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

lol

I'm in the Duke's Archives, a sprawling, baroque, ruined library filled with wizards and the crystallized undead. Is there whispering coming from the books? It is mixed in very low under the constant drone of the wind. It does feel like a library at the end of the world. I climbed up a very long ladder, and at the top there was an archer waiting on a ledge opposite the tower. We engaged in a bow-and-arrow duel, the controls allowing me to dodge, strafe, and roll while aiming. I win the contest but with one hit to spare, as is usual when not dying altogether. The moments where you cheat death in Dark Souls are so much more gratifying than in other games.

AGGGGH.

I just tried opening a chest and it turned out to be a mimic, which is a frightening monster that can instantly kills. I had been attacking treasure chests for a long time now, to the point where I got tired of it. I slipped up and the first one I didn't check got me!

yesssss how come no Tomb Raider games had the leap of faith in it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5VjZ1ORS8Y

Leveled up my intelligence and magic so I could use Cast Light and the Pyromancies. 100 hours in and I am starting to use magic for the first time! I made it to the first bonfire in the Tomb of Giants, and have explored a little but am now stuck. It looks like the only way to go is into a tomb with giant (duh) skeletons, who I've been picking off one at a time and certainly don't feel up to the task to taking down a half dozen in such close quarters. Maybe there's another route...

Wish the difficulty wasn't such a high barrier, this game does so many things right by minimizing all the crap that has been piled on of games since the start of 3D (and before). There are no barriers to entry, no invisible walls. No pause button, either, hah! No map -- and I love this so much! No markers. No quest lists. When you talk to an NPC your character isn't frozen in place like a mannequin, you can just walk away if you want. No QTEs. The character creation section is ONE SCREEN. Amazing. If Zelda is The Beach Boys then this is The Ramones.

I got to a safe spot earlier after clearing out a bunch of giant skeletons and went to go get some water, and when I came back, I had died. The game is relentless, something the missing pause button gets across VERY CLEARLY. Sometimes I will die and start to plan out what to do while it is loading, and the loading screen is so short that the game immediately comes back up, that gong sounding off, the ritual begins again. The game commands your attention.

Just got killed by a giant skeleton made out of skeletons who had a giant sword also made out of skeletons.

Any From-related thread seems as good as the other for this: Shadow Tower is being released as a PS1 Classic on PSN this week. Any thoughts/opinions?

It looks like the only way to go is into a tomb with giant (duh) skeletons, who I've been picking off one at a time and certainly don't feel up to the task to taking down a half dozen in such close quarters. Maybe there's another route...

i think for this section i learned where the enemies were and then ran past them all. totally valid strategy imo.

I've been unable to take down Lord Gwyn so far. He's the most difficult boss of the game imo. Started a new character thinking I would breeze through a bunch of the game. LOL NOPE

Tried some of Dark Souls 2. It runs way better than DS1 (both on PC). Some of the changes seem really weird. For instance all the enemies just not re-spawning anymore after you've run through an area a million times. Not that this makes it any easier.

Did your copy of Dark Souls come with the DLC? If so, I would absolutely run that before you beat Gwyn. It's a really solid add-on and getting to it is gonna be a bit of a pain if you take him out.

Gwyn is so hard, you really have to get used to his timing to parry him consistently (and then remember to avoid his grab).

On my second character I did go through the game much faster (until the DLC content, which you should really get if you can), but Gwyn was as hard as the first time and I gave up rather than put in the time.

xp

never parry

still never really played this because i read bad things about the pc port and i've never had a ps3 of my own but adam's posts itt giving me wild ideas

the community put together a really nice patch for DS1 on PC. fixes most, if not all, issues people had with the port.

Oh yeah I never unlocked the fps. Suddenly everything is smooth as butter!

Just beat Dark Souls! YESSSSS!!! I have been having trouble w Gwyn for a long time and I never tried the Fire Stoneplate Ring, I threw it on and beat him in one go!

congrats man

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Namco will announce Dark Souls 3 at E3, a source familiar with the matter has told VG247.

In news guaranteed to delight fans of the series, Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne director Hidetaka Miyazaki is again heading the team.

Miyazaki, the father of the Souls series, moved onto a supervisory role for Dark Souls 2. Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura co-directed the sequel.

