Dark Souls! You are already dead...

[[-project.rattus-]]

Yeah, the sewers. Didn't pay enough attention and dropped right in fron of the damned frog things.

Is the next bonfire before or after

Spoiler!

the giant rat

?

 

[Dee0342]

Yeah, the sewers. Didn't pay enough attention and dropped right in fron of the damned frog things.

Is the next bonfire before or after

Spoiler!

the giant rat

?

Im sorry its not a new bonfire but a shortcut to the previous one in the sewers.

Spoiler!

The Giant Rat is a optional enemy that can be killed easily by finding a secret shortcut that leads to a upper floor so you can kill it.
The normal to the rat is filled with holes, you probably already found that out because you are cursed, if you venture further you will find a shortcut that will lead you back to previous bonfire

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Now I am a tad confused.

So you mean that

Spoiler!

After the tunnels with the pits to drop to the acursed toad thingies, there is a shortcut to the bonfire that is behind the locked door at the start of the Depths? Nad I don't have to defeat the rat to get to that shortcut?

On a sidenote

Spoiler!

I accidentally attacked the guy stuck in the barrel in the depths and had to kill him. Is that bad?

 

[Dee0342]

Now I am a tad confused.

So you mean that

Spoiler!

After the tunnels with the pits to drop to the acursed toad thingies, there is a shortcut to the bonfire that is behind the locked door at the start of the Depths? Nad I don't have to defeat the rat to get to that shortcut?

Spoiler!

The normal way to the giant rat is pass the pits ( by not falling into any of them ) but the room is only filled with loot.
You actually NEED to fall down in the room with the toad monsters to be able to continue in the dungeon and to find the shortcut.

So the giant rat is optional but if you want him killed you can get to the upper floor by a secret passage and kill him from there with ranged attack, there is also a shield there.
I can tell you how to get there if you do not know how and want to know.

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Ah, ok. Thanks.

And nope, don't wanna know more.

 

[Dee0342]

I hope I didn't spoil too much in the last part of the spoiler, apologies from me if so

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Nah, no worries. And damn, that game kis so captivating. To think that I was at first very reluctant to buy it, as I rarely touched Demon's Souls. Only defeated two bosses in that one, the phalanx and the spider.

Which makes Dark Souls kind of paradoxical for me. It's both harder than Demon's Souls, but feels more motivating.

 

[Viersbovsky]

Ugh, I destroyed 600 fine knights in the last days. Now I have my 60.000 souls to earn absolution. At least that bridge-dragon killed himself so I got 10.000 for free, but can no longer get that drake-sword...

Upon entering the depths, just 2 meters from the bonfire I got the message that I have been invaded. I summoned a phantom myself, but that fool ran into that basilisks just seconds before that dark phantom showed itself. Of course, I got my *** handed to me. At least I had an indictment scroll, and now that scoundrel will have the darkmoon-blades after him. Also, my phantom seems to have killed him in the end, because I could still pick up my souls and humanity afterwards.

Still, I am having fun.

On a sidenote

Spoiler!

I accidentally attacked the guy stuck in the barrel in the depths and had to kill him. Is that bad?

Spoiler!

Yes, actually, that guy was your pyromancy teacher. There may be another one later on though. Still, you have probalby sinned by killing him. And undoing that costs a lot of souls (just read my post). Also, you cannot revive him, he is lost for that playthrough. The safe way to get him out there is rolling into that barrel. Fortunatley, I knew that beforehand.

 

[Dee0342]

At first I wanted to rely on bow and arrow again like I did in Demon Souls but now im glad I went for spellcasting.
Increasing weapondamage and being able to use pyromancy is pretty handy.

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Spoiler!

Yes, actually, that guy was your pyromancy teacher. There may be another one later on though. Still, you have probalby sinned by killing him. And undoing that costs a lot of souls (just read my post). Also, you cannot revive him, he is lost for that playthrough. The safe way to get him out there is rolling into that barrel. Fortunatley, I knew that beforehand.

Uh oh. Hopefully that doesn't count as a sin. I'm not inclined to learn pyromancy with this char, so I can live with that. Farming insanely high amounts to attone for the sin though might be a dealbreaker for this char, and I might start from scratch, as I am 10 hours into the game, and getting there again would take considerably less time than farming for sin attonement.

 

[Reddog]

This game is like that dick friend that you love but who always causes you grief, I haven't started playing it yet because I'm waiting for my housemate to finish before I boost his copy. So far though I've seen the game totally **** him in some hilarious ways which enduced mighty rage, like;

- His controller goes flat in the middle of a fight, as far as Dark Souls is concerned you can go and get ****ed if you expect that to pause the game.

