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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: April 19, 2016, 08:56:31 AM »

Yeah RTSR was 50% in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, 20% in DkS2 and DkS3.

On second thought this game has Tears of Denial so a good RTSR would be gamebreaking.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: April 19, 2016, 08:14:35 AM »

I wish RTSR were good again.  It's like barely more damage than the ring that buffs you when your HP is full?  Because fighting a boss at full and at 10% hp deserve similar effects?  Madness.

You can get it after two boss fights so if it were worth anything it'd see speedrun play too.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: April 19, 2016, 06:39:58 AM »

dks3: beat this yesterday, started a sorc run today.  Spoilers but like really not even but whatever.

For my first run I went Warrior and never messed around with spells.  Used a longsword from start to finish, mostly used Lothric Knight Shield for exploration and two-handed with the Grass Crest Shield for bosses.

Get a feeling so complicated.  Part of me wants to gripe that the game's too easy -- the endgame and even optional bosses went down in a couple tries.  I have obsessively played and replayed the first two Dark Souls games though and I think the hardest one's just gonna be whichever one you start with.

The consolation is that these are really good bosses.  Many of these fights are on the fun-level of previous games' DLC bosses, which have always been the best in the series.  There's like three I'm not crazy about, out of nineteen?  Cid you're cheating yourself if you skip Nameless, he's a lot more fun than hard (similar to Champion Gundyr).

Bottom line is I'm too happy to be playing new Dark Souls to feel like complaining.  I can make the game harder with weapon and build choices, I couldn't have made the bosses not-lame if they'd been lame and overwhelmingly they're great instead.

What about the lore, atmosphere, setting, mood, do these bosses have personality?  Do I feel something when I fight them or do I just kill Boss X in Zone Y?  Well, if my buy-in to the world was 100% in the first Dark Souls and 40% in Dark Souls II, it's like 80% here.  Haha, these numbers don't mean anything.  I don't feel a conspicuous absence of atmosphere as a flaw here like in dks2, it's impossible to beat dks1 nostalgia, I like a lot of the stuff they did here and we'll see how it grows on me.  I like playing the game so much that it'll have a lot of time to.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: January 28, 2016, 09:58:56 PM »

At the end of the genocide run the game suggests to you that you're doing this out of curiosity...

Hm. I could have sworn there were several lines that insinuated you were doing it not so much out of curiosity, but because you wanted to experience what that path had to offer (whether that be plot or gameplay) which should include the boss fights. Might just be a different read of the same lines, though. Or was it that you were more specifically looking for a "you did it because you wanted a challenge" sort of line?

All pretty spoilery stuff, but anyway.  I find it bitterly ironic that Sans being such a great boss is the major impetus for doing a genocide run.  That's tragic, really.  If only he were a scrub none of this would have happened (for a lot of people, anyway).

Yeah I don't know, the fourth wall break stuff is supposed to make you feel like the game's really in your head, maybe provoke a sickening realization along the lines of "You're right, that -is- what I was doing, oh these hands what have they wrought" but it felt to me like the game's guesses were going wide.  I don't have the lines in front of me but Flowey definitely talks about first making friends with everyone and then starting to kill them eventually just out of curiosity, only to find that curiosity was an excuse all along and the real reason was because it felt so liberating, something like that.  There's no moment of creepy recognition here because I was never curious (would have youtubed) and it didn't feel liberating (I felt chained by the obligation to grind the randoms), it was just what I had to do to fight hero Undyne and Sans.

I did feel like Sans's special attack was a nod to me (you want the ultimate challenge? this pursuit of yours is empty, here's nothing) but yeah the game would have tracked me a lot better if hero Undyne and Sans were both going "you're really willing to kill everyone just for the pleasure of this fight?" or something.  Although of course I am.  The game wants to hit you with a dick punch for doing genocide and the only dick punch for me would have been if Undyne and Sans just hadn't fought me at all because then I -would- have felt like it was pointless, but they did fight and it was awesome so I felt satisfied with my choice instead.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: January 28, 2016, 08:11:46 PM »

Nah jk game was tight.  Beat all three routes, best bits were the music and the two genocide boss fights.

