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[IceStorm]

As you progress in the game humanity comes very easily but as a player that lost lots of souls don't hoard souls while wondering new areas. (bad idea). This game also has the biggest rats i've ever seen in gaming.

[I Ryukage I]

RPGamer13 wrote...

I just started a new character.

I was unhappy with my last and just today admitted it to myself. Any body type other than Slim or Very Slim for a female character I realized looks horrible. I also wanted to change my class..

I love the very large female knight I made... just glad there are different options instead of a single body type

[-Skorpious-]

Dark Souls is the best game to be released since the original Mass Effect (for me at least). Not only does the game boast significantly more content than the original, but what truly impressed me was how absolutely gorgeous the environment/art direction is.

[Demyx_IX]

Gameplay, graphics and music is just outstanding. Also the design of the monsters and bosses are incredibly breathtaking. You wont regret buying this game. So in short, your question "Worth a purchase" A: definitely. If you aren't into this type of rpg then indefinitely. 

Modifié par Demyx_IX, 10 octobre 2011 - 10:32 .

[AshedMan]

Are you guys experiencing some slow downs on your PS3? Specifically, early on there is the bridge with the dragon breathing his fire across it. That slows my PS3 to a near crawl as he swoops and breathes all the fire.

[RPGamer13]

^I'm not.  People even say Blight Town has slowdown, but I haven't experienced it.  Or maybe the slow down they report isn't perceivable by me because I haven't noticed any.

Then again, I have a brand new PS3, just bought it a couple months ago.  And the 360 version might have it worse.


The game really isn't THAT hard.  There are ways to circumvent the difficulty.

Early on, after you kill the Taurus Demon you can get the Drake Sword which requires 16 STR and 10 DEX and has a damage rating of 200.  No other weapon near the beginning comes close, unless you have the Master Key.

Though there's a drop from the Titanite thing after Andre before the forest that can drop the Titanite Catcher Pole, luckily I got it with my current Bandit character.  It has magic attack, has no Faith Requirement and unupgraded, deals over 500 damage with a counter attack, over 400 with a backstab.

I just got Iaito now, been trying to get it since I got the game on Thursday.  I finally found out the best build for me:

40 DEX and 40 INT are my top priority for the Lightning Iaito.  Then I'll get my Endurance to 40 for max Stamina.  I have Havel's Ring, +50% Equip Load and the Ring of Protection and Sacrifice, +20% HP, Stamina, and Equip Load but breaks when you take it off.

There's a door in the tower to the Taurus Demon that at the bottom has a knight in Stone Armoer with a giant club that drops Havel's Ring, at 700 HP and 120 stamina his attack took all my stamina and only left a sliver of health with the Bandit starting armor.  Luckily, I took him down before he could kill me with the Titanite Catcher Pole.

Lautrec, a knight with gold armor behind bars near the Church, past the magic casting dude who doesn't respawn after you kill him.  There's a boarded path that you can destroy and use the Mystery Key you found on a corpse climbing up to face the Boar where all the Dreglings are to open it.

Attack Lautrec 2 times and he will become hostile.  Lure him out to the open area just outside of the chapel and you can fairly easily avoid his attacks for the kill.  That won't get you his armor, but I didn't want to have to wait for the ring.

After you kill the Gargoyles and ring the bell, he moves to Firelink Shrine and if you rescued him, he will give you an item needed for advancement in one of the Covenants.  And then I think it's after you ring the second bell that he kills the Firelink Shrine's Firekeeper and you can hunt him down for her soul to revive her, don't accidentally use it or give it to the other firekeeper for an Estus Flask upgrade if you want to revive her with it.  Then you get an item that tracks Lautrec down to one of the boss areas.  And just outside this one area you can find his armor after you kill him.

One of the wiki sites for Dark Souls describes the process better than I have.

I Ryukage I wrote...

RPGamer13 wrote...

I just started a new character.

I was unhappy with my last and just today admitted it to myself. Any body type other than Slim or Very Slim for a female character I realized looks horrible. I also wanted to change my class..

I love the very large female knight I made... just glad there are different options instead of a single body type

Well, I don't know if it's the same for everyone else, but on my laptop monitor the character takes up a lot of the screen so the larger body types look distorted.

IceStorm wrote...

As you progress in the game humanity
comes very easily but as a player that lost lots of souls don't hoard
souls while wondering new areas. (bad idea). This game also has the
biggest rats i've ever seen in gaming.

Yep, I always make sure I either level up or buy something I know I need before going to a new area.

Modifié par RPGamer13, 11 octobre 2011 - 04:37 .

[Cyberarmy]

Cutlass Jack wrote...

So of course I finally get in the game to learn I'll spend the majority of my time with my skin flayed off. The frequent death rate combined with the infrequent humanity gains pretty much insures I won't be seeing my face much. 

I must admit they got me pretty good there. Bastages.

And then go join Chaos Covenant like me(Damn their powerfull pyro spells...)
First you got an "infestation" on your head which shares some of souls you earn, to grow.

