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Jan 23, 2015 03:09
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skeleton ahead , therefore skeleton !
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Jan 23, 2015 03:14
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Ooh, a LP of one of my new favorite games by one of my old favorite LPers. Good to see you back Dazz!
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Jan 23, 2015 03:28
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huh, i just completed this game for the first time today. and now i see this! Neato
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Jan 23, 2015 03:29
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So based on the character naming screen, this should be the PC version, right? You should announce in the thread or over Twitter or something when you're recording and what SM you're at.  Meis posted:huh, i just completed this game for the first time today. and now i see this! Neato I think you mean Nito. 
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Jan 23, 2015 03:36
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This is very 
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Jan 23, 2015 03:41
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I really should start up a new playthrough of this. I played it for a while on release and just never really got into it, but then again, if I may give some advice to new players, trying to do your first playthrough as a dual-wielding swashbuckler is a bad idea But hey, what better time than the present
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Jan 23, 2015 03:51
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Dazzling Addar posted:Things I will not show off: Baby. (looking forward to this)
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Jan 23, 2015 03:53
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ChaosArgate posted:So based on the character naming screen, this should be the PC version, right? You should announce in the thread or over Twitter or something when you're recording and what SM you're at. how very Rotten of you
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Jan 23, 2015 03:56
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Vicas posted:trying to do your first playthrough as a dual-wielding swashbuckler is a bad idea Sure was, though once I got accustomed to just how terrible the hitboxes are and how much invincibility you get on rolls, I suddenly started having more fun than I think I might have had trying to play it with a standard sword/shield setup. I kind of hate Dark Souls 2. Moment-to-moment gameplay is still fine, but almost everything surrounding it feels bland and uninspired, and it's the dichotomy of disliking so many things yet feeling compelled by the gameplay to continue that frustrates me so much.
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Jan 23, 2015 04:39
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Vicas posted:I really should start up a new playthrough of this. I played it for a while on release and just never really got into it, but then again, if I may give some advice to new players, trying to do your first playthrough as a dual-wielding swashbuckler is a bad idea I eventually beat the game!
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Jan 23, 2015 04:40
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The one change I've seen so far that I dislike just from seeing it as a concept is that jump was made actually feasible to do. I just know there's going to be a tedious and unfun precious platforming segment later in the game just from that, because of course there will be. Now that it's not mostly automatic, From can be bastards with it so they are going to.
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Jan 23, 2015 04:43
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Zyla posted:I eventually beat the game! I just totally burned out from dying a billion times from bad parry timing/inability to stun enemies properly. I think in my new playthrough I'm gonna be a burly truck man because if it was good enough for DS1 then by god I'll make it good enough for DS2
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Jan 23, 2015 04:45
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Vicas posted:I just totally burned out from dying a billion times from bad parry timing/inability to stun enemies properly. I think in my new playthrough I'm gonna be a burly truck man because if it was good enough for DS1 then by god I'll make it good enough for DS2 Oh it was awful and about halfway through the game of trying to make it work I watched people that chose other paths have a much easier time and adapted their methods. Burly truck man is a good decision
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Jan 23, 2015 04:47
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Vicas posted:I just totally burned out from dying a billion times from bad parry timing/inability to stun enemies properly. Parrying isn't really ideal for a swordsman, I think. The idea should be to never get hit in the first place, not to deflect the hits. Poise breaking enemies I found not much of a problem with the stone ring. Having said that, it's certainly a more advanced class. On a second file I'm going through with zero armour on and doing lots of co-op. People are super quick to summon you when they see an avatar with no armour, possibly because they think you must be really good at the game.
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Jan 23, 2015 04:55
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I think the biggest problem is trying to learn the layout of the game while simultaneously dodging things and especially having to come up with rather convoluted strategies for areas that wouldn't be much of a problem with a proper shield and sword and then having to do them over and over and over and over
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Jan 23, 2015 05:04
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horse!
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Jan 23, 2015 07:25
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Vicas posted:I just totally burned out from dying a billion times from bad parry timing/inability to stun enemies properly. I think in my new playthrough I'm gonna be a burly truck man because if it was good enough for DS1 then by god I'll make it good enough for DS2 i gave up on learning how to parry in Dark Souls 2 pretty quickly and eventually just learned to roll through everything. unless you're using a shield built for parrying the timing is just brutal.
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Jan 23, 2015 07:31
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There will be some parrying in the next update. Some of it even successful! It's always been a difficult mechanic, it doesn't help that the timing in 2 is significantly different from the timing in 1.
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Jan 23, 2015 08:12
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For everyone looking to try out a first or 2nd playthrough soon, wait for the Free update/HD Remake coming in about a months time. Also Vicas posted:I really should start up a new playthrough of this. I played it for a while on release and just never really got into it, but then again, if I may give some advice to new players, trying to do your first playthrough as a dual-wielding swashbuckler is a bad idea As a 1st run no shield scimitar bro  For real though the scimitar class weapons have problems especially if you are trying to dual wield them and especially if you aren't used to Dark souls 2 and the bosses, they have such long animation fighting bosses was a pain.
