*teaches you about poise*

*teaches you about poise*

*teaches you about bad game design and how to skip a boss fight*

FTFY

*teaches you how to press the circle button*

more like *teaches you about iframes*

It's both of these. The fight is decided in the first few seconds.

Some people deal with it by figuring out how the iframes work and others by just poising. Nobody who started as a Knight had trouble with them.

*dies in literal seconds with any greatsword*
Completely overrated difficulty.

*teaches you to cheese the game by going up the stairs*

I like how a lot of 'reviewers' praise the damage check on gargoyles and then dismiss the 'poise check' on capra
it's one of the most important fights in the game and unlocks access to the essential large ember AND the master key

>Teaches you how to do plunging attacks from stairs
>Teaches you that enemy confrontations in an enclosed space will have safe zones
>Teaches you that all you need to win is to run in a loop around an arena to avoid enemy attacks

Why did anyone think Capra Demon was hard? Do you think game designers put stairs leading to nowhere in a boss room for no reason? You're supposed to use environmental advantages during fights.

>run up the stair and hax the fight by standing on the edge where he cant attack you so you can attack him from range with impunity

git gud

>skipping capra demon
have fun with a +5 toothpick in anor londo

the dogs and the fear
once the surprise is gone it's fine tough

I didnt learn shit because the dogs were on my ass the first 5 seconds unless i ran the stairs

*boosts your confidence in being able to progress through the game and beat bosses no matter the setting and comes back later in the game to love and support you more*

you dont even have to go to the depths just get the key lmaooooo

>People will defend Capra now

Next thing you'll tell me how great the Bed of Chaos is.

>his dogs are literal noclipping homing missiles while you can't swing any weapon because your hand bounces off the wall

That fight is still mostly luck based.

that's what's teaching you, moron
if you have poise the dogs don't stagger your bitch ass
go back to school in the asylum, nigger

>defend
you don't need to defend shit
betting you've played gfwl version years after release butt naked thinking fast roll is the key to this game, not knowing mid roll + high poise is the strongest method

>going through the depths and blighttown at all
>not just taking the backdoor in the area behind havels tower

More like it teaches you basic reflexes, composure and awareness. Well it tries to, not many people learn it.

You also get the pyromancy npc and the best head armor in the game.

>unupgrades Lightning Spear to Spear +10
heh, nuthin personnel kid

>can't swing any weapon because your hand bounces off the wall
Use a spear nigger

First time I got to Capra I might've been rocking an estoc or something like that.
That was a terrible decision, good times though.

>tfw I beat it by cheesing the stairs and using sorcery

People underrate how important your class actually is at the start of Dark Souls. It can make the difference between having trouble with Capra Demon or not, getting cursed or not, etc. That one image that says your starting class doesn't matter is fucking lying.

>being this inept

But it really doesn't matter. If you need more poise you can buy something like chain mail or loot the E. Knight Set from Darkroot.

Starting players won't do that, and that's the important distinction. People saying "lol doesn't matter!" have probably played the game multiple times and know a lot of builds.

>knowing what poise does your first playthrough

Guide using plebs the lot of you.

>play my game the way I play it
triggering soulsfags is the hottest new souls-like

*teaches you crowd control*

When I first played this game, I only died to this boss two times, I’m not trying to brag or anything like that but how can people have this much trouble with him? Just kill its dogs and you should be good.

just use a spear it's not that hard

It means it doesn't lock you into anything for later. It assumes the reader has enough common sense to understand that different starting equipment means you have different options in the very beginning. But

apparently some people don't have the common sense to press a single button the game tells you about at the bottom of every menu which proceeds to explain every stat.

Nah I was just figuring that most new players would buy something like Chainmail early on because it has bigger numbers, or stumble into the E. Knight set in Darkroot while trying to figure out where to go next after Gargoyles (seriously that trap is so tempting). Heck by then they probably would've looted a Hollow or Balder armor piece too.

Do people really do this? A part of me thinks this actually might be viable.

