Tarkol posted:

Does anyone have the original description for Dark Souls from when it first came on Steam? I want to read about shadow dwarves and social eggs again.

A huge mess posted:

Dark Souls is an upcoming action role-playing game from the developers who brought you Demon’s Souls, FromSoftware. Dark Souls will have many familiar features: A dark fantasy universe, tense dungeon crawling, fearsome enemy encounters and unique online interactions. Dark Souls is a spiritual successor to Demon’s, not a sequel. Prepare for a new, despair-inducing world, with a vast, fully-explorable horizon and vertically-oriented landforms. Prepare for a new, mysterious story, centered around the King’s Crowns and the original, now dying flame at the center of the world. But most of all, prepare to die. You will face countless murderous traps, countless darkly grotesque monsters and several gargantuan, supremely powerful demons and dragons. You must learn from death to persist through this unforgiving world. And you aren’t alone. Dark Souls allows the spirits of other players to show up in your world, so you can learn from their deaths and they can learn from yours. New to Dark Souls is Beacon Fire, where you can share the experiences of your adventure with the spirits of other players. Around the Beacon Fire, you may find the only warmth and calm that exists in this dark world. Beware: There is no place in Dark Souls that is truly safe. With days of game play and an even more punishing difficulty level, Dark Souls will be the most deeply challenging game you play this year. Can you live through a million deaths and earn your legacy?

You are thrust into the world of demons, where those humans with the Dark Ring are sent to succumb and transform into the living dead. Darkness reigns. The one original flame now nests in the core of this world, all but dead. The demons have conquered the immortal dragons and all across their world, lay the decrepit signs of their rule. Dark Souls carries on the dark fantasy themes that you love, but this is a new, open world; One that is vast, with seamlessly-connected dungeons. Whatever you can see, you’ll be able to reach and explore. Land formations are more complex and vertically-oriented, so prepare to travel and battle on the great heights of the world.
Prepare to die! You may get scorched alive or bludgeoned by a giant pendulum scythe or impaled by an arrow through the heart. The traps in Dark Souls are bound to kill you.You can connect to the online community and participate in the journeys of other real players. Watch the deaths of other players and learn from their mistakes. Find and leave messages, warning of perilous spots. New to Dark Souls, you can gather with other players at the Beacon Fire and share your trials and tribulations.
If you hope to ever reach the King’s Crowns, you must carefully equip yourself. Your success will depend upon your choice of armor, number of weapons, types of weapons and moves attached to the weapons you choose.There are many new types of weapons and armors in Dark Souls. Another addition to Dark Souls is strategic sword play, which will aid you in destroying the monsters and undead hordes that stand in your way.

You will face many unique, despair-inducing monsters. Survival means accepting you will die, learning from death and overcoming the ultimate challenge to reclaim your soul.The demons who rule this world gain their extraordinary power from the King’s Crowns. To retrieve the King’s Crowns and reach the flame of the world, you will have to face the White King Gwen and his knights, the witch Izarith and her evil daughters, the first dead, Nit, and the immortal and nameless shadow dwarves.
When you begin this adventure, you are soulless. You must emerge from the abyss to reclaim your soul in order to reach the land of the living. Make social connections, win games, find eggs and solve riddles—and increase your soul energy until you get your entire spiritual essence back. The gauge at the bottom of your dashboard numerically measures the amount of soul energy you have earned. Check your gauge each day to keep track of how much soul energy you have. Do your best to get your numbers high enough so you can say once and for all: Be gone, evil forces, my soul is mine and I am alive!

Rirse posted:

So unless the servers get switched to Steam, Dark Souls on the PC won't be playable online anymore when July 1st 2014 rolls around.

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/pc-games/age-of-empires-online-info

Lazy Programming posted:

Where does it say that? That link is for age of empires online.

Syrg Sapphire posted:

Gotcha covered.

Wrist Watch posted:

So that's where the thread title comes from.

Hopper posted:

But the really worst part is that once you get all the way down to the swamp. there is no bonfire.

Ravenfood posted:

For what its worth, I really, really like the saying. It feels just weirdly archaic and unique, and the order in which it comes makes the emphasis on "my soul is mine" being more important than actually being alive. Definitely a good tagline.

edit: ^^^^^ You're playing Dark Souls, man! If you see a giant hive thing in the distance, why on earth wouldn't you head there! Sure, you're going to die, but that's okay!

Elman posted:

So how much Vit and Endurance should I aim for on a heavy armored guy? I want to use Str weapons and Miracles but I wouldn't want to be a slow moving, low HP pincushion either. I'm at 24 Str (For the man-serpent sword) and 30 Faith or so right now. Maybe I should stop leveling Str and focus on Faith, with an Occult weapon?

Hopper posted:

I really really loathe blighttown.

I keep getting pushed off by enemies or poisoned and then swarmed by mosquitoes.

Hopper posted:

But I haven't found a close enough bonfire yet...

LtSmash posted:

For some reason people seem to miss the blighttown bonfire a lot. I died a few times in the swamp before finding it and I think a goon said he used the great hollow one while trying quelaag his first playthrough.

Galick posted:

Two questions.

1. What's the actual strength requirement on the Dragonslayer Bow? I'm assuming it's actually twenty instead of the lower amount that comes with two handing?

2. How do I actually open the Lost Izaleth shortcut? I've gotten the Chaos Servant covenant to +2, but the elevator does nothing. If I join another covenant before I actually do Lost Izaleth, will I be able to help Solaire?

LibbyM posted:

If I fail to summon someone once, should I assume it will always fail to summon that person and not bother trying again on their sign?

Galick posted:

1. What's the actual strength requirement on the Dragonslayer Bow? I'm assuming it's actually twenty instead of the lower amount that comes with two handing?

Rirse posted:

So unless the servers get switched to Steam, Dark Souls on the PC won't be playable online anymore when July 1st 2014 rolls around.

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/pc-games/age-of-empires-online-info

gtrmp posted:

From Software already responded to the change, and when MS deleted the AoE update, FROM deleted their response:



So far FROM are the only devs who've actually said anything directly on the topic, though a few other GFWL games have seen some patches relating to Steamworks over the past few months.

gtrmp posted:

From Software already responded to the change, and when MS deleted the AoE update, FROM deleted their response:



So far FROM are the only devs who've actually said anything directly on the topic, though a few other GFWL games have seen some patches relating to Steamworks over the past few months.

Cernunnos posted:

I assume this will also mean an end to the CE era. I'm gonna miss being able to dick around with the game in the best/worst ways possible.

Hopefully more stable online interactions is the trade-off.

Voxx posted:

SynthOrange posted:

It's right there, so I get that, but where the gently caress did all this come from? It's like the plot got babelfished a few times.

DelphiAegis posted:

Maybe others know, but I just figured this out. I never rated messages, because I thought it was a pain in the rear end to do so (Use my orange soapstone, select rate message while it's nearby, etc.)

But you don't have to do that. While viewing the message, you can hit the gesture button and it will pop up the window to rate the message. Wow. I feel dumb, now.

gtrmp posted:

From Software already responded to the change, and when MS deleted the AoE update, FROM deleted their response:



So far FROM are the only devs who've actually said anything directly on the topic, though a few other GFWL games have seen some patches relating to Steamworks over the past few months.