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HMS Boromir posted:DS2 doesn't have passwords, does it? You'd have to pick a god using that one ring to do that I think. drat, you're right-- that was Bloodborne and DS3. It's a good addition to the series mechanics, I kinda wish it had been in 2. Although, given the tweaked covenants, I can see how it wouldn't work well... Ah well. Maybe in a year or so when Kuvo and Vicas drag Geop back into the fray.
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I'll probably tweet out whenever we're recording, from time to time (not every session) in case folks want to invade and be jerks  I'll run it by the guys or let them do it at the start of the session (without telling me) if they'd prefer.
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May 4, 2016 17:55
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Geop posted:I'll probably tweet out whenever we're recording, from time to time (not every session) in case folks want to invade and be jerks Remember to tweet your soul memory so people can be real twinking jerks.
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May 4, 2016 18:10
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Oh man, so glad I decided to check what threads are around in LP right now. Your original Dark Souls LP basically made me reg on the forums. 
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Spergminer posted:Remember to tweet your soul memory so people can be real twinking jerks.
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May 4, 2016 18:48
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Geop posted:idk what this means but any twink gear will be ignored/dropped (I mean if someone appears and drops any. That was a thing in DS1 I think). Dark Souls IIs matchmaking is mainly influenced by your Soul Memory, which is every Soul you've ever earned, including those lost or spent. It's quite a lovely system, yes. On the other hand, it's usually not something to worry about because everyone has the same problem. Still, Soul Memory is bad.
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Geop posted:idk what this means but any twink gear will be ignored/dropped (I mean if someone appears and drops any. That was a thing in DS1 I think). In DaS1 terms, think someone invading you in the Undead Burg with a +5 Lightning weapon, while you're fresh from the Undead Asylum and haven't even seen a Titanite Shard yet. While we're on the subject of Soul Memory. I will be forever grateful to From for the ridiculous amount of tears of impotent rage Soul Memory caused among the twink crowd.
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Geop posted:idk what this means but any twink gear will be ignored/dropped (I mean if someone appears and drops any. That was a thing in DS1 I think). I think the only thing people are going to try and give you is Goonther's hat. And trying to kill you a lot.
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I'm not really a fan of the ring matchmaking system in DaS2. Sure it lets people connect more easily with friends, but for me the main draw for co-op in the first game was that you never knew who you'd end up with and that made it exciting. New alliances were quickly made, we would explore, fight and hopefully ultimately survive the boss and then quickly praise the sun as we realise we would never see each other again. In DaS2, if you're alone and decide to get a friend to go with you, 4 times out of 5 it would be some jerk who would disconnect immediately and then put a new summon sign on the ground, possibly because they want to co-op with another buttmuncher and not with you.
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Laputanmachine posted:I'm not really a fan of the ring matchmaking system in DaS2. Sure it lets people connect more easily with friends, but for me the main draw for co-op in the first game was that you never knew who you'd end up with and that made it exciting. New alliances were quickly made, we would explore, fight and hopefully ultimately survive the boss and then quickly praise the sun as we realise we would never see each other again.
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Simply Simon posted:What? But if that guy only wanted to play with a certain person...why would they not use the ring? Probably for the same reason if you go pubbing in, say, Payday 2 or some co-op game and you try to join a lobby and you're kicked instantly because "we're waiting for a friend" and there is an option to make the lobby friends-only or even private but the option isn't ticked. They're lazy or idiots or very possibly both.
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Laputanmachine posted:Probably for the same reason if you go pubbing in, say, Payday 2 or some co-op game and you try to join a lobby and you're kicked instantly because "we're waiting for a friend" and there is an option to make the lobby friends-only or even private but the option isn't ticked. I do this all the time in Payday 2. Two reasons, 1. Most players are terrible, 2. My friends I play with are assholes who wait till I'm five minutes into a game to join.
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Geop posted:I'll probably tweet out whenever we're recording, from time to time (not every session) in case folks want to invade and be jerks FYI, you can dual-wield weapons in this game. This has nothing to do with your quote but wanted you to know this.
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I like to make co-op characters for Dark Souls 2 more specifically than any other game in the series. Can this game cross-platform between the PS3 and the PS4? What about SotFS vs non-SotFS? I'd love to be bash buddies with Goonther
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inthesto posted:I like to make co-op characters for Dark Souls 2 more specifically than any other game in the series. PS3 and PS4 are SotFS vs non-SotFS, and no.
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Geop posted:idk what this means but any twink gear will be ignored/dropped (I mean if someone appears and drops any. That was a thing in DS1 I think). If this game has a set of armor that makes you look like a twink I think I need to buy it.
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I'd think that'd be more a matter of character creation and not wearing armor.
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I popped back into Dark Souls 2 yesterday because of this LP (and also because I remembered that I hadn't finished it yet) and the death count on the statue is like, a little under three times higher than in the third video  Then again I'm on PC so that might affect things?
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Most likely. Keep in mind as well that original DS2 is separate from Scholar, and so you're likely getting data about the former rather than the latter. Amusingly enough, it's also possible to check out your personal death count for a given character by checking that sign while offline.
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EponymousMrYar posted:I popped back into Dark Souls 2 yesterday because of this LP (and also because I remembered that I hadn't finished it yet) and the death count on the statue is like, a little under three times higher than in the third video I'm fairly sure the death counter is by version, yeah. More people probably playing the PC Scholar than the PS4 re-release.
