I was underleveled at the time like around 76 and resorted what I call the 'being a bitch' strategy. I literally just sprinted away from him the entire fight to bait out his jump attack which was the only one I could reliably punish with jump attacks. It took over 10 minutes but got it done in the end haha.
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Ramming my head against Malenia now, running two colossal swords against her feels almost impossible.
Pretty sure I had multiple dreams about boss fights last night.
Character is slowly starting to come together. Got Glintstone Shard, got a weapon that scales with intelligence and finally beaten the Tree Sentinel!
Bell Bearing hunters should be renamed to Ball Breaking hunters. feck these guys
Rya's posture makes me suspicious. Oddball.
Best strategy i found was stay close to them, the close range moves are nowhere near as annoying as his stupid levitating sword when you back off.
I second this. Those sith force power attacks are the killer. They also seem to stagger easy so just get up close and go to town on them.
Actually with mimic tear i didnt think she was All that bad.
I'm trying with bloodhound fang right now.
I encountered a boss called Niall 
He was pretty hard.
He was pretty hard.
He isI encountered a boss called Niall
He was pretty hard.
Going on YT and watching people beating all bosses at level 1 using nothing but a tiny wooden stick and wearing a diaper makes me feel like a noob.
Not playing much of late but played tonight and fought
a few times and his third phase just destroys me. I basically do no damage to him, is there a gimmick to the fight?
fire giant
There is:
In the first phase, hit his left ankle until you destroy what's on there.
In the second phase, attack the right wrist for the same purpose.
In the second phase, attack the right wrist for the same purpose.
71hrs in, and I keep trying I really do. I keep changing weapons and play styles, but my god I'm just so bored.
It's just so very bland and dull. "oh look, there's a cool looking area!" run over, oh it's just another mini-dungeon that has a status effect type that is more tedious than hard and...what's this?...oh, it's a reskinned boss and for it all you'll get nothing of value. The balances are all wrong, the "content" is mostly superficial and the worst thing a souls game can do, it's just so forgettable. I've beaten so many bosses, been to so many areas, and yet nothing is imprinted on my brain.
Absolutely no disrespect to people who haven't played a souls and love this or even to those that have and still do, but it's not a forward step it's more an attempt to jump on a trend. On that front, there are positives, it still plays more or less like a souls and there are some, albeit misguided, attempts at altering the formula...but unfortunately, exactly like 2, it has no real direction or path it's a throw shit at the wall and see what sticks approach rather than a focused new direction. And for the love of god...CHANGE THE TRASHCAN ENGINE! Any other company releasing a game with the same engine with the same bugs from over 10 years ago would get shit for it. Somehow FROM have some mystical power that lets people overlook just how bad it is, especially the fact that both Sekiro and DS3 managed to do a better job at covering them
People are using the bloodfang and all the OP weapons/summons/magic to go through this game thinking it's great. Nothing wrong with that, but it 100% skews the enjoyment towards "oh this is ok". But if you don't play it like that and want to enjoy the roots of souls, then this is way off. It's just so unbalanced, bland and uninspired.
I blame that lazy prick G.R.R.Martin. I mean the best thing he came up with was changing "souls" to "runes" which is way less interesting and ominous sounding. Useless prick.
It's just so very bland and dull. "oh look, there's a cool looking area!" run over, oh it's just another mini-dungeon that has a status effect type that is more tedious than hard and...what's this?...oh, it's a reskinned boss and for it all you'll get nothing of value. The balances are all wrong, the "content" is mostly superficial and the worst thing a souls game can do, it's just so forgettable. I've beaten so many bosses, been to so many areas, and yet nothing is imprinted on my brain.
Absolutely no disrespect to people who haven't played a souls and love this or even to those that have and still do, but it's not a forward step it's more an attempt to jump on a trend. On that front, there are positives, it still plays more or less like a souls and there are some, albeit misguided, attempts at altering the formula...but unfortunately, exactly like 2, it has no real direction or path it's a throw shit at the wall and see what sticks approach rather than a focused new direction. And for the love of god...CHANGE THE TRASHCAN ENGINE! Any other company releasing a game with the same engine with the same bugs from over 10 years ago would get shit for it. Somehow FROM have some mystical power that lets people overlook just how bad it is, especially the fact that both Sekiro and DS3 managed to do a better job at covering them
People are using the bloodfang and all the OP weapons/summons/magic to go through this game thinking it's great. Nothing wrong with that, but it 100% skews the enjoyment towards "oh this is ok". But if you don't play it like that and want to enjoy the roots of souls, then this is way off. It's just so unbalanced, bland and uninspired.
I blame that lazy prick G.R.R.Martin. I mean the best thing he came up with was changing "souls" to "runes" which is way less interesting and ominous sounding. Useless prick.
Friendship ended with Moonveil, Blasphemous blade is my new best friend.
