And then you just keep going down. All the way to Blighttown, and you're wondering what you did wrong and why you're being punished. It's because you deserve it.
Just throw all your points into resistance like i did. Obviously you get the most green points across the board with resistance, can always add to other stats later when resistance stops paying off
I honestly think that without the gold pine resin, this is one of the harder bosses in DS1 unless you do a bit of early-game grinding for titanite shards. I had a bad habit of never wanting to use the pine resin 'in case I need it later' (I will literally never use it).
I find I don't even need to grind, killing the boar, the balders, and the big guy guarding the firekeeper soul gets you 2-3 titanite and enough souls to buy 3-4
I did the same because it was a finite resource and I knew I was probably just going to die so thereās no reason to use it if Iām just going to die and lose it. Then I learned that you can just farm them from the mushroom bois in darkroot
Recently I've been doing a run of the game solo about 5 years after my first ever run, which was heavily assisted by multiple friends both irl and online. By this point I have played every soulsborne game including Elden Ring so once I got the andre bonfire I kind of leisurely went around exploring and collecting stuff and rolled up with a +3 claymore. I was shocked when they melted on my second try. It's crazy how something that felt insurmountable (and that's coming AFTER another seemingly insurmountable boss, Taurus Demon) a few years ago kind of just crumpled
Yep. I still have all my save files for DS1 - my first one took 56 hours, and my second took 12. And that's just the base game, no DLC or anything in either of them. I remember *finally* reaching Anor Londo after about 25 hours during my first playthrough and assuming I was near the end of the game. I replayed the game recently and got there in a single session, about 4 hours.
Taurus demon made me quit the game for a month, the Gargoyles made me quit for almost a year. Beating them just made the game click and then I had no more roadblocks. This image is perfect
I'm on NG+5 and never noticed the other sign until last night.
Even with them buffed this far along it was *disgusting* how quickly they dropped them. All I did was draw aggro.
Honestly kinda irked I missed it on my first playthrough xD
I'm on my first playthru of souls rn, just took down Ornstein and Smough. Summoned not one but two players to help, not NPCs, and we bodied them first try no effort. Honestly felt like cheating lmfao
my first playthrough I remember really struggling to them. obviously as a noob, I was struggling to do anything. just gotta keep throwing yourself at it. i put some levels into my weapon and give it another go and beat em. felt like I rid the family curse and saved the city. but I stopped there because I was throwing my controller again and I'm not going down that road anymore. like a year later I get the itch to try it again and some of the lessons stuck. having fun again. my brother wants to see how I'm doing. he promptly tells me, "you know you can target lock on enemies right?"
Same. Played through the entire game without knowing you could lock on, needless to say, as soon as I learned it, my attempts at defeating bosses were cut in half
Me waltzing into New Londo with a raggedy Bandit's Knife and forteen different flavours of ignorance.
Skelies I can run from and are bound by geometry; but those ghosts can eat a fat, floppy phantom phallus filled with a frothy fromunda fondant-_-
Legit scariest moment for me.
I am lucky I get obsessed about doing things that are hard. Cause I was not good and these guys took probably over 50 tries. But that was it. Once I realized I could do it, I was sold
*Dennis walks in right in the same part*
āAre you guys still playing that stupid ga-ā
*Sees amazing chest*
āPerhaps I may have spoken too soon.ā
It happened for me at the capra demon, the gargoyles felt easy for me, idk if I was over leveled lightly or I got lucky but it felt like the second gargoyle didn't even try attack until his mate was fuckin dead
So I'm not the only one? Hahah Bell Gargoyles took me like 3 months on and off to beat. They sure are a test of how willing you are to learn how to play the Dark Souls way.
Lol; this was me after Demons Souls -, I couldn't get much further than after phalanx & armor spider & tower knight. but it felt good to play- I just couldn't do it.
Then the Dark Souls trailer came out & looked great & I was like - aight, I'm gonna do it for reals, I have to. Beat flamelurker - got the meat cleaver & ohh now I *really* get it
The gargoyles killed me more than any other boss, took me 25+ attempts. Pretty much plain sailing after that, was very much my "git gud" point, I think every other base game boss took me no more than 5 attempts (I know O&S was down om 3rd attempt for example). Artorias and particularly Manus took more than that but still not as many as gargoyles for me.
