Board 8 > How many times can I die in Dark Souls (Playthrough)

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DoubleTangicide posted...

God i need to play this game again

Ive kind of always wanted to get hella drunk and try to play through it (while streaming on twitch of course) >___>

You post link ill watch

fine Stray Demon
be a complete and utter asshole of total bullshit
I dont need to kill you (yet)
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Yeah I don't know why I've always had trouble with Stray Demon. I just assume it's because I go back to asylum asap instead of just continuing with the game and going there later.
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Gargoyles were the only boss I had REAL trouble with that made me want to stop playing the game. I cheated and summoned someone to help me with them, but the rest of the game I beat (on stream), with of course O&S being the crowning achievement.
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also i dont know how, but I snagged those items from that sleeping dragon
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Stray Demon is a pain because that AoE blast that knocks you back all of that time, and not to mention the attack does a sizeable chunk of damage too.
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Gaping demon is the coolest looking thing
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Gaping dragon was pretty neat (and tiny-looking when it first appears, but then
oh geez)

also killed that Quelaag spiderlady
she gave me some trouble only because of me sometimes getting stuck between a rock and a molten lava place
<.<

now the way to Sens Fortress is open
also whoops I think I sent that firemage to his doom
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spent today running through the rest of the darkroots

took longer than I wanted because of those forest hunter bastards
whose idea was it to have respawning human enemies?
I killed them all several times before I got to that darn cat to get them all to chill out

also killed a few minibosses around the area, including Havel the Dwayne Johnson
spent a good many minutes trading hits and dodges there

that Hydra was also annoying, while I figured out how to deal with it (hide behind a rock, make it do its physical attacks, cut off head, rinse and repeat)
its last remaining head kept attacking areas outside my range
and even lured me into the deep waters more than once
(I have no idea how to tell where to walk)
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There's a very slight difference in the shade of the water between the walkable and nonwalkable parts.

I think it's only ever used there and in one optional area.
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holy fuck, holy fuck, holy
fuck

anor londo archers
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Yep
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that part is without a doubt the most bullshit I ever head to put up with in a game

so much so that I resorted to save-scumming with a USB stick for that part and that part alone
(Because fuck having to walk all the way back and deal with all those devildragons again too)

died so many times I even got a cheat warning
(good thing I dont play online)
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Eh, my first time through i just cheesed them with poison arrows. On subsequent runs i figured out how to bait them into falling off. There were definitely way more frustrating things for me.
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htaeD posted...

holy fuck, holy fuck, holy
fuck

anor londo archers

Its a rite of passage. Believe it or not, after a few playthroughs theyre very easy to deal with.

I mean I get the standard procedure now
but sometimes that bastard kept firing arrows even once I got right into his face

also I am only level 44 or something, shouldnt be too underleveled
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They'll hurt no matter what level you are, no matter what armor you wear. The point is to dodge.
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The Anor Londo archers are a meme for a reason.
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Those Anor Londo archers, easily the worst part of the game.
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Blighttown is far worse.

Anor londo archers are great, I'll agree that it is a rite of passage at this point
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At least you're not human and playing online! I've heard horror stories of people cosplaying as a third archer with the dragonslayer great bow, next to the archers.
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It's pretty satisfying being able to just parry and riposte the archers now. They gave me major headaches on my first couple playthroughs.
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ha yeah that part was also pretty rough for me the first time i played through the game.

zero problems on my last four runs.

it's a highlight in the design intentionality of the enemy placement in the series. it feels impossible when you don't know what to do. the moment you figure it out, there's very little challenge left.
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Which is still the beauty of it. Dark Souls 1 is so cheesy in so many places but I love it.

dodging the arrows is fine to a point.
but like I said, sometimes he keeps shooting even after I hit him

but anyway, I made it to old O & S
need to think of a strategy
seems doable

also I took care of Lautrec
which I managed by running around the arena like a loon, and wait for a chance to fight one at a time
didnt even need to kill the non-mage assist
I managed to eventually backstab Lautrec, made him fall down and did a lunge attack to finish him off
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and many attempts later O & S are dead

found it easier to take down Ornstein first, though he was the cooler one
Smough was just a dick, spamming his rush attack all the time
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who names a boss Ceaseless Discharge anyway?
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He is constantly - some might say without cease - exuding lava - or discharging it.

