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Nah. It's far too tight and not nearly "free-form" enough. It's more like Wizardry than Oblivion.
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Seriously, the second I get some kind of confirmation that this works well in English I'm importing it. Co-op will be had.
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There's the Greek daimon, from which the word comes, which is a sort of intellectual or emotional sprite, but never incorporated - think of the little angel-and-demon-sitting-on-your-shoulders conscience, except without the little angel and demon. Socrates said that it was his daimon that always pushed him to keep asking questions when any normal man would be satisfied with the answers.
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[CubaLibre]

Spore's "massively single-player" thing is the first example I can think of. It's actually pretty cool, and really the only interesting thing about the game.
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Oh yeah with uhhhh future Knights Templar and shit. Their buzzword was "Crossplayer." Need Google.

Oh, of course: it's called The Crossing.
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I thought this didn't have regular co-op? Or do you mean something different by "4-player community"? I keep hearing conflicting reports...
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[CubaLibre]

Rudie keep talking.
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Yeah, it's a shame that a game is challenging and even has a whole built-in mechanic to make dying a lesson rather than a mere penalty. The nerve! It must be some kind of sick sexual fetish. All those sickos who say they like LEGO Star Wars are probably pedophiles, too.
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[CubaLibre]

Man I wish I had some money. D:
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[CubaLibre]

Finally played this game, for an hour, and I am absolutely 100% hooked. Clearly one of the best games I've ever played in my life.

Watched my friend start playing and developing a "twink" character to use for PvP, getting everything he needs to be effective while keeping his Soul Level as low as possible in order to have lots of pickings. The variety of weapons/equipment and character builds and their physical and tactical effect on the game is stupendous.

Also, spears totally fucking rule.
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Watched my friend play this all weekend. Got home. Slept six hours. Woke up, went to Gamestop, bought this game.

I beat 1-1, 1-2, and 2-1. I'm doing a Temple Knight, boosting my Faith and heading for a Blessed Halberd Hammer Thing (I forget the name) and all the Miracles. A real white knight type.
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But don't be misled: the first New Game+ is a real jump in difficulty that you'd associate with the name, but after that it only gets something like 8% harder with each playthrough. After 2 times through, you're best off making a new character.
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This game, guys. Every time I play it I can feel myself getting better at it.

I have a question for any experienced demon hunters. I want to follow the guide at the bottom of this page to get pure white world tendency and the unique items attached thereto. But I have a few questions about the instructions there.

Why does it insist on offline mode? I'll be in soul form basically the whole time, so it's not like someone will come into my game and ruin it. In addition, being online would let me invade other people's games to get my body back (while suiciding to get pure black world tendency) instead of using tons of Ephemeral Eyes. Am I missing something?

What happens if I screw up and die? You're supposed to kill the unique Black Phantom and then the Primeval Demon in one shot, but what happens if I die in between? These guys don't respawn, right? Or I guess you're just not supposed to go back to the Nexus, so you're all right if you die as long as you don't leave?

In connection with that (and also more generally), what happens when you select Quit in the middle of a level? I've been told everything saves exactly the way it is, but I've been too chicken to test it myself. Is this true? If I have to quit for some reason in the middle of the BP > PD run, will it screw up my world tendency endeavors?
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Is there some other way to get pure white? Just going through and killing all the bosses doesn't seem like it'll do the trick, and the only other way to shift the world tendency towards white, from what I can tell, is to kill the unique BPs and PD, which only appear at pure black.
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I wouldn't mind just playing through the game and getting pure white tendency that way, that'd be fine with me, but it would suck to beat a world entirely only to be left without any bosses and therefore unable to hit pure white.

I wish people actually knew more about this. No one seems to have any definitive answers. It's like Tower of Druaga but with an actually good (amazing, almost perfect) game attached.
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Maybe I'll play through beating all but the last bosses to have a boss in reserve just in case, and then try and bait BPs into my world. Saving pure black for right before the endgame does seem like the smartest move. I watched my friend die something like 50 times in a row to BP Satsuke at the beginning of 4-1 before killing him at slvl 98.

Then again, that was NG+.
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So if I don't happen to get pure white playing through, I have to sit around waiting for black phantoms to invade, and if I pop back in later I might find myself drifting towards black. That's kind of cool, except that sometimes BPs just don't invade. But the NA servers are still pretty lively.
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[CubaLibre]

Would you recommend waiting to do this on the second playthrough, when you have your equipment etc? What I've read recommends doing it on the first playthrough before it gets really hard, but I can't imagine beating some of those BPs with only the stuff out of the first couple levels.
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One annoying thing about the lock-on is that it targets the nearest enemy as the crow flies, rather than the nearest enemy that you can attack. For example, once you've dropped the first optional bridge near the beginning of 5-1, when you try to cross it there's a spear goblin on the other side, and a bunch of other goblins below. I've definitely almost died running across the optional bridge, clicking to target the guy across the way, having it actually target one of the dudes below and to the side (who are no threat) and then almost running right off the side.

