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Dark Souls isn't fair but it is easy.

Go back to Reddit.

>>14873626

>Go back to Reddit.

fuck you

>>14873606

What else did you expect from /v/core?

>>14873635

Excuse me your highness.

Fuck off back to Reddit.

>>14873638

Something where the first part of a boss fight doesn't waste my estus because I'm trying to dodge some other fat cunt for 10 minutes like a jackass hoping the 3rd knight does any amount of damage before fucking dying?

>>14873670

>dodges are fucking suicide

what the fuck are you doing you retarded mongoloid

dodging is necessary for every build. Instead of blaming your builds you should neck yourself for failing to dodge extremely telegraphed attacks from an enemy that can't even two shot you

It was hard the first time as a mixed bag Herald class but as a mage the Legion was easy as fuck and afterwards i got to memorize its pattern and it was just as easy as a dexfag. Bottom point is that in Souls games the game becomes easier if you just focus on being really good at something instead of being lame at everything.

>>14873764

Even worse, if you just want to roll past enemies to get to boss fights they can attack you through the fucking fog if you're too close

>>14873788

>getting angry at a game means you hate it

the opposite is usually true, if you dislike a game you're usually too apathetic to care. I wish I was, believe me

>>14873606

>artificial difficulty

Translation: I can't roll correctly

DS3 is actually the easiest game in the series outside of the Ringed City DLC.

>>14873838

>roll

>oh shit here comes cunt #2

>roll

>lose stamina

>can't attack now

>must repeat above steps

>>14873877 (checked)

>doing literally nothing except mashing the attack button until they die

Not every boss does that actually work you're bullshitting

>>14873661

What boss is that?

>>14873912

Abyss Watchers

>>14873606

>Dark Souls is fair they said

>plays dark souls 3

3 is awful anon, easily as bad as 2 was

>try to improve against encounters through trial and error, training on trash to learn how to parry and dodge

>ask dark souls communities for tips or further guidance

>receive an endless wave of "git gud" and no constructive feedback whatsoever

The dark souls community is probably more autistic than the nep nep community, but at least the latter are welcoming.

>>14873889

Try attacking the fake watcher, another will spawn and it'll start attacking the real one. It's simple as fuck.

>>14873951

I end up trying to dodge the fake watcher and the real one until the third spawns and even then sometimes the fake one goes after the third one who can't do significant damage to the real one. Shit pisses me off

>>14873951

To add to this, stop being a pussy and make sure your Vigor is good. Don't be so afraid to attack. If you're running a magic build then maybe you should restart your playthrough.

>complaining about dark souls difficulty

>thinks abyss watchers are hard

>brb

Posting in a cuckchan thread.

>>14873916

is been a while since I faced them with a non-twink setup.

>>14873958

I split the real and the first fake watcher up, then I kill the fake one. Usually works like a charm. Are you fat rolling by any chance?

>>14873993

I'm mid rolling

>>14873889

>Not every boss does that actually work you're bullshitting

No, not in DS3 it doesn't, because Poise is garbage. In DS1/2 enemies couldn't interrupt your animations (including your estus animation) if you had enough of it.

Armor in general means next to nothing in DS3. Keep your weight at a minimum and equip a good weapon/shield. If rolling isn't working out for you, try a high stability shield instead.

>>14874012

Yeah mid rolling will screw you up believe it or not. Also what this anon said >>14874013

Kinda sucks that they never properly put poise in.

>>14874013

>Armor in general means next to nothing in DS3

You take considerably more damage if you have unequipped slots. The optimal garb is lightest rags you can get.

>>14874013

You forgot, fashion souls is crippled because you can't upgrade your armor either.

>>14874013

>Armor in general means next to nothing in DS3

It's important for damage mitigation, also make sure you have something in every slot or you suffer a large penalty to it.

>>14874038

I'm not sure what you guys are on about, medium roll in 3 is pretty good, way bigger difference between light and medium in 1.

>>14874052

>>14874038

>>14874044

I'll try a lighter load and see if light rolling is better, I prefer more responsiveness anyhow

>>14873900

As far as I know, weapon upgrading affects invasions just as it does summons. In fact, I'm pretty sure that was the entire point: to keep twinks from invading "newbies" in low-level areas.

>>14874114

All they had to do was use area progression as conditions for invasion, that would be much more fair and make more sense than upgrades.

>>14874154

>area progression as conditions for invasion

Except you need to have the lordvessel and kill the 4 kings if you want to invade as a red, and at the very least get the lordvessel if you want to be a blue.

So you're saying, remove the ability to invade any area accessible before Anor Londo?

>>14873670

What

They telegraph the fuck out of their attacks, you just need to dodge when their attack is about to connect rather than as soon as they launch themselves. It takes SOME degree of trial-and-error to get the pattern down if you can't just observe them from a distance, but the Abyss Watchers are really not that fucking hard.

And if you're really, REALLY frustrated just summon someone and curbstomp them, shit.

>>14873670

>>14874212

Also general dodge advice.

>Abuse the invulnerability frames of your dodge.

>You generally avoid damage through these frames, not because your roll built up distance.

>Dodge through attacks, not away from them.

This allows you to position yourself better with more aggressive dodges.

>>14874239

>>Dodge through attacks, not away from them.

This is probably the biggest one a LOT of people don't get when they first play dork suls

You're not trying to take a step back, you're trying to reposition yourself into your target's weak spot. Also, because most things swing with their right hand, you want to roll to your right (their left) while facing them.

>>14874200

>Except you need to have the lordvessel and kill the 4 kings if you want to invade as a red

you can kill the 4 kings before getting the lordvessel, they're not blocked off by the light doors

>>14874293

You need the lordvessel or the dude wont give you the key to drain New Londo, but I guess you can murder him for it instead?

I can't believe now Dancer is one of the bosses I can kill consistently underl Lv30 compared to other bosses, she gave me so much trouble at the beginning and now for some reason I have gotten the feel of when she is going to pull some BS.

