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What are you currently playing?; What video game are you playing right now?
Topic Started: Dec 11 2013, 10:14 AM (143,645 Views)
Moo
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After this and you sayin' that the Undead Asylum is one of the best areas (it has one extra room/boss when you return to it!) I have to conclude that you're sniffing glue out of butts. The Painted World strikes me as a less carefully constructed Undead Burg. The latter is complex and has a lot of secrets but it's also linear enough that it's not convoluted. PW sprawls out into levels and sub-levels and because the buildings look the same it's difficult to know what is where.

I guess it's not as annoying as Blighttown now that I think about it. Once the vertical novelty wears off it's a nerve-wracking mess. I'm pretty sure that once you cross the mills there you can't get back on the ground without travelling all the way back through the Depths. Blighttown? More like Nottonighttown, because I'm not going there tonight when I play Dark Souls.
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I didn't say the Undead Asylum was one of the best areas, I said it led to one of the best areas, which is The Painted World (you need an item you get from the Asylum to get there). I just really like the way The Painted World is built. It's an entirely self-contained area that when going through for the first time feels like any of the other areas, but upon finishing it and creating all the shortcuts becomes a complete space rather than just a series of paths.
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Ah okay, my mistake.
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So I was chatting with 'LordRobbo' on facebook the other night, and, completely unprovoked (we weren't even talking about games), he started gushing about Dark Souls. I must admit it worried me a little, since a crazy idea dawned on me that you might in fact be Lord Robbo. I quickly disabused myself of the notion, but still. It's a bit of a coincidence, no? Anyway, I'm gonna have to play this game soon.
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Dark Souls 2 came out only a few weeks ago so it's not too surprising.

Part of me thinks you would love this game while part of me fears that you'll skullfuck your TV screen over it.

Spoilers update: I'm starting to get complacent. After three attempts I looked up a strategy for Priscilla because I couldn't be bothered figuring out what her pattern was. Also there are black knight archers now?! I think I'm entering the agonizing portion of the game now.
Edited by Moo, Apr 1 2014, 03:09 PM.
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I usually end up liking the extra-hard ones though. I fear them and it takes me a while to start them, but they're ultimately some of the most memorable games. I guess I have a secret, long-repressed fetish for skull fucking my TV. For example, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth was absolutely brutal even on normal, but I honestly can't think of a single more memorable original x-box game right now.
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I forgot how cool the combat is in the Arkham games. I'm currently 25% through Arkham City's story. I just defeated Penguin last night.
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elektrixx
Apr 1 2014, 05:14 PM
I forgot how cool the combat is in the Arkham games. I'm currently 25% through Arkham City's story. I just defeated Penguin last night.
Yeah I had totally forgot how good it is as well until I started playing City recently. It's like a puzzle. And also just feels so damn nice.

I've slowed down a lot. But I beat the story, only have a few side missions to go and 100 - 150 riddler trophies to get. Then I'll start a new game +.
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Apr 1 2014, 03:48 PM
I usually end up liking the extra-hard ones though. I fear them and it takes me a while to start them, but they're ultimately some of the most memorable games. I guess I have a secret, long-repressed fetish for skull fucking my TV. For example, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth was absolutely brutal even on normal, but I honestly can't think of a single more memorable original x-box game right now.
Dark Souls is crazy hard (which I agree is a great thing if done right, as it is in Dark Souls 95% of the time), but the good thing is that you can usually walk away when the going gets too painful and choose from three or four other things available to you. All the pain of dying is worth it for the catharsis anyway. Few games offer this an experience this visceral.
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Fuck Dark Souls 2 and it's fucking one-shot-kill fucking cunt bosses.

Fuck.
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Moo
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you said it, me three weeks in the future.
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Hurry up and get through Anor Londo I wanna feel your rage.
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I heard someone say in a podcast that (paraphrasing) "the game could have ended with Anor Londo; the second half almost falls apart but not quite, as if they were rushing to finish the game". They also directed a lot of rage towards something called Bed of Chaos.
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Inebriated Dark Souls update 1: Accidntally went down spiral staircase in Anor Londo. Walked back up and plummeted back to the bottom. Twice. Bout to face archers.
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The archers got me.
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