>that feel when you beat it on your first run because you are not a casual
Pfft, you guys are cute complaining about such things.

*teaches you about love*

this is the same board that complains about how hard a dp is to do in SF, its safe to assume most people here are retarded

>being a tripfag

Filtered

>see stat that is usually not present in games or worthless
>I MUST STACK

*rolls past the dogs and attacks with fast weapon*
poise is for casual babbies

this

the fight teaches you to cheese enemy pathing, which is just as viable of a strategy as having heavey armor, or fast rolling for most encounters

except it's not important at all. you can dodge every single attack with roll, and you should be able to kill his dogs within seconds with every class at that point.

i'd never really played anything similar to this either and was also fatrolling while twohanding a zweihander
pretty much as other posts said itt, it taught me that i was being a fucking idiot

With regards to new players user. You know, the really bad ones who can't figure out how magic works kind of bad

But I beat the game on NG+2 without even figuring out what poise does. Dexfaggotry is a lifestyle.

I legit went into this fuckers fight and fucked him up first try.
I will never know what makes this fuck so hard.
Same goes with BOC. 3rd try there.

I guess this might be the reason he was a pushover

iirc you can pull up a tooltip that (vaguely) explains what a stat does.

are there really people that fight capra without taking advantage of the stairs?

-kills you in 10 hits with the Drake sword-

Lol ez

It's not worth it.

*teaches you about lobbing firebombs over a wall*
Shame you can't get through that fog gate, capra demon.

Capra demon is SO hard...

All you have to do is dash up the stairs, kill the puppies and then kill the goat. The first game was really harsh about trial and error.

>cheese enemy pathing
Doesn't the Taurus demon do the same thing, just earlier?

They did stagger my bitch ass. Still got through it by just running away.
Didnt learn shit in the end.

What are you even trying to say here? Are you incapable of reading, thinking for yourself or testing things? Why am I even asking, no one is able to do basic videogame shit anymore, it's why so many games are shit or get ruined now.

I beat him in my first try

With Capra it's that he and his dogs charge at you right from the gate. New players who've never played something remotely similar (or who are way too cocky) don't have the time to analyze the situation. Up until then they've probably been playing slowly and carefully, picking off enemies one by one, so being bum rushed by those three is one hell of a wake up call.
Furthermore they probably had their resources drained making their way to through the shady part of town, brought a weapon that couldn't hit the dogs in time, got stun locked straight to hell, or they straight up couldn't survive a hit from Capra.
Everything can go wrong in there.

Hey, I did all those things. Nice call.

What is love?

"bad players being bad" still doesn't support the statement that starting class is important.

I learned by beating him with stair cheese.

Just saying of ALL the ways to handle this boss, poise is the furthest of a new players perspective. When the game first came out I got my friends into it and the one fag that used a guide was also the one fag that won by poise trading.

You know it when you see it.

Oh I agree with that. I was talking about the dodging part and how new players can't dodge so good.

>Teaches you to just block
FTFY

New players likely have either been springing traps left and right or need to learn what to do when caught in such a trap. This is what Capra is for, it's a very important wake up call that regrettably falls flat on too many people.

Baby don't hurt me

Not really, that depends specifically on the player and it is very easy for someone to see flashy armour and expect it to help them, or for someone to read the stats in an RPG and start playing that way from early on, or just want to be the big guy. I didn't even suit up for Poise at any point since I wanted to wear light armour and go fast, but I fully understood what it was and how useful it would be from the very beginning.

Practicing how to move seems like such a dumb thing until you get stuck. Honestly I didn't have it down until my second character, so I can't really blame new players.
Then again Twitch did beat Darksouls so...

For being what amounts to a death god, Nito was a pretty cool guy.

>teaches you to buy dung pies and throw them over the wall

New players are expected to start out bad, but they're supposed to learn and improve. Everyone is a new player at first, they're not blamed for being new, they're blamed for refusing to learn or practice.

*teaches you to deepthroat lightning spears*

*teaches you about stairs*