>>14874351

You can defeat 4kings early because that way you can meet Kaate and find out what is really going on with the 'choosen undead' prophecy

>>14874440

You can talk to any of them with the lordvessel and just not place it so you can still use both services, just homeward out of there.

>baaaaaw i'm a stupid retard who can't beat a game that requires common sense

Kill yourself

>>14874524

At least is not KH2 which has a hidden "revenge" value that discourages combos when the rest of the game encourages it.

>Cousin have a Xbox 360

>First time I ever played Dark Souls, going blind without even knowing the fame it had

>Fucked plenty of times but absolutely astonished by it

>360 breaks and I lose my save that is barely beyond Undead Burg

>Get CFW PS3

>Get to play Dark Souls again

>Get to collect the Soul of Nito, never get to kill fucking Seth

>Needless to say, it was pretty fucking hard to get here without guides

>PS3 breaks

>Download on PC, said fuck it and try to cheat to start with the level and souls I had

>Game is still extremely difficult even when my level is high for low areas

I really love this game. I just wanted to finish it and went and cheated to over Level 450 and things are still hard to fucking kill full Str, Dex, Endurance and FaithAlso, got to make a 350 int mage and they have it so easy, holy shit

>>14873626

>retarded avatarfaggot

>having the entitlement to tell anyone to fuck off back to reddit

of all the people nigger, it should be you

>>14873670

make use of iframes you autistic motherfucker, they exist for a reason

>>14874050

Fashion Souls isn't about max effectiveness anyway. You gotta work to be stylin'.

>>14873925

I have a sudden urge for Nep Souls.

>>14874114

For the remaster? Because it's only related to character level in the original game. t. Fag who invaded Blighttown cosplaying a silver knight archer.

>>14875193

Just summon literally anybody including NPC Gael, and just backstab her. It works for the edgy watchers too. It's just sad.

>>14875193

Yeah you definitely need a summon for friede,and even then you gotta watch each others backs

>>14874785

>For the remaster? Because it's only related to character level in the original game. t. Fag who invaded Blighttown cosplaying a silver knight archer.

Yes, the remaster assigns you a matchmaking rank based on the weapons that have been made available to you.

Note that I did not say the weapons you have equipped, or the weapons in your inventory, or even something as moderately more intelligent as the enhancement level of your weapons. I'm literally referring to the mere existence of certain weapons increasing your matchmaking rank.

So if you get a really lucky Black Knight weapon drop early on in the game, say goodbye to your fucking summon signs, because they're not going to have weapons good enough to match your rank.

The Souls games are all irredeemable shit.

>>14874793

>tfw play dark souls for the first time

>Find bonfire near the hydra

>After fucked by the hydra for so long I finally find Sif's graveyard

>have to run a fucklong distance and dodge rolling cats just to get curbstomped by the fucking dog

>restart game because I blame my build

>minmax to the best of my ability

>get curbstomped all over again

I miss thise days when things in Dark Souls looked so inpossible to do. Challenging the hydra felt hopeless to me. I felt like a mouse running towards a firefighter with a shotgun. Fuck Sif, not only was he fast but he was steong as fuck. On paper that looks like a broken design for a boss. Too bad like most things in Souls games you just defeat them by cheesing them in areas where they can't attack you.

>>14875887

*shit

>make my skull knight build for DS:R

>decide faith and end are the way to go this time

>spec 16 str/dex for dark sword

>30 faith/end

>stay a solid SL59 for most of the game

>occult dark sword

>it fucking trashes twinky low-hp builds

>because I've always played with high poise and high armor my 14 vit will last me 3 swings from a memezwei

>figuring out what miracles to use to make use of my faith

>start out with lightning

>realize lightning is only good for bosses who don't move around very much

>get Tranquil walk of peace

>"I've never really used this, let's try it out"

>no one has ever experienced TWoP

>they will incessantly try rolling away

>Dark hand becomes 100% more useful

>hesbonedry.DIO

>gain rank fast in the covenant because TWoP makes stealing humanity that much easier and Occult Dark Sword rips through health bars

>Phantoms slowly become a bigger problem

>I need some crowd control

>"I've never really used WoTG.."

>TWoP + WoTG = Phantoms Vanquished

>hosts will usually be too scared from losing two phantoms to realize I only have enough casts to rid myself of a stark few deviants

>this allows me to use Dark Sword's roll catching heavy attack when they eventually poke and roll or go in for a swing after I've already started my animation

I've never felt so powerful, my next task is to get the Moonlight Greatsword, since that seems to be the canonical Blade of Actuation the Skull Knight creates. That will effectively make this a hex build if I buy the velka talisman.

>>14873606

>still playing after souls 1

>even playing DS3: Lore Rape

>being ok with not-bloodborne gameplay and things being balanced around pvp because reddit cries otherwise

>dying to an simple gank boss you can parry/backstab and even get a summon for

unironically git gud

>>14873670

Dude, just use fucking Sellsword Twinblades. I did an only dex build and beat them first try

>>14875908

>playing souls 1

>playing any of these garbage games

>>14875756

>>14875373

Twinking is a temporary problem that goes away after a certain point and everyone has the opportunity to have optimized equipment. Its less of an issue the farther you get into the game. I'd say for Dark Souls that point is after you get the lordvessel. In NG+ you don't need any matchmaking besides soul level.

My idea for matchmaking would be to include the souls spent on your equipment to be included with the souls spent on your level, in addition to different types of equipment having a base "soul investment" level that corresponds with its general strength. Instead of counting everything in your inventory and adding it up, or just what you have equipped, it takes the highest possible equipped value of the items in your inventory.

>>14875193

>Taking a boss clearly tooled for a Bloodborne game and putting it into Roll Souls.

so

>pontiff sulyvann

>the dancer

>dragon slayer armor

>tekken champion stundyr

as well? cause yeah you're right DS3 is rife with bloodborne envy.

