Dark Souls

[Nayleen]

Started as a Knight because the armor looked neato, went with my usual Dex build as soon as I got mah beloved Uchi

No need for shields with the sicko dodging. Trying out different weapons right now to see which one I like the most.

Oh, and I turned into beef jerky again for the lulz:

 

 

[Kaguya]

I'm doing a replay of 2, too (haven't checked the requirements, but I hope my PC will run the third game...) 

Though rather than starting anew I just went for a NG+ 

I actually liked DS2 over the first game... Though that may be because I played the second one first, lol. 

[mitchhamilton]

57 minutes ago, Nayleen said:

Started as a Knight because the armor looked neato, went with my usual Dex build as soon as I got mah beloved Uchi

No need for shields with the sicko dodging. Trying out different weapons right now to see which one I like the most.

Oh, and I turned into beef jerky again for the lulz:

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i bet she has a nice personality at least.

 

18 minutes ago, Kaguya said:

I'm doing a replay of 2, too (haven't checked the requirements, but I hope my PC will run the third game...) 

Though rather than starting anew I just went for a NG+ 

I actually liked DS2 over the first game... Though that may be because I played the second one first, lol. 

might be. if its what introduced you to its universe then you no doubt would have a preference towards it. good luck on your run.

 

im doing a ng+ in one atm and man alive is it much easier than the first time. of course i know the enemies hit harder and while they do give more souls, i still have to give over 50000 right now to level up. i know im gonna reach a point where im not gonna level up fast enough and get really rekt later on.

[Zebhra]

I am getting alot of weird crashes...if i play with my starting rogue dagger, then everything is okay and i can play for like 2hrs without a single one, but if i equip short sword i crash almost every 10 minutes

First impressions: graphics looks nice, game feels nice, so far i really like it!

[mitchhamilton]

Just now, Zebhra said:

I am getting alot of weird crashes...if i play with my starting rogue dagger, then everything is okay and i can play for like 2hrs without a single one, but if i equip short sword i crash almost every 10 minutes

First impressions: graphics looks nice, game feels nice, so far i really like it!

thats good, aside from the crashes. maybe theyll have a fix for it soon.

[Turnip Sensei]

Played 12 hours of Dark Souls III yesterday, good stuff.

I had some crashing problems too, but after I dropped lighting settings to low those went away for the most part. 

But man it's fun and pretty. My standard build of long sword + light armor + misc. pyromancies still works wonders. Didn't abandon shield completely since some enemies have pretty erratic move sets.
Pretty much my only problem so far was that the game is too linear, but that was actually me just missing the branching points and accidentally proceeding through harder areas. Whoops.     

[Deep Blue]

played around 4 hours already, beat the first boss, the game is really good and hard. I'm still trying to buy that freaking key and complete the quest from Greirat (or something like that) but 20k souls is really a lot, the boss gave me 3k >_> im at level 20 and each level cost around 2k so yeah 20k is A LOT, I hope it's worth it!

[Decay]

9 hours ago, Kaguya said:

I'm doing a replay of 2, too (haven't checked the requirements, but I hope my PC will run the third game...) 

Though rather than starting anew I just went for a NG+ 

I actually liked DS2 over the first game... Though that may be because I played the second one first, lol. 

My PC is a bit below minimum spec (GTX 680, Phenom II X4 945, 8GB of RAM), and it runs at over 30FPS, at max settings, usually around 35-40. I'm on 8-month-old drivers right now, I just updated my drivers to the latest and the crash issues many others have been having started happening for me as well. I rolled back my drivers and they went away again. So maybe don't update to the latest drivers if you haven't already until they release a fix.

[mitchhamilton]

i knew that each lord soul in one came from lords we saw in the opening and was wondering who or what the bed of chaos was. so i read a little more about it and its really sad once you find out who it is, for many reasons. it really shows how much these lords tried so hard to hold onto their dying power. so much so that it drove some of them mad. its very interesting direction to take with a game. another great bit of storytelling from dark souls.

[Zebhra]

2 hours ago, mitchhamilton said:

another great bit of storytelling from dark souls.

