dark souls gays were just mad that theyre bad at video games with hindsight
you just need adaptability and its fine, a little clunky but thats it
the aesthetic of the game is better than dark souls1, 3 and elden ring combined so it makes up for it
its just too comfy to be a bad game
keep baiting for (you)s
prostitute
this is a complete downgrade and is a rip off compared to the first game and that one aged.
Slower+Uglier+Senseless=worst souls game
If your build involved dodgerolling everything, then of course it requires adaptability. Listen to what you're saying. It would be like your build revolving around heavy weapons, but you don't feel like you should have to level of strength to do it.
Ok you just said dump in this stat to beat this boss. But nothing about other builds. Maybe explain how other builds would handle this instead of gatekeeping other players.
nah, it does basically nothing better
revamped inventory and more ring/weapon slots is the only thing that can be called an improvement the rest are meme dogshit that are basically worthless (like bonfire ascetics)
7 months ago
Anonymous
ure objectively wrong but i dont feel like arguing with a moron
7 months ago
Anonymous
bonfire ascetics are literal garbage that only ever gets used to grind mats and the Rotten 5 times for 1 mill soul memory
it is an anti-game mechanic people use so they skip most of the fricking game
I played half the game without a single point in Adaptability.
You just, well, adapt. The roll with invincible rolls is still there, but it's not as easy mode as the other games. If you want it to be a true invincibility button yeah you should level the stat, and this was a good choice because some Souls players limit themselves to a certain level cap to still have some challenge in the game.
If your cap is level 60, 80 or 120.. It's a tradeoff if you choose 40 int to add spells to your build, or 40 adp to dodge better. Neither is the right answer.
>Bearded Lady is an expy of the Witch of Izalith, because Quelaag used a sword I guess? >Old Iron King is an expy of Gwyn because fire I guess? >Rotten is an expy of Nito, because they're both made up of bodies I guess? >Freja is a spider, also there's a dragon that's an expy of Seath because dragon I guess?
Tanimura is just the most detestably moronic writer I have ever seen.
None of his picks for the bosses make any goddamn thematic or design sense whatsofricking ever.
Like, I'm pretty sure the designers literally said Nashandra was originally just a Nito inspired skeleton boss.
Why the frick didn't Tanimura use that boss as the surrogate Nito in his plot?
How moronic is he?
7 months ago
Anonymous
People defend this game and shit on DS3 for ""fanservice""".
7 months ago
Anonymous
like, Tanimura even fricked up the concept of repeating the big bosses from DS1
Gwyn was the final boss, he was not the big 4, he shouldn't be there
it should be a Four Kings expy instead of him, he even had Darklurker who could work as a surrogate Four Kings
but nah, it's Gwyn, cause he's glue huffing moron
like, you can't even argue that "Tanimura just wanted the 4 lords", because Seath was not a lord, yet there is a Seath expy in the form of a rando dragon
and the fricking Pygmy is missing an expy then too
Do not bring DeS into this, troony. Climb in your coffin.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Just saiyan. That's what it boils down to.
7 months ago
Anonymous
One game has a troony coffin in it, just saiyan.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Being able to change your character's appearance is fun. Elden Ring expands on this with the magic mirror bringing you back to the full character creations options. That was a good addition.
7 months ago
Anonymous
There are better ways to do it, like the Soul Vessel is right there.
I think I kinda get you. Much as I enjoy all the games only ds2 felt like the world was breaking and reality was resetting. The ringed city managed to also make me feel this.
I love DS2 for the build variety, majula confyness, slow ass pvp and stupid fun boss fights like the mirror knight (as an invader) but FRICK NO it doesn't have better aesthetics than 3 in any shape or form. 3 is actually cohesive visually and 2 is mostly a mess made with borderline western-MMO-tier designs at times.
It's fun but not beautiful.
Meanwhile DS3...
Both games do that? Albeit the geography doesn't really make sense in either game (admittedly nothing in 3 is as bad as the Earthen Peak - Iron Keep transition in 2). I think it makes more sense in 3 but even then people went behind the scenes and it doesn't really add up. 1 probably had the most cohesive world.
You literally see Drangleic Castle, Heide's Tower of Flame, Forest of Fallen Giants, Shaded Woods, and Huntsmans Copes from Majula. Play the fricking game.
>the aesthetic of the game is better than dark souls1
The entirety of DS2 doesn't hold a candle to Anor Londo. The only level on par with DS2 is the fricking Darkroot garden.
this
most of ds2's detractors are shitters that couldn't be bothered to take the 5 min to adjust to the slightly different timings and features of the game
ds2 has plenty of things about it you can criticize but when you hear people shit on it, 9 times out of 10, it's somebody who sucks too much to adapt to something only slightly different from the other games
>the aesthetic of the game is better than dark souls1, 3 and elden ring combined
Man I'd pay good money to see the kind of fit you'd consider stylish lmao
>first time rooms are completely flat with heavily tiled textures >area boss is just 3 times the same model
this is the exact moment the game becomes slop
most people probably didnt invest in their character or weapons at this point
people with intelligence didnt struggle, but morons who just brute forced their way through got wrecked
most people probably didnt invest in their character or weapons at this point
people with intelligence didnt struggle, but morons who just brute forced their way through got wrecked
My 1st playthrough I went there straight after Giant/Pursuer and got fricking wrecked
I tried bruteforcing it for quite a while until I went back to Majula and found the path to the heide's, I only beat the sentinels when I came back to bastille from no man's wharf
>smelter demon fight #51 >pursuer fight #3000 >mirror knight's only mechanic being completely skippable because of how fast it dies >dude memba ornstein and quelaag? >royal rat authority >torch the metal part of a windmill lmao >player npcs with inflated healthpools and damage that relied on being stunlocked >health gems >soul memory >the awful fricking lighting >rereleasing the game at full price with tiny changes instead of just updating it
probably more i missed but i havent touched the game in ages
I did however succeed in bruteforcing the poison naga boss because I didn't know about the windmill and thought the poison pool was an intended mechanic and you had to keep lifegems up at all times
>smelter demon fight #51 >pursuer fight #3000 >mirror knight's only mechanic being completely skippable because of how fast it dies >dude memba ornstein and quelaag? >royal rat authority >torch the metal part of a windmill lmao >player npcs with inflated healthpools and damage that relied on being stunlocked >health gems >soul memory >the awful fricking lighting >rereleasing the game at full price with tiny changes instead of just updating it
probably more i missed but i havent touched the game in ages
I'm a 2gay and I agree that most of anon's complaints are moronic (especially the member one considering he's likely a 3cel) but the whole windmill thing was profoundly unintuitive. The game has barely incentivized the use of torches up until this point and even then you've never been able to use it for anything more than lighting sconces.
all of his complaints were correct, people are allowed to criticize your game
healing grass =/= life gems
life gems give you regen, you can pop like 3 of them and tank attacks and still end up with full hp, you can't do that in DeS, grass is instant
>Life gems are a non argument
i didn't make the argument, explained why they aren't grass, moron
god what is it about Ds2 that makes people so idiotic? is it a mental illness thing?
I'm a 2gay and I agree that most of anon's complaints are moronic (especially the member one considering he's likely a 3cel) but the whole windmill thing was profoundly unintuitive. The game has barely incentivized the use of torches up until this point and even then you've never been able to use it for anything more than lighting sconces.
>smelter demon fight #51
not a problem? >pursuer fight #3000
not a problem??? >mirror knight's only mechanic being completely skippable because of how fast it dies
okay we get it you're a pro gamer dude >dude memba ornstein and quelaag?
what's wrong with saving resources? >royal rat authority
fair >torch the metal part of a windmill lmao
i thought you were a pro gamer, you couldn't beat snake b***h with the poison? >player npcs with inflated healthpools and damage that relied on being stunlocked
I don't understand >health gems
Life gems >soul memory
fromsoft does not do good co-op or pvp >the awful fricking lighting
and? >rereleasing the game at full price with tiny changes instead of just updating it
which they did for PS3 and Xbox360?
It baffles me that people actually had trouble with Royal Rat Authority. Just one-shot the rats and after that it's just a 5/10 fight with an awesome theme that sounds like something straight out of 300
its been a while, but im pretty sure they petrify, but it was never an issue for me because by that point in the game you should be able to one shot them
7 months ago
Anonymous
played 2 days ago; it's toxic but it's still like one greatsword swing and they're all dead so who cares
demon fight #51
you only fight them twice
fight #3000
he pursues you duh
knight's only mechanic being completely skippable because of how fast it dies
pic related and ds3 copied it >>dude memba ornstein and quelaag?
ds3 has TWO orsteins
rat authority
git gud Black person
the metal part of a windmill lmao
being a metal part is irrelevant
npcs with inflated healthpools and damage that relied on being stunlocked
guess your ds2 npcs were different from mine
gems
irrelevant >>soul memory
irrelevant >>the awful fricking lighting
???
the game at full price with tiny changes instead of just updating it
the price complaint is fair but not my fault the japs are israelites
yes, the game is that bad, no matter how many shitty bait threads you make, dickripped schizotroony
demon fight #51
you only fight them twice
fight #3000
he pursues you duh
knight's only mechanic being completely skippable because of how fast it dies
pic related and ds3 copied it >>dude memba ornstein and quelaag?
ds3 has TWO orsteins
rat authority
git gud Black person
the metal part of a windmill lmao
being a metal part is irrelevant
npcs with inflated healthpools and damage that relied on being stunlocked
guess your ds2 npcs were different from mine
gems
irrelevant >>soul memory
irrelevant >>the awful fricking lighting
???
the game at full price with tiny changes instead of just updating it
the price complaint is fair but not my fault the japs are israelites
>ds3 has TWO ornsteins
and it has the corpse of Quelanna in the demon ruins.
Yeah, even if people didn't really like it, at least 2 did its own thing, yet added to the story of 1.