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Jan 23, 2015 08:16
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Dazzling Addar posted:There will be some parrying in the next update. Some of it even successful! It's always been a difficult mechanic, it doesn't help that the timing in 2 is significantly different from the timing in 1. It's not all that different. All the parry animations in this game have more startup frames than the previous games, so if you know what the timing to parry would be if this was Dks/Des, you just gotta adjust your timing to be like half a second earlier.
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Jan 23, 2015 08:40
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I really don't like ds2. I wish that I did like it, I can see what people find good, but ... I can't get over the bland aesthetics, both in terms of level architecture (there is only so much of the same gray brick walls that I can take) and enemy design; the fact that most enemies have very short wind-ups for their attacks so you can't prepare properly, their insane turn speeds and perfect tracking, the funky hitboxes where weapons hit you when you are a meter or more away from its arc ... but most of all I don't like it because it tells the same story DS1 did. This game tries to be so _safe_ that it feels like a rehash.
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Jan 23, 2015 10:51
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Yeah, it feels really bland compared to the first game, where it was a joy to explore and discover all those amazingly detailed areas; a lot of DS2 is just rehashing Dark Souls. I don't know, maybe I'd feel that way about the first game if I had played Demon's Souls, but this game's world just didn't feel very interesting to me. There's a couple of downright beautiful areas, but they usually don't get fleshed out too much and the majority of the game is just bland. Also it does one thing that game designers turn to literally when they're out of any other ideas: giant spider dungeon. I'd honestly expect more than that of Dark Souls.
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Jan 23, 2015 11:01
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anilEhilated posted:Also it does one thing that game designers turn to literally when they're out of any other ideas: giant spider dungeon. I'd honestly expect more than that of Dark Souls. Naw, that's sewer levels. Which the first game had but it was actually good, and this one doesn't have at all! The place you're referring to in this one was actually pretty neat for what it was. If there's one thing this game doesn't do enough, it's having places which might've actually been lived in by normal people at some point. Most of them feel like dungeons for dungeons' sake, of which the first game had one too but Sen's Fortress is basically the greatest video game level of all time, so. 
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Jan 23, 2015 12:28
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Ok, I argue that I may be the dumbest bastard to try this game; first off, I got killed by trying to see if those scurrying creatures at the very start of the game would attack you (they do); although I kind of expected that. What I DIDN'T expect was the fog wall corridor to be the actual tutorial level and skipped it all, not knowing any type of actual controls.
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Jan 23, 2015 12:44
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Longsword and pyromancy supremacy! Sticking to the basics is sticking to the best that the game has to offer in the long run.
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Jan 23, 2015 15:10
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Longsword is for puny, ungreat people but pyromancy, that is for everyone
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Jan 23, 2015 15:32
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hexes. try hexes, I never got the hang of them.
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Jan 23, 2015 15:45
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double nine posted:hexes. try hexes, I never got the hang of them. List of good hexes: Dark orb, Dark weapon, scraps of life and dark storm. There really isnt good reason to go into higher hexes since they nerfed them. Well the really high end ones are great but thats a huge stat investment. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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Jan 23, 2015 15:46
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Rigged Death Trap posted:There really isnt good reason to go into higher hexes since they nerfed them. Crypt Blacksword I find your lack of faith in large purple dongs disturbing.
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Jan 23, 2015 15:52
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Iretep posted:Crypt Blacksword Good for Guts cosplay as well.
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Jan 23, 2015 17:46
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I probably played DS1 more than any other game I've ever played but for the life of me I just could not get into DS2 the same way. I can't even put my finger on why but it never grabbed me. That being said I will watch your LP and enjoy it!
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Jan 23, 2015 19:38
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Chard posted:I probably played DS1 more than any other game I've ever played but for the life of me I just could not get into DS2 the same way. I can't even put my finger on why but it never grabbed me. That being said I will watch your LP and enjoy it! somewhere in this video is probably what you dislike about the game. It's very exhaustive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScsme8didI
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Jan 23, 2015 19:55
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Chard posted:I probably played DS1 more than any other game I've ever played but for the life of me I just could not get into DS2 the same way. I can't even put my finger on why but it never grabbed me. That being said I will watch your LP and enjoy it! Hmm it truly is a mystery... Chard posted:I will literally for real in real life murder and kill to death, until they stop breathing and pumping blood and thinking, any poo poo fucker bitch human being bell phantoms. It's obscenely unbalanced right now, and I just want to help people through a fun boss. Yuck, sour taste in a fun game.
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Jan 23, 2015 20:31
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Nice custom title bro
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Jan 23, 2015 20:32
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Chard posted:Nice custom title bro Thanks. It's the third one some idiot(s?) has bought me.
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Jan 23, 2015 20:42
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Can we not get into DS1 vs. DS2? We're not even off page one. Also, do you intend to stay in the Imported Set all game, and leave Hal's true form to the viewers' imaginations forevermore?
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Jan 23, 2015 20:43
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Night10194 posted:Can we not get into DS1 vs. DS2? Jesus christ yes, my post in this thread wasn't even about one being "better" but Geno decided to creep up in my post history for something I'd completely forgotten. I only mentioned it to frame how excited I am for a quality LP of Dark Souls 2. e: i am so sorry everyone 
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Jan 23, 2015 20:49
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I brought it up because it's hilarious. Not sure how you're getting "dks vs. dks2" from that 
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Jan 23, 2015 20:56
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