Fuck dark souls

There are quite many factors that make that seem very little possible on a very first blind playthrough.

>Black Knight weapons doesn't have 100% drops
>Havel armor is behind an illusory wall

Then whatever you do, dont play nioh. Its dark souls but everything one-hits while at the same time bosses take 2-3 imes longer than DaS bosses.

Honestly the Havel armor isn't hidden away all that well, iirc the illusory wall is in a room with nothing in it. Its a suspicious looking fireplace to boot.
And considering you can fight quite a few black knights before anor londo its not incredibly hard to believe that at least one will drop.
Honestly the biggest factor against that setup is that the player isn't likely to have havels ring

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Unironically git gud, everything in the game has a tell and its up to you to figure it out, thats why there's shields and dodging, both are the best tools in the game to get the job done. try reading the descriptions and stats on a weapon they tell you everything you need to know and there's alot of empty space and low level areas you can test a new weapon you find, also explore EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING

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Is it possible to completely "absorb"/receive 0 damage from a firebomb?

>Honestly the biggest factor against that setup is that the player isn't likely to have havels ring
Wtf? It's in an early area.

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*is useful in 1 area and then becomes useless*

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Its dropped from a difficult enemy. I imagine most new players would die a few times to the knight and just go up the tower towards the tauros demon instead, considering its the easiest route.

agreed, op. dark souls is a shitty broken ass fucking game yet people eat it up because of the "it's hard" memes.
it's just unbalanced and broken.

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>feeling bad for torrenting games

no i actually feel good about torrenting this shit
ill even seed a few terrabytes

>tfw still have problems dealing wth Scooby Doo solo without an OP build

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But you can always find him again later, even accidentally.

youtube.com/watch?v=Gr61Zt4jBZo
This guy can beat it with bongos.
I hate to say it, but GIT GUD.

>Pirating games that are known for their online aspect

I'm doing it last right now, believe it is my only obstacle before the final boss. Currently using silver knight armor, havel head, and two handed dragon tooth which is the only fast damaging weapon I have.

I'm guessing I need to level some items up a bit more.

Yeah but he cheats.

u gotta be "speedrunner"-tier autistic to beat this game, huh

wait a minute but seath

and don't hit me with that unintended skip shit

>webm
kino

This is gonna sound like bullshit but.... you can use a rare ring of sacrifice.

still a death

I do not claim to be a good "gamer" or anything, but when prepare to die was finally on sale i did gave it a try. To the games defense i have to say i saw a lot of dark souls gameplay, but i had really no trouble at all. I think i even managed to parry Gwyns jump on my very first attempt. Also granted: i'm not 100% sure but i think i never did dlc, so that bnlack dragon (kalamir, kalasomething) might be a different story. The difficulty isn't as real as everyone claims.

Uh

youtube.com/watch?v=n0Y7qtgyaS4

uh

I feel you brother, I fucking hated dark souls on my first playthrough when it came out and got bored

you might need to just grind an area for a short while and gain a level or two, it's really not needed but may help slightly in a fight. best to just find out where you need specific loot to upgrade a weapon you like and do that for the bonuses and armor too

desu this thread summarizes how i feel about bloodborne

Being in the abyss is disorienting on purpose. Their magic projectile is fucking deceiving and it gets me often.

The difficulty is in getting along with the overall timing of the entire game.
While most action games require you to be fast, Souls only requires you to be precise. If you can control yourself in any situation you can get away without dying.

what kind of bullshit is this where u gotta skip bosses
fuck u nigga

The difficulty is the only thing scaring me away from it.
I tried bloodborne and love everything about it...except the fact I can't even get to the first boss in one piece.

You actually fight him sooner this way

>I love everything about this game i haven't played
Is anything posted here NOT bait?

Nono I played it.
Very little but from what I saw I loved the atmosphere of it all.

git fuckin gud scrub

dark souls would have been fun if they had a difficulty settings instead of putting it on very hard only

nigga the first boss is like 10 minutes away from the beginning, you've barely played it at all

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Yeah exactly.
I suck at it.
Slowly getting better at parrying though. There is still an effort being made to get farther

>undead perish
>you died
I found this funny

Good luck user. Keep at it.

I mean... I guess I hope you push through. Bloodborne is great game, it would be a shame if you if missed out on it so prematurely.

