DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

not yet, 4-2 is next up

4-1 is a good early farm particularly if you can one hit kill the skellies, they are worth a decent amount each. but without giving anything away, almost the first proper enemy you meet in 4-2 is good for iirc 7k souls and when you know what you're doing you can run in, kill, suicide and repeat in like 10 seconds per go

also, there is a 'trick' to 4-2, to one particularly hard part. i did a couple playthrus before finding out about it. i wouldn't necessarily encourage you to research beforehand, but if you are having any kind of hard time i would bear that in mind. it make a bitch of an area significantly easier.

also, i don't know if you have picked up on this, but bows are way more important and relevant in demons than dark. not entirely a tangent...

4-2 broke me, i give up, fuck this game.

i am not going to front, it gets worse still. 5-2 is...let's just say, fuck 5-2.

haha i posted that and then tried 10 more times and made it through. 5-2 does seem like its going to be painful

went through all the bosses except 1-3. the old monk fight was interesting in that if you're online it summons another player to be the boss. its lame that it lets that player heal and just becomes your average pvp bullshit so i beat that one offline

i thought that was a neat and pretty original idea in theory tho

its a great idea. i might put a summon down to see if i can get picked for it

dragon god was like a bed of chaos precursor

weird ending! fake allant had some nice moves.

the lore is so confusing. who is the old one and why does the maiden in black need to slumber with him

the old one is existential angst, the monumental is purpose, and the maiden is duty

or the old one is something vaguely bad that was asleep and got woken up and now is going back to sleep

so obviously you didn't kill the maiden. did you go back to 1-1 to fight old king doran?

no, ostrava didn't appear in 1-3 or 1-4 to give me the damn key and then suddenly hes a black phantom

well tbh alls you did is save yourself a headache there

just watched a vid of him. one gripe i have w/ this game is the armor is in general pretty shitty looking. like king doran looks like he's wearing jorts and just walked out of a deck of playing cards

speaking of armour, the user-submitted shields for dark souls 2 are p.good
http://www.destructoid.com/these-winning-community-made-dark-souls-ii-shields-rock-258343.phtml

ancient king's jorts 19 / 19 / 22.8 / 19

fluted denim

i like this

Still another theory is that the player actually died in the tutorial and
everything that came after is a form of Hell. Perhaps the player was sent to
Hell for the sin of pride, the belief that they were the one hero who could
save Boletaria. So they gave the player a quest which can never be completed.
Side with the Old One or the Monumental, it makes no difference, The player's
quest will begin again and be harder than before. That means that the
Monumental and the Old One are just the good cop / bad cop of Hell.

So this has completely consumed every free moment I've had this past week and a half. So, so good. I've finished everything but world 5. Character's around level 65. I'm gonna nerd out about it a little bit.

- It's challenging, but not putting my through the wringer like I expected. Might be because I played Dark Souls and was already familiar with the mechanics. Also doesn't hurt that I've just been pumping points into Vitality and Stamina. Plenty of HP and swinging/blocking power. Maxed out Dragon long sword has been taking good care of me. Dragon weapons have high base damage and don't rely on STR, DEX, or MAG, which are relatively low on my character. Good fit for the time being.

- Managed to nearly take out Flamelurker on first attempt. Got him down to about 10% health before I depleted my grass stock. On the next go I summoned a blue phantom who promptly destroyed him in under 10 seconds. Have no idea what kind of equipment that guy had, but damn.

- Maneaters were a pain until I found out you could kill one of them before even entering the fog door.

- I also cheaped out and arrowed Old King Allant down to next to no health. After losing 3 Soul Levels to that guy, I didn't feel too bad about it. Little bit of controlled self-injury + Clever Rat Ring can really speed up those tedious sniping situations.

- I sweated my way through 3-1, got to the boss (floating witch type character with all the clones), nearly had her killed, then my roommate enters the room and yells "DEMON LORDS! DEMON LORDS! DEMON LORDS!" just to be a goofball dick. Distracted me and I DIED. I had to pretend like it wasn't that big of a deal, but I wanted to punch him in the face.

