Tell me about your first Dark Souls playthrough

Tell me about your first Dark Souls playthrough

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it was fun
I was a dexfag

I didn't finish it. Played up until anor londo and quit at the painted world for god knows what reason. Came back a year later and made a new file and it was great

I've been meaning to get into Bloodborne but don't know how hard the game is. I'm willing to go through a challenging game but I want to know just about how hard it is in comparison to other games you've played.

i got a big stick and some big armor and beat up big demons

tried to fight the tutorial boss with broken sword
died shitload of times doing other shit like that
now i shit on everyone and act like i was always good at dark souls

:D

The only difficulty is learning to dodge more, other than it's on par or slightly less difficult than the other souls games

Dropped the game at Blighttown and have't been back since. I will one day.

The final boss's second form is a nightmare. Trying to fight him like other bosses will be harder than parrying him like Gwyn from DS.

DMB Falchion build

Im playing for first time now. Unlocked the shorcut between firelink and new londo ruins, now im back in asylum. Playing warrior and putting level point whatever i feel like

Didn't get off to a good start, had to look up a playyhrough to see to go to undead burg instead of catacombs. But then that was all I looked up. Beat everything up to centipeded demon, I think the only bosses I didn't do before I stopped playing was chaos bed and gwyn, now that I think about it. Didn't stop for any particular reason, I just kind of did. Really fell in love with the game after beating gaping dragon first time, running around changing armor and arrows and stuff in menus

It was hard as fuck. I almost dropped the game at Sen's because I kept dying. Dropped it for a few weeks at O&S because they were a pretty big wall for me, I finally got back to the game when a friend offered to coop with me. I ended the game feeling pretty godamn satisfied; missed a lot of shit though so subsequent playthroughs were still very fun.

It's easier. You just gotta learn how to dodge.

Great clubbed my way through everything. Pretty good time and fell in love with the series.

I really struggled, but I played a lot drunk and did the bosses in the wrong order. It takes a little to get good at, even if you played dark souls

Just dont punt points into resistance and you are good to go

It was amazing. Easily in my top 5

was recent, loved the level design, felt the majority of the bosses were massively disappointing, especially since the bosses are so hyped up. The majority of them are just lame and not really engaging or interesting in any way. It's clear the game was rushed. there's also a lot of ways to easily become overpowered so i found myself constantly making up rules for myself to keep it "challenging". Shields completely trivialize the game. I like how the game has meaningful secrets. The best part is the DLC though.

It was painful and I sucked shit. The game's a thousand times more fun on subsequent runs.

Man the shortcuts in Dark Souls 1 were something else. You would never see them coming, it's crazy. The moment of realization that the Parish elevator led to Firelink Shrine is still burnt into my mind as one of my favorite moments in vidya ever.

Still the best souls game by a substantial margin. Bonfire warping from the start was a mistake.

I got black knight sword and fang boar helmet early on and rocked them the whole play through. Didn't use any summons but didn't do DLC bits either. Also mostly didn't bother with magic.

My first playthrough was Zweihander with no shield.

I died alot, but i had fun.

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I was going to post >inb4 "lel this is 2easy4me you're just a bunch of plebs, GET ON MY FUCKING LEVEL", but alas I was too late.

Dark souls isn't that hard. He makes some fair points

some random pyromancies, a falchion and lots and lots of R1s

i started playing again with a str/faith character that actually deals some pretty good damage with sunlight blade buffed great club

I know I'm gonna be "git gud"-ed, but does anyone have a soul memory 110000 file on PC that can help me with the pursuer? I can't beat that fucking smug faggot

>fighting Anor Londo Titanite Deamon in NG+
what the fug
he has boss like hp and can hit you throught the fucking wall with his fucking swipe attack

>Playing roll and drink flasks the game
no thanks.

it's not a matter of difficulty, it's a matter of being fun. Most of DS1s bosses are half assed shit harldy different from a normal enemy. Like moonlight butterfly? Seath? Nito? fucking pinwheel? Four Kings? Most of the fights offer nothing for the player.

