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So is there any reason why this game runs at such a low resolution? It's really noticeable and makes the game look really, really bad.
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This game got a lot easier once when I rerolled off of deprived. I am a coward. 
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Mar 11, 2014 11:13
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Hivac posted:So is there any reason why this game runs at such a low resolution? It's really noticeable and makes the game look really, really bad. Because the PS360 are 8 years old! It's the same as DeS and DaS, right? 1024x720 with 2xMSAA?
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Mar 11, 2014 11:14
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Hipster Occultist posted:Yeah that dude. He hits like a truck but once I sorta figured parries out he died to two of'em and a couple swings. He drops a decent sword iirc. He also has no poise you can just spam then roll away. And you get what looks like the rear end 2.0
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Mar 11, 2014 11:14
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Because the PS360 are 8 years old! DeS and DaS never looked like they were stretched out to this extent. It's to the point where everything looks kind of blurry. Edit: Never mind, I'm retarded and forgot to check 480/720p 
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Mar 11, 2014 11:15
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Genocyber posted:He also has no poise you can just spam then roll away. And you get what looks like the rear end 2.0 I know exactly what you mean but this acronym owns.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:16
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Failboattootoot posted:This game got a lot easier once when I rerolled off of deprived. I am a coward. While I wait the 25 Sony(c) brand Minutes plus an unknown install time, mind telling me what's so bad about it? Like are you forced to fist every enemy for five minutes for the first hour of the game or something? All I really care about is whether or not a weapon I can 2h will be available before I start having to fight stuff. I'm fine with no armor but if Deprived == tedium then screw that.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:18
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Mailer posted:While I wait the 25 Sony(c) brand Minutes plus an unknown install time, mind telling me what's so bad about it? Like are you forced to fist every enemy for five minutes for the first hour of the game or something? All I really care about is whether or not a weapon I can 2h will be available before I start having to fight stuff. I'm fine with no armor but if Deprived == tedium then screw that. You can get a (pretty bad) sword without fighting a single enemy by taking the path of least resistance and exploring the hub. E: this is because you can just completely skip the tutorial area, by the way.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:21
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First boss down. Like the first game, Sorceror seems really strong at the beginning, was easily able to beat up the White Knight and first boss with basically no effort at all. Go Soul Arrow. That being said, I did die a lot of the random chump knight zombies awakening after you run past them. You'd think I'd learn the first 10 times I die to that, but nope.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:21
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Mailer posted:While I wait the 25 Sony(c) brand Minutes plus an unknown install time, mind telling me what's so bad about it? Like are you forced to fist every enemy for five minutes for the first hour of the game or something? All I really care about is whether or not a weapon I can 2h will be available before I start having to fight stuff. I'm fine with no armor but if Deprived == tedium then screw that. It's 2 things. The first is that the early gearing options are fairly worse than your potential starter weapon from other classes. At least this is the case for warrior, knight, and swordsman. You also probably won't have the souls required to level your poo poo up to actually use the drat things you do find either. The other big thing is that every stat boosts hp now, so starting at SL 1 versus sl 10-13 for the others is a significant hp disadvantage. So if you die a bunch and drop down to that half health area you pretty much die in 1 combo from a standard hollow. There is no full physical block shield in the first areas as of yet either and the lack of armor hurts. Deprived will have to wait until I become a god of parrying because that's the only efficient way to do it in the beginning.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:24
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After stylin' all over Dark Souls thanks to watching half of Geop's LP of it, I now understand the appeal, the allure, the confusion of playing a Souls game right away with no help. I killed one boss (with help from a white phantom) and I'm otherwise unsure where to go or where to find good gear. I'm just scrounging souls and hopin' for the best
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Mar 11, 2014 11:24
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Anyone else get a more DeS vibe with how many enemies they like to throw at you at once? Not to the extent of the bridge in 1-1, but I do find myself getting that vibe from the Forest. Also, the badass sword throwing dwarf chillin' on giant a sword from an early gameplay trailer is gone and in his place is some boring normal enemies. That really sucks.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:25
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I decided I didn't want to wait another two days until the Japanese release and tried to download it off the PSN store but keep getting "an error has occurred" messages thrown at me while trying to check out. God drat it, take my money!
