Dark Souls

I'm basically skim ignoring most of the hints, s'ok. Apart from sport's – I'm breezing through it with his pro tips. eZ.

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Sorted Moonlight Butterfly. Decided to give the scythe a whirl. That's fun. Ridiculous reach. Just discovered some old doors in Undead Burg I hadn't unlocked, one of which eventually led me to the Capra Demon whom I instantly got mailed by. Enough for this evening. Figure him out tmrw but his dogs look like real assholes.

Yeah, he would be much easier without his stupid dogs.

The most important reason to go through that door is to join my favourite little PvP covenant (although I'm not sure how busy it will be any more...)

Yeah nah Bed of Chaos

I think there's something to say for DS1's immediacy for replays. I think it's relatively easy to just boot up and get going. I'm currently making my way through Elden Ring, and while I'm having a great time with it (I'm playing with the Persistant Coop Mod), it just feels vast.

The first time I managed to kill Capra's dogs, I then killed him straight away.

Think battling through the Catacombs without a Divine weapon was a) a stupid thing to do, especially as since then I've had two traders tell me to take divine gear to stop the skellies respawning, and b) the wrong order to do things in – felt quite OP v Capra; basically picked him off by waiting for him to swing and boffing him with my scythe.

One hits on all the goons in Depths too. Also finally found the sorcerer chap and now have magic other than my Pyro fireball. I've got a nice balance between fairly damaging weapon and ranged attack. Nice combo.

Re: Capra vs Bed of Chaos: at least Bed of Chaos

They also hate fire

Always seemed like you're suppose to do Catacombs early as Pinwheel is a complete pushover otherwise

Capra is just dead easy. It's only the dogs that make life hard. Reckon they realised he was too easy and stuck adds in

I'm a bit weird and always liked the Bed of Chaos. The first time I couldn't not appreciate the escalating panic of what was happening to the floor coupled with the reveal of the Chaos Flame, its creepy scream and increasing attack repertoire. Having it end how it does, showing what the Witch had finally become was also as memorable as King Alant's final reveal to me.

On repeat playthroughs I had assumed that all its crappiness would come to the fore, but still that wasn't the case. Any video I watch of people fighting that battle has them running madly and jumping over pits without the one thing they would normally do with ANY OTHER BOSS: watch it to see its tells. Watch the damn thing then you know what it will do! Tank those arms first one way then the other as they sweep if you have the poise/good shield, or wait and run at the right time, stopping in safe(ish) points just outside the arms reach. No jumping is required, even with that last drop.

While certainly not a top tier boss, I only rail against the almost universal opinion that it is one of the worst bosses ever for my above reasons.

Capra is shite not just because of the dogs and tiny arena. The music is awful, though the discordant mess suits the Centipede Demon who shares his theme; and the boss itself is just dull to fight one on one. It is the only humanoid enemy that can't be parried or backstabbed...why?! You therefore have to either A) tediously run in circles attempting to repeatedly drop attack him off the stairs B) dodge roll his attacks, something made frustrating by both his ridiculous tracking on some of his bigger hits and that damn tree getting in the way, or C) poise up and tank his hits on a massive shield, not exactly a riveting way to do it but gets the job done.
Oh and D) throw actual crap at him over the fog door. He deserves it.
Meeting multiple version of him later highlight how dull he is to fight as I can guarantee you are already bored fighting him by the second or third one in a row of that long queue of wretched Capras.

Sorry if I have banged on about this before, I can't exactly recall.

I rolled a new character in DS1 remaster because I realised I’d left my STR bandit-knight guy back on my x360 save, and only had a DEX character with Uchi on the remastered version. I’ve been playing “blind” and just trying to remember where to go- bearing in mind I only completed it once on x360 and once on XBone, never managed multiple rerolls or NG+. I know my way around, but maybe not what order to do things in.

Anyway, I did the gargoyles and figured I’d go back to the Undead Asylum for a look around. That was a mistake- I’m getting absolutely walloped by and doing sod all damage in return, with my basic un-upgraded club. Guess I’ve lost the humanity and souls I was carrying.

I was going to try the skeleton path next but I’m a bit scared, might upgrade my stuff and try the gardens instead.

Edit- nvm, fucked up the skellies and got the Zweihander