Was he a good final boss for the series?

>>389875760
Literally who?

>>389875760
Yeah

>>389875760
No he was a LITERALLY WHO and they didnt bother making him more than that.

The furtive pygmy himself might have been ok but they fucked over the pygmys lore in 3

He was alright, nothing great tho.

I was hoping for a the furtive pygmy or even better The dragons to return and the age of ancients begins anew

But no.

>>389876010
>they fucked over the pygmys lore in 3
I couldn't agree more.
>Introduced to the furtive pygmy in DaS intro
>Turns out there was a whole bunch of furtive pygmies in TRC
And I still think that the angels were kind of just thrown in without explanation.

>>389875882
>>389876010
>Literally who?
But that's kind of the point of the boss fight?
Gael isn't Gwyn, the NK, Aldia or anyone important for that matter. He just another undead/human that has devoted himself to a mission.
Besides, your not fighting Gael after he gets back up. Your fighting the dark soul itself.

>>389876635
>But that's kind of the point of the boss fight?

No.

Orphan of Kos was a better fight

>>389879247
too bad nobody played shameborne

>>389875760
From the perspective of being a mirror of your character, yes. Gael is essentially another player character. He was an undead who went through thousands of years of journeying (the playerbase playing through 3 games) he leaves messages to help you (obviously mirroring players leaving messages for each other) and he was pursuing the same goal.

From the perspective of being the climactic final boss of the very last bit of Souls content ever? No. He didn't have enough setup. He just kind of happens, and it doesn't help that there were still a lot of unanswered questions after beating him. A lot of people were expecting something like the Serpents, or some other grand figure controlling the cycle of fire or some shit. No one was expecting the finale of the entire series to be an insane guy with a broken sword possessed by the Dark Soul.

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>>389875760

>>389879441
Grapes

>>389879627
i played it, solid 7/10 DS2 and 3 where better

>>389876635
>Gael isn't Gwyn, the NK, Aldia or anyone important for that matter.

So we've covered that he doesn't matter for shit.

>He just another undead/human that has devoted himself to a mission.

Like 90% of the characters already present in the game, hooray.

>Besides, your not fighting Gael after he gets back up. Your fighting the dark soul itself.

>le ebic personification vidyakino

So why was this literal last minute copy/paste of most NPCs in the series with none of the significance of being present earlier in the game (or the series) enough to make him a compelling character to you? Let alone as a boss, period? You realize he's practically interchangeable with any NPC in the game and they would have much more effect, right? Even though they don't fucking do anything?

And I don't want to hear the whole 'you just wanted him to be EPIC like every other boss' and 'he's meant to be nobody' shit. He could have been literally any NPC in the base game and have more effect, and most of them are actual nobodies, except for the fact you actually talk to them more than once have some semblance of understanding of their character being at least important to ashen one.

>>389875760
Yes, too bad the boss music was as unmemorable as the rest in 3.

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>>389876214
we already killed the furtive pygmy in DaS1
his soul is identical to the other lord souls except it's black for obvious reasons

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>>389875760
He's alike the player characters of all the games. A no name undead with fucktons of determination & eventually does something big. Gael might as well have been the PC of his own game.

Theme-wise, I think it fits. You've slain all the gods, dragons, etc. You can see it as fighting the embodiment of the Dark Soul, alike how the SoC's the embodiment of the First Flame, & possibly topping all that. Or you can see it as the end of an age. The First Flame is fading, everything's dead or destroyed. There's hardly any higher purposes or grand battles, they're all over & gone. Just two nameless undead fighting either due to insanity or for self-defense in the middle of nowhere.

It's also a boss even more Guts than Artorias. Even the damn crossbow. The only way he can be more Guts is if he had an arm-cannon.

>>389876635
>the dark soul itself

No, it's le blood of le dark soul, complete with random lightning powers

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>>389880205
Yeah

>>389880546
This.

Anything after Dark Souls 1 is not canon.