- Beat 4-2 on first attempt. B)

- I plan on messing around with world tendency stuff before closing out world 5 and opening up the end game. I'm curious to see how rough Pure Black is gonna be.

- I'm placing stats with an eye for lvl 120, which seems to be the commonly accepted PVP range. Going for a (super common, but apparently effective) Blueblood Sword build. This will likely limit me, because it's very specialized (gotta pump up Luck), so I hope I don't hate it.

- After I burn out on this, I'm gonna run through Dark Souls again. Never completed it. Fucking Anor Londo Archers.

- I also cheaped out and arrowed Old King Allant down to next to no health.

u can also poison cloud him from the stairs

PSHAW you could also MAN UP and die to him 20 times then call up a couple of phantom dudes who know what they are doing and let them get busy

old king was the hardest boss for me first time through, by miles. i never died to him again.

did you go back for old king doran? he was even harder imo. i only ever killed him once, and that was cos he got glitched on a barrel. one day i have to go back and beat him straight. it's not like i haven;t tried.

I sat around hoping to summon someone for Allant, but no luck. I wasn't about to waste any more levels on that guy unless it was necessary. NO REGRETS. Doran is on my list. You've made me a little worried.

PSHAW you could also MAN UP and die to him 20 times then call up a couple of phantom dudes who know what they are doing and let them get busy

so theres 3 ways of cheesing him : )

Wow. 5-2 sure was a pile of anti-fun. Thankfully the boss was a breeze. I like how the developers, seeing what a big hit w/ fans the poisonous, dark, swamp level was, decided to keep it for their sequel.

Doran's actually pretty easy if you use the Clever Rat Ring, the Thief Ring and a backstab weapon. Lower your health for Rat Ring attack bonus and take off your armor for speed, bait him out, run away, sneak up behind him as he walks back, backstab, repeat. Got him on the 2nd try.

did u put his jorts on

this ds2 screenshot reminds me of the storm king world

http://www.co-optimus.com/images/gallery/10183xDark_Souls_Nov_14.jpg

yeah can see that. looks good.

i did put those jorts on btw, along with most of the rest of his armor. it's a shame it looks so dumb (especially coming from Gloom Armor), because it's actually pretty good. light and no STA regen penalties.

anyway, i beat this and after dabbling w/ PVP and NG+, decided to start Dark Souls. proving a lot easier going than it did when i first played it ~2 years ago.

ha yeah the gloom armor is pretty dumb. if darks souls 2 has overpowered mosquitos im gonna be pissed

i will immediately kill anyone resembling patches

I finally played Dark Souls and holy crap is it hard, I can't even get past the 2nd bad guy in this game. I must have tried it like 20 times.

regretting selling my copy of this, been itching to play it recently

replaying this after grabbing it on psn. i accidentally aggro'd patches in the lava area and he is almost impossible to kill with melee. he just goes into coward turtle-mode poking away behind his shield lol. i eventually pushed him off 2 cliffs where he got stuck and then spent like 20 min picking him off with arrows, the fucker

FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BE POSTING LIKE THIS IN THIS THREAD

almost done with ng+. almost quit at maneaters

planning on playing this once a friend of mine decides he's done with his PS3 forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyX72JKp2J4

i played the other side of the old monk fight, got summoned to fight as him. if you hide right by the side of the door, the inexperienced player will walk right by you and not even see the firestorm coming. then you get to wear this everywhere

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/square_small/1/12096/1748693-old_monk_s_wrap.jpg

That's a sick hat. I was using that to one-shot lower lvl players in PvP. Flip side- you can accept one hit at maximum

glass cannon

im using the stockpile duping glitch, how did they not patch this

well, this is happening.

doing a dex build (wanderer) to stay in shape for Bloodborne. i tried doing 4-1 after the first boss and it was just not happening with starter gear, but i'm making progress through 1-2.

i'm sure i'm missing lots of stuff but was very happy to stumble on the Cling Ring.

i thought i would be better than this, f u Tower Knight. when fighting a boss for the first time i need to resist the urge to use up crazy amounts of grass and accept the death gracefully (it was close though).

im doing a level 1 playthrough. not too bad but finally got stuck on maneaters and 5-2