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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:DS3 is the best dark souls but nerds have spent so long playing ds1 and 2 that they are obviously burnt out on the formula. I started with 3 when it released and this is good advice. I did 3>1>BB>sekiro>elden never played 2
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Aug 1, 2023 14:36
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:DS3 is the best dark souls but nerds have spent so long playing ds1 and 2 that they are obviously burnt out on the formula. Nah they're all great games and all 3 probably belong in the top 50 games of the 2010s. There's enough variety and distinction between each game that they're all worth playing if you like the general from formula aka fromula
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Aug 1, 2023 14:36
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Pussy Quipped posted:I started with 3 when it released and this is good advice. gold star fromsexual
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Aug 1, 2023 14:38
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due to dumbassery I can’t comprehend/follow the purestrain miyazaki stuff so DS2 actually having a plot that kinda makes sense with characters and stuff gives it some serious points in my eyes.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:42
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but that one makes less sense...
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Aug 1, 2023 14:43
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cool av posted:due to dumbassery I can’t comprehend/follow the purestrain miyazaki stuff so DS2 actually having a plot that kinda makes sense with characters and stuff gives it some serious points in my eyes. the rulers of the world want you to sacrifice yourself to sustain the cycle of sacrifice that sustains the ruling class, which is accelerating with each cycle of sacrifice. dark souls is a story about class warfare.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:43
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Lib and let die posted:the rulers of the world want you to sacrifice yourself to sustain the cycle of sacrifice that sustains the ruling class, which is accelerating with each cycle of sacrifice.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:45
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Grey Fox posted:in DS3 you're the CEO trying to get the Board to go along with your bullshit 
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Aug 1, 2023 14:46
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wolfs posted:I got vaguely curious and checked Google and apparently Path of Exile has a party finder system - which I think it lacked the last time I played - so I'm vaguely hopeful PoE 2 will too. I sorta stopped playing D4 a few months ago because it got lonely. That's the appeal.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:47
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The king genocided the giants because he was manipulated by the evil foreign queen and then he was cursed or something so the queen gets you to kill him so she can link the flame and also some guy is there with her for some reason now you get to do flame stuff the end
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Aug 1, 2023 14:47
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you're spoiling it... cmon
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Aug 1, 2023 14:48
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DS3 has the worst fromsoft poison swamp zone.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:56
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You know, i got all the achievements in ds3 but I'll be hosed if i can remember the plot lol. There's... 2 kings? And one rides around on the other?
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Aug 1, 2023 14:56
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Hatebag posted:You know, i got all the achievements in ds3 but I'll be hosed if i can remember the plot lol. There's... 2 kings? And one rides around on the other? it's the plot of dark souls 1, but with one shrine maiden instead of two snakey bois
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Aug 1, 2023 14:57
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Hatebag posted:You know, i got all the achievements in ds3 but I'll be hosed if i can remember the plot lol. There's... 2 kings? And one rides around on the other? yeah and they have the best boss theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdy_rct6uo
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Aug 1, 2023 14:58
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:DS3 is the best dark souls but nerds have spent so long playing ds1 and 2 that they are obviously burnt out on the formula. ds1 has the distinction of having the best world design, by which I mean the extremely tight physical construction of lordran. things like firelink having an elevator up to the parish while also overlooking blighttown, the centipede demon sitting there plain as day visible from the pre-demon firesage stairs with all the capra demons if you know where to look, lost izalith’s dome on the left from the entrance to the demon ruins, the sudden realization that darkroot is the exact same location as the royal gardens in the dlc, etc. that it all fits together with extremely minimal trickery is a triumph now, how much someone cares about that is a different question, but out of the three, ds1 obviously does it the best. only bloodborne comes close (and poo poo like the forbidden woods snake eater ladder leading to iosefka’s clinic are also extremely good)
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Aug 1, 2023 15:03
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Bear Retrieval Unit posted:yeah and they have the best boss theme I saw the Spin Doctors live as part of a free outdoor concert like six or seven years ago and it was a surprisingly good show, good energy
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Aug 1, 2023 15:07
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Real tip for DS2: Blunt damage works well against armored dude. A mace is amazing in Heide's tower of flames.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:13
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Lib and let die posted:it's the plot of dark souls 1, but with one shrine maiden instead of two snakey bois Yeah i guess that's basically it. Kill 5 guys and do fire stuff, stab your wife if you like
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Aug 1, 2023 15:18
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youre not supposed to do the tower of flame stuff first???