>>389880572
You are honestly a brainlet.

>Just two nameless undead fighting either due to insanity or for self-defense in the middle of nowhere.

That's why is has one of if not the most bombastic song in the game blaring for most of the fight. What a joke.

Dark Souls 3 is not canon

>>389875760
Is Gael the Dark Souls of Dark Souls bosses?

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>>389875760
but that ain't even the final boss of the game, this guy is
and it was LITERALLY perfect

>>389880662
The reductionism in the Souls fanbase is astounding.

>>389880267
>none of the significance of being present earlier in the game
Ashes was a lackluster DLC I admit.

>>389880846
It's true though. Nothing after the first game was ever intended, the game just became popular and the publisher wanted more money and forced them to shit out sequels. Nothing in 2 or 3 was ever part of the plan.

>>389880831
it was too cheesy for me desu but I enjoyed it
I somehow almost killed him in my first try even though I suck at the game, then had to go through a good dozen of tries to finally get him down

>>389880747
>one of if not the most bombastic song in the game
It was nothing next to the sadder songs of the others. Gwyn's theme reappearing was way more impactful than any bombasticness.

>>389881016
Reminds me of Star Wars.

Yes. The amount of lorefag butthurt has been beautiful.

>>389881037
Okay but the original point was that his lack of character makes him work thematically and makes him interesting, but if that were the case he should have no music.

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>>389881016
>I somehow almost killed him in my first try even though I suck at the game, then had to go through a good dozen of tries to finally get him down
this is pretty much every challenging boss fight in every game I played ever

>>389880267
>Like 90% of the characters already present in the game, hooray.
More like people who sat around & did nothing but buff us & give us better weapons a best. The player did most of everything.

>>389876635
>my name? Not Important

>>389875760
>literal who with no story (lmao) relevance
>shameless Berserk reference
>The weapon you get from him looks like a rancid turd

A joke of a final boss for a joke of a series.

>>389880969
Do you have any evidence besides your opinion of their quality that DS 2 and 3 were forced by Bandai?

>>389882025
Here you go: https://pastebin.com/g5Kt1vHP

>>389880747
>he thought that soundtrack was anything

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>>389880747
>>389881180

It shouldn't have had an opening cutscene either.

The fog gate version of the fight honestly worked best, where Gael just makes a B-line towards you from over the horizon. Were it actually the player's first time entering the area, you'd ACTUALLY be fighting for your life and you'd have to remember during the barrage that it's Gael from the painted world.

You already know what Gael looks like, you already know he's there, and you already know the pygmy lords are dead or at the very least dying. So the initial cutscene was very redundant.


Dark Souls 3 needed MUCH more subtlety in a lot of moments like these.

>>389875760
for the whole series? absolutely not. soul of cinder was a better final boss for the entire series, even if he was a gwyn copy for the second half.

gael was still a good and badass boss though

>>389882415
The opening cutscene was just an excuse to have one last Artorias reference in there.

>lorefags

Mechanically, he was great.

>>389884719
lorewise he's a perfectly rounded character, equally as plausible as the unkindled one. The absolute zeros of the setting survive for a last battle where nothing really matters anymore, pretty fitting for a game about entropic decline.

>>389880662
From only intended to make one Dark Souls game, after all

>>389876635
If he only had some build up towards this, it would ve been more sufficent.It isnt that he is nobody that bothers me, its just he feels too random and irrelevant to anything.

They should've made the 3 DLCs to add more depth to this character to make him feel less of a random aspect to the story then it wouldve been fine.He could've went for another mission to acquire a pigment for the painting girl.

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Orphan of Kos is the best Boss FromSoft has ever made.

>Demon's Souls (2009)
>Dark Souls (2012)
>Bloodborne (2015)

What's next for FromSoft?

>>389885873
>it's hard so it's good

Not even the best Bloodborne DLC boss.

