> Be me
> Playing Dark Souls, get to this forsaken shithole.
> Hallows, Dogs, Butcher Guys, Slimes, Rats all easy.
> Avoid a hole-in-the-floor-trap.
> Don't avoid the next one
> Arrive in the mysterious land of Googly Eyed things.
> /scared/
> They die in one hit
> /notscared/
> Kill them and explore, get lots of items
> Find path to a item
> Fall down hole on the way, never mind it's a tiny drop and a 10second walk back to try again.
> Path back is blocked
> By a human(ish) statue, hiding it's eyes.
> Can't talk or interact in anyway
> Break it and move on.
> Miss jump again, walk back
> 3 statues in a circle where a minute ago there was nothing. All clutching there face.
> /absolutelyfuckingterrified/
> Turn game off
Did I screw up? Do you only have a certain amount of tries to get the item before statues attack you? Was there something I missed and shouldn't have broken the original one?
> Is this some Weeping Angel type shit?
>>321258024
those statues are other players. With DS games, all players are playing on their own "server" or world and can only interact with each other when summoned or invading.
Occasionally you'll see ghosts of people around bonfires right? Those are other players in their world that happen to be in the same areas as you.
Those statues? That's what happens if you stand in the clouds/mist those googley eyed fucks spit at you. You become a petrified statue and you become cursed. Your HP is permanently reduced by a fraction.
>>321258919
Jesus christ what happened. Dude got legitimate answer in the first post and then nothing ? Is this even 4chan ? Normally there would be at least 30 shitposts and 7 arguments before op would get any intel at all.
>>321258919
Oh.
That's less spooky than I thought.
Guess I just had really weird placement of other players so it looked like a scripted event.
>>321259573
It's a christmas miracle.
>>321259573
Don't worry, there's one easy way to get this thread to 400 replies:
DaS2>DaS1
>be me
>>321258919
yo don't spoil it too hard, getting cursed for the first time is both a soul crushing and hilarious experience
>>321260853
>tfw go through the whole depths and blighttown with the curse
I had to look up how to remove it when I got to Quelaag, it was pretty hard getting one-shot by basically everything on my first playthrough
>>321258024
I really wish this wasn't fake. I mean, I've had statues just show up where before there were none, but it was always after I died or fast-traveled. I'm really glad you didn't bitch at the game, though, OP. But yeah, the statues are kinda spooky.
>be me
Fuck off reddit
>>321261056
I got confused and thought that their might be an item in New Londo because there was ghosts there. After a couple of hours I almost stopped playing
>>321261280
Well you weren't wrong. You can harm the ghosts while cursed and there's an NPC who can cure it for you.
>>321260226
Agreed. Multiplayer works way better.
>>321260853
Getting cursed for the first time. FUCK!
But op is quite dumb. Cant you realize that the "statues" are petrified people?
I mean, I didnt know about the "other players got petrified here" stuff for a While, but I got very clearly that Petrifed people + New enemy is a way to say enemy petrifies you.
Basic game design
>>321261548
OP was clearly disturbed that the statue appeared in a place he had already checked.
>first time he was there: no statue
>second time he was there: statue
Obviously he didn't know that it was other players being petrified. Who would?
I got really Lucky my first time around.
Got cursed, said fuck It, Lets explore somewhere else. I alreasy had my ass kicked by respawning skellies, so Lets go into the sunken City. Got a bunch of transient curses without knowing. Enough to survive new londo
>>321261280
Being cursed does allow you to harm the ghosts, as well as the transient curse items
It happens, though Souls games are all about persevering, so if you keep soldiering on you will ge through it eventually
I've read so many storied about people quitting too early that it's just sad...
>a guy quit when getting rekt by Berenik knight in the church over and over
>a guy quit because he couldn't kill Taurus
>tons of people quit when they couldn't beat Quelaag
>a guy quit DeS since he couldn't defeat the red eye spear knight
>a guy quite because Tower Knight is "artificial difficulty"
>a guy quit when he couldn't beat Cleric Beast
>a guy quit when he didn't know where to go after Gascoigne
These stories don't even make me angry anymore. Just very, very sad.
OP here
>>321261548
I didn't see a single statue until a few minutes after I killed every enemy. It was perfectly aligned with a door and looked placed by the devs. After breaking it the next time I went through the room 3 more had appeared in a perfect circle. I honestly thought it was something in the game and I'd angered some statue monster.
>>321260853
So is a curse an Insta kill or what? The merchant in Undead Burg aqueduct was selling an item to cure it, should I stick up on them? They were pretty expensive.
