>Hangin' around the Depths in DS1 >Doing my first run totally blind >One of this cheeky cunts with face balls curses me >Already having a bit of a hard time with the game >HP is now half for no fucking reason >No clue in the entire game where to go, spend 3 hours talking to NPCs and roaming around trying to figure out how to take the curse away >Say fuck it, look around the internet >Stupid shop sells the cure
Tell me how as a new player am I supposed to find out how to secure myself? Is there something I missed?
>One of this cheeky cunts with face balls curses me
Yeah you fucked up you shouldn't have let him do that.
Justin Smith
Dark Souls doesn't have good game design. The narrative is pretty much absent. You are just made to wander aimlessly until you find an area with enemies.
Charles Howard
Yeah thats pretty lame I liked ds2 and 3 turning you to stone more
Angel Hughes
NPCs literally tell you where to go if you're such a brainlet that you can't figure out how to progress.
Caleb Allen
>Fuck up in a game where you get punished heavily for fucking up >surprised when you're punished heavily
???
Michael Flores
Sounds like you need baby games cause normal games are a little hard for you
Jackson Jenkins
>stand in gas >be surprised when bad things happen
Jonathan Kelly
>fight gargoyles boss fight >merchant right there that sells an item that says it cures curse
If you didn't talk to the obvious merchant or forgot about the curse curing item it's your own fault for being retarded
Justin Perry
GIT
Nathan Lopez
it's been seven years how does this shit still get replies
Adrian Perez
The NPC that is directly in front of you when you arrive tells you about the Bells and where they are.
Easton Kelly
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Alexander Green
Be a man and beat the game with the curse.
Kayden Edwards
wouldn't anything longer than like 5 inches be too big for her tiny bunny pussy? She's only like 2 feet tall
Ian Carter
>FROM >Good anything lol Really though did 1 curse you or did you get gangbanged by basilisks? Because there's bad game design and there's shitting the bed.
Connor Martin
>I'm bad at the game so it's bad game design Sad
Robert Johnson
>tiny pair of eyes under googly eyes wat the hek
Logan Johnson
Oi, hold on…Don't tell me, have you been cursed? Oh woe is the Undead who's cursed on top of it all Harsh times; harsh times indeed! Hah hah hah hah! No, no, I'm sorry. Here, let me share a nice tip. Long ago, I was told of a remedician who resides in New Londo. Does he really exist? Well, go and find out for yourself. But don't blame me if he's just an apparition! Hah hah hah hah!
Kayden Sanders
>What is eyespot mimicry
Jacob Lopez
>normal and fair video game >bad thing happens >move on and learn from mistake >shit souls >bad thing happens >permanently get punished and have to find some obsure and cryptic solution to your one mistake
Lincoln Sanchez
Who are you quoting?
Juan Reed
>yfw
Jayden Ramirez
The shop is one of the first places I would look
Daniel Morgan
>weird enemy you’ve never seen before runs at you and starts spraying a weird white fog >when you stand in the fog a meter starts to fill that you’ve never seen before >continue to stand in it anyway
Wyatt Diaz
Just read up where to go on the internet. Autists have already mapped everything out so that you don't get bored wandering aimlessly.
Thomas Johnson
fpbp
Kayden Anderson
>game forces you to use guide simply bad game design
Tyler Clark
Shouldn't have gotten Cursed Should talk to NPCs and see if they sell the cure anyway I hate to be that guy but the old-fashioned SNES-style shit is why Dark Souls fans like the series
Juan Foster
How was I supposed to know to jump in the painting?
Ian Gray
thats why you should always check what merchants sell
Anthony Baker
you were supposed to jump in the painting???
Isaac Ross
Even Dark Souls told you that you had to do that Truly SM64 is the Demon's Souls of Dark Souls
Asher Nguyen
>fuck up and manage to get cursed >it actually has a consequence instead of slapping you on the wrist >it has a mini-quest and a side effect to more easily traverse an area with enemies you’re otherwise unable to attack >ITS NOT FAIR
you remind me of faggots that cried about vampirism in morrowind
Jace Thompson
when you got close to the painting it would jiggle like water. it was kind of obvious. plus im sure the manual said something about it.