>>389875760
Yes, great boss

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>>389886017
Orphan of Kos isn't good because he's hard, he is good because he lets you use everything you learned throughout the game and the DLC to its fullest potential.
>parrying
>backstabbing
>dodging
>camera control
>rallying
you need to be good at all these things in order to have a great fight against Orphan.
many Bloodborne bosses get either too easy when you parry, or cant be parried and thus rely on you playing a boring dodge and attack kinda game.
Orphan of Kos lets you use all your tools while still being hard.

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>>389885989
I pray to christ it's a sci-fi title. I want to see their artists tackle a new subject matter with the same greatness as the other soulsborne games.

>>389882241
Someone should add all of his interviews on the Soulslore page

http://soulslore.wikidot.com/das2-interviews

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>Collected and strengthened himself with Dark Souls just like (You) do with souls.
Pottery. Personally I find the appeal of Gael to be the fact that he wasn't a big name like Gwyns Knights or the Lords of Cinder but just a foot solider that had managed to live from the near beginning of history to the end of it. He managed to outlive all of those big names in the end.

>>389882415
The opening scene was just to show how much all that dark soul power had fucked his body and mind. That being said he was still more intelligent than Artorius.

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>realize poise was back
>ring of favor +3
>leo's ring
>havel's ring +3
>this busted fucking bastard
>60 vitality and medium rolled with smoughs and a pick
>win fight by spamming r1 until i press it 1 time for a crit

>>389886649
>it will have alien gods in it

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>>389887694
But will it have dyson spheres?

>>389879030
Are you a actual retarded person?

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>>389876635

If there was buildup, yes. But there wasn't. He was a literal who introduced by the third game's DLC. Patches would have made more sense and has more impact, and even that would have been ridiculous. Maybe if there was another undead who lived through the years, or it was the Chosen Undead from the first game who became the Dark Lord it would have been amazing.

But in reality there was no reason to fight the Dark Soul. You were on its side the whole time. But, due to demand, they shoehorned it in.

The fight was great. Also, having summoned him for multiple bossfights beforehand, I feel like there was sufficient build-up around him to justify him being the end boss. I was satisfied.

Fear not the dark, my friend.

>>389888547
>summoning
The absolute state of dark souls

>>389875760
He was an alright fight, but no it was not. Soul of Cinder's 2nd phase was a more fitting end.

I hate how fucking everything in the DLC is just a giant damage sponge. There's a difference between difficulty and tedium, and all the boss fights are more an endurance test than a test of skill.

>>389876264
So it's not enough for you that the games hammer the point into our heads that the furtive pygmy is either not important or not even one person? It should've been obvious that the dark soul is the entire humanity.

>>389876635
>it's shit
>No no no no, that's the point!
Fuck off

>>389879446
Nobody controls the cycle though, Gwyn was the closest to the head figure and we beat him in DS1.

>>389880831
Would be perfect if it had more HP. People bitch about DLC bosses having too much HP but the truth is their HP is perfect while vanilla bosses die too fast.

>>389881635
>shameless Berserk reference
>what's an Artorias

>>389876635
classic reddit post
+1 bazinga

>>389890342
No anon, you are the reddit!

Kill yourself

And tell me about my reddit spacing you fucking imbecile, I dare you

This thread proves /v/ doesn't understand art.

>>389880969
This is true of 90% of sequels. It doesn't make the sequels any better or worse.

They could have made Gael an amazing character, but as it stands he's a terrible excuse for a final boss

>>389893127
What's wrong with Gael

>>389888369
You didn't fight the Dark Soul. You fought for it.

I played the shit out of Dark Souls 3, really played it until I was just dead bored, a couple hundred hours logged, starting from day 1. I bought the DLC pack or whatever early, but never got around to playing until now. I'm someone who played bloodborne after every previous entry (just recently). Going back to DaS3 feels bad, and I liked it a lot at release. Bloodborne has kind of spoiled the souls franchise for me.

