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Rasamune posted:What was her deal, anyway? Was she a demon? A human that got turned into a crow? A talking crow who existed even before the cataclysm? Whatever. I just know she loved bling and didn't try to kill me or trick me. That made her better than every other character in Demon's Souls.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Whatever. I just know she loved bling and didn't try to kill me or trick me. That made her better than every other character in Demon's Souls. Excuse me she was tied with Yuria for best character  . I didn't do the Mephistopheles quests forever because I felt bad killing Yuria ;-;.
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Oct 3, 2011 19:22
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The Edge review was probably better written than the others so far. It didn't spend nearly as much time lingering on 'THIS GAME IS SOOOO HARD YOU WILL DIE THOUSANDS OF TIMES' and focused more on the fact that it's a beautiful, detailed, coherent world to explore. Dark Souls - the worlds first action/horror/tourism simulator. I like the focus on 'You know that you shouldn't do that, but you know you will' there, too, with the black knight anecdote.
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Smelly posted:I'd put warning messages about Sparkly down and everything. Sparkly is in and she will give you amazing rewards for your Twinklys. This review is awesome: next-gen review posted:...most of the game jettisons traditional musical accompaniment entirely. The metallic clang of a sword against a shield provides Dark Souls’ cymbal crash; the breeze through tree branches in Darkroot Garden, its woodwinds; the gamepad rumble of a giant’s footsteps, its bass drum. And despite one of my coworkers being out this week I managed to get Wed off this week. gently caress yeah!
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Rasamune posted:What was her deal, anyway? Was she a demon? A human that got turned into a crow? A talking crow who existed even before the cataclysm? I think there's an entire race of birds like her that have the second small set of wings for "hands" and so on.
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I liked most of the characters in demon's souls. The repeating voice clips somehow stayed endearing "so the world might be mended." Well except for stupid disappearing Ostrava who always gets stabbed. I never did the assassin quest. Man I hope Amazon ships the pre order via ontrac. I dunno who ontrac is but they always show up on schedule and before 9am.
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MMania posted:Sparkly is in and she will give you amazing rewards for your Twinklys. You've made my day, the wait is going to be even harder now.
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Oct 3, 2011 19:40
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I won't be starting until tomorrow and I hate this game already for making me want it so enragitatingly. I think I might get it from Gamestop in the morning if it isn't raining and return my Amazon preorder when it comes later. Has anyone seen the guide yet? Is it worth it?
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Oct 3, 2011 19:51
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Portable Staplefrog posted:Has anyone seen the guide yet? Is it worth it? I must stress again that Future Press are no Bradygames or Prima. They seem to really go all in with their guides. There's not that much info out there as to the content of the DS guide, but I'd bet dollars to dog biscuits that it's going to be amazing. Here's the amazon review page of their 400+ page Bayonetta guide to give you an idea of the detail they go into in their guides. http://www.amazon.com/Bayonetta-Official-Guide-Future-Press/dp/3869930039
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Oct 3, 2011 19:59
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Portable Staplefrog posted:Has anyone seen the guide yet? Is it worth it? It's almost 400 pages long. Also it's by the folks who did the Bayonetta guide which was awesome. I almost never get guides but this one was a must-buy for me.
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Just started up my stream again. http://www.twitch.tv/zero000 gonna die~
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Portable Staplefrog posted:I won't be starting until tomorrow and I hate this game already for making me want it so enragitatingly. I think I might get it from Gamestop in the morning if it isn't raining and return my Amazon preorder when it comes later. http://i.imgur.com/HHIL4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tDCOt.jpg Some preview scans from the Future Press facebook page. They were suppose to release another scan if they got enough likes, but it's like a day before the release of Dark Souls so I don't even know if it matters anymore to them.
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Oct 3, 2011 20:02
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WHAT THE gently caress CANADA! God I hate this country so much when it comes to ordering things.
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Revitalized posted:http://i.imgur.com/HHIL4.jpg That map is really cool considering there's no mini-map for them them to draw off of in the game.
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Vintersorg posted:WHAT THE gently caress CANADA! God I hate this country so much when it comes to ordering things. poo poo sucks bro  Did you have release date shipping or what? Wizard Whateley posted:That map is really cool considering there's no mini-map for them them to draw off of in the game. Wow that just occurred to me. Impressive.
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Wizard Whateley posted:Here's the amazon review page of their 400+ page Bayonetta guide to give you an idea of the detail they go into in their guides. http://www.amazon.com/Bayonetta-Official-Guide-Future-Press/dp/3869930039 That's going for $350 new now, drat.
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Oct 3, 2011 20:07
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We don't have that option up here, if they don't ship it out tomorrow I am going to go pick it up at a store and just cancel the above. CE be damned.
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Vintersorg posted:WHAT THE gently caress CANADA! God I hate this country so much when it comes to ordering things. I sort of miss the UK because I'd get games at 10am on the release day. Play.com hooray! I refuse to give money to gamestop so it's amazon for me.
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Oct 3, 2011 20:10
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Mine doesn't even have a Delivery estimate yet. 
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YorexTheMad posted:That's going for $350 new now, drat. Holy poo poo. That's just bananas! Still, you can pry mine from my cold, dead fingers. No idea what accounts for the crazy secondary market for a guide that was published not that long ago.
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How do you get to the skeleton blacksmith? I can hear him working away behind a wall. If Demon's Souls was harsh but fair, then Dark Souls is harsh. Leyburn fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Oct 3, 2011 |
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Oct 3, 2011 20:13
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Does the CE even have anything worthwhile? I don't care about the box the game comes in.
