Dark Souls 2 is an ugly gam-

e.
There you go, OP

>>386792113
/thread

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>>386792005

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>>386792005
All the games have pretty impressive visuals imo

>>386792113
fpbp

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>>386792113
>>386792191

>samefagging
>/threading own post

>>386792228

this looks terrible

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>>386792302
No.

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>>386792383

>this terrible photoshop

>>386792005
Who the fuck has ever actually said that? Nobody, because everyone just calls it a shit game.

>>386792502
You're real messed up, kid.

>>386792381
What's wrong with it?

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>>386792525

yeah its fucking shit my reddit friend :)
upboated!

>>386792302
>filthyfrank
fuck off retard

>>386792005
Nobody said it's ugly, doesn't make it any less shit though.

>>386792585
Woah, its almost as if a new group of people decided to join in at the second installment and praised the game even though they had no actual experience in previous soulsgames.

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>>386792113
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

>>386792005

Honestly, that and Dragon's peak or whatever, where all the fucking wyverns and dragons were flying about were the only places in DaSII I liked aesthetically, even though I liked all of the DLC for the most part.

The flooded anor londo like place was ok too I guess.

>>386792680

Joji is our guy pls fuck off to tumblr or other sewer you came from

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>>386792908
go fuck yourself

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>>386792005
Looks like shit. Dark Souls 3 is true perfection, God Lord Miyazaki deliverers once again.

>>386792585
>Calling others reddit shills while posting metacritic scores as proof of anything

>>386793118

Nah I already have your mom to fuck

>>386793195
it's way too easy to spot reddit nowadays

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>>386793176

>all these 69 critics are wrong its me who is right guise!!!!!!!!

lmao jump of a bridge kid

>>386792113
thread ended here, move along

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>>386792005
k

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>>386793138
SHIT SOULS 3
>the most linear of all the games, even compared to DeS and BB
>nostalgiafag reference pandering out the ass
>rehashed characters
>Lowest Boss count after DeS
>Half the bosses are gimmicks
>Boss weapons shit as usual, despite having 4 games to draw experience from
>weapons in general are 90% quality based
>these quality weapons are also usually the best weapons in their class
>some weapons have retarded stat requirements where they don't even scale with said stats, which also happens to be quality
>armor system a horrible imbalanced mess
>the heaviest armors are the heaviest they have ever been in the series, while offering basically no additional defense over medium/light sets
>poise implemented in such a stupid way that only Greatswords and Maces get the most bang for the buck
>Some UGSs, GAs, and Hammers weigh more than entire armor sets
>Equip load is now done by VIT, which for some reason gives LESS per level than fucking dark souls 2
>Souls required to level up not adjusted for splitting stats into two
>a majority of the small weapons sped up to bloodborne speed, but some of the larger weapons have been made SLOWER and consume MORE STAMINA
>rolls cost next to nothing with extremely fast recovery and many iframes
>magic is garbage
>faith is garbage
>FP system is weird
>Too many useless fucking stats
>WAs are mostly just special r2s or powerstance moves copypasted with an explosion or two at the end
>MLGS is the worst its ever been
>awful covenants
>covenants are stickers which can be changed on the go
>shitty rewards
>Dragon form the worst its ever been in both aesthetic and practical sense
>community now filled with normies who hold hands with their SL 800 Friends to get through the game
>invaders have the most disadvantage compared to all other games in the series
>First DLC was a 1.5 hour long disappointment with a rehashed arena
>Second DLC had no end despite being the very last dark souls thing we'll get for the forseeable future

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>>386793312

You seem to know a lot about Reddit

>shit on DaS2
>b-but DaS3
every time

>>386793450
>Not knowing the enemy so you can understand them

>>386792908
>>386793195
>>386793450
Get out underage

>>386792221
this still blows my mind
it's the first fucking level of the game
like the first fucking HOUR
and this is seen

>>386793437
>screenshot
looks like that part of the map was cut out and left unfinished very late into production

>>386793437
kill yourself

>>386793540
>shit on DS2 for things that DS1 and 3 do as though it's the only game in the series to do them
>point out other games in the series are guilty of the same shit
>THAT DOESN'T JUSTIFY IT STOP DEFENDING DS2

>>386793450
only proving my point

>>386793138
Why? I honestly don't understand this autism. You know no one will take your post seriously but you post anyways. No one with a brain in their skull would say a glitch is the same as DaS2 with its noticeably lazy texture work in places like earthen peak. Even DaS1 hid it better than 2, which would be a more fair comparison to begin with because 1 and 2 are on last gen while das3 is for this gen so of course it looks all around better.