My first ever character was named 'Wiz Kalifa'
I didn't take it seriously, I got rekt

you can parry some of his attacks

Got it on launch day and I hadn't seen any press on it because I didn't want to spoil the fun as I blindly bought DeS and kept the tradition.

Went to the graveyard and skellies smashed my Shit. Managed to kill them and they gave 0 souls. Made it to first catacomb bonfire and got stuck there. Respawning skellies resistance to slash damage made me retreat.

Go down to new londo. Ghosts are ethereal but can kill me. Run around looking for way to kill them. Nope.

Open door the drakes valley. Make it to lower blightown to that bonfire. Spider bitch proves too tough so I had to backtrack my ass to firelink. Think holy shit DaS really ain't fucking around.

Finally discover the path to undead burg. Easy as shit from then on. Smooth sailing from then on.

Loved it so much I did an SL1 rum where I made it to NG+++. Manus was the most exhilarating boss ever.

What's your favorite game

Hey fuck you man, Nito was a pretty cool guy.

I had just finished Demon's Souls, which was very hard to me.
Started DaS:
>Better graphics
>Better playability
>Better world
Then I stopped on Blighttown. DS was hard and satisfactory, DaS was just more of the same to me at the time.

Last year an user gifted me a code for Xbox 360 and I played because of DaS3 hype. Very different experience, I really enjoyed.

Wanted to start a new character, then I remembered that I had a copy for PS3, so, why not.
Played 4 times in a row. Loved the game and now it's one of my favorites videogames of all time, really fun.

If you are here, thank you user, you changed my videogame life!

I thought it was pretty shit, didn't understand why people loved it. Years later, I got autistically into Monster Hunter, and my huntingbros convinced me to give it another shot. I've loved the series ever since, first time through DS I used the zweihander almost the whole way through.

>Most of DS1s bosses are half assed shit
>Nito

It was a fun concept but ultimately nito really didn't do much to make the skeletons a threat. They could have improved the fight a lot just by giving him some more mobility so it's not so easy to group the skeles up around him and kill everything at once

Got SKS.
Won.

absolutely

I somehow missed my starting weapon in the Asylum and used the broken sword until I found the Estoc by New Londo Ruins.

>get to firelink
>immediately run into the catacombs
>"Jesus fuck they weren't exaggerating when they said this was hard"
>get all the way down to the skeletal smith and encounter the wheel skeletons
>realize I must have done something horribly wrong to get where I currently am, it's just too hard
>thought I might have created my character wrong or something, start a new game
>find path to undead burg almost immediately getting to firelink again
>mfw

Bullshit

I consider Nito, Seath, gaping dragon, capra, discharge, centipede, priscilla, gwyndolin, gwyn, moonlight, pinwheel, taurus, firesage all lame bosses

immediately after*

Holy fuck you just changed my life, parried all his faggot attacks until he died. Thanks user

forgot bed of chaos was a boss

I got the Drake Sword

Priscilla is fine in concept. She just needs more health.

Used a BKS whole playthrough. Made the game easy as shit I got bored.

So what do you consider to be good?
Bed of Chaos?

It was okay. I didn't really like it all that much since I felt the combat was kinda shallow for my preference. But, fights like artorias and manus were fun.

The burg destroyed me and I ragequit for 6 months. After that i picked it up again, and it just clicked, it's now one of my favourite series of games

I stopped playing when I felt the world was too depressing for me, with the gloomy music and rotting skeletons lying about. Not that I am a depressed person myself, the game just made me feel very uncomfortable.

And yes, I am aware how Reddit tier post this is. But that's the truth.

I chose Pyromancer, so I killed things with fireballs until then. I thought the game was some pretty huge bullshit until I got a real weapon.

Ah I see

the other bosses, especially the dlc

that and more than 1 attack, or let her reapply invis

My only knowledge beforehand was watching LobosJr do a speed run and I had no understanding of mechanics or anything in the universe.
I was stuck on Taurus Demon because why the fuck would you block vs the size of the demon.
Just because a game said '100% physical reduction' didn't translate to being able to block a giant behemoth with an axe.
Otherwise went through the game until I got cursed in the Depths and restarted. After that smooth sailing until Biggy and Smalls and 4Kings in NG+.

