Dark Souls 3 - April 2016 : You Died, You Died, You Died

preordered a ps4 copy from an online retailer who often sends stuff out early - hoping it arrives tomorrow...

https://www.facebook.com/darksouls/videos/1069455576460819/

heh, just added that to the game-related lolz thread

omg my copy has shipped

goodbye weekend, i didn't have any plans 4 u anyway

so stoked for this, only know a few small facts about this and have kept myself in the dark to avoid over-hype like i fell for with 2 (which i wasn't into and didn't finish)

ahh why isn't tuesday now

very admirable, i let myself look at mechanics/weapons/pvp info, but drew the line at any levels/bosses/walkthrough videos.

order placed

2 days and 22 hours on steam

gahahah ShopTo sent me a dispatch e-mail at 12:30 and it came through my letterbox minutes later, say what you want about Royal Mail but

I'm on the Research Hall on the Old Hunters rn :/

no, my son is *also* named Vordt

Don't know if it's just me trying to go to back to a lumbering blubbertank character after playing a cardio freak in Bloodborne, but not really feeling the idea that the combat has been honed to perfection here, getting lots of camera lock-on fuck-ups and unwanted useless kicks coming out in critical situations

so far had very tough bits of levels but not really any tough bosses

mine now isn't arriving until Thursday, that's what i get from ordering from the evil empire.

watching Steam unpack this thing right now is torture!

alright i failed to get my brand new DS4 controller to work so i went KB+M (for now, hopefully someone will hack something to get this working)

but damn. this is already really great. i just fought a giant version of a common enemy in the other souls games and it was a lot of fun. i love having this speed in these games, this is going to be incredible.

art design is just draw dropping and dreamlike. i am just staring at corners for minutes looking at some strange beautiful scenery.

i've got to stop because i have work in the morning. but damn, this game is amazing. it LOOKS incredible, just the way light hits everything looks way more impressive than any Souls game. there is this cool green light left behind from your soul echoes in this game, which makes for some really cool lighting situations.

the game is hard too! ive been dying over and over in the beginning area for about an hour and a half, just loving it. the game looks amazing. that dragon draped over the entrance near the bridge is so cool. the combat/controls is flawless, perfect, all systems check. I would say Dark Souls: Championship Edition but the atmosphere in this is so thick and unique it really feels like a thing of its own. i love it!

http://i.imgur.com/I8z6Lk1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/c3Vfqad.jpg

supposed to get here Wednesday. I am hyped.

went deprived, stuck on 1st boss. don't go deprived

there is no other way to go afaik

i feel deprived.

the club moveset/weapon art looks pretty cool though?

is there anything fundamentally new in DS3? that sounds like a disparaging remark but it's not meant to be - i'd gladly play it if it's just the same formula with new enemies and locations.

the main new things are weapon arts, which are weapon-specific special moves and magic now has its own health bar and flask to refill it

i got past 1st guy deprived after ~20 tries, felt really epic. immediately bought some ugly armor and shield but still using club. backstabbing is little more tricky now that enemies guard their own back which is cool. parrying also not as easy because of how fast enemies are.

adam are those pc screenshots. looks so much better, that area on console is really washed out and yellow

Have you tried lowering the brightness in the system menu, am0n?

my copy finally arrived today

of course virtually the first thing i did was wilfully ignore a 'turn back' warning and get killed by a giant crystal lizard thing

feels like comin' home

lol i saw that message, saw big blue thing in distance and did an about-face

i had brightness down but i'll try lowering it

ok i think i need to avoid this thread for a week or so

annoyed that i bought this pre-release and am waiting for it to be delivered! get your shit together amazon!

same

i still haven't used a disc with my PS4 - i've just downloaded everything. i suppose that might change once i hit the HD capacity, but i'm rarely playing more than 3-4 games at a time anyway, so i plan on just deleting games i'm not currently playing while keeping the save states.

this is the first one i got a disc for, because i have shitty internet and didn't want to face multiple days of downloading the game. i thought this would be faster. ;_;

i'm doing a terrible job of not clicking on this thread.

amazon always fuck that shit up. better off going to walmart/gamestop

Picked this up this morning. Came home and played it for 30 minutes, then had to start packing to move house in two days. Hastily throwing away boxes of stuff without looking to close so I can justify playing more this evening.

I one-shotted that crystal lizard because I am a fat knight, having nearly been killed by an emaciated level 0 tutorial scrub hollow minutes before; when I remembered you could hold L1 to block in this game I was like uh isn't that cheating

Possibly a bit sick of tramping through marshes and swamps right now but the world design has been good so far, it's on a much bigger scale so it doesn't have the tightly-wound Firelink shortcut revelations of DkS1 but there have still been plenty of neat bits where you suddenly realise you can see a landmark you fought through earlier from a different place

I have a Zweihander and I'm going to start upgrading it so I can work towards the Bet The Farm On Killing Everything In The Room With One Incredibly Slow Swing playstyle. I haven't been beefcake since DkS1 and it feels weird throwing away all these hardcore dex weapons

I one-shotted that crystal lizard because I am a fat knight

I mean I didn't die on it, not that I effortlessly parried it and killed it in a single hit

took down bordt of the boreal valley at the first attempt, enjoying the brief sensation of competence i am certain will be snatched away again in no time

i've gone for a sword-and-shield nimble warrior but a lot of the muscle memory i built up for bloodborne is getting me through without having to use the shield a lot of the time

xpost those screenshots up above are from Steam. yeah my brightness is lowered all the way to the bottom. game looks incredible, just incredible.

JoyToKey works for mapping a controller btw.

last night i was tearing my hair because my DS4 controller wouldn't work and i had tried x360ce, DS4Windows, and InputMapper. i said screw it and got out the old PSOne Dualshock 1 controller and the cheap blue USB adaptor. thank you sweet jesus for creating JoyToKey.

unfortunately i started a new job recently that requires i keep sensible hours so no playing Dark Souls 3 until 4am before the weekend for me...

still 'expected to ship today', lol

favourite moment in this so far is the way the camera's field of view subtly gets wider as you reach the approach to the undead settlement to give you a more epic view

the non-violent undead worshippers are creepy as fuck and i feel bad about killing them but i need those souls :(

It seems quite hard to farm early on, after having 8 grand burning a hole in yr pocket from gundex and the crystal lizard in the first 10 minutes

Interestingly Souls expert EpicNameBro knows nothing at all about this game and is doing a completely blind playthrough while cackling with glee

Gundex? Iudex?

ludex iirc?

there's a spot on the high wall which is pretty decent for farming early on, with a fair chance of getting titanite and gems

got through the first couple zones blind, really loving the aesthetic and the combat mechanics and basically everything. The town at the bottom of the tower is legit unsettling with all the bodies hanging from ropes. Playing from launch on ps4 has been great, everytime I'm human I'm tripping over summon signs and being invaded constantly. could not be happier at this pt. I am trying to go totally blind which is proving super hard (desperately want to know what weapons are better scaling off str so I can spend my precious upgrades the right way) but I sense that this will be a min/max multiple playthru kind of game like ds1 was

favourite moment in this so far is the way the camera's field of view subtly gets wider as you reach the approach

ya that was great and that area after is str8 up hieronymous bosch apocalypse

at the tower on the wall bonfire i fired an arrow at the dragon just to see what's what and loled at the result

has anybody tried to hit his tail a la DS1?

Okay, this is on tonight.

man the first miniboss really is no joke, huh
got him but it sure was an early gut check
ROLL ROLL ROLL ROLL hit ROLL ROLL ROLL ROLL ROLL hit RUN RUN RUN heal ROLL ROLL ROLL ROLL hit