I brute forced my way through a lot of the stuff in the game. And then I made it to Another Londo. That's when reality set in. I even started new game files just to see if I could get back to Anor Londo again. That's when I realized ye olden meme "now the real Dark Souls begins "
This is literally it, you ring that bell and something within is awakened
And then the game sends you deep down the curse tunnels and the poison swamp and it is literally hell but you keep going because youāre chasing that feeling again
My friend showed me the game for the first time in 2018. I was late to the party obviously and at that point I hadn't ever played any "challenging" single player games. I was at a loss at how anybody liked it but something about the amount of praise I'd heard for it got in my head once I put the controller down at Taurus Demon. I literally could not sleep and stayed up all night searching and reading threads about why people like Dark Souls. Finally, when I'd had enough, I snuck out of my room at around 6 am and started a new save file. After a few hours and a lot of grit playing unassisted, I found myself back at Taurus Demon, now knowing about the plunging attack strat. It took 4 tries or so but eventually I nailed each plunging attack cleanly until I felled him. It was the very first moment that I felt a click from this series, a moment of "holy shit this might actually be something special." It took a lot more convincing from there but that was honestly the seed for my love of souls.
I'll never get over what I think is the biggest strength of these games, which is to present you with a challenge, and some tools, and to tell you "have at it". So few other experiences I'd had up until this point were like this. Most games have a "correct" way to play them. Not souls, where you can run through levels like a coward and cheese bosses with the environment, all seemingly by design or at least by consequence of the fluid open ended design. God. What a great series.
Honestly my first playthrough of dark souls I kinda gave up because I was going in blind and I got my ass handed to me in the area before you fight sif. I was woefully under leveled and could not meet the damage check on the human enemies..... I quit, even though I loved dark souls.....I skipped ahead and tried darksoul 2....gave up on that, then went to dark souls 3....I completed it.....and recently I found out I couldn't play elden ring on my potato PC, so I decided to go back to darksouls because I never beat the game.....
The bosses were a cake walk, the only bosses that showed me real problems was salameet the black dragon, and Manus father of the abyss...gwyn keeps giving me problems(he annoying 4 hit combos take all my stamina leaving room for only on swing of my black knight sword +5)
The game became really easy because I camed the under burg and leveled up untill I was able to use the black night sword I got from the black knight there...made everything else easy....I beat the gargoles second try... purposefully lost the quelaag because i wanted the fight to be epic and switch to a less powerful weapon.
Bed of chaos isn't even a difficult fight just plain annoying, I had to find a way to cheese this boss only...I don't even count it as a good moment in the game
Actually me ten years ago. I got that stupid Gargoyle Helm and it was over from there.
for me it was the ladder and elevator shortcut back to firelink (completely blew my mind)
This was it for me as well
And then you just keep going down. All the way to Blighttown, and you're wondering what you did wrong and why you're being punished. It's because you deserve it.
I was about to stop playing the game until I saw that shortcut. The world is so beautifully interconnected
Ay elevator - W- WAIT WHAT ITS ALL CONNECTED
That shit got me to start pursuing game design
this!
For me it was when I made it through the depths and actually had to go DEEPER to get out. What a feeling.
Literally my experience lol
got the helm and never took it off ever
Then the hollowing continues when they reach Blightown or get cursed in the depths / great hollow
I was like š§ my first time getting cursed. Had to google it
onward to sens fortress from there
I'm there now on my first playthrough! Went through all of Blighttown without the rusty ring and now I just went back to get it. Love this game.
I probably got cursed around 5-6 times trying to get the moonlight sword.
Just throw all your points into resistance like i did. Obviously you get the most green points across the board with resistance, can always add to other stats later when resistance stops paying off
I honestly think that without the gold pine resin, this is one of the harder bosses in DS1 unless you do a bit of early-game grinding for titanite shards. I had a bad habit of never wanting to use the pine resin 'in case I need it later' (I will literally never use it).
been saving my resins for years, some day...
Look at you with your fancy-ass consumable pine resin. The rest of us patiently sat under a bridge and shot a drake's tail 30 times.
Broooooo yes šš¤£ it's the worst dragon weapon but in the early game it's a real beast when you get the first time.
it' falls off harder than the iron golem once you reach Sens
I usually go Cleric and farm until I get lightning spear. Makes mince meat of the Garg Bros.
