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Golden Halberd is so good. I just finished getting the stats for it about an hour ago (needed 2 Faith once I decided to go all in with it) and upgraded it to +4 by buying somber stones from the giant blacksmith in the hills. Thing is doing literally 2x the damage the Bastard Sword was doing, and...

Going to guess 50 for HP and Str per usual, unsure about the others. I'm at 47 Str now so pretty soon I'll be able to find out if I'm right. Has anyone found any remotely hot outfits for a female character yet? I know this isn't Code Vein or anything, but I was able to find a couple of decently...

I got randomly ported somewhere a little while ago and ended up in this royal palace that looks like the Blood Elf starting area from WoW, with leaves falling and stuff. I never stop being blown away by this game, and I've got no interest in knowing when it ends or how many areas there are or...

One thing I've learned about this series is that depending on how you play, thing A can be easy for you and hard for someone else while thing B can be hard for you and easy for someone else. Hell, I frequently read that Dark Souls 2 is the easiest of the series, yet I find it exponentially...

Golden Halberd from the first open world boss (can be jousted down without too much trouble) seems to be a great weapon...and doesn't use smithing stones to upgrade. I used my smithing stones on the Bastard Sword I've been using the whole time and now I'm switching to Golden Halberd and using...

Main thing I don't want to be spoiled on is the map size. Cause the map keeps getting bigger every time I think I've reached the edge of it, and now I have no clue where it ends. It's a crazy feeling to get from a game in this day and age.

Upgrading the summons requires talking to that red-hooded chick at the Stormhill Shack (IIRC, one of those shacks). She gives you something in the early game...the jellyfish maybe? In any case, you talk to her until she moves to the nexus (she does it automatically after a while, so if she isn't...

Where is this place exactly? I don't know if I've even met Rodrick. Morne Castle also has a few enemies with their back to you when you go up the elevator. They DO assist though so you can really only pick off one of them. I ended up sticking to that one giant on the bridge for a bit when I...

Yeah, the poison jellyfish is SO GOOD. I wonder how many people don't use it because on the surface it seems to have pathetic DPS and is only good for pulling aggro. If it can land 5-6 shots fairly quickly, the boss is poisoned (if they're susceptible to it). A massive amount of my damage...

So uh, does she really look like a man in this game or were all those concerns overblown and unfounded? Heard enough good things about this game that I'm looking forward to it either way, after Elden Ring and Sekiro and the other ten games I'm backed-up on. "Only ten?" says most of this forum...

Huh, that's actually super useful. I haven't planted another note anywhere so I'm still getting lots of appraisals from the n00b room. A word of advice to anyone who hasn't started already: Golden Seed is probably the best gift at the start, in retrospect. Those estus charges don't grow on...

I'm at 18 vigor and 10 endurance (wretch), just haven't gotten back to them since I've been pumping Str. I need to start doing endurance soon though, cause it's starting to become a little bit of an issue. I actually might leave HP where it is for a while and just be a glass cannon. I've found...

A lot of those early PS3 games looked REALLY good. There were even a bunch of 1080p games IIRC. I thought that'd be the standard, but more and more games were mere 720p as time went on. Then when PS4 was announced I figured it'd be mostly 1440p, but instead it launched with a bunch of 1080p...

Things pretty much winding down around here? I was thinking about running the challenge in March or April, but not if interest isn't there. At the very least I do think we should keep a backlog post going for people to talk about stuff they finally knocked off their lists and keep cheering each...

If anyone sees this message in the first room, it was I who dropped it. I wonder how many appraisals it's up to now. What do you get when someone appraises your message? I just got two appraisals while I was posting this and a ton before now.

Head to the church near the starting point, make that a base of operations and then grind exp on the soldiers to the east in the camps. They drop armor, and most importantly, the Brass Shield. You want a shield with 100% Physical Resistance (aka no physical damage gets through a block). As far...

Oh cool. I did pull up the map and it showed me off in the middle of nowhere so I closed it. I'm guessing you can scroll around and find the main zone on the map. Gonna beat that red phantom anyway, bet he drops something good. I knew he'd be a challenge when I saw bloodstains all over the hub...

Is Morne Castle a legacy dungeon? It's the only place I've seen that looked like a traditional Souls area. The first big room was giving me grief so I left. There's also a cave full of wolves near the starting church, that could be an LD, didn't really go in there either. Main focus tonight is...

