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Dark Souls 4

absolutely

i don't even care if half of it is just recycled dark souls, GIVE IT TO ME

fuck yeah

i loved dark souls, but i could not get into DS2 or DS3, i liked the look of bloodborne but it was console only

ds3 was fantastic because it incorporated like 25% of bloodborne's speed boost. ds2 was awful

sekiro is amazing for different reasons but also i still haven't actually beaten it. i got hung up on the owl and never had the patience to work that one out

yes

Meh

ever play any of the dark souls games vahmparino?

the first dark souls is one of the best games i've ever played. it's very old school. the game basically says "here's a sword, good luck" and that's it, no stupid waypoints or quest lists, no hand holding whatsoever.

ds1 really is one of the greatest games of all time

zim wrote: ↑

28 Nov 2021, 12:03

ever play any of the dark souls games vahmparino?

the first dark souls is one of the best games i've ever played. it's very old school. the game basically says "here's a sword, good luck" and that's it, no stupid waypoints or quest lists, no hand holding whatsoever.

Ok that sounds interesting.

I really dislike most modern games. It's all catered to todays culture where it all feels like an entire tutorial.

I do like this new game that was just released called Exo One.

dark souls is decidedly modern in some ways, in that it employs the typical RPG mechanical hooks to suck you in

but it very deliberately eschews all the handholding aspects of actually teaching you combat or exploration or really anything actually important

it's amazing

"wow this feels slow and kinda disjointed and i feel like the game isn't respecting my decisions... i respect that they wanted to do something different here but i'm not sure this is for me" nah son, GIT FUCKING GUD. you'll feel better for having done so when you finally emerge victorious

is this some fucking gay hobbit thing

yeah dark souls one was awesome

i tried to play dark souls three but it was kind of buggy and annoying on the PC, i never got out of the first area

IT'S NEARLY TIME

or it already is if you're playing on a platform that lets you do the NZ timezone scam

I hear the PC version is currently messed up and there's a 60 fps cap.

it unlocks at 6pm for stormy and zim

i hope my pc runs it alright, i meet recommended requirements but eh

jawn galliano wrote: ↑

24 Feb 2022, 20:48

IT'S NEARLY TIME

or it already is if you're playing on a platform that lets you do the NZ timezone scam

what class you going to roll stormicus

zim wrote: ↑

24 Feb 2022, 23:54

jawn galliano wrote: ↑

24 Feb 2022, 20:48

IT'S NEARLY TIME

or it already is if you're playing on a platform that lets you do the NZ timezone scam

what class you going to roll stormicus

thinking about going confessor, but the more likely final choice will be generic melee build #500 whatchu doing?

jawn galliano wrote: ↑

25 Feb 2022, 01:06

zim wrote: ↑

24 Feb 2022, 23:54

jawn galliano wrote: ↑

24 Feb 2022, 20:48

IT'S NEARLY TIME

or it already is if you're playing on a platform that lets you do the NZ timezone scam

what class you going to roll stormicus

generic melee build #500 whatchu doing?

literally this

i always go with a basic sword and board build for my first playthrough

ye

this game is fucking amazing. spent close to 9 hours in co-op with a fellating lover today, only just pried myself away like 15 minutes ago

i have a couple characters but 90% of my playtime has gone into samurai. early game is fucking fruital since you have to rely on a target shield, this game does not fuck around. eventually found a heater and hit my stride but i was struggling before that.

I started as samurai but then rerolled to prisoner and it's got a really effective starting spell.

Confessor here. Haven't spent much time on it yet. Got owned by the mangled old codger at the castle gates a few times and then went exploring to get some levels in.

ive always loved the souls games but when i play them had alot of hard times and dropped off instantly.

this is clicking with me more, i can pick my fight, level up, im am really enjoying this one.

bloodhound fang is stupidly good

im a wizard !

i haven't played as much as i thought i would but i'm about 20 hours in with a vagabond using the lordsworn's greatsword. the game is great so far, the open world exploration works really well with the dark souls game play. i'm really enjoying just exploring and finding weird shit.

the cynic in me doesn't like the asset reuse but it's perfectly fine, i wish they had gone full bloodborne style and not reused any weapons/references from dark souls but again it's totally fine. other than that i don't have anything negative to say about it.

