Demon's Souls - Catch All

Dyni wrote:
casual_alcoholic wrote:
Stele wrote:
casual_alcoholic wrote:

It was a pain, but I managed to get all of the ore trophies (sharpstone, bladestone, cloudstone, etc). If anyone needs to hold any of the weapons for the achievement, I'd be more than happy to help you out. I don't know how to do it though, so someone would have to explain it to me.

What level are you?

I think you just drop the weapon on the ground, we pick it up, then drop it back to you. Just have to be within 10-15 levels and then figure out a nice out-of-the way place to drop blue stones

I'm 122 at the moment.

I think I'm 106ish atm. Any time this weekend to help a brotha out? :)

I'll be on Sunday if you can do it then.

Dirt wrote:
casual_alcoholic wrote:

You guys are gonna absolutely hate me. Pure Bladestone dropped on my very first BP Dual Katana Black Skeleton.

What's your name? I'd like to... *ahem* meet you.

Haha it's right in my sig!

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I'll should be available be on Sunday anytime that is not the Jets/Patriots game, which I think is 4:30-8 EST. I'll check here with you to coordinate something.

Dyni wrote:

I'll should be available be on Sunday anytime that is not the Jets/Patriots game, which I think is 4:30-8 EST. I'll check here with you to coordinate something.

Gonna set up my PS3 and add you as a friend. Do you want to meet up in vent sometime tomorrow and figure it out from there?

Am I the only one that has a bluetooth earpiece for cellphone/PS3 chat?

Stele wrote:

Am I the only one that has a bluetooth earpiece for cellphone/PS3 chat?

I got one with Warhawk when I picked it up, but I'm one of the unfortunate people that can't use the majority of in-ear devices because my ears are too small so it was useless to me. Hopefully I'll be able to find a headset instead.

Edit: Screw it, I just snagged one off Amazon finally.

By the way, can you even use a headset for Demon's Souls?

casual_alcoholic wrote:
Dyni wrote:

I'll should be available be on Sunday anytime that is not the Jets/Patriots game, which I think is 4:30-8 EST. I'll check here with you to coordinate something.

Gonna set up my PS3 and add you as a friend. Do you want to meet up in vent sometime tomorrow and figure it out from there?

Sounds good to me. Will you be around later in the evening? Maybe 9 or 10ish EST?

Edit: I don't have a Bluetooth headset for my PS3. I didn't really have any friends that played PS3 games online until recently.

casual_alcoholic wrote:

By the way, can you even use a headset for Demon's Souls?

Don't think there's any in-game. But you can start a voice chat with people on your friend list, which is what we would need to do to meet up. Or text chat I guess, but that's just slower.

Gonna hop on vent and start playing Demon's Souls, if anyone wants the items tonight just hop on vent and come shout at me!

Hey Stele, I left a lot of my weapons with Dyni because he's a lower level, so you can get them from him now if you want. Should be easier. I left the Bladestone and Cloudstone ones in partuclar, and quite a few more, but those two are by far the most difficult to farm.

Oh cool. Dyni still 106? I think I'm like 88 or so, but it's been a few weeks since I played.

Hey Dyni if you're still awake you should hop on vent, I got the Insanity Catalyst.

Big thanks to casual_alcoholic for helping me with the weapon trophies. That's many, many hours of saved farming. Stele, I'm 108 now, so you should be in range. Let me know if/when you want to meet up to trade what I have.

Wow, NG+ is about 10x easier than the first play through. It's like cheats have been turned on or something. Once you know the strats for each level and boss, the game is incredibly easy. I've flown through 4 and a half of the 5 worlds in just a few hours. All I have left are 1-3 and 1-4. The platinum is in reach! Speaking of which, has anyone actually gotten the Platinum yet? How hard is NG++ and NG+++, those are what I'm really worried about. I feel like my equipment and skills have hit sort of a ceiling, which is great at the moment, but is going to be hard again. Can never be too careful with this game.

Also, I've learned the awfulness that is rolling a female character when there's gender specific armor. I feel like some of the best armor in the game is off limits to me. Does anyone know what the best set of gear is for a female character?

casual_alcoholic wrote:

Wow, NG+ is about 10x easier than the first play through. It's like cheats have been turned on or something. Once you know the strats for each level and boss, the game is incredibly easy. I've flown through 4 and a half of the 5 worlds in just a few hours. All I have left are 1-3 and 1-4. The platinum is in reach! Speaking of which, has anyone actually gotten the Platinum yet? How hard is NG++ and NG+++, those are what I'm really worried about. I feel like my equipment and skills have hit sort of a ceiling, which is great at the moment, but is going to be hard again. Can never be too careful with this game.

According to the wiki, NG+ is a 40% bump from NG, but then every subsequent + only adds +8% difficulty.

casual_alcoholic wrote:

Also, I've learned the awfulness that is rolling a female character when there's gender specific armor. I feel like some of the best armor in the game is off limits to me. Does anyone know what the best set of gear is for a female character?

Oh man.... totally agree. I wear the binded set, for what its worth.

