Dark Souls

iamanengine · 24-06-2013 3:14pm

I felt that the initial start was almost the hardest part of the game. Once I got through Undead Paris I was flying it!

Haven't had much time to play lately, just cleared New Londo this morning though which I found easy.

My Balder Side sword is at +11 and my God, it is destroying!

Mickeroo · 24-06-2013 3:18pm

Once you get the weapon's upgraded the difficulty really falls away, the first part of the game was definitely the hardest imo.

I'm as far as Anor londo in NG+ already, got fed up at the bit on the ramparts with the dragonslayer archers, each time their arrow hits my shield I fall off. It's doubley frustrating as it gave me no trouble first time around :mad:

shadowcomplex · 24-06-2013 6:02pm

Is the game better with the meelee or magic characters

iamanengine · 24-06-2013 6:05pm

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Is the game better with the meelee or magic characters

I far prefer melee in the game.

tuxy · 24-06-2013 7:28pm

For PVE magic seems a bit better especially for boss battles but melee is probably more fun. Either way the game is fairly challenging

Kylo Ren · 24-06-2013 7:57pm

A guy joined my game and killed me...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 24-06-2013 7:59pm

Keno 92 wrote: »

A guy joined my game and killed me...

get used to that

Kylo Ren · 24-06-2013 8:04pm

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

get used to that

I saw a message on the floor asking to invite someone. Was that how he got in?

Can people join without an invite?

Wooden Jesus · 24-06-2013 8:05pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

I'm as far as Anor londo in NG+ already, got fed up at the bit on the ramparts with the dragonslayer archers, each time their arrow hits my shield I fall off. It's doubley frustrating as it gave me no trouble first time around :mad:

That was only part of the game so far that made me rage quit

Mickeroo · 24-06-2013 8:15pm

Keno 92 wrote: »

I saw a message on the floor asking to invite someone. Was that how he got in?

Can people join without an invite?

The white summon signs are for people who will help you fight the boss and that, you can invade players games using cracked red eye orbs (or other items you can receive through covenants). I just stay hollow most if the time to avoid getting invaded tbh.

Wooden Jesus · 24-06-2013 9:00pm

Keno 92 wrote: »

A guy joined my game and killed me...

If you do get invaded try find a white summon sign and invite someone in,run away and let them fight your battle

iamanengine · 24-06-2013 9:38pm

The 4 Kings are painful.

Mickeroo · 24-06-2013 10:11pm

iamanengine wrote: »

The 4 Kings are painful.

Get in as close as possible, keep strafing and they can't hit you.

iamanengine · 24-06-2013 10:31pm

Managed to get them on my 4th attempt, just. The actual boss in the end I found alright, it was the damn walk to get there, annoyed me no end!

ProjectColossus · 24-06-2013 10:34pm

Anyone else having problems signing in to GFWL as of a day or two ago? My other GFWL games are affected too it seems.

Been playing on and off since Christmas, and I beat Bed of Chaos just the other day. Feel like I was finally getting to the end of the game, now can't even launch it

Windows 8...

Kylo Ren · 24-06-2013 11:22pm

I killed the second boss! Woot

I then found myself by a dragon so I made my down to go past him. I went up these windy stairs only to find a guy as big as a tree that resembled bloody Sauron from LOTR. Dead.

2Mad2BeMad · 24-06-2013 11:46pm

Keno 92 wrote: »

I killed the second boss! Woot

I then found myself by a dragon so I made my down to go past him. I went up these windy stairs only to find a guy as big as a tree that resembled bloody Sauron from LOTR. Dead.

that would be a black knight

ProjectColossus · 25-06-2013 12:50am

ProjectColossus wrote: »

Anyone else having problems signing in to GFWL as of a day or two ago? My other GFWL games are affected too it seems.

Been playing on and off since Christmas, and I beat Bed of Chaos just the other day. Feel like I was finally getting to the end of the game, now can't even launch it

Windows 8...

On the off chance that anyone with the same problem sees this, restoring Windows to a restore point a few days ago fixed resolved the issue. My suspicion would be that one of the recent windows updates caused the problem, not sure though.

