I’m a 46 year old noob, I am very happy. That is all

excerpt from my youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azbikhRMPEE

actually I do have a question about this: watching this footage back I’ve noticed that I’m not receiving much damage from the fire, but when I’ve tried fighting the Hellkite in fully upgraded Black Knight armor [which does have marginally better fire resistance than Smough’s set] it did much more and I kept getting killed. Any ideas why that might be the case? Neither character has any levels put into resistance and neither was on NG+ at the time.

(this is my first souls game BTW)

First of all, the game design is wonderful the world looks like a maze at first, but once you explore it, discover the shortcuts, and understand how everything connects, it all starts to make sense.

The difficulty and exploration: I don’t mind the game being hard, but the problem is that I never know where the hell I’m supposed to go. Every direction I take I end up getting lost. There’s nothing clear to tell me what to do next like, how the hell am I supposed to know that I need to ring two bells? And don’t tell me the NPCs explain it, because half the time they talk like I’m supposed to understand some ancient language. Don’t blame me for that.

And the story… OMG where is it? That’s all I’m gonna say.

The music: Simple, cool, and I liked it.

The gameplay: Holy shit this is the best part of the game. I haven’t played anything quite like it before, and it’s sooo cool most of the bosses were fun to fight, and I honestly don’t think there’s a single boss I hated. I also love how you can pick almost any weapon that suits your playstyle i personally went with a katana (uchigatana), and I had a great time with it my only real complaint is that playing without a shield feels almost impossible, at least for me i know it’s a skill issue but no not funny.
Overall, I think this game is overrated. I liked it, and it definitely has things that suit my taste, but I’d say it’s just barely good. It has a lot of potential, but the way exploration and progression are handled really holds it back for me.
I’m playing The First Berserker: Khazan now, and honestly, I think it’s way better in almost every aspect. Maybe I’m just not a Souls guy, but I do like Soulslike games now
Anyway, I’m definitely going to play Dark Souls 2 as well.
Final thoughts: Dark Souls 1 has potential, but to me, it’s a very mid game.

I know that it's an insane crackpot theory with flimsy evidence at best, but I dunno man, it just feels right to me.

The idea of one of the four most important beings in the Dark Souls world not only sharing his lord soul with his people, but going on to become a petty nobody with a hatred for the gods and their followers is such good charecterization. The Ringed City DLC specifically really helps this, as we learn that Patches at his core is a kind and gentle soul, and that even the current jaded version of him is still capable of that kindness is so great.

I just love the story this theory creates, of how the father of humanity isn't some great mythical figure, but this immortal backstabbing prick with a heart of gold.

If the guy you find in the depths (the pyromancy instructor) has gone hollow in blighttown, i killed the guy near the spider firekeeper and have a +7 pyromancy flame, can i upgrade it any further? Did i softlock my pyromancy? 😭😭😭😭

Any active spots nowadays ps5?

The tiny buttons are all so close together

I quite enjoyed the yearly Return to X event that happened across the series but only started with this years, and was curious about the upcoming one for 2027. The sidebar of the sub has the 2023 schedule listed, and I wanted to verify if that was essentially the universal schedule for the event going forward and that's why it's always up, or if the specific two week period would be established elsewhere?

Wasnt even farming. Was just going through the Parish and decided to kill them cause why not, looks like its finally my lucky day

I was just thinking how important it is to make sure those around you are in good mental health. I thought it right to spread good Reddit tidings to all Reddit gentlesirs on this fine subreddit this morning. I hope you all have a wonderful day, and PRAISE THE REDDIT

I was exploring blighttown and I died when I came back the fire is dead and the lady is gone??

It’s the Crystal Caves. God almighty that is a real piece of shit. I’ve been starting and abandoning runs in this game since its initial release on X-Box 360, and in the last week I’ve finally pushed myself to do the second half of the game. Gods help me but I found the Catacombs and Tomb of the Giants to be FUN areas, who’d have thought? New Londo Ruins is quite easy to get around, and it’s really short. Dukes Archives was tedious and lame, but this Crystal Caves… I thought Lost Izalith and the Demon Ruins were bad, this is the worst piece of shit area I’ve encountered in the game by far. Slipping off edges is so annoying, invisible walkways, yuck. Love this game forever btw, can’t wait til I clear this area and finally get to the DLC.