- The internet connection to our house had a hiccup, Dark Souls decided this warranted not just a pause but a full PS3 freeze up (he was carrying around 8k souls when this happened).

- Getting cursed because the sub 10fps framerate impeded getting around an obstacle.

I can't wait to playu this game, I need something to trigger some anger release

 

[Spungey]

im SL 58. Just got to Anor Londo.

Pretty pissed off, i have 30 dexterity, which is a total waste now that i see how good lightning is.

Gonna upgrade uchigatana to lightning asap.

Still not sure on the PvP and covenants. Havent joined a covenant. PvP wise, got invaded once, won, invaded someone else, lost. Fun but i hear the covenants play a big part in PvP.

Amazing game though so far, never played demon's souls, but now i really wish i did

 

[Dee0342]

Im taking a break for the weekend because my buddy, which I sort of teamed up with, is going on a vacation for the weekend.
Now I should find myself something else to do for the weekend.....ahhh the rerelease of Gaurdian Heroes!

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Took sweet revenge on the cursing toads, got rid of the curse, axed the gaping dragon.

But damn, blight down is hard. haven't yet reached the first bonfire.

 

[Viersbovsky]

Took sweet revenge on the cursing toads, got rid of the curse, axed the gaping dragon.

But damn, blight down is hard. haven't yet reached the first bonfire.

Blight-town, or "funky-town", as I now call it, is really where the fun is.

I have died there now more often than in the last three areas together. At the bottom lies a poison-swamp with infinitely respawning mosquitos. And the architecture... Labyrinthine is not enough to express it.

 

[DraKon2k]

So I just started Demon's Souls. I'm in that castle and after like 20min I encountered some red-eyed enemy who appearantly is 50x high-leveled and killed me with one hit. Then you restart from the beginning, wtf? How is that challenging, just seems frustrating to me. I quit for now because I certainly don't feel like running through the same **** again for 15minutes.

 

[Fedorov]

So I just started Demon's Souls. I'm in that castle and after like 20min I encountered some red-eyed enemy who appearantly is 50x high-leveled and killed me with one hit. Then you restart from the beginning, wtf? How is that challenging, just seems frustrating to me. I quit for now because I certainly don't feel like running through the same **** again for 15minutes.

You are not supposed to kill that guy, even though its not impossible, is still extremely hard at low levels, its hard even at high levels. Try to find another path.

I'm still waiting for DS... hopefully nobody screwed up at the post office.

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

So I just started Demon's Souls. I'm in that castle and after like 20min I encountered some red-eyed enemy who appearantly is 50x high-leveled and killed me with one hit. Then you restart from the beginning, wtf? How is that challenging, just seems frustrating to me. I quit for now because I certainly don't feel like running through the same **** again for 15minutes.

See, that's where you know if Demon's or Dark Souls is for you. You either feel intrigued by that, or pissed off. As it's the latter for you, you will possibly not enjoy the DS games very much.

Or, to put it less kindly: You're simply not HARDCORE (caps for cool) enough

As I play roguelikes a lot, I am quite used to restarting from scratch when I die. Only that in roguelikes, you literally start from scratch, and not just from the beginning of the level.

 

[Fedorov]

See, that's where you know if Demon's or Dark Souls is for you. You either feel intrigued by that, or pissed off. As it's the latter for you, you will possibly not enjoy the DS games very much.

Or, to put it less kindly: You're simply not HARDCORE (caps for cool) enough

As I play roguelikes a lot, I am quite used to restarting from scratch when I die. Only that in roguelikes, you literally start from scratch, and not just from the beginning of the level.

My first playthrough was as a Thief, and I just refused to wear any non light armor or use any type of shields, equipped parrying dagger instead of the initial shield, I based all my defense on rolling, speed, and parrying.

Needless to say, I died A LOT, after I completed it that way, I made a barbarian, gave her armor and a huge two handed sword and the game became 5x times easier. Then I made a caster and the game became 10x easier. I guess some classes are more hardcore than others. But I remember my favorite was and will always be that first, brutal and unforgiving playthrough. I even re-visited that character to complete an NG+, after all that experience with the game, it wasn't as hard as the first time, but still significantly harder than with the other characters. :3

 

[DraKon2k]

See, that's where you know if Demon's or Dark Souls is for you. You either feel intrigued by that, or pissed off. As it's the latter for you, you will possibly not enjoy the DS games very much.

Or, to put it less kindly: You're simply not HARDCORE (caps for cool) enough

As I play roguelikes a lot, I am quite used to restarting from scratch when I die. Only that in roguelikes, you literally start from scratch, and not just from the beginning of the level.

I paid 20