Is it worth it in the end to give it a playthrough?
Is it worth it in the end to give it a playthrough?
Oliver Myers
Caleb Richardson
Yeah. It’s the worst dark souls game but it’s still better than almost all games this gen.
Jayden Gray
It's still a good game, the worst Souls game but definitely worth a playthrough.
Ryder Perez
I gave it one playthrough and only one.
I tried to replay it, I can't.
Yes you should play through it once just so people on the internet can't claim you are just too bad at video games.
Jonathan Collins
>heavy armor that had to be farmed
>shit shield
>magic
if people are playing the game like this no wonder they hate it
Parker Garcia
2 > 1 > 3
Caleb Bell
Yes. Pick any character archetype you want to play. It will be viable.
Colton Scott
Maybe not now, DS2 redeeming factor is the fact that it had some of the best online in the series. Pretty sure that's gone now.
Lincoln Reyes
It's the weakest in a series of games infamous for their lack of polish and testing. Ignore the drones and take a wild guess.
Ethan Richardson
>he didn't platinum it
Robert Cox
1>2>3
Isaac Jenkins
Don't listen people saying it's still a good game. Vanilla DS II is genuinely an average to bad game.
Story's different for the 3 DLCs, however.
Ayden Lopez
I tried, for the sake of making my own opinion and i couldn't finish it.... it was way too fucking boring/bad/uninteresting/buggy to my liking
Gavin Anderson
>platinuming anything at all
Henry Powell
Literally kyys.
Yes, obviously. Considering the dramatically small amount of proper action RPGs, let alone on PC, this shouldn't need to be asked.
Thomas Hughes
I have over 300 hours in DS1 and DS3 combined and dont have all achievements.
Why bother with collecting gestures, upgrading shit weapons and so on?
This is not fun.
James Reed
>Not exploring every facet of the games you love
Artificial pleb
Noah Jenkins
I got it for 15 bucks on G2A. I'm at No Mans Wharf and I dont really like it so far, the enemy spam is tiresome and it just feels clunky and floaty.
Michael Morgan
Do you like the ambushes at every corner user ?
Nolan Robinson
You loved Dark Souls 2?
Jaxon Morales
this,vidya gaems are dead
Josiah Nelson
>Vanilla DS II is genuinely an average to bad game.
I wouldn't call it bad, but I'm also pretty sure the people who still call it good are talking about SotFS not vanilla
Aaron Ross
No
Isaiah Brown
Only finished it for the sake of finishing it, every dark souls I kill all the bosses but I couldn't be fucked after the shitty last boss, holy shit I hate this game
Sebastian Morales
But that is literally all DS3 is same with 1. Constant spamming of group enemies.
Colton Nguyen
>But that is literally all DS3 is same with 1. Constant spamming of group enemies.
Nani?
Ryan Butler
I got a lot of good experiences out of it. Playing blind and solo, then summoning through NG+, then rolling a new character and being summoned by my dad to help him through it. Grinding Loyce souls with randos that you start to recognize, then helping them finally beat the boss instead of getting black crystal'd out. Ranged dark PVP build in the platforming run down to Sinh or the horrible gauntlet to Cool Ranch Smelter. I don't know if it's love, but it left me with a lot of warm fuzzies so it must be something like it.
Julian Lee
Save yourself the trouble and play it on easy mode
Parker Kelly
It's like DS3 Thralls but it happens ten times a level and it happens in every level, and it's often with tough enemies designed to be fun 1v1. It's annoying how groups will aggro together even if you try to pick them off one by one.
Ryan Russell
Sorry added an additional is. DS3 and 1 rely on spamming enemy hordes also. During DS3 there was rarely an area where I wasn't grouped by enemies. And then the entire starting area for DS1 is group enemies same with tomb of the giants and darkroot garden.
Carter Cook
Can you name one instance in which ds2 uses tough enemies in groups? I am three hours in and I haven't experienced this. Using a +3 bluemoon greatsword.
Isaiah Carter
It's worse than 3, but ironically has more soul put into it.
Luis Sullivan
And how they will hit you through each other like their bodies have no collision at all
Noah Cox
Yes. It’s worth playing through yourself after playing through DS1 and playing DS3 afterwards so you know what people are talking about in the “best souls” debate.
