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I don't like heights.
Or deep water.
Anywhere that's significantly disparate from regular ground level, really.
If it's more than about a meter from ground level, it sucks. Up or down.
It it's more than about a centimeter from ground level and I don't know it's there, it sucks. Up or down.
So, I appear to have lost my copy of Dragon Age: Origins. That sucks, I wanted to give it another playthrough
Instead, I opted to play Demon's Souls and Dark Souls.
Dark Souls is very probably better designed than Demon's Souls. However, I found Demon's Souls to be more... fun to play, I guess; even starting as a Hunter, I had a more-than-significant amount of health, and the capacity to deal enough enemies to kill most enemies in two hits with an axe, while I was dealing significantly less damage with the scimitar as a Wanderer in Dark Souls.
I also feel that Demon's Souls' tutorial sucked for the most part, but the boss fight at the end does an excellent job of showing you how the game doesn't really give a fuck it you die.
That said, I have one thing to say to both games:
stop making me fight on staircases you jerks
Well, the hunter class in both games is more raw-damage oriented than the wanderer. If what you want is to deal good damage through mundane means, then I suggest the hunter, warrior or bandit in Dark Souls. The wanderer essentially exists to provide spellswords with an ideal starting class, if that's the cut of your jib, so it's a little underpowered until you get the first Magic Weapon spell.
If you want a mathematically solid path through the game, though, you can always get your strength and dexterity up to the minimum for your favourite weapon, make it elemental and then stack vitality and endurance. This kind of build probably offers the most lenient combination of damage output and resilience to the player. The only issue is that's not particularly fun compared to more daring characters.
No, I ragequitted both again when I died three times in the same spot on each so that's okay.
I know what I would have gone for the with the Wanderer- a very mobile character with a fire-damage falchion and composite bow- while the Hunter in Demon's Souls would have been a hybrid Dexterity/Faith character who alternated between a Divine Uchigatana and a Sticky Compound Long Bow.
I just really, really hate the way the game likes to force me to fight on staircases.
I don't recall the games often forcing that. Usually I kite enemies to more even ground, particularly behind me, where I know I've cleared the way. There's one particularly instance of a staircase fight in the mid-late game of Demon's Souls, though. If you don't have the miracle that cancels enemy magic in a radius around you or a powerful ranged weapon, it's a real doozy.
The main staircase instance I remember from Dark Souls is the Black Knight hiding at the top of a tower early on.
It doesn't force you onto stairway fights, but in both games, there's enemies with firebombs on top of staircases in the starting areas (after the tutorials).
In Demon's Souls, it's on the wooden staircases in 1-1, and in Dark Souls it's on the area to the right of the starting area towards where the Minotaur's area is. Firelink Shrine.
The games are trying to teach you how to clear a path efficiently when under pressure. In these cases, you can kite enemies out of firebomb range and deal with them, or even just push through as they come, using whatever obstacles you can find to protect you.
In Demon's Souls you have a couple of firebombs at that point if you got lucky (there's five of them earlier, but you'll probably want to save them for Phalanx anyway).
You don't actually have anything to fight the one in Dark Souls with unless you started with a ranged weapon.
It is possible to get past them- I've done it before, and I did it in Demon's Souls today- but it's fucking annoying.
Although it's not as bad as the fight with the Black Phantom on the staircase in World 4 in Demon's Souls. Fuck that fight, man.
You can do both stair sections with a pure close combat approach. It just depends on making your push forward coincide with the gap between the firebombs. Particularly in Demon's Souls, if you get in the face of the dregling under the firebomb guy, you can't get hit by the bombs. Then there's the issue of the dregling dealing burst fire damage, but you can block that and then respond.
You can also roll past the firebombs.
It's just a pain in the ass because you're in a narrow corridor you can fall off, trying to rush past a damage type you probably don't resist at that point in the game. It's even worse in Dark Souls, where you can take significant fall damage if you fall from the top, and there's other melee enemies at the top of the staircase.
It's not that hard to get past. Just a pain in the ass, as I said.
In Dark Souls, I usually hug the cliff as I advance (at good speed). When I come to the firebomb guy, I actually ignore him and run past the stairs, taking out the axe-wielding hollow before kiting the staircase one down. Once they're down, I pop out from the corner and nail the firebomber. None of the enemies before the firebomber are difficult, either, so it's pretty easy and quick with that strategy.
I just sprint past everyone and make it to the enclosed thingie and run past. The risk is that you can still be hit by a firebomb, and it's easy to slip and accidentally run off the staircase.
Where did who post that Lucca's Theme A Capella again?
http://itjustbugsme.com/forums/discussion/comment/305531#Comment_305531
Oh no not that theme.
I always hated Lucca's theme. Even though Lucca is great.
Monster.
I listened to it, but all I can seem to hear in it is someone singing "nerd" a lot.
well fuck you eelektross maybe this will please your sensitive ears you jerk
GO TO VIDEO GAME MUSIC THREAD BECAUSE AWESOME THERE
Better.
Speak for yourself, man.
Lalallalalalallalala.
Je suis random task guy for conference on Presency and Agency, mainly to get inspiration for end-of-semester essay without having to pay the ridiculous attendance fees(and also free lunch). It's an overload of classical scholars so far, but it has restored my faith in how far you can get with Butler-style terminology-dumping. Ridiculous how bad scholars are with IT equipment.
Also, middle-aged women apparently find putting your nametag on your beanie to be adorable.
Anyhow, am organizing a Werewolf game(the Mafia rip-off, not the tabletop stuff) tonight with lots of tealights for an improved atmosphere, so if I'm not posting anymore I probably have gone up in flames.
Looking at the hard-partying photos of a friend on Facebook makes me think this: While I wouldn't enjoy this lifestyle, I know too little of it to be able to be able to pretend to enjoy it in front of other people.
As you all should well know, pretending to enjoy something is a very useful way of getting someone to think you're "one of them", as opposed to a person who's some social distance away.
IJBM: Stringing a ribbon through a wreath made of chainmaille is really hard.
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