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 NO SPOILERS.LATEST EPISODE: 44 - Old King Allant  From Software has made a name for themselves with their super popular Souls games; they're challenging, but ultimately fair RPGs that punish recklessness and reward careful and methodical play. Just recently, they released Dark Souls III, the grand finale of the Dark Souls subset of games, to much acclaim. Personally, I've played the poo poo out of all three Dark Souls games, but I haven't actually touched the others; namely, I haven't played Demon's Souls or Bloodborne. Let's fix... part of that.  This is a blind LP of Demon's Souls where I'm regularly joined by my friends liquidypoo and Casnorf and assorted others who appear sporadically. As of the writing of this post, I have at least half of the game recorded, but don't take that as an excuse to talk about anything not in an actual video. If you want to talk later things, take it to Games. This LP was born from a Halloween stream idea where deaths would be met with liquidypoo reading a post from PYF Food Industry Horror Stories. Yes, it's kind of a dumb gimmick, but bear with us, it only lasts a few sessions and the main takeaway from that is that this LP is a mostly casual blind run. Of course, what kind of a Souls LP would this be without invasions? As of the writing of this OP, I am SL 61 and I have a stock of Stones of Ephemeral Eyes, so I'll be spending a good chunk of the rest of the playthrough in Body Form. I'll tweet out when I'm doing a stream and I'll post here in this thread when I'm going live, what level I'm currently at and where I'm planning on going so you know exactly where to get the drop on me. You can find my twitter here! I think that about does it, so let's get things rolling and touch the demon inside. Current status: SL 73 Game complete!  Playlist Session 1 (featuring Demerine): Tutorial and World 1-1       Session 2: World 2-1 and a peek at 3-1     Session 3 (featuring Jobbo_Fett): World 4-1 and a peek at 4-2      Session 4 (featuring Jobbo_Fett): A peek at 4-2 and World 2-2      Session 5 (featuring Jobbo_Fett): A peek at 2-3 and World 1-2    Session 6 (featuring Jobbo_Fett and Demerine): World 5-1 and World 2-3   Session 7: World 3-1  Session 8 (featuring PoorlyWrittenNovel, Blastinus and FPZero): World 3-1 and a peek at 1-3    Session 9: World 4-2   Session 10: World 3-2 and World 3-3    Session 11 (featuring Artix and Nine-Gear Crow): World 5-2    Session 12 (featuring Jobbo_Fett): World 1-3 and a peek at 1-4      Session 13 (featuring Artix): World 1-4 and ending   Fan Stuff!  Demicol caught me killing an invader thanks to the help of network latency! ChaosArgate fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 03:29
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ChaosArgate posted:
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May 30, 2016 03:36
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Man, that first blue-eyed knight got RGet's dagger right in the dick. Also:quote:
 I look forward to seeing all the ways Demon's Souls dicks you over, Argate!
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May 30, 2016 04:51
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Soul of the lost, withdrawn from its vessel. Let strength be granted so the world might be mended, so the world might be mended.
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Real OGs stay in Soul Form cause you're more sneaky that way. 
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May 30, 2016 04:55
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SSNeoman posted:Real OGs stay in Soul Form cause you're more sneaky that way. I actually really like that detail, like, of course you wouldn't make noise, you don't have a corporeal form. 
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May 30, 2016 05:05
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Hell yeah! I love this game! I am one of those broken brained people who likes watching Souls games played blind, so I am pumped.
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May 30, 2016 05:12
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this game is good. no spoiler tags. mods, ban this sick filth
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May 30, 2016 06:20
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Blind Sally posted:this game is good.
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May 30, 2016 16:45
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Yeah, Demon's Souls was fine for its time but it's incredibly janky to play now. The improvements from Demon's to Dark are staggering, let alone up to Bloodborne and DS3.
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May 30, 2016 17:06
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Artix posted:Yeah, Demon's Souls was fine for its time but it's incredibly janky to play now. The improvements from Demon's to Dark are staggering, let alone up to Bloodborne and DS3. On the contrary, I think it plays and looks better than Dark Souls 1. It definitely runs better.
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May 30, 2016 17:14
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Beelerzebub posted:On the contrary, I think it plays and looks better than Dark Souls 1. It definitely runs better. Naw, sorry dude. Demon's is definitely Jank Souls. I don't think we've seen it yet in the posted content, but the frame rate dips if you break more than three things at once. We'll see it. There are also strange physics interactions when the player or enemies are knocked off of cliffs. And there are a number of things that just get cleaned up considerably in the transition from Demon's to Dark. Don't get me wrong, I love the hell out of this game. I'm just not willing to lie to myself and say it runs better than Dark.
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May 30, 2016 17:27
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liquidypoo posted:Naw, sorry dude. Demon's is definitely Jank Souls. I don't think we've seen it yet in the posted content, but the frame rate dips if you break more than three things at once. We'll see it. There are also strange physics interactions when the player or enemies are knocked off of cliffs. And there are a number of things that just get cleaned up considerably in the transition from Demon's to Dark. I'm about 15 hours in, myself, and I haven't run into that problem, but that may be because I've only had what amounts to a "sampling". Edit: I do like to take games at a snail's pace, though, so I'm probably not too far in. Beelerzebub fucked around with this message at 19:05 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 17:30
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I don't think I've hit 15 hours just yet, but the game has definitely been pretty janky so far. It's a lot of fun, but there's a lot of jankiness to it as well and the havok physics remain the best thing.
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May 30, 2016 17:36
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Casnorf posted:Counterpoint: This game is ok.
