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Video Games General

I liked watching this user play it. Makes a bonk sound with their club and they do stealth kill animations on some of the bosses and black knights.



 
Just want to talk about my contrasting Bloodborne dlc playthroughs. In my first and second run, I had an equal amount of trouble with Ludwig, probably took an hour or so to beat on each playthrough. Not that bad.

Then I beat Laurence on my first try in my first playthrough. I don't know how the fuck that happened, must have been insane luck. Second playthrough, Laurence kicked my fucking ass in. Probably took me 4 to 6 hours to finally beat him over the course of a couple days.

It was so intense. At the final stretch, where he probably had 1k health left, I was out of blood vials and had, like, 300 hp left. Basically, I couldn't get hit or I'd die. Those 15-30 seconds were so god damn nerve-racking. I've probably only got him to his last phase 3 or 4 times before that. I wouldn't have been able to do it without my Communion 3 rune, those 3 extra blood vials got me there.

Moving on, the Living Failures. Not much needs to be said, their the easiest dlc boss. Got it first try in my second playthrough because I was already familiar with their tricks.

Next, Lady Maria. In my first playthrough, it took a little less than an hour to beat her. Hated her second phase long range attacks. In my second playthrough I actually got it my on first try, though it was down to the wire again.

She has probably 2k health left. No blood vials left. I'm on low hp, next hit will kill me. See her telegraph an attack. Get the timing just right, and stager her. Preform visceral. She has a couple hits left. Run up to her while she gets up. Hit her once, she prepares an attack. Panic, and hit her again before I die. She dies.

So fucking intense.

I had to sacrifice Communion for Oedom Writhe 2, because I mostly stagger hunter type bosses. Worth it, because I would have run out of bullets halfway through without it.

Lastly, Orphan of Kos. This boss wasn't that hard for me, actually. Probably took under 15 attempts in my first playthrough. In my second one, it was under 10, probably closer to 5.

Somehow, it was down to the wire again in my second playthrough. It was pretty much a mirror of my Lady Maria fight; no vials, low hp, kos at probably 2k health, get visceral, and bum rush it to death before I die.

Man, I don't know why my second playthrough was so stressful and intense, but damn if it wasn't satisfying. Though, in retrospect, I should have replaced my anti-clockwise metamorphosis 1 rune with my Communion 3 rune during hunter type bosses. That 10% extra stamina wasn't nearly as useful as 3 blood vials, but that's tunnel version for ya.
 
No fucking joke, I just got proof the Lucasarts Games of the good old days is back:



And yes, not only is Ron Gilbert making it, Dominic Armato is back as Guybrush Threepwood; Mighty Pirate!!
 
Digital_Devil said:
I know it's kind of hard to get, but the Rakuyo is one of my favorite Skill weapons in the game. If not than than the Reiterpallasch or Beasthunter Saif are good substitutes.
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Just got it. It seems pretty good, especially the transformed attacks. Those are some speedy R1s and L2s. Gonna have to use it more, but right now it's better than the blade of mercy.
Jamesson Locke said:
*frothing at the mouth*

Those fuckin sharks are worse than 90% of the bosses in the game.
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I had some trouble with them too, until I found out you can parry them. I got them first try after that.
 
Dark Souls Time:

I'm sitting on about 394,000 souls in the various soul items, including the Soul of Moonlight Butterfly which I'm not sure if I'm going to use for the Crystal Ring Shield or not. I have a Dark Knight weapon, the Dark Knight Halberd as stated earlier in the thread. Is it worth it to just use these souls to pump up my stats so I can use the Halberd and maybe put the rest into my Pyromancy Flame? Maybe put some into intelligence so I can use Sorcery?

I've toyed around with a one off file to play with the Sorcerer starting class and I found I like it about as much as Pyromancy, I can feel the trade offs between the two and I feel that both are a good fit for my current play style.

I'm currently using the Balder Side Sword and the Grass Crest Shield, between my equipment I'm easily below half my total Weight Limit.

As an aside, are there any arrows that inflict bleed?
 
Velk said:
I'm sitting on about 394,000 souls in the various soul items, including the Soul of Moonlight Butterfly which I'm not sure if I'm going to use for the Crystal Ring Shield or not. I have a Dark Knight weapon, the Dark Knight Halberd as stated earlier in the thread. Is it worth it to just use these souls to pump up my stats so I can use the Halberd and maybe put the rest into my Pyromancy Flame? Maybe put some into intelligence so I can use Sorcery?

