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Rollersnake posted:I'm frankly amazed that last week I was struggling with the spear & shield hollows in the Undead Burg, and now I can blow through Blighttown like it's nothing. Sure there's been a lot of leveling and upgrading equipment, but more than anything else I feel like I've gotten better as a player. I agree, and so did From's developers. That's why they added that bullshit part RIGHT after him. Man, I can't imagine any leather user surviving Anor Londo's sniper run at the end. Unless you can parry without falling I guess. Once I got through that, Anor Londo was pretty cool. Im at Orstein and Smough now. First part's easy because I have the Greatshield of Astorias now, so i kill smough first, Orstein proceeds to destroy my tactic of "standing still and blocking like a man" and impales me, taking away what's left of my health. How do i dodge his attacks? Also, big question here. Will future reinforcements to my greatshield of astorias increase my stability? because right now +1 offers nothing but piss poor shield bash damage. Fargin Icehole fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Oct 15, 2011 |
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Just beat the game after playing it practically non-stop the past two weeks. Practically all of that time I was equipped with the same build: Gold-hemmed black robes, divine great scythe and grass crest shield. The final fight was tough as hell but I had to push through as a tribute to the equipment that carried me through half the game. This game has some of the best environment/character design I've ever seen, I said "holy poo poo" and its variants countless times when all was said and done. I felt kinda bad that I was able to kill so many of the bosses on the first try, since they were all so cool looking and it felt like I was doing them a disservice. Oddly enough, while I beat practically all of the bosses people have trouble with on the first go, Pinwheel took me a little while, though that was mostly just from my not moving fast enough before he spawns 5 or so clones, which is pretty much game set and match at that point. The Four Kings were the biggest trouble, but were defeated in one of the most satisfying ways: abandoning all sense of restraint and rushing at them with power within and two-handing the scythe, killing them so fast that there was a 10-second delay before the last one came out. Best boss out of them all would be the final one, though. Hard as hell but incredibly satisfying! Also, the description of Gwyndolin's armor set kinda sheds some light on what's up with his indeterminate sex: quote:The power of the moon was strong in Gwyndolin, and thus he was raised as a daughter.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:30
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After using half my estus flasks on the silver knights I just did a hail mary and hauled rear end past them, past the iron knights, opened the doors, ran back in, found the blacksmith, and now I have a Gravelord Sword +2 and a Crystal Ring Shield. It does 553 damage with the Gravelord Sword equipped. 
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Oct 15, 2011 08:32
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Also, I noticed alot of you mentioning Lightning Zweihanders as your weapon of choice. What's so special about it anyway? I'm trying to make a 2-hand + shield build, but I get destroyed when i use it. On the upside, i made a Demon Machete +10, able to make it lighting, so i do kinda have a Zwei, just with a lovely Strong attack, is all.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:37
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Well I'm pretty much done with this game. gently caress you, Capra Demon.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:40
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Capra really isn't that bad if you know what to do. Can't you summon someone?
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Oct 15, 2011 08:41
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Systems_Id posted:Well I'm pretty much done with this game. gently caress you, Capra Demon. Summon someone to help. Makes it a lot easier.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:41
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Fargin Icehole posted:Also, big question here. Will future reinforcements to my greatshield of astorias increase my stability? because right now +1 offers nothing but piss poor shield bash damage. Systems_Id posted:Well I'm pretty much done with this game. gently caress you, Capra Demon.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:43
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How important is your starting class? I'm really indecisive with games, and went with a Hunter. I don't want to miss anything big. 
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Oct 15, 2011 08:44
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Not even remotely important. It just affects where your stats started, and not even by all that much.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:45
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Crowbear posted:Summon someone to help. Makes it a lot easier.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:46
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Wow, this game's ending was fantastic. Not really spoilers but people who haven't beat it might not want to read my feelings anyway. This poo poo is fairy tale-esque: bittersweet, impressionistic in detail, world-forming stakes. It fit just enough puzzle pieces together and left just enough loose. This is the way game stories ought to be: mysterious and possibly recursive, allowing every replay to be just as much a thorough expression of its feelings as the first. Every gesture the world and its characters make travels through the static aether of the story, really gets the player in it, it's lovely.
