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

:) is that the moonlight butterfly

indeed

sweet

four kings went down on the first take last night, havel's armor + ring did the trick, thanks guyz. in the late game it seems like the having the right gear combination is way more important than before (which makes sense, because now i've acquired all this random shit that i would otherwise not have reason to use).

Havel's Armour is p much the best in the game, only problem is it can't get upgraded and is mad heavy. His greatshield requires strength of 50 to wield!

It does have the best weight to poise ratio in the game, I believe. Like some of the either BIG armors though (stone, smough, black iron, giant's, etc.), it also has a stamina regen penalty.

upgraded giants armor is the best overall

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/220/b/e/giant_dad__by_alexmercer95-d6h77a8.gif

http://i.imgur.com/rQy05RI.jpg

was just gonna post that!

what the

video here - http://video.foxnews.com/v/3225395298001/any-truth-to-craiglist-killers-shocking-confession/#sp=show-clips

@ 2:40

"we do know she has an affinity for the video game called 'dark soul'"

i could see where this game might make you WANT to kill someone but likely not for the reasons they think

℞ Prescription for Justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4N1pIs2GIc

Serafinowicz voices one of the characters in DSII apparently!

genuinely surprised that he's a fan. he's clearly into it.

put in a lot of hours last night and beat the water hydra and got the black bow of pharis, killed a lot of guys behind the sealed forest door. got up to 30k souls and used it to beef up the bow to max level. worked on sen's fortress and killed a few of the titan demon, got most of the stuff in there and then got through the first fog door. heading back there now.

Goddamn this series is so good.

he goes on about DS on Twitter a fair bit, cool he got the gig IMO

serafinowicz is completely otm about how the game gives you a story that you need to unearth and create in your own mind.
I may need to take a week off when II streets.

lol "there are many games that feel wrong to play like candy crush but dark souls feels RIGHT"

heh, i also think about the game world to fall asleep.

interesting comments about the new mechanics as well

there was some article that quoted him as having put 1800 hours into Dark Souls, which is O_O. i mean, they must have meant to type 180, right?

this is pretty good, hacker w/ unlimited health gets demolished by the forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNGoohLt5oY

pvp is still such a mysterious world to me

Yep. Probably the most esoteric part of the game. Still learning new things about it.

Fresh thread for DS2 because nobody else was doing it:

Dark Souls 2: YOU DIED HARDER

good title

Zero Punctuation guy finally got around to playing/reviewing Dark Souls.

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

argh, wrong game. here:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8802-Dark-Souls

does anyone here use a lot of magic? talking to a friend who played as a sorcerer it's like we played different games. and his sounds way easier.

i'd say the 'best' way to play the game is as a devoted magic user with a maxed elemental weapon in the first run through and a maxed magic/faith scaling weapon in later NGs

i've never played a full on magic user (most i've done is level up faith or int for weapon buffs) but i have heard they make the game significantly easier.

i carved out tonight to play.
two immediate options now: iron giant and sif.

i got through the duke's archives (felt very proud of myself for going back and rescuing big hat guy) and just started on the crystal cave. had a very dark souls moment when i tentatively walked to the end of that first pathway, didn't see anywhere else to go, thought maybe i could fall down to the butterfly below and YOU DIED.

okay, beat the iron golem with some help, completely cleared out the painted world except for the boss. Trying to be nice. That was really fun. So here we are against the archers...
Working on levelling for a change; finally got everything up to *16*; i'm sure for most of you that's laughable but it's a big step for me and my level 51 dude.

fuckin' archers, I'm level 115 or something stupid on ng+ wearing Havel's Armour, and they STILL knock me off the ledge

the tumor-headed firebreathing poison people in the Painted World really remind me of Half Life 2.

Seath went down on the first try last night! thankfully, since it took me more than a few tries to get through those oysters with legs. and admittedly i read up enough on him ahead of time to put on all my curse-resistant gear (used lautrec's armor and the cursebite ring).

xp to Neil. For the archers, I generally find it easier to strip down to fast-roll weight, sprint up there, head right, roll thru the arrows, engage the knight. If you're lucky he'll fall off when pulling out his sword.

Also, xp to forks, would recommend specializing more with yr stats. Like choose STR or DEX depending on what weapons you like to use and how they scale. Although some ("quality weapons") do scale on both. If you're interested in casting choose between Magic (Intelligence) or Miracles (Faith). Pyromancy is kind of a cool/weird path because it doesn't require any Intelligence or Faith stat investments, just some points in Attunement to open up spell slots. Resistance is pretty much useless, avoid that altogether. Vitality and Stamina are always worthwhile, can't go wrong there.

can't decide i'm going to start off DS2 with the same type of character i've gotten comfortable with (strength-based, heavy armor, big shields & swords) or try something new. although it sounds like you'll be able to reshuffle your stats mid-game somehow, so maybe it doesn't matter.

i think my dex is at 21 and strength is at 19. I will likely start focusing stats from here on in, but wanted a base of 16 to 20 for all of them just in case that ever presented a barrier.

i had to up my dex to 18 just to use the black knight sword, which was totally worth it as it's my go-to for all situations not involving ghosts or skeletons that put themselves back together. other than that i've pretty much ignored all stats besides stamina and strength (and early on i was putting everything into vitality, which seemed important at the time but was probably not the best use of those levels).

man i've been stuck with the drake sword forever. I leveled it up to +3 and that's 260 damage... hard to step away from that.
black bow of pharis is kinda dope too tho'.

black knight sword +5 = 330 damage :)

man we are nerds

no apologies
i wonder if i have the black knight sword... should check my inventory. I get attached to my gear and have a hard time changing, especially when I can upgrade to match general enemy levels.

likewise, although i've been better about changing my armor and shield for bosses. got the black knight sword as a drop after having the crow take me back to the asylum.

20 strength eh? i'd have to grind a bit before riding with this...
been considering trying the catacombs again with my Divine +5 Cutlass / Divine Bow +3, dunno if it's a waste of time

also REALLY not sure I even have the black knight sword and killing those fuckers is always a production number.