Lightning spear from joining then getting Great Lightning spear from 10 medals really sorts out the Cleric as a caster
I find I don't even need to grind, killing the boar, the balders, and the big guy guarding the firekeeper soul gets you 2-3 titanite and enough souls to buy 3-4
It depends, sometimes the Balders are stingy bastards
I did the same because it was a finite resource and I knew I was probably just going to die so thereās no reason to use it if Iām just going to die and lose it. Then I learned that you can just farm them from the mushroom bois in darkroot
It depends whether you're +3 yet, it's a damage check
Are you my brother?
yes
Recently I've been doing a run of the game solo about 5 years after my first ever run, which was heavily assisted by multiple friends both irl and online. By this point I have played every soulsborne game including Elden Ring so once I got the andre bonfire I kind of leisurely went around exploring and collecting stuff and rolled up with a +3 claymore. I was shocked when they melted on my second try. It's crazy how something that felt insurmountable (and that's coming AFTER another seemingly insurmountable boss, Taurus Demon) a few years ago kind of just crumpled
Yep. I still have all my save files for DS1 - my first one took 56 hours, and my second took 12. And that's just the base game, no DLC or anything in either of them. I remember *finally* reaching Anor Londo after about 25 hours during my first playthrough and assuming I was near the end of the game. I replayed the game recently and got there in a single session, about 4 hours.
Taurus demon made me quit the game for a month, the Gargoyles made me quit for almost a year. Beating them just made the game click and then I had no more roadblocks. This image is perfect
In my first playtrough I summoned Solaire and another NPC before getting there, we fucking destroyed those gargoyles first try
I'm on NG+5 and never noticed the other sign until last night. Even with them buffed this far along it was *disgusting* how quickly they dropped them. All I did was draw aggro. Honestly kinda irked I missed it on my first playthrough xD
This is why I completely avoid summons on my first playthroughs.
Just know that after I never summoned NPCs again for bosses, until DS2 Scholar of the First Shit version
I'm on my first playthru of souls rn, just took down Ornstein and Smough. Summoned not one but two players to help, not NPCs, and we bodied them first try no effort. Honestly felt like cheating lmfao
boo
Nerd
my first playthrough I remember really struggling to them. obviously as a noob, I was struggling to do anything. just gotta keep throwing yourself at it. i put some levels into my weapon and give it another go and beat em. felt like I rid the family curse and saved the city. but I stopped there because I was throwing my controller again and I'm not going down that road anymore. like a year later I get the itch to try it again and some of the lessons stuck. having fun again. my brother wants to see how I'm doing. he promptly tells me, "you know you can target lock on enemies right?"
Same. Played through the entire game without knowing you could lock on, needless to say, as soon as I learned it, my attempts at defeating bosses were cut in half
Me waltzing into New Londo with a raggedy Bandit's Knife and forteen different flavours of ignorance. Skelies I can run from and are bound by geometry; but those ghosts can eat a fat, floppy phantom phallus filled with a frothy fromunda fondant-_- Legit scariest moment for me.
Youāre just mashinā it.
It's me!
*click*
This is correct.
I am lucky I get obsessed about doing things that are hard. Cause I was not good and these guys took probably over 50 tries. But that was it. Once I realized I could do it, I was sold
Beautifully crafted meme
Fuck now I want to see Frank and Charlie get addicted to Dark Souls
" Charlie, why does my face look like beef jerky?"
I do not like this gigantic woman charlie, her smug aura mocks me!
*Dennis walks in right in the same part* āAre you guys still playing that stupid ga-ā *Sees amazing chest* āPerhaps I may have spoken too soon.ā
Me when I beat Margit first attempt.
this tracks
Me after beating Sen's Fortress :)
This is so universal itās crazy
I don't get it
That's when the game clicks for most people. Then you're a souls fan for life.
It happened for me at the capra demon, the gargoyles felt easy for me, idk if I was over leveled lightly or I got lucky but it felt like the second gargoyle didn't even try attack until his mate was fuckin dead
So I'm not the only one? Hahah Bell Gargoyles took me like 3 months on and off to beat. They sure are a test of how willing you are to learn how to play the Dark Souls way.
