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
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 10:50 (eight years ago) link
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
― art, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link
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
― am0n, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
has anybody tried to hit his tail a la DS1?
― down and down we go (art), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Okay, this is on tonight.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
man the first miniboss really is no joke, huhgot him but it sure was an early gut checkROLL ROLL ROLL ROLL hit ROLL ROLL ROLL ROLL ROLL hit RUN RUN RUN heal ROLL ROLL ROLL ROLL hit
― ulysses, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link
so in one day with this thing I have:
launched with deprived, tinkered with the face to make him look like an emaciated owlkilled the iudex, gundex, whatadixchased off the dragon (not that difficult!)killed the crystal lizard dragonkilled the mimickilled both monstrositiesfound my first normal crystal lizardkilled the fat guykilled the blue knightunlocked all the doors and freed the prisoneractivated the elevatorfully explored the first level and done a full kill sweep of the entire arealeveled to 21 and balanced the build so i can use magic, miracles, a bow and an axebought and used all the available armor/magic/weapons/items from the merchantimproved my sword to +2have etched the first world layout/enemy placement firmly into my mindgot the bannerfound Vorgul and have tried going after him three times now, I have yet to hit him more than twice
this is dark souls 3, day one
― ulysses, Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
xp all the items except that 20k key of course
finally playing this tonight. it is amazing. you can't sleepwalk through this game but it just plays better and more user-friendly imo. i like this starting area on the wall and rooftops way more than some of early DS1.
the game is beautiful. so beautiful. they have turned up the dreamlike elements. this is HD dark fantasy at its peak. impossible architectures.
the speed is great but something to get used to after playing Dark Souls 1 so much recently. so much stamina! like 5x as much more something! why even level up endurance when you have that much? Dark Souls 1 you really have to be economical w your rolls but here you can dodge like a maniac, slashing your weapon. it's more button-mashy. but still good and strategic! best combat yet. i get trapped by my own impatience still but it gives you more leeway to make mistakes. still hard but more forgiving.
level design is lovely. everything is still a mystery and i am enjoying the flow of silent storytelling. again this is something Dark Souls sort of pioneered for the modern era and here it is done extremely well. i am getting some old fantasy Heavy Metal goth Edward Gorey or Frazetta feelings from many places. i want paintings of every screen of this game.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
the dragon draped over that building in the beginning is so great. Alfred Hitchcock would be proud.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
the shrieks from these ghouls are insane
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
you are probably going to like the next zone it really creeps me out
― down and down we go (art), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:44 (eight years ago) link
if you can stand next to a candle you can watch the light flicker across your shield and armor.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link
damn this green glowing cobblestone floor is amazing. this game is really impressive i bet at 4K it is just dropping.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:52 (eight years ago) link
art what zone are you talking about? where im at reminds me of Undead Parish especially the place you find Solaire at.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
ahhh! woah!! surprise boss fight! yes! not gonna spoil this thank you!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
um...so that wasn't a boss fight. he respawns! so glad i have pyro.
this game is really really good. level design is top notch. better than Bioshock Infinite quality graphics. level design so far like Undead Asylum stretched out to 5x the size with few mobs and lots of jump scares. i love it.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 04:10 (eight years ago) link
parts of it remind me of Undead Parish too but this is way way better than the basement area w Capra Demon.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
gonna call it a night. im still only at the 2nd bonfire but i feel like i've done so much. SPOILERS i had a bunch of cool pyro fights with a princess mononoke dark liquid monster on the rooftops in between two dragons. i fought Smough in a really beautiful Castlevania style town square with a classical statue water fountain and full of empty suits of armor set up everywhere to look like they are resting. i threw fireballs from top of some stairs at 3 skeleton dudes with spears that were trying to get me.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/f3ziSHk.jpgset of screenshots from tonighthttp://imgur.com/a/SFV6K
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
I started this last night also as a pyro guy, I liked the antler thingies he wears. Also at 2nd bonfire, need to take out that pesky knight after the flame run
― Neil S, Friday, 15 April 2016 06:33 (eight years ago) link
GIANT ENEMY CRAB
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 April 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
@adam once you get to the legit boss of the area where you currently are, the zone after that is the one im talking about.
