Dark Souls II or Dark Souls III?

Dark Souls II or Dark Souls III?

3 is meh, 2 is bad. So 3

A sharp drill in my skull would be a better choice than both.
Talk about diminishing returns.

Both are shit, I'll take 1 or Bloodborne anyday.

DS2 is miles ahead of DS3.

3 easily. It's a superior visual and boss fight experience immediately.

BB>DS3>DS1>>>>>DS2>>>>>>>SOTFS

Dark Souls 1 >>>>>> powergap >>>>> Dark Souls 3 > Dark Souls 2

fuck contrarians

>Implying the contrarians aren't the ones saying 3 is bad
2 I'll give you, but this is some meta b8 you're trying to pull lad.

3

The only contrarians are the DaS babbies who can't stand the fact that all the other Souls games aren't exactly like it.

Bloodborne = 1 > Demon's > SOTFS > 3

DS2>DS3>BB>DS1>>>Demon Souls

I'm just stating the facts

The only reason to dislike 3 is if you're a tryhard griefer.

I liked Dark Souls 2 better.

3, I'd rather play ride to hell retribution for 6 hours straight while being molested by kevin spacey.

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A better question would be: Dark Souls 1 or Demon's Souls

Dark Souls obviously

Demon's Souls was still great though.

Dark Souls. Demon souls was the beta.

3 is far better on your first playthrough in almost every way, better level design, better bosses, better visual design, better gameplay
However it's world design is terrible linear and build variety is an actual joke, each playthrough of DaS3 is going to get more and more boring until you don't even know why you bother playing anymore
DaS2 is a shit game all around but if offers things other souls game past and future were too stupid to take advantage of, making it something worth playing multiple times if you can get over the hump of shitty forgetting bosses and linear uninteresting level design until you hit the DLC's.
tl;dr 3 starts out good and gets bad every playthrough, 2 starts out worse but gets a bit better every playthrough

I had more fun with 2

In this thread we list things Dark Souls 2 did that were far better than Dark Souls 3. I'll start:

>No bonfire and no death challenge where you can beat the game without resting at a bonfire or dying to gain a reward and bragging rights

>Non-linear first half of the game allows you to rush straight to the areas of the game that contain the items for your build

>Chugging Estus immobilizes you, and the heal isn't instantaneous meaning trying to chug while someone is sticking close to you will result in death

>Stamina regeneration is tied to weight, so a character at 10% burden will recover their bar faster than a character at 70% burden, giving an advantage and a reason to make a low burden character

>Poise exists and armor provides relevant, but not overpowering damage reduction, giving an advantage and a reason to make a high burden character

>Phantoms and Dark Spirits cannot chug estus, spirits can only heal via spell useage which is slow. This makes fighting outnumbered even without mob assistance possible since any damage you do sticks

>Can only perform four rolls before running out of stamina

>Can only perform 5 attacks of a rapier or straight sword before running out of stamina

>Parrying has longer recovery frames and consumes more stamina, making parry fishing riskier and makes parrying require higher skill

>Power stance allowing for unique combinations of dual wielding and unlocking an alternative moveset for weapons

>Being able to use the full moveset of a weapon in your off-hand including running, rolling, backstepping, etc. attacks rather than just being able to do a basic R1 swing and blocking with the weapon as it is in Ds3 (lmao who would ever want to weapon block)

>Bell Tower covenant providing two unique optional areas to PvP for Titanite Chunks, Slabs, and Twinkling, making farming for upgrades fun

>Bonfire ascetics to replay bosses you like and or gain items from NG+ and beyond without grinding through the whole game again

Or you like doing anything besides longsword R1

I managed well with my standard Guts build.

>Piss or shit?

How about neither

>someone is defending dark souls 2 on Sup Forums
>they actually aren't completely retarded and list all the actual things dark souls 2 did right that 3 purposely left out to disassociate it with the game
nice, but you forgot that you can also delay your r1's and r2's slightly during combos to throw off parryfags, something you can't do in 3 because ???

I didn't forget I just hit the character limit so had to pick and choose what to keep in.

that one is a biggie though, moreso than that shitty belltower covenant. I was so fucking mad when I bought das3 and saw how stale and rigid combat maneuvers were in pvp. Just a giant fucking step backwards, all because bandai fucking shit the bed again last game and made everyone mad.

bloodborne>3>2>1>demon souls

Bloodborne>1=Demon's>3>2

Bloodborne>1>2>3

>It nerfs the stuff I don't like and gives "variety"
Polished gameplay>a variety of trash with unresponsive controls

3 is an objectively better game but I'd lying if I said I didn't have more fun with 2 in the grand scheme of things.

FPBP

>bragging rights

Stopped reading there.

2

Obviously 3. Mechanically the game was better(you have bloodborne to thank for that), the story is much more intresting and the animations of the characters didn't make you want to drink bleach.

Dark Souls 3 is the worst game in the series. If nothing else, it's so painfully boring and absurdly easy.
>angry zombie man is about to flail angrily at me, what do?
>R1R1R1R1R1
>Repeat 400 times until all Lords of Cinder are dead
>Fight the overtuned Nameless King
>Credits
The nicest thing you can call it is Bloodborne-Lite.

3 is miles above 2.

that zone has so many spots that are just the biggest eye sore.