DARK SOULS 2

The best or the worst Souls game? Which is it?

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Best: Bloodborne
Worst: Dark Souls 3

Best: Demon Souls
Worst: Dark Souls 2

Not the best, but easily the one with the most Quality of Life improvements.

Only for DS3 to completely remove a few of them. The dicks.

its a really good adventure game that is quite a bit different from the other games in the series, mostly because of the movement mechanics, in my opinion

the quality of the animations for many enemies also seemed to have suffered for some reason, not many fights are exciting or unpredictable

the highpoint is how most weapons and builds are viable, it truly feels like an RPG in that aspect, something DS3 got wrong

It's the worst but that's not a bad thing. It introduced plenty of good ideas that I wish DaS 3 took from.

The one with the greatest potential wasted horribly.

Best: Bloodborne
Worst: Dark Souls 2

1, 3 and Demons are both really good.

I still put like 500 hours into DS2

Best: Bloodborne
Worst: Dark Souls 2

I don't know if i'd have preferred a DaS2 pre-downgrade running at 15 fps the majority of the game or the version we got that runs on literally anything.

Neither.

This.

FPBP

best

2 was the most enjoyable to me because of pvp, weapon and armor diversity
ds3 was more polished but the pvp is complete shit and it made a few steps backward when it comes to combat

Worst

Every game in the series has some serious draw backs.

I, personally enjoyed 1 and 2 about equally but absolutely hated 3, except for the boss fights and soundtrack, those were excellent.

Matter of opinion. None of the soulsborne games are bad, I can understand not likely specific iterations, but in general they're all good games.

2nd best IMO.

Just a cavalcade of mistakes, cut corners and bad design choices.

Level design in particular was fucked. They should have just done a world hub like DeS.

easily the worst for me
favorite was DS1 followed by bloodborne - demon's souls - ds3

I don't follow Souls games but 2 is liked now?

After the shitshow that was 3, I think a lot of people gained at least a little bit of respect for 2.

After the release of three I think it sparked a bit of reflection on the series as a whole.

Either everyone is being contrarian again or perhaps what DS2 did do right is now magnified against what DS3 did do wrong.

Damn fpnp everytime

As it turns out Sup Forums is not a hivemind but individual people with differing tastes and opinions.
I think is correct though, and a lot of people are more lenient toward DaS2 nowadays.

WRONG

They sucked even more of the color out with the SotFS version

Easily the worst.

Black Gulch was a cool area in DS2. Even though it was really short it seemed very otherworldly and spooky, like the ocean floor.

Second best after DS1

neither

1 > des > 2 > 3

FPBP

I was hoping it'd be a complex are where you'd get lost a ton like 2-2

Why does Sup Forums hate Dark Souls 3? Is it because it's the latest title in the series?

no, it's because it's an awfully linear game with little to no replay value

Best is BB hands down.

Worst is either DS3 or DeS, I can't really decide.

Dark Souls 2 always felt like a low budget title for some reason, and more repetitive than DS1 and BB

DS3 at least has much higher production values, the best OST in the series and much better bosses in base game than DS2

The best PVP of all Souls games

BB has the best singleplayer content of all Souls games

Yes. The latest is always the most shit on. Remember when DaS1 came out and everybody shat on that?
Then 2 came out and 1 was suddenly a masterpiece.
Calling the newest bad has the most shitposting potential.

2 only had like 4 good bosses. complete opposite from 1 which had like 4 bad bosses

DS1 best
chromatic abberationborne worst

and terrible, terrible PVP

2nd worst: Dark Souls 2

The only good bosses in 1 are Ornstein and Smough, and Artorias

everything else is shit/mediocre/gimmicky

Dumb tedious R1 spam combat, extremely linear and formulaic, too much fanservice, bad pvp. Only the bosses are really good but that's undermined by how easy the game is.

I agree with this. Like 2 was still very frustrating to go back to, but the AoA DLC for 3 left a really sour taste being as short as it is. Plus, to me anyway, the PvP arena shit feels like a sorry excuse for the DLC area being short, and I imagine that the Ringed City will do the same fucking thing; short area, throw in some new weapons, give a few more weapons and shitty spells, and a PvP arena. DS2 DLC felt more worthwhile in comparison, and DS2 is already fucking long as it is.

3 could become the best game of the series if it had a boss arena where you can replay bosses with friends

until it does that, it's terrible

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And DS2 is my favourite.

I never beat 3, is it worth doing anything after killing that faggot prince and his brother?

>Every single DLC boss, O&S and Gwyn are great, and the rest are OK, mediocre, bad and the only gimmicky is Bed of Chaos.
Fixed that post for you, you are welcome.

You literally have just the final boss left.
There's always the DLC I guess, and the 2 hidden areas you may have missed.

DS2 had best covenants by far, and best and most fun PvP because: youtube.com/watch?v=OybT0-Ui5a0

The DLC that's out is shit

Ah I should probably just power through it then, shit I didn't think I was that close to the end

2 hidden areas too? Hmm..