Personally I wear what looks good. I got a vampire hunter d kind of look I was sporting for a while. Now I got twin fang mix up look.

RoughneckGeek wrote:
casual_alcoholic wrote:

Wow, NG+ is about 10x easier than the first play through. It's like cheats have been turned on or something. Once you know the strats for each level and boss, the game is incredibly easy. I've flown through 4 and a half of the 5 worlds in just a few hours. All I have left are 1-3 and 1-4. The platinum is in reach! Speaking of which, has anyone actually gotten the Platinum yet?

I had the same reaction. I could tell there was a good step up in the amount of damage I took when hit, but by NG+ I knew the levels well enough that getting hit wasn't a frequent occurrence like it was the first time through. Each NG+ after that first wasn't as big or noticeable a jump. I finished up my platinum last January. I could look through this thread to find the date... but that would take more effort than I wish to expend. Basically as soon as I got the pure bladestone to drop I finished my last trophy... everything else had been done for a week prior to that.

casual_alcoholic wrote:

Also, I've learned the awfulness that is rolling a female character when there's gender specific armor. I feel like some of the best armor in the game is off limits to me. Does anyone know what the best set of gear is for a female character?

I find that amusing because the gender specific items I found interesting were all female specific and I couldn't use them.

I think I just really wanted to wear King Doran's Armor.

RoughneckGeek wrote:

I find that amusing because the gender specific items I found interesting were all female specific and I couldn't use them.

Heh, same here. I messed around with a male magician to SL 30 or so before settling on my female knight. I was pretty upset when I realized I couldn't use these.

Stele, I'm sitting on about 400k souls atm and I'm scared to set foot anywhere other than the Nexus before spending them. I think I'll be a few levels out of range to trade with you if I spend them all now, so are you free tonight or tomorrow to set something up? SL 109, btw.

Edit: Man, this is a dangerous game to play after spending a bunch of time with Assassin's Creed. I've almost attacked NPCs 3 times now from trying to run with R1.

Re: Gender-specific armor - It does indeed suck that females miss out on Doran's armor. I really like Selen's armor, so that's what I run around in. I used a combination of the Binded and Rogue's sets before I got my Endurance high enough to move quickly in Selen's. I believe it's called the Dull Gold Set.

The flipside is Female characters get the Ragged set, which is by far the best armor for World 5 as it has the highest disease resistance in the game. The Rogue's set is also pretty good and female only.

One of my favorite web comics, Ctrl+Alt+Del has been doing strips on Demon's Souls recently. They start here: A test of faith

NG++ is hard again. Even if it was a slight increase, it was just enough to make flamelurker a painfully difficult fight again.

Maneater is not fun on NG+++. I'm honestly not sure I'm going to be able to get this platinum afterall.

casual_alcoholic wrote:

Maneater is not fun on NG+++. I'm honestly not sure I'm going to be able to get this platinum afterall.

Believe! I just hopped back in last night and am about to finish my 2nd playthrough. Why is Maneater giving you so much trouble this time?

Dyni wrote:
casual_alcoholic wrote:

Maneater is not fun on NG+++. I'm honestly not sure I'm going to be able to get this platinum afterall.

Believe! I just hopped back in last night and am about to finish my 2nd playthrough. Why is Maneater giving you so much trouble this time?

I persevered. I always have trouble finishing off the first one before the second arrives. A lot of time it felt like luck, but once I managed to strike the finishing blow, it was easy. I have no problem fighting one of them. but yeh....

I got the Platinum! Very excited. This game surprised the sh*t out of me, and I never would have imagined it would be my third Platinum trophy. The game is just so incredibly well done. Thanks for all the help and advice, I feel like early on I was in this forum every 10 minutes asking another question, and you guys came through for me. I feel like every game I play for the next few months is going to be really weird to me. Getting hit and only taking a tiny amount of damage is going to feel foreign and strange.

Maneater wasn't a problem for me. However, I did have to fight him a couple of times because of a glitch where one of the maneaters would get lost and I had to reload the level.

Do you think the Land of the Giants was cut in post? I just noticed that one of the archstones is broken and the land is mentioned in the intro. Too bad it didn't get added in DLC or something. That would have been awesome.

I just watched the Project Dark trailer, there's no way in hell Project Dark isn't Demon's Souls 2 from those brief clips. Can't wait. Nice to see it coming to 360 as well, I'd love to see this franchise get even more fans. Although I'm not sure 360 has the audience for it.

casual_alcoholic wrote:

Do you think the Land of the Giants was cut in post? I just noticed that one of the archstones is broken and the land is mentioned in the intro. Too bad it didn't get added in DLC or something. That would have been awesome.

I think so. I'm betting the tower knight and the blind hero were from the land of the giants.

@All

An article on Joystiq announcing that Project Dark's name has changed to Dark Souls http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/01/da....

It will have a full release in both North America and Europe.

Aaaaaaiiiiiieeeee!!!!! I am SO excited by this latest news.

From Software is planning to make Dark Souls as difficult as its predecessor, and similar in style.

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