>>321261189
It's not fake, I swear there was one off the main path, and then 3 apoeared in the adjacent room (which I'd been in 3 times by then). Scared the shit out of me because I though they were going to keep multiplying and/or move if I turned my back.
>>321262962
>So is a curse an Insta kill or what
find out for yourself ;) just know that you don't wanna get cursed and yeah a couple of those items would be useful
>>321262962
OP don't worry, the statues are a normal part of the game. When someone else playing the game is petrified, there is a chance that a statue of them will appear in YOUR game where they were petrified. And yeah, curse is instant death and halves your health bar until you dispel it.
Remember fighting the gargoyles, when you rung the bell and came back down and there was that dude in a black suit waiting at the bottom of the ladder? He sells items to cure the curse at half price, only 3000 souls
I wish Curse was harder to avoid in DaS. Even DaS2, where the story is about being cursed, barely even tried to Curse you aside from those jars and the last boss
>there are people who legitimately ever got cursed in Dark Souls
Unforgivable even on your first play-through.
Seriously, get good.
>>321263183
> Remember fighting the Gargoyles and rung the bell
No, should I have rung a bell by now? I went up like the guy said, but the gate was locked, so I went down and killed Capra Demon and I assumed after the area I'm in now would go up into the basement of the church and I could open the gates from inside and meet up with Onion man making the levels all connected.
I'm now assuming I walked past something important.
>>321263696
>fall down hole
>surrounded by frog monsters
>see statues of other people and get spooked
>due to having never experienced cursing am wearing gear with shitty curse protection
>get cursed without even realising what is happening
>forced to play with half health and no obvious way to cure yourself
Cursing in DaS is extremely unfair and far too harsh a punishment for falling down a small hole
>>321262001
.....where would you go after Gascoigne?.....hypothetically....
>>321264379
You need to get to Amelia to proceed.
This requires to either get a "key" item to unlock a gate in Cathedral Ward, which is bought for 10k after defeating the Cleric Beast, or by opening the tiny door at the chapel (to the right of the lantern), to go down the Church Workshop and open a different gate from the other side. This requires you to kill the Bloodstarved Beast, which is in Old Yharnam, which is reached by exploring Cathedral Ward
So in short - either kill Cleric Beast or kill Bloodstarved Beast
>>321262001
>a guy quit when getting rekt by Berenik knight in the church over and over
b-but he has literally one attack and its slow and telegraphed as fuck, there's no way this is real.
>>321264359_____________ ____________________ _____________________________________ __________________________ ______________ _______________ _ _ __________________ _ _ git gud_____ _________ ____________ __________________ ___________________ ________________ __________
>>321258024
>Be me
Fuck off
>>321264379
Well for starters it's a linear path to Oedon Chapel, and then you explore, finding a couple locked gates and one way to progress.
One of these gates can be unlocked with the Hunter Chief Emblam (which assuming you killed Cleric Beast is avalbile for 10,000 Echos in the dream).
But most people just follow the path into Old Yharnam which gives the player a direction to explore and another boss to kill, upon killing the boss another door opens and more progress can be made.
>>321264754
It's ridiculous how easily people claim "artificial difficulty" these days
This was on 4chan as well, /v/ or /vg/, don't remember
I remember some anon even went in depth on how absolutely "bullshit" it is that you have to "trial and error" the beginning of DaS1 (when you get to Firelink) and how it's not obvious where you need to go and so on. It was hilariously sad.
I can't imagine what's happening on reddit/magefaqs/other casual forums
>>321264812
>>321258024
meh, dark souls isn't really scary but i do really fucking hate dark places in this game. they make me wanna gtfo as soon as i can.
>>321258024
>playing a meme game
There are skeletons in Dark Souls, that's a meme, therefore Dark Souls is a meme game and I hate it.
>>321265710
You're a meme and I hate you.
>>321265710
>skeletons are a meme
you have a meme living inside you right now
>>321258024
Can you newfag harder?
>>321265710
>being this autistic.
>>321265710
>skeletons are a meme now
Unless you're a fucking boneless organism, you're a meme, too.
only thing i found scary was when theHydra suddenly jumps in Ash lakeAnd I only realised it happened after watching that guys 6 hour Dark Souls review despite putting many hours into the game.
>>321266573
>boneless organism
most people here then.
>>321264714
>>321264903
Thanks senpai, Old Yharnham it is, I ain't farming any more
Would you a snek?
