Patrick and Brad mentioned a horrible gif floating around of some "maw" or mouth that has something to do with either dark souls or demons souls. Can someone point me in the right direction as to what they were talking about?

Ironically despite looking the most fearsome it was one of the easier bosses.

@FluxWaveZ said:

right boss, wrong gif

right boss, wrong gif

that is fucking awesome!

oh christ!

Easiest boss that I've fought so far, unfortunately. Beat it first try.

@CrazyBagMan said:

Easiest boss that I've fought so far, unfortunately. Beat it first try.

Yeah, just intimidating.

@CrazyBagMan: Disagree. Easiest boss was Midnight Butterfly

I somehow found the Hydra to be much more frightening. You see this big thing from far away, it already shoots you through the trees which looks awesome and then you have to go there .... when the heads come down ... holy crap.

@nohthink said:

@CrazyBagMan: Disagree. Easiest boss was Midnight Butterfly

ya...and the gargoyles...

I'll say this about Dark Souls. Even tho I think it is harder overall; the bosses are easier from what I've played. Haven't had trouble with one yet. I've killed 4 I think. The type where you go thru the white mist door crap and aren't aloud to run away.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Rhaknar said:

right boss, wrong gif

Yeah, I'll try to search for the famous one.

Man, that Dragon has a crazy design. However, it isn't the creepiest monster in the game.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Rhaknar said:

right boss, wrong gif

Yeah, I'll try to search for the famous one.

It's getting into The Thing territory here.

@handlas: I actually hated the gargoyles. Gave me so much troubles lol

Wow! That is gnarly!!

@nohthink said:

@handlas: I actually hated the gargoyles. Gave me so much troubles lol

I dunno thought he was easy. He is pretty much an easier version of a boss in Demon's Souls. Kill the first Gargoyle as fast as possible and then, on the 2nd gargoyle, just sidestep his fire attack and hit him every time. Took me 2 tries. First time I didn't expect the 2nd one to jump down so I got taken out by both of them.

I just beat that big multi-headed thing in the lake that shoots water at you. I expected that to be tough and he was easy as well. I don't think he is really considered a boss tho.

@handlas: lol See, I didn't play Demon's Souls. I played it for like 5 hours? and i said "FUCK! THIS!" and just gave up. Could not handle it. So I don't really have a previous experience of "soul" lol I'm doing a lot better now though. Even enjoying it. Never thought I would enjoy this game...

The Gaping Dragons is one of the easiest bosses in the game, which sucks because it looks so cool.

Awesome boss, awesome fight, but I bought this game to die damnit!

@LordXavierBritish said:

The music has a shadow of the colossus element to it. And the enemy design looks great i'll probably pick this up soon.

@nohthink said:

@handlas: I actually hated the gargoyles. Gave me so much troubles lol

Yea, i got owned by the Bell dragons/gargoyles for so long. 3 and a half hours long...

The gaping dragon is a joke (Seriously easy) The fight is still fun though, great music, great monster design, and just the right amount of epic.
 
Also that cat with the goddamned Alligator mouth is fucking creepy, I think there is a boss with a similar looking mouth.

@MrCandleguy said:

@nohthink said:

@handlas: I actually hated the gargoyles. Gave me so much troubles lol

Yea, i got owned by the Bell dragons/gargoyles for so long. 3 and a half hours long...

Same here. I was getting so frustrated. Then I read online that you can summon an NPC even offline to help as a human. Leave it to Dark Souls not to convey that WHATSOEVER.

After that I beat them in one try. Sheesh..

If you want a little secret about fighting this boss...

If you cut off it's tail, you'll get special Greataxe weapon.

I loved this bossfight so much, even though it was not that hard.

I also spent a good chunk of time helping other people beat it as a phantom, really gives a monster hunter vibe when there's three people running around in that giant cave, trying to divert the attention of that thing, and trying to cut off it's tail. And the best thing, after killing it, is seeing the host bow in gratitude just seconds before you vanish back to your own world again.

Now that's a real monster!

I am so glad I didn't get spoiled on this. The cutscene revealing it is too perfect.

"Huh, looks like there's crocodiles in this room."

"...Okay, gotcha, crocodile head, neck leads to a bigger boss monster. Of course."

"...Okay, it's a dragon-looking thing. Alright, don't panic, I'm a few hundred feet underground with no way out but I can do this."

"...OH FUCK ME THAT IS A BIG-ASS MOUTH ON ITS UNDERBELLY"

My deepest and darkest fears become ever so apparent with every minute, every hour that I play this game. Insanity looms in the distance, like a fog before morning. Dark Souls, I fear, will lead to my death. Until that day, however, I will not stop.

Dark Souls Poetry, as preformed by N7. Inspired by the video game Dark Souls. Copyright/Trademark From Software and Atlus respectively.

I am so glad I didn't get spoiled on this. The cutscene revealing it is too perfect.

"Huh, looks like there's crocodiles in this room."

"...Okay, gotcha, crocodile head, neck leads to a bigger boss monster. Of course."

"...Okay, it's a dragon-looking thing. Alright, don't panic, I'm a few hundred feet underground with no way out but I can do this."

"...OH FUCK ME THAT IS A BIG-ASS MOUTH ON ITS UNDERBELLY"

@MrCandleguy: Oh God, don't get me started on the curse frogs.

I was straight pimpin' through the game, killing stuff left and right, 12,000 unspent souls and two Humanity, life was great. I'm walking through the tunnels in The Depths, killing rats and slimes like they're nothing.

Then, I fall through that trapdoor. "Oh shit, it's one of those curse-frog things I've been hearing about! DODGE!" I dodge out of the way, but oops, there were two more behind me. I die right as I kill the one in front of me with one hit of my halberd.

