Why did so many people have issues with the Capra demon?

[Popadoo]

I think my main problem was the size of the damn room you're in. IT'S TINY! I need my space to move back and judge the situation, and get out of his way. This way, you're just thrown in and have to start fighting before you know anything about the room itself or he attack patterns.

 

[Wayneguard]

It's all about the dogs. If you kill the dogs, the fight is over.

 

[ablac]

Its a small room with stunlocking dogs. The demon is a chump if you can avoid his attacks/block them but it doesnt give you much room for failure if you do mess up. The boss isnt hard overall just very unforgiving, more so than many other bosses because the room is so damn small once he gets going its difficult to get back on your feet (not literally but you know what I mean).

 

[ColeusRattus]

I have to concur it was the dogs. My low stamina high strength knight certainly had problems evading and disposing of them quick enough at the first few tries, but I did kill him eventually.

Ornstein and Smough were not too hard, took me three tries (1st one I died, second one I let myself being summoned, and on the third try, I summoned two helpers and killed them with relative ease).

If any boss is too troubling, that was basically what I did do: let myself be summoned until I learned what to do, then, depending on how difficult I found the boss to be, recruiting a little help in addition to the knowledge.

 

[AyreonMaiden]

I played a Dex character too, and I had trouble. The damn dogs, combined with the camera and the narrow space made it very hard to play it Dex, and instead had to stand my ground, which is something that back then I simply couldn't do too well.

 

[DanielBrown]

Enter room
Not able to see what's behind the fog gate
Charged by a huge demon and his two puppies
Tiny area
Death

That's what I hated. Once I checked some tactics it got easy as hell, but the first few times the fight didn't last for more than a few seconds.

 

[ramboondiea]

because he has a large range and its a small room, coupled with the two dogs and the fact that on earlier patches he could move while you where still moving through the fog gate ment if you where even a fraction two slow he pinned you then you got ravaged by dogs, he was infuriating.

any boss where the camera can fuck you over shouldnt be allowed either

 

[Tesral]

I got killed the first time in a couple of seconds due to all the dogs piling on me, and then the boss himself coming in for a 2-handed overhead swing. Ouch.

After that attempt it was easy though, if you kill off the dogs while running up the stairs and dropping down to keep him chasing you at a distance, it's becomes simple when it's a 1 vs 1.

I guess the difficulty is having multiple enemies in a tiny enclosed area, with no time for you to learn his attack patterns before he's using them to bisect you.

(If this fight is hard because of a tiny arena, surely bosses with large arenas would be easy? Oh wait, FOUR KINGS. Damn them.)

 

[Fat Hippo]

I had no trouble. The first time i saw him, I died, but since then I have always beated him.

Now the Four Kings... that is bullshit, especially if you are not a straight up warrior.

I got killed the first time in a couple of seconds due to all the dogs piling on me, and then the boss himself coming in for a 2-handed overhead swing. Ouch.

After that attempt it was easy though, if you kill off the dogs while running up the stairs and dropping down to keep him chasing you at a distance, it's becomes simple when it's a 1 vs 1.

I guess the difficulty is having multiple enemies in a tiny enclosed area, with no time for you to learn his attack patterns before he's using them to bisect you.

(If this fight is hard because of a tiny arena, surely bosses with large arenas would be easy? Oh wait, FOUR KINGS. Damn them.)

The difference in difficulty people have with certain bosses in Dark Souls still fascinates me. I thought the Capra Demon was pretty damn tough, but I beat the Four Kings on my first try, and not with a straight up warrior either.

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

well you had about 12 seconds to win the fight, if the dogs weren't dead by then you were pretty much dead

 

[kyogen]

Tight room, two quick little mooks, and a boss with a decently powered hit. People have trouble working out how to respond to that when their characters are underequipped and underpowered. He's usually the first really nasty, unavoidable surprise of the game. The Taurus Demon is a big lumbering oaf by comparison.

