Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
#52
DVD Talk Gold Edition
Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
Wow, that first boss is a PIA! What a way to introduce you to boss fights. And this is coming straight out of the tutorial. I'm a Herald btw and his spear sucks. I may switch to a Knight.
#53
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I tried the Knight but switched to Warrior. Just like the axe better than the sword I guess. Got to the main hub, leveled up a few times, and then called it a Day One. Loving it so far (and hating it, of course).
#54
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#55
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Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
^ Which is precisely why it seems to be sold out at every single Target here.
#56
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Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
This game is real tough. Die a lot of times from powerful enemies like the knights. Playing as a pyromancer and the fireball do help me deal with these tough enemies. Got the uchigatana at +3 and loved how it wickedly sound when striking. I feel like Toshiro Mifune.
#57
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Jesus, this game likes to crash my PC a lot...
According to the game clock, I'm about 5 hours in or so, and I just got to the first "proper" boss
. I haven't beat him yet but he doesn't seem too bad. The game's not too hard yet, but I've had to get kind of creative with several of those knights that're wandering around the first area.
And, in typical Dark Souls fashion, I can't settle on what kind of build I want, so I'm dumping points into traits left and right without focusing on what I want to do.
According to the game clock, I'm about 5 hours in or so, and I just got to the first "proper" boss
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And, in typical Dark Souls fashion, I can't settle on what kind of build I want, so I'm dumping points into traits left and right without focusing on what I want to do.
#58
Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
Do you use a Bow and Arrow? What I do is to stand inside one of the two churches. For some reason they refuse to enter. That's when I equip my B&A and take them out.
#60
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That's smart. I end up taking having them follow me one by one up the small stairway on the path that leads to the elevator. Then I'll roll off the side and they will jump down after me. When they land they're stunned for a sec and I get some damage in. Then I go back up the stairs while they're still down below and get them with a dropping attack. Takes a while, but it's effective.
#61
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#62
Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
I am 20 minutes in and I think I already screwed myself.
I am a sorcerer and after getting to the first bonfire, I turned around to go fight that crystal monster off to the side. After trying to kill him a few times I get the "weapon damaged" warning.
I am at the beginning of the game...totally forgot about weapon damage and I assume there is no way to repair it before defeating the first boss and getting to the firelink shrine right? I doubt I can get past the first boss before my dagger/sword/whatever breaks. 10/50 is probably already hitting very weakly.
EDIT: gave it a shot anyway...the "heavy soul arrow" worked wonders on the first boss. He seemed way easier than the crystal monster but that may have been because most of my time with the crystal monster was with a heavily damaged weapon.
Just got the Katana
but can't equip it quite yet.
I am a sorcerer and after getting to the first bonfire, I turned around to go fight that crystal monster off to the side. After trying to kill him a few times I get the "weapon damaged" warning.
I am at the beginning of the game...totally forgot about weapon damage and I assume there is no way to repair it before defeating the first boss and getting to the firelink shrine right? I doubt I can get past the first boss before my dagger/sword/whatever breaks. 10/50 is probably already hitting very weakly.
EDIT: gave it a shot anyway...the "heavy soul arrow" worked wonders on the first boss. He seemed way easier than the crystal monster but that may have been because most of my time with the crystal monster was with a heavily damaged weapon.
Just got the Katana
Spoiler:
Last edited by mewmartigan; 04-14-16 at 08:22 AM.
#64
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So far the feel of the game is better than the previous Souls titles, which always felt a bit floaty to me. It's definitely different than Bloodborne, but it feels more like a culmination of the two series.
#65
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#66
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#68
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Fuck the PC version is a buggy mess. I literally couldn't play for longer than 5 minutes at a time last night without crashing. There are allegedly some fixes out there to try, but this is still super frustrating.
I'll give it another go today, but if there's no improvement I might just bite the bullet and pick up the PS4 version and start over.
I'll give it another go today, but if there's no improvement I might just bite the bullet and pick up the PS4 version and start over.
