I'm tired of shitposting. Dark Souls 2 is the best

nope good try tho

>>381452331
great memories when i played it on the ps4

>>381452331
>"I'm tired of shitposting"
>shitposts immediately after
???

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>Soul Memory punishes you for playing with other people, regardless of if it is an invasion or a summon.
>Cracked gems only makes invading a fucking chore in general. So the only real pvp ends up on the bridge
>Elevator to magical sky volcano.
>Everything is locked behind branches of yore.
>Dark mechanic cut at the last second because of console players
>Entire game looks like it was made for the N64
>ADP
>healing gems AND estus.
>Killing all the NPCs then going into NG+ fills you with sin despite this being a staple of the Souls series.

Your game will forever be the black sheep of the series. The only hope you have is deflecting hate towards DS3

>>381452331
Bloodborne is objectively their best made game, I just wish more people got to play it

Dark Souls 2 isn't the worst thing ever, but it does stray a bit too far into the mediocre territory with its odd and sometimes just plain bad design choices.

Still love it though.

>>381452331
It's the DS game I had most fun with, so I agree. Couldn't even complete DS3 more than once.

>>381454215
>hate towards DS3
Only insecure Sony drones hate DaS3 because it's better than BB.

>infinite stamina drakekeepers forcing you to always have poison arrows at that point in the game
>sorceries and miracles absolute garbage, while dark sorceries extremely overpowered
wtf I love railroading me into certain playstyles now!

>>381452331
I don't know about that, but its the best Dark Souls game for sure

>>381455830
>wtf I love railroading me into certain playstyles now!
So just like Bloodborne?

>>381452331
Nope.

>>381456037
Bloodborne is also trash though, anon

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>>381454215
Soul Memory is the single reason why DS2 multiplayer has been the most lively in the franchise.
Cracked orbs were a great idea, as they make you do factional PvP so that you can do general pvp.
Elevator to the castle that sunk into the volcano.
Branches of yore are a valuable resource that does not hinder progression in a single chosen direction at all, they simply prevent you from opening too many paths and force you to face the consequences of your choice to open a specific path, since you can end up locked on that path until you complete it.
Game looks great in places that matter and runs on toasters. Shrine of Amana has the best visual design out of all areas in the series.
ADP is a great way to allow people to build viable, non-dodge reliant tanks, since, given the same soul memory, these people can spend more points on other stats, if they don't want to roll and want to use a shield with heavy armor, for example.
Healing gems heal very slowly, estus heals much slower than in both DS1 and 3 and drinking estus takes a lot of time, comapred to 1 and especially 3.
Killing NPCs actually has consequences now.

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The shitty "shockwaves" ruin the game

>>381455830
>forcing you to always have poison arrows

Or you could just not be shit and learn attack patterns. Mace drakekeeper = orbit left and infinitely trigger the ultra slow slam. Longsword drakekeeper = literally has no tracking. Greatsword drakekeeper = no-lock on

>sorceries and miracles absolute garbage
>literally best in the series next to DaS

Love to see how you explain that one.

>>381452331
Being the least smelly turd is hardly an award.

>>381456731
Not sure if satire or pretending to be retarded.

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>>381452331
>Dark Souls 2 is the best From Software game.
ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WRONG

>>381457365
>that hipster who keeps posting obscure shit no one cares about

"No"

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>>381454215
>black sheep of the series.
>tfw black sheep of my family.
>tfw DS2 is my favourite.
>tfw relate to DS2 on a deeper level.

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>>381452331
>tfw i think dark souls is boring and plays like ass
>tfw no new armored core games because dark souls makes so much money

I recently played through Dark Souls 1 and had a blast. It was a 10/10 game, don't know why I never played it before. Now I've started Dark Souls 2 and I hate it. It's a serious downgrade from the first.

>>381452331
I would like it more if the movement didn't feel like Dark Souls on Ice. I can deal with or even appreciate most of the design quirks, but movement just doesn't feel right and it's hard to shake that feeling.

>>381452331
Official ranking DaS1>BB>DaS2>DeS>DaS3 the reason 1 and BB are so high is because they have far less content than 2, but 2 only tops them out because of all the shitty bosses, and horrible areas. DeS comes out at fourth because armor is practically useless, and it just isn't as fun in hindsight, and DaS3 is a legacy game which automatically puts them in last

>>381456731
that's a bug where the hammer hitbox from before the cutscene lingers for a while.

ds1 hitboxes are very clear in general.

>>381457657
Here's how the Souls saga worked:
-Demon's Souls was a collab with Sony's 1st party studio JapanStudio, however a certain Sony lead didn't see the appeal of the game and thought it was a wasted effort, so even though it was pretty much a 1st party titles (technically 2nd party I guess?) Sony didn't publish it outside of Japan. Atlus and BandaiNamco picked it up due to it getting a cult following in the west.

-While developing DaS1 FromSoft knew it couldn't rely on Sony since their last game just got ditched outside japan, so they looked for another publisher out of desperation (even though Sony co-developed their last game) and a contract was sealed with BandaiNamco for 3 games published under them

-After DarkSouls1 came out, or even before then, the Sony lead (Shuhei yoshida) knew his dismissal of the franchise was a huge mistake and so offered to fully support FromSoft once more, this time without retarded publishing restrictions.

-DaS2 and Bloodborne were now in development. BandaiNamco's contract was already obsolete at this point, since FromSoft always had a better publisher to begin with (albeit stubborn) but now they are forced to shit out 2 more games because of the contract

-FromSoft finishes shitting out the other 2 half-hearted milked DarkSouls games, while the leads actually focus on the JapanStudio collab projects.