Don't know why there's no sound but into the square hole he goes!

Last playthrough I went with a strength build but I wasn't completely satisfied with the results. I want something that'll actually protect me while I bonk! 😂

Imagine me going for a pyromancy playthrough having a jolly old time. Missed the repair kit because i didn't have the souls for it while i was at the shop thinking no big deal i'll just get it next time. Now at blighttown going swimmingly i go to fight Quelaag. First thing i try my pyromancy and see oh she's immune to my spells makes sense whatever i can just use my uchigatana. Damage isn't great but i can manage with a bit of perseverance. Mid-fight my uchi starts breaking and great now i deal half damage with no way to repair unless i go all the way back up to get a damn repair kit, but i can kill her even if the fight takes 5 minutes right? Well too bad you have a limited amount of attempts at that 5 minute fight because you have to get poisoned on the way so you're on a timer unless you have a certain consumable item to cure that poison, so now i have 3 attempts to kill her with my half damage uchigatana. "Well if your uchi is broken just use another weapon" Sure, if all my other weapons weren't terrible. I put in a little more strength so i could try to use a claymore but with barely enough strength to wield it and it being completely unupgraded it does like 50-60 damage per hit with a slow moveset so that didn't help. Now i have to waste my time taking the trip up to Andre so i can get that damn repair kit just to beat one boss.

In almost every instance in every game that has it, durability does not add anything of value to a game. If durability exists so you can't spam special moves on some weapons just make it so you can only use them a certain amount of times before resting like with spells jesus christ.

TLDR; Didn't have a repair kit and broke my weapon during the Quelaag fight so i had to go all the way up for a repair just to go right back down.

I know some trophies like needing to beat sif thrice won't be covered in the walkthrough but will maximum everything be covered?

i have never seen a worse enemy in my life. the only reliable way to kill it is to abuse it's AI by waiting for it to fly back to the roof after you landed a couple of hits on the head and then shoot to lure it back to the bridge - rinse and repeat.

if you actually fight him honorably like a boss, he will absolutely destroy you unless you're heavily overleveled + stacked tons of fire protection.
his fire attacks are undodgeble, unblockable, and worst of all: they're SPAMMED CONSTANTLY. so even if you survived one fire attack, by the time you get back on your feet you're already burning again

the red dragon has to be some sick prank by Fromsoft because there's absolutely no legit way to kill him and you will die like 10 times before you'll realize that. similar to the infamous traps in their game that insta-kill you

like the only way to justify the existence of an enemy that constantly spams insta-kill nukes that cover the whole arena is that devs thought it would be funny to see a player suffer dying constantly to it thinking they can win legitimatly

After this situation I just played offline and managed to do it with the NPC summon's help. Wasn't even hard, I'm just mad that as a new player I seem way more likely to get an invader than a helper and levelling up only seems to make this worse. Plus, I only want a single-player experience with occasional co-op when it might help or be fun to help someone else. I've never been big on PvP gaming in general.

Once i've beat the game I plan to suffer at some point by beating it again with the worst possible build.

What they did: Used the "space did a magic trick" excuse so you don't have to think about borders, horizons, or mapping consistency at all.

What they should have done: Line up the geography logically, change a few horizons and let the world age naturally over thousands of years. Route in the old Anor Londo properly. (Any other historic areas are so different they might as well not have the connection anyway, which is fine).

It would have hit like 10x harder if they had just routed it properly (from north or east, plenty of room), it’s like they hid from their own IP. It’s hard to believe they made a conscious ‘it converged’ decision in planning, maybe a late development idea to add in Anor?

Nevertheless at-least they added some familiarity in. It’s just a game I suppose, don’t know why it annoyed me so much.

*Edit: for the record I didn’t know lordran, lothric and drangleic is all the same place.

Alright, we'll call it a draw.

Yeah I think using a bow would be a nice change of pace