Topic: Dark Souls Remastered \[т]/

@EvilLucario @leoes12
There’s no need for that much music in the game. Just sound effects and ambience makes it creepier, which is a good thing. That said, I enjoy the music at the Firelink Shrine.

@BrainOfGrimlock Great advice for @Spoony_Tech! There are no right or wrongs in how you approach the game, it just comes down to how challenging you want to make it. As a DS novice I want my playthrough to be not easy, but not extremely hard either. That I can save for a second playthrough.

This is one area that this game is highly inferior to others in the series. DS3 and Bloodborne have some incredibly boss music.
DS1 was made on a much smaller budget.

I made it past the Taurus Demon, finally. Once you learn his timing, dodging becomes pretty cake. It always sucks trying to roll away from an attack and rolling off the wall to your death, though.

I enjoy the feeling of finally opening up the shortcuts in this game in particular, since there are way more branching paths than in subsequent games

@PikPi You beat the Taurus Demon.. on the wall? You didn't lure him up the tower? Or, even better, climbed up the tower and jumped off, landing sword-first in his ugly face?

You got grit, I'll give ya that.

You'll make a fine Chosen Undead.

Got past bell gargoyles a few days ago, really enjoying how the game has opened up both in terms of locations but also weapons/builds/magic. So much to do, just not enough hours in the day.

@Bart_T Haha, honestly I didn't even see the latter to the 2 cross bow skeletons, I just thought I had to deal with their arrows during the fight. Wasn't until I helped the bf on his own file that I discovered you can climb up and slam down. Though I do tend to avoid tactics like that in general just because the feeling of successfully dodging and plinking down their health bit by bit is way more fun for me. I suppose because after being very OP in Bloodborne and DS3, it's fun to have to panic and die and repeat till you get it right.

I love how much hidden stuff to discover there is. I'm onto like my 7th playthrough of the game and I still discover new things.

I only just found the route out to the front giant on Sens Fortress. Never knew you could get out there.

I'm assuming I'm near the Bell gargoyles since I keep hearing the bell and getting further up the castle. I opening the gate that was behind the armored hog.

Anyone wanna help with kalameet I do want to cut the tail though

You are pretty close good luck with it

@Spoony_Tech distance-wise, yes, yes you are. Realise you posted this a while back now so you may have done everything in this area by now. There’s a small detour around that area (past the gate you opened behind pig-face & near the church/cathedral that is infested with KKDKKSSK knights) before you go gargoyle-thwomping that is definitely worth your time & may actually make life easier against the ‘goyles, or failing that, being able to get back to them at least (listen for a hammer!)

(Let me know if you’d like less cryptic btw, am mindful of spoilers & letting you find stuff out mostly yourself - everyone needs a little help with this thing but it makes it super rewarding when you figure something yourself for the most part!)

we can always help if he needs it although im a bit overlevelled for gargoyles

@BrainOfGrimlock Thanks, I haven't fought them yet and indeed already found the area you are referring to. I want to take out that thing shooting lightning at me first and I'm trying to kill it without using the drake sword first.

Just to add, I'm a huge Transformers fan btw! Love the avatar.

I did finally make it to the bonfire in Burg. Along with some detours to secret souls. I was right near it the first time.

Still debating if I should keep up with the knight, or start a sorc or pyro on one of my other accounts. I've alternately heard that pyro and sorc are the most "noob friendly" way to go. Not sure which to go with.

@NEStalgia

You can do both at once. It's not exclusive.

Knight is more fun by far though. The others suck.

I always wait till my second play through for magic stuff since it pretty much acts as an easy mode. At least in DS3, which is the only game I've bothered to try it in. Magic Missile made so many bosses and enemies a cakewalk.

@Dezzy How do you do both at once? If Knight is more fun I might as well stick with it rather than reset my progress a second time. Not that I'm far in.

@PikPi Honestly DS seems like MegaMan in that memorizing levels and enemy placement pays off, so an easy mode for the first run may not be a bad thing. Somehow I don't think it's such an "easy mode" though going by my pyro time against the hog in the network test. It's weird though, traditionally in RPGs magic users are always the more complicated/difficult ones and make the early game painfully difficult in order to get the end-game reward of being walking armageddon. D&D wizards were always painful to start as, and even TES games make mages kind of difficult to begin with until it gets going. May not hurt to have a pyro or sorc on the other account.

OTOH I keep hearing about weapons not scaling with sorcs, and magic resistant bosses.....I can't imagine DS bothers to make anything easy

I think I know the answer to this but here goes: the character movement in this game is pretty stiff, right? I just can't get past that sort of thing in a game.

@rallydefault Sort of. Attacks have wind-up, but some weapons have little wind-up and you can lower how weighty you feel by simply taking off armor or using light armor. I wouldn't say it's stiff, just very heavy.

Thing is, almost everything else is balanced around that so it doesn't feel unfair 95% of the time.

Man, that Capra Demon is a *****!

I guess trying to take out the dogs first is a good idea, but it’s not that easy... Well well... Enough played for tonight, there’s a day tomorrow as well. Goodnight!