>>14875995

weeaboos are the niggers of the internet

>>14876086

Both weabs and Dork Souls players should fuck off tbh.

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>>14876749

>I had way more fun invading low lvl players in DaS3

My absolute nigger. I loved invading Undead Settlement at SL21 with Vordt's Hammer +1, ROF, Chain, and Havel's. Could fast roll with big weapon and decently heavy armor. Even 3v1 ganks with endgame password phantoms was tolerable twinking like that.

>>14875193

Other than her lore, design and feet I hate this bitch. Such a slog to fight and I love Midir and Gael. It would have been fine if powered up Friede was a separate boss.

>>14874200

As soon as you step foot in an area, you can be matched up against someone who has also been to that area.

>>14874261

>Also, because most things swing with their right hand, you want to roll to your right (their left) while facing them.

It really depends on the arc of their swing, some niggers have wide ass swings and you should be dodging to their weapon hand instead, also dodging to the shield hand of shield niggers is stupid and you should be dodging to the weapon hand as well.

>>14875193

That's my problem with Dark Souls 3 in general. It's a poor man's Bloodborne, and it doesn't really mashes well with Dark Souls combat scheme. Bloodborne was designed to be fast and aggressive; seldom any shields, everything staggers quickly, you can rally lost HP by bashing your enemies, heals are near-instantaneous, magic is severely cut down, etc. Dark Souls wasn't like that. It was slow and methodical. Most people played it as a sword and board type of game. The third entry into the series wanted to be both games at the same time, but it failed pretty hard in my opinion. It's neither Bloodborne, nor it is Dark Souls. It's still a fun game though, but it suffers from Bloodborne envy.

I'm a gamer

I'm an oldfag who has played more than probably 90% of this board. 1v1 me on quite a few fighting/racing/sports/FPS games and there's a good chance you'll lose.

How many people do you know got the hand cannon on RE4? Or all those faggot purple coins on Mario Galaxy. I was using the shottie to kill sword-lunges on Halo 2 before anyone we played with knew it could be done, before it was ever a Bulltrue medal.

I own DeS, DS, DS2 - all for PS3

I have platinumed DeS & DS

Souls games are for masochists, are like heroin - addictive and bad for you, and are overrated.

How the fuck did you have problems with the Abyss Watchers?

It's probably one of the easiest boss to evade.

I hate Aldrich and is arrow shit though.

>>14876836

Yep it is a big problem with DSIII. I still enjoy it but the hyper combos and speed of every fucking enemy gets old quick, throw in some with bloated HP, bosses that do the same and the reliance on rolls and lack of build variety and DSIII suffers big time.

>>14876836

>>14876899

None of these things are true. I'm sorry you never figured out how to git gud and relied exclusively on GS turtling in 1 and 2.

But Abyss Watcher Commander telegraphs his commands so much… If you really have that much trouble with it, summon some help…

>>14876926

I just finished yet another run of DS3 where I parried often and rolled. No shields. One big problem with DS3 is that rolling is far and away the better defensive option than shields and/or armour, which encourages players to not bother with them other than for parrying.

>>14876931

>One big problem with DS3 is that rolling is far and away the better defensive option than shields and/or armour

You mean active mitigation with a high skill ceiling is finally more powerful than passive mitigation with an extremely low skill ceiling? Sheeeeit, ya don't say! Tell me more about how sad you are that you can't just throw on heavy armor, buff up, and trade with bosses until you win like you used to.

>>14876936

>you can't just throw on heavy armor, buff up, and trade with bosses

When the fuck was this ever true, especially on NG+s

>>14876938

It works all the way through 1 until you reach NG+, and hint: most people never touch NG+. High poise + armor is disgustingly broken in 1, as are greatshields for the entirety of 1 and 2.

>>14873900

I think weapon matchworking is based 0-5 then 6-15 but I don't really remember. Pyro glove counts as weapon but armour doesn't. Special weapons like dark hand and boss weapons start at 5.

I got indicted so many times by shitters who thought I was giving them an easy backstab only to get BLACKED in the face with pursuers and dank beads

>>14876940

Well I guess I platinumed 1 the wrong way running around with Divineclaymore, grasscrest shield, and a mixture of knight/crimson/theif sets for armor

>>14876936

You're a total fag.

Souls games weren't ever these big bad difficult games and modular difficulty was a thing the series did well. Not to mention build variety and replay value. DS1 you can play as a heavy armour tank, a ranged fighter with magic, bows etc. or a fast, mobile and agile melee guy. Or a mix of the three. It was nice that an RPG let you have viable ways to do things. Fast forward to DS3 and all magics have been nerfed, tank builds don't work so you're left with the fast agile build. That's boring and poor design, especially when earlier games did it much better. Sequels are meant to improve on the things they get right not regress.

Better show off how hardcore you are for rolling though.

>>14875995

Dark Souls needed lewd elf nuns TBH

>>14877000

Didn't know this.

It's bad to say i would like if they make a new, proper Dark Souls?

>>14876972

there's literally nothing that doesn't need lewd elf nuns

>>14876977

well if I remember correctly:

mask of the child - dat stamina

crimson lower - great magic buffs

thief gloves - dat black leather poison resistance

knight armor - high def with not too much weight

Definitely used wolf ring though

So semi-light. Its nice to be able to take a few more hits instead of being 2 hitted to death by the faggot computer pulling bullshit

>computer pulling bullshit

Case in point. Playing DS2.

DO NOT LIKE - limited enemy respawn and my bad luck = farming sucks and is a big fat waste of time

So I started a new game to more efficiently use my ores and stones.

My first game I beat Ornste…..I MEAN OLD DRAGONSLAYER on the first time 1 try.

