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

doesn't she run out?

new DS2 trailer

http://youtu.be/svZBy_scUdg

so I'm finally playing through DS 1 (I got it last year, played up until the Taurus demon and got so frustrated I put it away until a few weeks ago) and I have found that there's little more liberating then going into new situations with few souls because otherwise I'm freaking out about losing 30,000 and then I lose them and I want to pack it in.

http://a.psblogstatics.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/01/The+average+Dark+Souls+day_bd22d9_4810083.gif

rang the first bell! i mean, after not being able to quite take the gargoyles solo, so i kept clearing out the church area until i had some humanity, then left my character in a 'safe' hallway to help my girlfriend bring in the groceries, came back to find that i died, did it all again, and summoned lautrec to help me.

is it wrong to feel like i just finished the 'tutorial' and the game is only really starting now?

I just made it to Anor Londo and I'm thinking this is the halfway point? Maybe more?

i made a low-level darkwraith (red invader) and kicked someone off the drake sword bridge

also invaded the forest and found 2 nude ppl fist-fighting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Yvy1HgL1I

this is on sale for 4.99 for xbox gold members right now

whoa cool, I will finally try this then

see u in the burg ;]

Large Edge feature on DSII
http://www.edge-online.com/features/dark-souls-ii-fromsoftwares-quest-to-create-the-last-great-adventure-of-the-ps3-and-360-generation/

whoa cool, I will finally try this then

― Euler, Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You don't try Dark Souls, Dark Souls tries you......

So Dark Souls “celebrity” EpicNameBro has been hired by Future Press to work on the DS2 guide. Supposedly he’s the only one outside of From who’s played through the entire thing and he had this to say:

https://twitter.com/epicnamebro/status/424709538025967616
https://twitter.com/EpicNameBro/status/424750288684077056

Slight conflict of interest there, but for a guy who’s spent so much of his life dedicated to digging deep into this series, that’s notable.

blighttown.

:(

bring purple mosses

i spent a long time in the garden so i have plenty, haven't had to use any though since i've been dying moments after getting poisoned/made toxic. only had about 20 min to dip my toes in though.

i watched a couple youtube videos on it this morning, less to get specific strategies or routes than to reassure myself that it can be done.

Go back to the undead asylum and get the rusted ring. it'll let you walk/sprint normally in the swamp.

i have it! the next trick will be making it down to the swamp.

Do you know the back way in? Easier then going through the sewers and you can just run past the big club guys.

the poison dart guys don't respawn after they're killed, if you haven't noticed that already. also, the spider shield is your friend.

blighttown is intimidating at first, but it's really not too bad once you get an idea of how it's put together.

Do you know the back way in?

nah, but googling indicates that i either need the master key (which i don't have) or need to go through some scary areas where i haven't been yet?

yeah it's amazing how psychological this game is, it's not only learning the enemy attack patterns etc but being relaxed/familiar enough not to choke and make dumb moves.

Yeah, possibly. I think you have to go all the way down and then up again in Blighttown to get out and grab the key from a corpse.

yeah, best to proceed from where you came in at this point. also, if you happen to stumble across a place called The Great Hollow, DO NOT mess with it at this point in the game. i got myself in a nasty mess in there on first play through.

done & done

I don't know how you'd stumble across it, it's incredibly well-hidden imo!

yeah, i did the master key to get there.
i really wanna get back to playing this. dark souls requires month breaks to calm the soul(s).

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

i'm gonna die

the lighting during that fight looks so cool. man, this is like 6 weeks now? if this was coming out on next gen too i think i'd be buying a ps4

i might have to put aside DS1 to give it a shot, i like the idea of playing it before everyone's discovered every little thing.

^ precisely why i preordered a copy

I know what you mean about the next gen thing Roberto, but it's great this will be the 360/PS3's final hurrah.

I played DS for a bit yesterday, took down the Gaping Dragon on new game plus mode, got cocky and plunged into Blighttown, died with 6 humanity and a load of souls. This game!

Burial OTM:

http://pitchfork.com/news/53781-burial-posts-selfie-and-long-note-teasing-new-music/

Hopefully by the end of most years I have done some tunes that are decent enough to release. but Dark Souls 2 is on the horizon soon so I'm not sure if I will have many new tunes for a while because I need to play that game a lot. But I'm going to try to get some new tunes together before it comes out.

that is AMAZING.

yeah, that pretty much made my morning.

keeping it real

XD

"Why do games like Dark Souls become geek status symbols?"

http://www.avclub.com/article/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-january-31-2014-107414

“If I came into your game and saw you wearing Solaire’s armor, I would kill you immediately.” lol

"But one of the notes another player left on the ground told me to attack him."

lol, see also: various notes saying "try jumping"

dark souls blog: i'm at sen's fortress in the central boulder room after many deaths, and i reaaally want to make it to the next bonfire so i don't have to do that again. i think we all know that's not going to happen.

sadly you are correct. the next bonfire is hidden too. sen's was a horrible nightmare for me the first time.

oh it's not hidden if you have the internet, i have no shame about this.

\ [†] / ☼

i'm at sen's fortress in the central boulder room after many deaths, and i reaaally want to make it to the next bonfire so i don't have to do that again. i think we all know that's not going to happen.

HEY GUYS I DID THIS THING!

truly an exciting moment in my life. now i feel like i can explore around and die with impunity.

well done my friend. Am NG+ -ing it at the mo, just beat Queelag then fell of that waterwheel thing