Dark Souls (2011)

Ok, I finally caved and installed Bootcamp and Dark Souls (Steam). After about an hours gametime I know I'm going to become completely obsessed with this. Bye bye life, I will become undead.

Question: I already have DSFix and Mortens242s UI mod installed. What other mods should I install without totally stressing out my system (currently running butter smooth at 1920x1080). I'm thinking essential texture mods and other essentials, but keeping the experience as authentic as possible.

...Torgo! I know your out there, and you are our Dark Souls grandmaster / guru!!!

Gaping Dragon is down! So is Quelaag! I've made my way through Sen's Fortress (oh boy, were those traps a pain) and arrived in Anor Londo.

Wow, Anor Londo is such a breath of fresh air after all the doom and gloom up to this point. The design of the levels and monsters was starting to dwindle down my sanity. I'm telling you if I had to see one more basilisk... with those googly eyes.. <shivers>.

So pretty much everything I want is in Anor Londo. I want to get that fury curved sword. I want to see the Painted World. I want to get the firelink shrine firekeeper back after *someone* thought it was a fun idea to stab her. I'm totally psyched for exploring this place.

I also had some experiences with the multiplayer aspect of the game now.
One positive - I summoned a friendly player and together we engaged in... I think the term is "jolly cooperation"?
And one negative - a bunch of players from that forest guild, decided to team up on me and totally gank me when I was exploring the Darkroot garden area. Boo! Who thought that making a guild around teaming up on unsuspecting players was a good idea? Anyway, I'm completely out of humanity now, so I wont have to worry about any of that for a while. I suppose I should go back to the depths at some point to try to get more. I now have a shiny ring from Sen's fortress that gives me a greater item discovery rate.

Yeah... sleep is overrated.

After a month-long break, I'm finally back in the world of Dark Souls. Let the despair commence!
I won't lie. I had a hard time getting back into things, especially since a visit to Blighttown was next on my program. Mosquitos, poison, I don't even know how to describe most of the monsters here, more poison... But, as always in this series, persistence and hard work payed off and I managed to make some progress and this pretty screenshot. Bring it on!

Random Souls

These sites allow you to randomly generate challenge runs for Dark Souls! It will randomly pick things like gear, restrictions, starting class, items, max level, weapon types, and boss order. Very cool! I should try one of these random roulette runs some day, definitely a cool thing if you're weirdly obsessed with Dark Souls and looking for something outside of the vanilla experience:

• Dark Souls Challenge Run Generator
• Dark Souls Random Marathon

I wanted to see how my Dark Souls skills had decayed over the last few years, so I started up a new game yesterday. Ended up playing about 4 or 5 hours, and got to Blighttown. I really hate Blighttown. I don't know if I'm just bad, or if that area is just super hard. I've died a ton with my strength build, and I finally just had to quit because I was going to break the controller :)

I'll get back at it later this week.

New personal best time: Dark Souls in 2h47m!

I made a couple mistakes here and there. Only died to one boss: the centipede demon, I fell in the lava. Otherwise it was a good run. If I played absolutely perfectly I could probably shave it down to around 2:30 or 2:15 at best. But without using glitches/skips it's impossible to get much faster than that.