/dsg/ Demon's/Dark Souls General

>You were Consumed by the Abyss:
>DLC Trailer
youtube.com/watch?v=Ic4EHyRm_Tw

>Character Planner
mugenmonkey.com/

>DARK SOULS 3
docs.google.com/document/d/1u8Mak1goSv4g73g16XsWV4sJelDQUatWkP2kcO6GVAA/pub

>DARK SOULS 2
pastebin.com/CAx8Yc8v

>DARK SOULS
pastebin.com/eNY3su63

>DEMON'S SOULS
pastebin.com/RjpF5s7a

>BLOODBORNE
pastebin.com/WdLBWD8n

>KING'S FIELD
pastebin.com/G8zw0sc3

>Community & Fanart
pastebin.com/vVWz9pJm

First

furst for nippon

>last game in the series
>filled to the brim with shitty references
>massive amounts of on-disc cut content that will sold as DLC
>no dynamic lighting system when even basic indie games have them
>rehashed areas
>rehashed NPCs
>rehashed animations
>invasions sucks
>Heavy armor sucks
>armor sets don't even fit properly
>brown and grey
>shit AI
>Armor variety is less than DS2 BASE game, despite copypasting a 3rd of the armors from previous games
>Magic needs 2-3 ring slots just to dish out melee level damage
>awful scaling balance
>FP horribly ineffiecent with damage, ends up causing everyone to use 1 or 2 FP efficient spell like Great Heavy Soul Arrow
>Miracles awful, best and most viable one LOCKED BEHIND THE FINAL BOSS
>awful covenants
>left hand weapons no longer have full movesets
>dual wield weapons are gimmicks
>Straight Swords and Curved Sword are as fast as daggers
>Great Weapons are slower than previous games, and costs more stamina, while barely doing more damage
>1-2 Weapons ALWAYS the best in class, no redeeming qualitys for quirky weapons. In the end less weapon variety than BB
>No animation canceling
>No backstep i-frames
>rolls have too much i-frames and cost too little stamina
>bloodborne enemies catered to R1 spam from ss and cs
>hexes gone and dark magic is shit
>shittiest dragon form
>refined/hollow completely dominates
>pyromancy is the quality of casters
>19 bosses, a good chunk being gimmicks
>linear level design, less branching options than DeS, DS2, and even BB

>b-but the DLC will save it!
lmfao

Fuck off, fyre

How do we fix MLGS?

How's this for a Dex/Faith build? The Vit allows me to use a Lothric Sword alongside the matching helmet when I want to.

>dex/faith

gosh you're cute

>Dex Faith

user can I take you home with me

That reminds me of the teleporting bowblade visceral attack kek

Assuming this is the 3 version:

Remove physical damage and scaling.
Increase magic base damage by 20 and give it A/S INT scaling.
Make the R2 beams appear from regular R2s and not just charged ones.
Fix beam tracking when locked-on (along with those of the Greatsword of Judgements)
Make the MLGS beams have a small AoE impact like in 1 and 2 to make them not exactly the same as the GSoJ beams.
Lower the start-up of HA frames of 2HR1 attacks so they don't just start as the blade swings down. At the same time give basic 1HR1s very narrow HA frames at the beginning of their swings (these changes should apply to all greatswords save Hollowslayer/Drakeblood 2HR1s)
Have the WA stab be unparryable to make it used more.

There, I just made it top-tier.

Fashion time.

Oh and I forgot a very important thing, don't have the beams dissipate after only a few feet while they're already slow because holy shit why would you fuck over your iconic weapon this much?

Dex is completely useless when you can use the Raw ASS with a lightning infusion. Throw those points in attunement, vit or end

can't find a good samurai edgelord armor.

Did Lorian and Lothric do anything other than fuck?

>second game in the series
>filled to the brim with shitty references
>massive amounts of on-disc cut content that will sold as DLC
>no dynamic lighting system when even basic indie games have them, had to wait until SOTFS to fix it
>need 4 lord souls to get over a pile of rubble
>boring NPCs
>broken animations
>no red eye orb
>adaptability tied to i-frames
>soul memory
>repeating textures
>literally cheating AI
>Armor all looks like plastic
>Hexes require souls to use, inflating soul memory
>the largest collection of the worst bosses in the series
>one of the worst bosses of all time is immediately after a lazy O&S re skin and is THE FINAL BOSS
>awful covenants
>rolling makes you go 2 feet
>can’t slowly turn in a quarter circle, cardinal directions only, worst control of the series
>lava level in the sky
>raped the lore and added stupid bullshit like “golems”
>charged full price for a “complete edition” that separates half the players
>frame rate breaks weapons faster
>caters to casuals and wannabe hardcore gaymurs with “WELCOME TO DARK SOULS YOU DIED” epic achievements XD
>hexes gone and dark magic are over powered
>worst soundtrack of the series
>soul memory prevents further playthroughs unless you devote a ring slot to fix a horribly broken mechanic

lmfao

>Dark Souls 3 babies need to steal a copypasta for their argument

Lmao

of course not

>implying that somehow invalidates the points made

don't forget
>bearer seek seek lest

fucking dumb, annoying bitch

Yet that list is half the size, and mostly comprised of fixed issues and subjective opinions, while the DS3 one has some subjective and mostly technical issues still present.