What movie is this from, anyway?

WWE owns the name...and brought it back for like, an NXT house show or something. I've noticed they use WCW PPV names for NXT shows but not main roster shows, almost like it's just a throwaway thing. Not sure how AEW got away with using Bash at the Beach (well, I do, the rights to the name...

Yeah, tons of that "fake wall ahead" shit. I got used to this in DS1 Remastered.

Similar experience here. Getting a 100% block shield is like priority #1 for anyone who uses a shield at all. The knights in the camp east of the first church, very close to the start of the game, uncommonly drop Brass Shields which is 100% (and looks cool). For the first couple hours before I...

At this point if I'm gonna buy anything digital I'm just doing it straight from PSN (or steam/microsoft/whichever). Getting codes (or physical copies) from stores on release date is like a 50/50 proposition at best. IIRC both Amazon and Best Buy tend to wait to SHIP things until like, release...

The intended first boss seems to be the guy in the northern castle, Margit the Fell Omen. East from that first merchant in a church, north through the garrison, north across more plains, castle. I could be entirely wrong because he's pretty hard, but seemed beatable even at my lowly level 10. I...

I didn't want to say anything, but I also noticed that several of the characters had...downsy faces. Even the hot girl that I managed to make and settle on...looks a lot less hot from the side. I couldn't get her nose to look normal. It's flat like a pug.

I'm looking forward to when there are enough PS5s in the wild for games to be current gen exclusive. Getting dual releases on PS4 is holding games back visually, and it'll hold back FF7R Pt 2. Elden Ring is a great game with tremendous art design that makes it look gorgeous no matter what, but...

Went ahead and bought the Bastard Sword for 3000 souls (or two levels worth at this point). Thing wrecks, and functions just like it does in other Souls games. Gonna look for more shards to upgrade it, probably buy the Fireball equivalent from that hub area too. So I guess my Wretch is going to...

Played for 2 and a half hours as my hot naked wretch. Got a bit of armor, but nothing for weapon drops, so I'm still using the starting club. Really want a sword, and there's a merchant selling a Bastard Sword for a cool 3000 souls (plus I need a few more points of Str). Considering it but I was...

Is that a guy or a girl? Cause I seriously can't tell with these models. Er, a Type A or a Type B, I'm not a monster

Making a hot chick is not easy in this game, but I managed it. Large majority of the "Type B" bodies/faces (especially the faces) are more masculine than the dudes are.

That gif is hysterical, I can't imagine how much energy that guy blew on those unnecessary rolls. I'm not surprised that the game is getting trashed a bit so far, people set their expectations on the goddamn moon. Also not surprised that the PC version has problems. PS5 all the way for me...

PS5 version is said to run much better than PC, at least for the moment. Resolution is the same, framerate is actually better on PS5. I'm sure this will get fixed but yeah.

Damn, that's fast. I wonder if RE2 Remake can be beaten that fast. I still have to play 1.

Yeah the controls are the big sticking point with enjoying Armored Core. The only one I got through was the first one. I bought it because it has one of the best game soundtracks I've ever heard. However when I played it, most of the levels had silence for BGM. I thought it was supposed to be...

I prefer the PSP version to the PR version myself, because of the extra Dawn of Souls areas and the new secret dungeon at the end (so like, five bonus areas IIRC, and they're all good). Don't have a PSP anymore though. I guess I could emulate when needed. Thing is, the PSP versions of 1, 2, and...

Yeah it's pretty idiotic. I enjoyed the hell out of FF1 PR but I'm not gonna buy the others until they're on consoles (PS specifically, 'cause I want trophies). I assume there'll be a $60 all-in-one, probably around the holiday season, but it's just as likely they'll just never do it because lol

Yeah pretty much that. Before class-based games drop there tends to be a lot of hand-wringing and fretting about what class to play because people don't really have anything else to "work on" until it arrives. Wretch here too. It gives you the most customizability. Just do that and figure it...

Yeah this one is really good, enough so for me to go for the plat. Unfortunately one of the few trophies I missed requires a full game replay (the "do all puzzle sections" one, because I skipped a few of the glitch areas later on). So I probably won't get back to it for a while. @Metalhead I...

I'm expecting it to be simultaneously the hardest Souls game AND the most accessible Souls game. What I mean is that I suspect the main quest's difficulty curve will be lighter than the other Souls games to allow more people time to git gud, while the optional stuff (which will probably be like...