 

[Windcaler]

Probably the dogs. When I first started playing the game I thought the dogs were the hardest part and if you try to fight all three in that little space at the bottom it can be difficult. When I realized there were stairs there and I could basicly bottleneck them taking out the dogs was easy. Then I just had to figure out the capra demon which isnt to hard if you have a good shield or are good at dodging

 

[Erttheking]

For many gamers, the Capra demon was the gateway boss that divided (forgive my corniness) the men from the boys. This was the one point many gamers gave up, but those who defeated him went on to beat the game.

I'd say out of all the boss fight, fatman and little boy had to be the worst...lol

Oh good god, I hated Ornstein and Smough. Those two would have had even the Dalai Lama chewing his controller in frustration. But I'm glad I stuck with it though, taking them down was seriously satisfying to the point where I couldn't help but shout a rather jubilent "fuck yeah!"

Mind you, the Four Kings were almost as bad.

Heh, I kinda cheated with those guys, I bummed rushed them with two other spirits and managed to get down Ornstein pretty quickly. It was all easy from there, although the time before I tried skilling Smough first...BIG MISTAKE!

Also quick question, who should I deal with next? Seph, the four kings, the bed of chaos or Nito?

 

[Weaver]

I had trouble. I don't see HOW people killed his dogs, if you can't one shot them instantly you're fucked, because while you're attacking them he just comes in and destroys you. Maybe I was just too low level at the time. I only tried him once before I deemed I wasn't ready.

 

[Gunner 51]

For many gamers, the Capra demon was the gateway boss that divided (forgive my corniness) the men from the boys. This was the one point many gamers gave up, but those who defeated him went on to beat the game.

I'd say out of all the boss fight, fatman and little boy had to be the worst...lol

Oh good god, I hated Ornstein and Smough. Those two would have had even the Dalai Lama chewing his controller in frustration. But I'm glad I stuck with it though, taking them down was seriously satisfying to the point where I couldn't help but shout a rather jubilent "fuck yeah!"

Mind you, the Four Kings were almost as bad.

Heh, I kinda cheated with those guys, I bummed rushed them with two other spirits and managed to get down Ornstein pretty quickly. It was all easy from there, although the time before I tried skilling Smough first...BIG MISTAKE!

Also quick question, who should I deal with next? Seph, the four kings, the bed of chaos or Nito?

The Great Grey Wolf Sif first and foremost. Defeating him will give you the ring of Atrois (sp?) which you will need to enter the Abyss and kill the Four Kings. Though I killed Sif really cheaply by running onto a grassy verge and spamming him with arrows, firebombs and pyromancy.

As for Gravelord Nito, reaching him within the Tomb of the Giants will be a lesson in frustration (not to mention bad for your eyes) without the Sunlight Maggot from the Demon Ruins.

Though I really ought to get a new copy of Dark Souls seeing how I played it so often I managed to scatch the disk.

 

[Tallim]

For many gamers, the Capra demon was the gateway boss that divided (forgive my corniness) the men from the boys. This was the one point many gamers gave up, but those who defeated him went on to beat the game.

I'd say out of all the boss fight, fatman and little boy had to be the worst...lol

Oh good god, I hated Ornstein and Smough. Those two would have had even the Dalai Lama chewing his controller in frustration. But I'm glad I stuck with it though, taking them down was seriously satisfying to the point where I couldn't help but shout a rather jubilent "fuck yeah!"

Mind you, the Four Kings were almost as bad.

Heh, I kinda cheated with those guys, I bummed rushed them with two other spirits and managed to get down Ornstein pretty quickly. It was all easy from there, although the time before I tried skilling Smough first...BIG MISTAKE!

Also quick question, who should I deal with next? Seph, the four kings, the bed of chaos or Nito?

Take your pick! They all have annoyances in their own way although in general the journey to each one is just as difficult as the fights themselves. Bed Of Chaos is probably the easiest but the trip to get to it is nasty.

Don't go after Seth unless you have some damn good Curse resistance or a load of curse removing items otherwise you are in for a world of hurt should things go wrong.

 

[Easton Dark]

Well. Nobody told me that this was the first boss who you could block the attacks of. When I realized that it made fighting him a lot easier.

I blocked the Taurus demon's pretty handily. It seems ridiculous him having the club bigger than me and myself being a wimpy Pyromancer.