I've toyed around with a one off file to play with the Sorcerer starting class and I found I like it about as much as Pyromancy, I can feel the trade offs between the two and I feel that both are a good fit for my current play style.
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If you don't want any of the Boss Soul weapons, then sure, pop em for the souls. I don't remember how good any of them are in general though. If the Halberd is what you plan to use for the rest of the game, you might as well stick to leveling strength and dex and using pyromancy since it doesn't scale with stats. Going for a magic build would be better if you plan to use a weapon you can infuse with magic. I'd have to know what your stats are already to say for sure, but if you've already started investing a lot into strength it'd probably make more sense to stick with that.
 
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Soul Level: 24
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I don't know why I thought you were around level 35 or 40. Anyway, I don't think you'd end up with too many wasted points if you did start putting points into Int now and went for a hybrid build, but it really depends on how you do it. You probably won't be (and I'm guessing you don't intend on) using the hard hitting spells like crystal soul spear so if you want it as an alternate damage source or something to scale a weapon with it won't completely ruin your build (especially if you're not going into PVP). My first playthrough I didn't know pyromancy didn't scale with Int so I had a lightning claymore, high level pyromancy flame, and a bunch of Int that wasn't getting used and didn't have too many issues. You shouldn't be too badly impacted if you pivot to leveling Int and Attunement for a while, but I'll say Pyromancy is the safer choice since it requires far less investment and is still powerful as long as you don't accidentally screw up and lose everyone who can upgrade your flame.
 
Dark Souls Update: Chaos Bitchs Edition

Managed to 'dominate' Blighttown, the section after the bonfire on the bridge gave me a bit of trouble but I managed to work my way through. The dogs were... annoying. Found the third Fire Keeper soul, I was close before but I thought I would aggro all of the dogs when I reached the bottom of the ladder

Found the 'hidden' second Bonfire in Blighttown that's hidden in that one drain. Nearly gave myself a pair of heart attacks, one with the chest in the back and when the mini-butcherer 'invaded' me. Killed leeches and skeeters, the skeeters are more annoying than anything but I had no trouble with the leeches and I was pleasantly surprised on some of their drops and I don't think I'll need to farm any Green Titanite for a long time to come.

I got one shot by the Chaos Witch, the lava attack. Got gang banged by the Bolder Barbarians and lost... quite a bit of souls and humanity.

Went up the 'Water Wheel' and used the backdoor to Valley of Drakes to use the shortcut back to New Lando and then Firelink Shrine. ...I'm a gonna stab a certain golden asshole when I got to Andor Lando.

Went to the Depths and farmed Large Titanite Shards and Humanity, to restore what I lost and to create a stockpile of Humanity for a rainy day.

Used my soul items and pumped my Pyromancy Flame up to +12 and cleared out What's-'is-face's stock of Pyromancy spells, it would be more but I tried farming souls in Darkroot and... I don't want to talk about it. The fucking bandit and invisible thief suck, the Cleric and the Sorcerer are easy pickings because I figured out how to manipulate their AI or I can tank their attacks but the Bandit can one-shot me and the thief only seems to do the Heavy Attack of what ever weapon he has so I can't parry.

Went to the Parish and I'm farming Titanite Shards and hopefully a second and third Balder's Side Sword, having a Fire/Chaos and a Lightning variant of my go-to weapon sounds like a good idea even if the scaling stats get slashed. Kinda farming souls for upgrading my Longbow, might make a trip to the Catacombs to kill Pinwheel and upgrade the bow to a Fire bow, and to upgrade my Pyromancy Flame to +13.

Other than the Chaos Covenant and the Power Within in Blighttown, the latter of which I managed to grab rather easily before finding out that slopped walls can kill me even if I could survive the fall to the ground otherwise, are there any other 'loose' Pyromancy Spells? I know about the second vender in Blighttown and What's-'is-face has no more for me to buy. Don't need to know where they are, just if there are any other loose spells.
 
Velk said:
Went to the Parish and I'm farming Titanite Shards and hopefully a second and third Balder's Side Sword, having a Fire/Chaos and a Lightning variant of my go-to weapon sounds like a good idea even if the scaling stats get slashed. Kinda farming souls for upgrading my Longbow, might make a trip to the Catacombs to kill Pinwheel and upgrade the bow to a Fire bow, and to upgrade my Pyromancy Flame to +13.
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Don't bother making a fire BSS. One of the weapons that you can make using boss souls (once you can finally do so) is an excellent fire weapon.
Velk said:
Other than the Chaos Covenant and the Power Within in Blighttown, the latter of which I managed to grab rather easily before finding out that slopped walls can kill me even if I could survive the fall to the ground otherwise, are there any other 'loose' Pyromancy Spells? I know about the second vender in Blighttown and What's-'is-face has no more for me to buy. Don't need to know where they are, just if there are any other loose spells.
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Yes, but you can't access them yet.
 
