking amazing.

    Quote from Rick_D

    i can't play this game offline, so fucking annoying, so i went back to dark souls. i never actually finished it (haters gonna hate)


    Fucking fraud.

    I'm replying to this while I wait for people to get auto invaded for the rat king.


    True Gamer™

    don't get me wrong. i tried so hard, for so long, and i could never git gud enough. but now i am in blighttown wrecking shit and smashing all their clay pots.

    I made it to level 100 or so and somehow manged to miss the entrance to huntsmans corpse. So I've sort of been playing this shit in reverse lmao. Just stomped through that forest like it was nothing.


    I sort of did the same thing in Dark Souls where I cleared the fucking catacombs before touching the area passed the dragon in undead burg. That was an interesting first experience through the game...

    We'll I found a few, but often times the only option is to press x on top of a message. Does it prioritize illusory wall over the message? Or are these messages (with high ratings) a troll, or not open at my progress in the game yet?

    I also missed huntsmans copse and sought it out after Erratic's comment. Wish I'd been there sooner, seems like a good low level zone. Not so tough at level 83. Gorgeous view...

    it will prioritize the fake wall when you press x !


    was wondering the same thing because sometimes the messages are actually a couple of meters ahead of the wall and sometimes even before the corner that leads to the fake wall


    ... i guess the idea is that people will RATE up the first msg that gave em the hint ^^


    @vilhem this is an addition not a change there are "also" fake walls that you need to slash with your sword

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