>mentally ill dickripped DS2troony still spouting the same buzzwords
reminder, only festering stinkditch DS2trannies say this shit
troony coffin game is the shit tier memberberry game only secondaries gay over
3 is the actual direct sequel to the first game that concludes everything in it
stay mad, stay rotting
you have no idea what a woman is, dickripped lunatic-kun, yet here we are in another one of your shitty troony coffin game threads
stay mad, stay rotting
7 months ago
Anonymous
I assure you I still have a working penis that I use every day with testes that still work and produce the semen you suck out of it.
>Windmill
What the frick is this. I just googled it and you were supposed to light that shit on fire, making the fight mind-numbingly easy? Fricking christ I even got the PLATINUM TROPHY WHAT THE FRICK IS THIS?
Still can't believe that's a Kitamura theme. Its use of brass and tinny sounds reminds me a lot of Sakuraba tracks like Iron Golem where he'd actually try to make tracks which complement the boss itself. I guess the stringslop didn't get really bad till after the success of Sir Alonne's theme.
I just recently replayed it on a journey to 100%. Yes, its arguably even worse than people say. The repeated textures, the constant gank fights, the slow as mud combat. I could be here all day thinking of all the problems I saw going through it, but every DS2 defender in these threads just make disingenuous arguments to troll so im not going to.
Where are the shadows? Why are the textures so flat? Why is the whole environment so bland? How can DS2gays claim this dogshit is good with a straight face?
Yes. Iron Keep location failure still gets me whenever I remember it so it was worth it. Fume Knight and Sir Alonne were legit kino. Also hate that you have to go to Ng++ to buy last thingy for platinum but at least you can skip a lot of content.
I've played all the Souls games and they're all pretty much the same. The fanboy bullshit between them is irritating. Each game has high points and low points.
Yeah I wanted to see the lighting system evolve to try and do what DS2 largely failed at implementing outside a couple areas. It would have been perfect for Elden Ring especially because most of the cave-type dungeons are so fricking dark you literally need a torch/lantern to see anything at all, so having dynamic shadows would have gone a long way towards enhancing the atmosphere.
Elden Ring also brought back powerstancing, but only in a limited fashion because it has to be the same weapon type, which is lame. AND WHERE THE FRICK IS MY BONE FIST MIYAZAKI?
This is how I view DaS2
It's as close to objectively worse as possible, but I'd rather replay it over DaS3 because it TRIED
Granted, I'd rather play any and every other Souls over either of them, but point stands.
>I can at least respect 2 for *trying* to be good.
How can anyone say this with a straight face about a game that has fricking Iron Keep in it. Super Mario level design with platforms and copy-pasted katana knights everywhere.
Currently doing a 100% run and enjoying it, it's my favorite of the 3 after revisiting it again and playing it as a regular RPG, rather than some naked-fast roll claymore only gauntlet.
the only thing i remember from this game are the terrible full body attack hitboxes on certain enemies and the starting of the fromsoft trend of enemies having 360° degree tracking attacks
also these silly guys in dragon shrine place who had like half a second of a break between their insanely long combos
There is only 1 of this guy and he dies 8n 2-3 hits. Stop bring a baby and just slap him. The hreatshield one is far more annoying, but most babies don't even find him
Whats up with the sounds mixing in this game, even after bumping up music, the boss music sounds like its in the background, like the equivalent of elevator music or something.
Back when I learnt about adapt in ds2 I thought "wow people should like this one more then! since the rolling and iframes are way harder to land!" Turns out barely anyone played the game.
imo It never felt that worse than ds1 did for me. As long as you also adapt to the new timings I never touched adapt in game before my 4th playthrough. But its not like people were really playing ds1 and 2 like that back then, 90% of players were just swordnboard'ing and tanking hits with heavy sets.
adaptability was just really poorly implemented, it is a cool idea but they should have actually made you roll faster or something, instead you just magically take no damage where you would ordinarily
extremely jarring and clunky gameplay
>rolling and iframes are way harder to land
Nah just tied to a goofy stat instead of how burdened your character is. Maxed out you could get DS1 fastroll tier invincibility frames on any roll
Exactly, and it's one of the many faults of 2. Still, I like the game.
I would argue Pursuer too, he has a really cool design and moveset. Unfortunately walking to the right makes him useless.
I think I would have preferred Pursuer just being a normal enemy instead of a boss fight in Forest of Fallen Giants. That first encounter is so fricking cool.
I wouldn't say it's a "good" fight, but I still really like Demon of Song based on design alone.
Foreskin Frog is definitely a unique design, but yeah, it's not a very good fight. Was going to say it may as well be on-par with Covetous Demon, but it's not that bad.
>we'll never get any tracks with experimental instrumentation and fitting vocals again >it's all bombastic jap orchestral from here on out
Elden Ring literally had like 2 memorable tracks and one of them wasn't even a Kitamura theme
DS2roons final cope is claiming the game was just one big experiment and it existing at all makes it all worth it.
They are downright delusional in their copes.
literal schizophrenia
you really think the gender change coffin is the reason people like this game?
LMAO
Unironically yes. Look up what catfishing is, it is very common in the trans community as a learned tactic because being themselves never works.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Unironically yes. Look up what catfishing is, it is very common in the trans community as a learned tactic because being themselves never works.
Can you explain how catfishing is even remotely in the same dimension as this discussion?
What % of people even know about this coffin?
Its like 0.0001% of the game and is only there if the player decides they want to change their character.
7 months ago
Anonymous
They are tricking people into playing the game under false pretenses. That is catfishing because the desire to do so is rooted in their own sexual worldview. > is only there if the player decides they want to change their character.
In your hubris you went too far with the lies. It is the one gender changing option in the game that is not told to the player and they learn about it after the fact. That is integral to why this is catfishing and why other games having gender switching options aren't actually being malicious.
You aren't smart enough to debate on this topic.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>What % of people even know about this coffin?
lmao it's literally one of the things mentioned in a promo gameplay video by Peter Serafinowicz
most people know about the troony coffin
This is actual mental illness and you need to stop browsing pol for the sake of your own mind.
Please go outside.
7 months ago
Anonymous
It doesn't sound mentally ill. He explained it pretty airtight.
7 months ago
Anonymous
A fricking coffin in a video game that allows you to change the gender of your fictious character is somehow a malicious trap set up by the troony israelites or something
Not particularly coherent
7 months ago
Anonymous
This. It isn't like we don't have threads on all boards made by trans anons using a man pretending to be a woman as the OP image all the time or anything.
This exact type of catfishing is known and actively displayed by the shittier elements of the website already.
A fricking coffin in a video game that allows you to change the gender of your fictious character is somehow a malicious trap set up by the troony israelites or something
Not particularly coherent
It is very coherent you are acting like you don't know any of the surrounding factors to the coffin in relation to Ganker and anons specifically.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>don't know any of the surrounding factors to the coffin
please elaborate, i genuinely dont
it just lets you change your characters gender, thats it
7 months ago
Anonymous
>it just lets you change your characters gender, thats it >it just lets you transition bro >it has nothing to do with trannies, why you letting them live rent free in your head bro
just have a nice day
7 months ago
Anonymous
its a fricking video game you freak lmao
7 months ago
Anonymous
and we're just calling a spade a spade, why are you defending the trannies anyways? i think we know why
7 months ago
Anonymous
it has nothing to do with trannies, its not real, its not about becoming a demented delusional hormonally fricked up mutilated freak
its just about changing the gender of your fictional character
7 months ago
Anonymous
>its not about becoming a demented delusional hormonally fricked up mutilated freak >its just about changing the gender of your fictional character
sigh, you're obsession with Ds2 has you minimizing the issue, the fact that you wrote these 2 sentences back to back is worrisome
7 months ago
Anonymous
[...] >DS2troony very upset at xis troonycoffin fantasy being made fun of
imagine being this mentally dominated, dickripped lunatic-kun
stay malding, stay balding
Explain to me how customizing your character in a video game is an actual problem i should care about
>but discussing ds2 has nothing to do with that at all
Except the discussion is about the gender swap coffin in ds2
you're the one who brought it up, not the OP or me
if anything, you're psyopping yourself
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Explain to me how customizing your character in a video game is an actual problem
it's not, normalizing transitioning is the problem, nobody cares if you make a male or female character from the start
7 months ago
Anonymous
its not about actual trannies, its magic that lets you reverse a decision you made
there is no real life parallel
7 months ago
Anonymous
>its not about actual trannies, its magic
literally have a nice day, i refuse to believe you cope this hard for Ds2 and aren't a troony
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Explain to me how customizing your character
that's not what the troony coffin does, HRT rotted troon
the fact that you tried to reframe the argument into this exposes your homosexualry quite sharply though
that yes, in fact you are a dickripped DS2troony that is mad that people make fun of your troony coffin fantasy
stay mad stay rotting
7 months ago
Anonymous
incoherent babble
>its not about actual trannies, its magic
literally have a nice day, i refuse to believe you cope this hard for Ds2 and aren't a troony
not an argument
I didn't bring it up. DS2 threads on Ganker are like this, making the thread is asking for the discussion.
No one talks about DS2 in an earnest manner outside of this purview. DS2 is bad, it is terrible. People don't actually make threads to talk about it. It is always an agitprop thread by a trooncord.
If you want to talk about DS2 I'll just post about the broken healing economy, the deadzones in the controls, the shitty derivative boring enemies, the disjointed world, the way the sequel largely wrote DS2 out of the canon outside of fashion metawinks to the franchise.
massive stretch, not based in a level headed assessment of the thread
you just derailed it to discuss something totally irrelevant
7 months ago
Anonymous
>not an argument
not arguing, i'm TELLING you to have a nice day
7 months ago
Anonymous
non est argumentum
7 months ago
Anonymous
>I can't read
then take less HRT, dickripped schizo-kun
stay mad:)
stay rotting:*~~
7 months ago
Anonymous
>massive stretch >not being a newbie is a stretch
7 months ago
Anonymous
>I can't read
then take less HRT, dickripped schizo-kun
stay mad:)
stay rotting:*~~
es ist kein argument
7 months ago
Anonymous
I didn't bring it up. DS2 threads on Ganker are like this, making the thread is asking for the discussion.
