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Liquid Penguins posted:Single digit framerates were common. It's much more doable this time. Jesus, between the heights and the swamp how did anyone complete this game?
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Anyone be up for some Jolly Cooperation in about an hour? Heading home from work, and want to coop my way through the Depths/Dragon/Blighttown if possible. I'm around SL24/26, and a member of WotW, so shouldn't be to hard to join me.
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Aug 25, 2012 20:55
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Al! posted:Jesus, between the heights and the swamp how did anyone complete this game? If you haven't been to the giant's crypt yet you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Aug 25, 2012 20:56
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Al! posted:Jesus, between the heights and the swamp how did anyone complete this game?
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Aug 25, 2012 20:57
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Al! posted:Jesus, between the heights and the swamp how did anyone complete this game? The game is designed to make you nervous. I am not kidding when I say learning to cope with Dark Souls helped me learn to deal with an anxiety disorder without medication.
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Aug 25, 2012 20:57
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doomfunk posted:The game is designed to make you nervous. I am not kidding when I say learning to cope with Dark Souls helped me learn to deal with an anxiety disorder without medication. This rules. One day From Software will be an esteemed serious games developer and anxiety patients everywhere will be prescribed a daily schedule of 
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Is there any reason for not farming a certain area? I'm still in the main section of the undead burg and am level 15 or 16. I should probably push on to a new area but I'm a gigantic wuss.
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Aug 25, 2012 21:02
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There's not a great reason to not push on unless you're trying to get souls for a specific reason (raising str/dex to equip a weapon or buy something). At least early game wise, if you just wander around and explore thoroughly, your experiences with Dark Souls being Dark Souls isn't going to be really less severe because you're a few levels higher. The awesome equipment you find is usually better than grinding for another level. It's really not that bad.
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Aug 25, 2012 21:05
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Prefect Six posted:Is there any reason for not farming a certain area? I'm still in the main section of the undead burg and am level 15 or 16. I should probably push on to a new area but I'm a gigantic wuss. One thing is clear though, don't walk around with six billion souls on you, invest them in something.
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Aug 25, 2012 21:05
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Samurai Sanders posted:If you haven't been to the giant's crypt yet you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Prefect Six posted:Is there any reason for not farming a certain area? I'm still in the main section of the undead burg and am level 15 or 16. I should probably push on to a new area but I'm a gigantic wuss. Speaking of summons, I am having a drat hard time summoning/getting summoned. Summon signs constantly fade in and out for me, and fail 3/4 of the time. I feel like I have to rush to any sign I see and hope I can try it before it vanishes. Haven't had good luck getting summoned either. I made a new character, specifically for sunbroing, and have had very little luck. Currently SL 30, and looking for love. Tried sitting around the iron golem, the capra demon, and the depths for a while. Nothing.
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AxeManiac posted:So, I loaded this up and tried playing through the intro area, it looks like Tomb Raider 1. This game is loving ugly and awkward. How long does it take to get to the cool stuff? I'm just walking around smacking skeletons and traversing white light. Dude... the voice acting owns.
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Aug 25, 2012 21:12
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Rookersh posted:Anyone be up for some Jolly Cooperation in about an hour? Heading home from work, and want to coop my way through the Depths/Dragon/Blighttown if possible. Sure, I'll have my sign (FriarRJohn) at the Depths bonfire.
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Filthy Monkey posted:Farming isn't terribly efficient there. Plus, you usually don't want to get your SL too out of range for the area, or you'll have a tough time finding summons. Farming is a good idea for upgrading gear though. A few runs through the Parish can net you enough souls to pimp most of your gear. voltron lion force posted:Dude... the voice acting owns. Don't go dying now. Neh heh heh heh heh!
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voltron lion force posted:Dude... the voice acting owns. Performed by an English radio drama group. The voice acting is actually pretty great, but the writing is kind of doofy at times since the developers wrote it. In English. As far as I know, without speaking English. Thankfully it's not at all Engrishy, it just feels like they heavily abused a thesaurus for it.
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Samurai Sanders posted:The way I see it is, level yourself up so that you can effectively use some weapon you like, don't just level up because you feel like it. If you don't know what to use all your souls on, learn magic and upgrade equipment with it first. The only weapons I've found are short swords and I've just been using the long sword I got intitially (picked Warrior for my class). I've just been dumping points into Vit->End->Str. Not walking around with a bunch of souls or anything. Should I be putting points into magic as a warrior? Can you sell equipment? Should I be holding on to this junk I've found? Is there any point in spending humanity to un-hollow yourself? Is it just an aesthetic thing? I've got 8 humanity that I don't really know what to do with. I feel like kindling a bonfire this early would be kind of pointless since I'm sure there's another around the corner. I figure holding onto it for the better item discovery is the thing to do right now. Filthy Monkey posted:Farming isn't terribly efficient there. Plus, you usually don't want to get your SL too out of range for the area, or you'll have a tough time finding summons. I don't have the first clue what all that entails (probably because I haven't pushed through more content).
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Mighty Dicktron posted:Performed by an English radio drama group. Most of the voice actors felt pretty unremarkable to me, with a few exceptions(Laurentius and Patches forever). Then again, most characters only have a few lines to work with. The corny dialogue writing works sometimes, I think. I don't know if Solaire is supposed to come off as a loveable dork, but that's what happened. Anyway, I was worried about my Cleric run, but it seems that I built a viable character after all. My Divine Reinforced Club does awesome damage, I love using Miracles, and the Silver Knight shield is a godsend. I am having so much fun, and I haven't even gotten to the new content.