Seriously what a weapon - a weapon art that reigns down fire, with crazy range, damage, AND the weapon heals you every time you kill something. Pair it with the axe and talisman that restores FP on kills and I basically never have to flask outside of boss battles.
I'll be very annoyed if they nerf this after doing my moonveil dirty
Seriously what a weapon - a weapon art that reigns down fire, with crazy range, damage, AND the weapon heals you every time you kill something. Pair it with the axe and talisman that restores FP on kills and I basically never have to flask outside of boss battles.
I'll be very annoyed if they nerf this after doing my moonveil dirty
The Bloodhound Fang is OP and fun to use. FYI The 10s clip is late-game.
Not sure how actively involved he was with the writing but the lore is pretty great.
I would guess almost nothing. I doubt miyazaki would have given up that much control at all.
GRRM has a sweet deal these days, sits around doing feck all getting credit for other people's work, rolling in money and trolling fans about TWoW
Milenia is a fecking joke. I'm like 50 tries in and still dying to her second form
He wrote the "mythos" behind the lore years ago and that was it. Beyond that it's all Miyazaki. GRRM's name has been over-used for marketing and hype reasons.
I'd say if you asked GRRM to name 3 characters from the game he'd struggle.
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He struggles with the lore behind all of his stories
He got overruled on a number of issues covered in Fire and Blood, which was actually written by two other people
If you can get to her second phase without using mimic or other spirit summons, you're already a gaming god in my eyes.
Still worth continuing to upgrade my Mimic post nerf? Or should I be switching to another? I have less than 100 FP which seems to rule a lot of them out.
Mimic is still great, it doesn’t spam specials like it used to but is still OP.
The black knife tiche is stronger IMO, but issue is it uses 132fp. You can bypass this by chucking in a cerulean hidden tear into your flash of wonderous physick and chug it so it doesn't cost fp.
Otherwise mimic is still very good post nerf. It doesn't do as much damage as pre-patch, but still tanky enough to keep aggro off you and not die too soon at +10, which is what you want it to do. It's just no longer capable of soloing bosses. It's super strong if you're both running bleed weapons too.
This is the answer to the Melania problem. Using rivers of blood me and the mimic just spammed the special attack for first phase. Second phase was more of the same with a lot more care taken to avoid her rot attacks.
I’m still having a lot of fun with this game. I like games that reward backtracking out of pure curiosity, especially when the level/world design is impeccable.
I hope there’s DLC areas to this game. The map itself seems to have a lot of clouds unnecessarily covering the water parts…
And I can see parts of the lore that are GRRM-like. One of the crafting items is undoubtedly an ASOIAF reference to Tywin Lannister (it didn’t make it into the TV show), which got a brief laugh out of me.
I hope there’s DLC areas to this game. The map itself seems to have a lot of clouds unnecessarily covering the water parts…
And I can see parts of the lore that are GRRM-like. One of the crafting items is undoubtedly an ASOIAF reference to Tywin Lannister (it didn’t make it into the TV show), which got a brief laugh out of me.
I've been laughing to myself at the GRRM marketing all through the game so far. So glad they got this famous writer in to come up with all the dragons, crabs, big knights in armor, characters like Patches, themes about death/rebirth and inevitable decay, the main quest about restoring a fallen world or perhaps abandoning it entirely with some lady helper to upgrade you, etc etc.
It's Dark Souls 4 and nobody can tell me otherwise. Which, to be clear, is a wonderful thing.
Think I might be just about done with it. I just can’t catch the bug. Admittedly I think it’s partly my fault for trying too many of the big game releases at once to the point where I now can’t bd arsed to play any of them. That being said I just cannot get it to click with me. I spent half an hour last night battleing through Stormveil castle looting and killing things. Then I finally died to a big creature and I just lack the motivation to go again.
It gets a lot better after Stormveil tbh.
Heh, I'd actually disagree. Stormveil is easily my favourite dungeon, though I haven't done the last two. Royal Capital is great too though. The game is easily as its best for me in the legacy dungeons, the open world can get a bit tiring at times. I would say if someone isn't loving Stormveil then the game probably isn't for them.
"Legacy dungeons."
Isn't that just a fancy term for level or area?
Isn't that just a fancy term for level or area?
Does it? Does it really?
Because it doesn't seem like it does. I'm much further than Stormveil, and apart from a few small moments of Souls (like the start of Caria Manor), I've yet to actually find the game being any different of matching the Margit fight for anything remotely interesting.
"Legacy dungeons."
Isn't that just a fancy term for level or area?
It means the best parts of the game that are done better in DS1/DS3 and BB. Hell, even DS2 DLC is above this.
Redlambs 2 weeks ago after playing the game for 20 hours: “this game sucks feck you all for enjoying it I’m done with it”
redlambs 2 days ago after playing the game for 70 hours: “this game sucks feck you all for enjoying it I’m done with it”
redlambs 2 days ago after playing the game for 70 hours: “this game sucks feck you all for enjoying it I’m done with it”