TrynantManiac BrawlerRank 20.100 and full WildRegistered Userregular
edited October 2010
Bad news time!
You know how sometimes a hard drive will throw a formatting error for whatever reason?
Yeah, well I got back from vacation to find the hard drive with all my videos having this error, leaving me with a much smaller drive that won't be able to handle the next set. Mr. Computer needs to go to the disk recovery people now.
TrynantManiac BrawlerRank 20.100 and full WildRegistered Userregular
edited October 2010
Bad news and good news.
Good news, my hard drive is working again so I can record more Demon's Souls.
The bad news is my hard drive had to be reformatted to do so and I lost all my raw footage. This means I cannot go back and redo the sound for my old videos. Oh well.
Expect an update later this week or early next week.
So what's the deal with Astraea and Garl Vinland? That sounds like an interesting story behind all that.
I think it's that Astraea and Vinland went into the colorless fog and into the valley of defilement and were so dismayed by how crappy the place was that they fell into darkness? Astraea wanted to save the wretched souls and ended up as a demon because of it?
I really didn't clarify to well in that last set and I'm really regretting that
So what's the deal with Astraea and Garl Vinland? That sounds like an interesting story behind all that.
I think it's that Astraea and Vinland went into the colorless fog and into the valley of defilement and were so dismayed by how crappy the place was that they fell into darkness? Astraea wanted to save the wretched souls and ended up as a demon because of it?
I really didn't clarify to well in that last set and I'm really regretting that
I asked this over on SA, and this is what was said:
"I think someone posted about this earlier, but the basic gist of it is that world 5 used to be where all the poor and generally unwanted people were sent, thus the makeshift houses and such. What's more, people also abandoned unwanted babies there and left them to die (thus making your blood pool baby monsters that love killing you). Ms. Astraea wanted to help the people of the area so she buddied up with bird armor man and headed over. She was so horrified at the terrible conditions there that she cursed whatever god/creator/thing would let this happen and became a demon because of it to get more power to help the people there, and they all praised her for it. That's why you can see depraved ones all around that area bowing to her and ignoring you (mostly)."
so fucking nasty
In gameplay news... is Firestorm worth picking up even if I'm not much of a caster? My guy is mostly dexterity based--a Sharp Kilij being my goto weapon. Also related to a dex build, what's a good sink for my Colorless souls?
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In gameplay news... is Firestorm worth picking up even if I'm not much of a caster? My guy is mostly dexterity based--a Sharp Kilij being my goto weapon. Also related to a dex build, what's a good sink for my Colorless souls?
Firestorm is awesome because it will wreck bosses, including Maneater. As for dex builds, while I'm not familiar with the build myself I did a little looking and it seems Hitless is a good weapon to put colorless souls into, although a +5 Sharp Uchigatana is your weapon of choice.
EDIT: I wanted to put up the next set today but it took all day just to convert the damn videos, I can have them up tomorrow though.
I recently started playing and was wondering about when to use two handed mode versus one handed.
Does it depend on the enemy or more so on what you feel comfortable with?
If it matters, I'm playing a priest and temple knight, until I pick one of them.
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I recently started playing and was wondering about when to use two handed mode versus one handed.
Does it depend on the enemy or more so on what you feel comfortable with?
If it matters, I'm playing a priest and temple knight, until I pick one of them.
While some enemies you'll want to be blocking and some enemies you'll just want to smash, it's really more of a preference thing from what I've played. It's nice to have the defense and all with shield, but really most of what you can do with a shield can be done with dodging, and most PvP'ers love to go two-handed (or dual-wielding).
EDIT: Also the next set will be up in like half an hour yay.
TrynantManiac BrawlerRank 20.100 and full WildRegistered Userregular
edited November 2010
The next set is up and ready! I put in a "long" intro vid in Part 1 (much shorter than set nine's but still ~30 seconds). Let me know if you prefer this or something shorter.
And yeah, 1-2 at soul level 60 with four archdemons dead, total cakewalk.
EDIT: Since the ending is near and there's no more levels to vote on, maybe it's time to vote on a good or bad ending!
Remember, this LP may very well go into New Game +, and the different endings give different rewards.
I was going to head-cleave him, but that part of him was in a corner soooooo....
Just an update for you all. I finished 1-3; I'm pleased with the run since I got to show off the level and some online stuff. I don't know how fast I can get it posted, however, due to Thanksgiving craziness. The set may very well have to wait until next week.
As a reminder, I'm going to be taking votes on what ending you want me to do: the good or evil one. I'll be taking votes until the set 16 up (1-4).
Also, anybody got a good name for a set based around 1-3? I'm kinda stumped....
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edited November 2010
Wait a sec... isn't that the same pic that I posted when I [strike]tricked you into watching[/strike] "found out that you had decided to, completely of your own free will, watch" my lp?
WHAT?! You can bypass the Tower Knight?!
The reason I stopped playing was because I couldn't beat him!
