"Fun house" my ass, this is the most tedious to explore

>>376194770
i sorta agree, though desu i liked blighttown

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gotta be some recency bias here, because nothing in the entire series save maybe the swamp in demon's souls is worse than blight town.

>literal death trap city with any stray hit flinging you to your death
>fucking blowdart niggers that insta-venom your ass
>can't move in the swamp below as you start getting raped by boulder flinging faggots
nah fuck blight town

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It's a solid area, my dude, beautifully crafted, the shortcut is one of the best in the entire series.

Only the boss is kinda lame, but his weapon is cool

>>376194770
Fun House isn't an adjective for the Player's enjoyment. It's for the man with the Red Eye Orb.

A lot of Dark Souls fans have a skewed recollection of Sen's because on replays all the annoyance is gone because you already know where all the traps are. After your first time doing the level you can breeze through it in like 10 minutes

>>376194770
>>376194817
>t. roasties

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>>376194904
I still have nightmares of 5-2, thats the only level in any souls game that I gave up trying to fight and started running past everything, as much as you can run while wading through shit and piss-rain falls from the sky

>>376194770
Sen's is one of the most fun areas in the game, especially for invaders who don't get rekt by the guillotines like scrubs.

>>376194904
>can't move in the swamp below as you start getting raped by boulder flinging faggots
>he didnt have Rusted Iron Ring

>>376195180
I stopped playing Dark Souls 2 for a while the moment I reached The Gutter because it reminded me too much of Blighttown.

>>376194770

first time sucked ass with the bridges of doom and despair. with the stupid fucking snakes kicking me off the bridge.

I did a dark souls 1 run again and dear god sens is fucking easy.

>>376194904
>>fucking blowdart niggers that insta-venom your ass

The rest I can deal with, but these fucking assholes, man. Every time I replay I have to do a few suicide sprints to clear out these pricks before I can go through the area normally.

>>376194904
Blight town is only tolerable after you know what you're supposed to do but I spent like 2-3 hours exploring that shit hole in it's silky smooth 20 fps glory during my first playthrough and it was a pain in my ass

Also I came in from the drake valley entrance because somehow I had skipped the other entrance completely.

>>376195373
the gutter wasn't that bad, it was super short but way more lethal.

>>376196774

spider shield nigga

>>376194770
in my first time i got past it in an hour and i fucking suck at souls games
if you dont fall down you can literally go over it in like 5 minutes

>>376194770
Literally git gud

>Get through most of the game without too much difficulty if I'm playing smart
>Get to the Archives and instantly I can't do shit and I'm only dealing 70 damage.
>Character was sort of a glass cannon build
>Essentially now can't go any further.

I'm salty

>>376197608
It's not that it's hard, it's just tedious

>>376194770
I recently replayed. Steamrolled entire first portion of game in order to play the DLC I'd never done yet. But then on the roof of Sen's I looked at the wrong giant throwing bombs. I watched the giant putting boldurs in the ceiling and thought

>hmm, no one has thrown anything yet, I'll make a run now

And then I got five steps and exploded on fire and died instantly. I didn't make it back to the roof the rest of that day.

It took me a further two sessions for me to get out of my slump and make it through the bullshit to the roof again.

>random snake appeared behind me at a point I didn't expect x2
>killed by guillotines in the first room x30

>>376197614
let me guess, int build? i had the same problem, all these fuckers are pretty resistant to magic damage

I didn't know there was a bonfire on the roof... sneaky sneaky

>>376195213
Yeah. How dare someone not make a return trip to the asylum, only to grab a very specific item located at a dead-end with no prior knowledge of the nest interaction?

Fuck that guy

>>376194904
After going through blighttown so many times I'm basically an alien immune to bullshit. The only area that still cheats me is Bed of Chaos, Tomb of the Giants and going up that goddamn Great Hollow tree manually instead of teleporting.

>>376194770
>worse than Blighttown

NO

>>376194904
I literally always take master key as my boon so i can skip the depths and blighttown. Fuck that noise and fuck dark souls 3 for making like 3/4ths of the game into ugly areas like that.

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>>376194904
>start a new character two days ago
>for some reason most areas give me more shit than ever, die 4 or 5 times in a row to the niggers guarding the painting in anor londo in really stupid ways
>go through blighttown completely unscathed, only take fall damage when I'm too lazy to use ladders and poison damage when walking in the diarrhea at the bottom

>>376194770
its easy as fuck, idk what youre talking about. The Duke's Archives is a million times worse. Try getting the avelyn without immediately getting oneshot by a buffed hollow crystal archer.

I'm pretty sure the "funhouse" shit started as a reference to all the traps and general fuckery going on there and was only in recent years claimed by the edgy faggots that act like it's the easiest and most well designed part of the game.

