• 14Dec 12

  What is Rockstar up to?

  WHAT IS ROCKSTAR UP TOO

  100% speculation 50%RDR,LA Noire spoilers ,infamous 2, and GTAV (yes GTA V)you have been warned

  i was thinking about GTA V yesterday and how it has multiple protagonist then i thought about how both RDR and LA Noire had more than one

  in the end of RDR marston dies and his son picks up his track after the credits roll

  in la noire after ur main char gets suspended u play as another guy for a while

  before playing a final mission with the main char

  that also dies

  i can see a pattern here

  i think rockstar has been setting us up for this whole more than one protagonist thing

  as well as one dying

  now since we know that one of the 3 is actually the antagonist it would be even more awesome from them if they let us choose who wins at the end

  i know that will work because it was done before

  just look at infamous 2

  the evil ending you kill your best friend ever and then go around killing EVERYONE

  in the good ending you sacrifice yourself and all the conduits to save EVERYONE

  and i liked both endings

  so maybe just maybe this is what is going on inside rockstar's head

  • Posted Dec 14, 2012 11:46 am GMT
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• 27Oct 12

  YOU DIED...Episode 10:free ride sure...hey stop that...we didn't agree on this

  YOU DIED...the tale of a poor pyromancer who finds himself in Lordran the most unforgiving place in gaming (V2.0 for those of you who remember that demon souls exists)

  Episode 10: free ride sure ..hey stop that ..we didnt agree on this

  Ps:this is the very first area I go in almost 100% blind didnt wiki it at all. Everything I know about it
  was from chatting with buddies

  I step into the hell hole
  last time I entered I was able to pull only one of the serpents at the gate kill him then dispatch the other

  Havent done that again since
  I had to keep fighting them in the bridge between undead church and the fortress
  over and over and over again
  I died a tons of times

  Multiple times by the big boulder rolling down
  a few times got pushed by that serpent mage into the swinging axes while I was crossing
  and other miscellaneous deaths
  an hour passed and I reached nothing I got sick of it and quit the game
  2 days later
  @aser92 finished blighttown then heads to sens fortress and reaches the boss fight

  That pisses me off
  I have been ahead of him for a long time but have been playing borderlands2 and that made me fall back
  so I load up the game
  and play
  after a few deaths I finally manage to get past the boulder and into the boulder control room
  I get killed by the 3rd swinging axes bridge
  next time I reach the boss area

  I pick all the treasures that are in the giants favorite aiming spots
  I kill the giant knight and undead price Richard and get his rapier
  I manage to get all the way to the last fog gate with 0/10 estus left

  Lunch was ready so I take that as a perfect opportunity to take a break I close the game
  and before I open it after lunch I open the wiki and figure out where the bonfire is
  I load the game and head straight to the bonfire and rest there

  After that I go kill the giant thats throwing bombs at me
  I cast a single combustion at him and he drops to his knees and it was open season on his (I wanna say behind but I was hiding inside the tower and his head was blocking the way) head I manage to take most of his life when he gets up I get him to swing at me while Im a few stairs down then cast combustion on him and rinse and repeat
  after I kill him I had used a bunch of estus (his hand goes throw walls havok my arse)

  I head to the bonfire then back to the boss
  and boy was that an annoying boss
  when I tried to kill him on my own

  He didnt kill me normally a single time
  first time he hit me and I flew off the fight area
  next 3-4 times I fall while attacking him
  @aser92 tells me that the summon solos the boss
  so I go human and summon the knight and he pretty much takes care of the aggro
  while they were fighting and I was watching I got bored so I cast magic weapon on my uchi and go help
  after killing him
  I touch the circle of light and get kidnapped (also I think raped midflight by the bats)

  I reach anor londo and chaching trophy for reaching that place I go a few steps down then I gaze on my soul counter
  I find that I have 47k
  I start laughing and turn around and agree to get waped by the bats again to get back to the bonfire and level up safely
  I level 3 times and im as happy as a pie
  I decide to loot every piece of crap in the area
  so I go exploring

  .

  .

  .

  And dying

  I die a lot I fall a lot i get hit I get hit by a lot of swinging traps

  I even click on an arrow trap that resets the boulder
  and get hit by a boulder while I was chatting on the phone thinking im perfectly safe on this ramp
  I even manage to get the 2 items behind the prowler demon without aggroing him

  Then I attack him

  And I was doing fine
  till I fail to dodge a jump attack and get thrown into half health and no stamina and failed to drink estus before he hit me again and killed me

  Next time I actually aggroed all the prowler demons looking for any more items in the swamp then got myself killed

  I had found all the item except 2 the gold something ring (item discovery+200)(@aser92 told me about it )
  and what I discover later is the cage key

  Before I wiki them I say lets kill the giant throwing boulders down at ramps making my life hell
  so I sprint jump to his platform and kill him
  search some more die some more and still I fail to find the items

  So I say wth Ive already finished the area ill wiki them
  and find out that the ring needs the boulder dropping giant I get really pissed
  thinking that I missed the ring for this playthrough
  and as I stepped outside to get the cage key I find out that the big giant respawns and im thrilled
  I go get the ring and is happy as a .
  after that I get the cage key and find that I have 7k+ souls and since enemies drop a ton of souls and weapon upgrade stuff I equip my new ring and start farming the area around to bonfire
  got tons of titaine shards but also a large one which I used (along with the ones I had before)
  to upgrade my uchi to +10 I also got my lightning spear to +4

