Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-25106727-20140626034651/@comment-3389778-20140626050001


 * ahem*

'Unplayable' without a Walkthrough'. Hardly.

The first part of the is linear. As long as you follow the path, you're gonna progress. The second half of the game is much more confusing but they're not exactly so much off the beaten path, at some point you're gonna run out of places to explore so eventually you're gonna get there.

The only thing that you would probably not be able to piece together yourself is how to get into the DLC.

'Story is non-existent'. That's because the story itself is in pieces, making you put it together yourself. At no point of time will someone know everything about the story (except decs probably). There is a story that's there, you just have to piece it together yourself. There are many Lore Videos on youtube, put one on and then just listen while you do something.

'Bosses are not fair.' No they're not, not impossible either. A Boss that isn't fair would be a Boss that has infinite amount of health and no way to defeat it. However, this is Dark Souls. If a boss has infinite amount of health, then you can't kill it just by smacking it, there's another way to do it.

Also most bosses also follow traditional boss fight rules.

Big and Powerful? = Slow and Predictable.

Small and Agile? = Less Health and Damage

Glowing Orange Orb? = Weak spot/The thing you have to hit.

And in the end, they are AI. They're stuck only doing what they are programmed to do. You as a human can learn and learn from mistakes.

There are plenty of Blind playthroughs that exist, some of them fail and some of them succeed.

' Humanity is useless'. Again Hardly. It's a full heal item, when used it increases your item discovery. At ten 'liquid' humanity, you gain defences and Chaos Weapons deal more damage.

Yes summoning doesn't work but being human is essential for PvP. Yes, it has it's flaws but it has kept the game alive much longer than that the Single Player would've, so it's hardly the worst mechanic in the game.