Be Excellent To Each Other

Really? Huh. Every day is a learning day.

You do all know about the sliding down ladders move?

Step on the ladder and hold down the B button.

Wheeeee!

What's "jump" and what buttons do i need to do jumping attacks with? I know that RB whilst falling is a "stick a sword through their brainspace". I've forgotten already.

Jump attacks are 'run + hit' I think.

Differs with what weapon you have equiped too.

Lovely, ta. I want to Dark Souls now.

So far, i've gotten a battle ax (95 damage) a reinforced club (97 damage), an Estoc (75 damage, a spear (80 damage) a shortsword (78 damage) and a broadsword (82 damage).

The spear is good to hide behind the shield and jaba t things (like Curio said) and the club, broadsword and battle axe are good in open spaces, whereas in corridors they hit the walls a lot. I've not tried the shortsword, yet, though. I kinda want aargh to be abit like a Roman legionary, and have him jab with the spear whilst hiding behind the shield and then switch to a shorter sword to finish things off. I might try that out tonight.

A ha!



Whilst I'm not fast and mobile, it could be a good idea. Maybe.

I thought jump was run and then tap the run button whilst running. So there.

Well whatevs...

I don't jump attack anyway!

So there!

Jump attack? I was talking about jumping. Oh, er, yeah, I'm not reading ... etc.

Ha!

You JUMPed right into that one!

Ho Ho!

Just like I jumped into your mum. I call it The Great Hollow.

That wasn't my Mum.

It was your Poppa.

Also: He really liked it.

Oh, good work.

When I finished with your Mother I pulled out my orange crayon and wrote "Gaping Dragon ahead".

Has anyone else seen these, the Dark Soul Diaries?

http://tap-repeatedly.com/category/feat ... s-diaries/

Writer summarises his journey through Dark Souls and his 1,259 deaths...tis rather good and very, very long.

Ooh, I quite like what little I'd just read. Quite clearly he gets the story. I might give this a read through at some point (or just the later bits).

If you read the comments / epilogue you'll see that the story he's recounting is one from a chap on YouTube called EpicStoryBro - it's not what he got from the game.

Good blog though - I read the whole thing last night.

Had a crack at the Hydra, died (need better shield / armour). Went back and ran for the ladder.

Got the the place where the Cat Covenant Guardians appear to try kill you. Slaughtered three on the bounce on my way to sign up with Superpussy and get her ring. Got summoned back and was completely smashed by a guy who had Havels sheild and crazy armour who had also summoned a Sun Knight guy to help him. These two were unbeatable in my current state so I legged it back down to Blighttown to have a go at the Spider Witch again (killing the Zombie dragon on the way).

THEN I got kicked out as I lost LIVE connection, so I just went to the bonfire at the bottom to save, ready for the next time.

I've started using my Claymore more (LOLZ) needs some TLC with a smith though to get it more smashy. I like that it has stabby and swing moves.

Spider Bitch dead (a few times actually as I left my summon sign and helped a couple more people out).

Found the Pyro woman at the bottom of Blighttown (she wasn't there on my first playthrough, there was a guy selling weapons though, who isn't there now for some reason).

Second bell rung now so I'm off to see the Snakies and get my ass to Anor Londo... AND THEN TO THE DLC!

*Performs nod gesture*

I fucking love this game.

The weapon seller guy is worth doing the forest covenant to trigger



Also he sells the washing pole.

Ugh, you clearly don't "get" the story.

Yeah, I seen all that on my first play through so I'm wanting to see stuff I missed this time round.

I look at the pictures!

Which has been quite significantly nerfed, by all accounts.

Harsh. It was indispensible when I was playing.

Cor, this is an ace read. This game kinda reminds me of Killer 7 where you finish the game and have to devour other peoples writings to find out what the hell it was really all about.

Glorious stuff. I'd love to start afresh now just so I can play it with the knowledge of the story and lore I've just gained from that blog so I can follow it up for myself like a Dark Souls detective.

It was by all accounts rather overpowered - basically 3 rings in one. Dont know as I never got it.

Poof

I don't think I ever had that either, Dave.

I just was awesome, like I am being again but moreso.

If only your disk hadn't shattered into a thousand crystal pieces when you completed it...

WAIT!

Mine did. Did you get the "bad" ending?

I'm guessing so. I'm aiming for a Happy Ending this time.

I didnt even know abiutbit on my first play. After that, I was unwilling to do the things required to get it.

I've seen both endings now but didn't really understand what was going on.

Did anyone give the big pot to Kaath instead of the snake dog near the shrine? I don't think I've ever met Kaath.

Neverheardofher.

Yes. You need to do that to get one of the covenants and the red eye orb.

Means losing out on chunk munching though.

Whereabouts is Kaath then, ghost town?

Ooh, really? That last spoiler wasn't really a spoiler by the way.

If anyone wants to try it they should take a peak inside.

Hmm, need to toughen up before getting stuck into Sen's Gaff.

Those Snake men were taking far too long to clobber last night.

Hydra dead, and the three cat things too. Can't believe the speed of my progress compared to the first play. Really liking the Claymore now, don't think I used my Halberd at all last night.

The claymore also got minorly nerfed. It used to be a bit better at keeping things stunned.

Well it's new to me so I don't know any different.

I love how you can smack a Spear hollow with it and get them to stagger back leaving themselves open.

I reversed hollowing and used a cracked red eye orb to invade. I got speared ti death. Awesome. I've not gotten any further yet apart from trying out the different weapons the merchant has. Apologies for my slow progress.

It's all progress.

I'm unimpressed with my short bow. But there we go. I'm liking my Estos sword (check spelling) and shield cimbo, although you have to be oatient as it uses a three thrust attack. Will go around wherei am a few more times then get more firebombs, kill the black knight, check that out and then kill the taurus demon. And buy the key to that area, too. It's a winderful game, even for half an hour.

Cheezo unlocked: Joined the Sunbros!

Didn't manage this on my first playthrough as I'd ramped up my Intelligence rather than Faith-a-faith-a-faith-ah, baby.

Had a crack at Sif and died due to my big fire spell being so slow to cast. Forgot how pouncy he was.