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[TXTSWORD]

Oh, well that's cool. I was thinking there was like no way to earn humanity through multiplayer if you don't HAVE humanity. Good to know.

[remote]

Running around through the Depths and killing rats is probably the fastest and easiest way of farming Humanity. They drop it pretty often.
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[MattCD42]

Heh, this game isn't as... unforgiving as people say, the Taurus Demon just jumped off a cliff for me, his sacrafice so that I might enjoy the game a little longer won't be forgotten.

R.I.P. Taurus ... 2011
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[remote]

You haven't seen shit yet.

edit: Not trying to sound like a dick. Really, though, the Taurus Demon is nothing compared to what comes later.
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[TXTSWORD]

[remote]

Also thankfully it seems like getting cursed again is not likely to happen.

The only reason it did before is I fell down a hole onto three of those fuckers and had no idea what I was in for.
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[MattCD42]

[boojiboy7]

Yeah, he barely counts as a boss, because even fighting him legit is really easy.

[Moogs]

He has several Demon's/Dark Souls videos and he uses each one to take potshots at Sony, so I'm not exactly sure what his agenda is. Unless he's the new Chad Warden?

[Broco]

I just beat the Catacombs repeatedly sprinting through the whole place barely killing anything. I kind of naturally fell into that approach, since skeletons are easy to run around while they're assembling, and beating them up for all of zero souls felt like a waste of time. It was pretty entertaining: at one point I activated a mechanism while three skeletons were wailing on me, but fortunately it wasn't interruptible. The boss was surprisingly easy (at least for a fast/dodgey wanderer like mine) and I beat him on the first attempt.

[Broco]

[Broco]

Another thing: I tried my first invasion yesterday and it seems that you can't use any Estus Flask as a black phantom dark spirit. That really threw a wrench in my plans and the invasion didn't go well. That's a huge advantage to the host, much more than the extra 25% of health-bar in Demon's Souls...

I guess next time I'll try canceling out that host advantage by equipping the anti-Estus talisman (although I'm unclear on what the range of that is).

[Wilkes]

dumb character shots

[Moogs]

Kind of confused when we're supposed to use spoiler tags in this thread.

[Kinto]

Man I really don't wanna read 23 pages.

Is the Xbox version okay or am I waiting 3 months to play this?
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[thestage]

Xbox version is no different from PS3 version.

[klj5j6li]

[Flylighter]

Broco the Estus ban on BPs is probably because more than one black phantom can invade a person at once. I doubt it's a glitch, as it happened twice in a row with me, with four different people! I valiantly fought and died the first time after killing one, and I'm proud to say I survived the second onslaught (had the first guy at 10% when the second came in) before promptly getting one-shotted by a big-ass mushroom.

Also, don't forget that there's an item to prevent estus regeneration within an area! Keep that in mind for your exploits.
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[boojiboy7]

[remote]

Uugggghhhhh Catacombs boss...
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[CubaLibre]

[scratchmonkey]

[Broco]

[CubaLibre]

Sheesh man don't give him the answer already! He just started. That's like Dark Souls' first little action-puzzle.
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[Broco]

I was told that by a message on the floor anyway. (How did that get there anyway? People already on their New Game+?)

[scratchmonkey]

Nah, that was probably put there by the dev team, there were similar messages in the tutorial section of Demon's Souls.

I would have read that message anyway, I saw there were two and only read one before getting my hash handed to me.

[klj5j6li]

[Jigsaw]

I miss the nexus :(

[DJ]

A lot of people say that.

Just because it was a safe place to chill, or...? I mean you basically have Firelink Shrine for that. It's just emphasizing Dark Souls' "there is no safe area" thing conceptually. There's really no home base to return to. Just some camp. Realistically though it serves the same purpose. NPCs congregate there, it acts as a quest hub of sorts, eventually fast travel opens up, etc.
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[remote]

I do agree with whoever (sorry, forgetting at the moment) said that Firelink Shrine eventually takes on a feeling resembling the Nexus a little bit more as NPCs move in, and yeah, there is music, but it's not quite the same. It's a beautiful place in its own right, of course, but the music of the Nexus is some of my favorite music from a videogame and the atmosphere is pretty much wonderful. I like just turning the game on to look at the place and not really do anything.

Anyone who is playing this but has still never played Demon's Souls should not assume that it has been eclipsed or rendered obsolete by this newer game. They both do some pretty significant things quite differently, and Demon's Souls should absolutely continue to be considered an essential experience.
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[thestage]

the nexus also confers a mild sense of ownership on the part of the player. NPCs move in, there are a couple of events that take place in the nexus, the story is doled out there a little more, and a few of the NPCs are pretty fawning. the maiden moves around. you usually come back after having actually accomplished something, and the nexus can reflect that.

[Broco]

[analogos]

[Jigsaw]

More than anything, so far (about 30 minutes in) I just kinda feel like I vastly prefer the level-based structure of Demon's Souls more than specifically missing the Nexus. This new open world scares and confuses me. :(

[username]

Quick question from the Burbs (not far in, just defeated the first boss demon): is it worth buying the key from the shopkeep or is it something you'll eventually find laying around?
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[Mr. Apol]

[remote]

I think you need it to let out the guy trapped in the lower Burg, too.
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[Mr. Apol]

i got this now too, by the way. tried out bandit and knight, think i'm going to reroll and get the master key instead of the tiny being's ring. that hp regen is pretty miniscule.

i love how you can actually die on the asylum demon, instead of it being a story element like the with vanguard. took me by surprise, it did.

an anecdote concerning funny messages: in the asylum i found two messages in the left hallway with the crumbled stairs (the right stair is the one with the iron ball). it said "illusory wall ahead!" and "nice ring ahead!"

i spent quite a while trying to find the "illusory wall".

hardy har har.
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[klj5j6li]

[hyouko]