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

gonna go out on a limb and say this is going to get heavy traffic when the sequel drops so a new thread is sensible.

new thread would be a good idea imo.

four kings :(

load up on poise (havel's armor does the trick) and tank 'em. their sword swipes do less damage the closer you are. if you've messed with Pyromancy, Power Within helps. this is a boss where summoning generally makes it more difficult, so don't bother.

i somehow beat these guys no sweat on first attempt. gave me hell on NG+ tho.

Havel's Armour plus Havel's Ring is an excellent combo generally IMO

thanks, i'll give it a shot, though i'd have to lose my cloranthy ring. also not sure if i should use one of my lightning/fire/divine weapons that are all much weaker than my main black knight sword, it's hard to experiment when just getting to the boss is such a pain (i think i have my route down now though).

make sure you're two handing your weapon too.

i like putting on low-weight armor so can fast-roll dodge + crest shield then get up close and whack them

^my initial strategy

you can take their hits up close but gotta watch out for the grab and the aoe blast

oh yeah, Green Blossom is a big help here too. probably the time to use those if you have 'em.

btw i put some Dark Souls in this mix i made, s/o to this thread:
https://soundcloud.com/do-the-astral-plane/chants-mix-for-the-astral-plane

(7:00)

:) is that the moonlight butterfly

indeed

sweet

four kings went down on the first take last night, havel's armor + ring did the trick, thanks guyz. in the late game it seems like the having the right gear combination is way more important than before (which makes sense, because now i've acquired all this random shit that i would otherwise not have reason to use).

Havel's Armour is p much the best in the game, only problem is it can't get upgraded and is mad heavy. His greatshield requires strength of 50 to wield!

It does have the best weight to poise ratio in the game, I believe. Like some of the either BIG armors though (stone, smough, black iron, giant's, etc.), it also has a stamina regen penalty.

upgraded giants armor is the best overall

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/220/b/e/giant_dad__by_alexmercer95-d6h77a8.gif

http://i.imgur.com/rQy05RI.jpg

was just gonna post that!

what the

video here - http://video.foxnews.com/v/3225395298001/any-truth-to-craiglist-killers-shocking-confession/#sp=show-clips

@ 2:40

"we do know she has an affinity for the video game called 'dark soul'"

i could see where this game might make you WANT to kill someone but likely not for the reasons they think

℞ Prescription for Justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4N1pIs2GIc

Serafinowicz voices one of the characters in DSII apparently!

genuinely surprised that he's a fan. he's clearly into it.

put in a lot of hours last night and beat the water hydra and got the black bow of pharis, killed a lot of guys behind the sealed forest door. got up to 30k souls and used it to beef up the bow to max level. worked on sen's fortress and killed a few of the titan demon, got most of the stuff in there and then got through the first fog door. heading back there now.

Goddamn this series is so good.

he goes on about DS on Twitter a fair bit, cool he got the gig IMO

serafinowicz is completely otm about how the game gives you a story that you need to unearth and create in your own mind.
I may need to take a week off when II streets.

lol "there are many games that feel wrong to play like candy crush but dark souls feels RIGHT"

heh, i also think about the game world to fall asleep.

interesting comments about the new mechanics as well

there was some article that quoted him as having put 1800 hours into Dark Souls, which is O_O. i mean, they must have meant to type 180, right?

this is pretty good, hacker w/ unlimited health gets demolished by the forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNGoohLt5oY

pvp is still such a mysterious world to me

Yep. Probably the most esoteric part of the game. Still learning new things about it.

Fresh thread for DS2 because nobody else was doing it:

Dark Souls 2: YOU DIED HARDER

good title

Zero Punctuation guy finally got around to playing/reviewing Dark Souls.

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

argh, wrong game. here:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8802-Dark-Souls

does anyone here use a lot of magic? talking to a friend who played as a sorcerer it's like we played different games. and his sounds way easier.

i'd say the 'best' way to play the game is as a devoted magic user with a maxed elemental weapon in the first run through and a maxed magic/faith scaling weapon in later NGs

i've never played a full on magic user (most i've done is level up faith or int for weapon buffs) but i have heard they make the game significantly easier.

i carved out tonight to play.
two immediate options now: iron giant and sif.

i got through the duke's archives (felt very proud of myself for going back and rescuing big hat guy) and just started on the crystal cave. had a very dark souls moment when i tentatively walked to the end of that first pathway, didn't see anywhere else to go, thought maybe i could fall down to the butterfly below and YOU DIED.

okay, beat the iron golem with some help, completely cleared out the painted world except for the boss. Trying to be nice. That was really fun. So here we are against the archers...
Working on levelling for a change; finally got everything up to *16*; i'm sure for most of you that's laughable but it's a big step for me and my level 51 dude.