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>>386793584

>zero arguments
>projection

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>>386793632

What point?

>>386793690
kill yourself, the way you post really reveals where you're from

>>386793595
Either that or they copypasted a section of the actual level there and reduced detail for performance

>>386793690
Posting filthy crap is enough

>>386792838
A lot of those things arent even good you ducking waste of life. Why don't you just kill yourself if all you've got is impressing /v/ by looking hard core or difficult or chalenege or git gud DUCKING DO IT ALREADY YOU DUCKING WASTE NOBODY FUCKING CARES WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH YOUR LITTLE FUCKING TOYS YOULL NEVER BE ANYTHING

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>>386793851

>still no arguments
>even more projection
>now even more mad

<<< (you)

>>386793548
Anon I hope you know how retarded you sound right now

>>386793880

>its bad because its popular!!!!

How is elementary school going? I bet your favorite bands are Slipknot and Syd era Pink Floyd

>>386793963
not the guy you're replying to
i'm just calling you out for being an idiot

>>386792221
Monster Hunter on the fucking PSP looks better than this

>>386794070

Yeah and im not the one who fucks your mom every night :^)

>>386794061
Almost every filthy crap viewer is underage and Slipknot is music for autistic children

>>386794090
Insulting to MHFU

It looks gorgeous on PSP and especially on Vita
Better still than the MHs on the 3DS
Try it

I like some things about Dark Souls 2, but the graphics is not one of them, for the most part many places look ugly. However, some places look excellent, like the castle, and the mirror knight fight area. You can tell they spent a bunch of time on a few detailed areas and then just shit the rest out

>>386793586
Blame Bamco for making them scrap the original version of the game and telling them to cobble its scraps together in time for release because they didn't want to release the game for PS4/Xbone that close to launch

I would not be surprised if that was originally looking out onto another area at one point but was lazily filled in with something else. there's a lot of other examples of this kind of crap all through out the game.

>>386793365
>LOL DUDE YOU'RE WRONG LOOK AT ALL THOSE PEOPLE

are Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite the best games ever in your opinion? I mean look at all those critics dude!

>>386794140
can you stop embarrassing yourself
filthy frank is a unfunny bitch

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>>386792986
Dark Souls 2 was one of the most anticipated game of 2014. You had people joining in on the hype train that never even played the original Dark Souls so they didn't know any better but for those who knew what kind of nonsense was pulled, we called it shit and thats what it was a giant pile of shit. The level design and enemies were fucking garbage and furthermore there's not one memorable boss in Dark Souls 2. There's just too many issues.

>>386794269

>Almost every filthy crap

Do you have anything to back that up or you are just shitting it out from your fingers?

BB = DaS > DaS3 > DeS > DaS2

All of them are enjoyable

>>386794140
>le I fuck le you mom :^))) XDDDXDD
kid tier humor

>>386792005

Your mother is an ugly whore.

>>386794458
Just look at the embarrassing comments

>>386794324

I said it wasnt bad not the best game ever nigger, learn how to read before posting on my thread

>>386794458
don't bother
ironic weebs are not people

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>>386794384

>>386792228
This looks way more impressive than anything from DS2.

