AUGGGGGHHHH
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 March 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Are you in Blighttown? It sounds like it.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 March 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
awesome, massive map of lordran
http://media.kotaku.foxtrot.future.net.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2015/03/hyooj-341x1024.png
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
That looks like Gothic Fez.
― A Whizzer, A Poo Star (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KQ7QyIE.png
― Infostealer.Steamfishi (am0n), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
The Deaphts
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFXGDaQFQV8t=16m55s
Took down Dragon Slayer Ornstein & Executioner Smough without any help!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Eh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFXGDaQFQV8
Final attempt is 16 minutes in, unless you want to see me die repeatedly before glorious victory.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
props dude, the last few seconds of that fight are super tense. this is where i admit that i've never beaten O&S properly solo. i think last time i at least had Solaire, or maybe a human helper who died midway through.
i also never beat Gwyndolin. the run back after dying is too annoying.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
ornstein and smough defeated using a bongo controller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HdWWhZ0hDM
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 21 March 2015 12:42 (nine years ago) link
(the guy finished the game using the bongos btw)
lol
― Infostealer.Steamfishi (am0n), Sunday, 22 March 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
I'm in the Duke's Archives, a sprawling, baroque, ruined library filled with wizards and the crystallized undead. Is there whispering coming from the books? It is mixed in very low under the constant drone of the wind. It does feel like a library at the end of the world. I climbed up a very long ladder, and at the top there was an archer waiting on a ledge opposite the tower. We engaged in a bow-and-arrow duel, the controls allowing me to dodge, strafe, and roll while aiming. I win the contest but with one hit to spare, as is usual when not dying altogether. The moments where you cheat death in Dark Souls are so much more gratifying than in other games.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 March 2015 01:08 (nine years ago) link
AGGGGH.
I just tried opening a chest and it turned out to be a mimic, which is a frightening monster that can instantly kills. I had been attacking treasure chests for a long time now, to the point where I got tired of it. I slipped up and the first one I didn't check got me!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 March 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
yesssss how come no Tomb Raider games had the leap of faith in it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5VjZ1ORS8Y
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 March 2015 04:37 (nine years ago) link
Leveled up my intelligence and magic so I could use Cast Light and the Pyromancies. 100 hours in and I am starting to use magic for the first time! I made it to the first bonfire in the Tomb of Giants, and have explored a little but am now stuck. It looks like the only way to go is into a tomb with giant (duh) skeletons, who I've been picking off one at a time and certainly don't feel up to the task to taking down a half dozen in such close quarters. Maybe there's another route...
Wish the difficulty wasn't such a high barrier, this game does so many things right by minimizing all the crap that has been piled on of games since the start of 3D (and before). There are no barriers to entry, no invisible walls. No pause button, either, hah! No map -- and I love this so much! No markers. No quest lists. When you talk to an NPC your character isn't frozen in place like a mannequin, you can just walk away if you want. No QTEs. The character creation section is ONE SCREEN. Amazing. If Zelda is The Beach Boys then this is The Ramones.
I got to a safe spot earlier after clearing out a bunch of giant skeletons and went to go get some water, and when I came back, I had died. The game is relentless, something the missing pause button gets across VERY CLEARLY. Sometimes I will die and start to plan out what to do while it is loading, and the loading screen is so short that the game immediately comes back up, that gong sounding off, the ritual begins again. The game commands your attention.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:13 (nine years ago) link
Just got killed by a giant skeleton made out of skeletons who had a giant sword also made out of skeletons.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 07:00 (nine years ago) link
Any From-related thread seems as good as the other for this: Shadow Tower is being released as a PS1 Classic on PSN this week. Any thoughts/opinions?
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Monday, 30 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
It looks like the only way to go is into a tomb with giant (duh) skeletons, who I've been picking off one at a time and certainly don't feel up to the task to taking down a half dozen in such close quarters. Maybe there's another route...
i think for this section i learned where the enemies were and then ran past them all. totally valid strategy imo.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 30 March 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
I've been unable to take down Lord Gwyn so far. He's the most difficult boss of the game imo. Started a new character thinking I would breeze through a bunch of the game. LOL NOPE
Tried some of Dark Souls 2. It runs way better than DS1 (both on PC). Some of the changes seem really weird. For instance all the enemies just not re-spawning anymore after you've run through an area a million times. Not that this makes it any easier.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Did your copy of Dark Souls come with the DLC? If so, I would absolutely run that before you beat Gwyn. It's a really solid add-on and getting to it is gonna be a bit of a pain if you take him out.
― circa1916, Friday, 3 April 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Gwyn is so hard, you really have to get used to his timing to parry him consistently (and then remember to avoid his grab).
On my second character I did go through the game much faster (until the DLC content, which you should really get if you can), but Gwyn was as hard as the first time and I gave up rather than put in the time.
xp
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
never parry
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 3 April 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
still never really played this because i read bad things about the pc port and i've never had a ps3 of my own but adam's posts itt giving me wild ideas
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 3 April 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
the community put together a really nice patch for DS1 on PC. fixes most, if not all, issues people had with the port.