This go around the faggot computer is pulling shit and I've died like 5 times because my last hit didn't register for the kill, or his hit did reach me even though it wasn't a lunge and I was backed off 15 feet away.

Souls games in general

visual - 10

audio - 10

but everything else is an 8 at best

Let's face it. Souls games are far from perfect.

>>14876977

Why the fuck do you have 40 points put into dexterity?

>>14877000

>Sulyvahn

This is weird. Why would he be the final boss considering he's the Pope of Aldrich's religion.

>>14873838

DS 1 is way easier. Even just comparing base games the difficulty isn't even close because of how much slower everything is in 1. You also get useful heavy armor and poise, and all forms of ranged combat are much better. You can like 1 better, but it is easier overall.

>>14873606

Are you serious? Literally every DS3 boss all you do is spam dodge while the boss attacks and then spam attack when it stops. How anybody finds souls games hard when they have more iframes than any other action game out there is beyond me.

>>14877031

>Why would he be the final boss considering he's the Pope of Aldrich's religion.

Sulyvahn only appears to be allied with Aldrich.

It's hinted with Archdeacon McDonnel's corpse, as you can find him dead in the Water Reserve surrounded by two of Sulyvahn's Beasts.

McDonnel probably knew about Sulyvahn's treachery, and tried to extinguish the Profaned Flame by flushing the water from the Water Reserve down to the Profaned Capital. Sulyvahn tried to stop McDonnel, but was too late.

>>14873916

If you run away you can pull the main away and the other two will fight each other. The cut-scene to phase 2 happens after the main one dies (no need to actually kill the other 2). Also you could just run away and I'm fairly certain the main one can be agro'd by the other 2 and it will kill them.

>>14877088

This. Quit locking on, just run away and keep an eye on them, you can get away pretty easily. Hell, if you don't want to cheese the fight but still get a little help, you can bring Black Hand Gotthard or Londor Pale Shade (if you've done the Yoel/Yuria questline up to this point). They'll at least be a handy distraction.

Also, you can parry the fuckers. Again, a lot of their attacks are very telegraphed, and probably the least Bloodborne-style "SUDDENLY IT'S IN YOUR FACE DOING 1000 DAMAGE" boss in the game because of this. The absurd lunging and sidestepping can be a bit much if you think you can just roll to the side and be safe, but that's it. Abuse iframes, parry, or even just wail on them (they CAN be staggered) when possible.

heavy meele dmg on 2h sword, heavy armor and poise is all you need to breeze trough ds1, i've beat O&S on my first try, ornstein went down in 5 hits

>>14877086

>To be honest, I always wanted the game to revolve around Aldrich/etc

It wouldn't surprise me if this was the original plan since almost half the game is organized around chasing him and his allies and he is much more interesting than doing a rehash of the first flame needs mo' kindling

shame he was a dogshit boss

I must ask: what exactly was Dark Souls 2? Gameplay,story,etc. what was that game?

>>14875356

This is untrue, black knight weapons count as +5, and +5 can connect with +0

>>14877168

A giant clusterfuck that got scrapped halfway through development and remade with what assets they had left

>>14875193

My problem with Elfriede is that she has 3 separate healthbars. It's just annoying to kill her once then have to do it all over again, then over again. Also when Father Ariandel is running around he can take up the whole screen with his fat ass, obscuring elfriede's scythe, getting you killed. Phases 1 and 2 were well designed with a good difficulty creep but phase 2 is just annoying

>>14873670

I did it with a gay prancing lala homo scythe you double nigger, don't blame the game for your inability to play it.

The only unfair enemies are outrider knights which is why everyone cheeses them.

>>14877303

>outrider knights

>unfair

in case you didn't know:

you can roll by pushing left stick in any direction and pressing X/B

you can also parry with some shields and weapons and if you time it right you can perform riposte attack for massive damage

>>14877329

you arrowed the first one through the door like everyone else, don't bother posturing

>>14877168

An attempt to appeal to casuals that failed miserably

>enemies only respawn a certain amount of times

>oh you poor casual noobs, here. now you can just walk through the level with no enemies

Meanwhile gamers who want to farm are fucked even with gold covetous ring +2 and boosted luck.

>inb4 bonfire asthetic

For specialty item drops (that happen 100%) yeah sure

But I shouldn't have to permanent increase monster difficulty just to get 10 more tries at a random item drop.

>>14877365

>someone's not terrible at videogame!? impossible!

step up nigger

so does the remastered one run better than the original port?

i tried it years ago but it barely got over 30fps and stuttered a lot

>>14877753

It does, which is nice to finally see.

>>14877843

Even in Blyattown?

>>14877434

>farming isn't for casuals

>not being in the covenant of champions

>gamers

>>14877753

Is the lighting still fucked?

>>14877990

i don't particularly care about the lighting as long as the game is actually playable

>>14877996

nevermind, just finished torrenting it and i can't run it, apparently my gpu is too weak

which is bizarre, i managed to run the original port on the same toaster years ago, albeit at a low framerate

anyone know if there's a way to get it to ignore the minimum requirements, or is it fucked?

>>14877990

turn down the brightness and you'll see the lighting was exagerated

>>14878399

>Is the remastered version of Dark Souls good?

no

It's literally $40 for dsfix patch and updated multiplayer

>>14878533

It'd be nice for them to just fucking finish a Souls game for chrissakes before releasing it. You'd think that with their cache and reputation they'd be able to bully their way into actually polishing a title versus the typically slapped together and fun piles we've gotten over the years.

>>14877742

thanks for the tip partner

>>14877977

>I just started playing DS2 (actually SOTFS edition) for the first time ever like a month ago

>what is Pure Bladestone from DeS

>>14877977

>>14877742

hey guys

Didn't yall read my part about bonfire asthetic?

Covenant may not be permanent like bonfire asthetic, but its still a stupid game mechanic

I wish faith wasnt shit in DS3.