No one talks about DS2 in an earnest manner outside of this purview. DS2 is bad, it is terrible. People don't actually make threads to talk about it. It is always an agitprop thread by a trooncord.
If you want to talk about DS2 I'll just post about the broken healing economy, the deadzones in the controls, the shitty derivative boring enemies, the disjointed world, the way the sequel largely wrote DS2 out of the canon outside of fashion metawinks to the franchise.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I know, but discussing ds2 has nothing to do with that at all, you're the one who brought up the coffin
No one who isnt mentally ill cares
>DS2troony very upset at xis troonycoffin fantasy being made fun of
imagine being this mentally dominated, dickripped lunatic-kun
stay malding, stay balding
7 months ago
Anonymous
It is already in the same post I replied to you in. Trans discords already make threads, on all boards, where they use a troony as the OP image then spam images saying hot or whatever. People constantly point out >thats a man
and the thread dies. It is already a known gimmick that these trans types engage in. Daily. Hourly.
The theory for this game is just the same behavior but as a long con. A longer con has a larger payoff.
Sitting over top this entire back and forth is the knowledge that THE GAME IS BAD. The game being very bad in actuality is why the theory exists. You shitters can't possibly be real trying to get people to play this shit because you think it is good. Anon just found out the lynchpin and it is the gender swap coffin.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I know, but discussing ds2 has nothing to do with that at all, you're the one who brought up the coffin
No one who isnt mentally ill cares
7 months ago
Anonymous
>but discussing ds2 has nothing to do with that at all
Except the discussion is about the gender swap coffin in ds2
7 months ago
Anonymous
>This exact type of catfishing is known and actively displayed by the shittier elements of the website already.
This is why I believe it.
7 months ago
Anonymous
7 months ago
Anonymous
[...]
This is actual mental illness and you need to stop browsing pol for the sake of your own mind.
Please go outside.
7 months ago
Anonymous
[...]
poor guy loves the Souls games so much too, kek
that's why he ended up voicing Pate in DS2
and he ended up advertising the troony coffin
7 months ago
Anonymous
>What % of people even know about this coffin?
lmao it's literally one of the things mentioned in a promo gameplay video by Peter Serafinowicz
most people know about the troony coffin
7 months ago
Anonymous
It's not, he's just mentally ill. It's kind of funny how something as petty as a video game can get people so bent out of shape.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I seriously hope these people are trolling
7 months ago
Anonymous
Isn't Sakuraba the guy people make fun of for bashing the synth keyboard randomly for 'Tales of' boss tracks?
7 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah it really needed more operatic singing and frantic strings huh
Majula is the only reckonizable theme in DS2. Just shows how they dropped the ball in every department compared to its predecessors.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Majula theme is fricking garbage too
It's like menu music from a Layton game
Firekeepers was a way better home base track, I even prefer it to DS1's Firelink track, but of course homosexual Tanimura pick the shitty track for the home base music
I've been playing through the series again after Elden Ring. The first DaS is still great, and I came out of it with a newfound appreciation in spite of it's jank. I'm still disappointed with DaS2, even more so now that I have a new perspective on how it got rushed and reorganized during development. It felt like a slog from beginning to end, the hitboxes are fricked, and having to dump your first 10-20 levels in ADP just to make your dodge rolls functional is dogshit. I'll be starting DaS3 again today.
I played vanilla when it first came out, this time was SOTFS since vanilla isn't available on the Xbox store. Not a fan of the new arrangements favoring larger groups when every little hit slows you down like a hand grabbing at your ankles.
Man, just overlevel by a little bit. I always play these games with the intention of building my dude into the Dark Souls boss. The only DS game that doesn't really allow this is DS3. Ergo, DS3 is the worst one in the series. >inb4 ur a DS2gay
Nah, I like DS1 and ER more, but DS3 is just so fricking bad, idk why DS2 gets the shit instead
Man, just overlevel by a little bit. I always play these games with the intention of building my dude into the Dark Souls boss. The only DS game that doesn't really allow this is DS3. Ergo, DS3 is the worst one in the series. >inb4 ur a DS2gay
Nah, I like DS1 and ER more, but DS3 is just so fricking bad, idk why DS2 gets the shit instead
DaS III is almost desperately shat on for reasons not so different than how the Shazam trannies compare Elden Ring to a standard of game that litterally doesn't exist to make it dogshit.
Overall, my biggest gripe with DaS III is its choice of color pallet which I truly believe is the main reason people don't like the game. Color is important to psychology and the perpetual brown bloom even made me feel a bit "drab" with the game unlike other souls games.
Otherwise it's other sins are minor out of any other souls games. It's shit PVP started in BB. It's downgraded magic system/Duel wielding was born out of the devs rejecting the improvements from DaS II because it wasn't from the same team.
It's linear level design is only an issue if one takes the artificial cultural carryover of making a new character every run from DaS, the one installment aside from DeS that doesn't have a level reset option.
3 is my least favorite but even though the drab color palette does wear out its welcome rather quickly it does convey the state of a world where quite literally every flicker of life and color has been wrung dry
Having said that I wish they'd've gone all-out crazy. Even the Dreg Heap- far and away 3's most aesthetically evocative area- pales in comparison to what we could have gotten
Really? I fall in that category and I frickin hated it. Elden Ring really roped me in instead, and I enjoyed DS1 and 2. But no matter how much I try, I can't enjoy DS3. Might come back to cheese it some day, not likely tho
of all the complaints I don't get the ones about adaptability. Can you REALLY not play if you don't have half a second of invincibility every time you press circle? The explorer class starts with 0.3 seconds of iframes
I liked DS3 level design and artstyle way more than DS2 which puts it way above 2, otherwise they are the same game. DS3 also had the most moronic obscure npc quests out of all the games that basically forced you to look up a wiki walktrough because you'd have to locate Mackie Mchomosexual who decided to warp to some random hole in the ground in an area you already visited ten hours ago without a word and required you to talk to him there before you could progress on your current zone or he'd permadie because LORE
Shit like that is my one true fault for Soulsbourne games, the fricking goofy NPC quests that require wikis. I'm all for exploration, but it never makes any sense to have you backtrack to areas you've been through before for no reason.
>go back to a bridge you never have any reason to go back on >need a hidden item from a completely unrelated area >need to return to one of the first boss arenas in the game, AFTER beating one of the near end-game bosses >only in-game hint being an item that can be bought from the firelink maiden, who at that point in the game you'd never visit anyway
I can't imagine anyone completing some of these NPC quests in DS3 or Elden Ring organically without guides. Unless you're autistically combing every square inch after any kind of in game event, how could you possibly know how to progress some of these quests? There are some in game hints sure, but even those are either on seemingly unrelated item descriptions or still too vague to be considered a hint.
Played through it again a few days ago, it wasn't bad, the issue is that you can get there early enough it's massive difficulty spike and people might not have started upgrading their weapons yet. I got blown out of the water the first time and beat it the moment I upgraded my rapier a little.
Yes, I genuinely to this day there are unironic, non-trolling defenders of DaS2, the shitty sound design, artstyle, lore, music, and ESPECIALLY FRICKING LEVEL DESIGN is awful, there is really nothing good about it, anyone saying "*SNOOORT* its not a bad game... its just a bad dark souls game" either is someone that just parrots youtuber opinions, it's a bad game period.
It's trans folx trying to trick people into playing it because of
KEK
KEKL even!
That is literally the only reason. If it was just ironic shit the threads would be on the same frequency as YIIK threads. They persist as they do because it isn't just ironic, it is idealogical.
Everyone knows the game is terrible on virtually all fronts. There is no reason to keep doing this for this long outside of it being something aligning with your world view. That is the gender swap coffin moment.
A lot of people are really bad at videogames. Is this news to you?
>Looking back was it really that bad?
It is the best FROMSOFT game. So i guess it being like 10 years old is bad because everything after it that FROM made was meh.
How does one samegay bump their own thread so prolifically but not get banned? Do I need to buy a Ganker pass?
I've never used a VPN but isn't it really easy to change your IP with one? Literally one click to randomize your IP?
7 months ago
Anonymous
I don't use vpns but I'm sure with the free ones you get tagged for it and issued a short ban
7 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah that's why OP, the ds2gay, pays for a VPN
7 months ago
Anonymous
so you're just going to pretend that everyone who doesn't agree with you is samegayging, no matter what?
7 months ago
Anonymous
I don't use a VPN. Also have a nice day you dumb troon. If you don't like the game go post in another thread.
7 months ago
Anonymous
paid ones bypass samegay filter on Ganker
so you're just going to pretend that everyone who doesn't agree with you is samegayging, no matter what?
>mentally ill dickripped lunatic pretends he doesn't samegay
you post the same shit over and over every time, you brainrotted troony homosexual
stay mad, stay rotting
7 months ago
Anonymous
>you post the same shit over and over every time
I have posted something like that maybe twice in my entire life
maybe, just maybe you see it everywhere because it's obvious that you have a mental problem?
7 months ago
Anonymous
Hello ds2gay, trying to gaslight somebody again you troony?
7 months ago
Anonymous
KYS DISHONEST DS2troony, YOU LITERALLY POST THE SAME SHIT EVERY SINGLE FRICKING TIME
SLIT YOUR THROAT
7 months ago
Anonymous
>stay mad, stay rotting
how many times a week do you post this?
[...]
???
Take a look at the disc before you buy it then I guess, but not everyone treats a disk like a toddler so you should be fine
>DS2troony: "I-I-I d-don't samegay AAIEE I RIPPED MY WOUND OPEN IT IS KILLING ME AAA"
stay mad, stay rotting
7 months ago
Anonymous
>stay mad, stay rotting
how many times a week do you post this?
>secondhand >discs
LOL you're crazy. He should just get a PC.
???
