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Optionally killing the King unlocks a surprising amount of things
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Including the best ultra greatsword
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May 9, 2024 22:25
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Simply Simon posted:Optionally killing the King unlocks a surprising amount of things On one hand, he's just sort of wandering in circles minding his own business in his tomb. On the other, he's got stuff to take.
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May 9, 2024 22:31
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I think he would appreciate getting put out of his misery.
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May 9, 2024 22:33
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Just don’t think about how he’s undead and probably respawns after a while anyway.
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May 9, 2024 22:34
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The DS lore about being undead quickly went out the window imo. Why do undead creatures link the fire and not living things? Does humanity cheerfully live on after DS3's ending, unaware of what's happening in the not-afterlife?
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May 9, 2024 22:41
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The world ended after ds3. That was the apocalypse.
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May 9, 2024 22:42
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All the 3 endings are so half baked nothings. besides letting the fire keeper snuff the fire out and hope that something new will come. Like oh good I’m the king of a bunch of dead losers. This isn’t fixing anything.
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May 9, 2024 22:49
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Linking the fire: the world reboots. The undead are gone for a while. New kingdoms rise. It’s not going to last. Look at Gwyn’s arena, the whole area is burnt, everyting in the Kiln of the first flame is melted and covered in ash. When you link the flame, the fire is big, but nothing like Gwyn’s. By DS3, you can barely set yourself on fire by linking the flame. The undead is going to come back in a couple of months. Bad idea. Walking away: another kind if reboot. The gods have less power, and the descants of Manus/the Furtive pygmy/humans have more. Eventually the fire comes back and so will the undead. Siding with Yuria: the first flame and undead curse is usurped by the Londor gang. Humans will go undead, but stay sane while hollowing. You get to be the Final boss when someone finally tires of all this.
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May 10, 2024 05:33
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Honestly I don't even get how people understand all of this. The Dark souls games have been very consistent 'what the hell is going on, why is my dude setting himself on fire, who told him how to do that?' since the very get-go. That the fandom somehow managed to extract something, anything, from scouring lore snippes hidden in firebomb and crossbow descriptions is beyond me.
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May 10, 2024 05:48
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Just listen to Aldia-sensei.
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May 10, 2024 06:02
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Serephina posted:Honestly I don't even get how people understand all of this. The Dark souls games have been very consistent 'what the hell is going on, why is my dude setting himself on fire, who told him how to do that?' since the very get-go. That the fandom somehow managed to extract something, anything, from scouring lore snippes hidden in firebomb and crossbow descriptions is beyond me. I always liked the honesty of DS2's intro here. "One day you will stand before its decrepit gate without really knowing why."
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May 10, 2024 06:06
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Serephina posted:The DS lore about being undead quickly went out the window imo. Why do undead creatures link the fire and not living things? Does humanity cheerfully live on after DS3's ending, unaware of what's happening in the not-afterlife? The undead are humanity though? There is no afterlife as we know it.
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May 10, 2024 06:31
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I'm okay with DS2's endings. They're both decently open ended. Maybe with the power of kings and knowing where they went wrong, you'll be able to fix things with the Throne. And maybe with the wisdom that you can't, when you walk away, you can find something else. Maybe not an ending for everyone, but an ending for you.
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May 10, 2024 07:13
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A LIE WILL REMAIN A LIE 
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:I’m the king of a bunch of dead losers Dark Souls II - I’m the king of a bunch of dead losers
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May 10, 2024 09:03
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Serephina posted:Honestly I don't even get how people understand all of this. The Dark souls games have been very consistent 'what the hell is going on, why is my dude setting himself on fire, who told him how to do that?' since the very get-go. That the fandom somehow managed to extract something, anything, from scouring lore snippes hidden in firebomb and crossbow descriptions is beyond me. The intentional vagueness of it all encourages the community to discuss the lore and come up with theories. Someone in the Elden Ring thread suggested reading every item description you get. It works well here and gives some ideas of what's going on. Mustached Demon fucked around with this message at 14:03 on May 10, 2024 |
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May 10, 2024 14:00
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Not sure what the big kerfuffle is about DS2 lore when you can simply watch Happy Souls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kr7KDCsIws And well, if you need more context, Dark Souls: In Summary explains everything DS1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9x_koRZ2bA
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May 10, 2024 14:07
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Serephina posted:Honestly I don't even get how people understand all of this. The Dark souls games have been very consistent 'what the hell is going on, why is my dude setting himself on fire, who told him how to do that?' since the very get-go. That the fandom somehow managed to extract something, anything, from scouring lore snippes hidden in firebomb and crossbow descriptions is beyond me. DS1's main plot is actually pretty straightforward, though. Your questions have easy answers compared to the more convoluted bullshit.
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May 10, 2024 18:29
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Hell yeah ds3 50% off this weekend.
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May 10, 2024 18:53
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Mustached Demon posted:Hell yeah ds3 50% off this weekend. Hell yeah fresh meat to invade this weekend.
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May 10, 2024 18:58
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giZm posted:Hell yeah fresh meat to invade this weekend. I'm still finishing up DS2 but I'm sure others will be around. Please don't invade me I'm bad at PVP. I'm like 1-5 in 2. 0-fer in DS1.
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May 10, 2024 19:05
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Mustached Demon posted:I'm still finishing up DS2 but I'm sure others will be around. If you're going to buy DS3 make sure to grab the deluxe edition, includes both DLCs.
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May 10, 2024 19:32
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giZm posted:Oh no worries, I'm making a fresh character for a Dried Finger run. Also on sale for 50% off.
