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Mustached Demon posted:Resurrecting this thread to say I defeated Gwyn. Nice work, skeleton!
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Mustached Demon posted:Resurrecting this thread to say I defeated Gwyn. He's a definite jump up in difficulty with how fast and aggressive he is. Tried to dance around a stalagmite with him, got him down to "Gwyn," then died because I mistimed a grab. as someone else who was new to dark souls, you owe it to yourself to play the DLC. if you enjoyed fighting gwyn, artorias is next-level.
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Mar 16, 2024 23:10
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I didn’t beat the dlc until years after on a second run but it’s absolutely worth it whenever you get to it.
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Mar 16, 2024 23:11
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I started a new character. Gonna do a dex run with pyromancy. Probably gonna wear big rear end armor too because clunking around owns.
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Mar 17, 2024 00:51
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Somebody should maybe change the thread title. Sure, we can all return to Lordran any time we like, but the capital R Return to Lordran 2024 event has been over for a minute.
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Mar 17, 2024 00:57
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Playing Dark Souls 2, and I am at Heide's Tower of Flame. I get invaded. This mages comes up to me, drop multiple weapons, all +10 or +5. Drops this Mad Warrior's Set, also all +5. They bow and walk off a cliff. Somehow, I am more scared of this than if they attacked me.
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Mar 17, 2024 04:13
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Arivia posted:as someone else who was new to dark souls, you owe it to yourself to play the DLC. if you enjoyed fighting gwyn, artorias is next-level. Artorias is such a good fight that every subsequent game in the series has multiple bosses that reference his moveset.
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Mar 17, 2024 07:51
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Everyone keeps saying that, and I honestly have no memory of Artorias' moveset, or anything of note about him, at all. I just held up a big shield and then hit him when he stopped moving, as per every other boss. Dark souls might be amazing in certain ways, but its persistence of allowing a variety of playstyles really lets people cheat themselves out of a lot of fun. I'm almost completely finished DS3 currently and I've inadvertently veto'd half of the bosses, from using scripted NPC fights, OP weapons, white phantoms, etc. That last one is on me, but the others really weren't. As a contrast, Sekiro was great in that there's no way you're getting past a given boss without actually engaging with it.
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Mar 17, 2024 12:09
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There's a neat bit of moveset consistency going on between Artorias, Ornstein and Gwyn. They all have a gap closer attack where they rise up into the air, the rocket down towards you. It's often the first thing you see Gwyn do. It's basically the Anor Londo signature move. I bet it has applications in dragon slaying or something.
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Mar 17, 2024 12:30
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Found the balder knight straight sword so guess I'm using that. Which is cool because the early black knights hate me and never drop weapons.
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Mustached Demon posted:Found the balder knight straight sword so guess I'm using that. Which is cool because the early black knights hate me and never drop weapons. Isn’t it nice when a dex build comes together just like that?
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Mar 18, 2024 02:21
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Mustached Demon posted:Found the balder knight straight sword so guess I'm using that. Which is cool because the early black knights hate me and never drop weapons. Be careful, it's cursed. Its range, scaling, and moveset are impossible to relinquish. It's the synthesis of minmax and intuitive play. Seriously though, it's also great for desperate pvp moments. Backup and slash to gently caress backstabbers, skewer to punish, with optional double (kinda tracking) skewer. You can enchant it and use it with a shield!
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BRJurgis posted:Be careful, it's cursed. Weakness: it's not a club so I'll at least switch out to bash things that need a bashin'.
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I really want to like the silver knight set but I just can't get over the welcome mat it has draped over the back.
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Cape physics are difficult ok? That's why you trim the Balder armour down when you pick it up.
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Serephina posted:Everyone keeps saying that, and I honestly have no memory of Artorias' moveset, or anything of note about him, at all. I just held up a big shield and then hit him when he stopped moving, as per every other boss. Im not a big fan of DS3 but I will say that of the original 3 it definitely has some if my favorite boss fights.
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Serephina posted:Everyone keeps saying that, and I honestly have no memory of Artorias' moveset, or anything of note about him, at all. I just held up a big shield and then hit him when he stopped moving, as per every other boss. I do think using coop/suommons does make the game too easy but I think it's a great option for new players. I usually never use them in first runs because for me it ruins the experience but it's great that it's there for those that need it. It's no surprise Sekiro is the game that had the most discussion about easy mode + accessibility in a From game. As for the person playing the game for the first time, yes please play the dlc. Fromsoft's DLC are almost always their best content. I know everyone brings up Artorias but Manus is another top tier fight in the series that often gets forgotten about due to the quantity of amazing bosses. Just because Artorias also has that emotional story with Sif, people always remember that fight more.
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Mar 25, 2024 15:12
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Kalameet is a great fight too.
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Yes probably the best Dragon fight in the series.
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I felt bad, like why am I fighting this dragon? It was the final freaking thing at the end of a long game, and this dragon is just, like, doing its own thing in the woods. It didn't even breathe fire at me, just a jumpscare at the bridge! So I got a giant to shoot it in passing, and tracked it down to the rear end-end of nowhere where it wasn't even guarding anything. So yea, after he kicked my rear end a few times I felt maybe he'd earnt his retirement, cough cough. But more seriously, a few fights are like that. Like the Andariel bosses, both OG and ds3 dlc. Why am I fighting this person again, all they want is to be left alone and its not as if I need to harvest their soul to save the world or anything. I don't need this level of nihilism in my power fantasy video games!
