Doing a DS2 run (yes I am going through the games to try and slake my thirst for Elden Ring) I remembered why I never used great weapons in it.
The aiming sucks
What aiming?
The fact that focus/targeting does not determine where a great weapon will hit is a gameplay style I just cannot abide
certain weapons have certain tolerances
i like one-handed great axes with vertical swings as they can be manually aimed almost in a full circle
some of the vertical hit greatswords can't be manually aimed outside of about a 45 degree angle and they feel kinda shit to play
I don’t like the manual aim. I use the lock on to pick my targets in DS2 and my movement to get them in place and missing a shot because I was moving back and to the left feels really bad.
it's awkward to get used to, and you get occasional misinputs, but it's, ime, a huge benefit overall. you can play much more reactively and have a much, much better time dealing with multiple enemy encounters
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By end of a great sword playthrough I was completely accustomed to it, to the point I had to think hard to remember what you were talking about because I'd kinda internalised it unconsciously.
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Doing a DS2 run (yes I am going through the games to try and slake my thirst for Elden Ring) I remembered why I never used great weapons in it.
The aiming sucks
What aiming?
The fact that focus/targeting does not determine where a great weapon will hit is a gameplay style I just cannot abide
certain weapons have certain tolerances
i like one-handed great axes with vertical swings as they can be manually aimed almost in a full circle
some of the vertical hit greatswords can't be manually aimed outside of about a 45 degree angle and they feel kinda shit to play
I don’t like the manual aim. I use the lock on to pick my targets in DS2 and my movement to get them in place and missing a shot because I was moving back and to the left feels really bad.
it's awkward to get used to, and you get occasional misinputs, but it's, ime, a huge benefit overall. you can play much more reactively and have a much, much better time dealing with multiple enemy encounters
I don’t have a problem with multiple enemy encounters when not using something like the great club.
I’m kinda sad about it but the Estoc is serving me very well
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SOTFS is such a weird thing. The start of the shaded woods with the lion warriors was really good in the original, but then they decided to get rid of them in SOTFS and make it a really boring/easy area?
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SOTFS is such a weird thing. The start of the shaded woods with the lion warriors was really good in the original, but then they decided to get rid of them in SOTFS and make it a really boring/easy area?
Yeah some of the decisions were good.
Others were... not.
In general it just feels incredibly ganky, but it's the only version of Dark Souls I haven't completed (except the Prepare to Die version, which I will never finish) so I'm currently working my way through.
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I have fully completed the Prepare to Die Dark Souls (including all optional bosses), and SotFS excluding the multiplayer bosses, Darklurker, and the Ancient Dragon. I'm . . . god, where am I in Dark Souls 3? Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. Right. And if I can possibly fight off all the bosses in that, I will.
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I feel like this track doesn't get enough love. It's simple, but it might be my favorite in the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JH0EfTIKw
Doesn't quite sound like any other track in the series I can think of, but I think it hits the feel of the series better for me than any other track does.
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I feel like this track doesn't get enough love. It's simple, but it might be my favorite in the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JH0EfTIKw
Doesn't quite sound like any other track in the series I can think of, but I think it hits the feel of the series better for me than any other track does.
It is absolutely my favorite track in all the series.
Huh I finally picked up the demons souls ps5 remaster; it wasn’t a priority since I’d played the original but I went magic since I melee’d it the first time through; I’d heard magic was easy mode and I kinda just wanted to breeze through while seeing the ps5 improvements .. im completely flabbergasted by how easy it is Approaching the end; done a few primevals etc and I’ve died three times; once to the dragon god in the tutorial and twice to falling down holes I didn’t see.
This is awesome as my wife has always been interested by souls games but she’s terrible at video games and they’re too hard for her; going to tell her to play through this one and use magic
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Working my way through The Ringed City. Got myself summoned a few times for the demons boss. Every time, I did a plunging attack of the drop, and one time I hit the jackpot. Landed with a hit on one of their heads for an insta-stagger, then went right for the face stab.
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Forgot to go offline during my post Sulyvahn portion of this DS3 playthrough.
Got ganked by 3 Aldrich followers. Parry spammers all.
Know what just pisses off parry spammers more than anything? Firebombs and using seeds. Also, using a 1h axe, as apparently nobody knows how to deal with those.
Forgot to go offline during my post Sulyvahn portion of this DS3 playthrough.
Got ganked by 3 Aldrich followers. Parry spammers all.
Know what just pisses off parry spammers more than anything? Firebombs and using seeds. Also, using a 1h axe, as apparently nobody knows how to deal with those.
I won.
Now, when you say parry spammers, do you mean people spamming parry and hoping to get lucky or people who knew how to parry?
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edited August 2021
Speaking of Huntsman's Copse, friendly reminder that the Dark Souls movie came out last weekend:
Forgot to go offline during my post Sulyvahn portion of this DS3 playthrough.
