DS2 gives so much information and context to the Curse itself and is tied very deeply into what the games are saying (not just about games, but about the metanarrative going on across the series). DS2 is lore-esssential, even though the specific characters portrayed in DS2 are seemingly unrelated to the rest of the…

DS2 actually gives us most -- if not all of the necessary lore -- to understand the Curse and how it works. DS2 is lore-essential, even if it doesn’t seem like it!

They actually do fit together, pretty closely, and form an overarching narrative that is pretty tight.

It really looks like they took the requests from both the Melee and Smash 4 competitive communities to heart! I’m so excited!

Dare uh see nay

So glad this is coming to PC!

The interesting thing about King’s Field is that both Dark Souls 1 and 2 feel very much like remade, remixed versions of King’s Field, most specifically 4 (“The Ancient City”). Recurring elements like Seath, Snake men infesting trap filled fortresses, and an abyssal queen who had “Tricked” her monarch into subsuming…

Generally VIT is just a useful stat to increase after you fill everything else, because all stats hard cap at 50 points — your get much, much less benefit per level after 50 points in a stat that it’s more valuable to dump extra resources into VIT to also bring VIT up. Plus, the extra health never hurts.

40 is the…

Pyromancy strictly scales off the Pyromancy Flame, not off stats, so any build can use Pyromancy optimally as long as they have the attunement slots. However, I would suggest choosing just Faith or just Intelligence — not only does this benefit you by making your levels and scaling more focused, it prevents you from…

The Capra Demon can be parried, just not riposted, due to its status as a Large Standard Enemy.

New Game+ Increases difficulty for all portions of the game, including the DLC. Play them on an uncleared save if you’re worried about the difficulty.

Ice-Pick Lodge’s games, Pathologic and The Void/Tension are some of the best games I have ever played. Even post re-translation, it is so difficult to get people to play these games. Not only are they weird and artsy, they’re difficult and brutal.

It’s not that dumb if you have other consoles or a PC as well! My Xbone is a very good media center, but save Halo and some Back-compat games there is very little to get me to game on the system. I don’t mind that, but some real good exclusives would be nice. Gimme Sunset Overdrive 2 or something!

No.

Probably not. Zero also was quite good at Melee and was respected during his run in that community as well.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true! It’s like an ANY% record being beaten rather than an MST record or something along those lines. This record was still very, very long lasting (14 years for Link’s BTT!) and is so insanely difficult to optimize further (by a human) that the achievement is still insanely…

There are different categories per character — Link’s record used to be 3.55 (now it’s 3.52), whereas Game And Watch is the fastest BTT category at 2.82 seconds.

Some take significantly longer and some take shorter — Cecelia was saying that while this Link record was finally broken, it still isn’t the absolute fastest…

Panzer Dragoon Collection _NOW_, SEGA!

CRTs don’t give any benefit for Smash4, the only reason why Melee players use CRTs is because it gets around delay issues with converting signal to a digital output. But with certain adapters and 1ms response monitors, CRTs aren’t even necessary anymore.

Most large-scale Melee tournaments already use gaming monitors…

Devilman is just one season, no plans for another (and ends pretty definitively).