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Systems_Id posted:My PS3s internet is hosed.
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Elysiume posted:Not even remotely important. It just affects where your stats started, and not even by all that much. Sweet. Now keeping that in mind, how useful is the bow in this game? I've only fought close quarters combat for the first hour or so of the game.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:49
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Shadow225 posted:Sweet. Now keeping that in mind, how useful is the bow in this game? I've only fought close quarters combat for the first hour or so of the game. Bows are more supplementary in this game. Making them your primary weapon is kind of hard. It's nice to have one on hand though.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:50
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Shadow225 posted:Sweet. Now keeping that in mind, how useful is the bow in this game? I've only fought close quarters combat for the first hour or so of the game.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:53
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Filthy Monkey posted:I can't speak for everybody, but I mostly use the bow for pulling enemies at range and for cheesing tougher enemies that can't get to me. The game has a good bit of fighting in fairly narrow spaces and you can't use a bow with a shield, so it isn't really something which is viable all of the time. Maybe I just needed to use better arrows but they only seemed to add 5 or 10 into a stat at the cost of like 10x more souls. Shadow225 posted:How important is your starting class? I'm really indecisive with games, and went with a Hunter. I don't want to miss anything big.
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Oct 15, 2011 08:57
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I just forged a Crystal Ring Shield, and this thing seems broken as poo poo.
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Oct 15, 2011 09:00
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Shadow225 posted:Sweet. Now keeping that in mind, how useful is the bow in this game? I've only fought close quarters combat for the first hour or so of the game. There are some places where you can where you can stunlock ranged enemies with it. But there is no way it is ever a primary weapon.
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Oct 15, 2011 09:00
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I've been having a lot more of a blast with this game than Demon's Souls. I sat on Demon's Souls for months, barely even beating any bosses. This one seems to have just so many more bosses and minibosses and each time I beat one I feel like a total badass.  Killed Hydra last night, and Sif, and Havel. It was a good evening!edit: I do like seeing this game as a 3D Metroidvania after a goon mentioned it a few pages ago. It's a nice warm fuzzy feeling when I consider it like that, given how many times 3D gameplay has been applied to classic 2D properties and failed.
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Oct 15, 2011 09:04
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Haha know what would be fun is if this time I tried to play a duel wield character who never wore a shield  I now understand why everyone hates the Capra Demon. (I'm using a rapier so I'm not even tempted to block)
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Oct 15, 2011 09:08
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Sheep posted:Basically I just haul rear end to the right around the guy and up the stairs as soon as I enter the mist. Also summon two dudes to help because that fight sucks rear end. Let the two guys fight it while you stand up at the top of the stairs healing people as necessary. How do you heal friendly players? There's no specific information in the wiki, I didn't see anything in the OP and of course the manual has nothing. I don't want to run into my first co-op and feel clueless.
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Fargin Icehole posted:Also, I noticed alot of you mentioning Lightning Zweihanders as your weapon of choice. What's so special about it anyway? Long range, big damage, and lowish requirements. You can use it 2handed with only 16 strength and it hits for like 700 at +5.
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CaptainStag posted:How do you heal friendly players? There's no specific information in the wiki, I didn't see anything in the OP and of course the manual has nothing. I don't want to run into my first co-op and feel clueless.
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CaptainStag posted:How do you heal friendly players? There's no specific information in the wiki, I didn't see anything in the OP and of course the manual has nothing. I don't want to run into my first co-op and feel clueless. I think healing yourself heals any co-op partners. I know that when the host would drink from his Estus I'd also get healed, though not nearly as much. Volitaire posted:Long range, big damage, and lowish requirements. You can use it 2handed with only 16 strength and it hits for like 700 at +5. It's also the first-ish greatsword you find so I imagine that alone means people are upgrading it early and thus are already at +5 when it comes time to modify.