The biggest answer, of course, is that you shouldn't lock on to everything, and learning when and why to lock on is one of the higher-level skills of the game. But yes, it's still kind of broken and the biggest flaw in the game.
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NNNNGH YEEEEEEEAH

After struggling hardcore through 5-2, I stomped the 5-2 boss. Then I co-oped Astraea and her knight and Flamelurker in 2-2 with my buddy. Then I was playing through 1-3 in body form. A phantom invades, I cast Hidden Soul, I get him in the back as he runs by, but he has tons of stamina and sprints all the way through to the 3 red-eyed knights at the end. So I say, fuck you then, I'm summoning a blue phantom. We kill all the bad dudes before the red-eyed knights, and then my genius phantom aggros them all at once. Of course, the BP charges in with them. I run like a bitch, obviously. The BP pulls off a backstab but it only does about half damage. My blue phantom gets jumped by the red-eyed knights, but it keeps them off of me long enough to get out of their visual range, so it's just me versus the BP. And I absolutely outclass him in one on one combat.

HUUUUUUURGH

Just a minute or two later another BP invaded, this one a magic type with a witch hat and so on. Again I cast Hidden Soul and take her from behind. Her stamina doesn't last, I catch up and slaughter her as she tries to heal.

Moral of the story: Hidden Soul is the best pvp spell when you're defending.

Also: winning in this game is one of the most satisfying feelings in the world.

(Also, killing these dudes got me pure white character tendency, so I went and grabbed my Friend Ring from the Monumental. Yay!)
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You know, I was too excited to check on the world tendency. Like an idiot.

I spent my souls in between each level, but I think 1-3 netted me something like 45k including Penetrator. I was under the impression that the host gets full souls and the blue phantoms get full souls too, there's no kind of division or reduction going on. But I've only ever been blue phantom a couple times, and just for bosses.

Guys if you're in body form throw Hidden Soul in a miracle slot. It's amazing.
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By happenstance I got PWWT everywhere except World 5. Don't ask me. So I went through and got all the PWWT stuff, thinking I'd shoot through 5 in offline mode in NG+. I had planned to get PBWT and do all that stuff before beating the game on my first playthrough, but instead I whooped King Allant (handed him his ass, really) before I did Old King Doran or any PBWT stuff. I figured there'd be a "last level" before beating the game, but not really. At least, the Maiden heads out, and I didn't want to risk the souls tooling around with crazy black phantoms.

So, NG+ here I come. Already beat 1-1, 1-2 and 2-1. Number one priority is PWWT in World 5, then PBWT everywhere. And I plan to kill folks to get my body back while I'm falling to PBWT, so right before Allant I'll do the assassination missions. I'm setting myself up for a pretty hard time...
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Do Thief's Ring/Graverobber's Ring/Hidden Soul work when you're the black phantom?
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This game is so good I just reread this whole thread. The pleas for help were similar or identical to my own, except now I can answer them all with authority. This game teaches you, and you grow in it.
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Yeah, I beat Old Monk tonight as well. I use a Mirdan Hammer which is basically the blunt version of the Halberd (and can be Blessed, which is why I chose it). It has preposterous range, especially if you 2-hand it. I fought some shmuck with Homing Soul Arrow and some Crescent something or other. I sliced through his Warding pretty bad, he healed 7 or 8 times before I brought him down.

I actually beat all of World 5, 3-2 (Maneater, hurrrrgh) and 3-3, and 1-3 today, all on NG+. Have you played as mainly a melee dude yet VM? It's really a whole different game. Or rather, I imagine it is. When I co-op with magic-type people I just marvel at how they just have to hang back and shoot things. It seems like there's so little risk.

Now all that's left is 1-4. Time to get PBWT everywhere, kill all the unique BPs and Primeval Demons, then get PBCT and do the assassination missions. I wonder what the Blue Dragon fight is gonna be like without Biorr...
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I'd say Flamelurker is the hardest boss for melee, followed by Maneater. My friend (who is basically speedrunning the game at this point) reverses them. But Tower Knight is really easy in melee. I don't really know why people complain so much about him. Easier than Leechmonger, that's for sure.
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I don't do pvp much yet but my friend has a level 50something twink that he annihilates people with. He goes naked to make it a challenge and beats 3v1s that way. Hysterical.
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[CubaLibre]

Most people probably haven't even killed a Black Phantom to get their Black Eye Stone before hitting slvl 10.
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He's always there, but he won't use unique Demon's Souls to forge items (like the False King's Soul for the Northern Regalia) until you kill Flamelurker and give him the Red Hot Demon Soul.
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Even if you're only at WWT, killing the third boss should net you PWWT right? I don't think Keel Smasher disappears after you've beaten Dragon God.
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