Take a look at the disc before you buy it then I guess, but not everyone treats a disk like a toddler so you should be fine
A fricking coffin in a video game that allows you to change the gender of your fictious character is somehow a malicious trap set up by the troony israelites or something
Not particularly coherent
>DS2troony dilating about /misc/ for no reason
dickripped discordxister is having a bad time kek
stay mad stay rotting
It underdelivered on some lighting stuff and it didn’t feel as fresh or magical as Dark Souls 1 did the first time round.
But these games thrive on being “hard” in a way that really isn’t so hard if you keep your wits about you and figure stuff out, and that keeps you interested to see what’s coming next. It still had that.
>DS2troony knowing that xhe lost the argument reverts to samegayging a DS1 fan, to try muh both sides the argument after DS2trannies were exposed as mentally ill dickripped lunatics
nope, samegayging failed
stay mad, stay rotting
god i'm so glad i'm not a Ds2 gay, i would probably have to kill myself if i was, can you imagine not only liking Ds2 but thinking it's the best game FROMSLOP has ever made? i would kill myself
>god i'm so glad i'm not a Ds2 gay, i would probably have to kill myself if i was, can you imagine not only liking Ds2 but thinking it's the best game FROMSLOP has ever made? i would kill myself
The other day I did a stupid low SL run for "PvP" purposes >start the game as knight >avoid killing anything until I get the agape ring >go back to majula and jump down the hole >force my way to The Rotten >killed him once for the souls >killed him again with the agape ring equiped >turn his soul into the Crypt Greatsword (The Nougat Cream-Pop according to my brother) >invade like crazy in the forest of giants
I felt pretty fricking evil
It was played more than the original and everyone loved it.
The ds1 pve tryhards that got their ass handed to them have been seething ever since. They even pretended to like ds3 out of sheer spite. Just like morrogays did with skyrim
Its so nuts to me the level of power creep thinking back
It used to be that bosses like Artorias and Fume Knight being the worst of it
Now we have Malenia and its barely a contest and with the dlc coming up its gonna have something even worse than her
That's what hit me not long ago when I was replaying DS1, Kalameet and Artorias were the defacto super hard boss, with some people never beating them and they are just so easy compared to the bosses in the later games. Now in Elden Ring every boss has some goofy ass omega attack or a super delayed move just because. When you go back to the older games it's almost comfy how simple the bosses are with their couple of moves.
Artorias feels great to fight, because all of his attacks are clearly telegraphed. So when you learn them, you can replicate the result. Only demanding enough reaction time to keep you on your toes.
All the latter bosses feels like shit. Due to bad telegraphing. Even deceptive telegraphing by reading the player's inputs and altering the timing of their moves. They also have too much RNG, so attacks can just come out of nowhere. And the reaction timing required is way too damn high. It just doesn't feel good to play.
Malenia is the worst offender. Waterfowl(the 1000 slash super attack) is way to random and unreadable. You just have to mash dodges until you stumble into the right dodge pattern through sheer blind trial and error.
She can wake up from hit stun and attack you before your attack animation is done. Making reaction time not only too fast, but physically impossible. Because she's faster that the game's own attack frames. She just unfun.
The games feel like they were factoring in everyone playing all of them and incrementally getting better so they have to up their ante but it went overboard fast. ER is the most current souls game and Radagon is the best fight because he feels like a balanced but hard old style boss fight. Everything else was weird.
By the time I got to Radagon, I was already using Mimic Tear, and so I completely rolled him first try. I probably wouldn't have used Mimic Tear near the end, if I didn't find many fights to be bullshit. But I was just so done with them. It's the exploration that mattered to me. Not the crappy boss fights.
just what the frick is going on around here? is Ganker really this bad at videogames now? even my older brother was talking about how tiring it was that elden ring was so difficult, and we've both been playing since demon's souls, hell, he was the one who introduced me to it. is this really the fate of all old gamers?
Fromsoft just sucks at making games, something the ds2 schizo that makes these threads uses to bait people into talking to him about his troony fanfiction
Elden Ring would be hard if the game didn't give the casuals massive crutches, Bleed being the biggest one.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Mimic tear + Rivers of blood enjoyer reporting in. Assblasted the late game and had a lot of fun doing so. Shame I did not beat it at level 1 with fists only like you did. What's it like drowning in pussy?
Let me break it down for you.
Die while having fun = keep trying.
Die while not having fun = mimic tear.
After completing about 75% of the game solo, multiple bosses have proven to be unfun. So I stopped giving them the benefit of the doubt, and just went with mimic tear every time.
It's not that I can't beat the game solo. It's that the boss design is bad now.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>It's not that I can't beat the game solo. It's that the boss design is bad now.
This reads like massive cope. It feels like everybody says this but cannot articulate WHY the boss design is apparently bad. The only boss design that was objectively bad was any fights where you had more than one boss before they fixed them in a patch.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I've already articulated why they're bad in a previous post.
Artorias feels great to fight, because all of his attacks are clearly telegraphed. So when you learn them, you can replicate the result. Only demanding enough reaction time to keep you on your toes.
All the latter bosses feels like shit. Due to bad telegraphing. Even deceptive telegraphing by reading the player's inputs and altering the timing of their moves. They also have too much RNG, so attacks can just come out of nowhere. And the reaction timing required is way too damn high. It just doesn't feel good to play.
Malenia is the worst offender. Waterfowl(the 1000 slash super attack) is way to random and unreadable. You just have to mash dodges until you stumble into the right dodge pattern through sheer blind trial and error.
She can wake up from hit stun and attack you before your attack animation is done. Making reaction time not only too fast, but physically impossible. Because she's faster that the game's own attack frames. She just unfun.
Excessive input reading
Unclear telegraphs
Trick timings
Too much RNG
Too much spam
Also, they keep making giant bosses, without giving us a camera to accommodate them.
Like, I respect Hollow Knight a ton. Because their bosses are all so tight, that learning them feels really good. Every boss fight in HK feels like learning Artorias for the first time. It's amazing.
All boss except one: Zote. Fighting Zote feels HORRIBLE. For all of the reasons I said above.
Unclear telegraphs
Trick timings
Too much RNG
Too much spam
And his boss arena scrolls, so he can do stuff off camera that you can't see.
It's the worse fight in the game. Awful. Imagine a whole game of Zote Bosses. That's Elden Ring.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>excessive input reading
Never had this issue. >Unclear telegraphs
Never had this issue. >Trick timings
This is a good thing and makes dodging certain attacks more fun and satisfying to pull off once you get them down. >Too much RNG
Never had this issue. >Too much spam
Never had this issue. >Also, they keep making giant bosses
Gonna assume you're talking primarily about Fire Giant, and I'm gonna say that I never had this issue since I don't have a problem controlling the camera to keep him in view, same with any other bigger than average boss.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Gonna assume you're talking primarily about Fire Giant
Actually no. He's the one giant boss that I didn't mind the camera too much. Probably because I got to ride Torrent.
>This is a good thing and makes dodging certain attacks more fun and satisfying to pull off once you get them down.
Eh, in theory. It's pattern breaking, so it feels less satisfying to me, even if it creates more variety.
>Never had this issue. >Never had this issue. >Never had this issue. >Never had this issue.
Well I never expected you to see what I mean. It would require that you actually care in the first place, which you don't. You're like those people who live with their smoke detector chirping. You don't care, so it doesn't bother you, despite the fact that you're experiencing it.
7 months ago
Anonymous
For me to care, it would have to affect me negatively. It doesn't. Not sure what you want me to do about it, the problems you had were never a problem for me.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>excessive input reading
Never had this issue. >Unclear telegraphs
Never had this issue. >Trick timings
This is a good thing and makes dodging certain attacks more fun and satisfying to pull off once you get them down. >Too much RNG
Never had this issue. >Too much spam
Never had this issue. >Also, they keep making giant bosses
Gonna assume you're talking primarily about Fire Giant, and I'm gonna say that I never had this issue since I don't have a problem controlling the camera to keep him in view, same with any other bigger than average boss.
oh yeah, I forgot to say, the biggest offender of the giant boss camera issue, are the Ulcerated Tree Spirits. The way they fill up the screen and wriggle around makes it difficult to see what they're about to do. And it has that one attack where it wriggles away to your blind spot, and then lunges off the wall to eat you up. It's pretty much designed to exploit your inability to see it properly.
For me to care, it would have to affect me negatively. It doesn't. Not sure what you want me to do about it, the problems you had were never a problem for me.
Well you not feeling negative, is separate from you not being affected.
I could smear shit on your face. Most people would feel negative about it. But if you have a scat fetish, then you might get turned on. That doesn't make smearing shit on people ok.
7 months ago
Anonymous
You're still acting on the assumption that you're objectively right and not just shit at the game. I'm not shit at the game, so I didn't have the same problems you did. I can't help you anon, sorry.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I have no way of knowing if you actually died less than I have, or struggled less than I have. I only know that you don't feel negatively about your experience.
Can you actually *prove* you're better than me at the game?
For that matter: does our skill disparity, whatever it may be, matter? Even if I'm a little better or worse than you, I would still argue that the game should be designed with a general skill range in mind. And that if someone is either below that range or above that range, that their perceptions of the game design will be biased by an abnormally easy or difficult experience.
7 months ago
Anonymous
If you felt the need to play the game with Mimic Tear, and I touched the Spirit Ash system a handful of times near the beginning of the game and never again, I'd say that's a pretty good indicator of the difference in our skill levels.
And yes, I'd say the skill disparity matters, because if you're of a lower skill level, you might find certain things more difficult or frustrating, which is fine. The problem arises when you start to think that this is an issue with the game's design, rather than an issue with your skill level. The Spirit Ash system was made specifically to bridge this gap in skill.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>If you felt the need to play the game with Mimic Tear
But that's the thing. It was not a *need*. I beat every previous Souls game solo. I beat about 75% of Elden Ring solo. I could have finished the rest of it solo. The only thing that was filtered was my patience with a crappy design. Patience that had been strained since as far back as Dark Souls 2 when I first noticed them employing these shitty aspects in their design. Dark Souls 3 has no replay value to me for these reasons. The exploration is shite, and the bosses feel bad.