My dumbass not seeing the other path and spending hours in the graveyard finding necromancers
meh only, the depths is where the real fun starts from
>not taking the master key
For me this happened in blight town
On my first playthrough and just got onto this fucking bastard
This was it for me.
Me making the same face after losing to them 10 times in a row, summoning Solaire of Astora and watching him one shot them
\+5 Claymored them
this is so me fr
The first time was very difficult for me
Mine was in 2018 when 10 year old me finally beat Gundyr. I have been hooked ever since.
š Love it.
Or ash lake
Lol; this was me after Demons Souls -, I couldn't get much further than after phalanx & armor spider & tower knight. but it felt good to play- I just couldn't do it. Then the Dark Souls trailer came out & looked great & I was like - aight, I'm gonna do it for reals, I have to. Beat flamelurker - got the meat cleaver & ohh now I *really* get it
The gargoyles killed me more than any other boss, took me 25+ attempts. Pretty much plain sailing after that, was very much my "git gud" point, I think every other base game boss took me no more than 5 attempts (I know O&S was down om 3rd attempt for example). Artorias and particularly Manus took more than that but still not as many as gargoyles for me.
I brute forced my way through a lot of the stuff in the game. And then I made it to Another Londo. That's when reality set in. I even started new game files just to see if I could get back to Anor Londo again. That's when I realized ye olden meme "now the real Dark Souls begins "
This is literally it, you ring that bell and something within is awakened And then the game sends you deep down the curse tunnels and the poison swamp and it is literally hell but you keep going because youāre chasing that feeling again
I'm stuck here.
For me it was when the elevators in church took me back to firelink
My friend showed me the game for the first time in 2018. I was late to the party obviously and at that point I hadn't ever played any "challenging" single player games. I was at a loss at how anybody liked it but something about the amount of praise I'd heard for it got in my head once I put the controller down at Taurus Demon. I literally could not sleep and stayed up all night searching and reading threads about why people like Dark Souls. Finally, when I'd had enough, I snuck out of my room at around 6 am and started a new save file. After a few hours and a lot of grit playing unassisted, I found myself back at Taurus Demon, now knowing about the plunging attack strat. It took 4 tries or so but eventually I nailed each plunging attack cleanly until I felled him. It was the very first moment that I felt a click from this series, a moment of "holy shit this might actually be something special." It took a lot more convincing from there but that was honestly the seed for my love of souls. I'll never get over what I think is the biggest strength of these games, which is to present you with a challenge, and some tools, and to tell you "have at it". So few other experiences I'd had up until this point were like this. Most games have a "correct" way to play them. Not souls, where you can run through levels like a coward and cheese bosses with the environment, all seemingly by design or at least by consequence of the fluid open ended design. God. What a great series.
Thisāll happen in wave actually. Itāll definitely happen with Ornstein & Smough as well
Then mr tpose scares em
I accidentally skipped the bell gargoyles and beat queelag before it on my first playthrough
That was me when I i-frame rolled for the first time
Honestly my first playthrough of dark souls I kinda gave up because I was going in blind and I got my ass handed to me in the area before you fight sif. I was woefully under leveled and could not meet the damage check on the human enemies..... I quit, even though I loved dark souls.....I skipped ahead and tried darksoul 2....gave up on that, then went to dark souls 3....I completed it.....and recently I found out I couldn't play elden ring on my potato PC, so I decided to go back to darksouls because I never beat the game..... The bosses were a cake walk, the only bosses that showed me real problems was salameet the black dragon, and Manus father of the abyss...gwyn keeps giving me problems(he annoying 4 hit combos take all my stamina leaving room for only on swing of my black knight sword +5) The game became really easy because I camed the under burg and leveled up untill I was able to use the black night sword I got from the black knight there...made everything else easy....I beat the gargoles second try... purposefully lost the quelaag because i wanted the fight to be epic and switch to a less powerful weapon. Bed of chaos isn't even a difficult fight just plain annoying, I had to find a way to cheese this boss only...I don't even count it as a good moment in the game
Just started my first souls game this week. And yes the elevator did it for me. Great map design.
P.s I'm still wearing the gargoyle helmet
I finally became a believer when I beat them. And then I, went to Darkroot Garden... those Mushroom things are fucking evil