>>14878533

>DeS

<unpolished, but almost there

DeS was unfinished, not unpolished. If they had added in the 6th archstone it would've been a complete game.

>>14878642

faith is shit in all Souls games

>only in DS1 did I throw into faith stat and it was for divine claymore

>>14873606

you're supposed to get the guys with glowing eyes to attack the one that doesn't have glowing eyes it's difficult but they give you a companion to make it significantly easier

>OP can't get past the Abyss Watchers

>Gets upset when told to go back to reddit

>Can't even dodge on a >DEX build

I refuse to believe OP is anything but a troll because nobody is that stupid.

>>14878662

faith in DS1 was pretty disgusting with tranquil walk of peace. you could also dish out good damage with the ranged spells. it also did good buff damage when casting a buff onto a weapon.

Unlike DS3 where casting on a weapon barely did any damage and it was just better to make poison or bleed for dex fags. DS3 has no damage with the ranged spells and the buffs took too long to cast and was easily removed by a single item in DS3.

>>14878686

maybe but magic (and pyro) is superior in all

>>14878662

>faith is shit in all Souls games

What is second chance?

>>14878734

I'd rather just not die

>>14873920

What dark souls needed was Limited multiplayer. Something like Journey where you would randomly be paired up with players without anyone really knowing. That way you kept the lonely feeling the game had going for it, while also having it be a genuine surprise to both sides if they encounter each other. Instead we got DS3's retarded "party of phantoms", covenants that more or less functioned the same now that anyone can invade for their covenant's tokens, and the lack of sin made the blues even less fun to play. The loss of poise, and the forced emphasis on mobility and aggression didn't do the series any favors.

Also the shit like anor londo just kind of being there. I might not be a fan of DS2 but at least it didnt' feel like the game was whispering "remember dark souls?" into my ear when I played it.

>>14878755

>He wants to demon's pvp without second chance

Yeah and I bet you want fights to be anything other than ten minutes of grass and spice spamming too nerd

>>14878786

>he values a spell specifically because of PVP

Nigga I mostly just play offline. PVE is what attracts me to Souls games.

I have ZERO friends that like these games.

So there's alot more chance of invasion than help.

And most of my PVP experiences confirm that.

Nothing is worse than getting through an annoying level for the first time and being within sight of the boss foggate.

>A WILD RED FAG APPEARS

>and he's glitchy as fuck

>but he's so good he backstab chained you

Welp now I gotta run through the whole annoying level again

nope

I did have fun in PVP getting reprisals for Darkmoon Blade though I gotta admit

>>14878860

>faith is useless

>faith based spell is practically a requirement in demon's souls and one of the most OP things in the game

>that doesn't count because that's not what I like doing!

Jesus christ you really do get side-tracked easily.

>>14878875

>faith based spell is practically a requirement in demon's soul

In PVE????

Which miracles?

>>14878875

God's wrath and evacuate have their uses

>meanwhile with magic spells

warding

soul sucker

any of the weapon buffs

any of the clouds

damn near all the offensive spells

i loved dark souls. i briefly played ds2 and thought it was trash. then i played bloodborne and loved it. never felt like playing ds3.

was this the right decision?

right now im playing dragons dogma, and i enjoy using my loli to mount monsters and stab them while my loli pawns provide support.

>>14878909

You've had multiple people and even yourself tell you that faith is not useless so you're absolutely wrong. Not sure what point you're trying to make here, you're upset that faith doesn't have access to acid or toxic cloud? Because offensive faith spells were so powerful in some games they had to get nerfed.

>>14878934

>was this the right decision?

YES

DS2 is subpar

And I hear nothing but complaints about DS3

>>14878939

calm down altar boy

>>14878963

>faith build fanboy is freaking out cuz someone said faith is useless

Just calm your autism

I take it back.

Faith is useful.

in DS1

gotta amp up my divine claymore ya know

>>14878969

>just copy/pasting enemies around without any rhyme or reason, but just to make it "hard"

You might have been playing scholar of the first sin, for some reason FROM decided that the desolate atmosphere of the previous games was gay and just went fucking nuts on the enemy placement. Try playing vanilla if you really want. I did, and it was a lot better than the updated version, but frankly I would have preferred if only the updated version existed so I'd straight up dropped the game instead of drudged through the barely acceptable vanilla DS2.

>>14878980

Oh I get it. No faith is gay and I never build for it, max str all day every day, I just wanted to prove you wrong because you're retarded.

>>14878993

>I just wanted to prove you wrong because you're retarded.

>I was only pretending to be retarded

I think you had a typo there

>>14878997

Mark probably pays people to make the shitpost OP since anything where the OP actually participates gets locked half the time.

>>14879001

I was pretending to be retarded because you were wrong about something? Help me here, trying to work out your logic is like trying to understand why FROM can't make a good game anymore unless it's by accident.

>>14879019

Cool story bro

Youre the autist sperging out because you need second chance

GIT GUD FAGGOT

>>14879025

lol your sage-bombs have made me laugh

I yield

>>14879056

yup its kamphy having a breakdown

>>14879039

Are you trying to pilpul me here?

>(you): faith is useless

>(yourself) and several other people: nah

>(you): ur a sperg, that's not how I play dork soul, yor jus pretending to be retarded

I actually don't know whether it's worse if this is a distraction tactic or you're genuinely this mentally deficient.

I actually had the urge to play DS2 the other day.

I think I might try and find a pirate of the complete edition of it.

>>14878989

The OP is shit but the discussion in the thread was alright. Kill yourself nigger aspie.

>Get to Lost Izalith for the first time

>Heard Siegmeyer story continues here

>Get to where he is

>Kill all chaos eaters

>Talk to him

>His story doesn't continue

So, does someone have a save with him and his daughter in Ash Lake?

