The Inevitable Video Game Thread, Thus Renamed (Page 3 of 3)

Interesting multiplayer story. I can never tell what half the people with mics are saying in online games so I generally just ignore them even if they're attempting to talk tactics/strategy. Though somehow all the expletives always come out crystal clear.

Demon's Souls is miserable; its got a pretty dark atmosphere and isn't at all soft. There are three basic rules I've discovered about Demon's Souls:
1) You will die.
2) You will lose those thousands of souls you've stockpiled at some point
3) Rules 1 & 2 will occur frequently.

Bosses aren't impossible, they just seem that way the first time you encounter them. Naturally once you learn their pattern/moves its basically megaman: jump now, roll then, slash here, etc. Of course its much harder than megaman, since bosses can kill you in 1 hit (well technically 2, the first hit knocks you down and then the 2nd hits during the recovery frames and kills you, at least that's how I always die if I'm not OHKO'd).

But despite all of that I still enjoy the game a lot. The game is challenging and you gotta pay a lot of attention everywhere (you can even die in the main base area). But the difficulty is not cheap like ninja gaiden with projectile spams or interrupting throws.

You can try World 3 just be careful of the jail keepers. World 5 has annoying fire enemies so I would avoid till you get the purple flame shield.

I died so many times on 4-1 I learned how I could run straight to the boss after getting into the castle courtyard (still need to kill those two skeles on the ramparts though). A thief's ring can help you avoid the flying mantas, or any spell/equip which adds the cloak effect.

Bows are usually better, I don't think you can manually aim the x-bows or they don't shoot as far.

Also just because an armor adds more defense doesn't mean its better. Most of the armors in the game are borderline cosmetic since you're better off dodging than trying to tank (unless you have pure end and str builds).

Ah yea I did a Temple Knight first and changed to Thief after the tutorial stage. Now I have a 70-ish Thief and 40-ish Mage. Magic really wails on all the first tier bosses (except Armored Spider; Royal has the advantage of having Soul Arrow instead of Flame Shot, which he laughs at).

I dunno about the heavier gear. At best the strongest armor you can get is either Brushwood or Scale I think about 20-40 defense per piece. However, both sets have pretty hefty stamina drains which is what really kills most heavy armors for me. You have to spend more time not blocking or not attacking to restore your stamina in order to attack or block hits. Well either way it is, like you said, up to play-style. I didn't see much impact from higher item Defense so I just go with whatever combo of light/medium gear I liked looking at.

Nice on beating Adjudicator without dying, he annoyed me both times around and is the boss that kept knocking me down and KO'ing me.. For boss fights, I prefer being able to roll without putting dents in the floor...It'll get me out of Flame Lurker's fire bursts or lets me get inside Penetrator's swings. Granted you are right about normal enemies, aside from certain BPs, most enemies are pretty easy to handle and rolling is actually more cumbersome since you aren't maneuvering to a back-stab. My really main beef with heavy armor isn't with limited rolling, it is that I like to keep my inventory pretty light, so I can pick up ores; I've lost so many ores in World 2 due to weight overload (and that's with the Hercules ring) that I try to keep my inventory weight under 30-40% going into worlds.

Speaking of which, if you haven't already; killing the Reapers in 5-2 is a good source of darkmoon ores (and lots of souls), which is perfect for Mages or Royals. Magical Damage, bonus from Magic Stat, and MP recovery is pretty sweet.  And you should already have that one Crescent Falchion to upgrade.

Currently both of my characters are stuck against the Blue Dragon. Takes waaay too many arrows to bring down that I never feel like doing it; I suppose I'll just have to time his fire patterns.

Ugh. Finally beat all the worlds save World 1. I don't want to deal with the Dragon and I realize I can just run past it but I do want its soul. Usually what happens is I sink the 200+ arrows I need to bring it to half and then die, requiring me to do it all over again. Eventually I'll be able to time its fire breath pattern. I also dislike World 5, the poison upgrades to plague which is really annoying.

I ended up fighting Adjudicator the same way, since I couldn't figure out which target to melee for damage. Still died once from a random tongue strike.

Bah, guess I'll try to kill that Dragon now, maybe my shiny new DSS will help.