why must every area in the game include a poison swamp?

>>376182550
Because these games suck

Because fuck you.

I mean I get that Farron Keep is the 'poison swamp area'. But there's a swamp right before that in the Road of Sacrifices, there's a swamp in the cathedral, there's a swamp in Irithyll, there's a swamp in the Profaned Capital, and then on Consumed King's Garden, even though there's no water, the ground is made of TOXIC.

I mean at what point does it become too fucking much

>>376182713
DaS3 has about three area types. Swamp, Cathedral, and Shitty Town.

>>376182550
I think Bloodborne only had one technical Swampy area in the Forbidden Woods, and it only really took up the bottom of the area.

>>376182713
When the final DLC of the entire series has another fucking swamp.
That's where I drew the line with Dark Souls. At least BB managed to avoid that awful trend more or less.

>>376183428
There's a horrible horrible swamp in that nightmare place.

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>>376183627
BB has this though

>>376183627
>playing dark souls 2 on release night
>get to harvest valley
>green pits of toxic gas and poison water

i just got up and turned it off right there and took like a two week break. little did I know when I came back I was in for the majestic awe of headless puppet guys, lighting a random thing on fire, and volcano elevators

goddamn that game fucking sucked

>>376182550
>Every area

wat

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>>376183724
Oh yeah, but if you bring an antidote, and dodge getting one shotted by a FUCKING BOULDER you can rush past it pretty easily.

>>376182550
Every game, it seems, is tainted by a spree of swamps.
Rubbish, to one such as I, devoid of all terrain galoshes.

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>>376183861
Loading screens? That's your retort? LOADING SCREENS?? hahaha

>>376182713
There's also Smouldering Lake
Farron is the only one that pisses me off, it's easy to manage after one go through but it's still a literal fucking slog

>>376184008

What? I don't remember a boulder. I remember a swamp in Amygdala's stage where you (probably) first encounter the Winter Lantern and it fucks your shit up with frenzy.

>>376183861
Literally a walking swamp with toxicity+1

>>376182550
Why people complaint so much about that area?

The poison there does basically nothing.

>>376184083

That's the frenzy meter.

>>376182713
Each of those are different, though.

Farron Keep is "slow and poison"
Cathedral is "very slow" and no roll"
Irithyll is "kind of slow but can still run/roll"
profaned capital is "slow and toxic"
and finally garden is "just toxic"

all different

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>>376183876
I literally got stuck on the snek poison boss for days until i read you are supposed to burn the windmill first.
Which looks totally flameable.

>>376184104
The giants chuck boulders at you.

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>>376184083
try playing the game before you shitpost

>>376184195
It's still a poison swamp though.

Black Flower
Red Flower
White Flower
Gold Flower
Poisonous Flower

All flowers, maybe one of them is truly different from the rest, but all flowers.

>>376183627
TRC had TWO swamps
those two swamps actually comprised the majority of the DLC area. Wouldn't have been the case if Gael's boss room had been developed into an actual third area.

>>376184237
>tfw looking for the way further up to burn one of the blades

>>376184414
Great analysis there mate.

>>376184237
>tfw you beat the boss with the poison up but then it kills you and the kill doesn't count because dark souls 2 is ass like that

>>376184583
ikr

>>376182550
DaS1 had a better area
Blighttown: kills you and your frames one skeletal at a time

>find gael for the first time
>get my shit pushed in
>had 200k souls on me
>can't find them because i have no fucking clue where in the arena I was when I died and gael is attacking me as soon as I go in the door
it was only 200k but it was still obnoxious

>>376184740
I never had a problem with Blighttown. Sure the Frames suck, but its not a particularly hard or annoying place at all. Can easily get everything in the swamp area in one go

>>376185037
>but its not a particularly hard or annoying place at all.

curse blowdart guys?? fucking mosquitos that cannot be hit with half the weapons in the game?? dog stunlock pits? fuck

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>>376185391
You're not even mentioning the best part of Blighttown
Just trying to get from point A to B wthout falling or sliding of a ledge like a bitch, I always do the shortcut. fuck upper blighttown

>>376185391
>fucking mosquitos that cannot be hit with half the weapons in the game
>What is a bow and arrow

>>376184414
>flower analogy

>>376183627
have you forgotten about the nightmare frontier?

>>376186372
some people don't minmax in these games

when i play dark souls games my character has a concept. he doesn't know how to use a bow and arrow and he sure as fuck can't do it with his heavy cumbersome armor.

>>376186764
That isn't minmaxing you fucking tool. Its not even that hard to bait the enemy to you for an easy hit.

>>376186912
what you don't understnad, so i need to repeat it for you, is that some weapons do not hit the mosquitos due to bad game design or programming.

some weapons pass visually through them and do not hit

>>376182550
Literally the replay killer for me. What a fucking chore that shithole is.
>can't skip it like blighttown because you gotta light those 3 fucking towers
So fucking stupid.

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>>376184083

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>late 2017
>armored core 11 or whatever comes out
>so hyped haven't played one of these since PS2 era
>"Raven, this area is filled with EMP-producing nanomachines. Be careful or they'll drain your energy!"

>>376186993
Not him but packing a bow for backup/sidearm isn't minmaxing. It's closer to being the opposite of minmaxing actually (unless that character is being built specifically around a bow).

>>376182550
Where else am i going to invade as my shrek cosplay?

>>376187250
bruh, i role play dark souls games as a certain "class", is what i'm saying

i know people don't roleplay anymore but that's like..90% of the fun of role playing games

partially because of blight town, my roleplay in all dark souls games after that shifted to a guy who throws lightning fucking bolts

>>376187249
>ARRRAAAAUUGGHHH, my boosters are jammed. looks like we're at coasting speeds until we get out if these underground networks

>>376187342
>bruh, i role play dark souls games as a certain "class", is what i'm saying
I do the same thing and I agree with your posts. I was just pointing out that you misused the term "minmaxing" is all and it caused some confusion/misunderstanding with the other guy

>>376184195
It still sucks and isn't fun. They just did it because the swamps are traditionally the most wide and empty spaces, so they saved time and money by doing 10 swamps in this game.