Tell me your first Dark Souls 1 experience if you can remember user

The memory that stuck with me for some reason is wandering the swamp and Ash Lake on a second playthrough while listening to podcasts. I think it's nostalgia for the sheer amount of free time I had back then.

Booted it up after beating Demon's Souls and thought Undead Burg was ugly as fuck and dropped the game for three years

I was a retard who somehow missed the staircase in the church leading up to the gargoyles so I just kept exploring until I found my way down to Quelaag and beat her first

I remember playing a couple of hours of it and then realizing that it sucks

getting lost at sewers and failing at jumping over a hole because it was on a small corridor with a low ceilling

also remember that the red dragon at bridge bugged and freezed so it was a free kill and after that i got a claymore which became my main since then

being stuck in the character creation menu for two hours because i couldn't create a cute girl

Not that bad, started as a mage, saw that the spellcasting was too slow and pivoted to a full Havel Tank MLGS spellblade

Blighttown is a nigger without the rusty iron ring

i do not like skeletons they are spooky pls remove

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that first playthrough was like 100+ hours and i was sad when it ended. even the music for the gwyn fight seemed kind of like the sad end to a long journey.

youtube.com/watch?v=AB6sOhQan9Y

it's probably my favorite game ever and they never really nailed that beautiful level design again. the first 2/3 of the game are perfection.

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lewd!!

Fighting the skeleton niggers next to fire link for like 3 hours at the start of the game.

>resistance? i should probably raise that

I had played Demon's Souls before and solod the entire game except for the Maneater boss
When I played Dark Souls I summoned for the gargoyle boss and oreos and smores and the four kings
I'm still not good at multi bosses to this day.

Hated it cuz My potato PC played it at 15fps. Later I upgraded it and had the cliché noob experience i.e going the skeleton's way. After I went to New Londo but it wasnt that way either. i eventually Made it to the Burg, the Parish and then the rest of the Game.
Good times

I tried to kill the Asylum Demon with the broken sword. I died a bunch and decided the game was too hard for me and didn't touch the game for about 2 years after that.

Fighting to pinwheel and all the way back up again cause I was too scared to enter the darkness with glowing eyes

I'll do you one better.
In Demon's Souls, I had found the Dragon Bone Smasher on a Wanderer that kind of dipped into everything. Magic, miracles, I did it all (and good thing, I needed Water Veil for Flamelurker). I needed to farm souls to be able to use the Dragon Bone Smasher, so I did the trick of killing the 4-2 Necromancer again and again. I had conniptions about being human, but I felt it afforded me some security. I didn't have the faith for Evacuate, those souls were for STR only, so I had to walk back to the Archstone every kill. I had gotten enough souls to use it in two hands and was using it to kill the Necromancer. And then it happened. My first invasion.
I got the message as I was about to enter Blige's hallway. I hid around the corner behind the pillar using the camera to peer down the hallway. There he was, in Old King Doran's, onehanding the DBS. Feelings of jealousy were drowned out by fear. He ran past me, and I thought I could escape to the Nexus by going back to the Archstone but it was fogwalled, and while the Archstone Shard also wouldn't work, I considered using it and decided against it. I was right there, I wouldn't lose the souls.
I got the jump on Doran on the balcony. It was a messy scrap. He healed to full every few hits, I had to heal twice every time he hit me once. His DBS was upgraded, mine wasn't, so killing him by reducing his health to 0 was going to be easier said than done. But then I noticed the knockback, sending him skidding back 15 feet every hit. We were on a balcony with no railing. That was it. I hit him in just the right time and place and send him kareening off the ledge.
And that's how DeS is best game of 2009, and my favorite game.

My first DS1 experience was during 2020, I didn't try to understand the RPG elements or use the items that I got so I struggled a lot with undead burg. I decided to actually try a run this year and didn't have many problems with it until I beat it. Made me wonder how the fuck I was playing before since I died a shit tone back then while I reached Taurus demon on my first try this year.