>>376198108
that's you don't go the magic upgrade path for a melee weapon, so you can kill those crystal hollows in the Duke's Archives and actually do decent damage to seath (maybe even cut off his stupid fucking tail if youre lucky, fuck doing that shit for the Knight's Honor achievement). Also if you go the magic upgrade path for a melee weapon, when get to +5 switch to the enchanted upgrade path so your damage to magic resistant enemies is not as bad.

>>376199928
what's why*

>>376199976
what's why?

>>376198108
Strenght/Int

I was wrecking everything getting around 200 damage with heavy attacks and a +10 claymore, moreso when buffing with magic weapon.

>>376199928
Right now I have more str than int, but I wanna start getting INT ahead.

Also, whys it a bitch to cut his tail off?
I wanted to use the moonlight greatsword for my build but now I'm not sure if it's worth it.

>>376200060
god fucking damn it. and here I was thinking of starting dark souls 1 up to start a new character because of this thread. maybe i should just go to bed. I can't even type properly right now because i guess i'm tired.

>>376200071
>Also, whys it a bitch to cut his tail off?
because if you don't do it after you trick him into breaking his primordial crystal (you coax into doing his crystal breath attack at the primordial crystal and then run to his tail quickly wacking the end hoping you cut off while he's writhing in pain) it's almost impossible to get behind him after that. and if you somehow get behind him he'll freak out and start doing that tail slam and swipe combo which is a death trap.

>>376200158
go to bed then lil babby boy

>>376200281
This makes me wanna drop the game because I only wanted that sword.

I'm not that great at the game, but I slog through it because it actually feels like an achievement when you get through an area or beat a boss so I'm not sure I could manage that

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>>376194770
>tfw spent so much time invading in Sen's that I can basically run through it blindfolded
I will never apologize for the trouble I caused

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>>376200525
i might have made it sound worse than it is, i have a talent for making shit sound worse than it actually is. Also when ever I tried to cut seath's tail I got massive framerate issues because of all the bright light from the fucking crystals everywhere. I'm sure you'll have a better experience than I ever did. Don't give up man. You got this.

>>376195180
>the stalker in the image is clear skies
how fitting

>>376200636
>mfw swinging on the guillotines and cheesing people with wog
DEVILISH

>>376200525
just think about how satisfying it'll be to finally get the sword you want

>>376200525
also you can cheese getting his tail cut by convincing someone to help you with boss fight. have the co-op person distract seath/be a meat shield and while they're tanking seath/possibly dieing to seath you whack at his tail :P

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>Kids today don't know what a Fun House is

>>376200968
>americans
that's called a jolly mansion

>>376200968
>hall of mirrors
Dropped.

>>376200968
>>376201005
are you guys talking about the play palace in the picture?

>>376200917
Can I get the sword then back out of the fight and start again?

I don't want to beat him co-op. I played dark souls 2 first(sadly) and summoned for a lot of bosses on that cus I was bad, but I decided on this one I'm not gonna summon.

>>376200870
Touche, if I can make it through the archives with my STR/INT character

Any tips for that btw?

>>376200792
Oh ya framerate issues would kill me in a boss fight

>>376200968
That's a joy joglo

>>376200525
same guy from this post here >>376200792
watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QldsmCdjORM hope it helps

>>376194904
The blowdart niggers were the only really bad part. The rest of it was manageable even for a casual like me, and I've never finished the game.

not really noob

>>376194770
>there's no one called Sen, it's a shitty translation/localization
>there's literally hundreds of TL errors across the 3 games
>basically most of the lore is fucked as a result

>>376197705
you can run through the whole thing in a few minutes if you know what you're doing, not tedious at all

>>376196919
I managed to enter by the drake valley and leave by the regular entry, without even killing the boss
I still have PTSD

I dont want to be that guy, but I played DS1 blindly and I didnt find blighttown that hard. Back then I thought that you were just memeing about it tbqh
Then I spent 2 weeks trying to kill ornstein and smough so i think that im not even good.

>>376201072
>Can I get the sword then back out of the fight and start again?
yes, but if you have a summon in the fight you have to black crystal them out first so have the black crystal on your quickbar. as soon as you cut seath's tail, black crystal your phantom out, make sure you're safe and then save and quit (start button, left, down, choose quit game) and then when you load back in youll be outside the boss door. Warning: if you didnt kill the giant clams they'll be ready to chomp on you (but theyll be reset to their normal positions so if you dont make any noise they probably wont notice you).

>>376201338
OH, if you manage to cut seaths tail off by yourself DON'T save and quit to reset the fight. Having his tail cut off prevents him from combo-ing you to death with his tail attacks. also it does a lot of damage to him (like any dragon boss when you cut its tail off).

>>376201338
Alrighty thank you, I might be able to get a friend to summon so he could just back out once I get the sword

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>>376201338
>black crystal them out

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>>376201481
no problem, i hope it works out!

>>376200968
That's an Amusement Abode

>>376194770
Always my favourite area. Traps were a terribly underrated and underused part of Dark Souls.

the hardest part about Sen's is that last stretch where the snake bitch is shooting shit at you while you cross.
you either have to kill her or your timing has to be exceptional.

you have to cross at different speeds and remembering what speed to cross with gets you killed a lot because you're focused on so much else.

