DEMON'S SOULS A GAME FOR SONY PLAYSTATION 3

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

those maneaters make you work hard

lol that sounds fucking awful tbh. 5-2 is disgusting under normal circumstances.

what did you start as and what gear are you using?

yeah its ridic. i think level 1 is royal class so you get the one magic slot. shield is buckler +10 lol and using a fire sword or crescent one from 4-1. my friend who introduced me to souls series is doing it too, i co-oped with him on maneaters and killed them first try. then he helped me and it all went to shit, prob 10 deaths so far. 5-2 im just trying to speedrun to open the fucking shortcut but those fucking giant goon things and fucking mosquitos and fucking poison

i did kill the tutorial boss though, first time for that

jesus is that ever the fucking trap with 5-2, the desperation to get to that gdamn shortcut. how many times did i fuck up by trying to dash there.

sounds cool as well as awful but i don't think i could subject myself to it. nice work on tutorial boss, i never killed that fecker.

you can't dash there is the problem too many enemies and the swamp slows you down. i think i can do it, its just getting a long part of the way there and dying is really crushing on this level. i mean at least i'm not this guy doing SL1 NG+7 PBWT WTF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs4jtMrCPV4

haha gtfo

he's running around with 10% health the whole time so he can use that clever rat ring

good luck jordan

i felt stuck on this for awhile but things are moving along now. it definitely felt harder than Dark Souls but maybe that's just the early stages of any of these games, or because i was being super stubborn about getting through Shrine of Storms 1.

finally beat Flamelurker by getting him stuck on the rocks, whew. and the first Tower of Latria stage lives up to the hype, such a well-designed level.

also it's crazy hard to get the right upgrade materials in this game, huh

the upgrade system was over complicated in DeS IMO

also, if you roll royal (or whatever the sorcerer starting class guy is) this game is a snore, difficulty wise, after the first zone. also also, it's good fun to get that monk head wrap (that hat that increases your magic attack) and any other +magic items, and then just camp pvp areas and one shot people. it's like 50/50 whether the other guy has a chance to hit you once (usually all it takes) before your homing soul mass melts his flesh.

i did Wanderer thinking i was going to do a dex build, but i haven't been able to upgrade any dex weapons past the crescent falchion yet, and i've found myself putting everything into magic anyway.

i've been going back to this once a month or so and it still feels harder than Dark Souls. i do like how the last stage of each world seems to be a boss fight setpiece.

got all the way through Shrine of Storms and Stonefang Tunnel, haven't touched the Valley of Defilement but i guess i'll get that over with next?