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7c Nickel posted:Well the DLC is really a side story. I don't know why anyone expected it to add a new ending beyond what we got from the Soul of Cinder. There was no reason for the Ringed City to be a side story though when its the final entry in the series. From chose to introduce their stupid painted world plot for the DLC when there was a bunch of unanswered stuff already in the base game. Its kind of frustrating to have all that be ignored in favor of answering questions that didn't exist prior to the DLC. In a vacuum its fine. As the final piece of the Dark Souls story, I think its pretty easy to see why so many people dislike it.
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crushed blackflame friede! that's gotta be one of the funnest souls boss fights, maybe the best in ds3. time for a nap now, the only thing really, after a good toast
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Apr 9, 2017 08:10
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FauxGateau posted:do you guys like greatswords and faith builds? I do. Apparently the drakeblood sword got a Raw buff with this latest patch. On my lovely pure faith build (18str/16dex/60fai) I get about 574 AR (305phys/134mag/134lite) vanilla. But when buffed with the sunlight straight sword WA and lightning blade/darkmoon blade it jumps up to 901 AR!
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Apr 9, 2017 09:26
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I see that the raw rear end has been nerfed, such that even unupgraded, with base physical stats, raw is actually worse than no infusion. Looks like raw broadsword is the way to go for low level casters now.
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Apr 9, 2017 10:20
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Nerf my raw rear end
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Apr 9, 2017 10:26
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I found this thread while searching for "raw rear end"
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Apr 9, 2017 11:11
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Fromsoft nerfed it because they were sick of "raw rear end" being the number one related word to "Dark Souls 3" on google.
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Apr 9, 2017 11:23
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Node posted:I found this thread while searching for "raw rear end" I bet there's at least one goon who found this thread by searching for "rear end bleed"
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Apr 9, 2017 11:40
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stretch from ringed city interior to wherever the next bonfire is, is a pretty drat big haul
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Apr 9, 2017 12:22
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I'm on Journey 3 now (in an effort to finally acquire the Pale Shade Set, among other things) and have decided to use whips exclusively for a change of pace. I died at least a dozen times trying to whip the Crystal Sage to death with the Witch's Locks. 
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Apr 9, 2017 13:37
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You're beyond help now.
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Apr 9, 2017 13:39
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I think its pretty obvious that when she speaks of a cold, dark, and gentle place, she's referring to outer space. The final mission in Dark Souls is to help create the next sci-fi horror 3rd person action RPG, Space Souls.
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Apr 9, 2017 14:03
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A Dead Space/Dark Souls mash up.
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Apr 9, 2017 14:04
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AlternateNu posted:I think its pretty obvious that when she speaks of a cold, dark, and gentle place, she's referring to outer space. The final mission in Dark Souls is to help create the next sci-fi horror 3rd person action RPG, Space Souls. Dark space
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This isn't directly related to the dlc but leading up to doing the dlc I have been playing through the game again as a pyromancer, which I haven't really done before, and boulder heave is my favorite spell in the game. I killed abyss watchers using it exclusively EEURBLUGH
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Nakar posted:All humans are capital-U Undead in their true form. The interference of the Age of Fire is what allows humans to truly die. There's probably some unforseen consequence of this that the series never fully explains involving their residual Humanity, the Abyss, and the like, but I dunno what that is. The "curse of the undead" crops up whenever the flames grow weak, and is more of a symptom of Fire being too weak to let people die "normally." It is, to wit, an unnatural state for things not to die; it's strange that in the Souls universe the inverse is true. Naturally the world had no disparity, and then naturally it did. Presumably a form of reincarnation occurs, given the formless nature of the Dark and how it seems to contain human emotions and possibly even memories. The Dark is where all dead things should be, ultimately; a primordial sea, from which life may come just as freely as life may go. Presumably all individual souls come from the First Flame; so the majority of humans don't actually have their own Soul. This is notable because when you kill NPCs they do not drop Soul items; if every human shares the Dark Soul, this makes a lot of sense, and further cements that humans seem to be birthed by and return to the Dark in any general sequence of life and death. When in balance, flame and Dark, the world is right; that balance grows unsteady over time, and when the Dark is overwhelming the Fire, disparity fades from the world. Death becomes unattainable, and life becomes hell.
