I probably can think of a bunch of stupid Dark Souls questions to ask, and hopefully try to understand.
If there's any lorefags out there trying to flex their DS knowledge, this might be the place.
I'll start off by asking... What is Anor/New Londo? I've been there, I've seen it, I don't know anything else about it.
a city
what happened? there's like, ruins and it's revisisted every game
Anor Londo and New Londo are completely different things. The NPCs in the game literally tell you what's up with the places.
Don't mean to sound rude but you know you could find out so much with a single google search instead of making a thread.
my friend talks through all the dialogue.
Come now user, OP obviously made the thread to discuss the lore and just googling the answer would not have been fun
Anor londo is the city of the gods, but its pretty barren by the time you find it. Gwyndolin, Gwyn's trap son watches over it.
New londo was a city that got flooded because everyone started stealing other's souls, those who survived are the skeleton guys.
dont play a singleplayer game in the presence of others if you want to enjoy it
Was the Souls universe ever a peaceful world? Like, civilizations of commoners, and merchants, and townsfolk?
What started the cycle of linking fires, and a dark desperate quest for a chosen few to go on?
The crestfallen guy you meet in Firelink the first time, was his mission the same as yours, with the two bells?
How many other people had that same quest? Is it projected that there's an infinite amount of these universes, all with multiple/differe chosen ones, and that's how they do the online world linking, or is that just a game mechanic that shouldn't be confused with any actual world building and lore?
It is in areas, though grim about everywhere you look
Fire is finite and linking was a necessary but inevitably pointless task
No, but you are not the first to be sent on such a quest
Different universes/game instances are an actual lore thing
>Was the Souls universe ever a peaceful world?
Sounds likely, although the games don't explore this, even Lordran which has signs of prosperous life, was a land of the gods, which is not indicative of the rest of the world. Or it might be? Shit.
>What started the cycle of linking fires, and a dark desperate quest for a chosen few to go on?
Gwyn, he did it first. There's also something abstract about linking the fire WITH humanity, which is important but I have trouble summarizing it, or I don't understand it enough.
Anor Londo is the big ass city where the gods reside
New Londo is another city found by humans and named after Anor Londo, like New York or New England. The leaders of the city was rewarded part of Gwyn's Lord Soul for making such a prosperous city. They later get corrupted by Kaathe
dont listen to this user. Time dilation was a meme spawned here. All three games happen in the same timeline in different places.
they do not. it goes ds1 > ds3
and in ds2 youre someone from an uncertain future thrust into an uncertain past. if its between 1 in 3 or before 1 or after 3, no one can say.
that´s literal bullshit. In ds2 you most likely in completely another continent (vendrick mentions he ventured over sea to the land of giants). Hell there were even references to aldia in Das3. Das2 was supposed to be a different look on the story. It was supposed to show that there is an alternative
Das1-Introduces the cycle thing
Das2-Shows us an alternative
Das3-shows us how neither works (crown that defies curse is ineffective because only works on one person)
You're a fun one, also, no they don't, the appeal of Souls lore is the ambiguity and the community interaction and discussion you neckbeard
>Anal Lubo
It was a city where giant powerful dudes hung out. Big daddy Zeus left to try to continue their golden age by kindling the fire.
The fire is essentially what keeps the world going. As it fades, so too does the world. In the absence of it, the world is like a black metal album cover
New Londo was a city that was going to shit. As the fire was fading, people starting acting like cunts and some people went hollow. Rather than deal, they flooded it.
Hollowing happens when a cursed person comes back from the dead enough to lose their will to live. They essentially give up, and in doing so, give up their humanity and become mindless animals. It also directly relates to when a player "gives up" while playing the game. They can't git gud, slam their head against the wall and eventually put the controller down and never pick it back up.
I played 1, 3 and BB extensively and are about to start 2 because I heard the DLC are worth it.
What are some crucial things I need to know?
pic related, its the main composer of the Souls franchise.
>singleplayer game
Except if you don't want to be hollow, everyone screams at you that Dark Souls is multiplayer and that you're just a shitter if you don't like being invaded. I play the game offline, but most people seem very split on whether the game should be played solo or not.
I-frames during rolling depend on your agility. Agility is best raised with Adaptability skill. Yes, it's that retarded.
You can teleport between bonfires straight away, an that actually makes you miss one of the paths because it opens at a certain part of the game in one of the tunnels that you use maybe once at the beginning.
>the appeal of Souls lore is the ambiguity
There is a mandatory NPC you talk to in New Londo who flat out tells you exactly what it was, what happened to it, and why in a very literal and unambiguous manner.
What about NPC invasions?
I just played through Dark Souls and completely beat it for the first time. I feel like it was vastly easier as a mage because I could kill a lot of enemies before they even started moving towards me, and I could also do plenty of damage of close with my enchanted sword. Is this a thing in 2 and 3 as well, or is pure melee any better in those?
That really explains all the lore for the area and it's significance, people and history for both areas?
Magic, especially Hexes are very powerful in 2.
Melee reigns supreme in 3, but magic is still very viable.
Fag.
NPC invasions are completely different. They're like any other boss or miniboss in that they're tough but beatable. When you're not built for PvP or on NG+ and you get invaded by someone in DS1 with endgame gear before you even beat the Taurus demon, it doesn't matter how much more skilled you are in a fight because you'll only do about 10 damage with a backstab while they can kill you in one hit through pyromancy. Every time I've seen people complain about that though, they just get flooded with people telling them to "git gud" and that getting invaded by people like that is just the price you pay for restoring your humanity.
For New Londo, yeah. If OP finished the game and claims that he doesn't know anything about it, he must have some severe and irreversible brain damage that makes any attempt at conversation pretty pointless.
The story doesn't matter, it's just a means to an end. Unless you light fires, there will be darkness, and you're a spirit, zombie, or dreaming hunter who gets unlimited chances as long as they have the determination to keep trying.
Yeah I get that but it all adds to the game, every death is significant, it's all tense, is all matters
The game is made intentionally obscure in the interest of storytelling and you're getting annoyed that someone wants to know more because they didn't read every item description and exhaust and memorise every piece of one off dialogue. Get fucked you shitstain
Chancellor Wellager dialogue:
"He vanquished the Four Great Ones… And built this kingdom upon their souls.
Our King has watched over this land… Since ages long, long ago…"
This means Drangleic is the same place as Lordan. I dont know whow you come up with shit about Vendrick getting souls from travelling overseas.
Vendrick stole lordvessel from lordran and broke it
Great souls escaped broken lordvessel and found new bodies
btw old iron king have the soul of 4kings, not gwyn
The first game doesn't take equipment into consideration at all when deciding who can invade you. The others are more balanced, but DS1 has too many situations where the invader is going to be completely unbeatable for a new player because of the difference in equipment. That's really only "tense" the first few times because you think you have a chance to survive. Once you have a good strategy and get a backstab on them, only to find you'd have to do that about 50 times before they die, it doesn't become "tense" anymore because your death is as certain as when you face Seath the first time.