Dark Souls 3 - April 2016 : You Died, You Died, You Died

the linearity bums me out. didn't bother me in bloodborne but every souls game gave you choices of where to go. next playthrough i'm gonna do dancer/lothric castle first, thats about the only change-up it allows

the level design is flatter and less creative than ds1, definitely, but i felt like there were at least a few other opportunities for choice as far as zone selection went (farron vs cathedral, optional zones like ashen lake and second gundyr fight) and i still much prefer the design over ds2 or demon's souls

really? it's not DS1 in terms of being able to skip large parts of the game, but it feels like there are more branching options than Bloodborne. once you hit the first swamp you can go to Road of Sacrifices/Cathedral or to Farron Keep/Catacombs/Smouldering Lake, although i guess you need to do both routes to get to Irithyll. Then you can go to the Dungeon or A*** L****, and there are also the dragon peak/Untended Graves Side areas.

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the side areas are little branches but you can't deviate from the main route. the world feels more of a piece in 3 but that one-way funneling hurts the replayibility for me. ds1 you can go straight to the worst parts if you want, turn pve into different challenges. the choices this time feel more illusory

i even liked demons/ds2 hub setup because you could do the spokes in whatever order. just my preference. ds1 went just far beyond, i guess they'll never recapture that.

ok i get that. i like that each area is pretty twisty and intricate, but i suppose it's true that each playthrough is going to look more or less the same. i wonder if the speedrunners will figure out any crazy tricks.

the areas themselves are expansive which helps. the cathedral/castle areas are massive and they did a good job of utilizing the vertical space too, ground to rooftop

i got the shrine rooftop jump down where you run up the tree and jump up before you've bought the tower key. hope they don't patch that or the butt glitch

yeah i get what you are saying wrt world linearity but i wouldn't trade it for smaller areas, which seems like it would be the trade-off they would have had to make. the first couple of areas (High Wall and Undead Settlement) are so great i really don't mind the linearity and the game opens up pretty soon anyways once you get to the Dilapitated bridge/tree boss/that whole area that connects to the also forest and the catacombs.

started a new game yesterday to try the default knight. it was way easier than my pyro build! they give the knight some really good equipment early on.

god, High Wall is so beautifully designed. every time i go back to visit i just love it, the lighting, the weird rooftops, etc. it's up there with Undead Burg from DS1 tho personally i like the DS3 levels far more (both art-wise and monster-wise).

fight Club in high wall pw is ilx come join if u want

Putting my sign down shortly!

I got killed trying to summon, I will turn on and off the code for randoms as needed. What's your char name?

Enomoto

this purple Phantom why do I keep bringing him he doesn't understand what's going on

lol

how do you do this? put down a white soapstone? do u need a covenant? what do i do to get on this

Go to high wall bonfire drop white or red summon sign I'll start using ilx as pw again for the next few mins. What's ur char name? No cover needed but fair warning jordan is killing everyone rn

Adam we're both on ps4 :(

Covenant not cover

ah this is ps4 only? i guess no cross-platform

Stacia

Yeah no cross-platform unfortunately.

Some really good matches here! Also some healing goofballs but that's ok too.

Oh man I really need to get that guy who's having a streak w/the fire twinswords.

Wow people are actually using magic to good effect. With this one guy, it's like fighting a boss.

Yeah this magic is tearing it up v interesting

I can host too if you want some action

it's cool I may head off in a little bit I'll keep it going until then. Ps 136k souls for free

lmao i think that's it for me today

I'll push for pontiff next time, I need to get hollowed for this build

Ok thanks, that was really fun!

Back to figuring out what to do about the Princes I guess

Ok the last boss was hilarious. Kinda cheesy, but pretty fun to fight (so many moves to learn how to read).

I'm sure I'll keep doing pvp for awhile and it would be fun to try some other builds, but finishing the game always breaks the spell for me. Which is probably a good thing, as I've been playing this every spare moment I had.

omg that final fight
maybe on ng+ i will start fighting bosses solo. i doubt it tho.

bosses i summoned for:

Crystal Sage (don't regret it, seems tailor made for co-op, otherwise it's bullet hell)
Wolnir (eh, don't feel like i cheated myself out of anything in particular)
Champion Gundyr (the main regret of my playthrough, should have figured it out solo)
Nameless King (kinda regret this but it was fun teaming up with a friend)

i missed out sat., maybe next time. im doing 2nd playthrough w/ no summoning and am up to cathedral. i embered to get the npc invader in crab area and it pulled in 2 additional blue invaders... what kind of balancing is that? or is there some watchdogs thing im not getting?

like sentinels helping you? probably that patch that was supposed to make the matching more lenient for blues and darkmoons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz5vnejEieA

1 npc and 2 human invaders so 3v1

oh that sucks, must have improved summoning ranges for watchdogs too.

the library is so cool. way better than DS1 library.

this crazy wax sorcerer who has a lit candle on his head walking through this doorway was pretty dreamlike and scary and the grasping spectral arms that grow out of certain books in the library are fantastic

it's almost like...vector graphics? what is this effect? just a low poly monster?

http://66.media.tumblr.com/d3766fc79b3b0d0ed2720c75c3918a00/tumblr_inline_o6q5c1T6oC1s1rrb3_500.png

i was too dumb to figure out what dipping your head in wax did, a friend had to tell me.

5 million bucks!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steamforged/dark-soulstm-the-board-game/description

anybody want to fight?

sick minifigs

Yeah, $100 for all that is actually not that bad and if it's ever available for straight up purchase, i will likely cave.

So, again: anybody want to fight? Or co-op? I'm on my first NG playthru and at the start of the poison marsh level.

i mean it's like 90 minifigs and the game for $110... but it's shipping from China and god knows what that's gonna cost ultimately.
http://steamforged.com/late-pledge

are you on steam? gonna play some DS3 tonight and i am down for some co-op!

do we need to be the same covenant or soul level or something? i'm forever fuzzy on the specifics of PvP.

PS4 unfortunately.