Not really enjoying this ashes of ariandel dlc so far, pretty boring. Just spoke to the Freide lady for the first time, traveled a little onto the ice lake and closed out in boredom. Are the dlcs considered good or bad?

Those who wanted a WOW LE EPIC COOL XP boss would have been disappointed no matter who it was. If it were up to you guys we'd have a cringeworthy 7 phase Gwyn/Artorias/Aldia fight.

>>389894383
ToH > AotA > Lost Crowns > RC > AoA

>>389893725
He could have been in the base game as a fellow undead and occupied a role like Solaire/Lucatiel (fellow undead seeking a purpose, in his case trying to find the painted world)
It'd be so much better and hit far harder if you had time to get to like Gael having fought alongside him, and drive home Patches' "every age is beset by the greed of man" you turn on each other at the world's end

lorewise maybe not but it was a very fun boss fight, definitely one of the best. i think it was an adequate last boss.

>>389894383
Thematically Ringed City was really good, it was a lot like AotA and had a lot of shit that linked back to DS1. Its not fantastic & the wheels came off the lore a long time ago, so obviously it won't live up to what people expect as the last piece of souls content.

>>389895583
It's basically a combination of Orphan and Artorias, what more could you want?

>>389895739
I just see it as the last level of the game that they waited around to sell as an additional payment.

>tfw waited a year to play the game after the shit they pulled with DS2

bb > das 3 > das > des > das 2

I wish he was a bit more creative.

But I'm starting to think that maybe the artists and devs are kinda running dry on the entire DS universe.

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ignoring lore/storyline whatever, I LOVED how Gael moved.

He was like a flee/tick, the animators did a beautiful job on him

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>>389875760

No, pic related should've been the final boss of the franchise

>>389896505
DS3 was the game that they didn't want to make.

>>389876264
Furtive Pygmy is the little guy that talks to you right when you enter the ringed city. Open your eyes, people. For fucks sake.

>>389894601
>WOW LE EPIC COOL XP
>cringeworthy
You need to go back.

>>389896586
He can be if you fight him last

>>389896758
Let's be real here, Manus was the Furtive Pygmy.

>>389896074
something new

>>389897206
That's what people believed until DS3 happened, yes.

>>389897206
And Solaire is Gwyn's first born son.

>>389896758
Most people don't even notice/remember him

He's easily forgotten... just like the Furtive Pygmy is supposed to be..

>>389897206
>>389897863
You guys are aware of the meta-narrative in the DaS3 DLC right?

>Friede is Namco, keeping Ariandel locked up and flogging himself to sustain the world
>Ariandel is Fromsoft, flagellating himself for blood to try and keep the Painted World Dark Souls alive
>Painter Girl is Miyazaki who wants to create new places but has been kept kind of locked up by Freide

Seriously. Then with TRC we have Patches and his whole "A FINE DARK SOULS TO YOU!" thing which is basically just Miyazaki speaking directly through him and mocking you. There's also that Locust who tells you not to expect to be able to understand everything.

The whole idea of painting rotting eventually is a commentary about games and franchises stagnating and becoming rotten.

>>389896082
The DS3 dlcs don't feel that way at all

>>389897206
Lets be real here, Solaire is the sand worm and Velka is literally the statue you encounter in the sewer

>>389875760
>>389876635
no one cares about dlc, dum-dum

>>389880205
DaS2 and 3 were extremely mediocre. DeS, DaS and BB are the only good souls games.

>>389898745
3 was good, it just wasn't as original as DeS, BB and DS1 because it was meant to be a safe cash crop. You can tell they stopped giving a fuck about it.

>>389879508
Dark Scoops 2

>>389880785
Yeah but dark souls was the dark souls of dark souls

>>389899090
Then what was Orphan of Kos?

>>389899162
The Dark Souls of Bloodborne

>>389899695
What's the Bloodborne of Demon's Souls?

>>389899807
Dark Souls you silly!

>>389880601
>it's le blood of le dark soul
The Dark Soul has always been linked to blood.
I mean, you pick up dropped humanity from bloodstains in the first game.