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wait so magic spells are items and if you don't have them equipped you can't use them? That's so terrible. I need a shield and dagger so that's two spells I can have readied? what is the point of a catalyst then?
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Krinkle posted:wait so magic spells are items and if you don't have them equipped you can't use them? That's so terrible. I need a shield and dagger so that's two spells I can have readied? what is the point of a catalyst then? No, magic works the same as Demon's Souls but with set number of uses instead of a mana bar.
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Oct 3, 2011 20:18
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Leyburn posted:No, magic works the same as Demon's Souls but with set number of uses instead of a mana bar. in this stream I'm watching right now he has a flaming hand spell in his items and equipped it. and it says there are 7 charges left.
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Krinkle posted:in this stream I'm watching right now he has a flaming hand spell in his items and equipped it. and it says there are 7 charges left. That's a glove he has equipped, not a spell.
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Krinkle posted:in this stream I'm watching right now he has a flaming hand spell in his items and equipped it. and it says there are 7 charges left. The firey hand is the pryomancy spell weapon; the pryomancy version of catalysts and talismans.
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Vintersorg posted:WHAT THE gently caress CANADA! God I hate this country so much when it comes to ordering things. Sup fellow Canadian goon. I'm on the same boat as you. I did contact Amazon.ca regarding this a couple of days ago and here is their response: quote:I have investigated your order, and it appears that the estimated shipment and delivery dates listed on your order confirmation e-mail are incorrect. I apologize for any concern these erroneous dates may have caused. I don't think we'll get the game for October 4th  but I'm assuming we'll be playing it by the 6th the latest  ...
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I primarily played with the Royal in Demon Souls and used the gently caress out of his/her initial blasting spell. It sounds like cast is EXTREMELY limited. Should I be an archer instead, so I can buy bales of arrows and play my ranged game or what? How limited is casting?
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I'm not entirely sure, as I've only bought two spells and I only use one of them and only in specific circumstances. I have only come across one way of increasing the number of casts you have, and that is by using a ring that halves your health but doubles your casts. However, there are loads of spells so you should be able to equip a ton of spells at a time if you pump your souls into Intelligence. I've not tried it though, so I couldn't say for sure.
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a foolish pianist posted:Does the CE even have anything worthwhile? I don't care about the box the game comes in. It also comes with and art-book and some codes for digital stuff. So whether or not it's worthwhile depends on whether you care about any of that.
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CyanideRush posted:I primarily played with the Royal in Demon Souls and used the gently caress out of his/her initial blasting spell. Each spell has a certain number of charges, like a consumable item. When it runs out, you cannot cast it anymore. However, you can carry multiple copies of the same spell, and the spells fully recharge at bonfires, which are typically speaking much closer to each other than the length of a stage in Demon's, but far enough away from each other that you aren't tripping all over them or anything.
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CyanideRush posted:I primarily played with the Royal in Demon Souls and used the gently caress out of his/her initial blasting spell. I think you get like 30 casts of the basic soul arrow per memory slot. Which seems like plenty! Pyromancy spells seem much more limited.
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So are the trophies for collecting all rings/weapons/spells back in? I wanna know how easy this one will be to Plat.
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This is one instance where you should not blame Canada. I'm not there and mine hasn't shipped either.
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Smelly posted:So are the trophies for collecting all rings/weapons/spells back in? There's one for collecting all the secret weapons, and then for individual weapon types there are only ones for getting the "best" (highest upgraded?) weapon with certain properties. There are, however, some for collecting every spell in certain categories (all pyromancies, all miracles, etc). Full list here. The trophies and achievements are the same (including an achievement that is an analog to the platinum trophy).
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Arrrrgh my campus' mail has a PO box so I'm unable to do anything but standard shipping, and that means I probably won't get this until next week at the earliest   #firstworldproblems
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a foolish pianist posted:Does the CE even have anything worthwhile? I don't care about the box the game comes in. The CE was a free upgrade, if that gives you any hints. (No, there's nothing really worthwhile included.) quote:Holy poo poo. That's just bananas! Still, you can pry mine from my cold, dead fingers. No idea what accounts for the crazy secondary market for a guide that was published not that long ago. Video game collectors will pay that much (well, maybe not that much), so that's what people sell it for. Even lovely Brady and Prima guides can sometimes fetch three or four times their MSRP once they go out of print. quote:This is one instance where you should not blame Canada. I'm not there and mine hasn't shipped either. The hand-wringing over shipping in this thread is getting absurd. If you paid for release-date delivery, Amazon will send you a shipping confirmation sometime this evening, perhaps even close to midnight. There are these wonderful things called airplanes that can get poo poo from one side of the country to the other pretty fast, and chances are your game doesn't need to travel that far since Amazon has distribution centers all over the country! Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Oct 3, 2011 |
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Just a Souls noob question from someone who relied far too much on the wiki in my first playthrough of the original. Are the damage bonuses from weapons that are based on stats communicated by the S, A, B etc. grade on the stat screen? Is it the same in Dark Souls? I just want to make sure I completely understand how this works before I jump into this one blind.
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Does anybody else have a Dark Souls: Collector's Edition order from Amazon's guaranteed release day delivery service that's not even shipped yet? Because apparently my order hasn't been shipped yet either. edit: just checked... everything's cool. Apparently emails aren't supposed to go out about this order until tomorrow. Huh. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Oct 3, 2011 |
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