Hey /v/. I just started playing Dark Souls for the first time. I never really got on the Dark Souls band wagon but now that Dark Souls 3 has came out I decided I wanted to see what all the hype was about so I went back and played the first one. I don't know where this game has been my whole life. It brings back that element of mystery that most game lack these days. It doesn't hold your hand and give you objectives or quests and if you don't go the right way or talk to the right people you might miss the whole pint of the game. The game is hard but it never feels like a cheap death, it always feels like your fault. Not to mention the innovative (if sometimes slow) multiplayer and classic RPG elements. In conclusion Dark Souls is now one of my favourite games, I'll probably play all the other ones and I understand the hype for a game I used to dismiss.
>>337614801
Nice blog
Yeah, it's a pretty good game.
>>337615494
Just felt like expressing how good I think it is as an apology for hating on it in so many threads.
I'm there with you senpai. I'm at the Tomb of Giants after finishing up Seath and then the Catacombs. I am WAY over leveled for this place. +15 large club is disgusting.
mfw I cant even defeat Artorias
>>337614801
I first started playing last month and 100%/ platinum trophy'd it I loved it so much. First playthrough took me 60 hours, but it's really amazing how once you know the in's and out's of each area how much time you can shave off. NG+ only took me 8 hours.
>>337616397
I'm pretty bad at it myself.
>tfw you can't backstab
>>337616397
what level are you ?
I've hard a harder time beating kalameet than artorias
>>337616940
Im stuck with him for about 4 days now, I cant literally past it, I only deal 200dmg per hit and he just rape me with the rolling attacks
>>337616910>Homestuck
>>337617198
Currently lvl 64 and Im using Silver Kinght Sword +5
>>337617421
and max'd weapon will get you through ng, no question. Make sure you smack the shit out of the dude when he's buffing.
>>337617243
I'm not even that far in. I keep getting killed by the big metallic boar.
>Inb4 I haven't played enough of game to state opinion
>Mfw I need to git gud.
>>337616940
I dunno if you know this, but you can't backstab with your shield up. Took me many many hours to come to this realization.
>>337617421
maybe try getting a great shield and light armor, it worked great against manus and kalameet
I was around level 80 when i faced him though
Try getting the green blossom from the top hat dude it helps a lot
>>337617562
Im trying, I only hit him 3 times and then he push me the fuck out taking half my hp, I dont know if is worth it
>>337617682
He mean he cant backstab Artorias
>>337617787
I dont know how to go back to Lordran, Im stuck here on the DLC
>>337617649
Wich one? Undead Parish or The Duke's Archives?
>>337617682
I think this might be my problem. Thank you based anon.
>>337617965
kek forgot about that
youre kinda fucked then, farming souls would take years so i guess your only option is to git gud
im sure youll get him he wasnt so bad for me but then again i was super high level
>>337618096
the first one i think in undead parish
>>337616160
+15 Greatclub will 5-shot pretty much any boss without buffs.
>>337618096
Undead Parish. I can manage to run past him but I get rekt by the next enemy types. Just takes practice I guess.
>Inb4 pleb for not knowing names of all enemy types.
>>337618545
Did you get the blue skull thing from the other hollows on the bridge? Just use them to lure the boat to the fire, he will die quickly or just backtab him in the assasstab him
>>337617965
Just use the bonfire to warp back, nerd.
Arty is pretty tough, but you really have to remain aggressive, roll into his attacks, stay about three meters from him and punish his attacks when he whiffs. As each 1/3 of his health goes, he'll try to roll back and buff. Your instinct is to heal but fucking don't, rush up and wail on him, he'll get stunned and won't buff.
>>337618731
>>337618545
Im not that guy, shoulda mentionned it
>>337618706
>>337618731
listen to this man
>>337617965
If you headshot him with a bow when he's buffing, it'll stun him out of it instantly.
>>337619190
>>337618810
I-Im sorry senpai, Ill try that later, thanks
>>337618706
You can beat most small enemies with the following strategy:
Let them close the distance and once they start attacking, immediately backstep and follow with a series of light attack that stunlocks them to death. This is a particularly good way of killing the sword knights in the parish, but is less effective on the rapier variant.
>>337619842
Thanks daddy. I try not to ask for too much help on Dark Souls though because I think it's part of the game to try and figure it our for yourself.
>>337620095
>>337619842
Don't backstep, backroll.
Backstepping has no i frames
Get the DLC if you can, it's very good.
>replaying dark souls
>get to taurus boss
>fall off the bridge by accident
>boss follows too, get victory achieved
I really hate it when the cheap deaths make the boss fights cheap too.
>>337618706
Draw out the little guys and murder them. Then cheese the boar into burning itself to death on the fire to the right
>>337621075
Or alternatively use the staircase on the right as a fallback to avoid the boar's charges, after dealing with the hollows.
>>337616397
Its a pattern, stay close to him.
>>337621484
>It's a pattern
That's every enemy in the game.
Is the Artorias GS good? For some reason I really don't want to beat Sif.