/dsg/ - Souls General

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>>150809853
GAY INCEST

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>>150810014
You mean cutecest!

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Daily Reminder that if you use a Straight Sword in these games, you're not as good as you think you are. Infact, you're a casual shitter using the Very Easy difficulty weapon.

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>>150809768
>>150809980

Stomp's concept sounds good but you're right that it only works against idiots. I think as a way to balance it would be making stomp a perseverance buff that lets you tank so long as you have it on your hand/don't use your offhand. The buff should work like a defensive warcry and last 30 seconds which gives you iron flesh but without the weight penalty. Stacking it with iron flesh would be pointless with the weight penalty and switching it like sunlight ss would cancel it like gentle prayer. A simple add-on like that could change everything.

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>>150809768
I actually think WKGS's WA is WAAAAAY more useful than stomp, maybe still the second worst but definitely not as close to stomp as one might think. If you know your opponent is trying to roll into you for example, the R1 WA is pretty useful. However, R2 WA is much closer to stomp usefulness due to the fact that I'm p sure you can roll out of the "stun" and I think it has batshit poise

>>150810421
You can't, it's similar to O&K/claws where it stumbles upon leaving the ground

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>>150810215
No, I mean femboi's boipussy filled to the brim and reduced to a wet sloppy mess by his older brother!

>>150810421
>charge getting out-armored by a 1handed spin
wow, I knew this game was bullshit, but that's a bit much

Post music, guys

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>>150810421
>seeds world
>gets fuck up to one hit away from death
>Welcome

>>150810391
>add ironflesh to it
That would definitely help in terms of HA (getting poisebroken out of stomp is both possible and fucking stupid), however we are still left with the giant ass endurance drain+ easy to dodge problem. A lot of people say the GS/ Cathedral Knight GS stomp variant is worse than FUGS/BKGS, but I think its better due to its rollcatch potential. Anyway, not quite sure it would "change everything" but I see no reason it shouldn't do that (besides the obvious "why would From ever do anything to help ultras)

>>150809768
I've been running the Profane Greatsword and, yeah, stomp is pretty bad, but when you do get it to connect, boy does it feel good.

And can anything that feels that good, truly be bad?

Yes

>>150810667
He's not the host, and he's fighting the most disliked player here, what else do you expect?

>>150810667
It's a fightclub

>>150810667
>Not noticing its a fucking /dsg/ FC
go to bed silly

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>>150810664
Unnerving music!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ikWGbtXIBr4

>>150810421
My broken armor fashion doesn't even show up that well

At least it was fun to try, but using 2 rings for it kinda blows

i started to play ds3 yesterday and holy fuck that worm in the smouldering lake was fucking awesome
nigga shooting lightning beams and shit

>>150810876
Yeah, but then you realise that it has to stay in one place and basically a turret because From didn't have the resources (or desire) to give it any mobility.

>>150810873
>2 rings for broken armor
wtf are you doing

Anyone on PC wanna coop at all?

>>150810748
>and he's fighting the most disliked player here
Berke/Ippiki?

>>150811108
Sure, where you wanna coop to?

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>>150811086
Don't ruin it for him.
God knows the first playthrough when everything is new and cool, is the most fun you'll get out of DaS3.

>>150811105
Havel's in order to carry AGS and Gotthards
Untrue Dark for not-fucked up Blessed Weapon and armor reflectiveness

>>150811191
I'm in NG+ and waiting to go to NG+2, was asking if anyone wanted to host

>>150811246
Yeah, you're right... I just never liked that worm...

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>>150810664
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztPGThfD_GY
I like the theory that Alonne and Iron King's story is essentially like Guts vs Griffith. Alonne leaving him after the undead hunts/power indulgence and the Iron King attacks his keep for treachery. It makes the theme sound heroic and tragic.

>>150811263
>not just hardswapping
if you're gonna be a tryhard cunt at least do it the right way

>>150811346
I don't backpedal in the middle of a fight just so I can swap weapons, that shit was gay in DaS1, and is still gay now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4TcFsMOdtA&feature=youtu.be&t=493
So they changed horsehoof ring

Are the Pyro/Miracle/Sorc Achievements across all characters, or do they need to be done on a single character?

>>150811263
Ah, I don't have any characters to host at the moment.

>>150811318
Yeah, it's not great.
Just like the rest of "Izalith" and the Demon Chalice Dungeon.
But it was all really cool before you gave it any thought whatsoever.

>>150811451
I don't understand what this is trying to show

>>150810421
fuck off havel, if arty's lockon switched it could have cost him the fight

>>150811784
You usually cannot combo into UGS 1HR1 or 2HR1 after a regular kick.
However, a Horsehoof kick will give out a "getting hit" sound and allow for a followup with Ultra weapons. Great Axes, UGSs and Great Hammers can hit people out of kick stagger, the first two can hit even with an uncharged R2.

>>150811912
This happens fucking constantly to me, yet people will still run behind/around hosts/other phantoms and call it "tactics"

Favourite PvE builds for DaSII?
I feel like starting a new character, but I don't know what to build.

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>>150810387
>Straight Swords are easy mode
>Magic is easy mode
>Heavy weapons are easy mode by virtue of being able to stun lock and deal massive amounts of damage per swing to many enemies in these games
What are the hard mode weapons then, dex weapons?

>>150810698
It's almost silly how bad stomp and its follow up attacks are compared to perseverance both pve and pvp. Also the Cathedral UGS's stomp attacks first spin doesn't often confirm into the second and has less range than the vertical swings AND I believe it takes even more stamina than the others on top of everything.

>>150812116
Whips

>be me, myself
>DS3 DLC is still not announced

XD :D XD

>>150812123
The spin stomp variant is the worst one by far.
It consumes more stamina that the golfswing, has the longest startup, the least reach and the lowest damage. It's also the only version of stomp that doesn't have complete, continuous hyperarmor covering the stomp itself all the way through the followup. There's a small gap between stomp and followup with no hyperarmor, but only on the spin followup.

