I was in Anor Londo and did one of my firsts invasions. My favourite weapon in DS1 was the Iaito and I invaded one with the same. I used it 2-handed for I wanted to get over the cowering behind my shield and my opponent used it one handed with a shield. The fight took a while as we both refused to go for backstabs and had little damage. The final blow was us both going for the fabulous R2 but mine had more reach and carried me in range only after their hit already was through. I got a nice steam message afterwards and felt quite giddy and happy that me going for 2 handed worked out so will

Hundreds of hours of invasions in DS1.

The one that stands out most prominently would be blocking a dragon king great axe special with a greater magic shield enchantment on the side of the staircase to the large anor londo elevator.

Very unique sound effect. I then proceeded to poke the poor guy in the eye with a chaos rapier while he flailed against the unbreakable shield till he fell off.

I got summoned to help at the beginning of crumbling farum azula. During the fight with the dragon we got invaded. I beat the invader, finished off the dragon, and then we continued exploring the area. It was clear the player had never been there before so i showed the important item drops but because this was taking so long… you guessed it… we got invaded again. I was down to just a few flasks and this other invader was legit really good. But my homie didn’t care about dueling etiquette so this turned into a cat and mouse game going through the rest of the area. I eventually caught the invader by surpise with my horah loux earthshaker ash of war which stun locked them long enough for the host to break poise. That trick usually only works once but it was enough here. I had no flasks left after that invasion and we still had the boss to beat (godskin duo iirc). We didn’t cheese, each took one. I beat mine first and then we got the other one. Then repeatedly killed the resummons until boss bar was down to 0.

After that i got summoned by the player for rest of area. This was like a year ago and was pretty early in morning so there wasn’t a lot of summons going on. I had just left the game open while multi tasking but sure enough it was the same guy. Host took a few attempts to get maliketh since they kept getting one-shot but we eventually finished that too.

It was mostly rememberable because the combination of the length of the first summon, the multiple invasions, and 2.5 bosses.

Another one that comes to mind-- of the 150+ people i helped beat malenia, one of the hosts shielded every attack which they clearly didn’t know or care healed her. So i not only had to basically solo her, i also had to continually steal aggro before malenia would attack the host and heal. Fucking PITA stamina management. And after an awful long time through the first phase, host died to the 2nd phase opening blossom. Lmao. I got a lot of summons that day but maybe an hour later i got summoned by that same player who had wisened up and just let me, the naked mushroom hat man with two greatswords, actually solo her.

DS3, ashes of ariandel. I’d gotten invaded and brutalized a couple times in/around the bug basement and had no clue where I was supposed to go. Another invader showed up after I’d cleared a lot of the area; not wanting to lose my progress again, I branched into a box and hid for a couple minutes waiting for him to get bored. He sprinted straight past me a couple times before stopping near where I was hiding. I was sick of coward gaming by this point so appeared and approached him. He gestured for me to follow, so I did, since we were in a horrible place for a fight. Instead of going to a good arena, he took me downstairs and pointed at the lever to progress the area, then vanished. The progression from exasperation at the invasion to giddiness as my stupid hiding spot kept working to gratitude as the phantom I thought had come to kill me instead released me from insect purgatory made the encounter of my favorite gaming memories.

Got invaded in the small sewer tunnel right before gaping dragon while playin with friends. The invader got ganked, 3v1, with boss weapon skills. He then sent me hate messages in Windows for Gaming Live. Not sure what he was expecting, lol.

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I first played the Demon’s Souls remake a couple of years after it had come out. All through the first couple of worlds I ran, I would often notice the same ghost player (based on their appearance) basically in lockstep with me, we seemed to be on the same schedule for when we played and progressing through the game at the same pace.

I’ve always wondered whether seeing a ghost player in Souls games means that they can also see you at the same time. I hope you can because it was just deeply satisfying to feel like I was in the same game as this stranger from who knows where, a silent companion exploring this deep, dark, dangerous world alongside me.

In a few years time, my girlfriend went from “I haven’t played games since NES” to having a platinum in most soulsborn games.

Eldin ring was the first game that was new to both of us, and we did our first play through co-op and had a wonderful time.

Went back and played through the trilogy and Bloodborn. It was my first time going past Yarnim, and the first time I actually got Bloodborn.

The most memorable I think was when we started fresh characters to do the Elden ring DLC.

Invaded in blighttown. Saw the host and two phantoms right below me , near the start. I thought, I’ll drop down and get them!

Dropped. Missed. Everyone starts wailing on me. I’m in the black tarkus armor with a halberd. Well fuck it, I want to go down swinging.

Host fell off the edge. Victory for me…

CoOp chalices searching, I found someone who I helped a boss with, then another, and eventually we DMed and I helped them þrough to the queen, something like 12 bosses? They were so excited they could help others, I pointed them to the discord. This year I stopped into the BB discord and they’re still active in there helping others!

My best friend was teaching me about bloodborne. He mentioned a guy was in a tower with a gun. So of course I assume it’s a sniper.

Nope. Minigun. We hid behind some cover while my friend laughed at my “oh shit” reaction.

I invaded into a fight club in Elden Ring. Everyone knows the rules. Wait your turn. No healing unless you win your fight and then you can heal up for the next round. No ganking. Don’t attack the host. I waited until I was up and I won my fight. I won another 2 or 3 after that. Then came a guy that didn’t respect the rules. He left the fight club area, he healed, he took swings at the host. He had me chase him through the area, the host followed, but didn’t attack directly despite the invader being dishonorable. After a long fight, I pulled off the win. The host taunted the dying invader and then I had to peace out because the fight had exhausted all of my resources.

Got invaded just outside the Undead Parish on a replay. Took some damage and muscle memory slammed that Estus button. The invader did the ‘fall on knees’ emote and I made various emotes to communicate my abject apology. We backed up and rebuffed before bowing and re-engaging. He kicked my ass and then bowed again as I died. 10/10 interaction, no notes.

A few weeks ago i was farming Proofs of Concord Kept at like SL150 and got invaded by someone who was clearly also farming Proofs. After we exchanged gestures I jumped off the ledge to help the guy out.

I dont do much PVP lol

Dragon bridge!