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I probably used the wrong word. The DLCs (and I think Scholar) messed with some enemy stats but that's talk for the far future.
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Even that's not as much as some folks claim. (I occasionally show off a picture regarding this but it'll be spoilers for a long while.)
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NGDBSS posted:
DS2 had a patch which rebalanced the pyromancies, especially the Flame Weapon enchant... Which was originally pretty overpowered for not having to put any stats into it if I'm honest.
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I don't recall any Souls game really nerfing pyromancies, except maybe DS3? There are only a few major differences between DS1 and DS2 pyromancies, and all effectively serve to "smooth" your character progression in DS2 rather than have it be rather modal as in DS1. The first is that you start out with fewer casts in the latter but can end up getting strictly more with sufficient Attunement. (There's also equipment for increasing casts.) The second is that you can't just boost your Pyromancy Flame with sufficient souls, but instead have to use Fire Seeds in return for requiring fewer souls overall. (But you eventually get access to about 20 across an entire playthrough, and you only need 10 to fully upgrade the Flame.) And the last is that Pyromancy Flames get scaling with your fire bonus, accounting for around half the potential spell bonus, so you can't just dump your casting stats like you could in DS1. (But you don't need much investment, relatively speaking, to hit the soft caps for fire in the first place.)
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ok I'm only 20 minutes into the first one and not yet high enough to decide whether it's good or bad (it's super janky though) but this guy recut all of DS, DS2 and DS3 into movies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V07r7p4rf3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIZ1wPPPbE8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsZGUf7qDEs in case you're jonesing for DS stuff I guess this is what a saturday night amounts to in your 30s without your gf around for the weekend 
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Perhaps you want to put those behind links or something? Or were you in the wrong thread?
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btw, updates are a-comin'. Just getting started on audio editing  Should start posting the next session by next week.
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After finally binging through and completing Dark Souls 3, I gotta say... I like 2 better due to gameplay. 2 made running around shieldless way more viable and fun.
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Geop posted:btw, updates are a-comin'. Just getting started on audio editing 
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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Geop posted:btw, updates are a-comin'. Just getting started on audio editing The continuing tales of President Michael Wilson? I can't wait.
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BenRGamer posted:After finally binging through and completing Dark Souls 3, I gotta say... I like 2 better due to gameplay. I don't agree. But I do agree that the overly hectic combat pacing of 3 makes 2 feel a lot more pleasant comparatively.
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poo poo, I didn't know the thread restarted... thought Geop got sick of goons and was just posting new episodes on youtube. Dunno if it's better or worse that there's actually a new thread to accompany the LP!
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Geop posted:btw, updates are a-comin'. Just getting started on audio editing 
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Remind minifoo to encode the backlog.
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double nine posted:I don't agree. But I do agree that the overly hectic combat pacing of 3 makes 2 feel a lot more pleasant comparatively. I don't agree that 2 is less hectic. If anything it's moreso, what with all the crap you have to deal with, but it also hamstrings your ability to handle those kinds of situations.
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Sum Gai posted:I don't agree that 2 is less hectic. If anything it's moreso, what with all the crap you have to deal with, but it also hamstrings your ability to handle those kinds of situations. Eeeeh, 2's combat felt a lot slower and deliberate. 3 has some insanely fast enemies that'd make the tasmanian devil blush. But this isn't really the place for this discussion, I think. Geop, try jumping.
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Surprise! It's your old buddy, the Pursuer!
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Welcome back Geop. Now that you've learned what it means to be president of these great United States of America, I'm sure the rest of the game will be a breeze for you.
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Presumably that guy was just an Ornstein fanboy, given that some rando murdered the original (and then went on to set themselves on fire).
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Dzhay posted:Presumably that guy was just an Ornstein fanboy, given that some rando murdered the original (and then went on to set themselves on fire). Nah, some rando murdered the illusion duplicate of the original while the original went on to look for the third child of Gwen. I think? But I mean who wouldn't want to cosplay as Ornstein?
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Yeah, if you check the description of the Old Dragonslayer Soul it says that he's "reminiscent of a certain knight that appears in old legends", so OD definitely isn't Ornstein himself. Though the item you can get from said soul is still nifty.
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Old Dragonslayer, whatever. The best part of this video was the camera pan that let Geop see the Pursuer dash towards him while he was stuck in the chest opening animation.
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Shei-kun posted:The best part of this video was the camera pan that let Geop see the Pursuer dash towards him while he was stuck in the chest opening animation. It's funny because the point of the chest is to catch people off guard being greedy. In reality the trigger for the Pursuer is standing about in front of the chest so he started spawning while he was just standing there. If you just run at the chest and open it you have more than enough time to dodge away.
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Having replayed Monkey Island recently my first thought was "IT'S LECHUCK!" I wish you could put a beard and pirate hat on him...
