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Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Jay Rust posted:

I've played through the three games multiple times and still can't parry

I can parry like a god in dark souls 1 just don't ask me to do it in ds2 or bloodborne

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bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
Blocking is boring though

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



bloodychill posted:

Blocking is boring though

I don't think that was part of the question though

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
After you finish the tutorial level go up along the cliff, not through the graveyard with the regenerating skeletons or down the elevator with the ghosts you can't hurt. Dark Souls' reputation as a hard and unforgiving game means unfortunately a lot of people keep running into an impossible meat grinder that they're supposed to come back to later in the game.

Also, when you create your character don't choose the key as your gift, it's mostly something people are supposed to use to sequence break on later playthroughs and will just make you get lost and run into stuff long before you're equipped to deal with it.

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

my dark souls adventure is postponed because um. it runs very poorly my on computer. thank you

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

instead i am going to play witcher 3 on death march

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usd_V7Slhrc

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
Kill the dogs first.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

oddium posted:

my dark souls adventure is postponed because um. it runs very poorly my on computer. thank you

http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/19/

If you are not using this, make sure you are using this because dark souls' pc port is the worst pc port that has ever been created. Dark Souls ran like crap without it for me in 2012 and it's the same today.

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦

Cowcaster posted:

I can parry like a god in dark souls 1 just don't ask me to do it in ds2 or bloodborne

DS2 parrying makes not a drat bit of sense, but it works fine in DeS, DS, and DS3. Bloodborne's system is slightly different and more bad-rear end. If you want to get good at parrying in BB just stack yourself with some HP regain and QS bullet regain for visceral attacks to encourage yourself to keep doing it. Eventually becomes second nature and it's pointless to not parry things since it's so much faster. (Though the game does openly punish you for doing it in Chalice Dungeons, which is kind of awesome.)

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

i used that without setting anything up and the hud was fine but the game was in the top left quarter of the screen only. and when i looked into water there would just be another game screen

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

oddium posted:

i used that without setting anything up and the hud was fine but the game was in the top left quarter of the screen only. and when i looked into water there would just be another game screen

quote:

How do I use it?
1) Delete previous version of the mod if you have any
2) Place the contents of the .zip into the game's binary directory. (The place where DARKSOULS.exe is)
(this may be something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition\DATA)
3) Adjust the settings in DSfix.ini as desired
4) Adjust the keybindings in DSfixKeys.ini as desired
IMPORTANT: turn OFF the in-game AA option, otherwise you *will* get graphical issues

See DSfixKeys.ini for a list of keybindable actions, including screenshots.

Also you should go into the ini and set it up properly otherwise it will act real weird, it's all commented so it's easy to understand what the options do

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V4ClJZME4

Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v1v0t8Q5xg

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
On the one hand looking up some stuff in Dark Souls can spoil some of the fun, on the other hand you're not going to figure out how weight% translate into different rolling speeds on your own, and that kind of thing is incredibly important.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008


Lol that's one of most hosed up graphical glitches I've ever seen

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

i beat kraid. the framerate is still pretty bad but i think i can manage

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

Now that survival games are all the rage I'm surprised Cabella hasn't tried breaking into video games again.


I had this exact glitch last time I tried to play, I think you have to turn off AA and blur in the game's menu to fix it?

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

oddium posted:

i beat kraid. the framerate is still pretty bad but i think i can manage

30 fps bad, or worse? The game's locked to 30 fps if you don't change the settings in DSfix.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
i bought Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze for my wife

Got a good feeling about this purchase :wooper:

Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

It's an excellent game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301s-GDML5w

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.



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

Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjggN-KByI

Seriously always want some reason to post this video.

Looper
Mar 1, 2012

Guy Mann posted:

After you finish the tutorial level go up along the cliff, not through the graveyard with the regenerating skeletons or down the elevator with the ghosts you can't hurt. Dark Souls' reputation as a hard and unforgiving game means unfortunately a lot of people keep running into an impossible meat grinder that they're supposed to come back to later in the game.