Better to have at least played the games first before parroting some opinion you saw on Sup Forums
William Smith
If you ever thought ds2 apologists were nuts, look at that
gamefaqs.gamespot.com
Zachary Green
This. Dark Souls is like pizza. Even when it's bad it's still pretty good.
Christian Reyes
I actually haven't reached platinum in any Souls game despite finishing NG+++ in two of them because I'm not retarded enough to search for spells and shit I won't ever use
Aiden Reyes
I struggled to finish it. It was really boring. Most of the areas and enemies were bland. The bosses were mostly bad. Even the highly praised DLCs each have some spectacularly shitty sections.
I'm not even complaining about the lack of an interconnected world like DS1. I've long since realized that that was just a fluke of genius world design.
People always say it's still a good game and maybe they're right. I mostly found it to be a waste of time.
Jackson Ross
If you really want to see nuts people, watch this:
youtube.com
and then watch this:
youtube.com
I watched it all
Jaxson Barnes
>it just feels clunky and floaty.
This was the biggest issue for me that made me drop it, it's hard to describe the problem but for some reason 1 and 3 don't have it. DS2 movement, animations and weapon swings in general seem to lack impact, it's really off-putting.
Samuel Ward
There are a few things I like about DS2
>it's different, I don't know it inside and out, I'm going in blind, it's something new for me after beating DS1/3 at SL1
>the jumping feels a lot better
>I like that are more characters and dialogue in general, makes the world feel more lived in
>Majula is the comfiest place in Souls
>rolling is not a free action, stamina management is an actual challenge for once
Other than that everything else is generally inferior
Jason Smith
>Be me
>Watch MatthewMatosis' DSII complaints video
>Ha ha, fuck that game
>Well, he did say that it's still good
>Might as well give it a try, I'm gonna play all the other souls games anyway
>It ends up probably being one of my favorite games in the series
Is it just me, or is he wrong about pretty much everything regarding the Soulsborne series? He made a video complaining about how the series has gone to shit because it doesn't have the absolute trash gimmick fights from Demon's Souls like Dragon God and the Armor Spider. Yeah they were memorable, but not for particularly good reasons.
I watched his six-hour analysis of Dark Souls 1
That digression about 'estus' and 'estrus' was painful. Women don't even have an estrus cycle, they have a menstrual cycle. The firekeepers aren't horses, Matt.
Ian Carter
its got the worst bossfights and music but its the one souls game ive replayed the most.
Its still a masterpiece compared to 99% games out there
Chase Anderson
i disagreed with him on pretty much everything. I guess its why I like sotfs better than ds1. I enjoy BB and DS3 the most
Logan Lee
Really missing out if you don't.
Ryder Gomez
i don’t think that people understand that whole yes, this is the worst souls game, it’s still really good
Jackson Robinson
>game has THE most shitty hitboxes out of all souls games
>well, you see in this one particular example it's just as good as it fucking should be
Yeah, try that shit with Alonne for example, he'll grab you across the room or from behind his back
Ryder Martin
BB is also my favorite, followed by DS2. I like Dark Souls 1 and Demon's Souls about the same, maybe my opinions will change when the remaster comes out and I can play it in real, non-broken 60 fps at 4k. Although I doubt that those extra frames will fix the broken mess that is Lost Izalith. DS3 is actually probably my least favorite. I thought it was fine when I played the base game at release, but my opinion soured after I played the DLC. It felt like they took the difficulty memes too seriously and cranked everything up to ten. I kept throwing myself at Ludwig the Accursed and the Orphan of Kos for literal hours until they finally pitied me enough to roll over and tell me I'm a big, strong boy and I sure showed them, but I gave up on the final fight of Ashes of Ariandel after reaching the final stage for the third time.
David Martinez
Just be sure to play SOTFS.
It fixes a lot of the retarded vanilla enemy placement, while only making very few worse.
Graphical upgrad is small, but the better lighting is noticable.
Doesn't fix any of the turbo-retarded level design.
Be sure to play on lowest brightness.
Eli White
You are aware of course that the hitboxes were not the problems with those guys, but how their animation speed was ridiculous at 60 FPS in vanilla.