BB > 2 > 3 > 1 >DeS

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>>386794483

Yeah you are so mature posting on a naime image board and being a virgin after your 20s

>>386792221
To be fair there's supposed to be depth of field blurring that out but it was removed in either the pc port or the remaster, can't remember which

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>>386792005
sorry

>>386792838
>No death/bonfire runs gain a reward
While a neat idea, most people who used those rings probably just hacked them in instead of doing the challenge.
>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.
DaS2 was really inconsistent when it came to item quality for different builds. Some builds had to wait for the best shit while others got it right off the bat. The best hexer staff in the game is given by an NPC in the one of the starting areas while the best mage staff in the game was in fucking Dragon Shrine near the end of the damn game.
>Chugging Estus immobilizes you, and the heal isn't instantaneous
Entirely agree - the nigh instant Estus in 3 is cancer. While DaS2 did have more healing items in general, they were all easily counterable for the most part.
>Stamina regeneration is tied to weight
Also fair, but makes low weight build too good imo.
>Poise exists and armor provides relevant, but not overpowering damage reduction
Poise exists in 3 too, it's just stupidly, needlessly complicated. Also, all the armors that provided backstab immunity in 2 definitely count as providing "overpowered damage reduction."
>Phantoms and Dark Spirits cannot chug estus, spirits can only heal via spell useage which is slow.
Kinda fair. Chugging phantoms were only a symptom of DaS3's online problems. Honestly though, was making spells even more essential really needed in 2? It makes pure melee builds all the more underpowered.
>Can only perform four rolls before running out of stamina
Perfectly fair, though you could make the argument that rolling is actually underpowered in DaS2 unless you powerlevel Agility to 105+. Plus, ADP softcaps so low that raising ATT is the most efficient way to level Agility after a point, yet again making casters better than pure melee.
>Can only perform 5 attacks of a rapier or straight sword before running out of stamina
Wasn't this only after patches?
(cont.)

>>386794769
>projecting

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>>386792005
It's a pretty average looking game

>>386794769
surprisingly more mature than thinking filthy frank is funny

>>386792302
See
>>386792221
And kys

>>386794384
SoTFS actually resembles the top pick.

>>386792005
>very few colors
>half the screen is a skybox
>most of it is actually 2d

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>>386795067
>SoTFS

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This meme is really fucking dumb and /tv/ is the worst boa-

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>>386792005
its pretty

>>386795345
>/tv/ is the worst boa-
It actually is, even /pol/ manages to be amusing in occasions.

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>>386792005
Dark Souls 2 is ugly, has some really bad enemy placements (vanilla and SoTFS), mostly boring bossfights and some forgettable NPCs. Power stancing is pretty cool though and the amount of weapons (despite there being tons of clones and forgettable shit) is good.

>>386792584
He doesn't like DaS3

>>386795391
>>386792005
>skybox

>>386792585
>>386792986
>>386794683
When did children like this get here?

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>>386793437
>Dragon form the worst its ever been in both aesthetic and practical sense

Dunno about that, at least its a return to what the I thought the covenant was about, trying to transcend life and become an ancient dragon and what not, rather than some fucko in dragonlike armor, it aint no ds1 transformation but its better than ds2

>>386795527
its pretty

Is it just me or are all the visually stunning areas in DaS2 awful gameplay wise?

Iron Keep, Elsa Loyce, Shrine of Amana, Dragon Arlie Gardens. Looks great, sucks ass.

>>386793368
I bet you're unimaginative ass would never think of something like that

>>386792221
this is out of bounds, fag

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>>386792005
Dark Souls 2 PVP is ama-

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>>386792908
you need to go back

>>386795727
no it's not
it's from ontop of the tower with the first heide knight i'm pretty sure

>>386795425
This. I find /pol/ to be a repugnant board outright but every so often they muster up a decent thread or call each other out on their own shit.

/tv/ spreads so much faster than /pol/ and is probably even more racist.

>>386795163
Lol no, all they did is up the contrast and called it a day.

>>386795795
even if it wasn't lagging to shit dark souls combat is still just fucking lame; roll, stab, roll stab, repeat until someone drops dead

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Is it one of these threads?

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>>386795336
My screenshots are from the original game. I completely forgot SotFS was a thing

>>386795727
It actually is not
The place he's standing is within the playable area, it's the on the outer edge of the upper walls of that large enclosure with the heide knight and several hollow soldiers, near where you can find the Short Sword.

>>386795824
>implying being racist is bad

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>>386793681
>a glitch
Are missing textures considered glitches now?

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>>386795795
-zing. There you go, nigger.