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EponymousMrYar posted:I popped back into Dark Souls 2 yesterday because of this LP (and also because I remembered that I hadn't finished it yet) and the death count on the statue is like, a little under three times higher than in the third video
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I'm not on Scholar since I read a few things about what it did and went 'eff that.'
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NGDBSS posted:Most likely. Keep in mind as well that original DS2 is separate from Scholar, and so you're likely getting data about the former rather than the latter. Does that mean the players are separated in two non-interacting different groups, players with DS2 and players with scholar edition?
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Delacroix posted:Does that mean the players are separated in two non-interacting different groups, players with DS2 and players with scholar edition? NGDBSS fucked around with this message at 00:48 on May 5, 2016 |
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I happened to be drinking some Golden Monkey while watching this and I have to agree that it's always a good choice!
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You can start the game in Offline mode and check that death pillar to see your own specific number of deaths thus far later in the game. There used to be a site where you could see detailed statistics for deaths on every platform and breakdowns on what specifically killed people, but Bamco killed it around the time Dark Souls 3 was announced.Geop posted:I'll probably tweet out whenever we're recording, from time to time (not every session) in case folks want to invade and be jerks You got doodles in the last LP from one of my kids. I will send my other child out to destroy you here. 
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May the Dark Souls 2 LP thread shape up to be a veritable renaissance movement.
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Dark souls 2: Get out of your seat and fight the Goonther.
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Kangra posted:I happened to be drinking some Golden Monkey while watching this and I have to agree that it's always a good choice! Wait, it's not booze?
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Lizard Wizard posted:Wait, it's not booze? http://www.victorybeer.com/beers/golden-monkey/ is what Vicas was drinking. I assume the other guy realized that and was making a joke.
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I'm surprised the number of deaths on that altar wasn't higher. I know most people didn't like DS2 as much as DS1 -- myself included --, but does anyone know how well it sold in-comparison to DS1?
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Covok posted:I know most people didn't like DS2 as much as DS1 -- myself included --, but does anyone know how well it sold in-comparison to DS1? And for obvious reasons of time and whatnot DS3 hasn't reached those sorts of numbers yet.
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NGDBSS posted:The two have at this point had comparable sales. DS1 apparently sold 2.37 million copies as of mid-2013 (after the PC port), while DS2 sold 2.5 million copies as of mid-2015 (after the release of Scholar). Last year From Software actually revealed some of their numbers for both games. 2011 Dark Souls original (PS3 only) has sold a combined 2,828,000 with 375,000 copies sold in Japan. 2012 Dark Souls Prepare to Die (PS3/PC) has sold a combined 2,765,000 with 145,000 copies sold in Japan. 2014 Dark Souls 2 (PS3/Xbox360/PC) has sold a combined 2,311,000 with 351,000 copies sold in Japan. 2015 Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin (PS4/Xbox One/PC) has sold a combined 600,000 with 70,000 copies sold in Japan. So while DS1 is older and had more time to sell it clearly has sold a lot better than DS2 as of 6/2015, with 5,585,000 vs. 2,911,000 copies. Source: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201506/30082036.html Junkozeyne fucked around with this message at 20:08 on May 6, 2016 |
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Those are certainly more up-to-date numbers than I've seen, though at this point I'm guessing that Scholar still has some fire in its ability to sell. From what you've said the majority of DS1's sales come from the Prepare to Die edition - did From put out that stuff out as a rerelease on consoles, or was it solely available as an expansion/DLC? Edit: These are the numbers I was working with for DS1, which implies that the Prepare to Die edition sold the bulk of its copies in a long-tail fashion over time.
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Junkozeyne posted:2013 Dark Souls 2 (PS3/Xbox360/PC) has sold a combined 2,311,000 with 351,000 copies sold in Japan. E: I think the source got it wrong too because I'm a 100% sure Dark Souls II came out in 2014, google confirmed this too.
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NGDBSS posted:Those are certainly more up-to-date numbers than I've seen, though at this point I'm guessing that Scholar still has some fire in its ability to sell. From what you've said the majority of DS1's sales come from the Prepare to Die edition - did From put out that stuff out as a rerelease on consoles, or was it solely available as an expansion/DLC? Uh, from what they said the original Dark Souls sold 2,828,000 while Prepare to Die sold 2,765,000. Those are seperate numbers, DS1 has sold a combined 5,585,000 so while it almost doubled the sales numbers it wasn't the majority. And yes, the Prepare to Die edition had a seperate release for the PS3 though I imagine the bulk of those 2,765million comes from the PC version. IGgy IGsen posted:Yo, you kinda need to add a year to both of those. Dark Souls II vanilla came out in March 2014. Scholar in April 2015 (unless I'm mistaken) I just copied the numbers from the slide of their presentation but google tells me you are right and they apparently made a mistake.
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Junkozeyne posted:Uh, from what they said the original Dark Souls sold 2,828,000 while Prepare to Die sold 2,765,000. Those are seperate numbers, DS1 has sold a combined 5,585,000 so while it almost doubled the sales numbers it wasn't the majority. And yes, the Prepare to Die edition had a seperate release for the PS3 though I imagine the bulk of those 2,765million comes from the PC version.  But in any case, games will continue to sell years after the initial release dates, film at 11.
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Sindai posted:Wait, DS came out on the 360 too. Did they forget to mention that or are they explicitly excluding those sales?  Microsoft just hasn't done well marketing its consoles to the second most populous island in the world, which really makes you wonder. Hell, it's bad enough that (relative) blockbusters like Tales of Vesperia could actually cause a significant change in purchasing habits.
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