AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

beat it on my first try lol

get good

>>388097917
>Kick the onion off the ledge
I never did learn his story.

>>388097917

Sen's funhouse is the best area in DS. Ultimate location for dickwraithing.

>>388098065
I wish i knew about Dark Souls when it was at its peak.
Now there's maybe 3 spots in the whole game where you can actually get summoned.

>>388098027
kek'd

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So we all agree that he's Sen, right?

I liked this area, felt like I was playing D&D although now that I think about it I've never played D&D. Epic meme or what guys? hahah.

>>388097917
I miss invading sens.

Sl 40 pyromancer with a +15 glove and a +4 lightning great scythe. Ninja flip ring, FaP and pyromancies from the second half of the game made ez kills

Remaster/partial remake with reworked Lost Izalith and covenants WHEN?

>>388099962

yeah it all makes sense

>>388098027
It is tempting isn't it

>>388100726
>SL20
>Force
>Firestorm
Greatest time I ever had with the game, probably.

>>388101654
That sounds hella fun anon. Favorite thing to see was the host panicking and falling off a bridge

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>>388099962
sen's fortress was just a translation failure
one that resulted in an improvement, but there is no sen

>>388097917

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIacAO4Ttyk

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will vaati be ok if he can't make any ds videos anymore? or will he be homeless soon? :(

>>388098027
Glad i wasn't the only one

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AAAAAAAAA yourself

>>388102624
source?

>>388102754
We need to find a new game soon so he can steal his lore research from our threads again

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Which game had the best "4 endgame bosses" in your opinion, /v/

>>388102907
the japanese name is something like "fortress of one thousand traps"
sen is the japanese word for thousand and the translators weren't exactly giving their best effort (see also: tiny being's ring)

>>388103652
Are you telling its not a ring for manlets?

>>388103652
wait, i could be wrong
andre mentions it by name in his dialogue, and english is the native language for the dialogue, even in japan
either the translation mistake happened before the lines were recorded or it really is sen's funhouse

>>388103652
The translators in DaS were kind of all over the place. Remember the release version? What with YOU DEFEATED and the like. I remember there were other errors that got patch ed up later, but I can't remember them for the life of me.

>>388103803
no, i'm referring to its lying description in character creation that says it regenerates health instead of slightly increasing it

>>388103948
Sen is written in katakana so it's supposed to be a name.

That was the point in the game that I felt more frustation than I had fun and quit. Dark Souls wasn't my kind of game, even though exploring the world as cool as fuck.

>>388104486
that settles it then
i thought i'd switch the language to japanese and check for myself but filthy gaijin saves are apparently not compatible

>>388102754
I hope so

>>388103958
And DS2 was even worse
Royal Rat Authority, Flexile Sentry, Harvest Valley... it's like the translator just made shit up.

>>388097917
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW YESSS

>>388098065
>spawn near the swinging axes at the end
>go drop an item in front of an axe
>hide and wait
>guy arrives at the axes
>actually stops to pick up the item
>axe sends him flying
>the item was an arrow

Can't believe it worked

>>388102834
came to the thread just to post this. you're a man of fine taste.

>>388097917
One of the best levels in the entire Souls series

Get good nigger

Did you know you can drop down and stand on the swinging axes? It was fun invading like this, I would just wait until they get to me and do something silly like do the toxic cloud thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACvEnHc6UYM

>>388097917
I would love a souls game that is just 8 sens fortresses with paths in between. My favorite part of the game

>leave the gate open
>still put lizardmen guards at the front
Sen is an asshole

>>388108838
play Deathtrap Dungeon

>>388103948
>>388104486
It's a play on words, "Sen" is spelled as if it were a name (in Katakana) but within the spoken context it makes the name of the fortress read "Fortress of 1000" ("traps" is not actually in the title in either language).

The bigger question is what exactly the 1000 is meant to indicate, because it may well be "Fortress of 1000 Snakes" honestly, it has many traps, but nowhere is the fortress called "Fortress of 1000 Traps". So the translators literally did the best thing they could possibly do, leave it alone, just called it "Sen's Fortress" as it is spelled in Japanese, the most direct translation possible. Yeah it kills the wordplay but the only alternative would be calling it "Fortress of One Thousand" which makes zero sense outside of Japanese.