Currently stomping around in the tomb of the giants. My character is overpowered though, as it's not very difficult

Mickeroo · 25-06-2013 2:45am

iamanengine wrote: »

Managed to get them on my 4th attempt, just. The actual boss in the end I found alright, it was the damn walk to get there, annoyed me no end!

Yeah, thats the one place where the game crosses the line from challenging into tedious for me. The bosses are hard enough without having to play through half the level again to get to them everytime you die.

Kylo Ren · 25-06-2013 6:58pm

The Drake sword is mine.....muahahahahahahahahahahahahah.

iamanengine · 25-06-2013 7:00pm

Keno 92 wrote: »

The Drake sword is mine.....muahahahahahahahahahahahahah.

That's the easy way out :P Don't give in!!

Kylo Ren · 25-06-2013 8:03pm

iamanengine wrote: »

That's the easy way out :P Don't give in!!

Pffffffffff. I need all the help I can get.

Mickeroo · 25-06-2013 8:19pm

Keno 92 wrote: »

Pffffffffff. I need all the help I can get.

Yeah it's a godsend early on! Most of the other weapons overtake it pretty quickly when you start upgrading them though.

Harps · 26-06-2013 12:07am

Gonna get back into this again tomorrow I hope, gave it a brief shot a few months ago (reached the depths) but wanted to get Mass Effect 3 finished first so now thats out of the way I'm free to spend all summer on Dark Souls. Good to see there's still a few first timers here to share the experience with

YouSavedMyLife · 26-06-2013 12:15am

Will this thread ever die? Dark Souls 2 will be released and this thread will still be going strong.

Mickeroo · 26-06-2013 12:23am

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Will this thread ever die? Dark Souls 2 will be released and this thread will still be going strong.

The thread won't die but we will. Constantly. The irony of it all!!

iamanengine · 26-06-2013 12:42am

God dammit Solaire!! Only the good die young

The Balder Side Sword +15 is insanely good, it isn't even close to being matched by my +5 Lightning Uchigitana!

GK1001 · 26-06-2013 12:59pm

Started this a few months back and got 2hrs or so into it and was going pretty smooth. Ran into a black knight, can't remember place exactly but I went into a graveyard sort of area and then up the side of a cliff to the right and on a bit. Black knight killed me a few times and I logged off...it was about 2am and I had work in the morning.

The next day some new DLC and UVHM came out for Borderlands and Dark Souls took a back seat for a while.

Threw it on again last night and I spent an hour getting used to the controls again and the black knight continually kicking my @ss. Total noob Q but what's the best way to kill this dude...I've been pretty gung-ho so far and still rusty on the combat controls, probably need to take my time a bit more.

Bad thing is though BL2 has just released more DLC ysterday:rolleyes:

Gonna give Dark Souls a proper go now though

iamanengine · 26-06-2013 1:13pm

GK1001 wrote: »

Started this a few months back and got 2hrs or so into it and was going pretty smooth. Ran into a black knight, can't remember place exactly but I went into a graveyard sort of area and then up the side of a cliff to the right and on a bit. Black knight killed me a few times and I logged off...it was about 2am and I had work in the morning.

The next day some new DLC and UVHM came out for Borderlands and Dark Souls took a back seat for a while.

Threw it on again last night and I spent an hour getting used to the controls again and the black knight continually kicking my @ss. Total noob Q but what's the best way to kill this dude...I've been pretty gung-ho so far and still rusty on the combat controls, probably need to take my time a bit more.

Bad thing is though BL2 has just released more DLC ysterday:rolleyes:

Gonna give Dark Souls a proper go now though

My advice would be to avoid him at all costs until you level up a fair bit. They are very tough early on in the game.

If that's the Knight up the tower in Undead Parish just leave him be, think there is one in Undead Burg to but again, he can be ignored!

Mickeroo · 26-06-2013 1:16pm

iamanengine wrote: »

My advice would be to avoid him at all costs until you level up a fair bit. They are very tough early on in the game.

If that's the Knight up the tower in Undead Parish just leave him be, think there is one in Undead Burg to but again, he can be ignored!

Actually if it's the one up the tower.....once you have the area where the Fang-Boar was clear of undead lure the knight out of the tower. Make sure he's following you, then run up to the fire that's burning on the left. Keep the fire between you and him and he'll kill himself in the flames trying to get to you. It's cheap but it works

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