Quote from: Verbatim on December 08, 2016, 06:34:53 PM

Quote from: Uranium on December 08, 2016, 06:27:17 PM

Speaking of Dks1 and the Lordvessel, were is Verb in it at this point? He was at OnS while I was still stuck on Capra.
At this point iv'e beaten Seath

Preparing to fight Seath. I entered his lair and got fucked in what I'm assuming was a scripted fight, and now I'm trying to escape wherever I ended up. I'll talk more about it in my thread whenever I decide to write another update.

I'm officially in the dreaded second half, so I'm eager to see what everyone hates about it so much.

Do people tend to hate the second half? Lost Izalith and Demon Ruins are my favorite in the game. It's really awe-inspiring to look up and think about the history of the place and what it means for the story. It gives me the same feeling as Ash Lake.

Lost Izalith is hated because of the boss there being a failure to the point even Miyazaki said so, along with the bullshit random enemies. That and the area to Nito is just a bitch.

Quote from: Verbatim on December 08, 2016, 06:46:57 PM

Quote from: challengerX on December 08, 2016, 06:46:06 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on December 08, 2016, 06:34:53 PM

I'm officially in the dreaded second half, so I'm eager to see what everyone hates about it so much.

What is this meme?

I dunno, I'm wondering the same thing. Ask Luci?

The whole game was excellent for me. I liked every area.

Quote from: Luciana on December 08, 2016, 06:19:50 PM

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A massive complaint is that the worlds aren't interconnected on the 4 paths in the end, and they all go down their own linear paths. That's fine (I guess) in Dark Souls 2 and 3 since that seems to be what they're going for, but a massive part of what made people love DS1 was how interconnected the world was, and how you were forced to memorize the map probably better than you'd memorize your own town. You'd learn the shortcuts, how to get to someplace faster, etc.

I would think this happened because at this point you are allowed to teleport between bonfires, and that's why it ended, but idk. As the video points out, the interconnected thing might just be a massive fluke simply because it's been going further away from it each game, but that's an entirely different discussion. I personally think teleporting between bonfires is the reason it gets completely ignored, since you can just teleport to one rather than take a few paths riddled with enemies back to it.

Other than that, some of the enemies are bullshit (the skeleton things in Tomb of Giants), especially the half dino... things, Bed of Chaos was a gimmick boss and an absolute failure, same with Ceaseless Discharge, and in general the areas are just less uninspired than everything else you've seen thus far. I'd argue the only one that stands out is Dukes Archives, and New Londo in terms of just the look of it.

Basically I'd say to sum it up, the worlds are linear (http://i.imgur.com/Z2JZhXh.png) and feel less inspired, and the bosses pale in comparison to the ones you fought in the 1st half.

Oh right, sorry, I almost neglected your more pressing issues and what you're actually doing with it. I can understand that.

And yeah me too. I can only play 2 or 3, tbh. MP games don't count, but story heavy yeah.