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Mar 11, 2014 11:26
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I started off as deprived because I'm dumb, and it took me a couple hours to upgrade from a lovely dagger to a lovely broken short sword to a real short sword and suddenly I can kill stuff in two heavy attacks. It took me way too long to realize that you keep the starter robes, I must have ran around naked for a good hour before I finally got a piece of armor and noticed I had them.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:32
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So Deprived is similar to SL1 runs - challenge mode tedium. Pass.Million Ghosts posted:<thing> from an early gameplay trailer is gone and in his place is some boring normal enemies. That really sucks. I noticed the enemy changes in the network test area. Kinda sad about those. Hopefully that's a NG+ thing.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:35
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Because the PS360 are 8 years old! It's 720p with FXAA. It's gonna look a little blurry.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:36
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The shortsword that the sword class starts off with has some really nice 2H attacks if anyone's looking for something relatively quick that isn't a dagger. The R2 is a straight thrust with nice range, and you can
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Mar 11, 2014 11:36
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Million Ghosts posted:Anyone else get a more DeS vibe with how many enemies they like to throw at you at once? Not to the extent of the bridge in 1-1, but I do find myself getting that vibe from the Forest. Also, the badass sword throwing dwarf chillin' on giant a sword from an early gameplay trailer is gone and in his place is some boring normal enemies. That really sucks. Seeing how I just got mobbed by six hollow soldiers, yes they're also a lot more aggressive, which is good
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Mar 11, 2014 11:41
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I bought two caestuses(caesti?) from the merchant and my life has changed forever
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Mar 11, 2014 11:43
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Hipster Occultist posted:Yeah that dude. He hits like a truck but once I sorta figured parries out he died to two of'em and a couple swings. He drops a decent sword iirc. I used that sword for a little bit until I found a Fire Longsword. Then I pushed that thing to +3 and I'm pretty much just wasting fools now. So far The Last Giant and the Dragon Rider are total loving pushovers. I don't think either of them hit me once. And holy loving poo poo adaptability is so, so necessary. So far the level designs have been as interesting/fun as DkS1. I've only been to two areas outside tutorial zone and Majula, but they look gorgeous and have some tricky stuff. Somebody fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 11, 2014 11:43
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Genocyber posted:Seeing how I just got mobbed by six hollow soldiers, yes I've come up behind a fair share of deaf/blind mob groups already, but for the most part the AI is very good. I wonder if the sex change coffin has any other uses?
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Mar 11, 2014 11:44
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This message system is ridiculous, holy poo poo.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:44
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It's everything I wanted oh god I'm going to lose so many nights sleep
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Mar 11, 2014 11:48
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Failboattootoot posted:This game got a lot easier once when I rerolled off of deprived. I am a coward. I've got another few hours before local stores open and I can pick up my copy and kick off playing; how have others felt about rolling Deprived for their first character? Equally as challenging as implied above? God I can't wait to dive into this.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:51
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Any goon streams? I'd get one up if anyone can tell me wtc I'm doing wrong with my Elgado http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3590713&pagenumber=24&perpage=40#post426811398
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Mar 11, 2014 11:52
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Random observations: I'm feeling a real lack of a sense of place in a lot of these level designs early on. The areas outside of majula seem less intricate and more broad and sweeping. Things have much larger proportions from the get go. Elevators reset when you hit a bonfire or die. The Walking Dad fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Mar 11, 2014 |
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Mar 11, 2014 11:54
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Merauder posted:I've got another few hours before local stores open and I can pick up my copy and kick off playing; how have others felt about rolling Deprived for their first character? Equally as challenging as implied above? It's pretty satisfying once you get rolling, but it's not forgiving at all. You've got to spend quite a while dodging every attack and doing piddly amounts of damage.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:54
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GreenBuckanneer posted:It's 720p with FXAA. It's gonna look a little blurry. Hmm, I guess they had to to keep up with all the other changes. Not that it really helped 
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Mar 11, 2014 11:55
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The White Knight in the first part of the forest killed me at the same time I killed him. He dropped something but when I got back there was no item. I have an ok sword right now but the completionist in me is telling me to restart. Also this game is awesome. Seems even tougher than Dark Souls 1. You're definitely a lot more likely to get mobbed by enemies in this. Feel like a scrub going with my normal sword and board combo but I've always been bad at parrying and dodging. Deprived start is pretty tough. You can get a dagger early on but it takes 4-5 hits to kill an enemy. I died a bunch and literally couldn't do part of the tutorial (the 3rd mist door I think) because of my lack of health, shield and damage. Once you find a piece or two of equipment things get easier though, and it's pretty fun going from struggling super hard against normal enemies to wasting a big group of them with no problem. Blisster fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Mar 11, 2014 |
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Mar 11, 2014 11:55
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So how exactly do you access the Black Armor stuff? I looked around on the page and saw nothing, and I don't have anything in-game.
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Mar 11, 2014 11:56
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So it's out here on the 14th and have been considering buying it, from what people seen so far is it worth a day one purchase if I am only playing it offline?
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Mar 11, 2014 12:01
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Good God did they seriously just make me scroll through the whole EULA? 
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Mar 11, 2014 12:01
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Over 100,000 deaths already. Good work everyone!
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Mar 11, 2014 12:05
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Blisster posted:Over 100,000 deaths already. Good work everyone! Pft, look at all these casual baby scrubs dying  I swear I totally could've made that jump 
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Mar 11, 2014 12:07
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Blisster posted:Over 100,000 deaths already. Good work everyone! I did my part for our country  I first saw the counter at 40,000 something, and the next time I looked it had jumped up to 80,000.Anyone have any predictions on how long a million will take?
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Mar 11, 2014 12:14
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I've been killing myself repeated in Heide's Tower of Flame. Is there another location I can go to? I have yet to find one.
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Mar 11, 2014 12:15
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I was like "What are these goons talking about, sex change coffin?? Hey wait a sec, where'd my sweet mustache go- oooohhhh...." edit: oh sweet christ it's 6am!
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Mar 11, 2014 12:16
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well poo poo. I preordered the PC version and I really don't have time to play it this weekend but welp I think I'll cave in and get it for the PS3
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Mar 11, 2014 12:18
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So am I supposed to go to the Lost Bastille after the Forest of Fallen Giants? Because I don't seem to stand much chance against the enemies here...
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Million Ghosts posted:I did my part for our country It's no doubt moving at a snails pace with the small amount of people playing it over night; I'd set an over/under for 1mil deaths at 4pm PST day one, giving most time zones time to die after business hours and the like. I'd still probably take the under on that bet. 
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