I didn't even know how to use spirit ashes until late in the game. I somehow overlooked the tutorial, and decided it wasn't worth bothering with. Not until I needed to summon the jellyfish for that side quest, I finally looked up how it was done. That's all the way in the snow area. So pretty late in the game.
I didn't NEED mimic tear to get that far, and I didn't NEED mimic tear to beat the remainder of the game. I was just sick of the crappy boss design.
>And yes, I'd say the skill disparity matters, because if you're of a lower skill level, you might find certain things more difficult or frustrating, which is fine.
You can't prove you're better than me. From my perspective, we have a tolerance disparity. You're able to tolerate bullshit, because you've deluded yourself that beating these crappily designed bosses is an accomplishment.
7 months ago
Anonymous
From my perspective, we have a skill disparity. Your pride makes you delude yourself into thinking that the problem is the boss design and that I'm just more tolerant of bullshit, when the reality is that I just beat it and moved on without any issues.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Your pride makes you boastful. Anyone would tell you that these games are designed to be difficult. To sit here and claim that you never experienced any ounce of difficulty, is nonsense. You just want to win a petty argument. So you don't show even a sliver of weakness. You can't admit you died once at anything ever.
For me, I'm just generally not a fan of how aggressive almost every boss is. Crazy how back in Demon's Souls the most aggressive boss was Flamefricker, now it feels like a lot of Elden Ring's bosses are outpacing even Manus by a significant margin.
When i finished elden ring i noticed in the ending credits a similar name for the co director, yep it's the same Black person who directed ds2 while myazaki worked on bb
And it made perfect sense why elden lean sucked so much ass
His design philosophy can be boiled down to "enemy spam, fast attack animation and long combos, lots of flat empty rooms"
If fromsoft makes another Zanzibar game I'll check the credits first before i pirate it, not even gonna bother wasting my time if this chink is involved
He worked on ds3 too.
there is no enemy spam
"fast animation" screams that you suck at the game. Long combo is your inability to find opening.
why do you homosexuals always have to insist dark souls 2 is the best or worst souls game? i like it about as much as 3, good but not the best with some significant but also severely overblown flaws
Based game enjoyer. The entire DS trilogy was rushed and full of flaws, yet they still are some of the best games created.
>He worked on ds3 too.
he was Miyazaki's b***h working on balancing multiplayer and shit
people think that worthless homosexual did way more than he actually did on these games, Miyazaki's co-directors are there to take away the workload he doesn't want to waste his time on, eg implementing multiplayer shit and balancing
just how much do you idolize miyazaki that you'd downplay others this much just to force his dick bit further down your throat? please anon, this shit ain't normal.
>DS2troon projects xis Tanimura dicksucking onto others
you seem upset, homosexual
read interviews homosexual, Miyazaki literally explains what his co-directors do on his projects
Nip insects do what nip insects do, how is that at all relevant? Are you pretending miyazaki is competent? Lol
7 months ago
Anonymous
he is literally one of the best game directors working right now
7 months ago
Anonymous
Elden shart is a worse Ubisoft open world with copy pasted sekiro (a game nobody remembers) combat with none of the sekiro ai. It's probably one of the most derivative cash in asset flips ever made
my point is that i don't obsess this much over it. you seem to have this weird hatred for tanimura and lust for miyazaki's dick despite that all you have to go on with what exactly their duties are is some interviews.
7 months ago
Anonymous
The ds2 schizo is a well known schizophrenic spammer on Ganker. He spreads misinformation about games to try and get people to talk to him
7 months ago
Anonymous
Fromsoft just sucks at making games, something the ds2 schizo that makes these threads uses to bait people into talking to him about his troony fanfiction
Notice how the troony bumps the thread with what is essentially schizophrenic spam
>DS2troony burned through xis buzzwords >reduced to repeating everything xhe was mocked with in xis failed bait threads
the dickripped lunatic is so angry, KEK
stay mad, stay rotting:)
7 months ago
Anonymous
Ds2 troony is a schizophrenic spammer that makes up misinformation about games to get people to talk to him because he's not actually intelligent enough to have interesting opinions. He does this all day every day and reports everyone he can that try and detail his narcissistic israelite troony spam on Ganker with varying results
7 months ago
Anonymous
>DS2troony ripping xis stinkditch raw for Tanimura
you can stop projecting your homosexualry, dickripped lunatic-kun, kek
you seem to have this weird mentall illness where you think cutting your dick off makes you a woman, even though it just makes you dickless
your dickripped delusions don't amount to shit, because "some interviews" with the fricking director of the game prove your delusions about muh Tanimura wrong
stay mad, stay rotting
7 months ago
Anonymous
Notice how the troony bumps the thread with what is essentially schizophrenic spam
why do you homosexuals always have to insist dark souls 2 is the best or worst souls game? i like it about as much as 3, good but not the best with some significant but also severely overblown flaws
This is true, its just the implementation that sucks, its should make you literally roll a little bit faster, not just inexplicably not take damage when you ordinarily would.
I feel like damn near every boss in DS2 can just be strafed around, which is also funny because everyone complains about how bad rolling is when it’s the game that needs it the least.
Got this on sale today after finishing and loving all the other souls games this year except for Sekiro.
Wtf is wrong with this game? I thought it might be bad but this is like cancer so far. Really feels like a indian bootleg fanfiction of Ds1. Already tried normal melee and a mage build and both suck, I know ds2gays will say "gitgud" but what fricking build will make the ganksquads tolerable?
Should I stick with it or go for Sekiro?
Whats stopping you from just making a typical strength or quality build?
Remember to stat into adaptability. it raises your agility which allows you to roll normally.
>equip strike weapon because, you know, distinctly armored enemies >they melt
who's the b***h that thought this was hard? ds2 problem is everywhere else
>This game has no weapon variety it's all the same shit >I want to win everything with a single weapon >noooo why is it breaking >noooo why isn't it doing damage >noooo why is there a different version with a different moveset >noooo why can't i summon for this fight
i honestly don't get morons who don't experiment with different weapons
i can't possibly imagine playing something like er katana only
your build is shit if you are not 6 slotted
DS2 has a bunch of cool smaller details going for it, but the complete whiplash of quality you see when you are playing the game makes it hard to recommmend. I enjoyed my time with it, I probably wouldn't replay it but I still like it.
>show gif where enemy is hitting air and the player gets damaged >"bro you are trying to do OP iframe strat"
why are DS2trannies so mentally ill
This is how I view DaS2
It's as close to objectively worse as possible, but I'd rather replay it over DaS3 because it TRIED
Granted, I'd rather play any and every other Souls over either of them, but point stands.
>"I am not a dickripped DS2troony samegaygin no sir, but anyway, here's my buzzwords that only mentally ill self-mutilated DS2trannies say"
kek everyone knows DS2 is a creatively bankrupt madlib rehash of 1 you dickripped lunatic
DS3 was Miyazaki coming back and saving the series before another troony coffin game is made to pander to you homosexuals
I can deal with most of the flaws of DS2, but the biggest issue is that it's just way too fricking long. It's like twice the length of all the other games and I haven't even done the dlc. I played DS1 four times in a row without burning out, but one playthrough of DS2 is exhausting. Elden Ring was also garbage because of this. I can't bring myself to do another playthrough.
It wouldve helped a little, but the textures still got changed alot. Theres very few areas in this game that doesnt have jarringly noticeable repeated textures.
The only really bad thing was the 8 way movement. Older Souls games had problems with movement too but it was more limited to being locked on, for DS2 it was a constant issue.
>DS2 >lock on >constantly miss
fricking game is moronic inb4 durur git gud no frick your stupid game, why even have lock on if its optimal to play without it?
moron learn the game's mechanics. Certain weapons have momentum. Locking on with them means shit. I'm guessing the memes are true. The only people that hate on DS2 are the people who can't git good and got filtered.
>impossible for them to actually play a game that doesnt have 3 years worth of i frames inside a single dodge roll
your game isn't challenging at all, just boring really
it literally turned the game into a beat em up game
it's great, and you can actually string together elaborate combos with it against random enemies and style on them
it was fine, just a little uninspired (3 guys in armor) it was just a filler boss, if anyone died to it theyre basically moronic
also most soulsborne players fricking suck at video game since its impossible for them to actually play a game that doesnt have 3 years worth of i frames inside a single dodge roll, which cause them to melt and piss their pants here
>impossible for them to actually play a game that doesnt have 3 years worth of i frames inside a single dodge roll
your game isn't challenging at all, just boring really
why does it need to be giga hard? It's fricking dark souls. The series is supposed to be about exploration in the first place. Or did you really sweat in the gwynn fight?
7 months ago
Anonymous
Yes I love exploring hideous N64 forests and entering elevators that lead me up into a volcano. Good job changing the subject.
7 months ago
Anonymous
damn, mentally ill dickripped lunatic going back to xis schizotroony narratives to try and argue xis troonycoffin game being shit
7 months ago
Anonymous
I'm going to need a translator for this
7 months ago
Anonymous
>literacy levels rapidly dropping
stop macrodosing HRT, dickripped troony-kun
then try reading again
7 months ago
Anonymous
Gwyn, one of the most iconic fights in ds1, is nothing but an input reading bat swing moron that chases you down. There's nothing impressive about the fight and it perfectly encapsulates the cognitive dissonance of perceived quality with fromsoft games versus actual good game design
>if anyone died to it theyre basically moronic >git gud
why does it need to be giga hard? It's fricking dark souls. The series is supposed to be about exploration in the first place. Or did you really sweat in the gwynn fight?
>why does it need to be giga hard? >it's not about git gud
>Looking back was it really that bad?