>sanctuary guardian
boring
>kalameet
gimmick
>manus
mediocre

Archdragon Peak, if you haven't done it yet.
Best area
Best boss

>DLC
Both games had excellent DLC bosses.

>Gwyn
Mechanically shit boss, but great thematic boss like Ivory King. I'm not sure how would I would rank them on a boss list tbqh.

Oh, I did that area, and yea it was pretty legit.

so, what were your favorite bosses from 2, /v?

Easily Alonne

2 was easily the worst for me. I can play 1 and 3 however many times I please, but I have no desire to go back to 2. It's a shame since the build variety is fantastic, but I hardly do any PvP at all and the PvE is awful.

worst by a longshot

2 by far has the most fun pvp

3 by far has teh worst pvp

this

DaS3 isn't the strongest but not worse than 2

BB is best

Sinh

I like his music too
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also the Executioner's Chariot is a neat boss

This.
I have about 200 hours in 2 pvp alone and can almost everything work.
But in 3 i can get only one good working build, because it is just shit.

Difficulty is a terrible complaint when you've 4 previous games of practice. The bosses are some of the best and hardest in the series, I haven't played BB though.

The only reason 2 has fun PVP is because of how hideously broken the game is, people figure out some ridiculous builds

nah

Personally, it's just way too linear (somehow even more linear than Souls2), which was one of the biggest reasons why I loved the original. On top of that it has no soul and feels like it has DAS' dick down its throat all the time.

I'd say most of the DLC ones:
Sir Alonne, Fume K***ht, Sinh, Gank Squad(music was dope), Ivory King, Veldstadt, Aldia.

The music was excellent in all of them.

>R1 spam combat
So like every Souls game?
>extremely linear and formulaic
True, but linearity isn't inherently bad, or at least not as detrimental as you guys make it out to be. DS2 wasn't as linear but the level design was much worse than in DS3.
>too much fanservice
Didn't bother me, but I don't disagree.
>bad pvp
Actually true.

It's because even though there were some meta weapons you could still shit on them with raw skill, regardless of your set.

Alonne, Raime, Smelter, and Chariot.

>Worst: Dark Souls 3
>when literally everything in it except world design is better than in DaS

This is why neo/v/ is pathetic.
I agree about BB being the best one tho.

Not really. The meta in each patch centered around a fairly standard OP build (havelmage, twinblades, monoscim, etc.), but the thing was that a lot of other weapons were also viable outside of them. At least that was how it was for the majority of the game's lifespan until dozens of patches where it got distilled down to robflynn (which was what DS3 started off with for some ungodly reason).

>thinks BB is best
>complains about neo/v/
its like pottery

Mirror Knight, Chariot, Ruin Sentinels, Freja, Velstadt, Ornstein, Sinh, Fume mainly, and I really like 2 or 3 more.

DaS2 had great bosses compared to the 3 good bosses of 1.

I woudn't say it's the worst, I would say it was the most disappointing though. It could have been so much better.

>pvp
worse
>build variety
terrible
>stamina management
non-existant
>QoL changes from DS2
gone

>when literally everything in it except world design is better than in DaS
"no"

soul memory and needing to keep an npc alive on a boss battle to complete its quest

the dlc maps and bosses were kind of fun but i hated mostly everything else

>literally everything
What about shitty build variety and lore that is nothing more, that just a reference to DS?
It's worse than DS2 at it's core.

I think a lot of people who claim DaS1 had good bosses are looking through rose tinted goggles. Most of the bosses were serviceable, some were shit, and only a few were truly good/memorable.

Dark souls 2 is defiantly the weakest souls, but people like to act like its as bad as ride to hell retribution which it really isn't.

>defiantly
Ah shit, I meant definitely.

>Dark Souls 3 worse than Dark Souls 2
end your life

Coming from Dark Souls 1 then into 2, does 3 have hard locking enemies? Hated that shit so much.

He said Das2 not 1.

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Am i the only guy who hated Bloodbourne? It felt like a lite Dark Souls.

>DS2 wasn't as linear but the level design was much worse than in DS3.
And it prooves that good world desighn adds much more to replayability than good level desighn.

>QoL changes from DS2
>QoL changes
>QoL

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good game in its own right, but the worst souls game and nothing comes close

You are retarded.

>Fume K***ht,
You glorious bastard.

>quality of life improvements

the only quality of life improvement you need is to _________git gud

Not the best, but it's not as terrible as people on here make it seem.

ADP, SM, and the significant graphical downgrade definitely hurt it's potential.

I enjoyed all 3. They all do things better than others. You contrarian faggots need to grow up and learn to accept that different people have different tastes.

2 was definitely the weakest in terms of PvE.

Sonygger detected, they need to be burned allive while watching their mothers getting raped in front of them.

i am an idort and bloodborne is still my favorite FromSoft game

Best: Dark Souls 2
Worst: Bloodborn