>>389898317
>Solaire is the sand worm
Where is this theory even coming from?
How is the sand worm even remotely connected to Solaire?

>>389898154
>You guys are aware of the meta-narrative in the DaS3 DLC right?
Not just the dlc. Main game has some of that as well.
>“When Aldrich ruminated on the fading of the fire, it inspired visions of a coming age of the deep sea. He knew the path would be arduous, but he had no fear. He would devour the gods himself”
I expect the next souls game to be "Deep Souls".

>>389888868
and let the feast begin

>>389888868
>>389900865
>Believing the lies of the locusts.

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>tfw finally beat orphan of kos (or some say kosm)

>>389900565
it shoots lightning

>>389901549
did it also throw you off by making cartoonish screams?

>>389900565
Just think about it

>>389901549
Reminder Orphan is still only the second best fight in Bloodborne.

>>389901865
what's the best one? Ludwig?

>>389901812
>Just think about it
The sandworm is what that head parasite eventually turns into?

>>389901919
Logarius, that fight is fucking intense. I just finished it again on my new character about five minutes ago. I'd say it's almost as fast paced as Orphan because no matter what range you're at he's a threat with constant magic barrages and once he enters his second phase he's even faster when he goes up in there as well as summoning the sword flurry thing which adds another element to the fight.

Ludwig is incredibly overrated in my opinion, I don't get why people like the fight outside of presentation and music. It's another flailing beast that can easily be staggered by just nonstop attacking him.

>>389901919
Micolash, Host of The Nightmare

>>389901919
Living Failures

(Ludwig really, but living fails got the best OST of them all)

>>389876635
>Your fighting the Dark Soul™ itself
what did he mean by this?

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>>389902218
>living fails got the best OST of them all

my nigga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_8t5ay0-YU

>>389902218
Official OST ranking for Old Hunters: Ludwig > Living Failures > Maria > Laurence > Orphan, all are 10/10 though but Nobuyoshi Suzuki is by far the best composer this series has seen and he's only done four songs for the series.

>>389902160
Didn't have much trouble with that guy. Funny how the opinions on the difficulty of BB bosses vary a lot. Different playstyles I guess.

I must admit reading anons here saying the DLC bosses were the hardest in the series made me go into each boss arena very nervous and that kind of created a mental barrier for me. Didn't have much trouble with any boss in the maingame but I lost the count to the amount of tries Laurence and Orphan took me. Honourable mention for Ludwig, but thankfully he's easier in 2nd phase.

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>>389875760
>people legitimately wanted some climactic skyrim-tier showdown with a major lore character

member when in DAS1 you had a showdown with Gwyn for the FATE OF LIGHT AND DARK?! (when you were actually just the cleanup crew being bossed around by the jewsnakes)

member in DAS2 when you were straight-up told you either had to embrace this shitty, futile cycle, or reject it to try and break free, something the entire game repeatedly tells you is kind of hopeless?

member that boss fight where you fought a foe in the prime of their life, and in so doing demonstrated agency and that maybe this dreary world of light and dark isn't so hopeless after all? of fucking course not, because as DAS3 takes as one of its major themes, you're always a slave.

If you wanted an epic showdown with the Furtive Pygmy or something to finally lay claim to the Dark Soul and finally find some kind of silver bullet to its problems those being human fears, thoughts, ambitions and desires you're probably the same kind of person who's mad we never got to go to Carim, couldn't spare Sif, and otherwise totally missed the point of this franchise.

>>389902160
>logarius

Parry
Parry
Parry
Parry
Parry
Dead

One of the easiest bosses in Bloodborne to be quite honest lad

>>389902885
I never said he was hard just that it's a good fight, I find Bloodborne to be a very easy game because of how many vials your given and the rally system. Only bosses that took me 10+ tries were Ebrietas and Orphan.