>>388097917
I was really late to the game is DS1, so I came after years of hearing how awful Blighttown and Sen's Fortress were. With all that dread built up, I went in expecting the worst, but they turned out to be some of the funnest areas of the game to me. At least on PC. When I replayed it on console I saw the problem, lol.

>>388108994
>Deathtrap Dungeon
eh

>>388109298
Upper Blighttown doesn't get the respect it deserves. Brilliant level design.

>>388097917
This isn't even the biggest spike in difficulty. Wait for fatties and Pikachu, or that spooky cave with the big Giants skeletons.

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>>388103652
>Fortress of a thousand traps meme
The Japanese name is センの古城(Sen No Kojo) which means Old Castle of Sen.

千 - Sen - Thousand
セン - Sen - A name

>>388097917
I'm a girl and I had no problems with this level.

Was there a lizardman leaning on a wall with his arms crossed in this level or am I making shit up?

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>>388108065
>At the start of the first axe bridge
>Turn in to a statue using chameleon
>Well equipped sunbro comes around the corner followed by a poorly equipped new looking world master
>Sunbro confidently steps through the axes with no problem
>Stops and looks back
>World master stands there hesitating
>I roll out of the spell and kick him in the back
>He falls to his death

>>388110978
there was

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>missed the door in the rolling ball room on my first playthrough
>thought I was supposed to kill those titanite demons in the basement and the giant

>>388097917
Is it ok to scream at levels that triggered 9gag nowadays?

>>388103317
dark souls 2

>>388098256

Return to Lordran is happening in October. There will be shit loads of people playing.

>>388103317

I pick DS3. Yhorm was the only one I didn't like. In DS Bed of Chaos was frustrating and Seath was really dull. In DS2 they were all either bland or straight up bad like Old Iron King.

>Start NG
>Reach Anor Londo
>Uninstall.exe
How do we fix this? Im bored and Dark Souls is the only mindless game i have where i can lie back and kill shit but the fun drops after midgame

>>388111197
you think that's bad?
>thought I was supposed to kill the hellkite dragon

>>388102754
why do we hate based vaati again?

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>>388097917
thats not the orphan of kosm

>>388111197
>>388112707

Not as bad as these two but:

>Miss the stairway down beside the boar
>Think I need to go up the tower and kill the black knight with great sword
>Try to do this for forty minutes

I was really shit at the time.

>>388113105
YAAAAW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enkEiD8PC5o

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>388108994
Christ, I'd love a remake of DD with souls' combat mechanics.

>>388109860
Right? The whole time I was playing through there I marveled at the level density and how creatively they utilized the verticality.

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>>388097917
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

PLEASE
HELP ME

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>>388101654
>SL1 dickwraith pyro
>farm humanity for spidertit covenant
>chaos firestorm
>invade upper Sens
>mfw coating bridges in lava

>>388103317
>Yhorm is a holeface giant but actually has a full face inside that hole
>other giants just have a regular face underneath their helmets
>other other giants actually have a big hole there and no face

What the fuck is with this giant nonsense

>>388113484
This is harsh. Evaluate me.

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>>388113484
Fuck me, i want to play DeS so bad, cant wait to get my new pc to emulate that sucker.

>>388114929

Have you played it before?

>>388114990
No but i want to.

>>388114929
>>388115157
Don't you have any friends with PS3? I just bought a used copy and borrowed a console from one of them for a month, they don't use it any more anyway

>>388115157

Great. It's good stuff. It's interesting to see the root of so many things that appear later in Souls games.

Currently on my first playthrough of Dark Souls. The fuck do I even do at that point? Do I just ignore it and go to that Darkroot Garden or whatever it's called?

>>388115429
Uninstall.exe
Find a better series to play.

