Dark Souls 2
Posted: April 26th, 2014
Finally the wait is over and DS2 is released. Here in Australia, and New Zealand, we were able to buy our physical copies a day early because the 25th is a Public Holiday in both countries (ANZAC DAY.) However we still had to wait until 8am on Fri to activate it on Steam.
I got the Black Armour Edition because I pre-ordered and which gives you some weapons and armour at the beginning of the game. I found them of no use to me, except for a dagger, since I didn't start with a strength build and I didn't want them anyway really. Besides that they are ugly in a fantasy kind of way where I prefer more realistic looking weapons. As it turned out though since my other weapons broke and I didn't have replacements at the time I had to use one of the "free" swords and could only 2 hand it because of a lack of stats. That was early on though and I've since worked out better weapon management....
Anyway, I played for so long in my 1st (and only so far) session yesterday, that I have a sore left thumb .... Awesome game...I'm loving it so far.
I've killed the 1st two bosses in co-op which works pretty well. I had a number of summon signs fail, but I get the impression they are on a timer since as soon the failed ones disappeared new ones were put down and I was able to summon another player without a problem.
Some people think it's uncool to summon help for bosses and players should go it alone, but co-op is a big part of the game so why not use it. However, I have tried to solo bosses and did in fact for most of them in DkS1, but with arthritic hands it's not so easy to be as precise as needed in a boss arena and not have to try 20 times to get it perfected. Which gets painful and boring.
I haven't got any screenshots yet as I'm looking for a better alternative to FRAPS which only worked sometimes when I had it installed. I'm going to try out Bandicam and see how that goes. I must say even though people are complaining about the graphics they look pretty damn good on my monitor. I've watched bits and pieces of some Let's Plays (PS3 and 360) and I thought the game looked washed out and lots of shades of brown, but I see now that's obviously Youtubes's conversion algorithm because the game is very colourful in my opinion.
I see someone is already working on a DSFix alternative. I don't see the need personally as the NPC and character models etc look pretty good to me, but graphics mean more to some than actual gameplay, so to each their own I guess.
I'll obviously be adding more to this topic and I made it separate to Dark Souls 1 since it's a different game and I want it to have it's own discussion....if anyone's into the game of course, but I'm a bit tired from my marathon play session last night which had to be around 6 hours. It's always...one more try, or I want to see what's around that corner or through the next fog gate.
I played a high DEX character in DkS 1 but I'm seeing the benefit of a more strength based since DEX isn't working for me so much in this game. Maybe I'm just not as flexible as I used to be.... But, I really want to use the Bastard sword I have and especially the Drangleic sword and shield I found after the Pursuer boss. I can two hand them but I don't like being left open to attack without a shield.
Besides many others there's one thing I really like and that's the ability to hide the HUD completely, have it auto hide as in iHUD for Skyrim or have it always visible. I have it on auto which is very immersive.
Anyway, will be back later with pics hopefully.
I got the Black Armour Edition because I pre-ordered and which gives you some weapons and armour at the beginning of the game. I found them of no use to me, except for a dagger, since I didn't start with a strength build and I didn't want them anyway really. Besides that they are ugly in a fantasy kind of way where I prefer more realistic looking weapons. As it turned out though since my other weapons broke and I didn't have replacements at the time I had to use one of the "free" swords and could only 2 hand it because of a lack of stats. That was early on though and I've since worked out better weapon management....
Anyway, I played for so long in my 1st (and only so far) session yesterday, that I have a sore left thumb .... Awesome game...I'm loving it so far.
I've killed the 1st two bosses in co-op which works pretty well. I had a number of summon signs fail, but I get the impression they are on a timer since as soon the failed ones disappeared new ones were put down and I was able to summon another player without a problem.
Some people think it's uncool to summon help for bosses and players should go it alone, but co-op is a big part of the game so why not use it. However, I have tried to solo bosses and did in fact for most of them in DkS1, but with arthritic hands it's not so easy to be as precise as needed in a boss arena and not have to try 20 times to get it perfected. Which gets painful and boring.
I haven't got any screenshots yet as I'm looking for a better alternative to FRAPS which only worked sometimes when I had it installed. I'm going to try out Bandicam and see how that goes. I must say even though people are complaining about the graphics they look pretty damn good on my monitor. I've watched bits and pieces of some Let's Plays (PS3 and 360) and I thought the game looked washed out and lots of shades of brown, but I see now that's obviously Youtubes's conversion algorithm because the game is very colourful in my opinion.
I see someone is already working on a DSFix alternative. I don't see the need personally as the NPC and character models etc look pretty good to me, but graphics mean more to some than actual gameplay, so to each their own I guess.
I'll obviously be adding more to this topic and I made it separate to Dark Souls 1 since it's a different game and I want it to have it's own discussion....if anyone's into the game of course, but I'm a bit tired from my marathon play session last night which had to be around 6 hours. It's always...one more try, or I want to see what's around that corner or through the next fog gate.
I played a high DEX character in DkS 1 but I'm seeing the benefit of a more strength based since DEX isn't working for me so much in this game. Maybe I'm just not as flexible as I used to be.... But, I really want to use the Bastard sword I have and especially the Drangleic sword and shield I found after the Pursuer boss. I can two hand them but I don't like being left open to attack without a shield.
Besides many others there's one thing I really like and that's the ability to hide the HUD completely, have it auto hide as in iHUD for Skyrim or have it always visible. I have it on auto which is very immersive.
Anyway, will be back later with pics hopefully.