>>376201650
>the hardest part about Sen's is that last stretch where the snake bitch is shooting shit at you while you cross.
>you either have to kill her or your timing has to be exceptional.
Just shoot at her with a bow, even if you dont have enough dex to use a bow equip it anyways with some arrows and eventually the arrows will knock her off the platform.

>>376194904
Blight town at least doesn't worsen on second playthrough. It gets better even.

Sen's is painful the first time, and boring/bullshit every other time.

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>>376194920
>your_opinion_man.png

>>376194770
I love Sen's Fortress, probably my favorite area in the game, I love the entrance too.

The atmosphere is fucking great

>>376201947
>Sen's is painful the first time, and boring/bullshit every other time.
The whole game is like that, though. Once you know where the threat is, then it's no threat at all. The game would've been more enjoyable if it actually changed, ala Dark Souls 2 NG+. It's like a maze, once you know where to go and felt that excitement the first time you completed it. It has no other affect when you complete it again.

>>376194904
you forgot the fact that the area halves your fps

>>376195373
Pussy

>>376194770
>worse than blighttown
No, not even close.

>>376201251
>I managed to enter by the drake valley and leave by the regular entry

No you didn't, the regular entrance only opens from the other side.

>>376194770
Did you think it was called "fun house" because it was fun? hahahaha

>>376194770

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Hl0vjSBrQ

>>376201068
No, they are talking about the Pleasure Manor

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>no one ever gets it when I post it in filename threads

>>376204823
Pretty sure everyone gets it m8.

>>376201802
i already said you have to kill her, why did you repeat that? i already said you have to kill her, why did you repeat that? i already said you have to kill her, why did you repeat that? i already said you have to kill her, why did you repeat that?

>>376201156
>there's no one called Sen, it's a shitty translation/localization
Wrong. It literally translates to "Sen's Old Castle". It's a name.
>there's literally hundreds of TL errors across the 3 games
>basically most of the lore is fucked as a result
Name 3 for each game and how the lore is fucked because of that. You probably can't.

>>376194904
>>376194770
Both are fun, you have shit taste

>>376194770
>most tedious area
>not Anor Londo

>>376194770
You're kidding right? That place is tiny.

>>376194770
>not liking Blighttown
this is how you know someone is a shitter

>>376204595
I did though
Maybe I already opened it from that side, or didn't go outside at all
But I did go all the way through it the opposite way without beating the boss

>>376205134
Anor Londo is pretty enough to make up for it. Real nice change of scenery.

>>376201270
Same here
Although the hardest part of the game for me were The Bell Gargoyles.I spend a solid month trying to beat these shits, it was a true casual filter for me. Afterwards it all went smoothly, at least until O&S

>>376201270
>Then I spent 2 weeks trying to kill ornstein and smough so i think that im not even good.
jesus I spend like 10 hours across two days on those assholes

I almost quit the game at that point

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>>376205803
I got lucky, I was a noob bitch but managed to kill O&S on my second try

I killed mega ornstein at the same time he killed me and it counted as a kill; in ds2/3 it would not have worked

didn't have much trouble with blighttown either honestly, the only things I hated about it were at the very top, the gross humanoid things that bopped you. with that being said, it took me 7 hours to kill BoC cause I was playing on a shit ass laptop, so me running from the demon ruins bonfire to BoC (using daughter of chaos skip) took most of the time. had some mega slowdown; was playing at about 35% game speed

>>376204823
The joke is very self explanatory, they just probably think it's not funny enough to respond to.

>>376194770
I think it would be better without the boulder mechanism automatically changing directions. Just adds extra tedium to the regular crawl.
I never liked Lost Izalith myself. It's neither fun to play nor to look at. It's an uninterestingly designed nothing area with no enemy variety or nice scenery to make up for it.

>>376201270
you can tell that the people who complain about blighttown are steambabbies
valley of defilement is so, so much worse
blighttown is a cakewalk after experiencing that

>>376194770
It's actually pretty short, if you know about the traps and the path. Just make sure you have decent poise or else you will get fucked.

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Name a better moveset than that of the Silver Knight Straight Sword.
Protip: You can't
Scythefags need not apply.

>>376194770
meme game

>>376195212
I've never been invaded in Sen's.Now that you mention it i kinda wished for a dedicated invader area like Sens were both Invader and Host have to struggle with environmental Hazards and Traps.

>>376208759
Yeah, it can wreck your shit on your first playthrough but after you figured it out it's pretty easy to rush through and still pick up the few items.

>>376194904
>can't move in the swamp below as you start getting raped by boulder flinging faggots

Just fast roll you fucking retard.

Where did all these kids come from?

>>376209372
The entire series is like that. First playthrough you're always going carefully through, not sure what the next corner holds, but by the time you're doing ng+ or a new character you've already spent so much time in each area that you can practically speedrun it.