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>>150812201
>Be literally me
>stopped playing this game because there's nothing fun to do in it anymore

>>150811327
Considering you find Alonne's stuff inside of Brume Tower, that's most likely not the case. Besides, it's more or less established that Alonne left when Old Iron King started going crazy, and that Old Iron King was killed by the Smelter Demon not long after.

So whats the general consensus on DaS2's place on the timeline? Or is it some different land entirely?

>>150812409
>Timeline
It doesn't matter

So, roughly speaking, most areas in DaS3 map onto DaS1.
For example, Anor londo is obviously Anor Londo, Farron Keep is allegorical to Darkroot and Oolacile (if not literally them), Smouldering Lake is literally referred to as being the last remnants of Izalith. Most of the major locations that we visit in 3 relate in some way back to an area from the first game.

With that in mind, what area do you suppose the Profaned Capital is supposed to match up with?

>>150812409
after 1, before 3

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were they gay?

>>150812576
New Londo?

>>150812576
Some anon pointed out a few threads ago that the fissure of light in the background of the Capital is the same as the one in Things Betwixt.

>>150811451
Ohh that sounds good. Hope it's true.

>>150812308
Fucking from, how could they be so retarded with the ultra class. Not even from a pvp stand point, I can't think of a boss that has a long enough opening to allow a stomp attack and its stamina recovery not mentioning that the damage barely surpasses a charged r2.

>>150812376
Is it fun posting that image in /v/ saying you have no friends when you have /dsg/?

or is that pic a new meme I'm unaware of

>>150812868
>new
FAAAAG

>>150812409
>place on the timeline?
>>150812657 is right, there's no point in trying to narrow it down at all because there aren't many fixed reference points in the series' history.
>is it some different land entirely?
Drangleic is a kingdom to the North of whatever continent/ world Lordran/ Lothric are on.

>>150812957
It's easy to just ask someone something and then fade into obscurity with this new information :)

>>150812868
i posted a picture of, literally, myself. The is no memery going on

>>150812409
References to DaS2 are far and few, since the game physically happened on an entirely different timeline

>>150811263
Berke spotted

>>150813061
someone has been spreading pictures of you do you want me to delete my copy

>>150813074
>physically happened on an entirely different timeline
What about all the things in DaS2 that reference DaS1?

>>150813074
Explain your reasoning.
And what do you mean by "timeline"?
There are plenty of references to DaS2 in DaS3, so that suggests that DaS2's events happened in DaS3's past.
The fact that DaS is demonstrably aslo in DaS3 distant past puts the timeline at DaS - DaS2 - DaS3.

>>150813217
DaS1 was the first, and depending on the ending to that game, either DaS2 or DaS3 happens afterward

Linking the Flame leads to DaS3, while letting it die leads to DaS2

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>>150813197
No, I enjoy memers seeing the beauty my literal self, I appreciate your offer though, friend

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>>150810387
>Straight Swords are easy mode
>Curved Swords are easy mode
>Great weapons are easy mode
>Polearms are easy mode
>Any kind of magic is easy mode
>Only things I approve of take skill, because I am the authority on skill in a Souls game

I'm glad no one in their right mind listens to crybabies like yourself, else they'll be stuck in a never ending loop of doing increasingly dumb shit and not having fun for the sake of appeasing total strangers.

>>150812076
HexDex with no more than 20 Vigor.

>>150812409
How much does it even matter given that literal centuries pass between the end of one game and the start of another?

>>150813472
I understand why you'd think this, but if that was the case, nothing from DS2 would be in DS3.

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>>150812076
G R E A T H A M M E R S

>>150813472
Hmmm, no. There's nothing that supports a split timeline theory. The fact that there have been multiple linkings and at least one age of dark by the time we get to DS3 seems to indicate that a fuckton of time has passed, enough for Dark Souls 2 to fit in without issue.

>>150813614
Since time is convoluted, couldn't time have just bent and twisted and moved some things from an overlapping timeline into another?

I imagine the FUGS just appearing in midair and landing on and killing some unsuspecting hollow so Tsorig can find it and use it against you

>>150813892
Vendrick's shield is in DaS3 as well

>>150813584
When I first started DaS2 I was just under the general impression that Drangelic was the same land as Lordran, but that just cant be the case anymore. It still seems weird the lack of culture and tradition in Drangelic though, since all humans came from the same place and would probably know about the Lords.

Are the throne of want and the kiln of the first flame the same thing
I find DaS2 very confusing if you can supposedly link the first flame or choose a dark age from the throne and have it not be the kiln

>>150814117
There's numerous countries throughout the world (even in DS1 you had places like Astora, Catarina, the Great Swamp, etc.), kingdoms rise and fall (Forossa, Mirrah, Alken and Venn, Olaphis, etc.), and knowledge becomes lost over time. That's why nobody in Drangleic knows anything about Lordran.

The only real reason why DS3 makes so many direct references to DS1 is that Miyazaki directed both, and had a chance to link his two works together. He was never involved in any of the "lore" in DS2 so he only made passing references here and there to it.

When you go NG+ in DaS2 can you just open Shrine of Winter door at the beginning of the playthrough with your already existing 1 million soul memory?

>>150814117
Drangleic is referred to as Drang now. The leic part is supposed to mean lake, as you reach the land through the lake in the beginning cutscene. It means that Drang has been dragged away to its own universe, like a dream from Quella, the spirit tree.

You see the spirit tree has its roots and branches, much like the arch trees, and these roots and branches connect Lothric to Lordran and the Kiln of the first flame.

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If I make a weapon RAW in SoTFS, can I still buff it with spells and miracles like Crystal Magic Weapon and Sunlight Blade?

>>150814560
No, it starts counting the souls starting at the beginning of the playthrough, and it increases by 1 million per cycle, so you need to collect 2 million souls starting from Things Betwixt.