I died hundreds of times and just altogether shelved the game.
WHAT?! You can bypass the Tower Knight?!
The reason I stopped playing was because I couldn't beat him!
I died hundreds of times and just altogether shelved the game.
Time to give it a go again
If you are inferring that you can skip the tower knight boss ~ you cannot. You can, however, dash past him and deal with the crossbowmen to make the fight manageable.
As the title of the thread now says, the end of the game is coming up, so I want votes.
Good ending or bad ending?
If you've played the game, you know what I mean. If you haven't, it means I get one of two endings and a different soul (and possibly an item) depending on how I end the game.
Thanks to this LP, I got Demon's Souls a few weeks ago, and just beat it yesterday. Such a fun game. Except Flamelurker. Fuck Flamelurker(that was where I learned just how debilitating it is to wear heavy armor).
I gotta say, I really am surprised at how little PvP you've encountered. On the rare occasions when I wasn't in Soul form, I could literally not go a minute into a level without being invaded. Which generally meant I was going to be re-equipping the Cling Ring in a few more minutes, given my terrible gear and below-par PvP skills.
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edited November 2010
Blame the lack of invasions (I wish there were more to be honest) on my horrible firewall that seems to hate being messed with and hates Demon's Souls even more. I'm so glad I got an invasion in 1-3. That made my day.
I don't have a vote on when you do PBWT. I just wanted to say thanks for doing this LP. Before I watched you play, I had only progressed through 1-1 at a snail's pace, worried that any shadow would jump out and kill me. Watching your first video showed me just how Wrong I was Doing It.
I have a question that's been nagging at me for a while. Did you ever pick up the Dragon Long Sword +1 in 2-2? I know that the Dragon upgrade is said not to scale well past NG (I wouldn't know) but it has been extremely dominant in NG.
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I don't have a vote on when you do PBWT. I just wanted to say thanks for doing this LP. Before I watched you play, I had only progressed through 1-1 at a snail's pace, worried that any shadow would jump out and kill me. Watching your first video showed me just how Wrong I was Doing It.
I have a question that's been nagging at me for a while. Did you ever pick up the Dragon Long Sword +1 in 2-2? I know that the Dragon upgrade is said not to scale well past NG (I wouldn't know) but it has been extremely dominant in NG.
Strangely enough I don't think I ever picked up that long sword. It seems I always forget a few things in my sets
Dragon weapons are great on the first playthrough especially at early levels, but later on weapon upgrades that scale with stats are much more important. Basically higher level = better stats = weapons with stat bonuses (something Dragon weapons do not have) become better.
Well I think I might go do Pure Black World Tendency stuff first just so I can spend any extra souls I get on levels.
The next batch of videos will take a little bit. I have some school stuff I really need to get done today, but after that I probably can get to recording.
So what's the deal with Astraea and Garl Vinland? That sounds like an interesting story behind all that.
I remember in the SA LP for this game there was the theory that Astraea and Vinland were...intimate, she got pregnant, and then had an abortion (which cursed her to become a demon and why she was trying to save all the damned souls, as penance or something). This explains all the creepy baby imagery in the level and generally just make sense so is the explanation I use
I hadn't heard anything like that. From what I've seen in the lore that area is where abortions and stillbirths are dumped, hence the baby imagery. Astraea became a demon because it gave her the strength to help those who needed it, and because she rejected her god for allowing such circumstances to happen.
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You know how sometimes a hard drive will throw a formatting error for whatever reason?
Yeah, well I got back from vacation to find the hard drive with all my videos having this error, leaving me with a much smaller drive that won't be able to handle the next set. Mr. Computer needs to go to the disk recovery people now.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
Good news, my hard drive is working again so I can record more Demon's Souls.
The bad news is my hard drive had to be reformatted to do so and I lost all my raw footage. This means I cannot go back and redo the sound for my old videos. Oh well.
Expect an update later this week or early next week.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
Aside from that, a new batch of videos up for your viewing pleasure!
Set 9: Demons Don't Fear the Reaper
Part 1
Part 2 (BP run below)
Part 3 (Boss)
Blue Phantom Run
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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Set 10: Precious Demon Soul
The Fight
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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I LOL'd
I think it's that Astraea and Vinland went into the colorless fog and into the valley of defilement and were so dismayed by how crappy the place was that they fell into darkness? Astraea wanted to save the wretched souls and ended up as a demon because of it?
I really didn't clarify to well in that last set and I'm really regretting that
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
I asked this over on SA, and this is what was said:
"I think someone posted about this earlier, but the basic gist of it is that world 5 used to be where all the poor and generally unwanted people were sent, thus the makeshift houses and such. What's more, people also abandoned unwanted babies there and left them to die (thus making your blood pool baby monsters that love killing you). Ms. Astraea wanted to help the people of the area so she buddied up with bird armor man and headed over. She was so horrified at the terrible conditions there that she cursed whatever god/creator/thing would let this happen and became a demon because of it to get more power to help the people there, and they all praised her for it. That's why you can see depraved ones all around that area bowing to her and ignoring you (mostly)."
so fucking nasty
In gameplay news... is Firestorm worth picking up even if I'm not much of a caster? My guy is mostly dexterity based--a Sharp Kilij being my goto weapon. Also related to a dex build, what's a good sink for my Colorless souls?