Got ganked by 3 Aldrich followers. Parry spammers all.
Know what just pisses off parry spammers more than anything? Firebombs and using seeds. Also, using a 1h axe, as apparently nobody knows how to deal with those.
I won.
Now, when you say parry spammers, do you mean people spamming parry and hoping to get lucky or people who knew how to parry?
I’m thinking it was a mix of both.
I would move up and back and watch them swing for the fences with their off hands constantly.
I don’t expect the Aldrich gank troll teenagers to use some kind of skill tho tbh
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I basically expect nothing out of invaders except for them to take a few shots when your back is turned then hightail it into enemy infested sections of the level.
Forgot to go offline during my post Sulyvahn portion of this DS3 playthrough.
Got ganked by 3 Aldrich followers. Parry spammers all.
Know what just pisses off parry spammers more than anything? Firebombs and using seeds. Also, using a 1h axe, as apparently nobody knows how to deal with those.
I won.
Now, when you say parry spammers, do you mean people spamming parry and hoping to get lucky or people who knew how to parry?
I’m thinking it was a mix of both.
I would move up and back and watch them swing for the fences with their off hands constantly.
I don’t expect the Aldrich gank troll teenagers to use some kind of skill tho tbh
this should be super easy to backstab punish
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Forgot to go offline during my post Sulyvahn portion of this DS3 playthrough.
Got ganked by 3 Aldrich followers. Parry spammers all.
Know what just pisses off parry spammers more than anything? Firebombs and using seeds. Also, using a 1h axe, as apparently nobody knows how to deal with those.
I won.
Now, when you say parry spammers, do you mean people spamming parry and hoping to get lucky or people who knew how to parry?
I’m thinking it was a mix of both.
I would move up and back and watch them swing for the fences with their off hands constantly.
I don’t expect the Aldrich gank troll teenagers to use some kind of skill tho tbh
this should be super easy to backstab punish
It was.
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I play the Soulsborne games exclusively offline, because fuck anybody looking to shit on other people playing a game for fun.
Yeah, I miss the fun messages, but I miss absolutely nothing about people popping in with ultra-min-maxed builds exploiting imbalances just to fuck up my run. Hard pass.
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The weird thing for me is i never actually got invaded very much if at all. And mostly when i did i just fucked with them via disguises or popping a tree of giants seed.
I always like the idea of asymetric pvp ala dark souls, but in practice it's mostly crud (and sometimes very, very funny ambushes where you're all pretending to be pots)
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it's awkward to get used to, and you get occasional misinputs, but it's, ime, a huge benefit overall. you can play much more reactively and have a much, much better time dealing with multiple enemy encounters
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I don’t have a problem with multiple enemy encounters when not using something like the great club.
I’m kinda sad about it but the Estoc is serving me very well
Huntsmans Copse, at least aesthetically
Would have been a pretty evil video if released 10 years ago lol
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The Gutter when it's all lit up.
Then again, that last bit probably applies across the board to DS2.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Yeah DS2 (especially SOTFS) is just gankomatic.
I don't understand why they fixed the 3 archers next to the Sinners Rise bonfire but then added 12 billion samurai knights into Iron Keep.
Yeah some of the decisions were good.
Others were... not.
In general it just feels incredibly ganky, but it's the only version of Dark Souls I haven't completed (except the Prepare to Die version, which I will never finish) so I'm currently working my way through.
Quality content
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Skip the first 2:45, ads and stuff, explanation starts after that
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Huh I never attempted to parry any of these
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Doesn't quite sound like any other track in the series I can think of, but I think it hits the feel of the series better for me than any other track does.
Me watching anyone play the game at all.
It is absolutely my favorite track in all the series.
To be honest when Iron Tarkus went in I was expecting the monster to explode or something.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
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This is awesome as my wife has always been interested by souls games but she’s terrible at video games and they’re too hard for her; going to tell her to play through this one and use magic
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I never noticed how insanely detailed they animated Gwynevere lol
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Got ganked by 3 Aldrich followers. Parry spammers all.
Know what just pisses off parry spammers more than anything? Firebombs and using seeds. Also, using a 1h axe, as apparently nobody knows how to deal with those.
I won.
Now, when you say parry spammers, do you mean people spamming parry and hoping to get lucky or people who knew how to parry?
(not really, but it may as well be.)
The entire segment in The Green Chapel, especially:
I’m thinking it was a mix of both.
I would move up and back and watch them swing for the fences with their off hands constantly.
I don’t expect the Aldrich gank troll teenagers to use some kind of skill tho tbh
It’s so awful.
It was.
Yeah, I miss the fun messages, but I miss absolutely nothing about people popping in with ultra-min-maxed builds exploiting imbalances just to fuck up my run. Hard pass.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I always like the idea of asymetric pvp ala dark souls, but in practice it's mostly crud (and sometimes very, very funny ambushes where you're all pretending to be pots)
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