Multi-Plat Dark Souls (Demon's Souls 2! Sort of)

And people were QQing it'd be easier than Demon's Souls :P

I think my only real issue that pisses me off is the camera can suck hard :(
 
I was having a great time as my Wanderer yesterday.

But, apparently this game is too hard for my PS3 since I came home to a red screen of error messages. So...that's awesome...
 
I just keep playing Demon's Souls while waiting for Dark Souls to arrive... Someday my preparation to die will pay off.
 
Is anyone pissed off with the online being slightly harder to hook up with friends then in Demon Soul's? My cousin is pissed and apparently a bunch of people are? Just what I've been reading.
 
Harder how? O.o cause I haven't tried at all yet.

And I'm still trying to kill the first boss without skipping him XD I can get him to 1/4 health and then I just get cheap shotted at times (like he'll swing larger than he was before at all or the camera will go batshit insane). On one of my characters I did beat him, but I got the bombs first and my god those pwn him. But I don't wanna do this with my main character I intend to play the game fully through with first.
 
Elemmire said:
Harder how? O.o cause I haven't tried at all yet.

And I'm still trying to kill the first boss without skipping him XD I can get him to 1/4 health and then I just get cheap shotted at times (like he'll swing larger than he was before at all or the camera will go batshit insane). On one of my characters I did beat him, but I got the bombs first and my god those pwn him. But I don't wanna do this with my main character I intend to play the game fully through with first.
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Why not use the bombs? As far as I know it's the only way to get his weapon.
 
Rips said:
Is anyone pissed off with the online being slightly harder to hook up with friends then in Demon Soul's? My cousin is pissed and apparently a bunch of people are? Just what I've been reading.
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It is kind of obnoxious. You need a specific item, you have to be within a 10% level range or each other, one of you has to be human, it ends when the boss of that area dies, your partner has to click the soapstone you set out in the same area you place it, but you can't use party chat to talk to each other so everything has to be planned out over the phone.

Super annoying.
 
I'm fine with the system being how it is. My understanding with Dark Souls is that instead of the games being regional it is world wide so it is even harder to "game" the system to get a friend into your world.
 
My problem with that is that I like playing with my friends. We can talk to each other and make strategies and then share a laugh about our awful failures while drunk later.
 
Pasquale said:
It is kind of obnoxious. You need a specific item, you have to be within a 10% level range or each other, one of you has to be human, it ends when the boss of that area dies, your partner has to click the soapstone you set out in the same area you place it, but you can't use party chat to talk to each other so everything has to be planned out over the phone.

Super annoying.
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The specific item is gotten less than an hour into the game. Humanity is easily gotten, easily stored, granted you're not runnin' around all Joe Swanson "GET SOME!" like, even then, again, easily stored. Use private chat, I think they, like us, forgot it exists.
 
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Pasquale said:
It is kind of obnoxious. You need a specific item, you have to be within a 10% level range or each other, one of you has to be human, it ends when the boss of that area dies, your partner has to click the soapstone you set out in the same area you place it, but you can't use party chat to talk to each other so everything has to be planned out over the phone.

Super annoying.
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Wait, hold on. So you CAN hook up with a friend? My cousin was level 16 and I was 17. I had humanity (was human) and he was a hollow. I laid down my soap stone right in front of the same bonfire we were at. We even had our iphones on facetime to see it. Nothing showed up for him. Am I doing something wrong or is it just not working?
 
You can't decide who you party with. I don't know if it random or whatever, but even under ideal conditions, there is no guarantee you will be able to party together.
 
Strid said:
Why not use the bombs? As far as I know it's the only way to get his weapon.
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cause I already made my character and spent so long making her look right :P I don't wanna remake her. Dark and Demon's Souls sadly need to have an option during character creation to save character appearance templates and transfer between the two games. Oh well :(

So I've got to PUNCH MY WAY TO VICTORY!! Entirely possible, but hard as hell. Gotta be very mindful of his movements and your surroundings for about 30 minutes cause that's about how long the fight takes just punching to death. It's not so bad, just the times the camera fawks up due to too close to a wall. There is the occasional moment he'll swing larger than he normally does that's annoying though.
 
