Poll: What platform will you be playing Dark Souls 2 on?
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Possible.Therumancer said:I would like to be able to play and beat an entire "souls" game without having to swing a weapon.
I don't know if you know who Lobos Jr is, but he's a streamer that does ridiculous runs through Dark Souls. One of his runs was Miracle Only Aggression Mod (Aggression Mod means that enemies can aggro from across the map and will follow you to ridiculous lengths). The only time he ever used a weapon was to beat the Asylum Demon, and only because you don't get any Miracles until you join the Sunlight Covenant. However, if your first item was the fire bombs, then you could beat the Asylum Demon without a weapon.
So it is actually possible to beat Dark Souls without ever using a weapon.
I never really played the first one, but am vaguely interested in the second. I will wait and see how the PC port turns out. If it's a workable port then I'll get it there. If not, I'll likely totally pass on it, since my PS3 is basically just my Blu-Ray player for all the use it gets.
Honestly I don't think you'd have much trouble with DS2 if you ran DS1 fine. Could be wrong, but still, check out the system reqs, they're out.Sleix said:
Me, it's gonna be PC. Mostly the reason is that I'm hoping my brother will get a copy as well, so we can play together sometimes, but I'm also looking forward to better graphics (in case that trailer stuff is actual footage and not just pulled out of the arse-end of alpha), better community and maybe better servers (or at least not dealing with Sony's online service next to Namco's).
Gotta say though, it's annoying as hell to be waiting more than a month when I could be playing it in less than a week. edit: yeah, noticed I failed to mention, my other option is a PS3
Im planning to get it on PS3 first and then on PC after the price goes down and steam has a sale on it. Im kinda worried about my PS3 now though since AC: Black flag looked like a bad PS2 era game on it and I assume it was something wrong with my PS3 so if it doesn't work I may have to get it on PC on release. Im planning to get it on both platforms anyway.
Never heard of him, but from what it sounds like he has an incredible number of hours logged and has probably memorized the entire game. I'm talking about playing the game more as a regular player, than as a personal challenge, and being able to defeat it playing as a pure mage with the same kind of viability as someone else might go about it using weapons.Kopikatsu said:Possible.Therumancer said:I would like to be able to play and beat an entire "souls" game without having to swing a weapon.
I don't know if you know who Lobos Jr is, but he's a streamer that does ridiculous runs through Dark Souls. One of his runs was Miracle Only Aggression Mod (Aggression Mod means that enemies can aggro from across the map and will follow you to ridiculous lengths). The only time he ever used a weapon was to beat the Asylum Demon, and only because you don't get any Miracles until you join the Sunlight Covenant. However, if your first item was the fire bombs, then you could beat the Asylum Demon without a weapon.
So it is actually possible to beat Dark Souls without ever using a weapon.
It seems like this is more of a "technically possible if you've already beaten the game 40x normally and know exactly what to do in every situation" than say being able to start out as a mage, raise up all of my magic stats, and effectively progress through the game that way, and say taking down everything and anything with spells (and
doubtlessly evasion).
Time will tell of course, I still play to get Dark Souls II and play it when it appears on PC, but as a guy who calls himself "Therumancer" on the Internet it should be pretty obvious what kinds of characters I favor in my RPGs.
That said as another responder pointed out, some of the hype makes it sound like it might be possible.
Truthfully I think Dark Souls (and Demon's Souls) would have been a lot more to my liking if they simply made more spells and such available right from the beginning. I see the intent of people "earning them" but it's largely what made being a dedicated mage a pain, especially for less skilled players (like me) who would wind up having to build up a decent warrior skill set just to get to the point where I'd be able to assemble the actual tools I want to use. In Dark Souls I think removing he mana mechanic (and ability to wear a regen ring) for an X number of casts system was a mistake from a mage player's perspective. At least with Demon's Souls if you were a royal you could soul-arrow your way through a lot of stuff right from the beginning, but whipping out a melee weapon still became a virtual requirement at points, and indeed the only real way to "win" some fights as a mage was to pretty much exploit the game with poison clouds and the like (ie poison some boss with a bajillion hit points that hits your weenie mage butt to death more or less instantrly from outside his aggro range, go watch TV for a couple of hours, then come back and loot... not very satisfying, not to mention just getting far enough to get those spells).