That's it. There's no reason for FromSoft to partner with BandaiNamco now that they know Sony won't act retarded like they did with Demon'sSouls. Sony not only publishes games internationally but also helps the studio itself developing the game, building the engine or offering sound recording studios, composers and orchestras (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yncMReF8QA) and Sony doesn't force FromSoft into making sequel trash, they can create any IPs they wish

Unless FromSoft wants to make multiplats they have no reason to go back to Bandai when Sony is clearly the better right hand

>>381458329
Nice headcanon

>>381452331
>I'm tired of shitposting.
>begins the thread with a shitpost

>>381456731
Not enough ADP bro

>>381452331
why does bearseek look smol here

The DS2 DLC are some of the best zones in the whole series desu.

>>381459027
Cause thats the real Emerald Herald.
The one in majula is an illusion.

Even their voices are different

>>381459027
Time travel was originally going to be part of the plot of the base game.

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Mind if I use this thread to post some wacky webms? 3 was a goldmine for this shit

Speaking of Dirk Soils, what's everyone's favorite DS youtuber Epic Name Bro up to? He hasn't uploaded in forever.

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A-Team is back baby

>>381452331
Why do you keep doing it when you're so tired then?

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>>381457443
>>381457365
It's a masterpiece that never got ported, but an English translation is now available.

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/2380/

>>381452331
That cap on your lifebar states the opposite

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Not glitchy or anything but still hilarious

>>381460842
man I wish From would port the psp King's Field game.

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"Grab magnetism" as coined by one anon

What do I do when I only have 9 bucks in digital currency and I've never played a souls or souls-like game and I want to and I've been scouring ebay for days trying to find DS1 cheap but they're all to expensive but there are tons of cheap DS2 copies I could afford but everyone says it's shit?

>>381461586
Learn to format a sentence.

>>381461586
Get a fucking job

>>381461586
hahahah wtf from what 3rd country are you from

>>381461586
pirate it

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>>381452331
>Vengarl parts
>Drangleic Shield
This seems to scream "HI I'M NEW AND DON'T UNDERSTAND STATS"

>>381462336
Vengarl's has a bunch of defense for its weight, what's the issue?

>>381456405
>prevent you from opening too many paths and force you to face the consequences of your choice to open a specific path, since you can end up locked on that path until you complete it.
And this is terrible.

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>vengarl's
>drangleic set
>fucking dex
are you trolling?

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I sincerely don't get how people can think 1 & 3 are better when gameplay wise 2 is clearly the best to the point it's the ONLY one where the developers actually put effort into making almost everything viable
That and it's also not short as fuck

>>381458329
DS3 is a great game though.

>>381452331
8/10 bait, got me to reply

>>381459106
Go to bed Joseph Anderson

>>381452331
agreed

I put the most time into DS2, my interest and intrigue in the series peaked with it; the fact that it had characters doing their own shit without a million endgame plotlines tying into the central plot was nice. The DLC's were superb and were easily the best postgame content of 7th gen.

>>381456037
t. ludwig's shitter

>>381460139
I farmed that guy for like 30 minutes and nothign wrid happened.

>>381461586

Suck a guy's cock so that you can afford the superior Dark Souls 1

People who like DS2 are generally only in it for the gameplay.

Since gameplay is like AIDS to triple A gamers it's obvious they'd prefer the games with the "deepest" "lore" and most pretentious setting like Bloodborne.

DaS2 has its flaws, as does every souls game
faggot redditurds on /v/ excuse the flaws of every game but give DaS2 unnecessary shit
>MUH SOUL MEMORY
>MUH ADAPTABILITY
every game has its problems, fucking kill yourselves. except DaS3 which was shit.
BB > DaS2 > DaS > DeS > > > > > DaS3

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>>381452331
DaS2? No way.

SOTFS? Arguably.

>>381466673
Are you saying DS2 has better gameplay than BB? Incredible shit opinion friendo

>>381466845
It totally does and BB is for people who lack the brain capacity to learn more than 1 moveset.

>>381467206
the game is literally defined by weapons with two movesets

>>381460262
Everyone knows Maldron doesn't play by the game rules.

>>381454237
Blame large corporations for being greedy.

>>381467683
>blame large corporations for doing things to make themselves money
???

>>381466845
Tell me which other souls games had more viable weapons, magic, playstyles and active PvP than DS2 ?

Okay, all else aside, can we PLEASE get a new Armored Core game with Souls-level combat? Come on, From, I'm begging you here! I know it couldn't be one-to-one, because the pace of combat in AC is so much faster, but I'm sure they could make it work.

>>381456405
THIS
>>381462816
>And this is terrible.
It is terrible that your choices matter?
This neo-/v/ faggotry should end.

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>Hate blunt weapons
>80% of the game's enemies are armored

At the Smelter Demon currently, when do I get a fun weapon?

>>381468007
Possibly the best thing about the first Dark Souls is the level and world design, how open it is and how open it feels too, having the option to go to a different area if you are stuck somewhere or simply feel like it is great, more freedom of choice is better, makes the world feel much bigger and believable of course in 2 you can't go to other level because all the levels are straigh hallways put in line one after another that just suddendly end making you warp back to majula.

>>381462336
Nothing wrong with Vangarl set. Drangelic shield however...

>>381466737
I agree with that, the souls series in general get an insane amount of criticism, if you play any game trying to make the collision look wonky it will look wonky, if you actively search bad hitboxes in DMC you will find them too.
That said DS2 is by far the worst in the series.

>>381468708
never

>>381468708
Next game.