>>321267910
Yessssssss
>>321267910
I'dfugthat
>>321262001
>Being cursed does allow you to harm the ghosts
Cool, I haven't been able to progress in New Lando due to that.
>>321270424
There are also specific weapons that are "cursed" and will hit ghosts, which is also neat
>first playthrough of DS1
>in the darkroot forest
>get killed by transparent knight + sorcerer
>eventually kill them
>running around aimlessly
>a transparent thief is standing there looking at me
>"oh! an invasion! he's not attacking, he probably is waiting for a bow or something to signify the start of the fight!"
>bow
>die
looking back, it's one of my favorite memories
>>321270832
The thief NPCs has pretty cool AI for a Souls npc, to be honest
>>321262001
>couldn't beat Quelaag
How is this a thing? How can you get through Blighttown and find the boss hard?
>>321270969
I found her to be much harder than Gargoyles on my first playthrough, took me a long time to beat her. I didn't understand humanity or summoning and only had like a +3 weapon I think, so it took fucking forever to actually kill her.
>>321270969
I always got stuck between her legs and got fucked up by the shockwave.
Eventually I got fed up, went unhollow, defeated maneater girl on the way to the boss and summoned her to the fight, it was a breeze
>>321270969
Boss difficulty is very subjective and varies from person to person, as most bosses require different mentalities and executions.
For example, many people die a lot on Bed of Chaos, but I saw my friend beat it first try on his first playthrough
>>321258024
>> Be me
Back to reddit
But otherwise you seem to be having a good time, keep playing.
>>321271728
>Bed of Chaos
>le fall down hole meme
Should I play Dark Souls 2?
>>321272164
As well as being one-shot by almost every attack if not getting knocked back into a hole
>>321272625
Scholar of the First Sin is worth it.
It's not a very good Souls game, but a good game overall. It has a ton of content and is familiar to any Souls player
You might find it sluggish and clunky at times, but it has some fun bosses and fights in it, as well as a ton of weapons and armour variety.
>>321271728
This, I died twenty fucking times to Capra and six or seven times to the Gaping Dragon of all things. And then I went and killed Biggie and Smalls on my first try.
>>321273341
>tfw beat O&S on like the 7th time
>get killed by the centipede demon like 30 times
I... I just don't know.
Maybe because the run back was fast, so I was being careless my first playthrough or something...
>>321260853
I've honestly never gotten cursed in DaS1. Those frogs are too easy to dodge and die in one hit.
>>321273087
Not that anon, but a question about SotFS; I tried playing vanilla DS2 when it came out and couldn't stomach it at all. How does it taste now? Or is it pretty much the same + DLC
>>321258024
>Be you
>Be a huge faggot
>>321267421
Good luck with the Beast :)
>>321274668
It's still the same game, but you might want to at least try giving it a second chance. I really, really hated it at first, but it's sort of tolerable to me now, which is an improvement I suppose.
Those big eyed frog fuckers still scare the absolute dick off of me. I avoid them every playthrough now that I know all the tricks and shortcuts.
>>321274668
It is similar but with some adjustments to stats, weapons and more reasonable enemy placements, some visual improvements too
The gameplay itself is very much the same though, so if that put you off then SotFS won't save it
Simply make sure to get some Agility (which is increased by Adaptability), at least 105 or so, and you'll be good
>>321274910
roll
>>321258024
>Be me
Souls fanbase everyone.
>>321274910
here we go again
>>321274903
<spoiler>Those big things are not their eyes.</spoiler>
>>321260306
>>321261214
>>321264839
>>321272158
>>321275020
Okay, why the fuck is everyone so assblasted about this?
This was a common thing for 4chan for quite a few years now, why is it suddenly a thing to point out?
Is it just because reddit or whatever is using it? Just like every single other meme ever? It wasn't even that overused here to hate it
>>321274910
May as well, been meaning to get back into DaS.
>>321274910
Save yourself the trouble and just reroll if you get all 0s, because the caestus fucking sucks and makes early game tedious at best
Source: I rolled 000 in another thread
>>321274910
meh
>go to the depths
>get cursed
>stop playing
what a great game
>>321275748
>getting curse
you wouldn't have made it far
>>321259626
Holy fuck are you new, welcome to dank souls. Git Guud scrublord
>>321274910
Gimmie dat 4
>>321274910
ROLLAN
>>321275210
>>321274903
ayyyyyyyyyyy
Make up a long ass lore story explaining these fucks with no backing for fun in 3, 2, 1, go
>>321276590
Dragon asses roamed Lordran for ages before inevitably settling at Lost Izalith. It's like those coin well things, as soon as you spin a coin around one it's going to enter the hole at the bottom no matter what. Dragon asses are just naturally drawn to Izalith by the geography of Lordran.