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>tfw Orphan summons lightning as the chorus kicks in during his seconds phase
is there a more orgasmic timing in videogames?

>>389902424
>>389902218
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-zMU9c98BE

>>389902895
>otherwise totally missed the point of this franchise.

explain

>>389903190
Only redeeming factor of that fight, he also did the track for One Reborn which is a terrible fight saved by god tier OST as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2qWpeMGZvc

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>>389896586
>NK
>not the man who ruined it all

>>389903120
orphans second phase music sucks majorly compared to the first though

>>389885873
It's really not, beat it first go after failing to horse face 30 or so times.

>>389890274
kino

>>389896586
He was A final boss. The best bosses are never the last ones in DaS anyway.

>>389903746
I beat Ludwig my first try but was stuck on Orphan for about twenty tries or so, his second phase is ridiculous.

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>>389903120

>tfw Living Failures open up the cosmos and drop the galaxy on your face for the first time with the second phase of their theme playing

Shit tier fight but that moment was one of the best moments of the game

>>389890208
oh god i did the dlcs on my character in ng+3 or 4 (i forget its been a while) and it was too much HP. especially that fucking dragon.

Best FromSoft OSTs?

>>389904259
Bloodborne and it's not even close.

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>>389904259

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

>>389894008
>Your fighting the dark soul itself.
>You didn't fight the Dark Soul. You fought for it.

Which fucking one is it?

so can someone explain to me, is the dark truly good for the undead or the serpents were fucking with me(you)?

>>389895035
Anri was already the Solaire/Lucatiel of this game

>>389905026
Not his damn point. Point is he needed to be in the base game or at the very least mentioned.

playing through bloodborne again makes me realise more than anything just how much better the dlc is than the base game

for whatever reason, the game just seems to absolutely fall apart around the forbidden woods area in terms of overall enjoyment

some of the worst bosses are in this part, hemwick witches, rom, one reborn, celestial emissary, micolash and some surprisingly disappointing ones, amygdala, shadows, wet nurse.

The areas are kind of a let down as well, forbidden woods is way too long for how disappointingly short the far more interesting byrgenwerth area is, yahar'gul might be the most frustrating location in the game with the respawning, buffed enemies and the three hunter gank, frontier is okay, but suffers from poison pool level syndrome and the upper cathedral ward is way too short for such an excellent atmospheric approach. If it weren't for the winter lanterns, mensis would be perfect. Cainhurst is also pretty great.

It's genuinely hard to imagine Bloodborne without its DLC nowadays, the music, bosses and areas all seem to far outshine the rest of the game.

>>389905171
Oh I know, let me be pedantic.

>>389896383
This guy gets it.

>>389905171
yeah gael suffers from "hey its me your cousin i've been here the whole time"
it seems to me that the plot was very loosely put together in general.

>>389904259
des
maiden astraea
das
ash lake
das2
ivory king
bb
ludwig
das3
lothric/lorian

>>389896383
I agree except I'd say das3 = das

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>>389903120
>tfw Ludwig performs the double moonlight wave with the HMS right as the main hook from the Holy Blade OST kicks in

>>389902895
it would be neat if we could take the dark soul and then kill ourself in order to save the universe from the dark

>>389904259
Ludwig's theme is in the running for best orchestral song in a videogame, full stop.

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>>389905586
My man. Heart-pounding, epic, and wickedly sinister to boot. My favourite fromsoft track, along with Laurence's theme.

>>389905740
The first time I got to his second phase I shed tears of joy. Like actually.

>>389905202
>playing through bloodborne again makes me realise more than anything just how much better the dlc is than the base game
>for whatever reason, the game just seems to absolutely fall apart around the forbidden woods area in terms of overall enjoyment

People seem to say this about every Souls game

>>389890274
Artorias was a shameless Berserk reference.

>>389905946
*tips*

>>389904786
This guy has the Dark Soul
That's my thing
This asshole has my thing!

>>389904786
>what is past tense

>>389906058
What are other Berserk references?