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I enjoy roguelikes and shit where I spend 20 hours on a character, die, and lose that progress forever. Dark Souls combat just feels like shit.

Which area? I never actually used these

I will beat it some day. I refuse to let this game sit and collect digital dust

I would be unbelievably surprised if someone brand new to the series managed to get to Gascoigne or Cleric Beast in 10 minutes. Fuck, first time character creation probably takes 10 minutes.

I wouldn't worry about the difficulty.
You likely will die to the majority of the enemies and bosses in the game, but you will start to pick up on their attack patterns. Its all about adapting through failure.
Honestly half of the difficulty is having an optimal build in the first place.
What i'm saying is, its a really good game and it sucks that people put it off because they think it will be too difficult.

don't worry user. those people are just typical insecure Yea Forumstards who feel the need to tell other random anonymous people about how good they are that they beat a game that tons of other people beat. its completely normal for someone brand new to the game to die tens of times to their first bosses, and even tens of times to your first enemies.

How was your very first playthrough and experience of your 1st soulsborne game lads?

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They're nice for getting the boar in Undead Parish to kill himself one of the fires

GID GUD

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You gotta play HARD!

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And if you don't have a good build, how drastically will the difficulty rise?

what are some good permadeath games? i played a lot of realm of the mad god and diablo hardcore

>adapt through failure

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As long as you are at least pumping up the stat related to whatever weapon type you prefer should have no problems.
As long as you don't spread yourself too thin its pretty hard to fuck up your build.

if youre spending more than 30 minutes on a boss in DS1 youre doing it wrong

Except you're not going to figure out those tells until you've died to an enemy.

It'll certainly be doable but, especially for your first play through, you'll want to make sure you're building well.
Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that only certain types of builds are viable. Far from it. Just make sure you're upgrading your equipment, and that you spec for your preferred weapon type. Things like that.

Honestly, if the thought of gradually improving until you can finally beat that boss thats been giving you trouble, or finally get through that area to the next safe zone doesn't sound satisfying to you, then you probably won't enjoy Dark Souls at all.

wrong sentiment, you should pirate them because they're clearly all unfinished with massive confirmed content cuts

of course it's a dumb artoriasfag who says this.
of course.

Honestly, the games would be passable with more bonfires & save points before bosses

You practically have to memorize the entire game to play it well. It's on par with I wanna be the guy, but at least that game is funny.

"LOL GET GOOD" yeah no. You're not getting good, you're just memorizing everything. That's why you can beat it with a dance pad or steering wheel. There's no skill involved beyond memorizing every attack pattern and item location.

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shit game for retards

>The game is easy once you memorize it like a textbook and explore every corner.

No wonder dark souls fanboys are so cancerous. They've wasted to much time and effort memorizing these games they've literally given themselves Stockholm Syndrome. No wonder they wont' play anything else.

>learn to do something well
"you're not actually good, you just memorized it"

>Get a major
"You're not good at this subject, you just memorized it"

get a load of this retard

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>Get new problem
>Able to complete it due to the previous experience

>Get new dark souls game
>Relearn literally everything from scratch

nigga you can pick any weapon pretty much and roll in circles around 80% of the bosses... is it so goddamn hard to use your mind on the other 20%?

Post the boss that seems to always kick your ass for a while no matter how many runs you do.

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>Roll Roll Roll, boss does new attack, die
>run 10-20 minutes to get back to the boss
>chip damage from trash mobs
>Roll Roll Roll, boss does new attack, die
>run 10-20 minutes to get back to the boss
>chip damage from trash mobs
>Roll Roll Roll, boss does new attack, die
>run 10-20 minutes to get back to the boss
>chip damage from trash mobs
>repeat for hours occasionally leveling up after grinding until you win

Fantastic game

I love bosses with poorly telegraphed one shot grapples that instantly kill

>10-20 minutes
Has this ever been the case?

Speak for yourself, if you can't apply previously learned knowledge to new obstacles then you just need to git gud.

>Boss does new attack, live, distance yourself, heal, engage again with new knowledge.
ftfy

Its interesting how difficulty can be so relative. I beat dancer on my 2nd try but pic related always makes me sweat.

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dragonslayer armor gave me a lot of shit on a 2nd game

The first 10 seconds of Capra Demon

This bitch for a while, although i can kick her ass with the farron greatsword now

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