Dark Souls Update: Holy Shit, I'm alive!

Went to the Undead Asylum again to trade items with a certain crow, seeing what could be traded at least. Killed the first Dark Knight, parried him to dead. I decided to goof off/look for more enemies and found the second. Parried him once and I almost got my ass haded to me before I managed to heavy attack him to death and I got the Dark Knight Sword. Little convicted right now, I have the stats for the big thing but that wind up/slow recovery speed... Don't know if I'll use it.

Got two Red Titanite Chunks, so...
 
Question about pvp in Bloodborne: Where would you fight in Mensis? I always get frustrated when I get invaded at the start of Mensis, so I don't want to inflict that on anyone else. Is the second Lamp a common 'arena' to fight at?

Also, what are common bosses/areas people use the beckoning bell at? I've just helped a rando clear nightmare frontier and it was a very satisfying experience, something I want to do again. Really tickled my altruism.
 
NameOrdane said:
Where would you fight in Mensis? I always get frustrated when I get invaded at the start of Mensis, so I don't want to inflict that on anyone else. Is the second Lamp a common 'arena' to fight at?
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Probably in the area before one of the bosses like "Kos or some say Kosm" or the Babysitter.
 
If you wanted a GrimGrimoire HD update, you are lucky.



Granted, JP news only for now, but do you honestly think it won't come in english?
 
Dark Souls:

What is the Great Hollow and why are the Mushroom men so tank-like?
 
Velk said:
Dark Souls:

What is the Great Hollow and why are the Mushroom men so tank-like?
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The Great Hollow is a 3D platforming puzzle that leads down to the game's most blatant Nausicaa reference. There are some goodies inside, but it's probably better to only actually seriously explore it once you get fast travel and don't have to manually climb all the way back up.

As for the mushrooms...

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SwiftRosenthal said:
The Great Hollow is a 3D platforming puzzle that leads down to the game's most blatant Nausicaa reference. There are some goodies inside, but it's probably better to only actually seriously explore it once you get fast travel and don't have to manually climb all the way back up.
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Eh, I'll explore it a bit for now. Since I lost all 50,000 souls I had.
 
Bear_Mint said:
Oof.
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No shit, I spent the better part of an hour farming Drakes for that. More pissed about the souls than the humanity I lost, it takes far too long to deal with all of the rats to get a decent amount of humanity but the rats give barely any souls..
 
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but it's probably better to only actually seriously explore it once you get fast travel and don't have to manually climb all the way back up.
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I never considered the possibility I could potentially soft lock my game by going down to Ash Lake before getting access to fast travel just through the sheer frustration having to climb back up the Great Hollow would cause. Getting down is a bitch and half, and I feel like going up would only be worse.
 
Digital_Devil said:
I never considered the possibility I could potentially soft lock my game by going down to Ash Lake before getting access to fast travel just through the sheer frustration having to climb back up the Great Hollow would cause. Getting down is a bitch and half, and I feel like going up would only be worse.
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It's not impossible or anything, but it is a pain. DS1 item randomizer players probably do it all the time. (The game's item and enemy randomizers are separate programs, but seem to be compatible for anyone who wants to run both.)
 
Digital_Devil said:
I never considered the possibility I could potentially soft lock my game by going down to Ash Lake before getting access to fast travel just through the sheer frustration having to climb back up the Great Hollow would cause. Getting down is a bitch and half, and I feel like going up would only be worse.
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Ash Lake is at the bottom of the Great Hollow, right? Because I made it down there and killed the 'shrooms. ...What's past Ash Lake? I know there's a Hydra down there, I feel like that is going to be a headache in and of it's self, but I would like to know what's past the Lake.
 
Velk said:
Ash Lake is at the bottom of the Great Hollow, right? Because I made it down there and killed the 'shrooms. ...What's past Ash Lake? I know there's a Hydra down there, I feel like that is going to be a headache in and of it's self, but I would like to know what's past the Lake.
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It's a dead end. That's why fast travel is so important for getting back out.
 
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