Dark Souls & Other Souls-Likes

That would be the one. I'm not following it like a guide, but kinda trying to remember some of the things they did, like the faith buildy sword you get from the dude at the tree... who isn't there now.

I like it a bit better than 1 in terms of the feel of the controls and mechanics. I feel a bit more in control, like when I die it is usually a feeling of yeah I took that too quickly, or I should have expected this or that.

Storyline though, meh. Not even really sure what is going on, but everything feels too on the nose. Like this is From trying to throw explainations for everything in DS1 at you for the start of the game before it really gets into DS2 itself.

Had some fun tonight playing with the small white soapstone, I look forward to getting the larger one so I can stick around for more bosses.

Got to fight the Dragon that killed me in my game and the boss just after that, so that was fun. Looking forward to doing that in my game at some point.

Then... invasions happened. First was the invasion in my game which was super cool actually. I was invaded by a player named Free Items who came to the bonfire and dropped a bunch of healing items and effigies for me and then ported out.

The second invasion of the night happened in another players game actually. "GET SHT ON FGT" pretty much manhandled myself, another shade, and the host with some kinda big *** fire sword :/

I REALLY like the mechanic of the small soapstone. Helps me do some low risk farming, get some materials for upgrades, and I get to learn some more about the areas on occasion. Beats the heck out of the weird level range based silliness in DS1.

Soul Memory, DS2's matchmaking system, is far wonkier.

Perhaps I should stop leveling for a bit and just bank souls if I want to continue in this area then...

Also realized that I just had to talk to Pate again to get the big soapstone, so did a few rounds of that. Very fun and nice not having to wait an hour doing nothing at all to get summoned like DS1, even if there is a weird formula involved lol.

If you keep getting souls, but not leveling, your soul memory still increases. There's a ring you can buy that makes it so all your souls go into the ring, and it won't increase your soul memory, in case you want to stay at a specific soul memory tier. Me personally, I want all the souls! I think my soul memory was 80m+ last I played.

so, can anyone help a PS3 DS2 player out?

I'm stuck on the last DLC stage fighting the two tigers in the Frozen Outskirts. I just cannot seem to beat them with the NPC helpers available.

Anyone?

DS3 is available to play on Steam. Few hours until PS4/XBone digital copies are available. Midnight for physical copies.

Got to some hag witch boss in the woods. Found some coolio stuff.
That dragon on the tower you first encounter~ if you shoot him up with arrows he flies away and inside is a mimic chest that has a battle axe.

Looking forward to playing when I get home, should I avoid this topic in case of spoilers for now? :/

Souls has always been very lore heavy so I suspect it's less vulnerable to spoilers though.

Three deaths so far. Two were from attempted parry practice. I expect more by the time I figure timing out.

And that's before I start toying with buckler/target shields and katana weapon art parries.

I have to finish DS2 before I will let myself get DS3.

I saw the name of the place I just got to last night and thought it would be a happy place Harvest Valley.... only thing getting harvested there was my ***.

Found the fallen knight armor set and the pharris? Bow (it triple fires!) I feel like I'm a ranger or something doing these dive rolls and shooting monsters in the face point blank

Played DS3 for a bit, killed the crystal lizard, killed the first boss and quit in the first area from Firelink Shrine.

Haven't died yet.

dafuq skill =O

wolf knight's greatsword :O!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the forward flip

Played up until the first actual boss (not the tutorial boss) and Im loving it. Definitely living up to the Souls Series expectations. I almost wince everytime I hear enemies doing that banshee scream thing haha

For me, might makes right! Great Axing my way through like some sorta high quality lumberjack. I get naked to fight the toughest opponents!

I did die a few times in the end, this first proper area just has a tendency to get me crowded by a few enemies! I have been brought back to Earth on parrying again.

DS1+2 sucked at parrying
Bloodborne amazing at visceral attacks
DS3 suck at parrying

The snow area in this one is beautiful

Kali's deaths to "Gravity" where funny ;3

I'm getting my *** kicked by the abyssal watchers >_>

I had 28 deaths on them last night, that fight was rough.

I killed them in two goes. Every even add helps you!

Is there a way to play DS2 as an Archer build? I noticed it seems the people who sell arrows have a limited amount. Unless there is some kind of trick to get more that I haven't stumbled across.

So, I've been doing a lot of experimenting with mechanics and farming enemies holding interesting looking weapons.

Another mechanic I've noticed, that after a jumping attack, an immediate light attack performs your weapon rolling attack.

Also, if you're someone who likes carrying 4270972 items on your utility belt, holding the down button on your d-pad will automatically select the very first item on your belt.

Yeah once I figured out the first phase only took me 3 more tries to get it down. My Pyro is starting to get decent, I think I rolled stats wrong though. Everyone I see playing or with a screenshot has like 2x my HP even when they aren't embered. Maybe 16 vigor isn't enough >_>