Mamoulian War

Sif defeated after number of tries. He was pretty challenging for me at Soul Level 30. I was unable to properly time dodge for one of his attacks, so whenever he performed it, he almost always killed me. At the end, I somehow managed to somehow learn to dodge it, and put him down to rest. Next step either Hydra in Darkroot Basin or finaly Blighttown. I could use Uchigatana from the merchant, I've unlocked with Forest Hunters for the Hydra fight. I think I give it few tried with my current setup first and go for Uchigatana, if it kills me few times.

The sadest thing is, that all the low budget RPGs, which SE released last 3 years are much better games than FFXV :’( Same will be true also for Octopath Traveler...

And today, I have continued with my Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition on PS3. I have followed my own all NPC quest and interaction and followed into The Depths. The main goal was to get all items and enough Eyes of Dead drops, to be able to upgrade Gravelord Covenant to level 2 to get one more Miracle required for the Trophy. When I had enough, I have also farmed few more humanities, because, there is encounter with first Black Phantom NPC, which can drop nice sword and shield, and Humanity boosts it's droprate. Not enough of boost for me, it did not drop I will have two more chances to get them. I have to fight him in off-line mode, because as soon as I have turned into Human, I got invaded by some clown, who killed me before I found the NPC. Right after that, I have killed the area boss Gaping Dragon, and went back to The Catacombs, for covenant Miracle. As soon as I had it, I abandoned it through the NPC and then went forward to Darkroot Garden to kill the Moonlight Butterfly. I used an NPC summon, which made the fight easy as pie. After that, I have joined Forest Hunter Covenant for the chance to get the Ring of Fog. I have spent about hour or two leeching PvP, because most of the guys there were PvP builds at Soul Level 125, so my only chance to get the kill, was to be matched with another PvP maniac. My Soul Level was 30 at the time. But now I am the happy owner of shiny Ring of Fog, which will be tremendous help for the Blighttown and Anor Londo. And around 40k souls from winning the three matches required for the ring, which were promptly used to upgrade my Pyromancy Flame to +10 and buying of ring to boost my spell damage. I made few attempts against Sif, but being to late, I was to tired to do any proper attempt, so after few deaths, I have decided to go to the bed, and play more Souls tomorrow or later, depending on my work schedule.

Well, probably that's when Kojima stopped working on it.

Started another game of Dark Souls. This time I am trying to go with walkthroughs for all NPC quests/interactions and without Master Key and with INT/Faith build. In first day, Asylum Demon, Taurus Demon, Bell Gargoyles and Capra Demon down. I die much less than in my first game, but yeah, still far away from Let's Play videos :D Bell Gargoyles were piss easy when you can talk with NPCs. You can summon two of them, which could easily take care of the boss, even if you just sit at the entrance and watch them fight. Capra Demon was a bitch as always, but no rage quit this time :D The most challenging part of the run was the first encounter with Patches in the Catacombs right after Capra Demon, before talking to Rhea of Thorolund. The is no available divine weapon at that time, so you have to do suicide run against the first Undead Mage (and kill him) to be able to move forward. The next three of them, can be taken care of with ranged combat, so it gets little bit easier, but you have to consult map all the time, if you do not know where they are located. Still this place has killed me yesterday most of the time, but I was able to access also smith Vamos and Gravelord Servant Covenant, and join it. Next in line The Depths and farming 7 more Eye of Death from basilisk, and upgrade the covenant to level 2 for a miracle required for one trophy. Then the Gaping Dragon.

People! You are now walking on very thin ice... In before not to long, and you'll start telling us how great NWN and Titanic are, and you'll be on par with Volo!!!

After defeating Crossbreed Priscilla, I have finally decided to go against the Gwyn. Man, was I surprised how fast he killed me I changed in middle of the game into Vit/Dex build and I thought, that I have finally learned how to be better at the game. It helped me a lot against all other bosses, but after 10 or more tries, I was just unable to make more than 25% damage to him, before he completely destroyed me My Soul Level at the time was 85 and I have even upgraded my crimson armor to +4, and still no luck. I have then again decided to try my luck and restored human form, and search for a summon sign. I was lucky and found one guy, right at the start of the Kiln. Two people against Gwyn was just short execution. I burned him with pyromancy, while he was tanking him. As my first end, I have decided to choose Dark Lord ending. Gwyn needed to be replaced Amazing game. All in all this run took me almost 78 hours I will try to finish my Platinum with Prepare to Die Edition and another character, probably more caster type than this one. Two bosses were really impossible for me when playing solo

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And Four Kings down in Dakr Souls. My new Pyromancy Glove+15 helped a ton. I have to low DPS with my weapon, for that fight, so I am happy I left it as a last mandatory boss before Gwyn. Fight was not very hard, because I am pretty high soul level, so I've withstanded few direct hits from them and could spam fire spells on them. Currently on my way to Crossbreed Priscilla. And then the main boss of the game.