>>386792838
>Parrying has longer recovery frames and consumes more stamina
It was also nice it wasn't instant (outside of mon scim), even still though, there were a lot of techniques that made parrying quite easy in 2 (like setup parries). Not as easy as 1 of course, but not too much harder than in 3.
>Power stance allowing for unique combinations of dual wielding and unlocking an alternative moveset for weapon
>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
Agree. Weapon arts were pretty shit overall outside of glitches and the odd OP skill. Being able to swing a weapon in the left hand instead of blocking with it made duel wielding viable while powerstancing lead to interesting combos. Powerstancing also led to stupid fucking combos like dual Avelyn which made PvP shit for way too long but it added enough build variety to outwiegh that for me.
>Bell Tower covenant providing two unique optional areas to PvP for Titanite Chunks, Slabs, and Twinkling, making farming for upgrades fun
It also made way too many players afk with the covenant ring on. Nearly every time I'd get backup in a bellbro invasion, the fucker would be an idler who would provide no help whatsoever. Also incentivized invading with OP builds since the reward you'd get for winning would actually be useful.
>Bonfire ascetics to replay bosses you like and or gain items from NG+ and beyond without grinding through the whole game again
>Game adds new shit to NG+ to incentivize players to actually do it
>everyone just bonfire ascetics an area to get the new shit instead
It made NG+ that more redundant. Even being able to buy the covenant rewards on NG+2 wasn't worth slogging through the game two and half times when you could just ascetic and area to get everything else NG+ exclusive.

>>386792228
so what is the blood moon thing in the background anyway?

>>386792005
e

>>386795163
It most certainly does not, all they did was fix the contrast. dynamic light sources are not added back, level detail is not added back, it's the same game but with altered spawns and a SweetFX preset. It's effectively a paid mod.

>>386795987
it just looks cool

>>386792584
It's /v/

>>386795987
probably some shitty lore drones will drool over even though though it was probably written in like 5 minutes

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>>386795878
>implying that the most impressive thing about the Souls series isn't the ability to sustain thousands upon thousands of shitposts across years
btw how is the PC emulation of Demon Soul's going? They iron out some of the kinks?

>>386795425
I've been here for a while, but I've never been to /tv/ until recently. It actually surprised me how terrible it was, even worse than this shithole.

>>386795987

leftover Bloodborne ideas

>>386796012
You're too late.

>>386795987
I think it's supposed to represent a coming Age of Dark, or it's just another Berserk reference. Either way it fits the setting

I wanted it to be good so bad. I still do. I tried to play it again a couple times this past year and it just doesn't work. SOTFS literally made it worse, with its version of Heide's tower literally being the worst area in Souls history.

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>>386796036
>>386795163

Last I checked it wasn't fucking green like the bottom pic, that's for sure. I know I saw that much you literal queers.

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>>386792005

e

>>386792005
Is this an everyday thing now?

>>386795034
>ADP softcaps so low that raising ATT is the most efficient way to level Agility after a point
Absolutely not true. Low ADP is enough for 96-105 agi, thus bearable rolling. Going higher has the added benefit of every point in ADP and END raising your natural poise

>>386796060
that's so disappointing tho
like I wanna know what the HECK that thing is doing there
who cares about some soul of cinder shit and linking the flame and whatnot when there's a LITERAL BURNING FUCKING MOON DROOLING LAVA OR SOME SHIT ON THE WORLD
like how do we stop it? do we NEED to stop it? shouldn't we be at least a LITTLE bit concerned? I mean boo hoo the flame is supposed to be such a big deal but honestly I don't see it doing jack fucking shit apart from being linked every now and then, now what I DO see is a GOD DAMN HUGEASS BLOOD MOON and I don't like it ONE FUCKING BIT

I'm off to stop that motherfucker RIGHT NOW

>>386795916
>implying greentext

>>386795425
I unironically witnessed a /tv/ post praise one movie and then criticize another for the exact same fucking thing.

>>386796380

This is fucking bad. It's like they were paying homage to the OG skybox texture in fucking Doom

>>386796380
kupo!

>>386795987
It's the eclipse.

