Llama_Duck said ...

Its interesting when the people from From Soft say the development team is struggling to finish the game...

I smell a "make it easy" patch coming!!! If this happens, I hope they release a patch which can be downloaded if you want it...if you don't, skip it. The should call it n00by patch 0.01

Have you finished Dark Souls without the patch yet?

DarkPrince said ...

Have you finished Dark Souls without the patch yet?

These a patch? I feel like a real noob. Im about 31 hours in and I cant defeat the freaking lava spider to get to the second bell... I know, i should be ashamed... Thats why my copy of DS 2 is still sealed.

Dark Souls had plenty of patches, the first patch was a major one, made the game much much easier, if your playing on PC then your playing that patched one, you can only play Vanilla Dark Souls on PS3 or 360 offline. Luckily it took a while to come out so a lot of people finished the game before the patch rolled around.

You haven't beaten Dark Souls till you've beaten it pre-patch, it feels like a totally different game.

DarkPrince said ...

Have you finished Dark Souls without the patch yet?

Wasn't fortunate enough and I was foolish to trade it in the beginning...when I decided to play the game properly, I got the PC version. Whether it was so much easier or not, I played the game like it was handed to me, and DS was the reason I fell in love with these games! I'll finish Bloodborne...no matter how hard!

Here is my 3rd attempt with the 3rd boss in the game, still don't know wtf I was doing watching the video again though I can see there was plenty opportunities to attack it while it was in a stunned state. Will help for the second play through.

1st boss took 2 tries, 2nd boss beat on the first go and 3rd boss took 3 tries.

Putting it in URL brackets so it doesn't spoil it for anyone.

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Llama_Duck said ...

DarkPrince said ...

Have you finished Dark Souls without the patch yet?

These a patch? I feel like a real noob. Im about 31 hours in and I cant defeat the freaking lava spider to get to the second bell... I know, i should be ashamed... Thats why my copy of DS 2 is still sealed.

Always hard the 1st time...once you know what's cooking, you can ring both bells in under 2 hrs

well i wasted allot of time going in directions i had no business in... like grind like crazy to get to level 32... some bosses were easy to beat, the two gargoyles on the roof, wow was that great!

Really looking forward to playing this... but only after DS1 and 2 is done... I have to maintain some pride... !bm

well initial reviews seem good

Sinncross said ...

well initial reviews seem good

More coming in

Wow!

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Anybody know hot hot cheerleaders we can hire to become Bloodborn's Cheerleaders?

Videogamer.com "alternative" review - spoilers for the opening areas but nothing that hasn't been seen in previews already.

This is going to really start annoying me, either make blood vials a lower drop rate or increase out storage limit.



This boss fight went right down to the wire, was actually quite tough, wasn't sure what was going on during the fight and then right at the end it really threw me off. Did the fight again in someone else's worlds and it was soooooo much easier with another player, ridiculously easier. I think I might be a bit under leveled though only level 30.

Quite a nice article for those wondering if it is worth a go. Didn't win me over in the end but it came close ...

Can A 'Dark Souls' Virgin Survive 'Bloodborne'?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/03/24/can-a-dark-souls-virgin-survive-bloodborne/

So true:

"A few days ago, when discussing Destiny’s newest Raid, I brought up the difference between something being “difficult” rather than “challenging.” Difficulty is just a flat measure of how hard something is to beat. In the case of Destiny’s Raid, its hardest mode simply overleveled enemies, giving them more health and more damage make it harder to complete the stage. But Challenge? That’s different. A Challenge can be Difficult, but it requires strategy, patience, intelligence and skill to complete. It’s more than simply the ability to bash your head on a wall over and over again until the wall finally breaks"

Reading that article it all pretty much comes down to the guy just not exploring the area's at all, case and point:

"I played Demon’s Souls briefly years ago, got kicked off a bridge by a skeleton, and found I had come back to life with half my health. That’s when I knew I was probably not going to be playing for long. I quit without beating the first area"

In this same area you pick up a ring that reduces this effect, so maybe if he kept playing 10 more minutes he would have figured this out

Had he explored the area he would have multiple routes and various Lanterns to rest at. That is the only thing that makes this series hard, it doesn't hold your hand and it expects you to figure things out, something not many gamers these days can do.

Anyone not getting it is missing out, but then again they wouldn't care either way so it's not a lose for anyone.

I was just like him though "Ugh...this is too hard", "Why punish yourself", "I can't do this" etc, etc, etc. And I'm not blowing DP's horn here, but DP once said to me (something along these lines), "Instead of seeing each death as misery and seeing the game as difficult, look at yourself and realise, you are the cause of your own death! Look at why you or how you dying and change your strat, change your approach and realise, that the game is just punishing you on mistakes YOU make".

When I started looking at it in this way, the game COMPLETELY changed for me. I was no longer scared of exploring and dying, dying because of chances I took, hard areas I explored to me became a must, else I would never have learnt how to beat a certain area/boss/mobs etc. So I can see this guys frustration and the reason he quit before, I did the same. But read his article and you'll see, unlike me who had someone tell me this, he figured it out, he realised that the game is there to kill you, but teach you at the same time. Once he realised that, his perception changed immensely!

I think it was a good article, especially because I can easily relate to him Everyone should give it a go, FROMSOFTWARE's games are like drugs, SO addictive

When Morschee and DP invade me