Leo Smith
How was I supposed to know to return to the Undead Asylum by jumping up to the Crow's nest and curling up in a ball?
Joseph Cooper
holy shit i'm booting up sm64 right now
Carter Young
>after Firelink Shrine elevator is unlocked You again? There's nothing to speak about, really. Oh, actually… Something strange did happen. That crow flew off with somebody in its clutches. I think it was a man curled up in a ball. Stranger things have happened, right? No, maybe not…
Christian Jones
I've never been cursed but I can imagine how pissed I'd be if I were to be cursed because I got got in gas for too long. From devs knew curse was a retarded and broken mechanic which is why it isn't in any of the other souls games.
Jonathan Martinez
Ye I remember that shit now. I went there and got royally fucked by the ghosts. I used something to scare them away but in the end I gave up looking for the supposed doctor and just went online. Gay game truly
Angel Moore
>mfw From nerfed the curse due to complaints Literally how bad do you have to be to get cursed more than once anyway
Camden King
the nest is the only thing up there and a prompt appears when you stand on it
moreover, the entire area is supposed to be a secret and painting world is a secret of a secret, both of which are optional
Jose Lewis
How was I supposed to know his dialogue would update as I traversed the world?
Carter Clark
You again? There's nothing to speak about, really. Oh, actually… Something strange did happen. That crow flew off with somebody in its clutches. I think it was a man curled up in a ball. Stranger things have happened, right? No, maybe not…
Jace Williams
Because it happens with pretty much every other NPC in the entire game
Lucas Cooper
Sure, but it doesn't matter since all the info is available on the internet.
Eli Gutierrez
how was i supposed to know it happens with pretty much every other NPC in the entire game?
Brandon Nguyen
it’s not in any other title because From has been following a trend of casualizing souls because it makes them more money, hence why every souls after dark souls 1 does as much as humanly possible to discourage invasions
Gabriel Mitchell
Talk to NPCs Next you're gonna tell me that you didn't know you could talk to NPCs
Thomas Morris
>using guides stay pleb
Colton Collins
because that happens in pretty much every RPG ever made.
Samuel Young
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Jaxson Gonzalez
Because people still keep defending it.
Luke Nguyen
ah sorry, dark souls was my first rpg, i got it recommended since so many people love it! how was i supposed to know though?
You fuckers are complaing about getting cursed, how about getting egged and only receiving 50% souls for half of the game while also not being able to wear a helmet? Serves me right for kicking those guys
Luke Allen
There are npcs in this game? I just killed everything
Isaiah Sanchez
probably the rpg stats
Luke Ross
I am not a fat neckbeard loser, so I would rather not spend hours mastering a dumb video game
Samuel Ward
Dark Souls was never good. It's a series intended for edgy teenagers who want to feel superior to others by playing a mildly difficult game that is for some reason meme'd and shamelessly advertised to be the most hardcore game in existance.
Jack Watson
dude I love doing that in Skyrim lol
Julian Kelly
>if it has stats it's an rpg ah i see now that makes sense!
Christian Reyes
>stood in grey gas >the curse bar appears and fills, denoted with a skull: the universal symbol for something bad happening don't get cursed
Justin Gray
opie is a fag
Jordan Lewis
CoD multiplayer has stats too
Ian Adams
>if it has rpg stats it is an rpg
yes, that is how this works
Nolan Allen
>Doesn't speak with the closest thing he has to a friend after the pyromancer dude You are a shit person, as well as shit at video games.