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>>386793961
>phoneposters

>>386795940
I can say with certainty that those textures exist but failed to load or are loading at that time. Regardless that is unintentional and is a small fraction of the game compared to the whole of dark souls 2 texture work. There are things you could argue but visuals really isn't one of them. Even in those screenshots it blows 2 out of the water with tessellation on most surfaces so they don't look like a picture pasted on a flat surface. Like seriously what is the point here?

>>386792113
came to post this
learn to finish your sentences op

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>>386795987
GRIFISSSUUUU

>>386795987
Notice how it looks like a really big Darksign?
the world itself is going hollow

>>386792005
Did any Souls game get past 20-30fps mark?

>>386795034
>trying to le epin BS in DS2
More like they buffed the opponent so they don't accidentally whiff an R1.

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>>386793615
DS3 has very little original content.

Souls vet here, this is my take on things as someone who has obsessively played the shit out of DeS and DaS1 since their respective launches on PS3.

Concepts:

>New Firelink Shrine (DaS3) == The Nexus (DeS)
The resemblance is fucking stunning if you've ever played DeS. Lord Thrones are in the exact same alignment that the archstones are, surrounding where you spawn in, with multiple levels of height within the area accessible by curved staircases.

>Lothric Castle (DaS3) == Boletaria Castle (DeS)
You start the game here, and the climax of the game is here (fighting twin princes/false king allant).

>Karla (DaS3) == Yuria the Witch (DeS)
Karla teaches forbidden hex magic/miracles/pyromancies that channel the power and rage of the abyss, Yuria the Witch teaches forbidden magic that channel the power and rage of demon souls.

> Stormruler (DaS3) == Storm Ruler (DeS)
Used to take down mighty foes with a legendary sword found in the corresponding boss arenas. Yhorm and the Storm King are basically the same type of "puzzle boss" until you find the sword.

Mechanics:

> FP (DaS3) == MP (DeS)
Literally the same exact shit.

> Rolling
Functions the same exact way as DeS, because med rolling was buffed so fucking hard that the difference between fast roling and med rolling is so small that staying right under the fat roll minimum is required for every build.

Case-in-point, DaS3 is super fucking stale for veterans who have been with the series since DeS in 2009/2010. It's literally because the game is around 50% recycled DaS content, 30% recycled DeS content, 10% recycled bloodborne content, and 10% original content.

>>386797012
every dark souls game yes

>>386797162
stopped reading at souls vet

>>386797162
>DaS2fags are so autisticlly butthurt their game sucks they have multiple copypastas to rage post
The funny thing is everybody who loves the series knows how shit DaS2 is, you will never convince anyone.

>>386795987
It's the sun dying, the Age of Fire is ending.

>>386793437
>>386797162
stop posting these anytime
see here's the problem about defending dark souls 2 by criticizing dark souls 3, while a lot of of the complaints are completely valid, there's so much more you could chip away at from dark souls 2

>>386797681
>here's the problem about defending dark souls 2 by criticizing dark souls 3, while a lot of of the complaints are completely valid, there's so much more you could chip away at from dark souls 2

That's a two-way street.

>>386797915
shut up

>>386792005
i almost vomited when i installed ds2. like, i've been playing games since duke nukem 2d platformer and commander keen, but shit that garbage doesn't belong in this day and age

>>386798046
oh and i guess some of it looks nice, but leading off with forest of fallen giants? that's gonna make a motherfucker shut it off real quick if he doesn't like dark souls to start with

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I swear in the mountains around the undead Asylum in DS1 there's a statue of a guy holding his arm into the air in the distance.
It bothers the hell out of me every time I look at it.

