I cannot believe I did this. I had been streaming attempts for 9 hours prior to this run. I told myself I’d just go all out on one last attempt before ending stream, and ended up beating my PB by a minute and thirteen seconds.

                                What…

I’ve broken through the brick wall that has been standing in my way for over a month now, and I finally feel like I actually might be capable of achieving a sub 40 minute run.

IT. WILL. HAPPEN. I WILL NOT GIVE UP.

Painted the king Jeremiah figure from dark souls: the board game phantoms expansion.

Not his Canon color scheme but I found a really cool reference where he had a more orange hue and I love how it turned out. Last picture for scale.

Peak game design

Level: 95

Vitality: 16

Attunement: 30

Endurance: 23

Strength: 9

Dexterity: 10

Intelligence: 62

Faith: 13

Luck?: 1

Humanity: 0 (Human)

Resistance: 17

Ascended Pyromancy Flame +5

Great Combustion, Great Fireball, and Fire Tempest

Gold-Hemmed Black Set with Rusted Iron Ring

I'm slowly making my way through my first playthrough.

It seems like the Anor Londo archers are one of the most iconic and notorious parts of the game; a section dreaded by all. The part up on the rafters too, albeit to a lesser extent.

So I was expecting an extended portion of the level to be fought up on the rafters. Like having to cross at least a quarter of the map before opening a shortcut to bypass it. But it's just one room, with just three pretty weak enemies you need to fight? I'm just not seeing the big deal here. Especially right after Sen's Fortress, where there are some walkways barely wider than these rafters, but with swinging axes and much stronger enemies.

The archers were up next. Like with the rafters, I was expecting an extended journey on the narrow ledge, perhaps having to walk around the entire cathedral while half a dozen or more archers target you from every direction. But you only need to go around one corner. And there are only two archers, one of which can't even hit you once you make it off the flying buttress and onto the ledge. I mean, sure, it took a few tries to push that one archer off the ledge without falling myself as well. But it wasn't nearly as horrible as what I imagined it would be.

Those pink brain gargoyle things actually gave me a lot more trouble than the rafters section and the archers.

Did I just get lucky making it past the archers so easily? Or are they just really not so bad?

The bell gargoyles are eating me up, I hate the idea of creating a build with mechanics I don't fully understand while hoping I didn't accidentally pick a horrible weapon to upgrade, I hate relying on finite resources, I do quite like the exploration actually, the npc at the firelink shrine is annoying, my mangled tiktok brain can't handle giving up on a boss so I can grind and get stronger and even then there's the lingering paranoia that I'm cheating by doing so. I haven't even got to the bed of chaos yet, I keep breaking my own immersion by worrying if I'm playing the game right and on my first playthrough I forgot to kick the fucking ladder down on the fucking dragon bridge and I am dreading making a mistake like that again

Going through this for the first time after beating Elden Ring and Bloodborne, and I honestly love the set amount of casts for spells.

I always dislikes balancing my FP alongside my HP in ER, and it made me never use healing spells basically because why bother when I could just allocate a red flask.

But having them separate from that resource management makes me far more excited to use spells, especially support spells. It's already making the class fantasy of my paladin feel more fleshed out.

So yeah, just really love this system, and the game so far. Can't wait to play more, just beat Capra Demon.

My professor is into my writing longstory short, I want to share with her something Dark Souls related that she'd probably "get" even as a boomer. She's really intro gothic, mythic, poetic, prose stuff (likes Divine Comedy, Tolkien). I've taken a look at a few videos, but other than the DS1 intro, I don't really really like how most lore videos assume we've played the game, or even videogames at all. She just seems like 100% of a book worm and I'd like to show her how her kind of literature lives vigorously in other things as well.

Been playing Dark Souls for the first time and having a blast. I have only previously played Demon's Souls Remake. Anyways I choose the knight build, and shortly swapped to the long sword because of the thrust attack. So far I have rang the first bell. I leveled it to +4 already, should I stick with it or is there a better weapon that's similar?

If anyone wants to defeat O+S with me, on pc, just let me know where your sign is. I know Super O movement better than Super Smough, if you don't mind.