  After I get to 14k souls I level up one more time and save and quit

  • Posted Oct 27, 2012 2:06 pm GMT
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• 22Oct 12

  YOU DIED Epiodes 8.5 &Episode 9

  YOU DIED...the tale of a poor pyromancer who finds himself in Lordran the most unforgiving place in gaming (V2.0 for those of you who remember that demon souls exists)

  Episode 8.5 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions +Episode 9:Into the mouth of hell we maaaaaaaarch

  Episode 8.5:

  Loaded up the game found myself in the depths and remembered I was still not done farming humanity

  I do about 10 runs to get all the humanity I need (later I find out I had plenty)

  While Im doing these I realize something weird some of the smaller rats reward u with 60 souls but if u kill them with a plunge attack it gives u 72 souls
  and the large rats they give u 100 souls but if u kill them with a pyromancy u get 120 souls
  im seeing 20% increase depending on how u kill it
  and it seems every enemy type has a method of landing more souls
  this will need more research later

  Anyway I get out of the depths
  use the souls I have to level up twice increasing my dex and int

  Thats right im no longer going to join the forest hunter covenant to get the uchi

  I just headed to undead burg and killed the male undead merchant

  Upgraded my uchi to +5 and bought magic weapon from the sorcerer in firelink shrine

  Tested out the uchi and it kicked the drake swords a**
  and the best part was that its going to get better with time

  I head to blight town to sacrifice all my farmed humanity for that spider lady
  when I get there im delighted to find that u have to offer humanity one at a time

  THAT WAS TONS OF FUN took me about 15 mins to get to level 2 and because I needed magic weapon now and only had 2 attunement slots I didnt even test it L going to have to test it later when I get the 3rd slot

  While im there I try and see what is in demons ruin
  walking forward to see whats ahead I fall down a small cliff and get stuck see a fog gate ahead so I thought to myself normal enemies ahead
  I step through and bam there is one UGLY fire thingy there and the fog gate is blocking the way back so I walk towards it but it doesnt attack so I ignore it for now and go for that lovely looking corpse
  I loot it and bam music is on boss health bar appears
  and he hits me once and kills me

  At least that is what I thought
  turns out I had a few health points left just couldnt see them on the bar with my naked eye
  short story even shorter he kills me since my sword does 13 damage and bow does 7 damage to him

  Left blight town and headed back to undead parish as my new safe zone rested at te bonfire and close the game coz my sister was back home and wanted to watch TV

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  Episode 9:

  While my sister was watching tv he tells me about a place I missed in dark root basin

  The hidden connection to valley of drakes with a dark knight guarding it

  Also I realize I havent check that new armor set I got
  and oh is that armor set good almost worth it losing the 8k and human form Ive lost
  
  so first thing I do is head to dark root basin

  Kill the black knight easily and head to the valley of drakes
  I see the first blue drake and kill it easily thanks to the bleed effect of the uchi
  only needed one flask due to a couple of mistakes

  I see 3-4 more guarding a corpse im like no way in hell im aggroing more than one of those
  I see a side path and take it
  I meet another blue drake there
  and he was a b*** without the ability to side step his lighting attack killing him was a pain in the a**

  Used up all my estus except for one killing him

  That plus the fact that this made me reach the other side of the dragon I saw next to blighttowns entrance to valley of drakes are enough reasons for me to head back
  while I was there I decide to take a stab at the red drake in undead burg blocking the way into undead parish
  bad idea I get my butt handed to me thanks to the camera and the fact that the dragon did nothing but breathe fire on me

  Since I had zero souls I decide to give the hydra a try
  when I fall into the lake I decide to leave the hydra to when I need to kill her

  Getting by butt handed to me by 3 optional bosses was enough to break my fear of sens fortress
  but before I go there I upgraded my uchi to +7(all the large shards I had)
  and step into the deadly house of traps

  And omg am I glad I got the uchi
  without it killing those serpent heads would have been a pain
  with the uchi its bearable

  I meet the bridge with the swinging axes
  in any other game its nothing
  Ive seen this thing in so many games starting from Aladdin on DoS

  To major mayhem on my android
  but this is the first time I was really scared of it

  I pass this one and the second one and get to the part with the huge rock falling down
  I manage to get hit by it only once and survive and get one floor higher
  I step through a door hear a weird voice and see that the huge falling rock takes a U-turn exactly where I was standing I get stuck under it(thank you havok) and obviously die

  Since sens fortress was scaring the crap out of me and it was getting late
  I decide to call it a night

  While im there I opened 2 boxes one had something I cant recall the other had 2 large titane shards

  So I use the titane shards to upgrade my uchi to +8 so next time I head into that hell hole I can be even stronger
  
  PS:did anyone notice a slight frame drop when the bleed effect hits an enemy ?

  Also did anyone else notice that extra 20% souls thingy ?

  • Posted Oct 22, 2012 5:24 am GMT
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