In any case DS2 being bad doesn't justify DS3's present existence.

Stay mad.

any pics?

>half the size

LOL Das2 babies can't count, how surprising.

>mostly comprised of fixed issues and subjective opinions

oh really? they fixed soul memory, the worst bosses, worst soundtrack, and shitty controls?

>while the DS3 one has some subjective

try mostly

stay mad Das2 baby

Man, I am getting bored of Soulslikes.

Should I download MM9 and 10?

I'd love to see ciaran and gough's armor in the dlc

I'd love to see Ciaran getting fucked hard by those oolacile monsters!

i actually agree. also, i've seen an image of ciaran getting fucked by sif but it's censored with a chibi face and i could never find the uncensored version

>last game in the series

Next setting/theme for the next Soulslike, what would you want?

>Arabian (genies and shit)
>Western
>Sci-fi
>Nautical

>Nautical
Fuck, I want that now.

Anything as long as it's PS4 exclusive oh my god please

>wanting exclusivity

why? what happened to gamers that we want to continue alienating each other?

Better quality, probably. Bandai Namco a shit

i'd rather be able to play it on any platform i want, it's not like there's been a bad souls game

also, god fucking forbid we need anymore "never ever" fuel

Western

>riding horses
>fanning a six shooter
>revolvers are catalysts for spells
>scalping other players for covenant rewards
>fighting skin walkers
>tomahawk duels

Man I hate to say it, but it's insane how much better put together BB is than DaS3.

Game's tiny, but it's so hard to tell with how labyrinthine the areas are. And everything just looks and sounds so good.

>it's not like there's been a bad souls game

it's a diamond next to an opal, both are great

>spells are some native american voodoo shit

that'd be neat

every souls game has been amazing and are better than most all other games. i'm happy to have been alive in the age of Souls

I'm given to agree but I can't help but wish they'd just've given Miyazaki exclusive direction of DaS3.

>*Even if you no longer have a weapon of the max level you managed to upgrade, the game "remembers" what is the max upgraded level you had.
This isn't true is it? Even if I box my +10 I'll still be matched against higher weapon memory people?

>i'd rather be able to play it on any platform i want, it's not like there's been a bad souls game
>also, god fucking forbid we need anymore "never ever" fuel

Thinly veiled post by a 12-year-old mustard whose first Souls game was DaS2 on PC.

that's a given, M is clearly a genius. I'm surprised they allowed yui to have as much control as he did after 2. though, from what i've heard he salvaged a lot of it

>This isn't true is it? Even if I box my +10 I'll still be matched against higher weapon memory people?

Yes, weapon memory is permanent and attached to the character once you upgrade it no matter what you do unless you reload a save back-up from before it happened. Or CE I guess, I'm not sure how to do it with that though.

thank you so much for that quality, non-instigating post

DaS2, in Yui's grudging defense, did put forth some interesting gameplay mechanics.

I assume any or most of DaS3's problems stem from the involvement of the third guy, whoever he is.

you'd think they'd learn about avoiding too many cooks in the kitchen after Das2

that hair makes you look like a whore

What other weapons have effective backstep R1s? I can only think of Katanas, Curved Swords, and Glaives count too, I guess.

Japan's video game industry as a whole seems to be suffering a lot lately. I'm thinking of jumping ship when I can afford an X1.

uh

i wouldn't go that far, but whatever floats your boat

A what?

Xbone

PSN seems to be a bad deal lately. Not many good sales, the whole renting PS3 games thing is just highway robbery, and after being down for a day I got a mandatory password reset, telling me they're still struggling with security. Sony facefucked Bethesda's console mods plan and as far as I'm aware hasn't made any effort to work with them on it. And BF4s PSN servers, as far as I can tell, are just pure shit.

I mean, props to them for trying to evolve or whatever, but I don't give a fuck about Vue, Music, Now, or Sony-excluvive TV shows like it's another baby Netflix. All I want is solid video game support.

>native american
>voodoo

user

>Replacing a dead platform with a dead and rotten platform
Why, why even consoles at all

i mean, i would suggest a pc if you have the money for it

I don't. I only even have the PS4 because a friend bought it for me.