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May 10, 2024 19:39
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Hell yeah you run into that spiked wall, iron warrior. Some nasty rear end rooms in the iron king dlc this is fun.
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Mustached Demon posted:Hell yeah you run into that spiked wall, iron warrior. Some nasty rear end rooms in the iron king dlc this is fun.
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Simply Simon posted:The DLC is loving phenomenal, best poo poo in the game, except for the Iron Passage. Don't force yourself to do that right here right now or in fact ever, it's a great way to ruin an entire play session. It is rear end. Piss! Skipping Iron Passage on a powerstance/STR build would be absolute heresy.
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May 11, 2024 19:58
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Simply Simon posted:The DLC is loving phenomenal, best poo poo in the game, except for the Iron Passage. Don't force yourself to do that right here right now or in fact ever, it's a great way to ruin an entire play session. It is rear end. Piss! I will overcome all challenges before me through cheese and grit.
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May 11, 2024 22:54
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I don't know if you've already done this, but you need to either be playing offline, or install Blue Acolyte/Sentinel. There is a guy regularly invading peoples games at all soul memories, immediately killing himself, and injecting your client with a hundred +15 bleed daggers instead of the human effigy you normally get when you win against an invader. These illegal items cause your game to crash each time you access your inventory and the only way to get rid of them is with cheat engine. This is just on PC of course, if you're on a console you're fine.
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Node posted:I don't know if you've already done this, but you need to either be playing offline, or install Blue Acolyte/Sentinel. There is a guy regularly invading peoples games at all soul memories, immediately killing himself, and injecting your client with a hundred +15 bleed daggers instead of the human effigy you normally get when you win against an invader. These illegal items cause your game to crash each time you access your inventory and the only way to get rid of them is with cheat engine. But you're good if you're a blue bro? Guess I'll do that when not in the CoC instead of no bro.
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Mustached Demon posted:I will overcome all challenges before me through cheese and grit.
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I've heard a lot about FromSoftware and want to give their games a try. I was thinking of either doing Dark Souls Remastered or Elden Ring. Just curious what you guys think would be a better game for a From newbie. Don't know if it matters, but I won't be able to play online since I'll be playing via Wine on a Mac (people online seem to say both games run well this way except for not being online).
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Start with dark souls 1 I think. It’ll be hard to go back once you’re used to more recent games.
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drainpipe posted:I've heard a lot about FromSoftware and want to give their games a try. I was thinking of either doing Dark Souls Remastered or Elden Ring. Just curious what you guys think would be a better game for a From newbie. Gonna be the hot take and say to start with thread favorite DS2, cause then you can either go from there to DS1 and enjoy DS2 with slightly faster/cleaner mechanics, or go to Elden Ring and enjoy DS2 But Fully Fleshed Out. 2 isn't bad, but they did a lot of changes (from 1 to it, and (several being changebacks to 1's style) from it to 3) that make it feel a bit awkward to go to from any of the other games.
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Fired up DS2 after probably a year. No idea what I'd been up to - I was camped at the Dragon Shrine decked in item discovery buffed gear. Pulled out the tumour mace and shield and dicked around to try and find out where I was up to. Jumped around the fires to get my bearings. Hey, what's through this fog gate? Fume Knight. Goddammit.
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drainpipe posted:I've heard a lot about FromSoftware and want to give their games a try. I was thinking of either doing Dark Souls Remastered or Elden Ring. Just curious what you guys think would be a better game for a From newbie. You probably know this, but I think it worth underscoring that though both these games are Souls-games, and both are very clearly by the same company, they do actually feel quite different in terms of gameplay flow/loop. ER is open world, you spend a lot of time running around pretty world spaces just exploring. If you run into a significant challenge you can just gently caress off into the other direction, spend hours exploring other parts, and come back significantly powered-up ready to blow through your earlier problem. DkS is much more linear and focused, I'd say it's overall easier than ER (barring some jank and obscure mechanics) but when you run into a roadblock, your exploration is limited to one of two other corridors, each with their own roadblock. Some people are allergic to open worlds, if you are one of those ER is obviously not going to click for you. On the other hand DkS is rather infamous for making people bounce off of it the first time they try it, often requiring a second go at it before clicking. I've never heard the second thing from people who tried ER, as long as they didn't dislike open world games from the start. Probably because of how it allows you so much more freedom into trying someplace else. Whichever format you thinks works best for you. Or just pick whichever you think looks cooler because honestly both games are pretty great. Autsj fucked around with this message at 05:48 on May 12, 2024 |
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drainpipe posted:I've heard a lot about FromSoftware and want to give their games a try. I was thinking of either doing Dark Souls Remastered or Elden Ring. Just curious what you guys think would be a better game for a From newbie. I started with Elden Ring then decided to go back and do the DS series in order. Elden Ring is a bit nicer on easing into the game compared to DS1. DS1's actually easier, overall, though once you get rolling. DS1 is short too so that's nice. One thing about this journey I've learned: you get better and it's amazing when you one-shot bosses. I've been steamrolling DS2 since the combat pace started clicking. Honestly, base your choice on this (single run through): DS1: ~30hr long Elden Ring: 80-120 depending on how much you wanna clear If you're cool with it being long, ER is best.
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Ok yeah I see what you mean about iron passage. I think. Rooms are awful poo poo storms then you get an hp sponge to smack after all your resources are depleted. Boss feels like it has some delay wind-up too. Roll catch is strong with the blue demon.
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Iron passage ain’t poo poo
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It's a bit overtuned, but it's pretty sprintable and it's short. Horsefuck Valley now...
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