Isaiah Gutierrez
I'm being baited, but for the sake of consistency I'll go on If you see a character in any videogame at all, not even including RPGs, you can interact with them People desperately try to find faults with Dark Souls but they can't; the game is that airtight and explains everything to you
Nolan Lewis
>you have to memorise contents of every single shop in order to be a cool hardcore souls player like me
Gavin Fisher
How? Half the fucking npcs are impossible to kill
Zachary Wright
Praise the Sun! D-do I fit in with the hardcore gaymer crowd yet guys?
Adam Brown
>you can you level a set of character attributes in cod
tell me more
Colton Anderson
>you will never get egged and have worms grow inside you fbm
Daniel Ward
Is that Sean?
Nathaniel Flores
I''ll give you DS 2 discouraging invasions like fuck, but in 3 you get a red eye orb pretty much for free, can use it with any covenant, and if you run into 4 man groups of faggots dying is a slap on the fucking wrist.
Or are you the kind of guy that could literally only win by ganking new players in the burg?
Aiden Long
>If you see a character in any videogame at all, not even including RPGs, you can interact with them doesn't explain how you'd know their dialog updates though
Elijah Jenkins
>being this shitty
fucking millennials need their hand held for everything. truly the most pathetic generation on earth
Jordan Bell
And exp
Colton Nguyen
someone should have told fromsoftware to explain the mechanics of the game then
Dylan Scott
Dark Souls 1 was clearly designed to be about adventuring around this fucked up world. For that reason, this kind of mechanic makes sense from a design perspective. It's the autistic community that formed this impression of dark souls being around le epic difficulty. The game isn't even that hard if you're not braindead.
Landon Hughes
>and if you run into 4 man groups of faggots dying is a slap on the fucking wrist.
the great thing about Dark Souls 1 is you can actually win 3v1s with ease if you’re good
Wyatt Lewis
Like, Cresfallen tells you about the burg and blightown, tells you going anywhere that isn't the burg is hard, tells you that the crow takes people back to the asylum sometimes, etc. Dude literally spoonfeeds you the first half of the game, you just need to exaust all his dialogue lines. Lautrec and tha cleric close to the elevator also tell you a bunch of important things
Camden Hall
>playing rpg >get poisoned >literally just die from constant health loss for no reason
HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT AN ITEMS CURE A STATUS? SHIT GAME!
Zachary Clark
dude i feel your pain, don't play dark souls it's even worse
Landon Foster
it's almost as if they do...
Noah Morgan
I can usually handle 2 or 3 by myself pretty easy, but stun locking on my no poise fashion is pretty brutal.
Tyler Fisher
He's the hero we need, but not the one we deserve.
Cameron Morgan
yeah but you get a sick ass worm bro wish the worm was better to actually justify the insane soul sucking
Adam Thompson
Talking to any npc in DaS results in two+ different dialogues every time you speak to them, even on your first meeting. If you don't experiment, don't be surprised when there are things you have overlooked.
Robert Roberts
>don't explain rolling speed and i-frames >don't explain kindling >don't explain parrying
Kevin Miller
Sometimes I forget that there are huge fucking faggots on this board, until I see posts like OP's and I am reminded once again.
Jacob Watson
Messages in the ground explain most of that. Also, Crestfallen can show those mechanics in practice if you attack him.
Dylan Lewis
In the games defense I'm pretty braindead. Still, baiting me to get fucked in anor Londo by le spooky ghosts wasn't really fun
Jayden Parker
what kind of retarded insufferable faggot has to be explained every single mechanic in a video game?
Cameron Wright
Rolling and i-frames are entirely a matter of mastery. Kindling, yeah. He does teach you about parrying if you think you're good enough to fight him.
Nathaniel Torres
You don't have much control over them, but certain perks can raise your health, damage etc
Josiah Brown
they explain kindling in the instruction booklet
Andrew Johnson
that’s not rpg stats
no rpg stats is the reason skyrim isn’t an rpg
Dylan Cox
Personally the one aspect of Dark Souls "cripticness" or whatever you want to call it I don't like is the fact it never explains that rolls have invincibility frames. That is an extremely core part of the game and not something you would assume if you had not played one of these games before or heard about it on the internet.