>Friend buying you a current gen console
Do you at least feel bad?

ah. well i'd stick with the ps4 then, if any exclusive does come up you won't be fucked out of it

Extremely. He bought it so I could help with BB, heh. It took him two weeks of prodding for me to finally accept it.

Well it isn't like I'm selling the thing. I just ain't buying the 4.5 or whatever, that's for damn sure.

how would this build even play out? where does the damage come from? are the daggers lightning/blessing infused?

>tfw using the RHH/Astora Greatsword build

It's like using the greatshield/estoc thing again, only better

Raw Daggers probably
>60 Faith DMB

Dropped DaS2 before any of the DLCs hit and was thinking of picking it up again.
Is SotFS worth getting? Heard some conflicting things about the changes it made.

SotFS is what DaS2 should have been at launch. It improves basically everything and you get the DLC's for free anyways.

The only reason not to get SotFS is if you don't have a DX11 card for your PC or if you don't have a PS4 or X-Bone.

>Get summoned to random FC
>Watch some CB sprinter fight a poor Zwei user
>CB fucks up a lot and takes some hits, both are really low
>CB gets in one more running attack putting them both to pixel health
>Expect him to pull out a uchi since his next attack will kill him
>throws knifes
>~20 of them
Eventually gets poor UGS man
>He claps
>Points down
>Gets hit by my throwing knife and dies
Did i do good /dsg/?

Yep.
The Zwei user didn't though.

wo yaddup

Doing God's work.

>claps
>points down
Kat fags are some of the biggest pieces of shit I've run into in these games.

How did the iron keep became the brume tower?

>watching friend fight Gwyn for the first time
>50vigor, chaos infused Winged Spear with base requirements
>dies twice
>puts on full Havel's, brings 20 estus +3
>literally spams parry, doesn't even wait for an attack
>Gwyn barely does damage to him
>even the grab attack does only about 15% of his hp
>every time he gets the riposte he chugs back to full
>continues until Gwyn's dead, didn't even move

Has to be the most retarded thing I've ever seeb but goddamn it was hilarious

Whats the best SL for low level invasions? I don't want to be tied to one location

>20 estus
I forgot how casual DkS1 was. Even if you managed to run out of 20 estus you could still pop humanity.

Yup. I love you for it.

>20 estus +3
How the fuck do you go through the entire game and only get your Estus to +3?

I played through all of DkS3 with estus + 0 on my firtst run.
I had bone shards, just didn't check what they did and thought estus shards were all there was to upgrade Estus because apparently I suffer from ADHD.
All in all it added to the experience because I had to git gud against bosses.

>I had bone shards, just didn't check what they did
Didn't play DaS2, eh? Lucky.

What's the Faith softcap in DS1?

I did but it has been a while, I forgot what the estus upgrade items were. I actually thought "Burn undead bone shard" would have the effect of a bonfire ascetic in some way and that's why I didn't try it.
>Reading item descriptions

>finally adjusting to keyboard and mouse
I have awoken.

according to fextra life, the sellsword twinblades are better regular +10 than anything else. is this true?

...

Thats base damage, they dont account for scaling effects
Just go to mugen, type in your stats and see whats best

I feel like Souls games affect the most intrinsically hopeless and bleak atmosphere of any game I've ever played and its all in the details.

The fact that the player, who's being told constantly to link the flame, can hear first hand from a Lord of Cinder's night terror muelings that the actual act of linking the flame is horrific, unending agony.

It's genius. Absolute genius.

If fire has to be linked then who was first flame
who

It didn't. Brume tower is a completely separate area.

I'm definitely not good enough to take the Dancer at SL35.

Anyone up for helping me trade the item I want?

try using the Bandit's Knife with Rouge

that halberd's in your left hand isn't it?
por que?

The Serpents because they wanted the Dragons gone, they were jealous of their wings.

>Be Primordial Serpent
>Do primordial things
>Suddenly Dragons, serpents but with wings
>Be oudated species
>Be mad, create a flame that gives those wandering stupid bodies that are all over the place powers, make them believe to be gods (lol, idiots)
>Manipulate them into killing the dragons
>Take the powers of said bodies away again (the curse)
>Yfw they find a way to prolong the fire
>Turn it into a game with your bro, one tries to make them go on, one tries to make them kill the fire
>Winner gets a long nice tongue massage

Unfortunately I have no rouge.

Sorry, should have said. This'd be on PC. I'll pay 10 embers.

Two handing it and switching to the one handed moveset of the darkhand.

Nah, on a quality build they do only slightly better refined than sharp.

Where do you want the sign?
And whats the pass?

even without Rouge it's still very effective because she's weak to bleed and quicksteps allow you to be really aggressive

High Wall of Lothric

Password: cantgitgud

2long4me

I wan tthis to be canon