Dark Souls

Hope you will not have the graphical glitches I, and many others, had. It ruins much of the immersion (in some places, all of it).

 

Man, I had problems with that one, first try I almost killed him while playing dead tired etc. But then I died so often and had to rely on some great co-op player from Japan to help me out...

Praise the sun, my friend. Praise the sun...

 

Bought the game. Played it for a short while, couldnt Get pass the first boss after 10 tries and now i Wonder If i will play it again. I got close to taking him down, but had bad luck on two occasions, and after that somehow I performed even worse against him

 

Been playing this again. Or rather my friend has and we pick it up on Fun nights every now and again. The difference between playing a ranger as we first chose and a magic user is astronomical. Magic makes the games FAR easier and more fun. Less stress, more progress, less anxiety. It is a game that cannot be played without reading the internet all about it. Very odd.

 

We started as a Pyro and that initial fireball is excellent. Then we quickly got into magic from experience with our Ranger, and the Soul Arrow was very effective providing ranged combat in a way that the ranger was pretty useless at. The advanced spells make big, challenging mobs easy to dispatch at distance in most cases.

 

The game. That i good info, as my strategy was running in cover, running out an hitting!

I think I will start again as a pyro perhaps after reading online. Will read some more though, as I kinda want to make a bad ass sword fighter

 

Choosing the fire bombs as your special item will also take care of that first boss in no time.

 

My biggest challenge is deciding on a class to play. I always struggle with this, especially in rpg's. in skyrim I decided to mix it up by creating two saves (my gf actually played it some also, so we made a magic class together, and I made I bad ass melee char also, I usually play assassin type classes but they usually sick )

What would you guys recommend in terms of fun?

 

If you want to be good at melee but still have some magic abilities you could make a melee and pyromancy character. As long as you don't mind not being as good in magic and miracle spells. Pyromancy doesn't require an investment in stats beyond attunement. You can improve your pyromancy hand using souls instead of needing to increase the intelligence or faith stats for magic and miracles.

The best character to start with for that kind of build would be the pyromancer. He's only one with pyromancy spells from the get go. All the other classes have to wait until they find the guy who actually sells the pyromancy spells, which might take a while.

 

Are they decent in pvp?

 

We play disconnected from the internet so there are no invaders. As for magic and stuff, you must READ to learn when and where spells become available. First play through, we didn't encounter the magic option for tens of hours. This play through, spells are available from the very beginning as we know where to look. But you need to know where spells will come, as it's not like a traditional game where you have levelling up that's always with you. You'll have to find and buy spells, and if you never find the guy you want a spell from, you'll never get it. So you need to use the Wiki to see what spells are way and work out how you can get them. Yes, I think that breaks the game somewhat as it destroys the exploration, but traipsing around making no progress (first playthrough we got weapons early on that barely upgraded in 50 hours. Our eventual 'super bow' with massive magic damage turned out to be useless as you need magic arrows to gain from a bow's abilities) is no fun.

 

@patsu

>How long did it take you to complete the DLC ?

Do not remember, but I think around ten hours or so?

When I finally beat the "poker name boss " (stopped playing there in frustration and had a hiatus of several months) in the original game I invested dozens and dozens of hours in 2 or 3 new chars etc. Even tough I have chosen a different ending on my first playthrough by mistake, as I was not sure what to do .

But, I never finished new game+, will see if I will ever come around to do it, as you need a special mindset to play Dark Souls, you can not do it dead tired.

What is really interesting is that you can finish the DLC and then fight a certain boss in the original and have a different cut scene, man I love Miyazaki, I doubt we will ever see such things with the new directors.

Cheers...

 

In the Darkroot Basin, there's a great place to do super easy Soul farming and it will make you laugh as well.Here's the Youtube link to the video showing how to do it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp6IKCG1U8U