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Being un-hollow lets you do multiplayer stuff. That's why your SL matters, because if it's way too much higher or lower than other players around that point in the game you'll have a harder time finding people to help you. Also, you will reuse bonfires a lot. Think of this game like Super Metroid or something, everything is interconnected and loops back in on itself. You can't sell your poo poo that I know of. I'm kind of nervous right now because I found a bonfire in the depths, have a ton of souls on me, and don't want to fight my way back through all those slime things, so I need to keep pressing forward and hope I find a good shortcut back home 
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Doctor Spaceman posted:And when you get there you won't see anything anyway. A sharper image goes a long way to making that place less of an unfun shithole. That and a weapon that can one-shot everything.
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Prefect Six posted:The only weapons I've found are short swords and I've just been using the long sword I got intitially (picked Warrior for my class). I've just been dumping points into Vit->End->Str. Not walking around with a bunch of souls or anything. Should I be putting points into magic as a warrior? Later on you'll be able to sell things for souls, but it's rarely worth it. And kindling bonfires is a pretty good use of your humanity I think, since they stay kindled even into NG+.
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Prefect Six posted:Is there any point in spending humanity to un-hollow yourself? And yeah, kindle bonfires. Some aren't worth it, most are. Humanity isn't finite either.
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How much strength do I need to two hand a weapon that requires 50 STR? Would it be worth it to level STR to 50 to use a weapon like that one handed?
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Aug 25, 2012 21:28
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Nahxela posted:Dark Souls is a game for men. *that like to whip their dicks out and compare who's is bigger and who can hit their dick with a hammer the most times without crying. 
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Evil Eagle posted:How much strength do I need to two hand a weapon that requires 50 STR? Would it be worth it to level STR to 50 to use a weapon like that one handed?
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One word can describe Sen's Fortress BOULDERS  What's a good level for this place?
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GreenBuckanneer posted:*that like to whip their dicks out and compare who's is bigger and who can hit their dick with a hammer the most times without crying. This was the intention when the game was developed. The producer of the game has gone on record calling himself a masochist.
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Oh my dear god gently caress Sen's Fortress. I don't know about going here now... Maybe I should like go do catacombs or something that isn't so filled with neverending traps and lizard dudes in narrow hallways that make it nigh-impossible to dodge. I even tried unhollowing to see if there was someone around who could walk me through it, but I had no idea where anyone would place signs, didn't see any anyways, and died without being able to do anything. Now I'm just placing my own summon every time I can, and replacing it when I get to a different chunk that deletes my old one. I figure eventually I'm bound to get summoned and then at least me and some other guy can be miserable together. I wonder if level 45 is too high to see any friendly summons...
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Hey guys my brother is having trouble running this dumb game on his PC, even though he has the proper specs for it. The frame rate basically makes it unplayable. Drivers updated, HDDs defragged, he tried the Pre-rendered frames bit since he has an Nvidia Card Here are his stats Windows 7-64bit 16gb ram GeForce GTX 460 1gb 767mb gddr5 AMD Athlon IIx4 640 Processor 3.00GHz Bio Star AMD Socket AM2+ TA785G3 HD
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A Renaissance Nerd posted:One word can describe Sen's Fortress I think I was around level 35ish the first time through. About halfway in, you'll find something that makes the rest a LOT easier lightning spear, which does around twice the damage of the Drake sword and obliterates the damage of anything else you probably have at that point, plus you can stab from behind your shield Can someone spoiler the consequences of a decision in the DLC for me? What happens if you give/don't give Soul of Artorias to the chick praying over his corpse after you kill him? I don't know what to do 
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Infinity Gaia posted:Oh my dear god gently caress Sen's Fortress.
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Arujei posted:Sure, I'll have my sign (FriarRJohn) at the Depths bonfire. Haven't unlocked Depths Bonfire yet, but on my way down again, now that I think I know where the key to unlock the door is, shouldn't take me to long. Unless those Butchers respawn. 
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Infinity Gaia posted:neverending traps and lizard dudes in narrow hallways that make it nigh-impossible to dodge.
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MrTheDevious posted:Can someone spoiler the consequences of a decision in the DLC for me? What happens if you give/don't give Soul of Artorias to the chick praying over his corpse after you kill him? I don't know what to do Supposedly she drops the weapons if you kill her without giving her the soul too. Haven't tested it personally, but it is probably true.
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So my second character is level 17 and about to go kill the gargoyles. I'll be white-phantoming there for a while afterwards, so if you're needing help, look for my sign!
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Rookersh posted:Haven't unlocked Depths Bonfire yet, but on my way down again, now that I think I know where the key to unlock the door is, shouldn't take me to long.
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Rookersh posted:Haven't unlocked Depths Bonfire yet, but on my way down again, now that I think I know where the key to unlock the door is, shouldn't take me to long. edit: non-respawning enemies explode and don't leave a body behind, that's how you know. edit: or is that violated somewhere? I can't think of any examples right now. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Aug 25, 2012 |
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Filthy Monkey posted:She gives you two dex weapons if you give her the soul. You can also kill her for her armor. Thanks! I'd rather keep the original item, but I'm about to test that theory just to see. Edit - that theory is correct Killing her without giving her the Soul causes her to drop both weapons + full set of armor, so do that if you want everything and don't mind that miserable guilty feeling that comes from killing poor NPCs MrTheDevious fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Aug 25, 2012 |
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Okay, this game owns. I got to the castle part and I'm getting equipment and the weapons are great, the animation is amazing, I love the monster designs, the levels are really strange still, hard to tell where to go, everything is very maze like and it doesn't really explain a lot of stuff well. Also you can't pause, the PC port is sloppy and the voice acting is poo poo, but I'm still having fun.
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