How do i get into it? Ive quit during the tutorial twice
Should i just go in blind?
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How do i get into it? Ive quit during the tutorial twice. Should i just go in blind?
Blindly and don't give up
ds1 sucks because of how esoteric and unnecessarily convoluted it is, for example if you die to enemies that cause curse damage your total health pool is halved, until you seek out this birds nest in the hub area and crouch in it for 30 seconds. you would never figurer this out without a guide in a million years. the game is full of retarted shit like this and youll get lost constantly, just play 3 or even 2, it gets a bad wrap but its actually much better than one
I was able to beat this game at the age of 15 all alone.
How are you having problem with it OP.
You are just trash at video games
ok homosexual you guessed how to get un cursed all by your self. i don't believe you
I dont even know why on earth you think you need to do that to get uncursed. There's a vendor you meet way before ever getting cursed that sells items that uncurse you.
I remembered that the guy after gargoyles sold an item that said it cures curses
lol
You literally encounter a lady who sells purging stones 20 minutes into the game and then Oswald who sells them just after what is the third boss for most blind playthroughs
is dark souls easier for new players than bloodborne?
>i beat it blind when I was in diapers
don't get this line of logic, I play tons of games extremely well platformers, shooters, hack and slash, RTS, strategy fighting but sometimes a game filters me, i haven't played dark souls but Bloodborne definitely was unplayable at least not with the amount of checkpoints in first level
Yeah bloodborne is post "omg it must be le difficult" era Fromsoft, anything up to and including DS2 base game is pre
playing either one before the other instills many bad habits for the other
all my friends who played BB as their first fromsoft game cant play DS because its too slow and they get greedy trying to be fast like a hunter
I started at DS [and am the only person I know who did] and it took me like 3 bosses into BB to stop playing it like dark souls and learn how BB was meant to be played
>my first cleric beast kill I literally transformed the axe into 2h mode and said 'Im going to literally just mash r1 forever and not dodge anything beacuse this healing mechanic is really broken'
my BB friends were genuinely miffed that it worked and I killed yhe boss mashing R1 into its crotch
the line of logic is 'i find this extremely easy so easy a kid can do it, youre kinda stupid for not being able to'
and i agree with him
Every time I see someone on this board use the word esoteric to describe a video game they’re a god damn dummy. You can buy Purging Stones from Oswald over in the near the bell tower where you fought the gargoyles.
>Should i just go in blind?
This series are the ultimate 'blind run' games. Don't ruin them for yourself. It's okay if you get stuck and can't figure out where to get titanite or whatever, but don't ruin anything else.
>should I just go in blind?
yes
one piece of advice: the game has many paths and you're not meant to go down all of them at the start. When you're stuck try to explore and find other paths. Also, any weapon is viable so long as you invest in it.
Do not spoil your experience with anything else
>Trying to brute force my way through the Cemetery as a SL1 virgin
everoyne tries a couple times, only the most autistic of morons dont eventually change tracks
the whole "dark souls so hard" made my friend believe it was just supposed to be like that. He thought the game had that reputation because it was all tuned like SL1 skeleton graveyard. He essentially figured it's the ARPG equivalent of a kaizo game. I know of multiple other people who had this issue. I resent the marketting these games had
wow it's like every single one of these posts was handcrafted just to piss me off
i fricking hate you people
OP just play the fricking game, and don't look shit up jesus CHRIST
the only 3 advices i will give you
>don't go to the skeletons first
>if you get cursed, look up how to cure it. only thing permissable to find bc its really bs otherwise
>kill the dogs first
Just use summons and magic. GG EZ
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
You would have died to that next soldier anyway with that HP
Go in blind, be patient, be cautious, and maintain spatial awareness. The environment can be just as dangerous as the enemies in it.
I think you are just bad. Just quit, going blind will blow your brains out.
The worst part about Souls games is the swarm of braindead anons who die a couple times and cry about it.
Nice OP. Trying to get into it too. Playing as a cleric.
I'm going blind but...I don't get the gifts. Which one do I pick?
None of the gifts matter unless you're a loregay, then one matters. Personally I pick either Master Key for sequence breaking or Tiny Being's Ring for HP recovery. Old Witch's Ring is the lore starting gift.
I picked Binoculars.
What's the benefit of being human?
its online play
What's the benefit of online play?
You earn covenant items and humanity. Also it's fun to invade/be invaded.
>covenant
Like guilds and shit?
Yeah, I did come across some of those messages. I assume most of them are lying.
Honestly I think I'll just ignore them and online play for the first playthrough considering I have no idea what I'm doing anyway.
not summoning phantoms makes the game generally more fun the first time around. I recommend if you wanna coop or pvp you do it by putting your own signs down, not by hosting
>I assume most of them are lying.
I feel they're honest more often than not, except when they tell you to jump down somewhere.
Either way, ignoring messages for a first playthrough might be better. They're sometimes akin to reading a guide.
Covenants is like a reputation system. Collect X amount of items from killing other players and you can earn items or more dialogue.
It's online play
playing online
You can summon other players to help you fight an area's boss, but there will be a chance that other players invade your world to try and kill you.
You can also read messages from other players with hints, or lies to deceive you. Don't need to be human for that, though.
Human forces you into online mode which means you can be invaded by other players (including some scripted NPC encounters) or work with them cooperatively if you see their signs. To become human you need a level of 1 humanity represented by the circle next to your health meter which you can easily get by consuming an item literally called humanity. Once you have 1 humanity you just use a bonfire to become human again.
I usually go with Tiny Being's Ring for the minor hp boost early on. Master Key will just confuse new players.
pick the skelton key and forget about it unless you open a door that uses it. then avoid it unless the door leads somewhere you have been already, or you dont have enough souls to care about dying
doesnt really matter too much, only thing as a new player i recommend is not taking the master key because its main use is sequence breaking which you should try not to do
just pick whatevre sounds coolest or most useful
Consumables are something you should pick if you know what you're doing, i.e. on a second playthrough.
Binoculars can be found rather early one, too.
I'd pick one of the rings. The master key is really useful, but it can be a noob trap as well.
pick the master key
true but you can also get it from snuggly later
old witch if ur pyro. literally master key for any other class to break the game, or play it how you want.
how do you get killed by poise
Certain combo attacks with no poise will knock you down on the first hit and then you're downed and have recovery frames for the ofllowups
whereas if you can poise them and fail to dodge multiple it does not knock you down and can kill you in a combo
oh yeah makes sense
Finished a spell run (including pyromancy only)
Finished a bow run
Finished straight sword, piercing sword, curved sword, katana, ultra greatsword, axe, great hammer, halberd and whip only runs
So do I go with dagger, great axe, hammer, fist or spear next?
fists only
oh jesus christ I think I might do that last
I did it up to getting the lordvessel once
took me like 4h to be ornstein and smough with only fist weapons [i have like 800 hours in the game]
its a really good challenge
shields only
go to the graveyard
Keep trying, it's the only good dark souls game, also try to lower your weight so you can roll faster
oh shit this is on switch? too bad its so shit
only thing that sucks about the switch version is the low online activity
30 frames too but still more stable than 360/PS triple
"Current" gen hardware running old games more stably than the 360/PS3 is the bare minimum.
>Should i just go in blind?
You’ve been playing with a guide and wondering why you’re not having fun? It’s a fricking RPG just go explore
go pyro. get the queelag sword. get combustion, and great combustion. you will now steam roll the frick out of the game.