Sen's felt pretty much like a condensation of what Dark Souls was supposed to be until that point. It had "those hard parts" you pretty much had to learn how to deal with (eg. get through the swinging blades while snaketits is firing lightning at you) but once I learned those it became routine and subsequently you could ace them 90 % of the time unless you got unlucky. It was fun learning it the first and maybe second time but it never felt hard after that

>>388115480
no

>>388115429

Sen's fortress is progress. You can deal with the Garden later.

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>>388115272
my sister is with this chad, one day i was over her place and saw a PS3 next to the TV, i shat bricks and wish i had the guts to ask to "borrow" it and have a blast.

>>388115325
Im really interested in it, its theme, gameplay, etc is really appealing to me, feels like my kind of game.

>>388115690
I said go back you fucking retard

>>388098027
>awright onion bro lets fucking do this
>lets fucking murderize these crazy ass Buick 8 spawn
>wait why aren't you glowing WHY AM I HARMING YOU
>NO NO NO

and that's the story of how i failed the siegmeyer questline

>>388115429
Did you open the fortress already? If yes, that's the way to proceed, if you somehow feel too weak for the Sneks just farm for souls somewhere, but you should be able to take them out if you've managed to get to them. If you haven't opened it yet that's a different situation. Where have you been so far?

>>388108838
Maybe if the traps weren't super obvious. They were only made difficult because of enemy placement and many of them could be baited out of position or into the traps

>>388115429

If the fortress isn't open and you've beat the Gargoyles then double check your keys. You should have picked one up at some point and its description will tell you where to go.

>>388114315
lazy design

>>388115690
I'm just playing through it for the first time. Surprisingly, it has the best bosses in the series imo, even though rest of the elements aren't so good as in future games. I'm still having a blast though. It's really funny when you notice that the entirety of DeS was pretty much Dark Souls alpha version and how 75% of location, bosses, characters and ideas are shamelessly reused in DaS

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>>388110732

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>>388114315
They didn't have a clue, either.

>>388116425
now where the shit was this

>>388116189
>the entirety of DeS was pretty much Dark Souls alpha version and how 75% of location, bosses, characters and ideas are shamelessly reused in DaS

This, i like Souls' recurring enemies and the like and i wanna see how it all began, i also really like its "primitive" gameplay

>A sword that deals no damage but deals huge knockback
>A spell that "revives" you
>Yellow Tornado
>Scraping spear
>Northern Regalia
>Soul Sucker
>more

Im a sucker for gameplay gimmicks like that, some might find them a waste of gameplay but i get all excited when i get a gimmicky weapon or a spell.

>>388116425

If I'm not mistaken that's just an easter egg because that's what giants looked like in the concept stages.

>>388116584

In the memory where you fight the Giant Lord, I think.

>>388116704
>bosses, characters and ideas are shamelessly reused in DaS
[Source needed]

>>388115787
Git gud Woolie

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>>388098027
>mfw i accidently hit him and fucked everything from there

>>388112968
Because he's a hack shill?
https://youtu.be/HE2XZK3xiac

>>388116840
>Dragon God = Bed of Chaos
>Maneaters = Gargoyles
>Tower Knight = Iron Golem
>King Allant = Every Souls final boss

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>always thought it was Seeth's fortress
>figured that Seeth made this crazy dungeon just to fuck with you
>turns out its just some guy named Sen

>>388101238
I feel bad for your shitty pun being ignored so have a (you)

>>388097917
I sprinted right through it to the boss on my first attempt and cleared it after killing the boss in one try.

swinging axes you can see, pressure plates you can see, a boulder you can almost always outrun. Not hard. The mimic through me off

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>>388097917
>Unintentionally beat it without using the cage elevator, the bonfire behind the fortress or black iron tarkus
>On a dex build
Personally I don't think I should have been allowed to do that.
2nd playthough, years and years later on PC,
I used strength and poise and realized that is how you unlock easy mode.

I liked sens funhouse more than brazilian town.

>>388114315
Dark souls 2 raped the lore by introducing giants while there already were different kinds of giants in DaS and naming them also giants

>>388116809
And the ship from NMW to Lost Bastille changing sails was also an easter egg?