i figure it probably had to be a production/budget constraint. all new assets would've drastically increased the cost to make the game and probably delay the release schedule by an amount they weren't willing to stomach. i def agree it would've been nice to see everything fresh, but i can live with some recycling. what i've seen of the game so far is truly exceptional

now i want to play it

but that would involve quitting one of my jobs

it is exceptional, quit

Been trying to kill Godrick last night. Will attempt again later after work. I still need to get familiar with his attacks which are quite easy to evade sometimes.

shadowalk wrote: ↑

07 Mar 2022, 20:01

Been trying to kill Godrick last night. Will attempt again later after work. I still need to get familiar with his attacks which are quite easy to evade sometimes.

i used the npc and wolves summon on godrick like a scrub, they both died before the second phase but it helped me rush the first phase i hate his second phase, those flame attacks suuuuuck

i imagine godrick is probably a lot more manageable in a solo fight if you're a caster. it is a tough melee fight. i did it co-op and it's a lot less stressful when you can bounce hate back and forth. not a ton of openings otherwise.

I find Godrick's attack pattern to be more manageable as a melee player. Staying far away from him will only make him use his ranged attacks.

I hate his fire attacks on the second phase. Or I'll probably need to level up more. I'm currently level 41 and I'm slowly starting to realise that I have less mind and endurance points than I should have for my build.

yeah high END can make the fight a bit more manageable, if you have a 100% phys reduction shield you can tank most of his combos with enough stamina. i believe there's one string in phase 2 however that is a guaranteed death if you block the first hit (maybe there's enough time to roll out between hits? never tried but i think you're in blockstun the whole time), it guardbreaks and the final hit does a fuckload of damage. i guess if you've gone really hog wild on exploration and doing stuff out of sequence you might be able to get enough mitigation to not die

i'm like SL66-67 and i've put a bunch of points into int/mnd/arc just for expanded weapon access and a few utility incantations, haven't touched mnd though. other than that i think i'm 20vit/20end/24str/24dex

godrick was tough but i actually thought he was easier than margit. margit took me like 10 tries and the jelly fish poison came in clutch

Margit was a breeze with the summoned wolves and I just teared away from him using glinstone pebble.

Took down Rennala tonight, fuck yes.

well done phase 2 arena for rennala was cool as fuck

Not there yet but yes I'm currently in Lunaria. Took a bit of a detour and had to down the Magma Wyrm in the Gael Tunnels first to get the Moonveil Katana which is essential to my build.

While the game isn't for me, it has some of the coolest bosses ever. THIS one, in particular, is the stuff of nightmares and metal as fuck.

Spoiler-tagging just in case.

Spoiler: [+]

playing pretty slow, just finished raya lucaria / renalla. really cool fight, first phase felt like a callback to demons souls fool's idol. liked this zone a lot

most of my time has been spent exploring, really enjoying the constant surprises. also loving all the memes

ive hit up radahn but i feel a bit lost now, he feels out of reach but not really finding much in terms of dungeons to do in the lake section, the city outskirts and the atlas plateu are rough as shit

deckard wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2022, 03:35

ive hit up radahn but i feel a bit lost now, he feels out of reach but not really finding much in terms of dungeons to do in the lake section, the city outskirts and the atlas plateu are rough as shit

have you made it into the raya lucaria academy?

i spent like 6 or 7 hours the other night doing the quest line for ranni the witch. had to look up a few things cause i got absolutely stuck. had to do radahn as part of that. i got him in two or three tries, i summoned everyone i could though so it felt cheesy.

i made it to the capital yesterday and god damn everything leading up to that and what little bit i've explored has been hard as fuck

zim wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2022, 04:46

deckard wrote: ↑

19 Mar 2022, 03:35

ive hit up radahn but i feel a bit lost now, he feels out of reach but not really finding much in terms of dungeons to do in the lake section, the city outskirts and the atlas plateu are rough as shit

have you made it into the raya lucaria academy?

i spent like 6 or 7 hours the other night doing the quest line for ranni the witch. had to look up a few things cause i got absolutely stuck. had to do radahn as part of that. i got him in two or three tries, i summoned everyone i could though so it felt cheesy.

i made it to the capital yesterday and god damn everything leading up to that and what little bit i've explored has been hard as fuck

yeah ive done the academy and the boss, i had some issues with ranni's quest and now im on track but it pointed me directly at radahn.

ranni was bugged for me, she didn't show up at all until after i beat radhan

i got stuck on him for a while so i did a bunch of exploring, wound up clearing out most of the capital which netted me the somber stone i was missing to clear the path for upgrading the fang to +9. i stomped radhan pretty badly when i returned, got a stance break just before phase change and then a bleed proc, he touched down with like 20% HP remaining