DARK SOULS: if you need me i'll be in an induced coma so mvrch comes tomorrow

the poison dart guys don't respawn after they're killed, if you haven't noticed that already. also, the spider shield is your friend.

blighttown is intimidating at first, but it's really not too bad once you get an idea of how it's put together.

Do you know the back way in?

nah, but googling indicates that i either need the master key (which i don't have) or need to go through some scary areas where i haven't been yet?

yeah it's amazing how psychological this game is, it's not only learning the enemy attack patterns etc but being relaxed/familiar enough not to choke and make dumb moves.

Yeah, possibly. I think you have to go all the way down and then up again in Blighttown to get out and grab the key from a corpse.

yeah, best to proceed from where you came in at this point. also, if you happen to stumble across a place called The Great Hollow, DO NOT mess with it at this point in the game. i got myself in a nasty mess in there on first play through.

done & done

I don't know how you'd stumble across it, it's incredibly well-hidden imo!

yeah, i did the master key to get there.
i really wanna get back to playing this. dark souls requires month breaks to calm the soul(s).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowEGaVreLM

i'm gonna die

the lighting during that fight looks so cool. man, this is like 6 weeks now? if this was coming out on next gen too i think i'd be buying a ps4

i might have to put aside DS1 to give it a shot, i like the idea of playing it before everyone's discovered every little thing.

^ precisely why i preordered a copy

I know what you mean about the next gen thing Roberto, but it's great this will be the 360/PS3's final hurrah.

I played DS for a bit yesterday, took down the Gaping Dragon on new game plus mode, got cocky and plunged into Blighttown, died with 6 humanity and a load of souls. This game!

Burial OTM:

http://pitchfork.com/news/53781-burial-posts-selfie-and-long-note-teasing-new-music/

Hopefully by the end of most years I have done some tunes that are decent enough to release. but Dark Souls 2 is on the horizon soon so I'm not sure if I will have many new tunes for a while because I need to play that game a lot. But I'm going to try to get some new tunes together before it comes out.

that is AMAZING.

yeah, that pretty much made my morning.

keeping it real

XD

"Why do games like Dark Souls become geek status symbols?"

http://www.avclub.com/article/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-january-31-2014-107414

“If I came into your game and saw you wearing Solaire’s armor, I would kill you immediately.” lol

"But one of the notes another player left on the ground told me to attack him."

lol, see also: various notes saying "try jumping"

dark souls blog: i'm at sen's fortress in the central boulder room after many deaths, and i reaaally want to make it to the next bonfire so i don't have to do that again. i think we all know that's not going to happen.

sadly you are correct. the next bonfire is hidden too. sen's was a horrible nightmare for me the first time.

oh it's not hidden if you have the internet, i have no shame about this.

\ [†] / ☼

i'm at sen's fortress in the central boulder room after many deaths, and i reaaally want to make it to the next bonfire so i don't have to do that again. i think we all know that's not going to happen.

HEY GUYS I DID THIS THING!

truly an exciting moment in my life. now i feel like i can explore around and die with impunity.

well done my friend. Am NG+ -ing it at the mo, just beat Queelag then fell of that waterwheel thing

ty. does NG+ feel a lot harder? i could see playing it again for sure but feel like i'd rather try a different character type rather than NG+.

NG+, with the exception of a few bosses, was a lot easier then regular NG for me. Knowing the ropes and being leveled up/equipped out from the start generally outweighed the increased enemy strength.

i tried ng+ on a level 1 char last night and most things could one-shot me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABfFWKSgNVU

So you're one of those crazies who completed a SL1 run on NG?

i did!

presumably you can do some mad levelling up whenever you manage not to get killed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mElcgzq2Nm8&

http://youtu.be/mElcgzq2Nm8

one of these days i'll figure out how to embed a youtube video

No "s"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mElcgzq2Nm8

thanking you

Anor Londo :)

so is it just going to be bosses as regular enemies from here on out?

good job. some early bosses do reappear as reg enemies later throughout

have fun with the archers on the roof, I got stuck on that bit for aaages in Anor London

Yeah, that's what shut down my first run. Well, Skyrim came out too.

Spent the afternoon getting through the painted world, that was brutal at times. After finally getting out I was an idiot and didn't use the homeward bone, figuring I could silently backstab all those dudes back in the church. So I lost 38k souls, nbd.

that is THE WORST feeling

http://i.imgur.com/nu501fV.jpg

Awe that was supposed to be an animated gif, found here http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2014/02/invading-knight-lautrec-of-carim.html

made it past the archers. :) i underestimated how hard that would be because none of the other archers in the game so far had been shooting giant spears. taking off all my armor for speed ended up being the key for me.

nice, its all downhill from there

haha