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>>386797226
>>386797357
>>386797681

>Dark Souls 3
>shortest game
>bonfires out the ass
>filled to the brim with shitty references
>massive amounts of on-disc cut content that will be sold as DLC
>rehashed areas in an already short game
>A third of the game is a swamp
>the game punishes invaders and encourages ganking
>no arena
>Heavy armor sucks

>Armor variety is less than DS2 BASE game, despite copypasting a 3rd of the armors from previous games
>Magic needs 2-3 ring slots just to dish out melee level damage
>Magic itself does reduced damage for PvP
>removes a shit ton of spells from the previous game
>awful scaling balance
>FP is the most awful casting management system introduced yet (worse than DeS mana, which had better regen options and more efficient)
>FP horribly ineffiecent with damage, ends up causing everyone to use 1 or 2 FP efficient spell like Great Heavy Soul Arrow
>Miracles awful, best and most viable one locked behind the final boss
>bland NG+
>awful covenants
>no blue eye orb
>blue sentinels and darkmoons the exact same
>left hand weapons no longer have full movesets
>dual wield weapons are gimmicks
>boss weapons can’t be infused
>Straight Swords and Curved Sword are as fast as daggers
>Great Weapons are slower than previous games, and costs more stamina, while barely doing more damage
>1-2 Weapons ALWAYS the best in class, no redeeming qualitys for special weapons resulting in less weapon variety than BB
>very little moveset variation
>WA are mostly shit or copypasted powerstance moves
>No backstep i-frame
>rolls have too much i-frames and cost too little stamina
>bloodborne enemies catered to R1 spam from ss and cs
>hexes gone and dark magic is shit
>shittiest dragon form
>no dragon covenant
>refined/hollow completely dominates
>DLC has so far been shit
>19 bosses, a good chunk being gimmicks
>linear level design, less branching options than DeS, DS2, and even BB
>b-but the DLC will save it!
>b-but other games have faults!
lmfao

>>386798540
tl;dr

>>386798235
what're you talking about
i have never seen something like that

>>386798540
update the copypasta
a lot of this is outdated

>>386798540
How many have you made so far you fuckin loser? All this shitposting does is cement DaS2 as the worst in the series, since the people who defend it are retarded.

>>386792221
DELETE THIS

>>386798540
>1680x1050
>lowest settings
>no AA
hmmm

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>>386795987
I don't know

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>>386792502

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>>386798585
>>386798695
>>386798702
>>386798778

DaS3 has the worst enemy variety in the series.

>high wall
Generic boring zombies and knights.
>undead settlement
More zombies but with peasant clothing.
>road of sacrifices
Shittier stupid callback enemies to crow demons from DaS1, more boring zombies but now with sticks, and uhh giant crabs lol.
>farron keep
Shitty crawling slugs, rehashed enemies from previous games, and boring cliche goatmen.
>cathedral of the Deep
More zombies, more knights, and some gimmicky maggot retards. Oh and don't forget the rehashed slimes from DaS1!
>catacombs
Generic skeletons.
>smoldering lake
Rehashed enemies from previous areas and some cliche goat demons.
>irithyll
More zombies and knights.
>irithyll dungeon
Shittier mindflayers and some crawling shit mobs.
>Profaned capital
MEMBER GARGOYLES!!!?!!
>anor londo
Rehashed enemy from DaS1.
>lothric castle
Not a single new enemy introduced. All enemies are from high wall even though this area is majorly important.
>consumed garden
Literal poop monsters that you can only with fire.
>untended graves
Rehashed enemies from previous areas.
>grand archives
Reskinned Deacons but with candles on their heads.
>archdragon peak
Annoying shittier snakemen from DaS1.
>painted world
More knights, more shitty corvians aka demon crow ripoffs and some reskinned dog wolves.
>dreg heap
Shitty DaS2 tier crawling zombies and more tedious fat knight enemies.
>ringed city
More zombies and knights and some dumb grasshoppers at the end.

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>>386798992
>Crtiic scores
>journalists
dropped.

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>>386798992

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>>386798992
Nobody cares, autismo.

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>>386792005
Lets just end this shit.

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>>386793437
and yet it's still the best game in the series, it's impressive what having the best core gameplay does to the game

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A lot of 3's problems can be chalked up to Bamco, a lot of 2's problems can be chalked up to From

>>386799267
the two other ds2 dlcs were good

>>386799381
Maybe if you're a reddit teenager who played DS3 as your first souls game

>>386799130
Pretty sure most people shat on SotFS because it was a re-release that split the playerbase for online, not because it's bad.

>>386795391
what cape is that

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>>386799692
I started with DeS circa 2009, I still have the moonrunes import version, only reason I still haven't sold off my PS3. Then again, now that RPCS3 is blowing the PS3 out of the water, it might be time to let go

>>386800036
Sure thing kiddo.