It is the best FROMSOFT game. So i guess it being like 10 years old is bad because everything after it that FROM made was meh.
it is funny that the dickripped moron bumps xis shitty thread when it gets to page 5+ by randomly replying to posts from hours ago
xhe genuinely thinks nobody notices the blatant bump and samegayging
I don't think the troony cares if people notice he's samegayging. Actually that's the goal because he knows mods can't ban his paid vpn shuffle for shitposting so he's basically announcing he's untouchable because he pays 10 buxks a month for Ganker premium
well i wouldn't say bad, considering everything was already bad, but things certainly did get worse. parents divorced and are no longer on speaking terms, family disconnected from me because of how my parents acted, my friend of 9 years shot himself, my grandmother died due to medical malpractice. But I'm still breathing, still have a roof over my head, and still have food on the table so I guess it hasn't been that bad in retrospect if I only account for myself.
I'm the titular ds2 defender and I'm crying tears of rage that I just woke up while the thread is ending.
No, it's not bad at all. Once you learn to enjoy the gameplay, which seems to be really hard for some, it's actually the best Souls game.
Literally just that. Don't complain about the gank enemies, don't complain about the sword swings feeling weightless, etc..
Once you like the way the game plays, it offers the absolute most and best content out of any Souls game. Best designed maps, visually interesting and most varied areas, the cooler armors and weapons (a lot of them with special attacks), dual wielding with full movesets and poweestancing, the most spells / miracles / pyromancies (and also the coolest), the most bosses so you actually get to use all this cool stuff. Best pvp as well even if I don't play it.
It's like finding a ps1 or PS2 game with janky gameplay BUT by sheer genius of the developers, it's so much better than the current games.
Not a single rebuttal I see. Look I can acknowledge it "feels weird" to play after DS1, but you can't deny it has the best and most content once you accept that
dark souls gays were just mad that theyre bad at video games with hindsight
you just need adaptability and its fine, a little clunky but thats it
the aesthetic of the game is better than dark souls1, 3 and elden ring combined so it makes up for it
its just too comfy to be a bad game
you should have a nice day for having such a terrible opinion, moron.
you got fricking owned by dark souls 2 of all things, its you who needs to have a nice day for the sake of your own families honour.
keep baiting for (you)s
prostitute
this is a complete downgrade and is a rip off compared to the first game and that one aged.
Slower+Uglier+Senseless=worst souls game
>cant have different builds to handle the challenge
>you must put points into this specific stat
What a piece of shit game.
low iq tard who cant comprehend problem solving
If your build involved dodgerolling everything, then of course it requires adaptability. Listen to what you're saying. It would be like your build revolving around heavy weapons, but you don't feel like you should have to level of strength to do it.
Ok you just said dump in this stat to beat this boss. But nothing about other builds. Maybe explain how other builds would handle this instead of gatekeeping other players.
>dismisses an entire game because of one stupid flaw that is easily fixed with a couple of points in ADP
waaaah :'(
well the rest of the game is mediocre so he isnt missing much lol
but that's not true, it does many things better than the sequels
maybe if you are a moron with bad taste, sure.
nah, it does basically nothing better
revamped inventory and more ring/weapon slots is the only thing that can be called an improvement the rest are meme dogshit that are basically worthless (like bonfire ascetics)
ure objectively wrong but i dont feel like arguing with a moron
bonfire ascetics are literal garbage that only ever gets used to grind mats and the Rotten 5 times for 1 mill soul memory
it is an anti-game mechanic people use so they skip most of the fricking game
>Want to play through the game facetanking everything
>WTF WHY DO I HAVE TO PUT POINTS IN HP???
I played half the game without a single point in Adaptability.
You just, well, adapt. The roll with invincible rolls is still there, but it's not as easy mode as the other games. If you want it to be a true invincibility button yeah you should level the stat, and this was a good choice because some Souls players limit themselves to a certain level cap to still have some challenge in the game.
If your cap is level 60, 80 or 120.. It's a tradeoff if you choose 40 int to add spells to your build, or 40 adp to dodge better. Neither is the right answer.
>the aesthetic of the game is better than dark souls1, 3 and elden ring
????????????????????????????????
wtf lmao
>????????????????????????????????
>wtf lmao
>Dark Souls 1
>Cannot change sex
>Dark Souls 2
>Can change sex
>Dark Souls 3
>Cannot change sex
>Dark Souls 3
>Cannot change sex
Besides the femboy ring, you can change sex if you go to the slug.
Rosaria does not change sex. Go try it for yourself.
Note also that Anri is tied to the player's gender.
>Dark Souls 1
This is a woman according to Dark Souls 2
>Bearded Lady is an expy of the Witch of Izalith, because Quelaag used a sword I guess?
>Old Iron King is an expy of Gwyn because fire I guess?
>Rotten is an expy of Nito, because they're both made up of bodies I guess?
>Freja is a spider, also there's a dragon that's an expy of Seath because dragon I guess?
Tanimura is just the most detestably moronic writer I have ever seen.
None of his picks for the bosses make any goddamn thematic or design sense whatsofricking ever.
Like, I'm pretty sure the designers literally said Nashandra was originally just a Nito inspired skeleton boss.
Why the frick didn't Tanimura use that boss as the surrogate Nito in his plot?
How moronic is he?
People defend this game and shit on DS3 for ""fanservice""".
like, Tanimura even fricked up the concept of repeating the big bosses from DS1
Gwyn was the final boss, he was not the big 4, he shouldn't be there
it should be a Four Kings expy instead of him, he even had Darklurker who could work as a surrogate Four Kings
but nah, it's Gwyn, cause he's glue huffing moron
like, you can't even argue that "Tanimura just wanted the 4 lords", because Seath was not a lord, yet there is a Seath expy in the form of a rando dragon
and the fricking Pygmy is missing an expy then too
>Dark Souls 1
>Cuts cool features that Demon's Souls had
>Dark Souls 2
>Includes a bunch of cool features.
>Dark Souls 3
>Cuts cool features that Dark Souls 2 had.
Do not bring DeS into this, troony. Climb in your coffin.
Just saiyan. That's what it boils down to.
One game has a troony coffin in it, just saiyan.
Being able to change your character's appearance is fun. Elden Ring expands on this with the magic mirror bringing you back to the full character creations options. That was a good addition.
There are better ways to do it, like the Soul Vessel is right there.
I think I kinda get you. Much as I enjoy all the games only ds2 felt like the world was breaking and reality was resetting. The ringed city managed to also make me feel this.
I love DS2 for the build variety, majula confyness, slow ass pvp and stupid fun boss fights like the mirror knight (as an invader) but FRICK NO it doesn't have better aesthetics than 3 in any shape or form. 3 is actually cohesive visually and 2 is mostly a mess made with borderline western-MMO-tier designs at times.
It's fun but not beautiful.
Meanwhile DS3...
soulless drab
debunked, refuted, rebuked
No,
Wrong.
its over
Why'd you use this screenshot to represent your point, this looks like shit anon. At least use something from Dreg Heap or Irithyl or something
I just like that place, feels comfy and lets you see a later area that you will physically walk to, something DS2 doesn't do in the slightest.
debunked
Wrong yet again.
>plasic film coated stone
DS3 was the beginning of the end for graphics.
Both games do that? Albeit the geography doesn't really make sense in either game (admittedly nothing in 3 is as bad as the Earthen Peak - Iron Keep transition in 2). I think it makes more sense in 3 but even then people went behind the scenes and it doesn't really add up. 1 probably had the most cohesive world.
You literally see Drangleic Castle, Heide's Tower of Flame, Forest of Fallen Giants, Shaded Woods, and Huntsmans Copes from Majula. Play the fricking game.
...as 2d sprites in the background instead of being physically there like in 3
youre coping now
Black person
i have been enlightened
I was just deboonking your claim; you can see heide's tower of flame from majula
>the aesthetic of the game is better than dark souls1,
Of all the stupid shit you could have typed you managed to type something even stupider.
>the aesthetic of the game is better than dark souls1
The entirety of DS2 doesn't hold a candle to Anor Londo. The only level on par with DS2 is the fricking Darkroot garden.
holy seethe
I recently completed DS2 100% and can confidentially say that the game is mediocre at best and you have no idea what you're talking about.
ADP is a meme don't need it, you didn't beat the game homosexual
>the aesthetic of everything being ugly and oversized is better
no
this
most of ds2's detractors are shitters that couldn't be bothered to take the 5 min to adjust to the slightly different timings and features of the game
ds2 has plenty of things about it you can criticize but when you hear people shit on it, 9 times out of 10, it's somebody who sucks too much to adapt to something only slightly different from the other games
if you Gankertards need more proof that ds2gays don't like the other fromsoftware games, this is it
Ds2 gay*
there's only one of them
Based
Notice how the ds2gay has to samegay his own post because nobody is taking his bait
Nta and I think ds2 is good
Seethe or whatever lol
you sound very upset, samegayging dickripped freak-kun
very easy to spot you, you dick ripped lunatic
have you gone to see a therapist anon?
this kind of deflection can't be healthy
>DS2troony: AIIEE I RIPPED MY WOUND OPEN AAAH
you are way too upset, dickripped freak-kun
DS2troony does that to bump xis shitty thread
Yes I know. He must have a Ganker pass or something and that's why mods allow him to have his tard containment threads
moron, there are almost 400 posts now, how do you identify a samegay?
it's the schizopost goto these days, been seeing it about 10x lately
>the aesthetic of the game is better than dark souls1, 3 and elden ring combined
Man I'd pay good money to see the kind of fit you'd consider stylish lmao
a burlap sack and dry pasty skin
this boss fight? yes. the game? it's overhated but deserves every bit of criticism it gets.
moron
Having to pour like 30 levels into a stat before a basic mechanic functions correctly is bad game design.
it's an arpeegee
and you only need like 18-25 if you want to focus on dodge rolling
its at this point i realized this game was only gonna get worse
you got owned
>first time rooms are completely flat with heavily tiled textures
>area boss is just 3 times the same model
this is the exact moment the game becomes slop
I guess you can say.