You should watch Vaati's "Prepare to Cry" series on youtube, it have a lot of character's lore explained and it is done in an amazing fashion.

 

Short recap on my yesterdays adventures:

Beat the mimic   got the axe, axed the frost dog! it looked ferocious at first..but turned out to be some Sif-like creature...so i just hugged it's back

Still looking for that prison key...

 

[mitchhamilton]

2 minutes ago, Zebhra said:

You should watch Vaati's "Prepare to Cry" series on youtube, it have a lot of character's lore explained and it is done in an amazing fashion.

 

Short recap on my yesterdays adventures:

Beat the mimic   got the axe, axed the frost dog! it looked ferocious at first..but turned out to be some Sif-like creature...so i just hugged it's back

Still looking for that prison key...

 

ive seen his channel and was intrigued. havent seen that vid yet. ill give it a looksy when i can. thanks.

[Deep Blue]

10 hours already, amazing souls game without a doubt, much better than DS2 almost as good as dark souls 1. I still cant figure out what the hell happens when you die, how much amount of health you lose and what's the difference between being hollow or not... it doesnt seem to be related by the amounts of deaths 

[Zebhra]

1 hour ago, Deep Blue said:

what's the difference between being hollow or not...

pretty sure it is the usual..you can not summon anyone and loose about 30% of your health

[Deep Blue]

48 minutes ago, Zebhra said:

pretty sure it is the usual..you can not summon anyone and loose about 30% of your health

it's a bit confusing since they dont show you what amount of hp you lose but it seems to be quite a lot I don't know if by keep dying it keeps decreasing or not I will have to check later, i'm on the catacombs just beat the swamps (my god what a pain) and a really cool boss  

[mitchhamilton]

OH! forgot to mention this when making my post after fighting gwyn but you remember that greatsword that did the most damage and i was leveling up for? HOLY CRAP WAS THAT A BAD IDEA! it was so slow and with gwyn taking so much damage off of me before i make one swing, i knew i made the wrong choice. unfortunately i couldnt switch to my other weapon right away because i became too heavy to use it and so i died.

[Turnip Sensei]

I finally hit a brick wall on my main character in Dark Souls III, so I made a new a character and tried my hand at PVP which I ignored completely before. 

The Undead Legion covenant which summons you to defend the forest is pretty fun, but the summoning rate is kind of random and pretty slow at times. Same with Blue Sentinels, so I've been mostly invading others. It's really nice that there's so many people playing DkS3 since you get to fight often and against all kinds of players. Some times you get your ass-kicked, sometimes you just slaughter your enemies and sometimes the invasions end up in really intense duels. The huge summon amount can be really fun as well, Host + 2 phantoms vs. two different invaders is really hectic and super fun.  

[mitchhamilton]

On 4/16/2016 at 11:41 AM, Turnip Sensei said:

I finally hit a brick wall on my main character in Dark Souls III, so I made a new a character and tried my hand at PVP which I ignored completely before. 

The Undead Legion covenant which summons you to defend the forest is pretty fun, but the summoning rate is kind of random and pretty slow at times. Same with Blue Sentinels, so I've been mostly invading others. It's really nice that there's so many people playing DkS3 since you get to fight often and against all kinds of players. Some times you get your ass-kicked, sometimes you just slaughter your enemies and sometimes the invasions end up in really intense duels. The huge summon amount can be really fun as well, Host + 2 phantoms vs. two different invaders is really hectic and super fun.  

hey thats sounds great. its a shame about starting over but hopefully youll do much better this time.

[TheFantasm]

Have people been using the Fume UGS in PvP? I haven't come across any, and I hope that it's not a thing people decide to do.

[Zebhra]

I joined Blue Sentinels and now officialy a police of dark souls

It is a bitt funny how i find a simple starting rogue dagger to be far supperior to all other geard phantoms i met, just use weapon arts on their attack and slice them till bloodloss, rollback and repeat, so far i havn't lost a single encounter (i had about only 10 of them though )

Oh..btw, is there a shield without block? I abandoned all the blocks , but i still need a shield with which i can use weapon arts and parry at the same time....