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May 30, 2016 17:37
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ChaosArgate posted:I don't think I've hit 15 hours just yet, but the game has definitely been pretty janky so far. It's a lot of fun, but there's a lot of jankiness to it as well and the havok physics remain the best thing. By that you mean the noodly remains of vanquished enemies, right?
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May 30, 2016 19:02
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There's that, and the fact that rolling into a shelf can launch an innocent bowl halfway across a courtyard.
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May 30, 2016 19:15
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Casnorf posted:Counter-counterpoint: This LP is ok. Contra-counter-counterpoint: your opinion is ok. :dropmic: :360noscope:
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May 31, 2016 02:13
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ChaosArgate posted:I don't think I've hit 15 hours just yet, but the game has definitely been pretty janky so far. It's a lot of fun, but there's a lot of jankiness to it as well and the havok physics remain the best thing. Half the fun of Demon's Souls is its jankiness.
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May 31, 2016 02:13
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By the way I think I forgot to mention that we're going to go through early updates sporadically, but quickly. I have a massive backlog so let's get to it.
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May 31, 2016 02:30
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I'm thinking about doing a stream tonight around 8-8:30 est. SL should be around 61 and I'm planning on Latria 2.
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May 31, 2016 23:57
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ChaosArgate posted:I'm thinking about doing a stream tonight around 8-8:30 est. SL should be around 61 and I'm planning on Latria 2. A link would be rad vvv awww yyyyeahhhh Glenn_Beckett fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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Jun 1, 2016 01:31
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Glenn_Beckett posted:A link would be rad Namely, now. https://hitbox.tv/chaosargate Stream done! Thanks everyone for watching! We cleaned up the rest of World 3 so next up on stream is World 5! ChaosArgate fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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Jun 1, 2016 01:41
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Aaah, this is where the thread title comes from! I just started rewatching Squint's old LP because it seems I can't get enough Souls in my life, and it's staggering how much better the videos look now that technology has progressed. You're also not doing half bad even compared to his well-informed playthrough, so I'm already pumped for the next episode! Hope you get your revenge on that Red Eyes Knight soon...your Dagger was really doing good work there.
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Jun 2, 2016 18:09
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Just you wait until we get to some of the more recent streaming session recordings. Argate did some wizarding with his capture software and it's just going to look even radder than the currently posted content does.
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Jun 2, 2016 23:42
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Speaking of, I'm going away for the weekend, so we thought we'd do another stream, tentatively at 8 EST. I'll post again with the stream link if we're able to do it. Edit: Probably going to have to start around 8:30-8:45ish. Edit2: We are currently waiting on liquidy, but hopefully he'll be done soon. ChaosArgate fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jun 3, 2016 |
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Jun 2, 2016 23:50
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Looks like we're not doing it tonight, sorry to disappoint anyone who was looking forward to it. No one ended up being available for co-commentary and I don't think solo-blind commentary is really that entertaining and I know I can't hold a stream by myself, so we're gonna hopefully try again next week.
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Jun 3, 2016 01:52
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I believe the scimitar/falchion attack you were looking for is a two-handed attack. It was the follow-up one-handed strong attack in Dark Souls, which annoyed me, and I was surprised to find it in Demon's as well when I went back to it.
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Oh man, it's been a while since I've done a run of Demon's Souls. I forgot how much I hated the grass system for healing, even before I had played Dark Souls. Still, I do think this game did a lot of things right, and it probably had the most memorable boss fights in the souls series.
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Jun 3, 2016 02:48
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I'm out til Monday so have an update before I go.
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It's only tangentially related, but I really wanna share this mobile app that was brought to my attention: Soapstone! Download that sucker, pop open the settings and choose your favorite game region, and leave soapstone messages in real life. I'm a skinny piece of poo poo, so I left "Visions of skeleton..." at my house 
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If there's one thing common across all the Souls games that I've played its dragons, and spending 15 minutes plinking them with arrows to get the stuff I want.
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Jun 6, 2016 04:12
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Kibayasu posted:If there's one thing common across all the Souls games that I've played its dragons, and spending 15 minutes plinking them with arrows to get the stuff I want. Face tanking fire is the true way to get dragon loot.
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Jun 7, 2016 18:41
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Very nice face tanking in general! I have a feeling the boss will be harder to face tank...
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Jun 8, 2016 00:00
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BaconCopter posted:Very nice face tanking in general! I have a feeling the boss will be harder to face tank... I like to think I had a pretty solid, if possibly wasteful, strategy!
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Jun 9, 2016 18:44
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I think this is exactly how you're supposed to do Phalanx. Excluding being even more wasteful: using Turpentine on your weapon.
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Jun 9, 2016 19:38
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Simply Simon posted:I think this is exactly how you're supposed to do Phalanx. Excluding being even more wasteful: using Turpentine on your weapon. Gonna be completely honest, I almost never remember to use any kind of resins on my weapons.  It was a cool fight though!
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I think I have used resins a grand total of three times during my Souls playing career, though a bit more recently to apply extra bleed in DS3 because that just works incredibly well and is, well, the basis of the build. Especially against tough-ish bosses I keep thinking "man if I die this will have been a total waste"...
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Every time liquidypoo reads a food industry horror story, my response is essentially . (My father's a retired CRNA, so my gross-out threshold was way higher than normal.) Keep up the good work! But to address the main topic, Demon's Souls is one of those games I'd be interested in playing if I actually owned a PS3. The only real troubles with it are that it's rather rough in a number of places (as I'm sure you've found), and that the combat gets a bit too ponderous for my tastes.
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