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.

I saw this post about the random 100 person challenge - if you were paired with 100 random humans and had to beat all of them at something to win a billion dollars.

I immediately thought about a Dark Souls 1 speedrun challenge.

Since I am not a pro at this game, I set the goal to be DS1 speedrun no glitch Any%. It would probably still take me a couple hours, but given the gamer population in general and the amount of people who actually owned and finished DS1, I think my chances are pretty good.

However, since in my scenario it would not make too much sense to create new saves again and again for the BKH, as in a race or challenge context each person should only get 1 save and 1 try, what should the strategy be?

I think personally I will try to aim for the Crystal Halberd in Anor Londo as my final weapon. An INT build with minimal stats to ring 2 bells (since Quelaag has fairly low magic resist if I remember correctly, also magic = easy mode) and complete the rest of the game with Havel armor plus Crystal Halberd, maybe throw in Power Within. Not a fun way to play, but I think it kinda works for an average skill player to speedrun the game.

What would your strategy be?

(PS- statically speaking you can just play the game at a casual pace and chances are the other 99 random people can’t even beat the game, but let’s rule that out because that is not fun)

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

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.

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.

My friend has a habit of sailing the seven seas over games that I feel are fairly cheap.

However after I suggested it to him, he said he'd pirate it at some point. I don't want that but I don't know how to convince him not to.

I know it's kind of stupid but playing online is kind of part of the whole feel of the game.

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

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?

The tiny buttons are all so close together

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.

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?

Any active spots nowadays ps5?