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Volitaire posted:Long range, big damage, and lowish requirements. You can use it 2handed with only 16 strength and it hits for like 700 at +5. Nice. sounds like something i'd enjoy, but I spent all my Titanite chunks on the spear though, so...drat. I have no idea where to reliably get chunks. Or i guess i could just use the demon machete +10 . Already got 40 STR, and like i said, only difference is the machete's strong attacks are abysmal.
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Revitalized posted:Can phantoms heal with things like divine blessing items?
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Plus nearly every boss can be beaten by baiting an attack, counter once, run away, rinse/repeat. In that sense, you want the biggest weapon you can get your hands on and Zwei fits the bill without taking an eternity to swing like some of the other 40-50 STR weapons.
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Space Hamlet posted:Wow, this game's ending was fantastic. I think you're the first person to have said this. I really don't want to say the endings were bad, but in a day and age when endings to video games are the proverbial cherry on top, Dark Souls' endings are more like raisins. They definitely aren't bad, though. I think a lot of people panned them because they were expecting narrated half-hour closing cinematics or something of the sort.
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Holy poo poo, lightning zweinhander +5. Holy poo poo.
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To whomever is dying/leaving loot in New Londo Ruins: Thanks, I just got a twin humanity off a drifter.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Holy poo poo, lightning zweinhander +5. When am i gonna get this drat lighting ember?
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enojy posted:I think you're the first person to have said this. People too often want video games to be movies! This game's ending trades a huge narrative oomph for a much more thematically meaningful subsequent playthrough, it's something which would never work in traditional storytelling but works perfectly for vidyo.
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NESguerilla posted:When am i gonna get this drat lighting ember?
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Samurai Sanders posted:There's nothing to get, the blacksmith in Anol Londo can make lightning weapons from the beginning. Where do you get the Titanite chunks though? At best now, i can turn the Zwei into a plain ol Lightning Zweihander, because i got my spear up to +2.
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Fargin Icehole posted:Where do you get the Titanite chunks though? At best now, i can turn the Zwei into a plain ol Lightning Zweihander, because i got my spear up to +2. Enemies in New Londo drop them.
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enojy posted:I think you're the first person to have said this. Haven't beat it yet but I loved the jerky ending to Demon's souls. watching your character squish the Maiden in Black's face into the mud after you murder her was epic.
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RBA Starblade posted:There's some sort of NPC behind a wall I can't get to but there's a window where I can snipe him. Should I attack him or what? He looks friendly, but not human. No no no, no shoot the nice man! And the Silver Knights can be backstabbed, but their backstab point is kinda off to their right rather then dead centre. Simply circle to your left, block the hit and you should get it more often then not. Also, backstabbing with a lightning zweihander is hilarious and brutal. Fargin Icehole posted:Also, I noticed alot of you mentioning Lightning Zweihanders as your weapon of choice. What's so special about it anyway? I'm trying to make a 2-hand + shield build, but I get destroyed when i use it. It hits like a loving truck, destroys lightning-weak enemies, the "weak" attack has a massive arc and the strong attack slams humanoid enemies onto their faces, allowing for a follow-up swing that'll usually finish them off. The downside is god-awful speed, hellish stamina drain and if you wiff a strong attack you're gonna suffer. It's not for every enemy (personally, I use it for the likes of the Anor giants or knights or other strong, slow stuff, with the lightning spear for speedy little shits), but for those it is for it's godly. MadJackMcJack fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Oct 15, 2011 |
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McTimmy posted:Enemies in New Londo drop them. Err, New Londo as in New Londo ruins with all the ghosts and poo poo? All i did in ruins was take the firekeeper soul and i got the hell out of there. I'm sure i can blast through it no problem now though.
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