Be Excellent To Each Other

This is where I draw the line. Teaser trailers = ok. Lengthy gameplay vids = no tar. You can't undo what your eyes have seen.

Yeah, I'm out too. Dunna wanna see anything. They've got my money.

Started playing this yesterday after buying it on the steam sales. It's kinda bizarre, isn't it?

It had the low profile look of an European game, and also the understated simplicity of one. Yet it has all the meta-gaming craziness of a Japanese game.

I wasn't getting along with it until i changed to kb+m controls. What's with all the critics saying that some games don't play well with it?
Same happened to me with the new XCOM.

Anyways, i killed the shopkeeper by accident, and i don't know how screwed i am.

You're not talking about Dark Souls 2, right?

Assuming you're talking about DS1,

Yeah he means 1 which was down to a fiver in the steam sales - Dark Souls 1 thread is here :
http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/f ... f=3&t=7813

[Dark Souls]

Well, it's kind of a bummer because i usually favor bows in combat.

Sorry for the out of context posts, i will keep posting on the DS1 forum.

Closed Beta coming to PS3 in October :

https://www.shacknews.com/article/80794 ... is-october

Also interview with Yui Tanimura talking about what will change and what will stay the same for Dark Souls II

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/dark_ ... -same.aspx

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK IS THIS?

IN.

IT IS PURCHASED BUT WON'T DOWNLOAD.

Maybe I'm registered. HNNNGH. I'll try later. And by later I mean every 5 minutes until it bloody well works.

You do know what the word 'closed' means don't you?

Still less annoying that Dark Souls 1.

It's where you register for the closed beta to keep the likes of you out.

So you are registered? Or aren't you? You don't seem very sure, which isn't a good sign.

It's a way of spoiling the surprise!

I'm just going to wait. And play Demon Souls

But what if it's stuff that won't make the actual game - and you haven't registered and miss out!? I'm going to register (if I can) just in case.

There should be more Demon's Soul talk though! I'm bloody stuck on my +1 play through getting smashed in all levels! No, hang on, I eventually finished the dungeon level but I'm making zero progress elsewhere. I forget what order the levels were meant to be attempted apart from the dungeon one was best tackled first.

I don't remember finding the +1 play much harder than the initial one.

Aside from the skelington basts in world 4, although that may have been +2.

It certainly seems much harder or maybe it's because I haven't played it in a wee while. What order do you tackle the worlds?

With my character & game situation, the following order was probably the easiest:
1-1.
2-1, 2-2, 2-3
4-1 (Utilising the short cut, else it would be right at the end)
1-2
3-1,3-2,3-3
1-3,1-4
5-1,5-2,5-3
4-2,4-3.

The order is somewhat explained by all worlds being pure white tendency bar world 4 which was pure black. Also, possiblly, why I found it easier.

I've got neutral WT and I'm lumbering about in full on Tank Mode. I'm struggling to get to fire face on world 2, even a sodding miner killed me earlier, and I'm still a bit bloody confused by the stats. I never did 'get' that about Dark Souls. I just swapped the weapons around until I got the weapon that hit the hardest by endless selection rather than a considered choice.

Heavy armour didnt really work so well - Nothing quite as effective as havels ring.

Needed a fair range of weappns as there wasn't a weappn that worked for all situations.

IS AT EUROGAMER EXPO! I'm going to play you, Dark Souls 2!

No, Dark Souls 2 is going to play you.

The queue is INSANE. Looks terrific though!

GAME OF THE SHOW! It looked FABUTASTICAL!

HELLS MUTHACOOKING YEAH!

LET ME LOG IN YOU SPAZZ'ZIES'ZIES'ZIEZZZZZ

You are not going to be able to play it at the cottage anyway!

About 45 minutes later...

I've got a Beta voucher! Yay! This is going to ROCK!

Couldn't be happier!

Oh, for fucks sake...

That's the last time I get excited about anything and post pictures.

Just wait.

Erm... apparently the beta doesn't start till tomorrow. Tch.

Man alive, now it's saying i need to download an update but I can't figure out how and it's not doing it automatically. Worst. Beta. Ever.

Beta late than never

I haven't been able to get on all weekend. Nor now. Don't they know I love Dark Souls the mostest?

EG have an article about it today as one of their most anticipated games of 2014: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... rk-souls-2

I can't let them get away with the line "possibly the most polished combat system in gaming today" (talking about Dark Souls 1), though - are they serious?

Why, what was wrong with it besides cheapy-cheapy-backstabbing-cuntery?

It was alright, but it was hardly sophisticated. I much prefer the fights in Sleeping Dogs.

The article said polished. It ain't like Street Fighter 3: Third Strike but there's a strange quality about it that's more like fencing with an opponent rather than wading in, breaking their nose, snapping their leg and performing a QTE finisher. It's more about waiting for an opening, timing your strikes, keeping your guard up and perfect timing a parry like Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.

I got very bored of facing Skellingtons and the like where you just sit there until they do a stupid attack, and then smack them one.

So much of it was tediously waiting for the right point in their pattern to hit them.

That's what I said. Without using the word tediously.

You should try it. Teeeediousleeeeee.

Teeeediousweeeeee!

Only 2-odd months till it's oot, people who like games! Now with added easy mode for big girl's blouses. Actually I haven't heard much about that at all thinking about it, so maybe not. But maybe yes. But not. But yes! Or not.

It's the best one I can think of.

I still haven't finished the first. Haven't played it in months, in fact. I've reached the bit

and it's just getting ridiculously hard.