The characters were charming enough to me that I went pacifist after my initial neutral playthrough (when I was considering just going genocide next and being done).  I didn't regret it either, it's a credit to the writing that I was not bored or annoyed or anything, but looking back I still feel like the game punishes you for going pacifist.  Why not include some timeout bosses equivalent to the fights you get in genocide?  If it's less fun as a game than genocide on purpose then I guess that's a choice but I would have preferred it to be as fun or more fun.

At the end of the genocide run the game suggests to you that you're doing this out of curiosity (given the power of reload, you want to see what happens when you do this or this) or out of a Disgaea-esque compulsion to make numbers go up (hence grinding all possible random encounters) but this didn't really land because I did it so I could fight the two new bosses.  If I wanted to see how it turned out I would have just youtubed the genocide ending rather than go through the hassle, and I would have preferred not to grind the randoms because it was tedious.  The bosses were great so to me it was worth it but the fourth wall break had an opportunity to be poignant that was missed in my case because my motivation as a player wasn't represented.

Apparently there's gossip about a Hard Mode being implemented at some point?  If all bosses get an EX upgrade I'll definitely play again for that.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2016?

« on: January 28, 2016, 07:34:06 PM »

Undertale: finished

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZHwxIL9oYo

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General Chat / Re: What Are Your All-Time Top 10 Albums?

« on: November 06, 2015, 06:42:24 PM »

Special thanks to Winamp's "Most Played" tab.  My install's only a couple years old, so the list's biased to what I've been listening to since graduation.

Blonde on Blonde (1966) / Bob Dylan
The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) / The Velvet Underground
London Calling (1979) / The Clash
Doolittle (1989) / Pixies
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) / Pavement
MTV Unplugged in New York (1994) / Nirvana
Being There (1996) / Wilco
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998) / Neutral Milk Hotel
69 Love Songs (1999) / Magnetic Fields
From a Basement on the Hill (2004) / Elliott Smith

Honorable mentions to:
a bunch of Radiohead, White Stripes, and Black Keys albums which I couldn't decide on favorites from;
the OSTs from Hotline Miami and Run Lola Run;
Schubert's Winterreise;
and a couple other Pixies albums I like on the same tier as the rest of the list but which I disqualified since I was already so close to keeping each artist to one album.

The list as it stands doesn't feature anything that's been made since I was in middle school and it's ludicrously weighted toward dudes strumming guitars.  The other concerning thing is how popular my picks are.  Who wants to face up to liking mostly really popular music?  Definitely a hipster's nightmare, I'm gonna stay strong though.

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General Chat / What Are Your All-Time Top 10 Albums?

« on: November 05, 2015, 07:26:00 PM »

It's all in the title really, let's see some lists!

- Favorite albums!
- Any criteria you like!
- In order or in no order!
- Soundtracks count, song cycles count, weird gimmick remix albums count, it all counts!
- Big lists of honorable mentions welcome!
- You can also just cheat and do a top 20 instead of a top 10!
- Limit one-album-per-artist or don't!
- What matters is what you like!  I guess I'll expand on this and say I'll be trying to avoid making a balanced, defensible, superficially-objective sort of list based on things like popularity or influence or the maintenance of cred: "Well, can't have a top albums list without a Beatles record, I'll just throw that in, oh and I should really include one pick from this other genre of music just to round things out a little, also you know what? this album I listen to all the time is sort of a guilty pleasure, don't really wanna mention that one..."  That's boring!  I know I said "any criteria" up there but I urge you to go with the stuff you like.  This isn't a dating profile!  Be yourself!

I think that's everything!  I'll do one of my own later.  Probably some version of this exists already somewhere in the forum but I can't find it.  Oh final point, judging everybody else's list is fine!  Encouraged even!  Judgment-free zones are for like dramatic confessions and therapy and shit.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: October 29, 2015, 08:20:25 AM »

Finished everything.  My 40 code is gruesome but viable, like a newborn baby.  Remembering some relevant math right now would help but I don't, it's been like eight years.  Really fun to mess around with anyway and I wish there were more problems.

edit: got year 40 to 839 steps with 99 commands.  It was kind of absurd coming back a day later to a program that generates primes and factors nonprimes and being like "hang on, what's the best way to divide by 2 again?"  As someone who isn't very visual I think it's really cool being able to watch different parts of a program working away in their own little sections of the game screen.

edit2: got both optimization challenges done for year 20.  Still really enjoying going back through these.  Fifteen assignments still need optimization so I could be at this a while.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: October 29, 2015, 05:04:09 AM »

Finished the main game:



My year 41 solution needs work (like your dick) but I'm gonna wrap up the optional stuff first.  Can strongly recommend the game along with its sequel, which is called "working through the Project Euler set with Python."