>>14879093

>you: why are you making fun of me for using second chance

>me: fine calm down fanboy I didn't mean to mock your faith build

>you: HERP DERP DERP

>me: compare faith in Demons Souls to magic

>you: shitpostshitpost (obviously mad)

Since your autism is kicking in so hard right now, you can have the last word.

Faith still sucks in DeS and DS2

>>14879104

It's not bad, but my biggest gripes are

>Pursuers everywhere (SotFS)

>petrified corpses blocking paths everywhere (SotFS)

>Almost all bosses are just dudes in armor

>The few that aren't are shit

>Bosses can turn towards you instantly

And worst of all

>Blighttown V0.5 (as in just a bunch of same-looking wooden platforms in complete darkness, so you need a torch at all times)

>>14879162

>Blighttown V0.5

Or Valley-of-Defilement 3.0

I just got to the Gutter myself for the first time ever.

Can From ever make a game without some shit-sewer-swamp level?

Does BB & DS3 have Blighttown shit as well?

>>14879162

Not to mention that area lacks a boss, sending fans wild with theories. The whole game is badly composed and just about the only thing I feel they got right ironically enough was PVP. Should have had two teams working on DaS3, one to make the levels and RPG stuff and another to balance all the garbage and make PVP arenas.

>>14879162

Yeah, I do remember that as being awful.

All the bosses were just big guy with a big weapon its got absolutely tiring after a while.

The things that made DS2 fun was the magic and the online, the latter of which is probably dead now.

>>14879184

Haven't played BB.

I don't remember DS3 having anything like that, but to be frank DS3 in general isn't that memorable to me. It's really good, better than DS1 in some areas imo, but nothing ever evoked feelings strong enough for me to remember anything, whether good or bad.

>>14879202

Ratbro covenant was the most fun I had in DS2.

>>14879226

I actually didn't mind Farron's Keep. First of all, it's outdoors, so at least it's well lit, and secondly, it's open enough to make exploration kind of fun. And it's a great place for dickish invasions.

>14879152

>you: shitpostshitpost (obviously mad)

Shit I was getting baited, what a waste of my (you)s.

>>14879238

No, Farron Keep is terrible.

That annoying sludge walk you have to do every time you go there triggers the fuck out of my autism.

That area right near the last fire you have to put out where the tree dragon ambushes you is absolute shit. The area would be better designed if it had a way for smart players to avoid being poisoned by walking carefully from pieces of land to the next. But instead we just get pushed into poison and have to walk around like you have a load of shit in your pants, awful. You could technically go int from the back but still,its bad.

I don't hate DaS3 either, but Farron Keep is terrible design.

>>14879274

Did you intentionally NOT link to my comment?

Wouldn't want to prove my autism claims right would you????

>>14879278

I agree that a non-poison path would be welcome. However it's still not nearly as bad as Blighttown/Gutter imo.

>>14879238

>>14879226

>>14879278

confirmed: I am never buying/playing another souls game

plus I don't have 8th gen consoles

>>14879278

What is it, could it be that becoming slow and poisoned is too much of a stress for you?

You don't even know how fun it is to hunt hosts in that area, or to run away from invaders.

It's the best zone for unfair and dicky PvP.

>>14878934

3 is better then two, but it kinda feels like bloodborn unceremoniously ripped to ribbons down to the skeleton with a haphazard frankenstein of dark souls flesh grafted to it

>>14879364

I had more trouble with NAVIGATING the damn place then those fuckers

oh and the boulder throwers

git gud lol

>>14879278

use the dagger weapon art to dash through quickly.

Don't forget DaS II is ridden with "shockwave" hitboxes

>>14879364

Because I'm tired of Blighttown ver21.17

>>14873606

abyss watcher is ez pz you just need to l2play

>>14873606

>>Dark Souls is fair they said

>Complains about Dark Souls 3

Kill yourself nigger.

So I am on my first playhrough (old version with DSFix because fuck this jewry) and I legit had zero issues with Blighttown. By the time I got there I had maybe 40 purple moss clumps from the shrubbery fuckers and I was quite overlevelled for just about all enemies in the "poison level". The boss was annoying but then I just summoned the bitch with the burlap sack and let her soak up all the damage.

>>14874552

>when the rest of the game encourages it.

Why do you expect bosses to behave like regular enemies?

>Cruised in DaS3 fairly easily, haven't struggled at any bosses you guys complain about

>Get to Lothric Castle after the Dancer

>Assraped at every corner

why

>>14879935

>I legit had zero issues with Blighttown

most of the original complaints surrounding it revolved around screenrate drops and people falling off scaffolding rather than the area being difficult

>>14879162

>pursuer actually pursues the player

>a bad thing

He's an easy boss anon, jesus.

>>14880409

He's called Miyahacki for a reason.

>>14879226

Apparently Fume Knight changes his behavior if you wear Velstadt's stuff. He opens the fight with some kind of buff. The helm, specifically.

>>14879020

I would say BB2 has some valid locations to explore yet. I would say the first would be Loran mid-collapse; in a medieval/victorian Arabia prequel the other is the foreign lands which Eileen or Yamamura hail from for a East Asian Nioh 2: Electric Boogaloo pre/sequel.

Regardless, I agree that Yharnums' story is nice and tied up

>>14881613

Because FK and Velstadt where rivals.

Another nice touch is that if you bow to Alonne at the start of the fight he bows back.

>>14881970

You playing the remaster bub? If so you should feel undying shame for shelling out for such a vapid and hollow cash-grab.

>>14882010

From trying to do Nioh but worse will be funny.

>>14882254

Nioh is set in fantastic japan. BB2, if its set in "the far east," would be more a fantasy version of Japan. I'd like to see something more along the lines of the Legend of the Five Rings where its a medieval fantasy setting but japan. European medieval fantasy is just way too overdone.

>>14879364

''La La '''LAAAA'''''

>>14882063

The increased player base is what lets me PvP to begin with. Remaster is worth it for that reason alone even if you don't give a shit about the rest.