>>389876214
>>389876010
Gael is the Furtive Pygmy

>>389906389
Ludwig is a rape horse.

>>389906389
The ""kino"" boss fight in Bloodborne

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>>389875760
He's too patrician for plebeians to understand. He embodies the empty pointlessness of the series better than any other boss in any of the Soulsborne games. Not a surprise that /v/irgins are too dumb to get the point.

>>389903287
anon kind of just did. the theme is your fatalistic role as a catalyst for renewing the cycle or your ultimately futile attempt to rebel against the foundations of the world.

the lack of catharsis was deliberate. it's meant to hammer home your absolute lack of control over the situation.

>>389907748
What about DS2 and DS3?

>>389907797
I sure as fuck wasn't pleased with the "Go sit on a fucking chair" ending of DS2. DS1's endings were certainly more appealing, but you also have zero narrative control over that situation, either.

>>389905202
Those levels are basically a taste of dark souls 3.

Yahar'gul was the real stinker for me. There is just nothing engaging about how that place is put together.

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>>389908189
What about the part where you run down the stairs with the lesser Amygdala shooting lasers at you? That was kind of cool.

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Is this weapon fun to use?

>>389902895
People just wanted substance for once in the damn game. Not more over the top shit.

If they were going for 'subtelty' with Gael they really didn't hammer that home with the long intro cutscene and le ebic music number.

>Ignore ashes because it didn't look interesting
>Purchase ring city because it looks interesting
>Get to last boss and fight gael
>Zero context for who he is, can't even do anything with the dark soul after beating him

What were they thinking?

>>389906389
Those dog monsters that first appear on the bridge to Irithyll.
The fat priest guys in the Undead Settlement.
Andre.
Rickert.
The wheel skeletons
Greirat and the enemies that look like him.
Some amor sets and weapons
etc.

Some people think that there are some reference to Angel's egg in the DLC.

>>389908824
That the player would've done the previous DLC.

>>389908824
>firthy gaijin rike obscure burrshitu, we make anime fight with righning and add some shitty diarogue to rittle girr. rmao dumb gaijin rike big japanese cocku, they rike anything we make

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Soul of Cinder is not only better, but also still the definitive final boss of the series. No better way to close the book and put an end to the world than by battling the amalgamation of all Chosen Undead.

As for Gael, I didn't even realize that he was the final boss of the DLC at first. I was rather disappointed.

>>389908975
kek

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>>389900801
I think that was a reference to Bloodborne

No. I didn't give a fuck who he was, no one even mentions him and you don't see him until the end. Music is just nostalgia grab. Uninstalled right after I beat him 2nd try.

>"who exactly is this boss in the lore?"
>"some dude"
>"10/10 LORE"

>"who exactly is this final boss in the lore?"
>"Some dude"
>"shit/10 game"

You make me chuckle /v/ but only slightly.

>>389896383
BB>DaS>DeS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DaS2/3

>>389880831
? why would you not kill this guy first before doing the dlc

>>389910828
>I think that was a reference to Bloodborne
Could be, but the Deep is its own thing from 3, not just a whole reference to BB.

>>389879508
kek even though this meme is dead

>>389908570
yes even though u have to beat Orphan on an Arcane build

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>final boss of demon's souls
>a pathetic blob that can't even fight because he was mutated by his own corruption, reflecting the game's themes

>final (DLC) boss of dark souls
>a rampaging monster that was once a small and meek creature corrupted by the abyss

>final (DLC) boss of bloodborne
>a newborn creature that's lashing out over the unjust death of its own mother

>final (DLC) boss of dark souls 3
>EPIC SWORD GUY WHO'S LIKE THE MOST BADASS GUY EVER AND HE SHOOTS FLAMES AND IT'S TOTALLY AWESOME DUDE WHO CARES WHAT HIS STORY IS OR IF HE MATTERS IN THE SLIGHTEST IT'S SO COOL

fuck you from