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Aug 1, 2023 15:23
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Al! posted:youre not supposed to do the tower of flame stuff first??? im a creature of habit so I always went down the forest path first then the tower
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Aug 1, 2023 15:24
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Al! posted:youre not supposed to do the tower of flame stuff first??? it's my favorite start  DS2 doesn't have any real interconnectedness between its paths but they're all viable openings which I like because you can go grab what you want as soon as possible without just running past everything. DS3 being on rails early game was kind of a drag.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:32
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I like the plot of ds3, it's just hey here are some big guys who sucked up shitloads of souls (like the pope who ate too many kids) and theyr meant to toss themselves on the fire but none of them wanted to so now you (a jumbled amalgamation of the cremated remains of every player who quit before the end) gotta take their souls by force and rekindle the bonfire which is now protected by all the previous PCs who beat DS1 and gwyn. The meta nature of the plot was what attracted me to DS1 in the first place and it's continued in 3. All the bosses are just npcs who levelled up too hard because souls are exp in dark souls world, they linked the fire but that's not good enough anymore cause the fire keeps fading regardless so now they have to be thrown onto it too. The most nasty and hosed up little guy, Ludleth, is the only one who actually showed up to do his job when the call went out.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:34
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I was hoping they'd release ds2 on the switch because that was a great way to replay ds1 but it seems like if they were gonna do that they'd have done it by now. Too bad!
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Aug 1, 2023 15:40
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World War Mammories posted:ds1 has the distinction of having the best world design, by which I mean the extremely tight physical construction of lordran. things like firelink having an elevator up to the parish while also overlooking blighttown, the centipede demon sitting there plain as day visible from the pre-demon firesage stairs with all the capra demons if you know where to look, lost izalith’s dome on the left from the entrance to the demon ruins, the sudden realization that darkroot is the exact same location as the royal gardens in the dlc, etc. that it all fits together with extremely minimal trickery is a triumph This and DS1 has the best flow of all their games (at least up until you get the Lordvessel) because the lack of fast travel combined with all the harrowing encounters and excellent world design gives the whole experience a heroic feel. Bloodborne is a close second place because even with fast travel you still have incredibly tight world design that even reinforces a major theme of the game. But DS1 definitely has some secret sauce that From hasn't totally replicated yet.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:43
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:imagine playing an arpg instead of a soulslike I tried but I died too much to do anything 
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Aug 1, 2023 15:43
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Aldia Was Right.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:54
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I love that the stance themes are all the same, but speed up or slowed down depending on the stance you use. I tested this and the combat theme stays the same but the supporting instrument changes - swordsman has the koto, gunman/wild dancer have guitars, etc.
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Aug 1, 2023 16:50
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I could be wrong about this, but I feel like DS3 has the most instances of not doing something at the right time = missing out on an NPC's quests or a not getting an important merchant and other things like that. I think I might've dropped it halfway through my first playthrough because of something like that, but it's been quite a while.
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Aug 1, 2023 17:20
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Mayonetta, fat version of bayonetta
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Aug 1, 2023 17:27
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For whatever reason, Dark Souls 2 was the only Dark Souls I was able to get far into (not because of difficulty, but because I'd lose interest).
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Aug 1, 2023 17:31
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This drops August 8th with the next update. https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1686377180174196737?t=_aqbm2b_afglqRXizLEkRg&s=19
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Aug 1, 2023 17:33
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Ytlaya posted:For whatever reason, Dark Souls 2 was the only Dark Souls I was able to get far into (not because of difficulty, but because I'd lose interest). doesn't surprise me, it's the best one
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Aug 1, 2023 17:34
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Objectively correct.
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Aug 1, 2023 17:35
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Cuttlefush posted:but that one makes less sense... nah ds2s story is pretty obviously about the dangers of consorting with women
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Aug 1, 2023 17:42
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a goon in ishin spontaneously grew a mustache upon combat starting, definitely ranking high on my list of favorite video game glitches
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Aug 1, 2023 17:45
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Xaris posted:it's 1995 and i'm sneaking out to play my playstation at 1am on a school night to avoid my bitch parents telling me im playing too many games and need to become responsible its 2055 and i'm sneaking out to play my plastation 9 at 1am on a colonoscopy night to avoid my bitch kid telling me im playing too many games and need to become responsible
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Aug 1, 2023 18:01
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john elden
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Aug 1, 2023 18:03
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ds2 is the best because it has the redhead lady saying bearer of the curse
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