>>388117108
>Tower Knight = Iron Golem
How so?
>King Allant = Every Souls final boss
Almost spot on, doesn't apply to DaS2.

>>388114929
i dont understand this picture

>>388117514
You don't have to.

>>388117435

No. What does that have to do with anything?

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>>388117438
>Tower Knight = Iron Golem
>How so?

Both are literally giant dudes in armor that if you smack their ankles they fall so you can smack them better, also the area they're in also plays part in the battle.

>King Allant = Every Souls final boss
>Almost spot on, doesn't apply to DaS2.

Yeah but Vendrick is still there. Optional yet still the old man king boss.

>>388117610
It's yet another obsolete asset they oddly used for something that already exists in the game.

Sen's fortress (formerly Chuck's)

>>388116840
>>388117108
>Boletarian Castle=Undead Burg(complete with a dragon guarded bridge)
>Valley of defilement=Blighttown
>Fool's Idol=Pinwheel
>Freke and his apprentice=Logan and Griggs
>Yurt=Lautrec
>Urbain and his acolyte=Reah and Petrus
>Crestfallen=Crestfallen
>Patches=Patches
Come on now, it's impossible to not notice these after having played both games

>>388112334
undead burg truly is the games peak

>>388117759
The Iron Golem isn't some guy in armor, but I can see your point about the rest.
Optional, but not final boss.

Not that hard

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>>388116425

>>388115859
Just that chapel with big nigger knight and the forest place. Died in the forest from that huge knight after going through the light and haven't gone back yet.

>>388116028
Haven't seen gargoyles yet.

>>388115272
>having friends

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>>388117378
>B-but muh unique lore

>>388118131
>Haven't seen gargoyles yet.

Then head back to the chapel and have a look around. You missed something xxx

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>>388097917
???
People think Sens Fortress is hard?

>>388117881
Well, it's the most generic area of the game and if you'd fuck up something as basic as human vs human combat in you knights and wizards game then you'd seriously have to rethink your gamedesign.

>>388118131
You have to beat the bells of awakening first, a few characters tell you that. Get to the top of the church and kill the gargoyles, that's the way to go. Also brace yourself, because they're possibly the biggest casual filter in game

>>388117378
TH-THERE ARE CYCLES NOW SO SEQUELS CAN HAPPEN

should have stopped at ds1

Should I keep using Shield of Want for the Ashes of Ariandel DLC or use a greatshield? My build is planned for greatshields but I keep using shield of want and SSR for the extra souls since I'm gonna level up a couple of times so gonna need at least 1 or 2 million souls
Never done the DLCs before

>>388117832
And also, they reused the poop jar from DaS1 and plastered it everywhere but forgot to take out the shit, had a Heineken beer label in some corrosive acid texture and some strange car wheel in a pillar of trash.
I highly doubt that the giant was an easter egg.

>>388112334
Get Bloodborne

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>tfw played DS and DS3 with cheats

Fight me, nerds.

So who's Sen?

>>388117378
It's very easy to write off ds2 and DS3 as alternate timelines due to how much their lore contradicts ds1 (what little of ds2 was relevant to ds1 anyway)

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>>388118514
You don't really need to be that high level to get through either DLC.
If you're on ng+ on the other hand, you want to be 100 at least.

>>388118887

I don't care how you played I just hope you had fun.

>>388109039
Why not ssssssssssssen's fortress
you know cause snake

>>388119071

Yeah, the locations and bosses were pretty cool.

The infinite meme combo stunlocks in DS3 were a bummer even with cheats.

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>>388118887
unless you made your character stronger than what could naturally be achieved through grinding souls and drops, you're just a regular player with less hours

>>388119256
The only way to really counter that is throwing black firebombs at your feet.
Same for invading.

>>388117514
pvp meta

>>388103652
>fortress of one thousand traps
my dick's a fortress now

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>>388118887
>needing cheats to beat DS
did you fall for the 'prepare to die' meme?

>>388109860
the first time i played i got into blight town from the back, from the wyvern place. beat the whole place, continue on to get the lord vessel, and only after that do i stumble on the front entrance to blighttown. it was strange