#69
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Played it for just under an hour yesterday (PS4), and it gave me a headache. Which is weird, as no other game, DS, Bloodborne, or otherwise, has ever done that.
#70
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Fuck the PC version is a buggy mess. I literally couldn't play for longer than 5 minutes at a time last night without crashing. There are allegedly some fixes out there to try, but this is still super frustrating.
I'll give it another go today, but if there's no improvement I might just bite the bullet and pick up the PS4 version and start over.
I'll give it another go today, but if there's no improvement I might just bite the bullet and pick up the PS4 version and start over.
#71
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Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
Win 10
GTX 770
Intel i5-4670
Apparently, turning down the lighting effects helps with the crashing, as does adjusting some nvidia 3d settings. I'm about to try it now, so we'll see shortly.
EDIT: 20 min later and we're looking good. Finally beat that boss.
GTX 770
Intel i5-4670
Apparently, turning down the lighting effects helps with the crashing, as does adjusting some nvidia 3d settings. I'm about to try it now, so we'll see shortly.
EDIT: 20 min later and we're looking good. Finally beat that boss.
Last edited by lopper; 04-15-16 at 02:29 PM.
#72
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Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
Trying to stay vague / spoiler free here.
Hit the tree boss and couldn't figure out how to hurt him. Had already wandered into the next area. Didn't go back for a second time yet.
Wandered instead through a few more areas, missing the magic-shooting boss in the swamp area entirely until I went back to re-explore (had 12k souls trying to save up 20k for the key at Firelink). Stumbled into him and got owned but luckily I had a ring of sacrifice on.
Considered making a crystal weapon (running a sorcerer, it's the INT scaling material this time). But I haven't invested that heavily in INT yet, so not worth doing yet. Not sure yet if I'm going to go sorcerer, super-caster (like when I played a glass cannon Dark build on DaS2), or maybe more of a DEX/INT build.
#73
Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
Trying to stay vague / spoiler free here.
Hit the tree boss and couldn't figure out how to hurt him. Had already wandered into the next area. Didn't go back for a second time yet.
Wandered instead through a few more areas, missing the magic-shooting boss in the swamp area entirely until I went back to re-explore (had 12k souls trying to save up 20k for the key at Firelink). Stumbled into him and got owned but luckily I had a ring of sacrifice on.
Considered making a crystal weapon (running a sorcerer, it's the INT scaling material this time). But I haven't invested that heavily in INT yet, so not worth doing yet. Not sure yet if I'm going to go sorcerer, super-caster (like when I played a glass cannon Dark build on DaS2), or maybe more of a DEX/INT build.
Hit the tree boss and couldn't figure out how to hurt him. Had already wandered into the next area. Didn't go back for a second time yet.
Wandered instead through a few more areas, missing the magic-shooting boss in the swamp area entirely until I went back to re-explore (had 12k souls trying to save up 20k for the key at Firelink). Stumbled into him and got owned but luckily I had a ring of sacrifice on.
Considered making a crystal weapon (running a sorcerer, it's the INT scaling material this time). But I haven't invested that heavily in INT yet, so not worth doing yet. Not sure yet if I'm going to go sorcerer, super-caster (like when I played a glass cannon Dark build on DaS2), or maybe more of a DEX/INT build.
The 20k for the key at Firelink...there is a way to get up on the roof without the key. I am not sure if the key gets you anywhere else or just to the one item.
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#74
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Re: Dark Souls 3 (PS4 & Xbox One)
I had a flashback to the Dreamcast days when I was playing the first boss and couldn't figure out why. Then I remembered that I used to always think about how cool Soulcalbur would have been if it were some sort of medieval action/adventure game. That first battle was essentially what I was thinking of 17 years ago
#75
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As for the Curse Rotted Greatwood...probably spent two hours co-oping with people on that boss. Good, good fun.
Think I'm near my first LoC in my playthrough...scared!!!!!