>>321270902
What is the AI out of interest?
>>321264098
Yeah, go back to the blacksmith and kill the gargoyles at the top of the adjacent building.
>>321276590
Dragon asses were used as place holder models for the bounding demons. Devs forgot about them or ran out of time and shipped the game anyway.
>>321262001
>Look at global steam achievements
>42.9% of people have the achievement for lighting the first bonfire
>Almost 60% of the people who own Dark Souls on steam haven't played it
>From the 36% of players that had actually reached Lodran, only half of that (15%) have reached Anor Londo
>Only around 7.5-12.4% of people have actually beaten the game (12.4% assuming no-one on the achievement list has 'achieved' both endings)
>>321277119
GFWL removal also removed people's achievements.
>>321274910
I'm not a robot
>>321276590
isn't that the same dragon butt that sits on that bridge in the painted world?
>>321277119
Achievements got reset when the game switch from GFWL to Steamworks.
>>321277180
>>321277236
Oh shit, really?
Well, what do you know?
> Be me
>spaced meme arrows that bypasses my filter
kill yourself
>>321276590
In an alternate world Izalith was cut out of the game.
>>321260853
I actually talked to the Crestfallen Warrior and ended up going through New Londo to get my shit uncursed. It was fucking punishing but god damn was it fun.
>>321274910
Gimme dat
>>321276590
It's the lower half of those undead dragons.
Am I being creative yet?
>>321274910
Roll
>>321276114
>>321275210
What the fuck.
>>321276590
well its quit simple in the valley of the drakes theres an undead dragon without a bottom half that resting over a precipice , so obviosly its lower half fell to izalith and acesexualy reproduced slowly over the years
>>321275307
Basically reddit began using it, people just pretend to know more than they do, without realizing it was a pretty normal greentext intro here before they started posting.
>>321277007
You can fiddle around with him but he will not attack first. He is set to dodge attacks and counter, mostly engaging if another NPC is nearby
He isn't always successful with his dodges, but still
>>321278015
Oh and also, he rarely reacts to kicks, so he's easy that way.
He will also not hesitate to backstab you if you don't pay attention. Not full on backstab fishing but still
>>321276590
>The dragons were a prosperous race, but after all the hollows started to leave them alone and there were no more real predators the dragons, they didn't have much to do down in lost Izalith
>For a long time there was nothing and the dragons just sat there in wait for some purpose some day, over the eons the heat and magic from the bed of chaos warped these beings to no longer be capable of acquiring sustenance outside of the heat of the bed of chaos, and so they were even more trapped now then before, unable to leave lost Izalith
>After a long time of complete boredom, one dragon realized, there was no longer a purpose to their existence, and that if a purpose were to exist, a purpose must be made, so what were they to do?
>Start an orgy.
>A great orgy, an orgy so immense and powerful that it's effects would remembered for a million years
>But what they didn't could on was that this wouldn't effect evolution
>You see the bed of chaos not only fucked these dragons up once, but twice, as the magic from the bed of chaos rapidly sped up the rate of evolution to only a few generations
>What became of these dragons was unspeakable
>They became no longer majestic creatures, but instead lost all that they were as the specialized into one key trait and feature
>Ass
>After realizing what they had done and what they'd become, they realized that they had to stop lest they suffer worse consequences
>Now they just wait to die
That or Fromsoft ran out of time and/or cash
Could be either really.
>>321278978
well your explanation makes perfect sense so theirs no disputing it
>>321274910
Ro lo
>>321271728
True. Heard a lot of shit about Carpa Demon and Bed of Chaos, but never died a single time to them. Ornstein and Smough on the other hand...
>>321265167
I love John Heard.
>>321274910
rolling
>>321278015
>>321278245
Cool i didn't realise any of this, probably because I almost always accidently aggroed them all at once.
>>321274910
Halberd + miracles for holiday justice.
>>321274910
here we GO
>>321274910
Well lets roll
>>321274910
roll
>>321268064
haha good one anon
fuck u faget
>>321274910
ROLL
>>321271728
Fucking this.
In Bloodborne I always take at least 3-4 tries on Gascan and Rom on each playthrough. No matter how many times I've done them they are always the biggest humps for me.