Yeah this is what I was gonna say. Dark Souls is hard sure but you shouldn't go that way until you know what you're doing

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejeIT0MBSac

no survivor escorts - save them and they drop loot and run back on their own
food is now just a health pack
no psychos, now maniacs
no time limit outside of season pass dlc
save anywhere + checkpoints
focus on story with new characterization of older wiser frank fans wanted to see
hipster beard overdrive from the director of kinnect shovelware and producer of halo 4


capcom is doomed.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

it's about time ubisoft gave us a relatable protag in one of their games

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

Seeing stuff like this always makes me upset at my user name because it has rendered me permanently unable to go "please don't look me up in watch dogs 2"

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

Real hurthling! posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejeIT0MBSac

no survivor escorts - save them and they drop loot and run back on their own
food is now just a health pack
no psychos, now maniacs
no time limit outside of season pass dlc
save anywhere + checkpoints
focus on story with new characterization of older wiser frank fans wanted to see
hipster beard overdrive from the director of kinnect shovelware and producer of halo 4


capcom is doomed.

People acting like this studio has no idea what they're doing when they're the same people who made DR2, which was better than the first in every way, is the weirdest thing.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Guy Mann posted:

People acting like this studio has no idea what they're doing when they're the same people who made DR2, which was better than the first in every way, is the weirdest thing.

dr2 was directed by japanese capcom and just the grunt work was done by this studio, which ousted its leaders after the 3rd game and has new leadership for this one. its all covered in crowbcats video and he is always right and good

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
I bitched and moaned about Tropical Freeze more than most, but it is still one of the best Wii U purchases one can make.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Real hurthling! posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejeIT0MBSac

no survivor escorts - save them and they drop loot and run back on their own
food is now just a health pack
no psychos, now maniacs
no time limit outside of season pass dlc
save anywhere + checkpoints
focus on story with new characterization of older wiser frank fans wanted to see
hipster beard overdrive from the director of kinnect shovelware and producer of halo 4


capcom is doomed.

That's really disappointing. I'm not sure why they want to cut out everything distinctive about DR.

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

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ImpAtom posted:

That's really disappointing. I'm not sure why they want to cut out everything distinctive about DR.

I think it's just a natural side effect of AAA development. Gotta promote people eventually, so you never know if the guys who end up at the top of these huge projects actually know anything about game design or if they basically just got the job because nobody else had been at the studio long enough.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


The worst part is that despite all this, it's still not far enough in the other direction of "consequence-free zombie slaying mayhem" to be worth picking up.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
I agree with the comment that said they took Dead Rising and spiced it up with some Saints Row, and I think it is that way because that's what they thought people wanted. The person they're targeting with this game is the person who massacred their way through Dead Rising 1 wearing the serv-bot helmet and the kids' clothes. The problem is that they took away the wrong lesson from that: The reason it's funny is because Dead Rising 1 is a relatively serious and grim video game where the humor is player-driven. The game is content to ignore your antics and continue telling its story as if you are acting like a totally normal person. You can choose to interrupt their incredibly serious plot by swinging golf balls at the main bad guy if you want to, but the story's not gonna do it for you.

Well, now it does, and it's not nearly as good or effective.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Maybe maniacs are actually fun to fight instead of the terrible psychos.

Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

DR4 looks pretty fun and I'll maybe get it.

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
I'm sure that Capcom is making them do some things differently in the name of chasing those mythical CoD numbers like every other Japanese publisher contracting a western studio has for the past two console generations, but almost all of the complaints people are making about DR4 are the same ones they made about DR3 before release and they wound up being hugely exaggerated or having little effect on how much I enjoyed playing it.

TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:

Maybe maniacs are actually fun to fight instead of the terrible psychos.

DR3 got some poo poo for having way fewer psychos than the previous games but they were all actually balanced so you could beat them without spending a previous playthrough grinding up your stats and cheesing the AI, and they each had a fairly decent gameplay gimmick instead of being Dude With Melee Weapon #8 and Dude With Gun #12.

Guy Mann fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Nov 14, 2016

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

Skeezy posted:

DR4 looks pretty fun and I'll maybe get it.

Agreed. I just think that the people who are loudly proclaiming "not my Dead Rising!" have a valid point.

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tap my mountain
Jan 1, 2009

I'm the quick and the deadly
I've already long accepted that there won't be a "true dead rising sequel", its just not good business to make a game that people don't want to buy. It is really annoying to hear them repeatedly say they are returning to the series roots, when it only amounts to them bringing Frank West back

I wonder what a focus tested dark souls game would look like

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