What if Aldrich's visions of an "Age of the Deep Sea" were of Bloodborne? Kos supposedly came from the sea and was washed ashore later

>>150814572
What spirit tree?

>>150814597
Yes. Same goes for all infusions, in fact. Dark Souls 2 exclusive, that.

>>150814989
http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Spirit+Tree+Shield

Is owcs worth the str investment for a dex/luck character?

>>150815261
That seems like a stretch to arrive at the theory you got, but is maybe accurate given the trip that the opening cinematic was. I really wish the gods in DaS2 werent even present or at least expanded on just a tiny bit because adding them in only convolutes things.

We all know that dragons are cucks, but what about giants? Are they Chads? They cucked Vendrick pretty hard desu.

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Is this a good enough build to get me back into DS3?

>>150815557
Vendrick defeated the giants.

I'm stuck in dark souls 2. How do i progress past lost Bastille? I can't beat those sentinels and all the enemies are dead except the ones behind that gate. So yeah what now

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I've made a STR character, then DEX, now what

>>150815808
Clear No Man's Wharf

>>150815808
You git gud and beat the Ruin Sentinels. All of their attacks can be dodged or blocked, learn their patterns and separate them out. If you were able to fight and beat Capra Demon and Ornstein and Smough in DaS1, the Ruin Sentinels are nothing.

The first one is a freebie since you can just fight him solo at the top and the other two won't bother you until you kill him, then they jump up one by one and you can just beat one down until the other joins him and then drop down for more fighting space. And if you can't even manage that, then summon a phantom for easy mode.

>>150809853
>Playing the DS2 remaster
Got it for $9 dollars on sale somewhere.
>Doing some co-op stuff, sunbroing it up.
>Brazil has invaded.
>As he's running down the stairs, he vanishes and appears near me.
>No thanks, I've done my time in launch DS1, don't even engage, leave the game.
>Get like 40 group spam invites from meme groups. ???
>This goes on for like 40 minutes.
>Send him one (1) back.
>He blocks me
kekeke

How come no one ever told me how good the remaster was. I left DS2 behind a while ago when it was shit but all the subtle improvements here are really good. It's well worth my 9 dollaroons.

>>150815808
Use blunt or magic damage against the Sentinels, they're super weak to both of those types of damage. Besides that, if you talked to Licia, just past the Dragon Rider, she'll relocate to the just before Heides Tower of Flame, right outside Majula.

Talk to her and get her to rotate the path for somewhere else to go.

>>150815468
It's just that even in DS3 you travel to the kiln in the last part and it's an entirely different reality. It's not that much of a stretch to see that DS2 can coexist with the other games this way, and trees play a big part in this since they hold the world in a way, like when you go underground in DS1 and see the archtrees. Or in Bloodborne where every tree in the hunter's dream had its own hub, though it's not directly related. It's a good example. The kiln in DS3 looks like a giant tree too if you look at it from the bonfire, now that I remember.

What's the best "big guy" fashion excluding Gundyr's?

>>150816048
Because you should have tried it yourself and formed your own opinion, instead of listening to tripfags who are wrong at least 99% of the time anyways.

>>150815557
But Vendrick beat he Giants. Vendrick's more of a Chad if anything, considering The Last Giant is just broken and defeated in the bottom of a cave

>>150816135
NK

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>>150814356
>>150814731
Alright then, quality is rather low, but I'm just showing how it's done. You can see you only need to space and R1 with an occasional roll.
This is a +7 Ghru spear on a NG+2 character (not 40/40 either).
So keep in mind you'd deal far more damage and have more reach with better spears, but even this is doable.

Don't really need much strategy with these guys.
Shield enemies would be more annoying to deal with but nothing impossible, you usually just backstab them. If you want, I can show how I'd deal with the shield pontiff knight, but I'm rather tired, so I'd rather just sleep.

>>150816135
Nameless King, Black Iron, Faraam, Cathedral Knight, and maybe Lothric Knight, but that might be a stretch.

>>150815872
Which game?
If DaS3, go quality or full pyro.
Enjoy.

>>150809853
>>BLOODBORNE

I thought lucy had been relegated to bbg already

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>>150816297
All of them

Thanks I'll look into it

>>150816369
Say his name enough times and he'll appear, so I'd be careful

Is Albino literally our guy?

>>150816243
is that guy serious

even SoC is piss easy with a spear

>we will never get a helmet similar to havel's but not made of rock
It's probably because Havel was too iconic and anything similar will just be a "ripoff", but really, that's an entire design of helmet I really liked locked away

Can somebody check fashion for me in DS3?

Court Sorcerers Hood
Xanthous Overcoat
Alva Gauntlets + Leggings

>>150815808
Stay on the platform you arrive on when you enter the Ruin Sentinel boss room until you kill the first one (dodge when you get in, because he won't give you any time)
>when he's dead, wait around and another will jump up; get a few hits in, then jump down and do some damage to the remaining Sentinel
>keep backing up and be patient: choose your openings and don't get greedy (good advice for the entire game and/ or series)
As the other ann said, get a blunt weapon like a mace and level it up the raw path if you can.

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>>150816668
pardon the permanently angry face

>>150816402
DaS has great magic, and you can do a split mage/ physical character easily (int/ dex is fun with Velka's Rapier or a buffed katana).
DaS2, pretty much everything is viable, so do what you want. I'm on ng+ with a sorc, and I'm looking forward to grabbing more skeptics' spices so I can branch into hexes: the world's your oyster, unless you want to try offensive faith.

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>>150816483
He's your stereotypical CE edgelord fishing for responses from random people, and whether or not he actually gets them he'll assemble a montage with stale memes and edgy jokes sprinkled throughout.

So yes, he sounds exactly like /dsg/.

I like his non-CE dickery videos though.

>>150816668
SHIT

>>150816483
who?

