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Your skill is a hundred times more important than your stats. You can't just grind levels and become so powerful that you don't have to think; it helps to grind, but it won't make the game a cakewalk. Every encounter can be your death - seriously. I'm SL32, and last night, due to me just being careless, the very first enemies you encounter after the tutorial killed me. Yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morris Schæffer
This is a great Dark Souls wiki
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/
D have you mastered parrying yet?
Against basic enemies only, most of the time. But I don't rely on it. I've heard that there are certain weapons and shields that make parrying/reposting easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by megladon8
Got rather frustrated at Dead Island last night. Hopefully it was just a bad night, and hopefully the novelty has not worn off.
Either way, gotta find a cheap mike/headset for Spun.
What happened?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scar
Combat seemed.... off. And I wasn't drunk. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spun Lepton
Also had a couple Rams that were pissing me off.
I used the Drake Sword for the first time tonight. It's pretty awesome. Devastating, at least compared to the mace I usually use. Much quicker, too.
I didn't realize that the special attack you can use by holding it two-handed breaks it down so quickly. It's at 86/300 already, so I'm saving to buy a few gold powders to repair it.
D - while using the Drake Sword (and only while using that weapon) I have a little blue symbol that kind of resembles a shield underneath my green stamina bar.
I can't figure out what it means, nor can I find anything about it online. Even on the Wiki pages it doesn't mention this little blue symbol.
It boosts something - not sure what.
If you go to the blacksmith in the Undead Parish, you can pay him to repair your equipment.
Using the R2 two-handed attack on the drake sword uses 30 points of durability. You definitely want to keep that thing around for awhile.
LOL Red Dragon.
Shot him once from the black knight tower near the Undead Parish entrance, and he fell off the bridge and died.
LOL
Guess I don't have to fight him now.
What the fuck, Catwoman is DLC in Arkham City. I feel like I've been lied to.
Man oh man, Blight Town is hella creepy. I'm absolutely inching my way through. I think I need to play this during the day light hours! Freaking myself out. Heh....
Oh, and be ready for some really bad framerates here. Ugh.
Yeah, but if you buy the game, the code comes with the instructions.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
Holy crap....I'm almost to the bottom....and then...the lake of poison.
This game is not good for my nerves.
Ign review Batman: AC
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/119/1199705p1.html
Metacritic leaves no doubt either! Rocksteady have delivered beyond the call of duty here, one's interest in the source material is virtually irrelevant.
Now, I'm going to boot up Dark Souls for the first time.
Ha! 15 min into Dark Souls and I'm still alive!! :D
The atmosphere is already so thick you could cut it with a knife. Picked the wanderer btw. Names MSchaeffer.
Asylum demon nearly got me, but ran away instead. Still alive. Lol
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Originally Posted by Ezee E
I wonder if it's one of the "DLC's" that's already on the disc.
Hm, I got a bow, but can't use it. I guess I need arrows also? Would be easier to take out asylum demon from afar. Yeah, died five or six times now, framerate already a bit choppy, though nothing major. Cloud textures kinda ugly, no big deal.
Got him, lunging strike, learning how to evade etc... Great feeling.
So I made it all the way to the bottom of Blight Town, into the lake of poison. I really needed to get out with 25,000 souls and buy some stuff - including some arrows. I made it to the water wheel which would carry me up to Drake Valley, which would connect to Darkroot Basin, then to Darkroot Garden, and finally to the Undead Parish, where I might be able to catch a glimpse of the sun.
And I poorly judged the gap between the water wheel and a platform and fell to my doom.
:(
Your DEX may not be high enough to use a bow yet. You can toggle the weapon screen to see all the information, including what stats you need to use, and what stats the weapon scales with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morris Schæffer
The frame rate can be bad, but I haven't had it impact the gameplay in any way yet, even in Blight Town, where it takes a massive hit.
And you're right - this game has atmosphere to spare. Probably the most atmospheric game I've ever played. I'd say it even trumps Silent Hill 1 and 2 in this department.
The Catwoman stuff is not really DLC. It comes with every copy of the game. They are doing this to try and combat used sales. It's a one time use code. EA has been doing this for awhile now. On recent EA Games you could only play multiplayer if you bought them new or if you paid $10/15 for a code. Same thing here but with the Catwoman stuff.
I think I worded it wrong. I know it comes free. I just thought that the Catwoman parts are essential to the game and you trade off characters throughout the story. I'm just disappointed that it's a separate game.
It seems like Catwoman's only essential to getting all the Riddler stuff. She can get to places that Batman can't.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
Game Informer is doing a special series of Dark Soul podcasts. The first episode is pretty good.
Yeah, exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezee E
Eh, oh well, it's not exactly a bad thing per se, gamewise; I was just excited to have Catwoman being treated as an important character, as a fan.
At least I'm hearing that when you play as her, she has her own storyline where you fight a hidden Batman villain that doesn't appear in the main game. I'm guessing Black Mask.