Rips said:
Wait, hold on. So you CAN hook up with a friend? My cousin was level 16 and I was 17. I had humanity (was human) and he was a hollow. I laid down my soap stone right in front of the same bonfire we were at. We even had our iphones on facetime to see it. Nothing showed up for him. Am I doing something wrong or is it just not working?
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Did you try it with both of you in the same covenant? The wiki page says members of the Covenant of the White are drawn closer together on the network. http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Covenants
 
Elemmire said:
cause I already made my character and spent so long making her look right :P I don't wanna remake her. Dark and Demon's Souls sadly need to have an option during character creation to save character appearance templates and transfer between the two games. Oh well :(

So I've got to PUNCH MY WAY TO VICTORY!! Entirely possible, but hard as hell. Gotta be very mindful of his movements and your surroundings for about 30 minutes cause that's about how long the fight takes just punching to death. It's not so bad, just the times the camera fawks up due to too close to a wall. There is the occasional moment he'll swing larger than he normally does that's annoying though.
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You can punch it to death if you like but there is a much, much better way of going about defeating him. You do realize you don't have to kill him right then and there? In fact, if you do, you'll null the entire purpose of a few tutorial messages later on. Here's a hint, look left.
 
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Omfg, ghosts are so bullshit in Dark Souls. This game is a pain in the ass... and not in a good way like Demon's Souls. I mean, at least in Demon's Souls if you were careful you could get around and know where things were. But ghosts that can clip through everything, hit through them too (and you can't hit them) and do so much damage, swarm at you in great deal of numbers? That's just not fucking fair.. that's unfair to the extreme. That's not a fair challenge like Demon's Souls -_- I think they got so hyped on the praise they got from the challenge they decided to up the challenge but in a bad way. In old school cheapshit way... not the way they were in Demon's Souls where it was fair. Fucking bs ghosts.. fuck them. And fuck the fact they don't even give a damn soul when they die. Bah....
 
Just wait till you start fighting real bosses. A Wolf with a sword in his mouth, a giant tentacle rape thing called "Ceaseless Discharge", or even the Stray Demon who is at the Asylum when you go back there.
 
Elemmire said:
Omfg, ghosts are so bullshit in Dark Souls. This game is a pain in the ass... and not in a good way like Demon's Souls. I mean, at least in Demon's Souls if you were careful you could get around and know where things were. But ghosts that can clip through everything, hit through them too (and you can't hit them) and do so much damage, swarm at you in great deal of numbers? That's just not fucking fair.. that's unfair to the extreme. That's not a fair challenge like Demon's Souls -_- I think they got so hyped on the praise they got from the challenge they decided to up the challenge but in a bad way. In old school cheapshit way... not the way they were in Demon's Souls where it was fair. Fucking bs ghosts.. fuck them. And fuck the fact they don't even give a damn soul when they die. Bah....
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Ghosts are suppose to clip, hell, they're ghosts! If they're beating you up so bad, you must just not be ready for them. You can also just run away from them for the most part. Also, they're not very prominent in the world, at all. I hate having to be cursed to kill them so I don't even bother, not even with transient curses.

You can't just run by a pack of them though. The best thing to do is aggro them and then move to a place on the map you want them to converge on. When they head your way, take off to wherever it is you're tryin' to get. Just, uh, don't be so fixated on the ghosts that you aren't looking out for other enemies and traps :D

A big difference I've noticed in this game, it seems like the number of enemies that should just be ran by has significantly increased. Hell, there is one enemy type in Queelag's Den (if you have no idea of this area you really are far to early for ghosts) that punishes you for attacking it, which turns out to be good conditioning later on when you end up not whacking one of them that's actually a "good guy."
 
Strid said:
A big difference I've noticed in this game, it seems like the number of enemies that should just be ran by has significantly increased. Hell, there is one enemy type in Queelag's Den (if you have no idea of this area you really are far to early for ghosts) that punishes you for attacking it, which turns out to be good conditioning later on when you end up not whacking one of them that's actually a "good guy."
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You really think so? Theres only 1 enemy I've decided to skip so far (that wasn't a boss like the red dragon or ceaseless discharge). it was that guy before the first real boss, and you only get to him by going the wrong way.
 
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