>>150816813
Shit I guess I meant the regular Sorcerer's hood. The reddish one you find in the flooded woods.

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One thing DS3 nailed right on the head
BLOOD
MORE BLOOD

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>>150817187
looks preddy gud tbhfam

>>150817204

the spray isn't as good as bb though

>>150817291
Thanks

>>150817204
But blood in that game looks like absolute shit compared to Bloodborne. Half the time it looks grey and dry. I turned it off almost immediately

Does DaS1 even have any quality waifus?

>>150812186
We castlevania now

>>150817360
I think Sieglinde is quality leaning STR, but I'm not sure.

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>>150817360

Priscilla.

Gwynevere.

>no good lots-str-no-dex spears
end my suffering anons

>>150813573
he only mentioned straight swords, retard

friday night fc???!??!?

>>150813573
>if he thinks a, then he must think b, c, d, e, and f as well

>>150817646
The criticism was on his line of thought, cocksniffer.

>>150817623
>get excited about no lightning greatlance
>it has no redeeming features
The only thing that comes close to a good charge spear is lothric long spear, which I've tried out for the past hour and it's great for pursing the wounded and passive kiting. It's exactly what I need to make up for DSA's wide short swings.

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>>150817360
Gwyndolin

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>>150817335
>Half the time it looks grey and dry.
Ashen blood.

>>150816828
>unless you want to try offensive faith.
They should've brought back heavenly thunder and blinding bolt in DS3.

>>150817926
Just because there's lore behind it doesn't make it suddenly look good

>>150818001
But that would make some faith miracles good and give incentive to make something that isn't a quality build anon, and miyazaki-san wouldn't want that

>>150817716
>defending a buttflustered whiner

>>150817360
crestfallen warrior

Any good faith weapons? Is saint's bident anything worth considering?

>>150818621
-dragonslayers spear, swordspear
-NO

>>150818851
But the swordspear does shit damage with 22 dex and 12 strength.

Just started DaS3 after finishing SotFS.
Why are all quests so fucking elusive.
>"Hi, I'm a friendly NPC that will die without warning at some point, and my replacement won't spawn if you don't kill yourself 30 times"
>"Hi, I'm a NPC that only befriends you if you spin on yourself twenty five times and a half, kill a generic non-respawning enemy and then say 'Jojo is good, I like Jojo' in your microphone

>>150819000
because the >muh difficult gaem meme

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Why can't bloodborne players stay in their own general?
Why can't bloodborne enemies stay in their own game?

>>150819269
God dammit.
There's a fucking difference between being hard because you require good timing or smart preparation, and being hard because you never warn the player.
Dark Souls 2 warned you that freeing the royal court wizard What's-his-face was a bad idea. Even Dark Souls suggested that Lautrec was a bit shady.

The only warning you get in DaS3 that a NPC can die is when you send the thief for the third time.

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>>150819269
>>150819521
fun

>>150819441
>SWIGGITY SWIGGITY
>I'M COMING FOR THAT BOOTY

>>150819546
Holy shit. I don't want to play Dark Souls anymore.

the hacked stats are so common nice game kek

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>>150819613
>PC

>>150819521
Because fromsoft is now assuming that everyone reads a guide.

How the blithering fuck would anyone even know how/where to look for Siegward if you didn't even meet Patches in the entire fucking playthrough?

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best SPEAR in the game go

>>150819746
Damn it, fuck you fromsoft. I only use guides to know where to find cool weapons. I literally only used it in Dark Souls 3 to get Solaire's set and find where to get cool looking spears.

Because of that, I lost the pilgrim without being able to draw out my true strength, I accidentally aggro'd Patches and had to kill him, and I'm pretty much fucked.

>>150819613
I don't even bother turning CE on anymore. It's so obvious you can tell who's cheating and who isn't.

Where is the guy who was to post his spear duel against one of the mob in Irythrill?

>>150820076
>>150816243

>>150819441
m-muh sekrit club11!!

>>150816243
>>150820136
>>150820076

Is it impossible for them to break out of a spear R1 spam? I swear, they can get a hit in if you're using any other weapon, even a straight sword sometimes.

>>150816243
How the fuck do you stagger him? I swear that when I played, they took damage but weren't interrupted.
Then again, I was using a basic spear instead of the one you're using here. I don't know if it has something to do with damage or if it depends from the weapon's weight.

Shit, I need to reinstall DaS3 now.

>>150819824
GOLDEN RITUAL SPEAR

>>150819824
Mastodon Halberd counts?

If not then for the life of me I couldn't name a single one.
Spears are meme tier tbqhfam.

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Hear me out /dsg/.

Has Dark Souls 3 PVP ever left a bad taste in your mouth? (even if you win)

If yes then please elaborate.

To me it seems like in order to really get somewhere in various situations one needs to resort to using meme weapons. You either die a knight or live long enough to see yourself give in to the tryhard cancer. My source of shame is the Washing Pole. Though I personally love Katanas (call me edgy) even I can admit this thing is ridiculous. Its fucking sheath clips through the ground the whole time you're using it. However the absurdity does not simply end in the looks department.

Pic-related: The shitter's go-to running attack with this travesty of a weapon

>>150820467
Absolutely destroying some cunt that then switches to a parrying shield and manages to get a trade parry into a hornet BKGA riposte. Happened twice today, even if I actually won 3 out of those 5 fights I'm still upset.

>>150820467
>Has Dark Souls 3 PVP ever left a bad taste in your mouth?
Yes. Keep in mind I never fight "fair". Well, I mean I tried once, but I lost. It was infuriating.

What I do most of the time is invading people in a new area, so that I can use it to scout without having to deal with the enemies. 25% of the time, the guy just get killed by the mobs without me having to do anything at all.
70% of the time, the guy spots me from afar, and just rushes me, aggroing many mobs in the process. All I have to do is roll and roll until he get killed.
5% (just one case), I tried to befriend a player, and I showed him the map. Everything went okay, but then he tried to attack me after linking the bonfire. Since he had 1% HP left, I just rolled, grew tired, and threw a throwing knife at him.