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>>386800080
glad we're in agreement

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>>386800080
Not him but

DARK SOULS 2 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>386795970
>1 hitbox is working really fucking well
>this makes the rest of the hitboxes being shit completely fine
??

>>386797162
>look at me, I'm an oldfag everyone!

nobody gives a shit, DaS2 is enjoyable but it's EASILY the worst of the series, that's why almost everyone agrees on that

I can hardly believe that DaS2fags even exist, like you're a practical joke of sorts

>>386799460
>a lot of 2's problems can be chalked up to From pandering to the PVP fanbase
Fuck their limitless supply of god damn NPC invaders.

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just chiming in to remind you that Miyazaki is a talentless hack who has to reuse all of his assets but has no idea which parts made his games before DS3 good
and that ENB completely failed at life, as did most "pillars of the community"
and that trying to piece together the barely sensical lore is an exercise in advanced autism

>>386795103
>confirming that troll
leddit u gotta go

BB > DS1 > DES > DS2 > NIOH > INFERNO CLIMBER >>>>> DS3

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BB > DS3 = DS1 > DES

>>386800530
>one hitbox is shit
>this makes the rest of the hitboxes working really fucking well irrelevant
??

>>386801114
this one infuriates me and I'm a diehard ds2fag
I also despise how they decided to keep the recolor shit in most buffs in ds3, but at least the particles look acceptable

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>>386804405
>DaS2
>one hitbox is shit

seriously, who do you think you're fooling, because I know even you don't believe the bullshit you're saying

>>386804405
Dark Souls 2 has by far the worst hitboxes in the series, don't even fucking kid yourself

>inb4 b-but every Souls game has janky hitboxes
Yeah and guess what, some are much, much worse than others.

>>386804627
in all honesty I've only ever had issues with some of the giants' attacks and the mimic grab

The last star in the universe will burn out and you faggots will still be having these pointless arguments. For fuck's sakes.

>>386804865
try using the regular mace 2handing, the 2nd hit in the 1-2 combo tends to miss a fucking lot despite you being up the enemy's ass

also those fat ogres' grabs has probably the worst hitbox in any game I've ever seen except for Plesioth

>>386792005
that looks like shit

>>386805023
It's not a mirror :)

>>386792005
DS2 looked so shit they had to release a "we're sorry DS2 looked so shitty" version a year later

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>>386799460
>a lot of 2's problems can be chalked up to From
Wasn't it Bamco as well? From wanted to make an open world game, but Bamco told them no and to make another DS1.

>>386804860
>Dark Souls 2 has by far the worst hitboxes in the series
Not sure I agree.

>>386795573
>better thand ds2
>"special" attack dosen't do any damage
>"special" attack scales with int and faith but even at 60/60 can't even kill the firekepper
>has draggon breath but you can set up a great bow before fire starts coming out
>bonus AR is fucking useless
>to get full "effect" must take off all armor and look like an anorexic goat only to be comboed to death by a dagger

anon I never knew that true dragons were such pushovers

>>386795573
>its better than ds2
NO
ds2's dragon form sucked because it was some shitty cosplay rather than a transformation, but just being a transformation doesn't make it better when it's so fucking useless and so fucking ugly

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daily reminder that ds2 fans are leafs.

>>386805940
But I'm a leaf and I hated ds2.

>>386795987
Miyazaki's standard Berserk plagiarism. been the same way since DeS and DaS

amazing how people consider him some sort of visionary genius

>>386805940
daily reminder that only /v/eddit contrarians hate the highest rated and most praised souls game

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>>386806092
not all leafs are bad

all bad are leafs though

>>386806286
What about swedes and germans?

>>386797162
fuck i thought des was laggy...

>>386806368
you guys are cool, I'll miss you in 10~30 years when you're overrun by mudslimes

>>386806286
>not all leafs are bad
false

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Majula > Firelink Shrine 1 > Nexus > Firelink Shrine 2 >>>>>> The Hunter's dream

That's the only thing 2 did right.