Firestorm is awesome because it will wreck bosses, including Maneater. As for dex builds, while I'm not familiar with the build myself I did a little looking and it seems Hitless is a good weapon to put colorless souls into, although a +5 Sharp Uchigatana is your weapon of choice.
EDIT: I wanted to put up the next set today but it took all day just to convert the damn videos, I can have them up tomorrow though.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
Here's the set for 3-2. Maneater dies, blue phantoms arise, fun times all around.
Tell me what you think of the shorter intro; I've gotten complaints that the last set's one was too long, so I decided for brevity in this case.
Set 11: Heart and Soul
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4 (Boss)
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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Does it depend on the enemy or more so on what you feel comfortable with?
If it matters, I'm playing a priest and temple knight, until I pick one of them.
PSN: ShinyRedKnight Xbox Live: ShinyRedKnight
While some enemies you'll want to be blocking and some enemies you'll just want to smash, it's really more of a preference thing from what I've played. It's nice to have the defense and all with shield, but really most of what you can do with a shield can be done with dodging, and most PvP'ers love to go two-handed (or dual-wielding).
EDIT: Also the next set will be up in like half an hour yay.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
PSN: ShinyRedKnight Xbox Live: ShinyRedKnight
Set 12: Gloom and Misery Everywhere
The Boss
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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Set 13: Just Plain Mean
Boss
Bonus Round!
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And yeah, 1-2 at soul level 60 with four archdemons dead, total cakewalk.
EDIT: Since the ending is near and there's no more levels to vote on, maybe it's time to vote on a good or bad ending!
Remember, this LP may very well go into New Game +, and the different endings give different rewards.
Set 14: Easy, Easy, Easy
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3 (Boss)
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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No month and a half delay tho.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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I was going to head-cleave him, but that part of him was in a corner soooooo....
Just an update for you all. I finished 1-3; I'm pleased with the run since I got to show off the level and some online stuff. I don't know how fast I can get it posted, however, due to Thanksgiving craziness. The set may very well have to wait until next week.
As a reminder, I'm going to be taking votes on what ending you want me to do: the good or evil one. I'll be taking votes until the set 16 up (1-4).
Also, anybody got a good name for a set based around 1-3? I'm kinda stumped....
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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Thanks, JERK
Enjoy the first level!
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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THIEF!
J'accuse!
That's what the Tower Knight gets for trying to protect his head.
And Rent I don't know what you're talking about. This is a totally original thing that I have done that no one else has done before.
Ever.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
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The reason I stopped playing was because I couldn't beat him!
I died hundreds of times and just altogether shelved the game.
Time to give it a go again
If you are inferring that you can skip the tower knight boss ~ you cannot. You can, however, dash past him and deal with the crossbowmen to make the fight manageable.
Playing 2-1 or 3-1 and coming back to him later
Set 15: Minister, Invader, Penetrator
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
As the title of the thread now says, the end of the game is coming up, so I want votes.
Good ending or bad ending?
If you've played the game, you know what I mean. If you haven't, it means I get one of two endings and a different soul (and possibly an item) depending on how I end the game.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
I gotta say, I really am surprised at how little PvP you've encountered. On the rare occasions when I wasn't in Soul form, I could literally not go a minute into a level without being invaded. Which generally meant I was going to be re-equipping the Cling Ring in a few more minutes, given my terrible gear and below-par PvP skills.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
I have a question that's been nagging at me for a while. Did you ever pick up the Dragon Long Sword +1 in 2-2? I know that the Dragon upgrade is said not to scale well past NG (I wouldn't know) but it has been extremely dominant in NG.
Strangely enough I don't think I ever picked up that long sword. It seems I always forget a few things in my sets
Dragon weapons are great on the first playthrough especially at early levels, but later on weapon upgrades that scale with stats are much more important. Basically higher level = better stats = weapons with stat bonuses (something Dragon weapons do not have) become better.
Well I think I might go do Pure Black World Tendency stuff first just so I can spend any extra souls I get on levels.
The next batch of videos will take a little bit. I have some school stuff I really need to get done today, but after that I probably can get to recording.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
I will try to get the videos up sometime this weekend, but I cannot make any guarantees.
Aces Wild is a pretty stellar game.
Blog, Playing Rules; Let's Play Demon's Souls; My Backlog
I remember in the SA LP for this game there was the theory that Astraea and Vinland were...intimate, she got pregnant, and then had an abortion (which cursed her to become a demon and why she was trying to save all the damned souls, as penance or something). This explains all the creepy baby imagery in the level and generally just make sense so is the explanation I use