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IronicDongz posted:This isn't directly related to the dlc but leading up to doing the dlc I have been playing through the game again as a pyromancer, which I haven't really done before, and boulder heave is my favorite spell in the game. I killed abyss watchers using it exclusively When the game was fresh and people were still doing their first playthrough, Boulder Heave was the premier No, gently caress You PvP dick move and I got so much mileage out of it.
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Orv posted:When the game was fresh and people were still doing their first playthrough, Boulder Heave was the premier No, gently caress You PvP dick move and I got so much mileage out of it. It is great paired with toxic mist since they share the same animation, and you can really screw with your opponent's timing by switching between them.
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ditty bout my clitty posted:Dark space Garth Merenghi's Dark Space.
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Took about 2 hours of cooping on nameless but i finally ran into my first moundmaker boss glitch-invader. That made that boss fight actually super exciting and tense. There should be a covenant that can invade boss fights with 3-4 players. Maybe do a bit of scaling on the invader, give the host his ember back on death, or restrict a few more broken bosses, but the concept feels kind of cool if properly balance tuned. AlternateNu posted:I think its pretty obvious that when she speaks of a cold, dark, and gentle place, she's referring to outer space. The final mission in Dark Souls is to help create the next sci-fi horror 3rd person action RPG, Space Souls. hanales posted:Garth Merenghi's Dark Space. Bloodborne was halfway there already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXBBGjUjy2c RoadCrewWorker fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Apr 9, 2017 |
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Apr 9, 2017 15:52
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Presumably all individual souls come from the First Flame; so the majority of humans don't actually have their own Soul. Even Bloodborne, which is decidedly different, has a similar approach to the Coldblood items. The closer a being is to the Great Ones, the more potent and valuable its blood. Bloodborne takes it a step further with the Insight/Beasthood dichotomy too.
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Karanas posted:If you're just looking for tongues, the two darkwraiths in Farron have a pretty decent drop rate with the gold serpent ring +3 and a rusted coin. Good place to pick up some Wolfblood Swordgrass too, incidentally. Node posted:Are the Blue Sentinels bugged? Half the time, I don't get a proof of concord kept. It seems you need to actually attack/engage the invader to get one. A lot of times I'll phase in and the red will be killed by something and I'll just be sent home, same if the host enters a boss room. I think it's working as intended, though. Augus posted:I mean, you're kinda supposed to feel weak in these games? Yeah, something I kind of like in Dark Souls is how you can make a Knight and use the starting gear for the entire game and strike down gods and demons with basic gear. It's basically the opposite of WoW with giant shoulderpads and insanely flashy weapon.
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KingSlime posted:Because by comparison, The Old Hunters expansion was the final and missing chapter that nicely wrapped up Bloodborne. Sure there are still some mysteries but they don't really matter and the direct plot involving the main actors is explored at length pretty well. Given how fragmented DS3 felt, expectations were high. That might be it. Since I don't have a PS4, I never played Bloodborne, so my expectations for the DLC were set by the previous Dark Souls.
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The other Dark Souls had good DLCs when it came to lore though? AotA explained a lot of things surrounding the past of Lordran and SOTFS added a new ending that really helped the game thematically. Even base DS2 had the DLC tie into the base game with answers regarding the Daughters of Manus. AoA and the Ringed City mostly created entirely new plots and answered questions that people already thought were answered (dark soul and the pygmies) or just made up entirely new ones (the Ringed City was mentioned nowhere before this DLC).
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Apr 9, 2017 20:00
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I really liked the new info on the dark sign.
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Internet Kraken posted:(the Ringed City was mentioned nowhere before this DLC). Honestly, this part bothered me. You'd think something like that would come up at some point!
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Apr 9, 2017 21:52
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The assasain bird things in ashes of andariel are...infuriating.
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I really cannot help but feel that the Ringed City was the actual final area of DS3 in prerelease, but got cut for time and replaced by the short jog to Soul of Cinder. Considering that some of the first few concept pieces we saw were of the Dreg Heap, and the enormous amount of importance the Ringed City is given in the lore, it feels flat out weird for it to be off in its own little world almost totally disconnected from the central plot of the main game.
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Apr 9, 2017 22:17
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gently caress Vilhelm. gently caress this absolute piece of goddam poo poo. What a loving oval office. gently caress!