I remember thinking this game was a roll fest and i tried to dodge as much as i could
And then i discovered that block was much better and the became way more fun

>don't even know the game has multiplayer
>get invaded and assraped by some guy named Bonesmasher or something wearing armor of thorns and darkwraith mask
>spend the rest of the area afraid that he might appear again at any time
Also spending hours fighting have then being extremely pissed off when he didn't drop his armor

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Mostly frustrated that I put the wrong points into my character, then more frustrated that I couldn't find a good dex weapon.

i got it for free on xbox 360 from some xbox live thing in like 2014. the framerate was almost unplayable but i still finished the whole game somehow. i didnt understand how magic worked so i avoided it entirely and i ended up being a ninja flipper with the painting guardian scimitar

>beat the game pretty good
>hear about some lake area
>"Oh I should look up how to get there on my next playthrough to check it out"
>still haven't visited it because I keep forgetting
At this point I don't even want to go there to be honest. I want it to remain this hidden, mysterious area that I'll never reach.

Souls in general, bought DeS about 8 years ago (scored the copy with the artbook and guide for $20), died once and saw the health loss and never played it again. Decided to finally try again when elden ring came out, thoroughly fucking enjoyed it after applying myself. Beat it twice, first run melee then magic. Just started and finished Dark souls recently, holy fuck they learned so much. The world is fucking incredible and they really got fucking you over down to an artform in the best way. Just chipping away at NG+ at the moment, putting off moving on to DS2. Slowly working towards Elden Ring.

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I'd seen it before in videos but my favorite moment from DS has to be getting taken to Anor Londo for the first time. The scale of the place is absurd, absolutely fucking beautiful.

Not DS but many years ago I was grinding souls in Demon's for a bit and blasting Moonman songs in the background while doing so.
Now when I listen to these tracks about lynching minorities I feel a fond sense of remembrance for those long summer days when I was harvesting souls from red eyed knights.

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>high school girlfriend introduces me to ds1
>she's on her first playthrough at duke's archives
>she's watching me play through upper berg
>she's smiling the closer I get to taurus' boss door
>I go in, don't see a boss and start looking around
>notice the ladder, go up and kill the two crossbowmen
>taurus appears
>run back and climb the ladder and do a jump attack
>repeat twice
>gg ez
>girlfriend is mad that I succeed on my first attempt while she did it 10 times before she won

some anons on Yea Forums talking about how good demon's souls was. I bought at gamestop a few weeks later

Accidentally attacked the NPC at firelink within five minutes. He chased me as far as I could possibly survive, but was impossible to kill. Ended up luring him to the cliff below firelink and kicking him off.

I played the remake's network test for 10 minutes and got bored.

>gf: user i can't believe you only like shooters, you have to try these "dark souls" games
>meh, whatever, heard a bit about these games so why not
>play DaS2 first because that's the one she wants to play together, says DaS makes it too hard to play with friends
>only know kbm controls, just getting used to a controller, die to every hollow
>i eat every effigy i find, by the time i can summon i ate them all and we can't multiplayer
>when we finally play our session only lasts a minute because i fall off the ladder in cardinal tower and die
>she says i should just try 1 to get used to how the games feel
>fine, i go in blind
>DaS1 feels slightly better, i don't really understand upgrading, fatrolling, armor, and kindling, but i just sword and board through it all
>weaponfu is the Man-Serpent Greatsword. All in on STR baby
>the usual experience, firelink elevator, valley of the drakes looping around, getting walled at O&S, getting cursed at the depths, discovering ash lake, it's like a dream come true
>had such a good time that i didn't really notice Izalith was shit. it was scary and creepy and very atmospheric, the dragon butts were unsettling, the group of 7 taurus demons was an "oh fuck" moment, didn't think it was cheap recycling or anything, I was too star struck to care.
>then i get truly walled at 4kings
>nothing i do works
>gf tells me to go full havels and tank it
>win is so easy that i feel like i cheesed them and because of le difficulty i didn't git gud
>gf laughs at me and calls me a scrub
>since I'm a faggot kid my pride is too insulted and i get turbomad at her and drop DaS for good
>later on i feel bad and went and beat DaS3, DaS2, and finally went back to DaS1 and beat Oolacile, Painted World, and Gwyn
>did a few repeat playthroughs of DaS2 and DaS3 with her, i played a faggot poison katana dude and she a mage, we switched roles for ds3 and I did heysels pick sorcery and she that faggot paired katana
Fun games, good times