― circa1916, Friday, 3 April 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah I never unlocked the fps. Suddenly everything is smooth as butter!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 5 April 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Just beat Dark Souls! YESSSSS!!! I have been having trouble w Gwyn for a long time and I never tried the Fire Stoneplate Ring, I threw it on and beat him in one go!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 April 2015 04:07 (nine years ago) link
congrats man
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 April 2015 04:39 (nine years ago) link
!!!
Namco will announce Dark Souls 3 at E3, a source familiar with the matter has told VG247.In news guaranteed to delight fans of the series, Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne director Hidetaka Miyazaki is again heading the team.Miyazaki, the father of the Souls series, moved onto a supervisory role for Dark Souls 2. Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura co-directed the sequel.The platform to be used for the announcement is as yet unknown, but our source guessed the title may come during Sony’s E3 press conference on the Californian evening of Monday, June 15.We received no specific details of the game itself.Dark Souls 2 settled two points higher on Metacritic than the original, but some fans and reviewers disparaged the sequel over the fairness of its approach to Souls’ trademark ultra-hard difficulty level.Series-watchers may be shocked at the announcement’s timing: Sony dev boss Shuhei Yoshida confirmed in late May that Bloodborne is to be expanded, and that more details will be announced “later this year”.E3 takes place in Los Angeles on the week commencing June 15. We’ve reached out to Namco for comment.
In news guaranteed to delight fans of the series, Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne director Hidetaka Miyazaki is again heading the team.
Miyazaki, the father of the Souls series, moved onto a supervisory role for Dark Souls 2. Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura co-directed the sequel.
The platform to be used for the announcement is as yet unknown, but our source guessed the title may come during Sony’s E3 press conference on the Californian evening of Monday, June 15.
We received no specific details of the game itself.
Dark Souls 2 settled two points higher on Metacritic than the original, but some fans and reviewers disparaged the sequel over the fairness of its approach to Souls’ trademark ultra-hard difficulty level.
Series-watchers may be shocked at the announcement’s timing: Sony dev boss Shuhei Yoshida confirmed in late May that Bloodborne is to be expanded, and that more details will be announced “later this year”.
E3 takes place in Los Angeles on the week commencing June 15. We’ve reached out to Namco for comment.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn3.whatculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Dark-Souls-death-mushroom.gif
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
Yes plz!!! Would do w Bloodborne 2 (or PC port) but this is still the best news.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
good to know i won't need to start playing other games for the foreseeable future.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Feel like the new Flying Saucer Attack also being announced today is super appropriate.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
shadow tower (early fromsoft game for ps1) is on psn now btw
― 😂 (am0n), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
ps store i mean not ps now
― 😂 (am0n), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
shadow tower controls are terrible. cool game, like fps dark souls, but unplayable
― 😭 (am0n), Friday, 5 June 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6iMjSQ9uOk
Dark Souls playing as Ceaseless Discharge and unleashing the lava demon giant's might against several foes. What is to be able to control such a huge boss and be as powerful as hell? Watch how Ceaseless Discharge protects my character in my custom mini game - Player protector. In this video I moved Kirk Knight (Invader) to the arena of Ceaseless Discharge and left my player uncontrolled while taking control of Ceaseless Discharge. The goal of my custom mission is to beat Kirk before he kills your character since there is no way for AI to fight Ceaseless Discharge back - since it will fall to death trying to reach him, so I left my character as a bait and and had to protect it with Ceaseless Discharge.
― 😭 (am0n), Friday, 5 June 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
Dark Souls III will release next year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and possibly PC1-4 players, as in past games10 classes, 45 new enemies, and 15 bosses (returning foes aren't counted in those figures)12 areas equaling an amount of content similar to the first Dark Souls60 minutes of cut scenes, most of which are in-engine"Sacrifice Ceremonies" can be used to visit other players' worldsBonfires can be created by sacrificingA "Heat Up" mechanic can be used to alter bosses (as shown in the boss screenshots below -- that's the same dude, apparently)There's something called "Sword Fighting Arts," including moves like "Rush In" and "Circle"
http://www.destructoid.com//ul/293409-/h17-noscale.jpghttp://www.destructoid.com//ul/293409-/h9-noscale.jpg
http://youtu.be/dyRJ5u-L8qw
― bizarro gazzara, Sunday, 7 June 2015 11:45 (eight years ago) link
sounds more like more of a cash grab but hopefully the construction and care will still be there.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 June 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
As long as it's better than Dark Souls 2 I'm all in.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 7 June 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
more footage:
https://38.media.tumblr.com/3612924f0740f3db0e0b340a7d11053c/tumblr_nj9prxwnY31tkrqfjo1_400.gif
― bizarro gazzara, Sunday, 7 June 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
http://gfycat.com/MajorEarnestGraywolf
― 😭 (am0n), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
awesome, reposting to got thread
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FULtUmhnEnU
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 15 June 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
day one buy of course; they've yet to disappoint and i prefer the aesthetic and game play of dark souls over bloodbourne
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 June 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
the apparent scale of the bad guy in the trailer was giving me shadow of the colossus vibes
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 15 June 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
for a moment there i was terrified that this was going to be Xbox-only
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 15 June 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
ps vita exclusive
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 15 June 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link