― down and down we go (art), Friday, 15 April 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
i turned HUD to auto in settings, much better for screenshots
― am0n, Friday, 15 April 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
think i've killed 4 or 5 bosses now, still not sure how far i've gotten. none of them have been main dudes in the intro. also had a few invasions in the crab area and killed them all. the npc invaders have been much tougher!
i turned brightness all the way down and now it looks perfect. seems like they took cues from dragon's dogma with the natural lighting
― am0n, Friday, 15 April 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
not feeling the disconnected world thing i've complaints about either, there are numerous times where i've looked around and realized where i am in relation to where i've been. it does seem to deliver on the whole "if you can see it you can go to it" concept
― am0n, Friday, 15 April 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
man, I do not enjoy beg covered in worms D:
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
torch ;)
― am0n, Friday, 15 April 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
that first boss....damn that fight was good!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:47 (eight years ago) link
it was really tough but i totally felt that WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS feeling at the end
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link
found out im nearly able to score the red eye orb, need to invade in a very serious way
― down and down we go (art), Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
this game just got super medieval. i found this fat self-immolating alt dimension spanishi inquisition official who laughed like Tiny Tim and shot some dark magic at me, slowly sneaking through the air, so I was hiding around corners while he cackled in the distance, surrounded by a pitchfork-wielding village mob. so cool.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 April 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link
second boss down. i need more time to sak this in.
― ulysses, Saturday, 16 April 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
Tomorrow morning, I'm finally going in
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Saturday, 16 April 2016 04:05 (eight years ago) link
the evangelist is a weird-for-dark-souls bad guy: near miniboss hitpoints, distance and close up attacks, generally flanked by a few underlings and it TALKS which was very off putting
― ulysses, Saturday, 16 April 2016 17:00 (eight years ago) link
Swamp covenant is the most fun. seems like many/most fights involve at least three phantoms and summons are so constant i had to take off the item to progress the story
― down and down we go (art), Saturday, 16 April 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
yeah the evangelist! i haven't played through Bloodborne yet but i remember seeing some of these types of enemies in that. i am really glad they did that, Bloodborne was great.
another cool new thing: roll hits? rolling/dodging actually can stun enemies now! i don't think that was ever a thing before, right?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 April 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
evangelists are super creepy when they start reading from that book.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 April 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
i love it every time they have crows scattering. this game is pushing all the right buttons.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 April 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
True, but it pisses me off slightly they no longer refill your estus when you win a PvP invasion or successfully kill a boss.
Have they raised the max human players cap for this? I may have miscounted but it seemed at one time there were more than 3 phantoms at once. Though one of them may have been one of the scripted NPC invasions.
I love how chaotic things can get with mad phantoms, swamp covenant, npcs and regular enemies all getting at each others throats.
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 16 April 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
wow the 2nd boss is incredible. like something out of Shadow of the Colossus. this game may be better than Dark Souls 1.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 April 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
killed my first Lord of cinder and now I dunno where to go :(
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 April 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
if its the one im thinking of, you can keep going thru the back of the room
― am0n, Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
i fell for one of the oldest tricks in the dark souls book re: an npc, gg from
evangelist = fat official from demon's if you look close
― am0n, Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
really? fuck xp
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
XPS - with that gnarled hand item you buy in firelink you can summon 3 phantoms then at least one can invade or possibly two if you're in the swamp. I want to say the cap is 6 including the host but it might be 5. either way it's totally nuts and chaotic and exactly what i want
― down and down we go (art), Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
i think there's a second area protection covenant but i haven't made it far enough yet
― down and down we go (art), Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
where do i join swamp cov
― am0n, Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
i had 2 blues invade at once in crab area and i was alone. killed 1 and the other ran off and 'returned home'
― am0n, Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
ok this is great. i just got through the tree boss.
coolest thing that's happened so far is probably summoning a mad spirit just before that point, to see what they would do. they helped me clear out the whole area, then he finally attacked me once we got to the fog gate (i won).
got the red eye orb and have had some fun invasions so far, although it's too chaotic for me when there are two whites/yellows plus the host. much prefer duels.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link