Dark Souls

Yeah I am the same way. Sometimes I get frustrated and my patience just vanishes so i end up dying a few stupid deaths. I turn off the game for awhile and things go much better later on. I like the feeling that the game forces you to improve in order to advance. When I die it tends to be because I got impatient or just plain screwed up, rarely is it because the game just decides it is time for me to die.
 
Suffered my first real loss today in Blighttown. Got knocked off the narrow walkways twice, lost about 2k souls which wasn't bad, but I lost the 8 humanity I stockpiled from dropping baddies early on. This was really helping out my resistances and such, so we'll see how bad the penalty is.

All in all I don't think the deaths have been too unfair yet. One way to be perceiving the deaths as unfair would be entering an area where you don't have the means to survive, such as New Londo without a Transient Curse, or trying to fight a Black Knight at level 8. I guess the second I'll have been cursed I'll feel like the game is ass. Every time there isn't an obvious or doable way to do something I usually practice a little and come back, and I either have an item to help me or I've just gotten good enough to beat the part. The only thing I don't understand right now is how to beat that Hydra... Though I haven't really tried.
 
The_Landslide said:
Suffered my first real loss today in Blighttown. Got knocked off the narrow walkways twice, lost about 2k souls which wasn't bad, but I lost the 8 humanity I stockpiled from dropping baddies early on. This was really helping out my resistances and such, so we'll see how bad the penalty is.

All in all I don't think the deaths have been too unfair yet. One way to be perceiving the deaths as unfair would be entering an area where you don't have the means to survive, such as New Londo without a Transient Curse, or trying to fight a Black Knight at level 8. I guess the second I'll have been cursed I'll feel like the game is ass. Every time there isn't an obvious or doable way to do something I usually practice a little and come back, and I either have an item to help me or I've just gotten good enough to beat the part. The only thing I don't understand right now is how to beat that Hydra... Though I haven't really tried.
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I have yet to stockpile more than 1 humanity since I don't kill enough enemies I guess, and New Londo is just annoying. I talked to my friend about that place and it just sucks, the ghost can go through walls and they fight you in narrow spaces and attack from all sides. I gave up going there for now and I honestly don't want to go back there at all.

About the hydra though, if you're fighting the one in Darkroot then you have to run up to it. You have to avoid all its water blast and get behind a rock thats right infront of it. Have a shield with high physical defense and get near it and it will try to attack with its heads. It leaves it self open and then you just hack away at the heads until there is only one left, the last one you need to shoot off since the angle it hits you at is all messed up, making it to difficult to hit since you can't go too deep into the water or you will fall in and die. It's not that difficult once you get the handle of it, I just kept getting killed since I can't afford arrows and I had to figure out how to shoot the bastard with soul arrow since you can't lock on to its heads, only its body.
 
Thanks for the hydra tip.

And you get 1 humanity per boss, and sometimes you get it for other things that I don't understand. I also got myself summoned by someone to kill a boss which gave me another humanity.
 
Why does everything in this game take approximately 40,000 strikes to kill?. I don't mean your rank and file skeletons and vermin, but anything that's at least a head higher than the player reacts to your holy sword of legend in the same fashion that most of us would react to having watermelon seeds spat at us. Which is to say, they're not doing a lot of damage but are effective at generating anger. I don't recall the red eyed night being nearly as meaty as some of these black knights, or for that matter the rock knights.
 
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