...Yeah, IIRC, it's basically impossible to find on your own. I surely did not on my first playthrough - but it proved very useful on NG+, especially on my NG7 SL1 run.I was using similar ring in Demon's Souls, which really helped me during some black phantom NPCs. The only boss which really made me go mad, was False King on NG+, which made me rage quit the game for three years and 8 mpnths :D I was able to kill him only after I watch a lot of videos of his kill :D Edit: actually Capra Demon in Dark Souls pissed me even more. I rage quit after dozen of attempts for 6 years, 2 months and 3 days according PSNTrophies :D After I killed him, my experience with game was much better, no rage quit yet :D

Yup Demon's Souls is one of the main "selling" points of the emulator. But it is still far far away from PS2 or PS1 emulation. The most interesting thing is, that Demon's Souls has high resolution textures on disk, and PS3 downsizes it to 720p. That is not the case for the emulator, which can run it on powerful PC at native 4K.

I had so far only one co-op encounter in Dark Souls, when I was to frustrated of my unability to down Smough/Ornstein duo. I somehow prefer soloing my games, because I have my own pace due to work. Sometimes I can play 5-6 hours in a day, sometimes I can't play for a week. But I would not mind to try out the co-op sometimes.

Yes, we could :D But it takes a lot of time for noob like me to get through the game :D So we would need to play it at approximate same pace and Soul Level

Well, the European Prepare To Die Edition, which I have is not compatible with the save of Normal UK edition, which I have started years ago, and did not wanted to throw away my first ever character. So I have decided to finish game first with him, and go for second playthrough with new character in Prepare To Die Edition and go for all the content with my second character. With maps and stuff to get every single item available in-game. And later I’ll try to go for Platinum. I still have not found Ring of Fog though :-/

And Gravelord Nito defeated as well. Tbh as soon as you kill his adds, which are immortal unless you , what I completely forgot yesterday, he is piss easy. Needed only 3 tries to learn his moves and kick his ass. Only three more areas to go and two bosses, and I can go for final boss (no DLC run atm).

Demon Centipede and Bed of Chaos down as well. Now I am getting raped by Gravelord Nito :/ I am stuck and I simply do not know how to survive this fight

Just killed Demon Firesage in Dark Souls. He kicked my ass, because I was stubborn and wanted to dodge all the time. After I've started to use shield, he died in less than a minute O.o

I believe GOG sooner or later brings more Bethesda games to their "shop".

More Dark Souls again. I was able to defeat Sif and Seath today. The fight with Sif is pretty sad encounter And Seath, I think it is very easy fight, if you have a lot of patience, which I sometimes lack. And my impatience killed me 5 times. Moving forward to some new area. Either Painted World or Demon Ruins... Which I thinks are boring, so I am not very eager to go there...

Yakuza Kiwami 2, 3, 4 and 5 physical release for PS4. Tales of Vesperia this winter. And so far unnanounced next game in Tales of Series (comming soon). That's all I need for now.

Amy Hennig, who was hired to make an EA Star Wars game, has left EA. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/amy-hennig-who-was-hired-to-make-an-ea-star-wars-game-has-left-ea/

Is this some kind of joke? O.o

I do that, but I must have slipped up a few times. Several times I have seen the installer download and update GoG Galaxy. I've started to wonder if any free title from them comes with a mandatory Galaxy installer. Nope all games are possible to get without Galaxy Installer. The GOG Downloader still works, and they are still offering links for it. If you use this app, it will always download you the non-galaxy installer. link: https://www.gog.com/downloader In your library, each game has under More shown also GOG Downloader links.

Gog Galaxy does the same kind of auto-updating —AFAIK. (I don't use it myself, and keep finding the thing installed by default more, and more often these days). It's the first thing I uninstall after installing a GoG title. But it is for providing some of the the social and auto-update features that Steam provides; from what I've read. in your GOG library, you can change to "Non-Galaxy Installers" for each game (if it has Galaxy bundled with it by default). I always download offline non-galaxy installers for my backups, and install my games from them, even though I use Galaxy a lot. and @ sonic: The only one who is complaining about GOG catalogue on this forums is you GOG curates it's games, and you can almost never buy a game, which does not run on your Windows/Mac/Linux PC. If you find non-working game, their programmers fix it in few days or weeks. And it has no Direct/Greenlight garbage, which is win for GOG by default, no question asked

Infinite corridor, and he shoots two kind of soul spells and a bow. Harder to get to him, than the fight tbh. I would not know, where he is hidden, if I did not see accidentally spoiler video. I am trying to do mostly blind playthrough, but sometimes, I just have to peek inside guides for some hints.