Then you become and egg head... Cannot wear any helmet...
well at least i got a Licking type attack at least, giving shamefull deaths to other players since

[RPGamer13]

You can cure it, I suggest you hunt down the cure. You're also more susceptible to fire.

But hey, if you like it... Personally I think the altered kick attack looks disgusting. *shudders*

[Eternal Phoenix]

Funkcase wrote...

Ringo12 wrote...

Better than Skyrim...!

Depends on what you like really, this has no real character interaction, story or decision making, so in that regard obviously Skyrim will be better, combat can be debated, and the world, well we will have to see what Skyrim's like when it comes out to judge.

The story is there, the characters are there and so are side quests, you just don't have a journal to recap on what characters have said. The world is already better (more varied and dark fantasy) and I can say this for fact because Skyrim's world is simply snow and mountains along with bits of grass.

The game isn't that hard (Halo Reach on Legendary, the Kingdom Under Fire series and Too Human are harder) but it does offer more challanges than your ordinary RPG nowadays but I think Dragon Age: Origins on Nightmare difficulty is far harder, so the developers (and fans) were over-exaggerating.

I really don't see Skyrim beating this game. The world is amazing. I visited the Tomb of Giants (annoying place and you need a lamp to light the darkness but can't light areas while fighting and the giant skeletons can kick you of off cliffs) to rescue a cleric woman (other characters wanted me to kill her but I didn't) and then later emerged to find myself staring at these GIANT huge trees underground with mist surronding their trunks half way up. Sen's Fortress is amazing, Darkroot Forest is beautifully dark and New Londo ruins (though haunted by ghosts) is beautiful and the water and the shimmer of light in them really gives atmosphere to the place as you hear wind breazing through.

In terms of exploration, combat and crafting, Dark Souls is awesome. I've found some flaws though and this includes some enemies who have flaws in AI. The Dark Knights (I call them c*nts because they come out of nowhere sometimes and can kill you with but a few hits) can't climb up ladders and you can exploit this, the undead dragon is stuck to a cliff so you can attack him with ranged weapons and some enemies only chase you so far. There should also have been more loot in terms of armor. I've explored 14 areas (out of the 24) and I'm still using the Steel Armor (while has been upgraded through crafting) that I looted from some giant knight in the Undead Parish because no better looking powerful armor has come along. There's many armor pieces but not for a Knight. However, if the wikia is anything to go by, there are lots more of armor sets but it seems most become avaliable during the later areas (source) but at 30 hours in, I should have many to chose from now but alas...no.

I have found that I have plenty of weapons, rings, shields and miracles though.

It's my RPG of the year so far. My only regret with the game is that I killed the undead merchant who sold firebombs...so no more firebombs for me...

I found that the boss fights aren't really hard though.


P.S

Know that red dragon on the bridge? I threw a knife at him while standing upon a tower and he flew off. Next thing I know, I've got 10,000 souls. So the dragon died...but how? Did he get upset that I threw a knife at him and then commit suicide? The drakes (who can fly) in The Valley of Drakes are more tough than that poor excuse for a dragon who committed suicide because I attacked him.

And BTW dragon fans, you can be a dragon in this game if you accept the dragon Convenant...well I say dragon but it's not a flying dragon.

Modifié par Elton John is dead, 12 octobre 2011 - 03:09 .

[RPGamer13]

About Armor, if you buy the 20,000 key for the forest, behind the gate you use it on, you can find the Eastern Armor, it's better than any of the armor I've found so far for physical attacks. Even better than the armor you buy from the guy in the Depths.

The last boss I beat was the Taurus Demon and I'm Level 48, have Pharis' Black Bow, from the same area of the forest as the armor set, luckily got the Titanite Catch Pole from the Titanite right after Andre the blacksmith (it's my best weapon so far with its Magic damage.) I'm about to go into the Catacombs to find the skeleton blacksmith to upgrade my Iaito which shouls become my strongest weapon.

[Eternal Phoenix]

The Eastern armor wasn't as strong as my Steel Armor which I've upgraded. I have about 274 physical resistance right now.

[Eternal Phoenix]

Since BSN won't let me edit my recent post, let me say to you RPGamer13...good luck in those catacombs...you'll need it...keh heh heh heh heh (damn it, all these characters in Dark Souls laughing has caught on!).

[RPGamer13]

Woo! I got through the Catacombs. Though I lost 10 humanity because the Black Knight there killed me while I was trying to kill the last Pyromancer and I never even entered its room! It just came out of nowhere. Then needless to say, I died before I ever reached my bloodstain.

I was getting really good drops with that much humanity as well.

After getting my Flame Iaito, I took on the Gargoyles finally and one slice and the tail fell right off. Quelaag took me a couple tries, but that was because I forgot to change back to my defensive armor, I was using the ninja stuff for poison resistance.

[Cyberarmy]

RPGamer13 wrote...

Woo! I got through the Catacombs. Though I lost 10 humanity because the Black Knight there killed me while I was trying to kill the last Pyromancer and I never even entered its room! It just came out of nowhere. Then needless to say, I died before I ever reached my bloodstain.

