Current Events > Do you have any opinions on Old Iron King from Dark Souls 2?

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Wasn't he cool!?

No, he was in lava

Nice spectacle, but the fight was way too simple. Stand at the back corner where he can't hit you and wait for him to slam his arm down and take an entire year to lift it back up.

Looked cool as fuck. Janky fight though.

Pretty cool fight. DS2 is good

Sleeps in a pool of lava shallow enough for him to stand up in.
Stands up and tries his best.
Gets his arms slashed at a few times. Dies.

I dig it.

Fight sucked hard in the original release. That hole in the platform was too big, it felt like getting knocked down at all pushed you in it.

The epitome of Dark Souls 2 boss design. One of the big four. Epic in scope and visuals.

Does a couple of heavily telegraphed hits then stands around for you to hit him a bunch and relies on the floor holes to kill you.

He's basically a cinematic Dragon Rider.

DeS tier boss that gets shit on by people who praise DeS's boss designs because it happens to be in DS2.

Boss fight's alright, lore's good.

I can see it. In a what if the Adjudicator was missing both his legs? kind of way.

Even that guy had a cleaver though. You'd think a smelting themed deity would have some kind of weapon on hand.

I liked it, although I admit I died more from falling into the lava than taking damage from him.
Felt like Smelter Demon was the "better boss" of that map, though... OIK was a bit of a let down after him.

He's more similar to Bed of Chaos than he'd probably like to be as well.
-Fighting against the upper half of a humanoid.
-Fire attacks that are secondary to a greater threat in the fight.
-One of the four big souls.
-Wants to knock you into a pit rather than kill you from raw damage.
-Long run back.
-Is a once humanoid ruler twisted into some kind of abomination.
-Backstory involves getting potent fire abilities and going berserk with them.

Odd considering they used the Bed of Chaos bug thing for Lost Sinner.

Aesthetically dope.

Mechanically nope.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

-Long run back.

There is a bonfire in that huge bull head or whatever it is that's overlooking his arena

I really need to replay the series. This doesnt ring a bell. No pun intended

UnholyMudcrab posted...

There is a bonfire in that huge bull head or whatever it is that's overlooking his arena

In the original? Or is this a SOTFS thing?

It's in both. The ladder up to it is insanely easy to miss, most people only notice because they happen to stand right next to it while avoiding the fire and accidentally see the prompt, or they see a message actively pointing it out. I've seen tons of LPs where they just don't notice it because it blends in so well with the background.

This information is troubling.
I may be beginning to believe that Old Iron King is not the progress ending, spirit breaking, speedrun-attempt devouring beast of legend that Dark Souls 2 would assure me he is.

Going out of your way for a bonfire in case you die is speedrrun ending, isn't it?

Don't remember if that's a dlc boss or the guy at the end of the horrible level with two dozen knights on the way to the boss door.

Not only does DS2 have so many repetitive and forgettable bosses, but the run backs are so awful due to no intangibility when trying to open fog gates. Horrible design.

Doe posted...

Don't remember if that's a dlc boss or the guy at the end of the horrible level with two dozen knights on the way to the boss door.

Technically, the Smelter Demon is the boss at the end of the area with all the knights. But yeah, OIK is the guy at the very end of that whole area

No he was lame, easy, and boring. Felt like shit straight out of a N64 action platformer.

Cool lore, but dogshit fight like most DS2 bosses.

Jagr_68 posted...

No he was lame, easy, and boring. Felt like shit straight out of a N64 action platformer.

Grrr, y-you take that back!