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I was stuck on the minotaur boss for about 5 hours and then when I finally beat him and got the 5000 souls to level I went downstairs to walk across the bridge and was instantly one shot by the helkite dragon.

I beat O&S first try on my first ever playthrough of DS1 and I have never been able to do it ever since. I have 500+ hours in the game but I always need 1 or 2 tries to beat them.

Being totally incapable of killing quelaag

I died

>came from Bloodborne
>reach undead burg, still human from asylum demon
>full knight gear, fatrolling
>get invaded by naked dude
>flail and fatroll until he murders me
Good times

Just happened about a month ago. Basically I used a shield and a halberd and got 40 STR and DEX and everything died quickly, I also died a lot less than I expected so I felt surprised the game wasn't the dark souls of dark souls like everyone said it was 10 years ago.

never played it. i did watch vaati run his mouth about the lore several times, however.

First time playing was with when a friend got the game before I could get it. He let me play and I went down to New Londo on a new character. He told me you can't hit the ghosts enemies there and I happened to look at the item I found and then we realized the using that you can fight the ghosts.
Got the Drake Sword because you can obviously shoot the tail and kill the dragon if you take your time. Never used it though, which is kinda funny in retrospective.
Got stuck really hard on Quelaag with my shitty Longsword +5.
Found the entrance to Ashlake without looking it up. Unironically took like an hour too get down the tree.

thought gwynn was impossibly hard until I found out he could be parried

This. Also
>deprived? Stats are well-rounded so it must be the best starting option

I killed the demon on the wall then stopped playing because the game was boring.

I don't know if you're a fag or a roastie, but either way you should probably kill yourself

I fucked around with a bunch of weapons until I settled on Halberd, but I didn't want to fuck with rolling through things all the time so I wanted a shield as well. Ended up finding the giant stone shield that needed like, 50 strength or something and went
>I want that
So I pumped just enough strength to be able to lift the damn thing and then went back to scaling dex for Halberd damage. My build was ass, but man it felt cool to be able to just sit there and eat any hit without blinking and then jab things to death.

I basedfaced for the first time when I realized the chapel elevator led to firelink shrine.

>buy game because friend says it's cool
>get physical PC version activate it on GFWL
>confused by controls
>give up on it for a few months
>try again, rebuy it for steam this time
>summon friend when I get really frustrated
>he destroys Black Knight and Taurus Demon with twink Reinforced Club
>get my first true taste of power
and then I became a Soulsfag and my taste in games has never recovered

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I got lost and it frustrated me. I didn't finish the game until a year later.

>get game as a trade for a tf2 unusual
>this is around 2016, so all I knew was the Prepare to Die and Ornstein and Smough memes
>think game is incredibly clunky
>guy tells me to go down or up
>go "down"
>die a million times to skeletons
>fuck this game
>try again a bit later
>somehow fumble my way to gargoyles
>hit a hard wall
>fuck this game
>come back 3 years later
>fall in love
>one of my all time favorites now
Not that abnormal of an experience, all things considered

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I spent three hours alternating between trying to get through the catacombs or the underground ghost ruins because I somehow missed the entire section of cliff leading up to the undead burg.

I was a pyro build and leveled every stat evenly (even resistance) I showed my friend who played the game multiple times. And he calmly and quietly stated "most people don't level resistance" dude was too nice.

>get to firelink shrine
>blood stains on the ground
>message tells me to watch out for this guy and try parrying
>decide to get the jump on him
>spend the next hour getting really good at parrying and back stabs while he kills me over and over again
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Got filtered hard by silver piggy

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