I come back from the dead, thinking "okay, I can do this; I can make it back down there, recover my bloodstain, pop back out, buy the item to remove the curse, and return to my former glory, no problem."

Then I fall through the OTHER trapdoor that leads to the same frogpit. Again, I kill one or two of them, but the other one still kills me.

Now, I have ONE QUARTER OF A HEALTH BAR, and I need to recover 4,000 souls without dying.

The next half-hour was pretty intense.

@MrCandleguy said:

@takua108: Wait, I got double cursed and I didn't get down to a quarter health. =/ Though i'm the man cause I fought the gaping dragon while cursed like a fucking boss.

I posted this story on /r/darksouls and someone else earlier said they didn't get quarter-healthed, either. But looking at one of the wikis, I'm definitely not the only one to experience double- or more cursing halving your health over and over again. Maybe it has to do with defenses or something?

@DaemonBlack said:

@MrCandleguy said:

@nohthink said:

@handlas: I actually hated the gargoyles. Gave me so much troubles lol

Yea, i got owned by the Bell dragons/gargoyles for so long. 3 and a half hours long...

Same here. I was getting so frustrated. Then I read online that you can summon an NPC even offline to help as a human. Leave it to Dark Souls not to convey that WHATSOEVER.

After that I beat them in one try. Sheesh..

wait. You can summon an AI to help you?

Really the thing is to just kill the first gargoyle as fast as possible so you dont get gang raped. I had a tougher time with the buttlefly boss and that boss was easy too. Only reason was because I would take damage from his attacks whether I blocked or not and I couldn't get out of the way from his fast spear-like projectiles.

Nah, easiest boss is Pinwheel so far. Actually died a couple times to Gaping Dragon, was cursed and dying with one hit.

@handlas: I think you can summon AI for multiple bosses, I have only done it with the gargoyles and the Gaping Dragon (you can summon two AIs for that fight!) so far so I can't speak for the rest.

But taking one out quickly became strategy too. It's too easy to get stunlocked by a fire breath attack so killing one quickly is essential.

WIth the butterfly I could dodge the slow projectile easily but I found it best to equip a high magic defense shield to minimize the damage from the spear ones.

Easiest Boss Fight (by ~lvl 49)

Now, if there were two of them, it wouldn't have been so easy.

Easiest bossfight? Really? O_o I died more to this than Capra, and all the earlier bosses took 2 tries at most. This was more like 7. Did it at level 29 if that matters. 
@MrCandleguy: What do curses do? I went through the frogs a couple of times and haven't got affected yet, just want to know in case I go back down.

@TobbRobb said:

Easiest bossfight? Really? O_o I died more to this than Capra, and all the earlier bosses took 2 tries at most. This was more like 7. Did it at level 29 if that matters.
@MrCandleguy: What do curses do? I went through the frogs a couple of times and haven't got affected yet, just want to know in case I go back down.

Caps your health at 50%.

The enemy design and how they animate in this game makes me wish there were cool gifs of all the monsters. I almost want to play this game just to see all these crazy bosses.

@Geo7877 said:

@TobbRobb said:

Easiest bossfight? Really? O_o I died more to this than Capra, and all the earlier bosses took 2 tries at most. This was more like 7. Did it at level 29 if that matters.
@MrCandleguy: What do curses do? I went through the frogs a couple of times and haven't got affected yet, just want to know in case I go back down.

Caps your health at 50%.

@TobbRobb said:

@Geo7877: Oh, that sounds a little annoying, though the area was really easy, I don't really think it would make much of a difference. Being cursed in blightown or londo would be a pain though. O_o

Not just caps, it stacks, you can go down to something like an eighth of your original max health.

@handlas said:

@nohthink said:

@handlas: I actually hated the gargoyles. Gave me so much troubles lol

I dunno thought he was easy. He is pretty much an easier version of a boss in Demon's Souls. Kill the first Gargoyle as fast as possible and then, on the 2nd gargoyle, just sidestep his fire attack and hit him every time. Took me 2 tries. First time I didn't expect the 2nd one to jump down so I got taken out by both of them.

I just beat that big multi-headed thing in the lake that shoots water at you. I expected that to be tough and he was easy as well. I don't think he is really considered a boss tho.

If you take one out quickly it's very easy I bet, but I couldn't pull it off and two of them was big trouble, especially if you are without a summon. The last attempt they both only needed one more hit, which wasn't really strategically sound but it sure was epic when I did it.

You really only die against the Gaping Dragon if you are being reckless. If you are careful and know when to go for the attack, then he isn't so bad. He is just kinda gross and that is why I like to get that fight over with as soon as possible.

@Geo7877 said:

@TobbRobb said:

Easiest bossfight? Really? O_o I died more to this than Capra, and all the earlier bosses took 2 tries at most. This was more like 7. Did it at level 29 if that matters.
@MrCandleguy: What do curses do? I went through the frogs a couple of times and haven't got affected yet, just want to know in case I go back down.

Caps your health at 50%.

@TobbRobb said:

@Geo7877: Oh, that sounds a little annoying, though the area was really easy, I don't really think it would make much of a difference. Being cursed in blightown or londo would be a pain though. O_o

Not just caps, it stacks, you can go down to something like an eighth of your original max health.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Rhaknar said:

right boss, wrong gif

Yeah, I'll try to search for the famous one.

That is fucking terrifying.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Rhaknar said:

right boss, wrong gif

Yeah, I'll try to search for the famous one.

A gaping dragon seizing it's unsuspecting prey in it's natural habitat. Majestic. Truly majestic.