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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by more heat than light » Wed Sep 22, 2021 11:30 am

Jenuall wrote:NG++ next then?


I played halfway through NG++ to get the third Sif Soul for the last weapon achievement. I think I've had enough Dark Souls for now.

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by Jenuall » Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:11 pm

Ah of course, it's an impressive achievement I think you've earned a Souls break!

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by site23 » Wed Sep 22, 2021 11:51 pm

I only just found out, but today was actually the 10th anniversary of the original release of Dark Souls. :toot:

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by aayl1 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:01 am

Well done on the soul level 1 run Karl! Been fun to see you stream a few variant runs!

DK Bongo run when?

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by site23 » Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:41 pm

aayl1 wrote:DK Bongo run when?

:lol: If I owned one!

I might have to leave DS1 for a bit - I can't really think of anything else interesting to show right now. I guess I could do a proper speedrun and try out more glitches, but I should probs just go back to DS2... :shifty:

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by Cumberdanes » Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:23 pm

site23 wrote:
aayl1 wrote:DK Bongo run when?

:lol: If I owned one!

I might have to leave DS1 for a bit - I can't really think of anything else interesting to show right now. I guess I could do a proper speedrun and try out more glitches, but I should probs just go back to DS2... :shifty:


Deprived run, you can’t change gear and have to use the Deprived starter stuff.

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by site23 » Sat Oct 02, 2021 5:43 pm

Sorcery-only speedrun - 2:13:34.

WR is about half an hour :lol: but I enjoyed it and it was much better than my previous PB!

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by more heat than light » Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:29 pm

Even 2 hours and change is crazy fast. I have no idea how anyone learns the game enough to do that. I think I know the world inside out and it still took me 20+ hours to beat it.

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by site23 » Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:10 pm

more heat than light wrote:Even 2 hours and change is crazy fast. I have no idea how anyone learns the game enough to do that. I think I know the world inside out and it still took me 20+ hours to beat it.


Thanks! :wub:

If you're interested, here are some glitches I used to speed up the run:

This one bugs out the menu so you can use hundreds of a soul item instead of just one:
https://clips.twitch.tv/VivaciousSassyDeerBleedPurple-oNQX89solcdkWJ1Z

This one lets you load into the "YOU DIED" camera mode without actually dying, by parrying in a particular spot. I couldn't fit the whole skip into a 60 second clip but the point is that the fortress gate doesn't load in this mode so you can just walk right in. (It messes up the directionality of your controls so I kept walking into walls! :lol: )
https://clips.twitch.tv/RelatedSavoryLeopardBudStar-8WbFtTgXHPO5P3g1

This one tricks a Manserpent into smashing the wall you're supposed to hit with a boulder later on:
https://clips.twitch.tv/CallousBillowingBarracudaFloof-6FQbkaMSrzGozeip

And there were a few moments like this, where you jump off things you arguably aren't really supposed to. This one is probably the hardest, to skip being imprisoned in Duke's Archives:
https://clips.twitch.tv/CoweringAthleticKoupreyFloof-AOUWlsA8_umgbdqO

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by more heat than light » Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:46 pm

site23 wrote:This one tricks a Manserpent into smashing the wall you're supposed to hit with a boulder later on:
https://clips.twitch.tv/CallousBillowingBarracudaFloof-6FQbkaMSrzGozeip


I knew this one! The others are very cool though, there's lots of glitchy stuff in Dark Souls. It's cool that people dedicate so much time to one game.

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by Pedz » Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:06 pm

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Looks like Dark Souls 2 with Site23 is BACK Baby!

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by site23 » Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:34 pm

:lol: I guess I can't argue with that!

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by site23 » Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:13 am

New PB: 1 hour 33 mins ish!

Pleased with that! It was a good run overall, but I had a nightmare on a couple of bits, so I think sub 90 mins is possible with more practice!

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by more heat than light » Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:26 am

That's awesome site, well done! :)

Forgot to mention until this post was bumped, but my lad (age 11) finished this last week. I had let him play the game after watching me for a bit, and expected him to give up early on into the game. But he just seemed to get really into it. Just a little guidance from me on where to go, he did every boss (including the DLC) himself.

Proud dad moment! :toot:

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by jawa_ » Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:44 am

site23 wrote:New PB: 1 hour 33 mins ish!...

Wow! :o . That's great play, site - I can't imagine how you got through the game so quickly!

more heat than light wrote:...my lad (age 11) finished this last week. I had let him play the game after watching me for a bit, and expected him to give up early on into the game. But he just seemed to get really into it. Just a little guidance from me on where to go, he did every boss (including the DLC) himself...

Your lad did so well, mhtl! Bravo, mhtl Junior :toot: .

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by Jenuall » Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:49 am

Nice time Karl! I spotted someone was streaming Souls on the GR channel last night but wasn't able to watch along.

I dipped my toes back into the waters of Dark Souls II last night, going to try and get the momentum going again for my playthrough of that and see if I can make it to the end. Spent most of last night just trying to remember where I was! :lol:

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by jawa_ » Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:09 pm

Jenuall wrote:...I dipped my toes back into the waters of Dark Souls II last night, going to try and get the momentum going again for my playthrough of that and see if I can make it to the end...

Whoop! It's top to hear that you're back into Souls, Jen - and, as site and TWA often say, the best one in the series, too :toot: .

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by Jenuall » Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:09 pm

jawa_ wrote:
Jenuall wrote:...I dipped my toes back into the waters of Dark Souls II last night, going to try and get the momentum going again for my playthrough of that and see if I can make it to the end...

Whoop! It's top to hear that you're back into Souls, Jen - and, as site and TWA often say, the best one in the series, too :toot: .

I enjoyed what I played of it a while back so I'm definitely looking forward to jumping back in! :toot:

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by Jenuall » Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:40 am

Had another session on DS2 last night, I've finally mapped the spaces back out again to the point where I can remember where I have and haven't been before so I can get on with trying to make some progress!

On which note the design of the spaces is much more, to coin a phrase, "dead endy" than I think I've seen in any other Soulslike game. So many times you'll think you're making progress on a fruitful branch of an area and it turns out to be a road to nowhere and you have to go back on yourself. There isn't that same elegant layering and interconnecting of spaces that you get in DS1 which leaves exploration occasionally feeling a little bit more frustrating than it was in that game.

That said I'm still very much enjoying the experience, it's following some similar trends and
patterns to the first game but offering some interesting new riffs on them which is cool.

Highlight of last nights session was taking down The Last Giant first try. Not sure if this guy is supposed to be more formidable, or whether I've perhaps come to him later than expected, but he didn't exactly put up much of a fight! :datass:

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PostRe: GRcade plays... Soulsborne
by more heat than light » Fri Nov 05, 2021 11:14 am

The Last Giant is supposed to be the first boss you fight in DS2. I didn't even realise it was possible for it not to be. :lol:

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