>>14879364

>we have to make it scary, so lets throw a bunch of eyes and tentacles and make it look gross haha yes that's scary

Real sick of that low effort shit

>>14882728

It makes sense in the context of Bloodborne though.

>>14882827

>>14882728

>Plain Doll's dress

>Brain that has engorged and swollen so much the skull doesn't exist

>Brain lined with eyes with Messengers

There's more to the design than just the dangly bit that trigger you so hard.

>>14882860

Miyazaki is not going to suck your dick, anon. (You) realize that, r-right?

>(((they))) said

never forget, it was faggot journos who pushed these shit third person games into the limelight

>>14878934

3 is actually alright, not as good as 1 but it has its charm. Just be prepared to roll all the time forever, and don't expect anything great from heavy armor.

>>14882878

>Prince of Persia games

Arabian fantasy/1001 Nights style fantasy is critically underused

>>14882997

>legions of SJW devs jerk eachother off with how progressive they are

>their themes consist of modern warfare, European medieval warfare, generic Not Star Trek warfare, and finding out your sister is gay

>all of the protags are still "muh hwhite mail" or some hipster mary sue

I think asscreed is probably the only one that tried something different, but it still makes me laugh that for all the complaining of "muh stale white man fantasy!", none of these cunts bother touching anything outside of the popular and familiar.

>>14882866

Its bad and there's no excuse, but it doesn't change much from the DaS3 system which in the end was at least serviceable.

Unique weapons like BKS count as +5 at 0 and increase by 2 (to make it "+15" at +5).

The other thing is the lightning spear in sen's and occult club in anor which both count as "+10" for the same reason.

Just making sure your SL is appropriate for the area is enough to get tons of action. At lower SL the playerbase is divided in two, those that got lucky drops or used masterkey and those that didn't. A bit later everyone has +10 - +15 anyway.

I recently played Dark Souls for the first time and I can now state with all confidence that it is the Dead Space of fantasy games.

>>14883173

Actually Citizen Kane was the Dark Souls of Dead Space.

Get educated.

>>14880067

I don't understand why so many peoole get raped in Lothric Castle when the enemies and overall design are just a continuation of the High Wall from the beginning of the game. If you get raped in the castle why didn't you get raped in the High Wall when you had less tools available?

>>14883173

Dead Space is the Dark Souls of Gears of Wars

>>14883388

Yeah, I can see that.

>>14883342

Probably because at the beginning I would just cheese them all to the boss. Now that I'm stuffed I feel more confident so I want to engage more in order to get some souls, and I need to explore the place properly because I don't know how the hell can I get rid of the two dragons guarding the gate

No spoil please I'll find it by myself

>>14883406

>no spoils

there is more then one way

>>14883406

To be fair, the enemy placement is pretty dickish in some places around the castle, (not necessarily in a bad way like DaS2) I breezed through it on most characters once I had completed in blind on my first.

>>14883406

>How do I kill durgnz hurr durr

pelt it with arrows til it dies, like every non boss dragon in the souls series

>>14883516

You can also use the geography to your advantage. It's a waste of time to cheese them.

>>14873704

This basically.

Is funny how people complain that you have to try and fail to git gud when a lot of classic games that are still revered were pretty much that. Try, fail, learn and try again.

>>14874239

>dodge into the attack, not away from it

This is super important, especially in Bloodbore. First thing I tell people besides git gud when they struggle, and it usually helps them a ton once they get a feel for it.

>>14873606

I genuinely had zero problems with this boss. I faced abyss watchers on like 3 different characters and creamed them every time.

>>14878599

Speak not its name

Fuck farming those yoshimitsu from tekken 3 ass motherfucks for 4 hours

Also Ghost Blade in ds1. Its necessary for my sl1 twink build mostly because of its rarity, but also its insane crit damage, nil stat reqs and neato aesthetic.

Ill miss autistically grinding these games i really will

>>14878969

What you're describing is what I like to call "made by an intern quality". It can usually be found in either established games, series or like you pointed out, romhacks and mods. You have a certain quality and feel going and you get to a part of the game where things just aren't as well done. It's a usually a small dip in quality due to things "feeling off", as if some intern was tasked with working on that area and the intern just kind of copied what the main dev was doing. One striking example that comes to mind is World of Warcraft's upgrade to Dustwallow Marsh during TBC, where all of the quests were just "there" and didn't feel like part of the world or just didn't feel quite right. Someone more eloquent than me could probably explain it better.

>>14879226

Alonne also was one of the few good "dude with a sword" boss fight in DaS2.

>>14875265

>>14875322

>summon phantons for a boss

fucking filthy casuls

>>14877031

sulyvan was actually aldrich.

at some time ate the development sulyvan and aldrich were the same person. his lore was something like he combination of the two.

>he came from the painting world

>fund the profane flame

>became pontif

>imprisioned gwyndolin

>devoured gwyndolin

but at some point they decide two split the lore into 2 different characters

What the fuck is supposed to be happening in the painted world? The motives of Friede and Ariandel are unclear, and the nature of "rot" overturning fire is never explained or hinted properly.

>>14883342

The red eyed niggas, anon.

>>14890739

There are a lot of things in DSIII that are interesing but not show. Just like others in this thread have posted, the game originally was more focused on the Age of Deep, and Pontiff Sullivan should have been the final boss. But instead we got mediocre rehash of DSI. And From Software will not release more DLC for it, so we will never know about that Age of Deep….

>>14873920

I kind of agree. Aspects of single player have to be designed with multiplayer in mind when a game is designed like this and I fucking hate that.

>>14890785

I half want them to keep going with the series,or at least one last game that concludes all instead of what was DS3.

I want to know how much the fuck up of DS2 impacted with the original vision/lore/story/finale.