Great name
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did you do the trick on him
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If the trick is running towards the spot where I first angered him, and trying to dodge his giant ... arm? fist? claw? tentacle?
and then hitting it with my sword

I guess

Sif is also dead btw, probably should have tangled that one before Anor Londo but oh well

so much ground still to cover
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RIP Sif :(
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htaeD posted...

If the trick is running towards the spot where I first angered him, and trying to dodge his giant ... arm? fist? claw? tentacle?
and then hitting it with my sword

I guess

Sif is also dead btw, probably should have tangled that one before Anor Londo but oh well

so much ground still to cover

If it's the guy I am thinking of ( have only watched let's plays) you run back to the fog gate and he just kind of falls off a cliff and dies automatically I think in a cut scene of
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Yeah you can do that but it's lame and also the boss isn't hard since its attacks are so limited
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I wasnt sure if you could hit him at all without waiting for the arm attack either
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WOW Sif deserves more than getting sandbagged like that lmao

Ceaseless Discharge is an amazing name for a boss I'll have you know
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Maybe you can use arrows or spells, but he's talking about how you can trick the boss to animation clip off the edge if you go back to the bridge once he's aggro'd.
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It's not a bug, he's hostile because you loot his sister's corpse, and he's leaping over a cliff as a last ditch effort to stop you. One of the cooler lore pieces imo
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Yea if it was a bug that shit would have been fixed right quick with the Remaster at the very least. It just looks goofy is all.
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I'm fully willing to admit I'm wrong on the details, I've only ever seen a clip of it. But as a curiosity, were there any bugs that they fixed with the remaster? I was under the impression that it was only a graphical upgrade and improved multiplayer capabilities, with different calculations for online match making.
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also finding out how many missable items there are in this game kinda annoys me
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htaeD posted...

also finding out how many missable items there are in this game kinda annoys me

Totally. On top of that, there are some weapons that are a percentage chance drop from non-respawning enemies

You have to let go of your 100% completionist tendencies in this game-Unless maybe you're determined to go through new game+++++++. I also believe it is pretty much impossible to upgrade all of your weapons to max
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banananor posted...

On top of that, there are some weapons that are a percentage chance drop from non-respawning enemies

This isn't actually a problem, since those enemies appear elsewhere so you can still get their weapons.
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since i first beat ceaseless discharge many many years ago dodging his arm slam and attacking it over and over, i've always just done the "trick" method of killing him because it's much faster and not tedious unlike fighting him "legit". he's never been a highlight after the first time, so i prefer to get it over with asap.

i actually had the worst bug happen to me when i was at the very last area on my first playthrough of the remastered version.

got invaded by a darkmoon blade. i won, of course, but as i was making my way down the spiral staircase to the boss door, the sound cue for beating a boss suddenly played. ending cutscene started, credits, then i'm in ng+. if that had happened to me on my actual first time playing the game, i would have been livid! never encountered that glitch in the five times i beat the original on ps3.

what sucked even more was that i did all of the dlc right before that happened, so the save i had uploaded to the cloud was the one before i started the dlc. i just started a new character instead.

another minor glitch is when you invade someone in anor londo and that player makes it to the optional boss, you'll get the trophy for it if you haven't done it in your own world.

also, you only need to get up to ng++ to platinum the game! not too hard, actually. i got it on ps3 so i don't think i'll be doing it again for the remaster.
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sounds like it sucks, TV

anyway
now I checked what stuff I can further miss
and getting Seathe to drop his special sword was more difficult than Seathe himself

the archives and crystal cave were a neat area though
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