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If we had let the dragons just do their own thing this would still be a land of grey crags and archtrees.
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Dyz posted:If we had let the dragons just do their own thing this would still be a land of grey crags and archtrees. Idk the fire showed up by itself. Gwynn and the others then decided to go kill all the dragons and take over.
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Dyz posted:If we had let the dragons just do their own thing this would still be a land of grey crags and archtrees. I'm guessing the dragons were being assholes to gywn.
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Serephina posted:I felt bad, like why am I fighting this dragon? It was the final freaking thing at the end of a long game, and this dragon is just, like, doing its own thing in the woods. It didn't even breathe fire at me, just a jumpscare at the bridge! So I got a giant to shoot it in passing, and tracked it down to the rear end-end of nowhere where it wasn't even guarding anything. So yea, after he kicked my rear end a few times I felt maybe he'd earnt his retirement, cough cough. Murderhobo energy propels me to kill everything past a fog door.
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Serephina posted:As a contrast, Sekiro was great in that there's no way you're getting past a given boss without actually engaging with it. I played sekiro on PC and for most of the bosses I found it enjoyable, but I had to resort to a cheat engine for the big purple ape because his behaviour was just way too unpredictable and erratic, and I still get angry thinking about him. just the polar opposite of the prince(?) on top of the castle, which was incredibly satisfying and also all about rhythm and patterns that you could master. gently caress that possessed ape
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ulvir posted:I played sekiro on PC and for most of the bosses I found it enjoyable, but I had to resort to a cheat engine for the big purple ape because his behaviour was just way too unpredictable and erratic, and I still get angry thinking about him. just the polar opposite of the prince(?) on top of the castle, which was incredibly satisfying and also all about rhythm and patterns that you could master. gently caress that possessed ape Weirdly, I found possessed ape way, way easier than the first form. Actually he and the guy atop the tower were two of the only bosses in Souls history where I found the second phase way easier than the first.
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Serephina posted:But more seriously, a few fights are like that. Like the Andariel bosses, both OG and ds3 dlc. Why am I fighting this person again, all they want is to be left alone and its not as if I need to harvest their soul to save the world or anything. I don't need this level of nihilism in my power fantasy video games! You fight Manus because you did in ancient history. The abyss would have spread further if you didn’t. Dusks presence in the current timeline is proof. You didn’t really have a choice. You fight Father Ariandel and Sister Friede because they refuse to let go and let their world burn so it can be reborn by the Painter. The crows are rotting and miserable and are hollowing. You fight Gael so the painted world can be painted with soul pigment from every goddamn person in the pygmy-human line. You fight Priscilla because you decide to be a dick 
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I fight her because she's a big fat liar who thinks the inhabitants of the Painted World are nice. Lady, you got a basement full of bonewheels.
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I love sir vilhelm and I think he has such an outsized impact on my appreciation of these games because he points out precisely why I thr player am loving around in this world. Like maybe his and his master's goals and methods are basically bad too, and so he's a being a little of a hypocrite, but he's right about me!quote:I've seen your kind, time and time again. Of course, the player wouldn't even be in the painted world if I hadn't gotten sucked in by Gael, and he presumably wouldn't be sending me there if Friede hadn't taken over and put the little painting girl under house arrest or whatever. SHISHKABOB fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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I put ds2 and 3 on my steam list. Hopefully they hit the summer sale or something.
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They go on sale more often than not, I'm sure some site will have an Easter Sale soon and mark stuff down.
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if you're not using it yet, isthereanydeal is a good website for finding sales on steam key resellers as well (you can tell it which websites you're comfortable buying from if you find something too shady, and it can import your steam wishlist.)
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Mustached Demon posted:I put ds2 and 3 on my steam list. Hopefully they hit the summer sale or something. Be sure to get the Scholar of the First Sin edition of DS2. The vanilla version has no online play anymore.
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axolotl farmer posted:The crows are rotting and miserable and are hollowing. And pooping, don't forget the poop tails
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axolotl farmer posted:Be sure to get the Scholar of the First Sin edition of DS2. The vanilla version has no online play anymore. Yeah I planned on making sure all the dlc/correct editions are the ones on sale. Thanks!!
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It's probably about time I got around to DS3 after playing Sekiro and all the other souls games available on PC, I keep clicking by it in my steam library and saying "...maybe next week" for more weeks than I can remember now. It's almost Easter though so I do also want to get around to making a Jesus character build in DS1 and turn Dark Souls into Light Souls. I assume they eventually fixed up that vulnerability that allowed invaders to literally take control of your PC from a couple years ago? I can't believe it's been that long since I played any of these games.
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Can y'all recommend some good blind LPs on youtube?
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Blind, you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwypOnQ9nDw axolotl farmer fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Apr 10, 2024 |
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Finnish Flasher posted:Can y'all recommend some good blind LPs on youtube? Geop did a blind LP, haven't seen it myself but gotta plug SA first  https://lparchive.org/Dark-Souls/
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Geop's LP got me into dark souls but 75% because HE NEVER LOOKED AT THE drat SCENERY
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