Dark Souls 3

[Molly]

Yea... I'm kinda still stuck at the Highwall

[Shemaforash]

Yea... I'm kinda still stuck at the Highwall

It's okay. In dark souls 2 i went the wrong way and was stuck fighting harder foes for 3 hours, without encountering a boss. My first experience was fighting a big cyclops ogre for 2 hours even though it was optional.

[Vibe]

Yea... I'm kinda still stuck at the Highwall

To be expected for a newcomer, but the feels will be good when you get through an area and kill the boss.

I also feel like DS3 is slightly harder than predecessors. Or maybe I'm just rusty.

[SixThumbs]

I'm not sure if it's rust, I'm getting old or I played too much Dark Souls 2 but I can't get the roll timing down reliably and it's made the little PVP I did a nightmare.

[Molly]

Yay... got to the bonfire on the tower lel

Who said anything about a boss x)

[Golem]

I also feel like this is the hardest Dark Souls to date. The black demon thing on the roof is the worst of it, though.

[Overdriven]

I'd say it's harder. The earlier areas not so much. But boy o boy does the difficulty ramp up quickly once your through the settlement.

It does chuck 'mini bosses' at you a lot though. As in those extra tough enemies it places in certain areas that feel like a boss fight cause they have so much damn health.

Really struggling with Irythyll. Tempted to just sprint it because those fire wielding things are nuts.

[Mr_Oujamaflip]

Yay... got to the bonfire on the tower lel

Who said anything about a boss x)

Just wait til you meat lizardheadguy on the roof.

[Molly]

Just wait til you meat lizardheadguy on the roof.

There are 2 of them in that area. I've met the other one plenty by now

[Vibe]

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[Banok]

edit: sleep deprived, was talking about different bosses.

[Polobow]

The combat in DaS3 feels much faster, reactive. Actions feel like they take less stamina. Bosses also recover much faster, but so do you.
In Dark Souls 1 you dodged the attack a boss, walked towards it while it was recovering and attacked it until your stamina was empty and then some. Maybe that's why it's harder?

Might be just me though. How do you guys experience the combat compared to other souls games?

[Banok]

I think its easier than previous titles overall. there is just some hard enemies for sure, like those hentai mode zombies on the wall early on, pretty sure your best off just running past them.

but some things I keep thinking were way more brutal in previous games, like poison. poison was fucken brutal in dark souls 1, I nearly quit souls series forever in blightown. now it does next to nothing. Curse also was even more brutal than death in ds1, too fucking brutal tbh. even in ds2 it hollowed you. now it just kills you.

Game is still hard, newcomers defo will still struggle their pants off. but it seems about right to me, I'm progressing easy enough but still get my ass kicked. For example the dual wielding enemies in catacombs are just never not terrifying, I cant just roll dodge them like most things; their attack animations are overpowered to be honest.

[Overdriven]

Combat is easier. Endurance seems to last longer with the light weapons. I've tried some of the greatswords though and is it me or does the endurance seem to last less? Some of them I can only get 2, maybe 3, hits out with 20 endurance. Pumping in the endurance at the moment just to be able to use them.

but some things I keep thinking were way more brutal in previous games, like poison. poison was fucken brutal in dark souls 1, I nearly quit souls series forever in blightown. now it does next to nothing. Curse also was even more brutal than death in ds1, too fucking brutal tbh. even in ds2 it hollowed you. now it just kills you.

Becoming cursed is DS1 was a death sentence for a massive chunk of the game if you were a noob and didn't know about the stones. My first play through I ran into the depths curse frogs and raged hard because I had no idea how to fix my half health. Every play through since I make sure to spend some of the gargoyle souls on the stones. Becoming cursed in DS2 was a minor annoyance. In DS3 it's strong because it insta kills you but still not really hard and it builds up so slowly.

None of the status effects seem to drain your health anywhere near as much.

Game is still hard, newcomers defo will still struggle their pants off. but it seems about right to me, I'm progressing easy enough but still get my ass kicked. For example the dual wielding enemies in catacombs are just never not terrifying, I cant just roll dodge them like most things; their attack animations are overpowered to be honest.

I thought that for a while. Just hold your shield up, circle them to the left and back stab. Then as they are getting up finish them off. Made them surprisingly easy though I did rage the first 10 times. There are some similar enemies in a later area that are a lot worse due to the damage they deal and the same tactic works.

[Shemaforash]

Just hold your shield up

listen to this fucking casul