>Go to Archdragon peak

>Get through the disappointing Ancient Wyvern "fight"

>Progress to where you meet those rocky rolly pollie things

>We roll into each other head to head

>Head to head collision somehow results in me getting flung sideways off the cliff

>5 million souls gone

I was going to use those souls to level up and try to squeeze some fucking build variety out of this shitheap of a game. I'm not mad because I lost a fuck ton of souls, I'm mad because those souls were the only thing that could've possibly made this game fun instead of monotonous after the 1st playthrough. What the fuck even is collision in Dark Souls

I just picked up DaS again with the intent of doing a BKH run just for the help of it but I'm having an easier run with an upgraded longsword and no armor than any run I've done before.

>>14874052

>It's important for damage mitigation

The heaviest armor in DS3 does around 40% damage mitigation while weighing 5 times as much as leather set which does around 20% mitigation.

The additional 20% is meaningless as most bosses have infinite combos if you can't fast roll out of them.

DPES DARK SOULS III REACH 60 FPS IN PLAYSTATION PRO?

This is important

>>14896489

Probably not

Most to least autistic fanbases:

Sonic > Souls = FNAF > Kingdom Hearts > F-Zero

>>14873606

You are a low IQ subhuman son of a whore, you are not a real gamer, get lost, you never belonged in gaming and never will.

The Souls franchise is not only fair, but it is also pretty easy.

>>14896560

Original looks more distinct and its details stand out more, also the flame acts differently from real ones, giving it a mystical touch. Remaster looks like a normal fire with duller colours so the sword and bones are almost overlooked.

>>14876879

>I'm a gamer

Opinion discarded.

>>14896560

>>14896593

>>14896988

>>14897003

Exactly. The guys who did the remaster just didn't give a shit. The weapon-based matchmaking is almost as shallow and poorly-thought out as soul memory.

>>14876879

>i'm a gamer

Then go to r/gaming to be with the rest of your kind.

>>14897259

what's the weapon-based matching?

>>14897406

If you don't pick them up do you still get the same shit?

>>14897459

I'm not sure, I didn't read too much into it.

>>14896412

>fighting Berserk Armor in Dark Souls

That's a Bloodborne boss no question. There's no way you could fight super Guts like that with his speed in a Dark Souls title. No way.

>>14897468

Well at that point I would just play the better way and just turn online off anyway. PvP's mostly an endgame thing anyway. I'm still in the firm belief that multiplayer in vidya is dead anyway and that the better choice for DaS should have been to add more to the singeplayer aspects such as the covenants actually effective the gameplay/story and adding more NPC interaction or actually finishing the half finished areas

>>14897792

Do you think there will be direct messaging? If so, could we see the return of the GFWL glory days?

>>14873635

WHAT IS WRONG WITH REDDIT ANON

>>14897970

Pros

>Proper 60FPS support, no glitches and issues related to the framerate

>Some of the graphics and lighting changes are good, like magic on Moonlight Butterfly and Seath

>Good little additions like being able to pop multiple souls, give multiple covenant items at once

>I assume proper M+KB support

Cons

<Despite proper 60FPS support, can't go higher and still get weird issues like slopes being unclimbable, ladder sliding has you sort of sliding in installments, almost like you're watching an online player slightly lag down the ladder

<Most of the graphics and lighting changes are worse than PTD, some of the armour looks horrendous because of this, game is a lot darker in some places, Tomb of the Giants becomes worse off for it

<Despite these additions, its not like DSIII where you get the choice of just one or multiple etc. its just one option for you to choose

<No actual changes to gameplay like omni-directional rolling

<Phantom limit extended, makes the game easier if you wish, turns the game into a shitty DSIII fight club for PvP

<All the old tricks and exploits remain, so everyone will still just do the usual twink shit and other bug abuses

<No cloth physics

I wasn't expecting them to create a new quarter of the game or fix up the post-Lordvessel content but what they did was lazy as fuck. Plus the pricing and removal of PTD edition from Steam. Fuck those turbo kikes. Its only good for PS4 and Xbone players who never played DS before though I get the feeling damn near most people who would want to play the games already have done so, making this "remaster" pointless.

>>14898445

Yeah 16k HP is way too fucking much.

>>14898644

It is when attacks on the head with a lightning weapon do at most 300 damage and that's 2 handed and you only get 1-2 swings before he runs around the arena like an asshole

>>14898796

Not one of the sequel caught the sheer feel of damage that Dark Souls 1 had.

It was so satisfying to swing a great sword and see chunks of health disappears.

>>14898859

This one is 5 days old, fags never check the catalog before posting

>>14898934

He takes too long to fight, plain and simple. In a game where max length of boss fights is like 3 minutes at most, having one that takes 5-6 minutes, sometimes more is tiring as fuck.

But go ahead and think about Bad Dragon some more you furfaggot

>>14898445

Midir is great when it goes right, when it goes wrong you're spending too much of the fight just waiting. That annoying combo + charge he does is easy to dodge but then you have to wait ten seconds or so to catch back up to him. Then he has that one shot beam sending you back to the boring run back.

Mixed bag for Midir, great lore, arena and design. A good fight that can be ultimately tedious and annoying when the RNG goes against you.

>>14899085

Sinh in DS2 I think was worse about all the flying, I remember in that one i just switched to the dragonslayer greatbow just to be able to keep doing damage.

Im playing DSI, and Im trying to make an archer build, leveling vitality, endurance, dex & sthregnt to an equal level at the moment ( like 20+ to each stat). But the thing is that even using short bow upgraded at +5, it doesnt do much damage too many enemies & bosses. Composite bow doesnt change much either. Any advise?

>>14899143

DS1 was not a good time for archery, but the most damage you can get is either greatbows or elemental ammo with the same as an infusion.

I think you can infuse crossbows in the first one with lightning as a way to reclaim damage.

>>14876080

Add the Consumed King to that list

>>14891161

>Ash lake

Or the dreg heap, the literal bedrock of the world. The wording is not coincidental.