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: October 29, 2015, 01:49:03 AM »

I'm unreasonably happy about finishing 36!  Lots of errors fixed.

It looks like there's only a few assignments left.  Is there an aftergame that unlocks after 41?

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: October 29, 2015, 12:20:35 AM »

Human Resource Machine: just started.  Seems fun!  I stopped going for optimization challenges during this last run of optional assignments (22, 24, 26, 28) but I guess I could always go back later.  So far it's a better gameplay experience than Heart of the Swarm's campaign mode and the writing is better.

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General Chat / Re: TV Shows

« on: October 11, 2015, 09:52:04 PM »

I liked the first season better but

it was amazing. I don't even know where they can go from there.

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General Chat / Re: Random Questions take 11043 or whatever

« on: October 01, 2015, 09:03:10 PM »

• What is your favorite horror film
• Now For your favorite thriller. Cue endless arguments about the difference!
• What is the most ridiculous or irrational thing you, personally, are afraid of
• How about the most ridiculous thing someone else that you know is afraid of. No DL Callouts.
• Is there any music that legitimately kind of freaks you out? Post samples.
• What is your favorite "they're not so evil" monster?
• What is your favorite "that is definitely evil" monster. (No real humans)
  
• What is your favorite ridiculous monster TYPE? Like myth, D&D, random encounters, etc
• You are permanently "haunted" by someone's ghost. What is the least worst scenario you can think of
• You have tragically died and get to permanently haunt anyone of your choosing. Go get 'em, tiger

1. Alien!

2. Memento!

3. Microwave radiation!  It doesn't leak from microwaves and it's not carcinogenic anyway but I won't pull the door open to interrupt the microwave while it's running, even though that automatically shuts it off.  I'll hit the button to stop it and open it then, even though this wastes a second and makes absolutely no difference.  Some part of me thinks it's safer.

4. I know a couple funny ones but they're private!  I am a good friend.

5. Can't think of any

6. The minotaur

7. Dracula's pretty good

8. Maybe ghosts, there's so many weird types of them

9-10. Whichever side of it I'm on, I'll be trying to recreate the plot to Ginban Kaleidoscope.

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General Chat / Re: TV Shows

« on: June 18, 2015, 12:45:47 AM »

GoT spoilers assumed by this point I think.

I think it's worth mentioning that a large part of why Ned's death and the Red Wedding worked fine for me is that it was showing that the story wasn't going to cheat for the good guys to win. That is a large part of why those scenes don't just read as shocking to be shocking, and the purple wedding shortly after shows just as well that the story isn't going to cheat to have the "bad guys" win either.

It really sounds like with this last season and all the shit Ramsay has been pulling out that the show misunderstood that element that made those scenes fine, and started having the story cheat so the bad guys would win. I've heard from virtually everyone up to date with the show that Ramsay has been pulling out some incredulous victories out of his ass and meeeeeeeh that's just bad writing. Kinda glad I waited to binge watch the series until after the season finale, because now it sounds like I'm fine waiting for TWOW to come out and for Martin to not be able to finish the last book in time.

So I have seen this exact view represented a couple times now:

http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/39xbe6/spoilers_all_the_reason_bad_things_happen_on_got/
http://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/39ym6b/s5e10_this_show_has_changed_from_good_guys_will/

And I don't really get it?  First of all, you'd have to convince me that Stannis is somehow a good guy for him to be a victim of this.  As I and probably a lot of show viewers see it, he's a bad guy who doesn't get any special dispensation from the show and loses like you'd expect him to.  If the show were cheating to protect villains, he should have been unstoppable after s5ep9.