I never fought and won a "fair fight". People just assume I'm off to some nefarious purpose, and rush me immediately without any regard to their own safety.
And when I die during an invasion, it's always because the host "cheated". Either had a phantom with the thief ring supporting him and attacking me from behind, or abused summoning mechanism to summon the same guy over and over.

So yeah, there's no way to win an invasion fair and square, and even when I try to be friendly and drop embers, I always get betrayed and backstabbed.

>>150820467
yeah weapon variety in das3 is atrocious

the tiers are readily apparent to anyone who has a brain and playing down a tier is awful against anyone decent

>>150820467
I started out being an honorfag then ended real fucking low anon, let me tell you
>duels
I pull out gundyr's every time I see CCS, 2kat or WP
I actually BC out if the enemy is using bloodring gotthards and doing nothing but roll 16 times then L1 when you never expect it
>invasions
I use every single meta weapon in my inventory, have hornet on and even BC to spite blues if I know I have absolutely no way of winning

Anybody got an extra pyro flame? Need one for my pyro build only having one looks unaesthetic. Im on PC at high wall password is dsg

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>>150820931
Nobody?

>>150820931
let me look if i have a pyro past gundyr

>>150821198
Ok

>>150820851
Oh lord how I hate the Gundyr and the Gotthards.

What was FROM thinking?

>>150821171
sorry i dont :(

>>150821171
Sorry, no.

>>150821298
>>150821329
Thanks anyways anons

>>150820931
i will give you one. it would be nice if you could give me Dark Hand for it thought

>>150821356
Sorry I can't I plan to use one for my build too.

>>150821431
Duplicate your save, drop him one, restore your save and receive the flame hand.

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Whipped this up while drunk and tired at 3:40 am to yin-yang my Moon Knight. Thoughts?
I don't know whether or not to keep the Zwei.
Going to sleep now. I'll check out the replies when I wake up.

>>150821431
why was i downscaled, i'm sl1?

Thanks for it anon

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>watch video of Throne Watcher and Throne Defender fight
>Throne Watcher lets out female scream when it dies
>check image galleries
>it actually has tits
>but all the descriptions say "he"
Other instances of the translators fucking up?

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>>150821569

>>150821459
>>150821550
could you do what he suggested?

>>150821569
genders are convoluted

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>>150821569
Fresh from /nepgen/.

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>>150820758
I don't think FROM intended Dark Souls to be heavy on the dueling aspect. You wanna know when I really have blood-pumping heart-pounding fun? And I'm sure many would agree with me.

It's when you invade someone and it's chaos everywhere. Blue chasing red chasing host whilst giant Mr Crabs is attacking anyone he can get his paws on. You buff your weapon and go right in to get down and dirty. Before you know it the Watchdogs have crashed the party. Who'll turn on who....COMPLETE PANDEMONIUM. Know what I mean? This is the true Dark Souls multiplayer experience as intended.

Simple 1v1 me faggot duels aren't even half as fun.

>>150818965
Yeah, dsss is a quality weapon with yellow flavouring.

reminder that 709, 838, and 802 superman builds are objectively the most balanced and fun builds in the entire game

you literally cannot prove me wrong in any way

>Still no dlc announcement
What the fuck is this shit

>>150821487
Why no just lightning claymore with a few miracles? Also, iirc DM bow is shit, straight downgrade to divine composite except for looks

>>150821834
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>>150821764
What I really like during invasion is how you can lead the host in a trap. I told you earlier, but I never fought fair in invasions.

I still have 99 embers because people get so obsessed they go directly toward me.
And in the catacombs, it's already to see them running toward me only to get crushed by the bone ball.

>>150821834
Why those numbers?

>>150822097
Max level
>>150821834
>not 713
Seriously though, it would come down to everyone using pretty much the same shit as that 387 dude

>>150822097
They're the highest respective levels in Dark Souls, SotFS, and Dark Souls III.

Bloodborne is 544, Memeon's Souls is 712.

>>150822230
Infinite ways to play fampai.

>>150822317
One optimal kofam. Might as well play on a level it does take 3 years to reach without cheating

>obscuring ring
>slumbering ring
>untrue ring
>pop dried finger
>go stretch out in the deep end of crucifixion woods water
:^)

Can you drop covenant items for other people?

>>150822007
They run straight towards you because they must have a white. The moment you summon a phantom you become a champion. That's the way it has been and that's how it'll be.

>>150822637
you're doing god's work for darkmoons and sentinels if you have way of the blue on

>>150822673
Rewards, not offerings

>>150822673
no

>>150822678
They're retarded.
>that one time in the catacomb
>manages to lure the enemies to the fire demon by cutting down the bridge and throwing primstones
>run in a wall, with the camera to watch behind me
>the enemy appears with his phantom right behind him
>phantom stays behind, he knows the trick
>host literally sprints toward me, thinking I'm lagging
>roll at the last time
>the demon's fireball toast him, killing him instantly
>point down
>phantom arrives to avenge him
>get burned too
>point down again
It happened months ago and I'm still laughing about it.

Is the saint's bident worth using?

>>150822678
Not in my experience.
>Host with two phantoms and a blue
>They're tap dancing 10m away from me refusing to attack

>>150822931
Because you play with pubs. You need to play with friends.

>>150822960
>having friends

>>150822960
What? I'm the invader.

>>150822816
I got 560 AR from it on my Faith build, but that's with Lightning Blade. Not really. It looks pretty, but it gets outclassed by every longer spear.

>it's a dark souls video showing some kind of invasion method
>shitty royalty free clown music starts playing
every time

>>150823037
>longer spear
>than the baint's sident
stop memeing

The thing that pisses me off with Dark Souls is how easy everything seems as soon as you can pass it.
I remember dropping Dark Souls 2 for weeks because I couldn't beat the old Dragonslayer, and now I can beat him easily.