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I just wanna say that the opening was beautiful. By the by Geop, on the bonfire warp screen, the locations with an orange border are where the game thinks you can find plenty of other players to co-op with or invade, based on your soul double nine fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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I am kind of jealous, how "casually bad" DS2 invaders apparently are on console. What a waste of the UGS + off-hand rapier combo.Anime Reference posted:Dude was definitely not showing the mace enough respect. Dude was alreaddy showing no understanding of his own "Greatsword" moveset. Maces can and should be outspaced in pvp. OutofSight fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Dude was definitely not showing the mace enough respect.
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Anime Reference posted:Dude was definitely not showing the mace enough respect. The mace is what lightning weapons were to DkS. It'll just tear through absolutely everything in the game once you get a feel for it.
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double nine posted:I just wanna say that the opening was beautiful.
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I wish the Old Dragonslayer had a bit more hp or something, just because I think his theme is one of the best in the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFrcmJQencc It being a heavier, more drums and deeper horns oriented version of half of Biggie and Small's original theme is great. Geop said it pisses him off a bit but I think the Old Dragonslayer being in the game sort of drives home one of the game's major themes, it just won't be obvious for a while. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Yeah, I'm kind of bummed how the mace effectively brutalized Ol' Dragonslayer. With base equipment he's pretty fun and challenging because you don't do a lot of damage, and thus have to dodge more. He also has some attack moves that are similar but different from the DS1 bossfight. Good luck getting through the dragon + stone/heide knights gauntlet with base equipment though. Really, I wish he wasn't such a pushover, his design is pretty cool, his music rocks, his moves are clearly telegraphed, making him still good for an early game boss.
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double nine posted:Yeah, I'm kind of bummed how the mace effectively brutalized Ol' Dragonslayer. With base equipment he's pretty fun and challenging because you don't do a lot of damage, and thus have to dodge more. He also has some attack moves that are similar but different from the DS1 bossfight. Good luck getting through the dragon + stone/heide knights gauntlet with base equipment though. The dragon doesn't respawn, and its AI is exploitable enough that killing it at a fairly low level shouldn't be that big a problem. Obviously nobody playing for the first time will figure that out though, they'll just see an rear end in a top hat dragon covering the area in fire and "nope" on out of there (as would usually be appropriate in these games.) And yeah, the Dragonslayer really should've gotten a buff if he was going to be pushed into the midgame by a big scary gatekeeper.
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Anime Reference posted:And yeah, the Dragonslayer really should've gotten a buff if he was going to be pushed into the midgame by a big scary gatekeeper. RBA Starblade posted:I wish the Old Dragonslayer had a bit more hp or something, just because I think his theme is one of the best in the series. I confess, I keep not paying as close attention to this run as I did for the DS1 LP because whenever Geop gets cross with the game I feel irrationally compelled to try and explain why I like it, which I can't do because that'd mean spoiling 9/10ths of it in intense detail like a complete rear end in a top hat. 
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Geop if only your PS4 had a feature that let you save the last 15 minutes of gameplay somehow when your recording setup wasn't ready. If only the controller had a dedicated button for it.
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Demicol posted:Geop if only your PS4 had a feature that let you save the last 15 minutes of gameplay somehow when your recording setup wasn't ready. If only the controller had a dedicated button for it. Sssshhhhhh.
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Honestly, I think the best way to handle Norstein would have been just to give him a goddamn area. I've probably said it before, but I love the way Heide looks and the fact there's very little to do there and you don't ever find out anything about the history of that place is one of my biggest disappointments with this game.
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One part I love about Scholar is that they added that huge dragon. Previously we questioned the Dragonrider's credibility, because he has no dragon to ride on, now it's The Old Dragonslayer who's probably a scam because there's this huge-rear end lizard dude right in front of his door and he's too scared to lower the bridge and, y'know, slay it. Then again, I also think the Old Dragonslayer fight is just unnecessary. It doesn't really fit into this game. I like my fanservice but Dark Souls II just kinda throws poo poo some random place and then has the audacity to ask the question "Why's this here? No one knows!"
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I think the Pursuer was a big part of what I liked about SOTFS. True to his name, he pursues all the time. Because of that regularity we have a nice gauge to see how far along our own character has grown and how well our skills have developed. By the end of the game I looked forward to my occasional dance with the Pursuer just to see where I stood. The Dragonslayer, however, wasn't really that memorable of a fight and could have been better served elsewhere if devs were hellbent on putting him somewhere appropriate.
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Does our favourite cannibal, Smough, get a doubleganger after his appearance in DS1?
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LashLightning posted:Does our favourite cannibal, Smough, get a doubleganger after his appearance in DS1? (I kind of wish Geop would become a big buff hammerdude and drop that tiny and reasonable looking mace.) OutofSight fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Jul 20, 2017 |
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