They didn't adapt.
Did people find this boss fight hard or something?
most people probably didnt invest in their character or weapons at this point
people with intelligence didnt struggle, but morons who just brute forced their way through got wrecked
My 1st playthrough I went there straight after Giant/Pursuer and got fricking wrecked
I tried bruteforcing it for quite a while until I went back to Majula and found the path to the heide's, I only beat the sentinels when I came back to bastille from no man's wharf
I did however succeed in bruteforcing the poison naga boss because I didn't know about the windmill and thought the poison pool was an intended mechanic and you had to keep lifegems up at all times
A lot of people did that fight really early and got fricked up on release.
No. DS2 is a kusoge so everything is shitty. It isn't hard it's shitty.
A lot of people are really bad at videogames. Is this news to you?
>smelter demon fight #51
>pursuer fight #3000
>mirror knight's only mechanic being completely skippable because of how fast it dies
>dude memba ornstein and quelaag?
>royal rat authority
>torch the metal part of a windmill lmao
>player npcs with inflated healthpools and damage that relied on being stunlocked
>health gems
>soul memory
>the awful fricking lighting
>rereleasing the game at full price with tiny changes instead of just updating it
probably more i missed but i havent touched the game in ages
>muh health gems
demons souls had the exact same mechanic with its healing grass and you tards all suck its dick nonstop
demon's souls didn't have estus AND lifegems
all of his complaints were correct, people are allowed to criticize your game
Nobody's saying you're not allowed to do anything you massive homosexual, why are you like this
This entire thread and every other Ds2 shitflinging thread show otherwise. Ds2 has (sadly) reached "cult" status now.
healing grass =/= life gems
life gems give you regen, you can pop like 3 of them and tank attacks and still end up with full hp, you can't do that in DeS, grass is instant
The effect only last for 10s. If you use 3 in a row, you would have to get hit immediately after for that to work.
you are just wrong, lmao
Prove it then.
Life gems are a non argument, stop getting hit by attacks you casual
>Life gems are a non argument
i didn't make the argument, explained why they aren't grass, moron
god what is it about Ds2 that makes people so idiotic? is it a mental illness thing?
The ds2 troony is probably one of the most prolific examples of a mentally ill poster on Ganker and the most likely one you will encounter
>grass is instant
It sure is
samegay
Ignoring all your other stupid statements, the part of the windmill you burn is fricking wooden.
I'm a 2gay and I agree that most of anon's complaints are moronic (especially the member one considering he's likely a 3cel) but the whole windmill thing was profoundly unintuitive. The game has barely incentivized the use of torches up until this point and even then you've never been able to use it for anything more than lighting sconces.
>smelter demon fight #51
not a problem?
>pursuer fight #3000
not a problem???
>mirror knight's only mechanic being completely skippable because of how fast it dies
okay we get it you're a pro gamer dude
>dude memba ornstein and quelaag?
what's wrong with saving resources?
>royal rat authority
fair
>torch the metal part of a windmill lmao
i thought you were a pro gamer, you couldn't beat snake b***h with the poison?
>player npcs with inflated healthpools and damage that relied on being stunlocked
I don't understand
>health gems
Life gems
>soul memory
fromsoft does not do good co-op or pvp
>the awful fricking lighting
and?
>rereleasing the game at full price with tiny changes instead of just updating it
which they did for PS3 and Xbox360?
"HUUH? WUHHHH? WHAT DO YOU MEAN" is not an argument
It baffles me that people actually had trouble with Royal Rat Authority. Just one-shot the rats and after that it's just a 5/10 fight with an awesome theme that sounds like something straight out of 300
wait people are mad at it because they died?
I though it was because its a very boring and easy """boss"""
I see lots of people complain about the first part of the fight where you have to deal with the petrifying rats.
Or maybe they inflict toxic instead of petrification I forgot
its been a while, but im pretty sure they petrify, but it was never an issue for me because by that point in the game you should be able to one shot them
played 2 days ago; it's toxic but it's still like one greatsword swing and they're all dead so who cares
demon fight #51
you only fight them twice
fight #3000
he pursues you duh
knight's only mechanic being completely skippable because of how fast it dies
pic related and ds3 copied it
>>dude memba ornstein and quelaag?
ds3 has TWO orsteins
rat authority
git gud Black person
the metal part of a windmill lmao
being a metal part is irrelevant
npcs with inflated healthpools and damage that relied on being stunlocked
guess your ds2 npcs were different from mine
gems
irrelevant
>>soul memory
irrelevant
>>the awful fricking lighting
???
the game at full price with tiny changes instead of just updating it
the price complaint is fair but not my fault the japs are israelites
wrong pic
>ds3 has TWO ornsteins
and it has the corpse of Quelanna in the demon ruins.
There's quite literally too many 'members in 3 to count
Yeah, even if people didn't really like it, at least 2 did its own thing, yet added to the story of 1.
yes, the game is that bad, no matter how many shitty bait threads you make, dickripped schizotroony
>mentally ill dickripped DS2troony still spouting the same buzzwords
reminder, only festering stinkditch DS2trannies say this shit
troony coffin game is the shit tier memberberry game only secondaries gay over
3 is the actual direct sequel to the first game that concludes everything in it
stay mad, stay rotting
You've no idea what buzzwords are.
you have no idea what a woman is, dickripped lunatic-kun, yet here we are in another one of your shitty troony coffin game threads
stay mad, stay rotting
I assure you I still have a working penis that I use every day with testes that still work and produce the semen you suck out of it.
I like putting my dick into women with veganas though
mindbroken
>DS2troony ripping xis stinkditch in tears
stay mad, stay rotting
Nice signature homosexual.
>DS2troony staying mad, and staying rotting
🙂
Come up with some new words besides "dickripped", "stinkditch", and "stay mad, stay rotting", you're getting stale.
>DS2troony upset at being accurately described as a dickripped lunatic with a festering stinkditch
stay mad, stay rotting
🙂
>Windmill
What the frick is this. I just googled it and you were supposed to light that shit on fire, making the fight mind-numbingly easy? Fricking christ I even got the PLATINUM TROPHY WHAT THE FRICK IS THIS?
In SotFS they added a summon next to it that will point to it. Did you also not read any messages left by players?
most of them led me to my demise, so I kind of ignore them?
How the frick did you plat the game?
With sheer force of will and determination? I also re-played it like 13 times in a row
Don't forget the animation cancelling red phantoms.
Genuinely detested this, and how obvious it was.
They really couldn't think of a way to make them more threatening than by breaking their animations?
you dont actually need to burn the windmill.
>IS THAT... MORE THAN ONE ENEMY AT ONCE?!??!?! Noooooooooooo now I can't just circle around him MTSUBISHI-SAMA SAVE M-
Great theme.
Still can't believe that's a Kitamura theme. Its use of brass and tinny sounds reminds me a lot of Sakuraba tracks like Iron Golem where he'd actually try to make tracks which complement the boss itself. I guess the stringslop didn't get really bad till after the success of Sir Alonne's theme.
I agree to an extent, I feel like they were trying to one-up sir Allone after that, especially with Gael's theme.
I just recently replayed it on a journey to 100%. Yes, its arguably even worse than people say. The repeated textures, the constant gank fights, the slow as mud combat. I could be here all day thinking of all the problems I saw going through it, but every DS2 defender in these threads just make disingenuous arguments to troll so im not going to.
>the constant gank fights,
this post reeks of casual
As if to prove my point. You boys always have perfect timing.
You're just bad and mad
Without fail people who criticize ds2 just dont know how to play it
Ceci n'est pas une argument
>gank fights
kek can't make this shit up
Where are the shadows? Why are the textures so flat? Why is the whole environment so bland? How can DS2gays claim this dogshit is good with a straight face?
Yes. Iron Keep location failure still gets me whenever I remember it so it was worth it. Fume Knight and Sir Alonne were legit kino. Also hate that you have to go to Ng++ to buy last thingy for platinum but at least you can skip a lot of content.
On release yes. After 3 was just a greatest hits rehash, I can at least respect 2 for *trying* to be good.
I think the biggest insult with Dark Souls III and to an extent Elden Ring is how many of Dark Souls II's good ideas were ignored.
I've played all the Souls games and they're all pretty much the same. The fanboy bullshit between them is irritating. Each game has high points and low points.
Yeah I wanted to see the lighting system evolve to try and do what DS2 largely failed at implementing outside a couple areas. It would have been perfect for Elden Ring especially because most of the cave-type dungeons are so fricking dark you literally need a torch/lantern to see anything at all, so having dynamic shadows would have gone a long way towards enhancing the atmosphere.
Elden Ring also brought back powerstancing, but only in a limited fashion because it has to be the same weapon type, which is lame. AND WHERE THE FRICK IS MY BONE FIST MIYAZAKI?
This is how I view DaS2
It's as close to objectively worse as possible, but I'd rather replay it over DaS3 because it TRIED
Granted, I'd rather play any and every other Souls over either of them, but point stands.
>I can at least respect 2 for *trying* to be good.
How can anyone say this with a straight face about a game that has fricking Iron Keep in it. Super Mario level design with platforms and copy-pasted katana knights everywhere.
it's DS2troony pushing his made up shit while ripping xis dick about DS3
Not with summons.
Its the best soulsclone
I didn't mind these guys. Only the ones in drangleic, that area fricking sucks for fighting them.
>me waiting for DS2 defenders to make a genuine argument
>>me waiting for DS2 defenders to make a genuine argument
They're literally all the fricking same.
I like it best.
That's all you get. That's all you need.
Currently doing a 100% run and enjoying it, it's my favorite of the 3 after revisiting it again and playing it as a regular RPG, rather than some naked-fast roll claymore only gauntlet.
the only thing i remember from this game are the terrible full body attack hitboxes on certain enemies and the starting of the fromsoft trend of enemies having 360° degree tracking attacks
also these silly guys in dragon shrine place who had like half a second of a break between their insanely long combos
this is the only real problem with ds2, the hitboxes were made by an actual fricking moron
There is only 1 of this guy and he dies 8n 2-3 hits. Stop bring a baby and just slap him. The hreatshield one is far more annoying, but most babies don't even find him
But this guy stops doing his combo as soon as you get behind him.