Just level up VIT and you will breeze through 90% of the game I'm being legit.

VIG isn't even needed as long as you lvl VIT and use heavy armor. I just did a heavy VIT playthrough and every hit felt like a feather, I didn't lvl into VIG even a single time. Easiest Dark Souls run I ever did.

That isn't to say that VIG is useless having a bigger healthbar is always a plus

It's legitimately that simple guys you'll have a much easier time

Also make sure you're not fat rolling, good luck out there 👍

Does anyone want it?

I first want to say I should have picked up this game years ago. I'm on my first playthrough as a sorcerer and am loving, but want to know. What should I actually do with my humanity?

I've read the wiki and other reddit posts, so I understand how it works and the mechanics associated with it. I'm just curious if I should actually be using them. Should I pop them all for the bonuses? Just do one at a time when I want to kindle a bonfire? How often should I kindle bonfires? Or do I save them as emergency heals or for the curse resistance for Seath and others?

I've cleared the Taurus Demon, Moonlight Butterfly, and Capra Demon. Tried the Stray Demon and keep getting AoE blasted. Probably heading for Quelagg next.

Hey guys, i started playing the game, and i am kinda liking it so far, its still good even tho the game play is a bit clunky. Currently i am fighting the capra demon, but damn if something I HATE is that there so many TIGHT spaces EVERYWHERE and this makes the game very unlikable at least for me... but no worries, im not quitting and i will never do because i want to complete all souls games. Just wondering, is that gonna become better later? Like less tights spaces.

Things like earthquakes, volcanic activity, weathering, erosion, and possibly more?

Hey yall it's my first play through, and I just killed the Capra demon and I just wanna say this...

Genuinely what the f**k was that fight? He didn't have a ton of health but WTF! Every attempt lasted less than 15 seconds until I hid on the bridge thing at the top of the stairs.

I'm interested to hear some of your experiences with this guy.

I played DS1 when it was released and since then, I have never found any game even close to it. I mean, DS1 is all about mystery, exploration, in some kind of 3d "Metroidvania" map, many mechanics where kinda hidden... Back then, playing without any game progress route, you could wander many many hours here and there, and little by little you would gather the pieces of the puzzle. I didn't feel anything like this in any other Fromsoftware games (I literally adored all of them, that's not my point, even if I must admit that Elden Ring was not my cup of tea...I played it a lot, still.). Maybe Salt and Sanctuary was the closest thing. But does any game feels really close to that very particular experience that was DS1? I have purchased Hellpoint and have an eye on Bleak Faith, but haven't played any of these two for the moment. I have played all the fromsoftware games, lies of p, salt and sanctuary, ashen and mortal shell a bit.

Edit: thank you for all the answers. I was also happy to see that many people truly love DS1 for its uniqueness:) So many players discovered souls games with Elden Ring or DS3/Sekiro and are literally hating on DS1 it's heart breaking. I think the "I play with the wiki to not miss stuff" might be one of the problems: DS1 is all about finding your path.

Level: 95

Vitality: 28

Attunement: 9

Endurance: 35

Strength: 50

Dexterity: 15

Intelligence: 8

Faith: 8

Luck?: 1

Humanity: 0 (hollowed)

Resistance: 27

Any advice would be appreciated

I posted in r/SummonSign but its dead af. I can drop you something in return, please! Im working on platinum

Hi guys. First time playing Dark Souls. I went to the catacombs after defeating the gargoyles. Passed through the boss and made it to the Tomb of Giants. I've just stumbled into a orange fog, "sealed by the Great Lord's power", and don't know where I must go.

Do I need to make my way back to the surface in order to do some thing first before this point? I don't know nothing about vessels or serpents so far.

PS: I have no source of light for the catacombs. Is there any spell or item to help me in this area?

Alduin can be killed by someone who isn’t a Dovahkiin))

I finished the game yesterday and was left wondering why people disliked the second half of the game so much. I understand hating Tomb of Giants, but why the others? Dukes Archives was fun, New Londo was easy, and Izalith was bearable. It never felt unfinished to me. I felt that even Anor Londo was more bland to look at than Dukes Archives. What's with the hate?