Second, "important leaders of the army, royalty no less, infiltrate the enemy camp for some light sabotage/murder and get away with it" goes back to at least Odysseus and Diomedes.  It doesn't say to me that Ramsay has invincible plot armor and can do anything -- what exactly was the tangible result of his attack?  He started a fire in Stannis's camp and burned that one horse we saw at the start of the episode.  Maybe this nuked troop morale some, but it couldn't have been as bad for morale as the Shireen thing.  Ramsay's able to sally forth and whip Stannis because he lost half his army and all his cavalry, and that happened because of Stannis's leadership, not because of anything Ramsay did.

People just don't get passionate about following Stannis or fighting to get him on the throne in the best of times (there's a reason he had to use blood magic to kill his younger brother who had the weaker claim -- the populace actually liked that dude and thought the world would be better off with him in charge) and by following Mel's advice he lit his own public image on fire.  He deliberately sent away the guy he keeps around just to keep him from making awful decisions and then made an awful decision and then his troops abandoned him.  How are we being cheated when this dude loses?  If anyone fucked him over it was Mel, not Ramsay or GRRM or the showrunners, and listening to Mel was still his decision to make so I'm not overflowing with sympathy.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: May 20, 2015, 12:11:43 AM »

I liked Ex Machina

edit: saw Nightcrawler, liked that as well

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: March 15, 2015, 04:04:52 AM »

HLM2: cleared the game in one sitting today out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

Pretty much what Fenrir said?  I'd forgive everything if I liked the level design but I don't, the stages are too big and there's glass everywhere and you can't really play it like you would HLM1.  Blitzing through the first game's Hot & Heavy stage as fast as you can is hard, but a very fun kind of hard.  Getting shot by someone you can't even see while shift-looking as far as you can in that direction because there's just that much open space in the level isn't fun.

I also want to register a complaint about the patrolling dogs in that night club stage where the screen's super dark and they're almost impossible to see.  I ended up having to take the level really really slow to avoid getting chomped on by invisidogs.  Verdict: queue up the HLM2 soundtrack and replay HLM1.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: January 15, 2015, 05:09:15 PM »

SJW Inquisition: Started this up as a female Qunari dual dagger rogue. I don't know much about what's going on plotwise but the inclusion of Varric from early on is welcome. Combat doesn't feel smooth or particularly satisfying, which is probably due to coming from Dark Souls 2. I'm playing on hard but have yet to really need tactical mode yet, but I'm sure I will fairly soon. I can't wait to see the content that is trying to turn me into a feminist liberal homosexual.

I'm pretty much doing everything that everyone in the world could possibly need right now like gathering meat. I'm fairly sure my compulsiveness about doing every objective on a map means that I'll be in the Hinterlands forever.

I thought the combat felt pretty wonky, particularly as a rogue.  If I want to stand behind a dude and backstab him while he's hitting my tank I now have to perform some fiddly movement every time the characters get jostled or I'll just be spamming my stabs into thin air.  I guess if my character followed the target to stay in range automatically (like in Origins) it would detract from the new action game experience?

You will probably enjoy the "Kill All the Straight White Men" war table operation.

EDIT: oh yeah so I played DA3.  There was some party dialogue I liked but mostly everything was tedious.  I have seen some reviews touting this fact so maybe I'm the one with the problem.  Spell combos don't exist anymore, there's fewer spell types, and there's more straight copies of other elemental spells (you have Wall of Fire and Wall of Ice, Fire Mine and Ice Mine, etc. so picking one tree over another doesn't actually lead to different gameplay).  Crafting and upgrade menus are cumbersome and terrible -- why can't I sort my weapon recipes by tiers so I can skip to the best ones without going through the whole list? why do I have to back all the way out of the crafting menu to compare the stats of a weapon I could craft to the weapon I've already got equipped? why can't I automate the process of swapping old upgrade bits into my new equipment? -- and there is a discouraging proportion of busywork quests.  The villain cast is a joke.  Montilyet is a hottie.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: January 09, 2015, 09:23:23 PM »

Vanguard is the most fun.  Second place is probably Adept.

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General Chat / Re: What games are you playing 2014?

