First game had better graphics, art style and art direction than thesequels

>first game had better graphics, art style and art direction than thesequels
What other video games do this?

DSII's shoulders always looked way off.

DaSII had the best art direction in the series. Dark Souls is ugly as fuck and DaSIII is so unpleasant to look at.

DaSII has the most diverse color palette and has a really warm, inviting feel.

dead rising

This photo isn't blurry enough, please add more.

Further Proof

Yea, Majora has always been one of the most comfy areas in video games for me, however I do like DSIII's feel.
I'm a big sucker for boring and imposing gothic shit.

>really warm, inviting feel
>adventurers are drawn to drangleic

pottery

Even though i hate everything about 2, i did pop a boner the first time a played it from how smooth it ran (compared to 30fps DS1) and how it looked nice. I do feel like if they took that and kept the first ones look, like a remaster on the same engine or whatever, it would 100% be better than 2 and 3

Furtherer Proof

F.e.a.r

Are you blurring the AA?

1: most fun 1st playthrough
2: most fun to replay
3: ?

1: most fun
2: best looking
3: most comfy

Not my pictures. The game seems to unfocus/blur the edges when you use a telescope. I think.

Demon's Souls

>posting highly modded screenshot
DaaS2 looked fucking horrendous even with mods. It's literally missing specular map rendering on most things.

beautiful....

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incredible

DS2 was a shitty game with shitty balancing but it was the best game for variety because areas werent all the same depressing bog/swamp/castle theme like DS3.

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>all the "beautiful" Dark Souls 2 shots are blurry as shit and modded to hell

beautiful checkerboarding and pre-2000 lighting

And do not forget how incredibly cherry picked they are. DaS2 can look good with mods, but only in screenshots and even then you rarely see it.

DaS is consistent and has good shading all around. Even DaS3 and Bloodborne generally look worse.

you missed the point of the image completely you ape

not his fault the image makes no sense

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It's pretty obvious they just forgot to model the windows on the outside of the building, and stop pretending you're a different person.

ill highlight it for you my double digit user

Those images are so poorly composed I didn't even realize they were the same building.
>and stop pretending you're a different person.
Take your meds.

Now it makes sense to anyone. Good job you autist, now you know how to highlight your point.

how do you retards breathe holy shit, a toddler could see the inconsistency with that image

>a toddler would know those two completely different scenes were the same building
For all anyone knows the top image is from the far side of the bottom building, or completely unrelated.

You're fucking retarded.

your tard wrangler will come if you get too angry, calm down

>DaSII had the best
Hahahahahaha!

Well i mean if you've played the game, you would remember details like the windows and interior/exterior.

Obviously not if at least two people were confused at his stupid image.

Portal

Witcher 1. Graphics aside.

>DaSII has the most diverse color palette and has a really warm, inviting feel.

Which doesn't fit Dark Souls at all you dumb twat. It's suppose to be fucking depressing and miserable.

I wasn't and It was my first time seeing it. So that's two against two. I'm not even intelligent. I consider myself to be really dumb.

>posts a modded screenshot
The base game was ugly. Most of the areas don't even look like they were finished.

Morrowind.
Except for obvisouly graphics though

>What other video games do this?
Diablo.

>modded
that's the vanilla game, you moron

DaSII is comfy souls

>posting a weird lighting area of das3 with a character that has retardo proportions

No it isn't.

resolution isn't a mod m8

I'd like to see you post an area without weird lighting.

3 has less contrast and fell for that less color = realism meme.

You should have posted the starting knight armor for each game if you wanted a real comparison, the nameless knight set in DaS3 is uniquely worn out and rusty looking on purpose. This is the starting knight armor for DaS3.

Irithyll alone blows everything in DaS2 out of the water.

D2 to 3, absolutely
D1 to 2, I dont think its as bad,
Biased to D2 though, so many late teenage nights doing aal runs

next time try taking a screenshot that doesn't look like shit

DS2 looks like a game from the mid 00's

DaS 2 looks like crap but your screenshot also looks like a fucking turd.

no I'm pretty sure it fell for the apocalypse=less color meme

DaS3 is kino
DaS2 is a flick
DaS1 is cinema

lmao das2 is so fucking ugly
worst sequel ever, worse than goddamn alundra 2

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that entire post is cemented proof that the 3 das2fags infesting this board are the biggest retards to ever exist

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>shitty gray peak
>not beautiful blue-sand peak

what's the lore behind this?

Crashed Hocotate spaceship.

I can't tell if this is a bad artistic choice, a bug, or intentionally bizarre. That's Dark Souls 2 for you.

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Serious Sam

>blessed weapon instead of cmw

I almost feel like they should have added this area as a part of one of the DLCs

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That isn't an actual ingame image though
And if it is, please tell me what mods are you using

My very first playthrough I never got to Archdragon Peak because I intentionally avoided Sup Forums and anywhere else that might have spoiled areas and anything else. After beating the game I finally went back here and eventually saw screenshots of the place and also realized I missed like 3 bosses and all kinds of shit. They could have added Consumed Kings Garden, Untended Graves, and Archdragon Peak as the first DLC and the base game would have still felt totally complete, not to mention it would have been much better than Ashes of Ariandel.

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Dead Space.
Dead Space 1 - Atmospheric as fuck horror game all but alone on an isolated derelict where you play a terrified, desperate, and slightly unhinged engineer struggling to stay alive.
Dead Space 2 and 3 - Zombie shooter but with dismemberment where you play as knockoff Iron Man.

The graphics got better, but everything about the atmosphere, art style, and visual presentation got worse.

Agreed

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That can easily be ingame, it looks like it was just taken at a higher resolution and downsampled. It just looks like Dark Souls with DSfix with VSSAO.

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Bloodborne?

Something about DaSII's lighting always looks so flat compared to the first game.
Admittedly though Majora is by far my favourite hub area of Souls and is actually one of the more visually striking parts in II.

you see.... the flame...a nancient omen uttered by adepts of the dark path...curse...kings and armies fell to it... ahahaha...maybe you are the one who will defy the stars...hahaha

It's one of the very few actually finished areas, at least in terms of visuals.

And still, with all it's flaws DaS2 manages to be the best one.
You can actually have FUN in it

The starting area of 3 has gray ambient lighting everywhere. Go to high wall of Lothric with the character facing the right direction of the lighting and it should look more like the pic from 1, but apparently the shield texture is better in 1 or the second pic is not on the highest texture setting.

Average intelligence here, I immediately understood what was being inferred. As someone who didn't get that far into 2 because it was fucking terrible, the red circles imply that the windows should be present and visible from the outside.

I agree. That said I didn't get that far, so I don't have any real say in the conversation. I just wanted to point out that the picture, while possibly false, is easy to understand. If you didn't pick up the meaning immediately I suggest sharpening up your critical thinking skills.

I had tons of fun laughing at all the quality issues.

r8 mine

Agreed. Dark Souls 1 and 3 were great, but I just have more fond memories from Dark Souls 2.

>Sup Forums likes DS2 now

Disgusting.

welcome to the zelda cycle, enjoy your stay

>not setting in-game brightness to 0

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