The platform to be used for the announcement is as yet unknown, but our source guessed the title may come during Sony’s E3 press conference on the Californian evening of Monday, June 15.

We received no specific details of the game itself.

Dark Souls 2 settled two points higher on Metacritic than the original, but some fans and reviewers disparaged the sequel over the fairness of its approach to Souls’ trademark ultra-hard difficulty level.

Series-watchers may be shocked at the announcement’s timing: Sony dev boss Shuhei Yoshida confirmed in late May that Bloodborne is to be expanded, and that more details will be announced “later this year”.

E3 takes place in Los Angeles on the week commencing June 15. We’ve reached out to Namco for comment.

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Yes plz!!! Would do w Bloodborne 2 (or PC port) but this is still the best news.

good to know i won't need to start playing other games for the foreseeable future.

Feel like the new Flying Saucer Attack also being announced today is super appropriate.

shadow tower (early fromsoft game for ps1) is on psn now btw

ps store i mean not ps now

shadow tower controls are terrible. cool game, like fps dark souls, but unplayable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6iMjSQ9uOk

Dark Souls playing as Ceaseless Discharge and unleashing the lava demon giant's might against several foes. What is to be able to control such a huge boss and be as powerful as hell? Watch how Ceaseless Discharge protects my character in my custom mini game - Player protector. In this video I moved Kirk Knight (Invader) to the arena of Ceaseless Discharge and left my player uncontrolled while taking control of Ceaseless Discharge. The goal of my custom mission is to beat Kirk before he kills your character since there is no way for AI to fight Ceaseless Discharge back - since it will fall to death trying to reach him, so I left my character as a bait and and had to protect it with Ceaseless Discharge.

Dark Souls III will release next year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and possibly PC
1-4 players, as in past games
10 classes, 45 new enemies, and 15 bosses (returning foes aren't counted in those figures)
12 areas equaling an amount of content similar to the first Dark Souls
60 minutes of cut scenes, most of which are in-engine
"Sacrifice Ceremonies" can be used to visit other players' worlds
Bonfires can be created by sacrificing
A "Heat Up" mechanic can be used to alter bosses (as shown in the boss screenshots below -- that's the same dude, apparently)
There's something called "Sword Fighting Arts," including moves like "Rush In" and "Circle"

http://www.destructoid.com//ul/293409-/h17-noscale.jpg
http://www.destructoid.com//ul/293409-/h9-noscale.jpg

http://youtu.be/dyRJ5u-L8qw

sounds more like more of a cash grab but hopefully the construction and care will still be there.

As long as it's better than Dark Souls 2 I'm all in.

more footage:

https://38.media.tumblr.com/3612924f0740f3db0e0b340a7d11053c/tumblr_nj9prxwnY31tkrqfjo1_400.gif

http://gfycat.com/MajorEarnestGraywolf

awesome, reposting to got thread

lol

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

day one buy of course; they've yet to disappoint and i prefer the aesthetic and game play of dark souls over bloodbourne

the apparent scale of the bad guy in the trailer was giving me shadow of the colossus vibes

for a moment there i was terrified that this was going to be Xbox-only

ps vita exclusive

http://gameidealist.com/wp-content/uploads/dark-souls-3-3.jpg

http://gameidealist.com/wp-content/uploads/dark-souls-3-2.jpg

dark souls 3: bloodborne 2 ?

http://gameidealist.com/wp-content/uploads/dark-souls-3-4.jpg

YESSSS been playing through the first 2 a bunch and they are great but don't really look the best. A Bloodborne-level of graphical polish plus combat tweaks would be sweeeet.

https://vine.co/v/ee0bv2ZrpXL

chosen undead's toilet

https://imgur.com/a/l4X5t

maybe he was just cleaning up after the giant rat.

Hah it is US Independence Day and I spent half the day playing this Japanese videogame.

I am doing a sorcery-only run. It's pretty fun, and a different way to play if you've already played through. Some parts are harder, some are easier. Got into a magic arrow battle with another magician in the forest earlier that was so cool!

this is insane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsdaoYejijk

the Bed of Chaos fight alone is genius, i've never seen anyone do it like that.

around what time?

20min in

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