« on: September 20, 2014, 05:41:07 PM »

Two handed lightning spiked club did indeed see a lot of use but I was constantly swapping back to one hand so I could use my balder shield.  I actually had to ditch my tattered hood and manchette to keep fastrolling but I thought getting even squishier wasn't a big deal.  Like, with cloranthy ring giving all your stamina back between strikes and an upgraded balder shield, you can just block through Sif's attack patterns instead of learning when to roll.  It also kept me from having to learn parry timing for the silver knights in Anor Londo and the black knights everywhere.

Just running it back without magic/pyromancy seems appealing too, maybe like an SL4 hunter run.  That would also let me try out rapiers.

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General Chat / Re: What games are you playing 2014?

« on: September 20, 2014, 07:05:25 AM »

Dark Souls: finished my SL1 run.  Not leveling up didn't seem like a huge deal, I think next I'm gonna try giving up my shield or something.  The challenges I remember from here were Fenrir using fist weapons (seems way too hard) and Cid using whips (I haven't found any but can wiki it up) but if there were other fun ones let me know.

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General Chat / Re: What games are you playing 2014?

« on: September 12, 2014, 11:49:04 PM »

Dark Souls: started over and did more speedstrats to get the Great Scythe immediately.  When I clear out the church and go to release Lautrec, I find he's gone already.  I get back to Firelink and Anastacia's dead.  What.  How did this happen.

Anyway since the Great Scythe scales with dex and that helps you cast faster too, I guess I'll minor in pyromancy this time around.

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General Chat / Re: What games are you playing 2014?

« on: September 12, 2014, 07:44:10 PM »

Club Souls: rolled credits on this by continuing to mimic dungeon skips from speedruns.  Nito killed me about five times before Andrew mentioned that I should let him walk up to me so I wouldn't have giant skellingtons in my grill.  I didn't want to use anything ranged on Bed of Chaos and the speedrun didn't show me the melee way, so I decided to do that by trial and error; I died at least ten times and could probably do the run-up through Lost Izalith with my eyes closed now.  Four Kings didn't get to team up on me because Great Club +15 and I was so tanky by the time I got to Seath that I could pretty much run up behind him and start flailing around and he died first.

Gwyn took a couple tries, I wasn't prepared for how relentless his combos can be when he backs you up against a wall.  Other enemies in the game kinda train you that you'll be okay if you block through the combo and then roll away and heal whereas Gwyn just keeps going.  I wasn't confident parrying so the basic strategy was to bait a grab attempt, punish with a jumping attack, and then run away like a little girl and try to interpose a pillar so I could heal up.  After three jumping attacks landed I just started in with normal attacks to finish him.

So apparently there's a sort of NG+ but I'd rather start over and not skip dungeons, maybe do the saving Solaire thing, go see Priscilla, do the DLC, all that stuff.  Not sure yet what I'm gonna build because I don't know what could be more fun than the club was.  Big slow two-handed weapon was a really enjoyable style, maybe I'll go for a halberd or something.  I could also try and see what the deal is with Faith, maybe do some miracles and rock a divine weapon.

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General Chat / Re: What games are you playing 2014?

« on: September 11, 2014, 09:11:41 PM »

Best game of three years ago etc, all it took for me to try it was constant assertions of that fact in this thread over and over ever since it came out.

While you're catching up on vintage 2010-12, play Civilization V (w/ Gods & Kings).  Laggy needs more souls to harvest from the nuked wastelands.

Sounds lame.  Maybe.  I was always trying to get Laggy to play StarCraft with me, maybe we'll be able to play this instead at some point.  But right now it's not Dark Souls so no.

edit: wow okay Stray Demon's dead now too.  I checked the wiki for what I might be trading up for later (if anything) and noticed the Dragon Tooth.  It seems to have better base damage but worse scaling?  I can't find an intelligible explanation of damage scaling via stats anywhere, so, does anyone know if the Great Club's better in the end?  I hope it is.