I was getting really good drops with that much humanity as well.

After getting my Flame Iaito, I took on the Gargoyles finally and one slice and the tail fell right off. Quelaag took me a couple tries, but that was because I forgot to change back to my defensive armor, I was using the ninja stuff for poison resistance.

i hate when that happens, nearly lost 15 Humanity total cuase of that sneaky basterds!
Catacombs is one mean sunuvabtch....

[RPGamer13]

You know it. I only went in there because of the rite to get 20 flasks from kindled fires, you can upgrade bonfires two mroe times from the item you get for defeating Piinwheel in there, and the flame upgrade for weapons from the blacksmith, luckily they give you one Green Titanite Shard before finding the blacksmith. I also tried to find out before hand, but I couldn't find out what you needed for flame weapons.

I got a Black Knight Sword back in the Asylum and upgraded it to +4 last night. When I kill the Moonlight Butterfly, the shield you can make from its soul is going to be beasting, it has a throwing attack and the damage it does depends on which weapon is in your Right Hand and so, if you equip the shield itself in your right hand, its damage is pitiful. But with say, the Black Knight Sword, it can do over 1000 damage to enemies.

You need a +10 shield, anything except for special shields will do, and to take it to the blacksmith in Anor Londo.

Modifié par RPGamer13, 13 octobre 2011 - 12:18 .

[Iosev]

I only recently finished the depths. Those damn frogs with the curse fog are a pain; thankfully I bought a purging stone from the female undead merchant before I entered the area.

Prior to entering the depths, my game had never been invaded, but in this area, I was invaded three times. Two were by other players (luckily my gear is fairly upgraded), and one was by some NPC who dropped a spike shield.

I am loving this game! It is currently my personal game of the year so far.

[RPGamer13]

Before Quelaag: If you are in human form in Blight Town, at the bonfire down in the bottom you exit that little area and eventually another NPC will invade that drops the Meat Cleaver and you can summon her to help out with Quelaag.

I am trying to brave Sen's Fortress now, but it looks like I'm missing something I can easily get that will help out a great deal, the Chlorancy Ring which increases Stamina Regen.

[Iosev]

RPGamer13 wrote...

Before Quelaag: If you are in human form in Blight Town, at the bonfire down in the bottom you exit that little area and eventually another NPC will invade that drops the Meat Cleaver and you can summon her to help out with Quelaag.

I am trying to brave Sen's Fortress now, but it looks like I'm missing something I can easily get that will help out a great deal, the Chlorancy Ring which increases Stamina Regen.

Thanks for the heads up, hopefully I won't be caught off guard this time (well, unless it's a player invading); I think I was fighting a frog when I was invaded by the NPC in the depths.

[RPGamer13]

Woo! I just beat Ornstein and Smough.

Took me a lot longer than I thought ti would to get there, thought it would only take 3 hours tops but it took a lot longer than that.

I got Ornstein's armor, it doesn't look as cool as it does on Ornstein, but it's a step up from the stuff I have been using.

[Eternal Phoenix]

arcelonious wrote...

I only recently finished the depths. Those damn frogs with the curse fog are a pain; thankfully I bought a purging stone from the female undead merchant before I entered the area.

Prior to entering the depths, my game had never been invaded, but in this area, I was invaded three times. Two were by other players (luckily my gear is fairly upgraded), and one was by some NPC who dropped a spike shield.

I am loving this game! It is currently my personal game of the year so far.

Really? I found the depths too easy and only died by falling down a hole (which I knew was there by the way, so my foolishness really killed me, I thought I would survive the drop like I did before). The enemies there (the frogs) didn't even damage me and I only have 63 poison resistance with my recently found Stone Armor set. I got the mask of the mother though to give me added HP and the ring of steel protection to further my physical resistance.

[Argorre]

the game for the most part was really easy, except for Tomb of the Giants... that place was a nightmare. i ended up giving up on exploring and killing everything and just ran through everything to go kill Nito

[Mystic dream]

So far I've found the bosses themselves much easier than some of the normal monster encounters in the game. I was really disappointed at the gaping dragon fight, all that bravado with the entrance and in the actual fight he just keeps ramming his head on the walls.

Modifié par Mystic dream, 14 octobre 2011 - 08:50 .

[sympathyforsaren]

How long is a single playthrough taking your time?

[Cutlass Jack]

sympathyforsaren wrote...

How long is a single playthrough taking your time?

Will probably depend on how good/bad you are at playing it. I've already spent a rediculous amount of time getting absolutely nowhere in it.

[Chromie]

Cutlass Jack wrote...

sympathyforsaren wrote...

How long is a single playthrough taking your time?

Will probably depend on how good/bad you are at playing it. I've already spent a rediculous amount of time getting absolutely nowhere in it.

Yup I've made about 4 new characters probably gonna stick with the sorceress I have. I just always like magic and omg I had a much easier time killing some bosses.