I got the BKS off the first knight and raped the game.

Played pretty fucking dumb. I decided heavy armor + sword&board was the way to go, so I pumped enough points into endurance to be able to mid roll in the stone knight set. Oh, and I spent a few hours in the forest farming souls from the stone knights because I wasn't sure where to go from there.

But what about them seperates them for the rest

>be completely new to game
>jump in
>wow, epic, great
>get through the tutorial with some struggle
>enter Firelink
>amazed at the world
>fucking incredible
>talk to the people there, and still have no clue what the fuck I'm doing
>see the loot party in the grave yards
>get my shit kicked in
>do a few more runs to get more loot
>never even found the Catacombs entrance
>never even noticed the behind/under area to New Londo
>get my ass kicked by skellies a few more times before I realize I'm really not supposed to go that way
>eventually find trail to the Burg
>struggle
>a lot
>make it to that first bonfire, with the crumpled stairs and the ladder that isn't lowered yet
>make it to that boss on the tower wall
>somehow get him to fall off the ledge in a lucky ass attempt
>i'm sure about 200 deaths later
>i manage to find the connecting ladder shortcut to that initial bonfire I hit in the Burg area
>die to the dragon a lot attempting to get the treasure
>fail miserably and continue journey
>run from the big night in the bell tower area
>find the blacksmith
>okay, cool.. But no souls
>die to the titanite demon, never realize there's a forest behind him
>never make it past the big cathedral knight in the bell tower
>never ring the first bell at all
>never find the elevator right there that takes me back to Firelink
>quit Dark Souls forever

>eventually get Xbox One
>Play DS2
>beat it
>get DS1 again
>beat it
>get DS3
>ez mode shit

Bandit, full starting gear, starting axe upgraded to Golem axe.
Undead burg was the hardest part because it was my first Souls game and I wanted to learn how to parry / killed that fucking black knight.
Also got cursed by those damn frogs, only time I used the internet for help.
The dragon ass army was the most annoying part, seeing dailylight again and appearing back at Firelink shrine after Blighttown was my highlight.
Fantastic experience.

I don't think I've ever had the same sense of accomplishment in vidya as I felt after beating Sen's Fortress and defeating Biggie Smalls for the first time. I did my first playthrough without any summons.

Thinking about my first DaS run actually makes me sad, I doubt I'll ever get to experience that feeling again.

It was my first RPG and I wasn't knowledgeable in stuff like competent stat allocation or how to build a good character.
It was a fucking mess of a run with a lopsided build that didn't even invest into its primary damage stat until like 25 hours into the game. I'd rather not elaborate on all the ways I fucked up this run.
Ironically I have since gotten way into other RPGs thanks to this and even enjoy tabletop stuff.

Oh, and I farmed like 20 levels off the drake killing everyone on the bridge

Played through it mostly drunk and ruined the experience.

It was hard and frustrating but also compelling because its strong aymosphere. Going down into the depths and to Blighttown felt like a journey that took days. Returning to Firelink from that place for the first time felt like I had been gone for weeks.

I quit after not being able to beat the Taurus demon

Then i came back 6 months later and actually finished it in about 3 weeks, with gargoyles and OnS being the only points that made me take a break from the game for more than a day

good job my man

For how hyped up this fight is, the second half sure is disappointing.

Played it after friend gifted me demon souls. still havent finish DeS but DS is one experience i could never forget. Cheesing Gwyn after dying 50 times is most visceral feeling ever

those wheel skeletons in the catacombs killed my fire blacksmith next second i've discovered him

Doesn't sound like you cheesed him

I used the guide made by IGN.

I had only heard about it from others and they stressed how important souls were, so when I finally got around to playing it I kept getting anxious about dying and losing souls.

but then I stopped giving a shit and years later it's still my favorite of the 3

played it, got bored out of my mind, dropped it after that big ass dog

A Black Knight Halberd drop saved me from deleting an otherwise great game.

