Dark Souls 2

[Velorath]

Pushing in the left thumbstick while holding down the square button to sprint is a horrible control scheme to use for jumping. I'm also surprised that they didn't put in an early boss. I'm a few hours in and still haven't seen a boss yet. Aside from that having a good time so far.

[Yegolev]

Pushing in the left thumbstick while holding down the square button to sprint is a horrible control scheme to use for jumping.

[Falconeer]

You couldn't even jump in Demon's Souls, and the practice wasn't completely in Dark Souls but overall it became second nature pretty quickly, especially considering jumping wasn't so overabundant. If you are complaining about this I can only assume there's more jumping early on this time around, and that's not cool even more so if it's a goofy action with a built in unresposiveness.

I hope you are just cranky and wrong. 

[Ghambit]

Coop-with-friends ring is 6500 souls.  Not sure if you can find it on someone/thing somewhere, but it's definitely not something you can acquire straight away.

[Yegolev]

I think I'd rather not have a jump ability than relive Ultima 8.

[Sky]

Pushing in the left thumbstick while holding down the square button to sprint is a horrible control scheme to use for jumping.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm pretty heavy-handed with the controller, so any game where you need to press the thumbstick for something means I'm screwed.

[Velorath]

You couldn't even jump in Demon's Souls, and the practice wasn't completely in Dark Souls but overall it became second nature pretty quickly, especially considering jumping wasn't so overabundant. If you are complaining about this I can only assume there's more jumping early on this time around, and that's not cool even more so if it's a goofy action with a built in unresposiveness.

I hope you are just cranky and wrong. 

Having played it for only a few hours there have been maybe three or four spots where it's used so far, most of them just to get items. I can make the jump typically but it feels clunky, and I have to have a couple seconds to mentally prepare myself to do it. I am slightly concerned that they'll throw in some horrendous jumping section or something in at some poin though.

[apocrypha]

Steam: Release Date: 25 Apr 2014

 

[Falconeer]

Beware the porting. Rent a console and save yourself some grief.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Nothing wrong with the dark souls port, why would this differ?

[apocrypha]

Beware the porting. Rent a console and save yourself some grief.

I own a PS3. I'd rather play it at 2560x1440 with proper textures. 

[Pagz]

Beware the porting. Rent a console and save yourself some grief.

Since they've somewhat build this one for PC as opposed to being a naked port, it should be better then the first. In saying that, time to come back to the thread on April 25th!

[Rendakor]

If anyone here tries the coop, let me know how it is. Specifically, can you actually play with friends or is it just randoms?

[Yegolev]

If anyone here tries the coop, let me know how it is. Specifically, can you actually play with friends or is it just randoms?

I'll post as soon as I know something.  My do-nothing friend is texting me about how great the sword/dagger setup is and so I'll be getting it fairly soon.

[Yegolev]

I'm getting some crazy texts and calls about this game.  "WHY AREN'T ENEMIES RESPAWNING?" was the latest.  The problem I have is that since I "tricked" him into playing Dark Souls and therefore forcing him to get 100% of the Achievements, he is never going to tell me I should buy the game.

I suppose I have to do it now, just to do something about the crazy phone calls.

Got that phone call as a text.  Reply: up up down down left right left right start back

[Velorath]

Enemies slowly stop respawning if you keep farming the same area repeatedly. Also I finally fought a boss and it was the easiest boss fight I've seen in a Souls game. Finally got to a point thought where I feel like I really have a number of options of where to go next.

[Signe]

Will they all come back later?

[Velorath]

I would imagine so, but I'm not sure. It takes a while to even get to the point where they stop respawning. I was running through one section repeatedly because I kept dying. It wasn't a particularly hard area but I was on half health and hadn't upgraded my estus flask yet either. Plus it was right near a bonfire so I wasn't particularly worried about losing progress. After around the 10th time (estimating, have no idea exactly how many times it was) the first few enemies that I had killed the most were surprisingly not there.

Also one other change from previous games, each time you die your max health goes down a bit until it gets to 50%. It doesn't immediately go down to 50% from one death like in previous games. Think you still need to be at full to summon other people though.

[Ghambit]

So I bought this game for 360.  Got a 3-month sub.  Did all that pre-planning for the ring/covenant, aaaaaand the servers dont work (havent all day).  So no soapstones, no hints, no ghosts, no coop, none of that.  Fail.  This is not a game that feels right w/o the servers up.

[Velorath]

Servers seem to be working ok on the PS3 although I haven't tried to summon or invade anyone yet.

[Yegolev]

If it doesn't send you explicitly to Offline Mode, the servers are working.

I played this long enough to wonder why I am seeing somewhat-inaccurate info from various people.

From this thread: it is true that Jump defaults to L3, but it can be toggled to good ol' B just like Dark Souls.

[Signe]

One of the little signs told me to dash and then press B to jump.  I still fell to my death three times.  I've been doing too much gaming on the PC and my controller skills have suffered.  The servers were offline for me all of yesterday.  Hopefully, they'll be up today.

[Yegolev]

Apparently I skipped the tutorial areas.

[Ghambit]

Apparently I skipped the tutorial areas.

And hence missed about 5k souls.   

[Yegolev]

More concerned about items than souls, but yes.

[Ghambit]

FYI:  Amazon has the guide up for $20.  More than worth it.  Should be a $75 book.

[Yegolev]

Book?  Where's the fun in that?

[schild]

Book?  Where's the fun in that?

For real, we didn't have a book when a bunch of us imported Demon's Souls (before I shoved it down Atlus' neck for months until they looked at the fucking thing).

[Bann]

Im enjoying the hell out this. My wife is getting a little tired of me singing about it. (To the tune of the demons souls intro:)DARK SOULS. TWO-OOOO. DAAAAA AAARRRK. SOOOOOO OOOOULLLLS. TWO-OOOOOH-OOOOH-OOOOH---OOOHHHH-oooh. *drum solo*

[Ghambit]

Book?  Where's the fun in that?

I'll be doing the 1st playthrough largely w/o it.  I typically scribe my own maps; I just dont feel like doing it this time (time, which I do not have).  Regardless, seriously... this is a LOT of quality book for $20.
Also, given the new coop system it's tough to avoid spoilers from friends.  I could disable voip I guess, but then what's the point? 

Btw, early indicators are w/o coop (or minimally the guide) it's near impossible to get very far.

[Yegolev]

Playing with friends is a mix.  Today I heard "What cat?" from someone that was playing for several hours longer than me.  There is always the trick of hanging up or putting your fingers in your ears.

If not for friends playing this at the same time, I'd just wait for it to be free on PSPlus.

[Velorath]

Three bosses downed so far.

[Falconeer]

Book?  Where's the fun in that?

For real, we didn't have a book when a bunch of us imported Demon's Souls (before I shoved it down Atlus' neck for months until they looked at the fucking thing).

I got the book but only because I am a fetishist. I did the same for Dark Souls. But I refuse to open it until I am done with the game.

[apocrypha]

6 week PC delay silver lining: by the time I get to play the wiki will be useful. 

[Velorath]

Continuing to make decent progress. Went back and dropped a boss I had problems with earlier, and am close to beating another. Playing as a Bandit since I focused on DEX and Bows last game as well and found it fun, but part of me always regrets not going for magic. I'm tempted to start another thread for spoilers, at least for talking about the first few hours of the game in more detail but I feel like there's only three other people here who have the game right now.