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i wish i could get selective amnesia and play Dark Souls again :'(

Enjoying my time with this tonight and then the game starts pulling this kind of bullshit on me:

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Pure raging!

Still loving it though.

classic dark souls

Hahaha that's great.

Reminds me of a similar situation I had in a bloodborne chalice dungeon

Just started this. Dying a lot

Hyperion wrote:Just started this. Dying a lot

Get gud

Ad7 wrote:Reminds me of a similar situation I had in a bloodborne chalice dungeon

I need to get back to this, like the glutton for punishment that I am!

Hyperion wrote:Just started this. Dying a lot

Welcome to the party pal

I started Dark Souls today / . I played three hours this afternoon and another forty minutes just now... but I've probs got about fifteen minutes into the game .

The gothic styling is cool and I like the dark atmosphere. I'm slowly - very slowly - getting to grips with the controls and menus; it doesn't help that barely anything is explained but I recognise that is part of the appeal. Movement seems to be the real learning point - you don't have to be fast, but timing is crucial. Defence and attack has to be thought about and I spent ages flailing around. Thankfully some of the stream viewers helped me out on a few aspects .

I eventually beat that first big baddie and I felt like a Souls Pro . Moving on I have gotten a bit further though I struggled against a dude with a pike; I don't know how to beat him and he duffed me up about four times. Eventually I got away from him by... uhm... running. It did the trick! Then I got demolished in about two seconds by a beastie called Taurus Demon. I had to stop at that point as I was all Souls-ed out.

I am struggling a little bit with the idea of re-starting each time; it can be frustrating to keep re-doing sections just to die quickly at a challenging point. But, hey, I'm making progress and that's all part of the Souls experience.

And, yeah, I need to git gud.

more heat than light wrote:...Stick with it, look for shortcuts to make your life a little easier.

Thanks, man, yeah, I'm keeping an eye out for short cuts. I found some in Bloodborne but I haven't noticed any so far in Souls. Will take another look during this week!

Good luck Jawa!

Karl_ wrote:Good luck Jawa!

Thanks, Karl - the game sometimes feels like a test of endurance, but it does tempt you to keep playing by begrudgingly granting little slivers of progress!

It's a bastard, no question. Doubt I'll ever finish it myself.

Gemini73 wrote:It's a bastard, no question. Doubt I'll ever finish it myself.

That's what I though as well. I'd written it off as something I'd never get into. But through endurance, patience and little bit of "where do I go now?" I finally beat it.

It's hard and obtuse at times, but it's mostly fair (Occasional bit of "through wall" jank aside).

May God have mercy on your soul.

Awesome game, love it

I've had my Dark Souls run on pause for the last couple of months - I got to Anor Londo and then seemed to lose momentum. I really should get back to it.

I've been playing it on Switch and I think that platform lends itself really well to a game like this - the ability to pick it up whenever and play for short bursts as well as big sessions has definitely helped me keep pushing onward where I may have given up before!