I bet once I killed that faggot Sulivan, all Irythrill will seem piss easy.

>>150820467
Dark Souls 3 PvP with good players is terrible.
>nothing but running attack wp
>nothing but roll catching css
>nothing but wa 2kat
>nothing but rolling gotthards
>nothing but rolling ags
The best way to win is by using one-trick ponies. The worst of it is that when people can't do their one trick they stand still and do nothing until you get bored and attack. It will never be fixed because the issue is with core parts of the game.

>Lothric's holy swerd
>supposedly a quality/faith qeapon
>scales off both jack and shit
That's some damn good design there

>>150820467
yeah if the guy is autistic and tryhard as fuck he'll just wait til you're bored and fish out attacks and just turtle forever.

makes this a shit game 2bh

>>150811327

OH BUT THE VOLCANOES
I don't want to believe that it has no lyrics after all

>>150823206
Pontiff phase 2 is easy when you have enough flask

>invade with a greatbow at the big catacombs staircase

works every time since they have to stop at some point to let the ball go past them

>>150823946
My problem is to reach him.

>>150823476
I'm hoping that FROM understands that those are all inherently broken and not just simply powerful
>washing pole running attacks
way too fast and immense range with the help of lag
>roll catching CCS
honestly they should only tone down the damage and the speed a little bit but that's all
>wa 2kat
death combo
>rolling gotthards L1
same as WP
>rolling R1 ags
just broken, a downward slash shouldn't do counter damage.

Would like to add lucerne to this list which has a horrible death combo if you get two hits in and then add the wa.

Should I play DaS1 on PC or PS3?

>>150824229
lucerne is not the problem, spin sweep is

>>150824229
Man I really wanted to enjoy pvping in DS3 but now I think I'm going the white phantom route. To see if jolly cooperation fares any better.

>>150824563
pvp has always been garbage
low level invasions is where the fun is at

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>>150824473
You should play Bloodborne on PS4. DS3 can be hit or miss but BB is pure addiction.

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I like this guy I made. Anyone else?

>>150824685
I only play Souls game for the jolly cooperation. I really love how having a phantom to help greatly improves the game.

>>150824549
>spin sweep
death combo in general is broken
Caestus is a good example.
>>150824563
Honestly PvP is good, you just have to be a host and summon people that don't use "meta" weapons and do the tryhards all day. Otherwise low lvl pvp is really fun.

>>150824643
I just respec my one character when I want to try out different builds. Making a new character just for invasions seems like a hassle desu. Is the increase in traffic really worth it or is the SL 60 +5 weapon thing just a meme?

>>150824685
I'm waiting for PS4 Slim

>>150824708
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer

>>150824825
>SL60 +5
Try SL20 +3

>>150824839
I read that book. I didn't really like it. But I can see what you mean.

>>150824708
Hey that's bretty gud. The classic war veteran look. I'd go with a greatsword or something if I were you.

>>150824890
Hmm.... alright I will. Areas?

Would a vitgouge crossbow build be viable in DS3?

>tfw someone just attacks repeatedly with spammy/laggy weapon arts for cheap hits

>fucking another player with a bleeding-infused katana
>blocks his hits with a shield
>still get bleeding buildup
I don't hit. Does it go through my shield and makes me bleed somehow?

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Reminder that the person responsible for the "best pvp of the series" is also responsible for DS3 PVP

>>150822816
No. Spears with sub-400 AR are unusable.

>>150825067
late high wall
all of settlements
all of road of sacrifices
all of cathedral
all of catacombs
even irithyll and dungeon

remember boss and unique weapons that only go up to +5 count twice as much, so a +1 black knight sword is considered a +2 weapon

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YO DOOD

any news on that upcoming Soul of Cinder figure?

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How much would an armour like that cost, realistically speaking?
Is it even possible to have that black effect hiding your face?

>>150825558
no

>>150825424
Miyazaki stifled any semblance of good mechanics from Tanimura in III. Obvious.

what's the cheat engine situation like on pc? am i getting fucked for spawning in slabs and rings on new builds so i dont have to clear three times for all the gear i want?

>>150825514
How does the weapon matchmaking work exactly?

For instance if I get one weapon upto +10 and leave it in my storage box then Ill still be placed in the top-tier pool indefinitely?

Why do the Giants in the Cathedral drop dung pies?

>>150825704
yes

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What was he so mad about when he woke up?

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>>150825280
>Every single DS3 fight

>>150825737
everybody poops.

>>150825770
Lore wise? His sacrifice killed everyone and didn't want to link the fire anymore.
Meme wise? He realized he has a face

>>150825770
seeing this made me realize how fucking disappointing dark souls 3 was, and how yhorm kind of encapsulates everything wrong with das3.

>>150825992
>how yhorm kind of encapsulates everything wrong with das3.
pls explain

you were seriously hoping for ds2 references?

>>150825558
>Figures
I will never understand this shit

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kinda feel bad invading someone THIS new

>>150826042
potentially cool boss fight with EPIC lore and maybe a das2 throwback reduced to a meme fanservice gimmick fight

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>>150826109
>was expecting meme fanservice
>but instead got different kind of meme fanservice
how horrifying

>>150825681
It got better in DaS3, but DaS is unplayable.

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>>150826109
I know what you mean. Believe it or not I defeated him on my first try on my very first playthrough because I had somehow successfully managed to fulfill the Siegfried questline and he surprisingly joined in when the time came. In fact, I don't think he even managed to get a proper hit in because the poor guy kept getting stun-locked to death.

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>>150826201

>>150825681
nah its CE central
everyone cheats in ds3

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>>150826363

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>>150826417

>>150825681
if you're playing with someone who is chinese just BC out
they're always cheating

>>150810421
ippiki is still a total trash at souls games, i see

>>150826103
This is just a jap, they don't care about steam profiles usually.

