Are the Chalice Dungeons worth doing? I did the first one and there wasn’t much interesting about it.
Well, it depends. The biggest reason people do it are the rewards, you find the best gems in there (and you need to do it for the platinum as well). Also it has some great bosses, which are massively brutal.
The dungeons themselves are kinda same, they follow a set pattern and design and you just do one after another. The enemies keep getting harder and so does the loot but there's no story or exploration there. I'd say some of the bosses are worth it if you are purely into it for the love of the combat and gameplay.
I did them for the trophies. Some you can get good gems/runes from and some dungeons are better than others.
If you do decide to do them, the Pthumerian Descendant will be a name very familiar to you by the end.
Just beat Laurence and I genuinely think I’m going to have a heart attack 
Can’t stop shaking.
Can’t stop shaking.
Just beat Laurence and I genuinely think I’m going to have a heart attack
Can’t stop shaking.
Been there!
Well done! Crazy fight.Just beat Laurence and I genuinely think I’m going to have a heart attack
Can’t stop shaking.
Tbh, it’s the first time I ever got him down to a third of health and that final phase was surprisingly easy.
He hit really hard but it was equally as easy to get hits on him, so with no blood veils remaining and a slither of health I just about managed to get a final hit in before he got me.
He hit really hard but it was equally as easy to get hits on him, so with no blood veils remaining and a slither of health I just about managed to get a final hit in before he got me.
The biggest difficulty I found(Had to do it on NG+ after missing the DLC the first time around)was taking down his health. Once you understand his move set, it's all about the grind.
Haha, that's an awesome end to the fight. The third phase looks easy to manage but can get you really greedy. In one of my very early attempts I was right there, thought he was done but he took a fatal swipe with literally 1 HP left.
Definitely one of the trickiest bosses in the game.
Ffs forgot to consume Umbilical chords before the Gehrman fight.
You can die and consume it before fighting him again. (Unless you beat him first try
)First try unfortunately. I was massively overlevelled after battling with the DLC since the weekendYou can die and consume it before fighting him again. (Unless you beat him first try
Ffs.First try unfortunately. I was massively overlevelled after battling with the DLC since the weekend
Anyway the final boss you missed on is super underwhelming. DLC is where it's at.
Congrats! You have two more endings to getFirst try unfortunately. I was massively overlevelled after battling with the DLC since the weekend
I think I fought Moon Presence on my original play through when it was released so it’s just the one ending left but I’m not sure if I’ll play through again for it. I’m tempted though, up there with Hollow Knight for me as one of my favourite games ever. Elden Ring up there too mind.Congrats! You have two more endings to get
Two of the best games I've ever played.
Time to jump back in.
I always forget how unkind to new players Old Yarnham must be. The mobs are brutal if you don’t know how to play.
I always forget how unkind to new players Old Yarnham must be. The mobs are brutal if you don’t know how to play.
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Confusing
Took me so many attempts over the years (think I bought it in 2015) to finally get past the first set of mobs and after that I was addicted and blasted through the whole game in about a week (in 2022). A true masterpiece.
still keep meaning to go back and do the old hunters but I’ll probably need to do a full playthrough.
Just worded poorly but essentially it’s just a very difficult area with the mobs.
When I was new I just ran past them all after finding out about the shortcut to the boss. Now I kill my way to boss but still have some close shaves taking them on.
I ended up just sprinting past that mob at the start and then eventually I learned how to play the game. It does its best to scare off newcomers at the beginning.
Might platinum this in the not too distant future. How tough is it to do so?
It's not too bad but you have to do a lot of chalice dungeons, including a cursed and defiled one, which had some of the tougher boss fights in the entire game for me. Also, save scumming at the end is recommended to avoid having to do three full runs.
Nice one. I think I’ll make a move on it in the new year. It’s been part of the backlog for quite some time and it’ll be a nice one to tick off.
You can avoid most of the dungeons as well. Just need to do the last one with the pthumerian defender and the queen.
The old hunters is some of the greatest gaming content ever made.
Agreed. Think my first experience of it was documented on the pages before when I played it for the first time last year.
Maria, Kos and Lawrence all incredible bosses.
Lawrence the hardest in the game for me and a hell of a rush beating him. Kos similar.
I just wish they would release a proper port to PS5 with 60 FPS. Tried downloading it and it looked and play like shite on PS5, somehow worse than on PS4
Struggling to beat Father Gasgoine
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Yeah but you can only get there through a minimum number of dungeons, and the defiled dungeon is part of that.
No you don't have to do any defiled dungeons for the plat. You can use the false depth chalices.
Anyone know the glyph skip to Queen Yharnam? : r/tombprospectors (reddit.com)
What a total masterpiece this game is.
The opening section is the angriest I have ever been with a game. I remember it well! That fecking opening street with 20 dudes. I must have been stuck there for about 3 or 4 hours, just dying over and over, with that unpatched loading screen which lasted about 3 years. Once I got past Cleric Beast, the game opened up. Had such an amazing experience with it.
The opening section is the angriest I have ever been with a game. I remember it well! That fecking opening street with 20 dudes. I must have been stuck there for about 3 or 4 hours, just dying over and over, with that unpatched loading screen which lasted about 3 years. Once I got past Cleric Beast, the game opened up. Had such an amazing experience with it.
Yep this was my first souls game and that first mob felt unbeatable for a while. But as said above my worst point was through old yharnam when out of nowhere you have a fecking machine gun fire from sky along with all the rest of the shite.
Just got to Old Yarnham and dreading that bit
But as said above my worst point was through old yharnam when out of nowhere you have a fecking machine gun fire from sky along with all the rest of the shite.
Well feck, I don't think anyone had found that back when I went for the platinum. It does seem like more of an exploit than a legitimate way to reach the queen.
Yeah I'll take that asterisk for not having to do the fecking defiled dungeons.
I always forget where the bloody old yarnham shortcut is from the first lamp. I get to the area where the cnut in the tower is and I swear it’s there somewhere but can’t find it