>Meanwhile, do the DLC for the first time
>Beat literally every single boss on the second try
>Even the ones that people complain about the most like Ludwig and Lawrence
I just struggle to get into the right state of mind for someone like Rom or Gascan despite their relative ease but Ludwig was pretty damn easy for me despite his difficulty. Fucking weird.
>>321275307
>This was a common thing for 4chan for quite a few years now
Maybe on /b/.
It's hated because it's fucking retarded. "be me"? As opposed to what? Who else would you be? Someone who isn't a moronic faggot? We don't need you to explain that you are, in fact, you. It's implied. Do you seriously not understand how stupidly redundant that statement is? Either you're a fucking idiot, or you're needlessly calling more attention to yourself because you're a narcissistic, histrionic, attention-seeking faggot.
>>321276114
Shit
I started DaS a couple days ago and I just got out of the Depths. So far the hardest thing has been killing the first Black Knight. I lamed him out with projectiles after dying several times and got his sword, but since then I haven't really run into any issues. The sword he dropped is still destroying everything; I only died once to Capra since it plowed through his health so fast. The Titanite Demon was tough too, but that was mostly because of all the debris on the floor making it harder to get behind it.
I know it'll get more difficult and that I've barely even started, but it doesn't seem like the gameplay itself will change much at this point. The weapon variety doesn't feel that great, but maybe that's because I can't find a decent replacement for the Black Knight Sword yet. It's not really satisfying to smack around a bunch of boring enemies that feel like they have no weight with a weapon that feels weightless as well. About the only thing that feels like it has weight is my character due to all the heavy armor ruining his roll animation. I don't really want to explore this depressing world anymore either and the backtracking doesn't help. Is it worth it to keep going?
>>321282215
this family
>>321258024
You'd better clench your asshole even harder because I'm coming for you, fuccboi.
>>321282215
It was commonly used instead of other states like
>be in mall
>be with person
>be mexican
And "be me" was usually added to ridiculous or stupid stories implying "man am I stupid" or something along those lines, or when there was nothing else to start the greentext withI might be looking too far behind, but that's how I remember it
What's that one spot you always go back to invade?
For me, it'sthe top of Sen's Funhouse
>scared by the depths
I found New Londo ruins to be terrifying, and it was just because of stupid ghosts. Somehow this places atmosphere really draw me in. The moment I heard the first ghost with her baby shriek I must gotten one year older.
>>321262001
new gamers are not used to be challenged anymore by a game so they easily give up on it and call it to hard or artificial difficulty now
for example I tried dungeons 2 (got it gifed) yesterday where I lost a key unit and got dialog that there spawned a new one on accident. In a old game I would have to replay the whole level again and no get my key units auto respawned by accident because I fucked up
>>321282539
fyi I finished the game with the BKS+pyromancies on my first playthrough so you don't necessarily need to upgrade.
As for whether you should keep going, I literally don't give a shit.
>>321282539
Black Knight weapons are endgame, with the only drawback being okay-ish scaling and high stat requirements.
So yes, it will carry you through the entire game, the only way to get a "better" weapon is to invest 40 points into a main stat and get a weapon that scales we will it to +15. Otherwise the Black Knight Sword will destroy everything no problem
By the way you described it you seem to not be enjoying the game too much so I honestly do not see any reason to continue, especially if you wish to keep the black knight weapon
>>321274910
Roll, roll, roll your play...
>>321284076
Deprived bow-wielding, miracle throwing pyromancer in the Chaos Servant covenant.
Charles got some nice synch in the Covenants.
Armour suggestions?
>>321274910
fags
>>321274910
hhhh
>>321277536
I think this actaully could be the best explanation. That dragon in the valley of drakes got somehow cut in half, and so the upper part resides there and the lower part (which can live on its own as proved in painted world) fell down into the swamps and then probably wandered to lost izalith where it was corrupted by chaos
>>321258024
>be me
leave and/or kill yourself
OP here.
I just finished Blightown, oddly enough I didn't die once, but it took me 2.5 hours and 8 Humanity. Finding the second bonfire in the cave was the greatest feeling of relief I have experienced in a long time.
I found a heap of items, but I did not find a boss, or a Bell which was supposed to be at the base. I just ended up back at FireLink via an elevator.
>>321286707
Return to that bonfire, exit the "cave" and head right, across the swamp
>>321283178
This, fuckers never know what hits them.
>>321275307
Using it is a direct correlation to redit, It literally started because redit couldn't keep their cancerous memes to themselves.
also
>/scared/
>/notscared/
>/absolutelyfuckingterrified/
Holy shit, the cancer is real