>madman
>have to kill ALL the phantoms or the host
>can't kill enemies to get the reward
>can't even aid in boss fights
>reward is ass anyway
what a shit covenant

Dark Souls had Chester, Dark Souls 2 had Shalquoir and Cromwell.
Does Dark Souls 3 have any NPCs with a sexy voice?

>>150824708
Scars aren't that shade of red, unless you want people to think he's covered in blood.

>>150826793
Warmth?

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HERE COME DAT DRAGON
O SHIT WADDUP

HERE COME DAT DRAGON
O SHIT WADDUP

WATCH HIM ROARING
WATCH HIM FLY

WATCH HIM ROARING
WATCH HIM FLY

BREATHIN FIRE DOWN THE PATH
WON'T ESCAPE FROM HIS WRATH

>High Wall of Lothric
>Archdragon Peak (Twice)
>Lothric Castle Dragon Barracks

Did I miss any area?

>>150826821
THAT FUCKING BIRD >>150826707
>>150826486
>>150826417
>>150826363
>>150826201

>>150826887
>the crow
>having a good voice
It's just high-pitched pipsqueak. Sounds like an anime dub of an old woman trying to sound like a little girl.

>>150826821
fire keeper 's voice turns me the FUCK on 2bqh

>>150826821
karla reminds me of shalquoir, not as played up though

>>150826924
Ur gay

>>150826887
Ornifex is objectively better.

>>150827006
you're a weeb with garbage taste

>>150827017
too slutty

>>150827071
But that voice. These cute feathers. These BOSS WEAPONS.

>>150826885
i dont remember it being that big

>>150826821
Eygon desu

>>150819000
>you have to go to locations in specific sequence for Siegmeiyer's quest, one of which is also a hidden location
>you have to be a big enough waifufag to offer humanity a trillion times to the
deaf mute girl to save Solaire
>can only see Quelanna after you get a +10 Flame and love Blighttown so much you want to go see it again
Most players won't be able to finish those quests in their first and blind playthrough.

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>>150827058
I know you are but what am I?

>>150827175
a N E R D

>>150827175
a huge fucking cuck

>>150827151
Damn, yeah. A shame they picked the same cryptic bullshit in Dark Souls 3.
For all the shit Dark Souls 2 got, at least it wasn't overly cryptic. It just had too much knights and that fucking SM bullshit.

>>150827251
Thinking sure is hard isn't it anon

>>150827297
>Just think up your own story you dummy!
>With the power of imagination!

>>150819000
>you have to understand how to control world tendency, character tendency and replay through old levels regularly or else you'll never see most of the NPC character in anywhere else but the loading screens
And back then people weren't so in the know about the tricks of this series. People were SO much more lost than they are now. And we loved it.

You people are a bunch of babies.

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>>150827151
dont bring up brolaire please...

>>150827342
I have a feeling you don't even understand the appeal of this series

>>150827431
nah, cryptic environmental narrative is the appeal, most of the "quests" have always been ass impossible to possible know without looking them up

>>150827431
I was just memeing pally wally don't mind me. Actually adore the subtle tone and narrative of souls.

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>>150827128
It's huge I'm not sure but I think it might be larger than the ancient Dragon, and the everlasting dragon on the mountain across from archdragon peak just makes me nervous.

>>150816483
No, he isn't.

>>150827251
That's exactly what I hate about DS2, it's too shallow and just throw everything at you right away. There's no sense of exploration or feeling of mystery, it's just the same grind over and over. As much as the Thralls and their bullshit ambushes piss me off, they are still way more exciting than 9 fucking Syan knights with their shields up blocking the entrance to Velstaldt's fog gate.

>>150816483
>lmao look at me cheat
>don't mind the fact that I've bought the game 6 times haha

>>150827365
>man, I'm so le smart because I know how to use internet
Bitch, please. There's a difference between a good game who let you figure things out and a shitty game that deliberaly hides things for you. Dark Souls is the latter.

>>150827626
I dunno, I really loved the Gutter. It's an area that you have to explore slowly.

>>150827626
>Thralls and their bullshit ambushes
You can skip their ambush in the cathedral of the deep entirely and flank the ones hiding on a roof.

>tfw you got the cool monk head wrappings
YES!!!

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>Get killed by gankers during an invasion in the Crucifixion Woods
>They all point down low towards my body

What is it with this shitty gesture spammed by edgy tryhards everywhere?

Doesn't even make any sense. Yep that's where I died. What of it?

>>150827839
it's to make you mad

and it worked

>>150827175
THE GOD KING OF DUNG PIES

>>150827717
>everything has to be spoonfed to me otherwise the game is shit
I bet you think artificial is a actually a thing too you big babby.

>>150827717
>a shitty game that deliberaly hides things for you.
Hiding exciting optional stuff from you is one of the best things this series does. Every other developer is so scared of the player not getting to experience absolutely everything on their first playthrough but From actually rewards the devout player who bothers to explore and replay their game.

If I was a kid playing Dark Souls, discovering Ash Lake would make me shit my pants. It would have been the greatest thing I've ever seen. But then there are faggots like you who are no fun at all. Please fuck off.

>>150827947
*artificial difficulty

>>150827947
Nice strawmanning.

>>150828020
>more strawmanning
>AND childish namecalling
And here we see the drones' wits ending.

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>>150827571
Well technically he wasn't an Everlasting Dragon was he? He is simply referred to in-game as a "towering archdragon"

It's my personal wish that FROM shows us how this mountain sized dragon's demise came about in one of the DLC. Man that payoff at the end of Archdragon Peak when you glimpse the "mountain" from a closer point of view. THAT'S how you end the area on a high note (pun intended).

Then it hits you that it's called Archdragon Peak because there's literally an Archdragon at the top.