I kind of ruined it by overlevelling accidentally

I got crushed by invaders every time they showed up, so when I made it to the dickwraith forest I realized "oh this is the pvp zone" and spent like an hour there getting summoned to get in some pvp practice. The downside to that obviously is that if you kill the right person you end up with hundreds of thousands of souls. It seemed like a cool bonus at the time, what was I going to do throw those souls away? On the other hand my build was absolutely abysmal and I pumped dex while using a strength weapon, because I believe the description describes dex as being for "advanced weapons" and I took that to mean "high level weapons". So I was an overlevelled monstrosity with the child's mask, mish-mash armour, and 60 something dex using the gravelord greatsword

Since that first run I've had a strict policy with souls games, and other games in general, of staying significantly underlevelled so that I don't destroy the game balance

I spent the whole noon fighting that fuck and dint got a shit. I just got one from one BK in asylum 2: strayed boogalo

I was a Havel-wearing, R1-spamming, dex-fag.

played it, got bored out of my mind, found it too easy, completed it in less than 5 hours. garbage game.

There's a lot of ways to make the game trivial. Eventually you have to go out of your way to keep it challenging.

I was a mage who used a zweihander

shits alpha as fuck

Weird, because I got it first drop on my second playthrough as well.

My first playthrough was fun other than invasions.

>First time in the Undead Burg
>Heading to the boss
>Get invaded
>Its someone in some crazy looking armor and a big ass sword
>He does the bowing thing
>I smack him with my little dagger
>1 damage
>He hits me once
>Instantly dead

Much later I found out it was someone in black knight armor and a lightning zwei, I wrote off invasions entirely from that moment on and have never played a Souls game online.

played as a warrior. died to the skeletons in the graveyard a shit ton.

gave up.

started again as a knight.

got passed the taurus demon before my first death, was proud.

I was super underleveled for Priscilla, and didn't know you couldn't leave the area without beating her if you attack her and die. Took me a week, but finally beating her felt amazing.

I skirted around a full playthrough for a year or two before finally buckling down a month or so ago. Went heavy poise tank with decent strength and some points into dex with the Zweihander carrying me throughout.

Used the rock spires near the entrance to have him circle around. It helped me calm my nerves and messes with the hitbox of gwyn's sword.

Fell into the Drakesword trap.

Tried playing M&KB at first, shit sucked even with the mods that were supposed to fix it. Dropped it until I got a Mayflash adapter and started using a Wii U Pro controller, started a new game since I wasn't far in. Switched around weapons a lot until I found the Halberd and decided I liked it, but I spent most of the game pumping strength when I found the Xbox hueg stone shield and decided "I want that". Fucking loved every minute of the first half, but after Anor Londo I went straight to the Demon Ruins and it fucking blew ass. Hated Bed of Chaos, that walk back every time was such a pain in the ass.

This was easily the best feeling of the game. All those shortcuts that loop back around were amazing, finding all those new passages that interconnect the entire world, finally opening those "locked from the other side" doors and going "so THAT'S where this leads", all of it was great.

>There are people in this thread that think Dark Souls was better than Demon's Souls

I pirated the game (of course) and used a guide and got the drake sword, couldn't even beat gargoyles with it so I downloaded a trainer

sadly it turned out to be cryptolocker, after reinstalling windows from scratch I never touched Souls again

t. conquered, the average pcuck

F U N

I did the called "quality build" without even knowing, I'm happy that I beat the game without any guides from any source.

>Bonfire warping from the start was a mistake.
this.

generally everything finding its way back to firelink was fucking great

I died to some rats under a bridge and then never played the game again

I just beat it for the first time. Is it worth it to play through a NG+ without an alive pvp scene? Is there anything terribly different about it or is it just stats and picking other story paths? Or should I just move onto DS2 and 3?

You know, i was thinking about this...
Is people wandering down into the Catacombs or New Londo at the start the reason why they never reused the world design of Dark Souls 1? To protect casuals from wandering into difficult areas?