And on a short recap of my adventures: met Onionbro, gathered bunch of npcs, killed tonns_of_monks_boss, raised my esthus count to 8, gonna farm for this sword today , becase uchigatana is getting old in dealing with massive amount of enemies

[Turnip Sensei]

7 hours ago, mitchhamilton said:

hey thats sounds great. its a shame about starting over but hopefully youll do much better this time.

It's actually pretty fun to start over and do everything better with next character and it doesn't take all that long to get back to where I am. I remember restarting the original Dark Souls at least two times. And now that I've gotten better with my new chara I can always go back to my old save.

I think I accidentally fell to the dark side. After last nights PVP spree I had 50 Pale Tongues (the item you get from killing the host) in my inventory. Butcher's Knife and throwing knives are all I need, and thanks to all the PVP I did I don't even need shield anymore. Shields are pretty bad in PVP, you get shield broken really fast and that's a free riposte.

[mitchhamilton]

1 minute ago, Turnip Sensei said:

It's actually pretty fun to start over and do everything better with next character and it doesn't take all that long to get back to where I am. I remember restarting the original Dark Souls at least two times. And now that I've gotten better with my new chara I can always go back to my old save.

I think I accidentally fell to the dark side. After last nights PVP spree I had 50 Pale Tongues (the item you get from killing the host) in my inventory. Butcher's Knife and throwing knives are all I need, and thanks to all the PVP I did I don't even need shield anymore. Shields are pretty bad in PVP, you get shield broken really fast and that's a free riposte.

well then thats good.

[Deep Blue]

im pretty much on the end of the game already, I just fought the most amazing boss in a souls game so far, it was freaking epic!

Spoiler

the dragon boss, having to run around the fortress in the sky, climbing up while the ladders or stairs with really hard enemies while he is spitting fire at you and at the end jumping on his head WOW it was like watching a great movie xD

 

[Deep Blue]

after 41 hours i beat dark souls 3, amazing game in every single way.

I will point out the bad things:

*Some NPCs were not that good compared to previous dark souls game, also in this one is much more easier to miss a quest and follow them which will end their quest line without warning making you lose important items >_>
*The camera at some points is really bad, combined with a bad lock on system is just terrible adding extra difficulty in a bad way. Dark souls 1 was fine, 2 so so and this one is just bad, you will randomly stop locking enemies in the middle of the fight, this combined with the bad camera at some points makes some boss fights really hard or should i say frustrating rather than hard.
 

And that's pretty much it xD

what was really different in this dark souls from the old ones was that this one is really obscure, the bad or dark ending is really really dark, you actually do some terrible things to achieve your goal...things that are explicitly shown to you lol

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Making Irina turn into a bad "fire keeper" was one thing but looking at the chopped head of Enri and then stabbing her to "marry" her or to step on the head of the fire keeper at the end so you can steal the flame, WOW.

Now I really want to play it again but I will wait till the dlc comes out to play it again, I need to study japanese again D: 

[mitchhamilton]

1 minute ago, Deep Blue said:

after 41 hours i beat dark souls 3, amazing game in every single way.

I will point out the bad things:

*Some NPCs were not that good compared to previous dark souls game, also in this one is much more easier to miss a quest and follow them which will end their quest line without warning making you lose important items >_>
*The camera at some points is really bad, combined with a bad lock on system is just terrible adding extra difficulty in a bad way. Dark souls 1 was fine, 2 so so and this one is just bad, you will randomly stop locking enemies in the middle of the fight, this combined with the bad camera at some points makes some boss fights really hard or should i say frustrating rather than hard.
 

And that's pretty much it xD

what was really different in this dark souls from the old ones was that this one is really obscure, the bad or dark ending is really really dark, you actually do some terrible things to achieve your goal...things that are explicitly shown to you lol

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Making Irina turn into a bad "fire keeper" was one thing but looking at the chopped head of Enri and then stabbing her to "marry" her or to step on the head of the fire keeper at the end so you can steal the flame, WOW.

 

pachi,pachi,pachi deep. you persevered and reached your end goal

[Deep Blue]

2 minutes ago, mitchhamilton said:

pachi,pachi,pachi deep. you persevered and reached your end goal

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I did it