>>386805940
brb emigrating to canada

>>386807032
>only thing 2 did right
Well, besides literally everything else too

>>386807334
Nope, 3 was much better.

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>>386792005
It is though, there is an ugly soft filter over everything, half the game's skyboxes and out of bounds geometry/textures are literally unfinished, and the environmental lighting is fucking hideous or flat out nonexistent in most of the levels because they had to get the dynamic lighting from the stupid fucking torch system working on PS3 hardware.

>>386807449
I have to agree with this too, 3 was better but just short.

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>>386795391
now pan the camera to the right

>>386807449
You know, there are a lot of opinions you could have chosen, but you picked the most irredeemably shit one

>>386807032
>it's a "game tricks you into thinking it has good graphics by making the first couple of areas the only good looking areas in the game" episode

>>386807883
God no, 3 was too long. Too fucking long to be so strictly linear and have zero exploration. It's just a railroad through various castle ramparts and shit swamps. A blur of brown and grey from start to finish. Not to mention being the worst game in the series mechanically too. I do not know what they were thinking. It's like they wanted to make it as obvious as possible that it was completely phoned in and made by Bamco interns.

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>>386808028
FotfG looks like shit though (even if it's one of the best areas in the game, gameplay wise)

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>>386808145
>Not to mention being the worst game in the series mechanically too
Stopped reading there

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>>386808513
BOY

>>386808513
>roll roll roll
>spam estus
be honest, did you ever die with an estus remaining? it's impossible

>>386808275
i was thinking majula and heides but you're right

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>>386808814
>hey look lagged pvp on a souls game
K then

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>>386808814
You could literally say that about any souls game.

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Gonna do a Dual Crossbow run in DaS2, somebody give me an additional challenge

>>386809370
>somebody give me an additional challenge
play a better game

>>386809370
Delete the game

>>386808814
>PvP sucking means the entire game sucks
?

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>>386809405
>>386809414
We get that DaS2 hurt you, stop being faggots

>>386808513
It added quite literally NOTHING good, and only worked to regress things back to DeS and DaS ways

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>>386809097
>comparing an extreme case of lag to an issue easily solvable by not making estus use lightning fast

>>386808513
>Way too many i-frames
>Disgustingly forgivable stamina system
>Defense is now absorbtion or armor is purely for fashion purposes and made split damage weapons useless
>The mana system
>You block with L1 when holding a weapon in your left hand
>So many rings made completely useless
etc etc

>>386792113
fpbp

>>386792005
this is literally the worst part of the entire game

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>>386792113
Best post

>>386792838
Imagine being so autistic that you have responses saved for certain threads.

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>>386808513
>Good sorceries/pyromancies locked behind a linear end game so you spend 99% of the game throwing beginner level spells
>iframes out the ass leading to spammy rolls instead of carefully timed dodging
>Complete linear game progression with no exploration whatsoever
>Invasions have been neutered to hugely favour hosts, further downplaying the one unique aspect of the series

I could keep going, /tv/ shitposter.

>>386810062
imagine being so pathetic that you start 40 contrarian dark souls 2 hate threads per day

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>>386792113
/thread

>>386810151
I'm not the one starting the threads, but the game does fucking suck and you'd have to be a moron not to see that. And if you're a PvP fag you're also a moron.

>>386811609
91 :)

>>386795987
World is dying out because someone refused to light the fire. The darkness is leaking from the sun as a result.

help me out bros

i killed the golem in duke's archives, he dropped the pendant but i died before i could pick it up. now he's not dropping it and it didn't spawn in the firelink treasure chest. am i fucked?

tried asking /dsg/ but i got meme answers

How do I make a cute waifu in Dark Souls 2?

I had forgotten how much i dislike das II until someone gifted me sotfs a few weeks ago. Feels really clunky compared to the other titles. Only fun i have is with bonefist pvp.

>>386792838
>N-no guys DS2 isn't the Blacksheep of the series. S-see look at DS3 oh its so bad right guys? If I keep saying its the worst than my favorite game will stop being hated r-right!?

My favorite narritive being forced on /v/

>>386792113
My man

>>386811993
No way to get it now, just spawn it with Cheat Engine

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>>386811736
"Blocks your path"