GG WP FROM

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>>150827717
>I dunno, I really loved the Gutter. It's an area that you have to explore slowly.
There's a difference between good and bad level design.
Cathedral of the deep has a great level design for example, if you observe the location you can find alternative ways to finish it, bypassing harder zones and flanking enemies to have an easier time with encounters.
Gutter is a straight path lined with poison-spewing statues you literally need to slowly grind through. This is the case with 99% of DS2 and its encounter design. It lacks any sort of tactics, it exclusively rewards going extremely slow and attracting attention of 1-2 enemies at a time.

>>150828116
>it exclusively rewards going extremely slow and attracting attention of 1-2 enemies at a time
Like every Souls game?

>>150828163
No, like DS2 alone. All other games have way better anti-group combat capabilities on top of way better level design.

>>150827736
>lowers spell defense
>raises spell attack
>I don't use magic attacks at all

FUCK!!!

>>150828116
I see your point, but I still don't like how Dark Souls 3 is deliberaly cryptic. I understand the devs wanting to keep things hidden, but having NPCs dying or acting up without any warning is a dick move.

>>150828214
I can't remember a single area in DaS3 where you have to use the torch. To light up the road, I mean. Otherwise, it's very good against leeches, but I never used it.

>>150828338
Keep telling yourself you won, kid.

>>150828290
I used it for the dark room in Irithyll, pretty handy desu. It also lets me fulfil the dream of being a real torch hollow, although the attacks are slow like molasses.

>>150828373
Nothing else I can do really since there's no counter-argument to respond to.

Does anyone on PC have a spare slumbering dragoncrest ring they could drop?

>>150828441
Guess I went through it too quickly then.

Fun fact : you in fact shouldn't use fire against leeches. It makes them vomit in your wound, which then can infect.

>>150828482
just fucking put on scholars ring and do the quest

>"Lord of the Fallen is totally like Dark Souls!"
>try it
>it's a slow as fuck boring game
>"Malebolgia is totally like Dark Souls!"
>try it
>it's Early Access bullshit with copypasted corridors
>"Oblitus is totally like Dark Souls!"
>try it
>it's a 2D game where you die forever when you're killed
>"Salt & Sanctuary is totally like Dark Souls!"
>try it
>it's a shitty 2D grinding game
I'm going to avoid every game that pretends to be "like Dark Souls" from now on. This has become the new buzzword for everyone game that isn't piss-easy, except Dark Souls is actually fun.

>>150828290
>I can't remember a single area in DaS3 where you have to use the torch.
If you adjust the brightness properly the torch becomes pretty much essential on your FIRST PLAYTHROUGH, since you have no idea what you're walking into.

>>150828652
lord of the fallen was hilariously bad and watching people try to hype it up as the SOULS KILLER was embarrassing as fuck

>>150828112
I thought the archdragons were the everlasting dragons and it was just memezaki not following his own naming conventions.
Archdeacon peak was such an aesthetically pleasing area I just wish it had slightly more in it and an actual dragon covenant

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>>150828652
>not just realizing a shill when you see it.

>>150828689
>touch the goblet in Catacombs
>warped into a pitch black room
>light up the torch
>OH
>SHIT
what a great moment, honestly

>>150828652
dark souls 2 is aq lot like dark souls, you might want to try that

Any fun cosplay/roleplay builds for DS2?
Unnecessary discourse below, ignore if you just got a good suggestion.
I've finished it, liked it, on many accounts I think it improved but... I dunnow. I felt like it has a weaker atmosphere.

Like the covenants. They serve their gameplay purpose (co-op, PvP, dueling), but I find little in-character reason to join them.

Like "guarding the bell" is a silly motive compared to "take vegnance on those who deflied the image of the godess",
or "let's worship the dark" instead of "let's try usher the age of firelesness, where humanity might TRULY rule"
or "let's protect our filthy rat turf from nasty two legged intruders" instead of "let's serve the lord of death, and be the wardens of the grave"

>>150828729
And to think I feel for the hype. I am still embarassed.

I just wanted a Dark Souls-like game with more exploration and less bosses. A game where you arrive everything everything is consumed and you try to figure out what happened by looking at clues, something like that.
Something like a mix between Betrayer and Dark Souls, I guess.

>>150828729
>tfw you paid full price for Lotf

>>150828831
Yeah, figuring out the myth have always been a charming factor in Souls games.

>>150828785
>it's a shitty ass boss that dies in 9 hits
Nice game design from

>>150828652

What about Necropolis?

>>150828754
Archdragons went almost extinct after the DS1 intro. There's most likely only one surviving member which is found in the Ash Lake. As you can judge from the design in their intro and the one we actually meet they are quite smaller and different looking compared to the Archdragon.

However there WAS a dragon covenant with a transformation, gesture, armor and everything. What more do you want?

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>>150828946
It's not a great fight but at least the reveal and the look of it is still fun even on replays.

>>150828956
Unbelievably shit. I mean, Lords of the Fallen is still a satisfying game in some aspects, Necropolis has nothing.

It's a "roguelike" in the same sense Rogue Legacy is, a game that locks content behind death.
It's a permadeath game with infinitely respawning enemies that home on your location WITH NO ABILITY TO PAUSE THE GAME
It has basically no content, regardless. 15 minutes in you've already seen all it has to offer.

>>150828652
>I'm going to avoid every game that pretends to be "like Dark Souls" from now on
Yeah that's the smartest thing to do.

If any game knows what makes Dark Souls what it is, and has it, then it will just list those features off.

>>150828937
I know, right?
Betrayer tried to make something based on this, but they failed to exploit it, so it quickly turns into "Go here to clue A, then go here for clue B while killing everything on your path, and then talk to the ghost, end the quest, and go on".
If they tried something like that in Dark Souls and managed to keep it interesting (and semi-random), it would reward exploring and getting involved in the lore, but it would be difficult to implement it without having the character talking.

>>150828956
>>150829068
Wow. I'm removing it from my wishlist.