Dark Souls Hype Thread of Preparing To Die!

[Gunstar Green]

Killing her is even counted as a sin.

I didn't attack her yet, moving on for now. Her dialog is hilarious though something like: "Please just leave, we're peaceful and kind people." LOLOLOLOL, then why did everything in here try to murder me?!? Huh? HUH?

Haha... that was pretty great. My response was:

"Nope, have a Great Chaos Fireball to the face."

[MrPopo]

I used the fact she doesn't aggro immediately to quickly remove the tail.

[Omerta]

I'm not sure I'd try to platinum Bloodborne again. The Chalice Dungeons were the least fun part of the game for me and there's some uber BS associated with getting all of the trophies there.

[MrPopo]

I really do need to finish getting the bosses in the Chalice Dungeons in Bloodborne. The design for Yharnam is super cool and I must fight and beat her.

[Xeogred]

Chalice Dungeons were an interesting idea on paper, but yeah. Got extremely repetitive. It was cool how they ended up having a lot of unique enemies and bosses... but they could have taken all that work and just made a few more levels in the campaign with all that extra content instead, which would have been better.

The Chalice version of Eberities (?) was probably the hardest boss for me in my entire platinum run. Even though I thought he was super easy in the campaign.

Jumping into the DLC freshly on NG+++ is not something I would recommend though. Everything killed me in 2 hits basically.

[Omerta]

Going in, I envisioned the Chalice Dungeons to be something similar to Phantasy Star Online's separately distinct areas of scenery with some more complicated procedural generation. It just seemed like one big bland place that was a giant chore and just didn't hit the mark with me.

The queen's fight is pretty neato. Probably worth the slog through if you have nothing better to do.

I was half expecting the Yharnam Stone to have some effect in the DLC somewhere, but the internetses tells me that it doesn't appear to be the case. Speaking of which... The Old Hunters is on my to-do list. Been waiting for a sale, but I might just have to bite the bullet and grab it. Or - since I have a weird thing about wanting the DLC on a physical copy - grab a Hong Kong version and start over. (Same goes for a PAL version of DS1 Prepare to Die.)

[Xeogred]

The DLC has always been fantastic for the series and The Old Hunters is no different. Brings in a ton of new awesome weapons and yeah it's like 3-4 new awesome areas and about ~5 new bosses. Definitely worth it. I'm not sure what it adds lore wise though.

[Stark]

So got through most of New Londo Ruins, but apparently there's some boss I missed in Darkroot Basin? Some giant wolf? :/ How people figured this crap out without a guide I have no idea.

I think you get a ton of information from soapstone messages, but no one is playing Dark Souls really at the moment, so those are few and far between and usually troll-y or super sexist haha.

[Stark]

Took down Sif, cool boss, but not terribly difficult, just have to get in close and stay under the legs. Back to New Londo!

[Xeogred]

That's a good strategy for a lot of large scale bosses. Hug their crotch and wack away.