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veni veni veni posted:gently caress Vilhelm. gently caress this absolute piece of goddam poo poo. What a loving oval office. gently caress! Just knock the jerk off a cliff  
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veni veni veni posted:gently caress Vilhelm. gently caress this absolute piece of goddam poo poo. What a loving oval office. gently caress! He was such a loving pain in the rear end.
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veni veni veni posted:gently caress Vilhelm. gently caress this absolute piece of goddam poo poo. What a loving oval office. gently caress! Vilhelm is a bitch. Kick him off the cliff. The crow assassins are a pain to fight unless you have a big weapon to stagger them, but luckily are completely avoidable. The one at the start of the settlement you can just run past, the one right before the locked gate to Vilhelm won't follow you into Vilhelm's place, and the two in the chapel aren't even slightly worth fighting.
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Whew, raged enough that I was able to dragon ball z on him and whup his rear end after like 20 tries. But still gently caress Vilhelm. I cannot stress how much I hate that motherfucker. He didn't even drop his armor. Where do I get that? It's dope looking.
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Vermain posted:I really cannot help but feel that the Ringed City was the actual final area of DS3 in prerelease, but got cut for time and replaced by the short jog to Soul of Cinder. Considering that some of the first few concept pieces we saw were of the Dreg Heap, and the enormous amount of importance the Ringed City is given in the lore, it feels flat out weird for it to be off in its own little world almost totally disconnected from the central plot of the main game. I could definitely believe that the Dreg Heap was something meant to be in the original game but the Ringed City comes completely out of left field. Its basically the human version of Anor Londo, which is weird because New Londo was supposed to be that in the original Dark Souls. There's no hints about it anywhere that I've seen. There was zero indication anywhere that the pygmy was still around, or that there was in fact tons of them rather than just one. So when Lapp just casually talked about them I did a double take. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Apr 9, 2017 |
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veni veni veni posted:gently caress Vilhelm. gently caress this absolute piece of goddam poo poo. What a loving oval office. gently caress! I just hit him with a sword and stunlocked him before he even finished his introduction speech. Executioner's greatsword is the best.
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veni veni veni posted:But still gently caress Vilhelm. I cannot stress how much I hate that motherfucker. He didn't even drop his armor. Where do I get that? It's dope looking. You will eventually find his armor in an upcoming area that isn't covered in snow.
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veni veni veni posted:Whew, raged enough that I was able to dragon ball z on him and whup his rear end after like 20 tries. In the bug pit at the end
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Internet Kraken posted:The other Dark Souls had good DLCs when it came to lore though? AotA explained a lot of things surrounding the past of Lordran and SOTFS added a new ending that really helped the game thematically. Even base DS2 had the DLC tie into the base game with answers regarding the Daughters of Manus. AoA and the Ringed City mostly created entirely new plots and answered questions that people already thought were answered (dark soul and the pygmies) or just made up entirely new ones (the Ringed City was mentioned nowhere before this DLC). Both Dark Souls 1 and 2 had great DLCs. For quality, I think Artorias of the Abyss stands above them all, but I had more fun with the three DLCs that 2 offered. The Artorias boss fight is probably the best in the game, in terms mostly of lore, as well as a little mechanics. His scream at the end is bone chilling. Each DLC in Dark Souls 2 had gimmicks, but they were entertaining gimmicks in my own experience. Plus they all had the optional extra difficult content at the end. gently caress those flying lightning bolt shooting horses that you can't see in the blizzard. gently caress those guys hard. Ariandel is okay so far but it isn't as engaging as previous DLCs.
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Internet Kraken posted:There was zero indication anywhere that the pygmy was still around, or that there was in fact tons of them rather than just one. So when Lapp just casually talked about them I did a double take. Miyazaki? More like Miyaz-HACK-i  Bring back the Best-team!
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What I liked about all three DS2 DLCs is that they all had different methods of interconnecting their levels and opening up new areas to explore. Shulva had the raising/lowering platforms, the spinning discs, and the platforming section; Brume Tower had the Idols, the locked doors, and the elevators; and Eleum Loyce had the defrosting and hidden ladders. By comparison, Ariandel's got a few holes to drop through and gates to open; Dreg Heap doesn't have any interconnectedness; and the Ringed City's interconnectedness is... ladders and doors.
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