Smough's Hammer is unfortunately pretty much trash (most boss weapons are). Even if you pump up your strength to the absurd heights required to wield it one-handed, it'll turn out a little weaker than the great club. It's also way too fucking heavy to be worth the bother. And Dragon Tooth uses super rare upgrade materials you likely won't have enough of without farming and/or PVP, and is also weaker. Gets you a bonus to fire resist though. zomg

EDIT: I guess Smough's might turn out better if you two-hand it? Whatevs, it still weighs too much.

Scaling? A or S = awesome, usually indicates one of the best weapons of its type (if you're pumping the relevant stat). B is passable. Less than that tends to indicate something garbage for bonus damage that's best off as an elemental weapon.

Yeah I decided against Smough's so I am now rocking Great Club +13.  How that happened is I saw you needed the Very Large Ember for more upgrades and that it was in New Londo, so I thought, here's an area that hasn't really been spoiled for me much, I'll try to run all over it looking for this Ember.

5 deaths later I find Ingward (in the meantime I had to run up and buy transient curses from the female undead merchant), now I can buy cheaper transient curses and have that Key to the Seal thing, cool.  2 deaths later I find the valve that lets me drain the waterpark.  3 deaths later I get frustrated after dying to three badass black knight-looking dudes and just look up where the Ember is.  None of the souls from all the times I cleared out the ghosts ended up persisting, kinda like the ~20k I lost when I got cocky on O&S.  But now I can leave this place until everything else is dead.

So after a hop, skip and a jump around the burg and parish for black knights bearing titanite chunks, I've got my +13 weapon (good enough for the time being) and no direction at all.  I'm thinking about heading back to Quelaag's crib and murdering her sister for the firekeeper soul (my estus flask is depressingly at +1 still), and past that maybe I'll buy a Reinforced Club or something from the merchant so I can make it Divine and take it to the Catacombs.  The world is my oyster really.  I'm leaving strength at 32 for now, it doesn't seem to keep paying off much and I'd rather pump end/vit (everything else is default still).

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General Chat / Re: What games are you playing 2014?

« on: September 11, 2014, 05:03:12 PM »

Dark Souls: so I started playing this a couple days ago.  Between speedruns and Northern Lion's Let's Play I'm totally spoiled on the game so I'm just gonna embrace that.  I got to Anor Londo with a pyromancer and then a sorcerer, basically just getting a feel for stuff, sorcery seemed hellafied but maybe it's less impressive in the lategame or something.  Anyway since I'd gotten the hang of the first few bosses I decided to start over again this morning and do the Great Club thing mentioned a little while back in this thread, because that sounded awesome.  Slow weapons seemed bad though so I figured it'd be sort of a challenge run.

Instead it's been the easiest start yet.  Right away I made a dash for the blacksmith (pausing to note how Taurus died to my second plunging attack), got my Great Club to +5, thought about fighting gargoyles but decided I needed more damage first.  So I killed Capra on my first attempt, grabbed the Ember real quick from the Depths, and got to +6 using the large titanite I'd picked up while getting the club initially.  Then I tested it out on Moonlight Butterfly just to make sure it was up to code.  This thing is disgusting; Capra's been pretty tough every run but the jumping attack just crumpled him up, and I barely fell short of one-rounding the Butterfly.

Gargoyles killed me once when I flubbed the switch between two-hands and shield, then I got it right and killed the first gargoyle before the second showed up and it was cake.  Then I repeated the skip to Quelaag and killed her first try, enabling me to Homeward Bone right back to Firelink Shrine.  I feel sorta bad about skipping Depths and Blighttown but I got cursed and murdered by awful gecko monsters and a giant rat when I took my pyro down there so for now I'm alright.  Taking my act to Sen's Fortress next where I'll try to make the Iron Golem ledge kill work.  Best game of three years ago etc, all it took for me to try it was constant assertions of that fact in this thread over and over ever since it came out.

edit: wow okay Stray Demon's dead now too.  I checked the wiki for what I might be trading up for later (if anything) and noticed the Dragon Tooth.  It seems to have better base damage but worse scaling?  I can't find an intelligible explanation of damage scaling via stats anywhere, so, does anyone know if the Great Club's better in the end?  I hope it is.

edit x2: O&S are dead, got Dragon Tooth but ignoring it in favor of my Great Club +10, eyeing Smough's Hammer but I think it's just too heavy