FILTERED! GIT GOOD!
Game doesnt deserve half of the hate it gets. Especially when ds1's quality just drops off after o&s. Ds2 stayed pretty solid the whole way through.
Whats up with the sounds mixing in this game, even after bumping up music, the boss music sounds like its in the background, like the equivalent of elevator music or something.
Dragon Aerie is one of the dopest areas in all these games, shame its stuck in the worst game.
Not really, no. I like that unlike most other three homies fights you can usually manage to make it a 1v1 + 1v2.
DS2 thread bingo
reddit is down the hall and to the left
>Appeal to Money
You just need ad hominem and all the DS2 lovers are btfo
You being bad at a video game is not an argument as to why its bad
>reply to a post about only having ad hominem attacks with an ad hominem
You guys are on another level lmao
no, you just used a logical fallacy and i debunked you, sorry pseud
snopes has approved of my judgement, chud
im calling snopes right fricking now
Back when I learnt about adapt in ds2 I thought "wow people should like this one more then! since the rolling and iframes are way harder to land!" Turns out barely anyone played the game.
>way harder to land
That sounds good on paper but with low adp you will take damage from attacks you clearly roll out of.
imo It never felt that worse than ds1 did for me. As long as you also adapt to the new timings I never touched adapt in game before my 4th playthrough. But its not like people were really playing ds1 and 2 like that back then, 90% of players were just swordnboard'ing and tanking hits with heavy sets.
adaptability was just really poorly implemented, it is a cool idea but they should have actually made you roll faster or something, instead you just magically take no damage where you would ordinarily
extremely jarring and clunky gameplay
This is incorrect and you're just a blind moron confused by the delayed lock of a grab animation
>rolling and iframes are way harder to land
Nah just tied to a goofy stat instead of how burdened your character is. Maxed out you could get DS1 fastroll tier invincibility frames on any roll
yeah but why waste points on it was my thought just adapt irl and put points into damage.
no because I spammed poison knifes because frick all the gank bosses it had
I'm sure 90% of the bosses in 2 are shit and the only good/ cool ones are Velstadt, Alonne,, Ivory King. and Fume Knight.
it has boss inflation, theres too many shit ones so you dont remember the good ones
Exactly, and it's one of the many faults of 2. Still, I like the game.
I think I would have preferred Pursuer just being a normal enemy instead of a boss fight in Forest of Fallen Giants. That first encounter is so fricking cool.
Foreskin Frog is definitely a unique design, but yeah, it's not a very good fight. Was going to say it may as well be on-par with Covetous Demon, but it's not that bad.
I would argue Pursuer too, he has a really cool design and moveset. Unfortunately walking to the right makes him useless.
I wouldn't say it's a "good" fight, but I still really like Demon of Song based on design alone.
Gnarly theme too
Sinh, Pursuer, Mirror Knight, Smelty, Elana, Ava, and Ruin Sentinels are good too tbh
It is a pretty good track.
>we'll never get any tracks with experimental instrumentation and fitting vocals again
>it's all bombastic jap orchestral from here on out
Elden Ring literally had like 2 memorable tracks and one of them wasn't even a Kitamura theme
>shitty diala JRPG composer's middling DS2 score
>""""experimental"""
lol
lmao even
DS2roons final cope is claiming the game was just one big experiment and it existing at all makes it all worth it.
They are downright delusional in their copes.
Unironically yes. Look up what catfishing is, it is very common in the trans community as a learned tactic because being themselves never works.
>Unironically yes. Look up what catfishing is, it is very common in the trans community as a learned tactic because being themselves never works.
Can you explain how catfishing is even remotely in the same dimension as this discussion?
What % of people even know about this coffin?
Its like 0.0001% of the game and is only there if the player decides they want to change their character.
They are tricking people into playing the game under false pretenses. That is catfishing because the desire to do so is rooted in their own sexual worldview.
> is only there if the player decides they want to change their character.
In your hubris you went too far with the lies. It is the one gender changing option in the game that is not told to the player and they learn about it after the fact. That is integral to why this is catfishing and why other games having gender switching options aren't actually being malicious.
You aren't smart enough to debate on this topic.
This is actual mental illness and you need to stop browsing pol for the sake of your own mind.
Please go outside.
It doesn't sound mentally ill. He explained it pretty airtight.
A fricking coffin in a video game that allows you to change the gender of your fictious character is somehow a malicious trap set up by the troony israelites or something
Not particularly coherent
This. It isn't like we don't have threads on all boards made by trans anons using a man pretending to be a woman as the OP image all the time or anything.
This exact type of catfishing is known and actively displayed by the shittier elements of the website already.
It is very coherent you are acting like you don't know any of the surrounding factors to the coffin in relation to Ganker and anons specifically.
>don't know any of the surrounding factors to the coffin
please elaborate, i genuinely dont
it just lets you change your characters gender, thats it
>it just lets you change your characters gender, thats it
>it just lets you transition bro
>it has nothing to do with trannies, why you letting them live rent free in your head bro
just have a nice day
its a fricking video game you freak lmao
and we're just calling a spade a spade, why are you defending the trannies anyways? i think we know why
it has nothing to do with trannies, its not real, its not about becoming a demented delusional hormonally fricked up mutilated freak
its just about changing the gender of your fictional character
>its not about becoming a demented delusional hormonally fricked up mutilated freak
>its just about changing the gender of your fictional character
sigh, you're obsession with Ds2 has you minimizing the issue, the fact that you wrote these 2 sentences back to back is worrisome
Explain to me how customizing your character in a video game is an actual problem i should care about
you're the one who brought it up, not the OP or me
if anything, you're psyopping yourself
>Explain to me how customizing your character in a video game is an actual problem
it's not, normalizing transitioning is the problem, nobody cares if you make a male or female character from the start
its not about actual trannies, its magic that lets you reverse a decision you made
there is no real life parallel
>its not about actual trannies, its magic
literally have a nice day, i refuse to believe you cope this hard for Ds2 and aren't a troony
>Explain to me how customizing your character
that's not what the troony coffin does, HRT rotted troon
the fact that you tried to reframe the argument into this exposes your homosexualry quite sharply though
that yes, in fact you are a dickripped DS2troony that is mad that people make fun of your troony coffin fantasy
stay mad stay rotting
incoherent babble
not an argument
massive stretch, not based in a level headed assessment of the thread
you just derailed it to discuss something totally irrelevant
>not an argument
not arguing, i'm TELLING you to have a nice day
non est argumentum
>I can't read
then take less HRT, dickripped schizo-kun
stay mad:)
stay rotting:*~~
>massive stretch
>not being a newbie is a stretch
es ist kein argument
I didn't bring it up. DS2 threads on Ganker are like this, making the thread is asking for the discussion.
No one talks about DS2 in an earnest manner outside of this purview. DS2 is bad, it is terrible. People don't actually make threads to talk about it. It is always an agitprop thread by a trooncord.
If you want to talk about DS2 I'll just post about the broken healing economy, the deadzones in the controls, the shitty derivative boring enemies, the disjointed world, the way the sequel largely wrote DS2 out of the canon outside of fashion metawinks to the franchise.
>DS2troony very upset at xis troonycoffin fantasy being made fun of
imagine being this mentally dominated, dickripped lunatic-kun
stay malding, stay balding
It is already in the same post I replied to you in. Trans discords already make threads, on all boards, where they use a troony as the OP image then spam images saying hot or whatever. People constantly point out
>thats a man
and the thread dies. It is already a known gimmick that these trans types engage in. Daily. Hourly.
The theory for this game is just the same behavior but as a long con. A longer con has a larger payoff.
Sitting over top this entire back and forth is the knowledge that THE GAME IS BAD. The game being very bad in actuality is why the theory exists. You shitters can't possibly be real trying to get people to play this shit because you think it is good. Anon just found out the lynchpin and it is the gender swap coffin.
I know, but discussing ds2 has nothing to do with that at all, you're the one who brought up the coffin
No one who isnt mentally ill cares
>but discussing ds2 has nothing to do with that at all
Except the discussion is about the gender swap coffin in ds2
>This exact type of catfishing is known and actively displayed by the shittier elements of the website already.
This is why I believe it.
poor guy loves the Souls games so much too, kek
that's why he ended up voicing Pate in DS2
and he ended up advertising the troony coffin
>What % of people even know about this coffin?
lmao it's literally one of the things mentioned in a promo gameplay video by Peter Serafinowicz
most people know about the troony coffin
It's not, he's just mentally ill. It's kind of funny how something as petty as a video game can get people so bent out of shape.
I seriously hope these people are trolling
Isn't Sakuraba the guy people make fun of for bashing the synth keyboard randomly for 'Tales of' boss tracks?
Yeah it really needed more operatic singing and frantic strings huh
nah, it needed less HOO HOH HOO OH HOH
HOO HOH HOO OH HOH
HOO HOH HOO OH HOH
HUH HOH HUH HOH HAAAAAAAAAH
Kino.
Majula is the only reckonizable theme in DS2. Just shows how they dropped the ball in every department compared to its predecessors.
Majula theme is fricking garbage too
It's like menu music from a Layton game
Firekeepers was a way better home base track, I even prefer it to DS1's Firelink track, but of course homosexual Tanimura pick the shitty track for the home base music
Dont forget what consoletards took from you
I've been playing through the series again after Elden Ring. The first DaS is still great, and I came out of it with a newfound appreciation in spite of it's jank. I'm still disappointed with DaS2, even more so now that I have a new perspective on how it got rushed and reorganized during development. It felt like a slog from beginning to end, the hitboxes are fricked, and having to dump your first 10-20 levels in ADP just to make your dodge rolls functional is dogshit. I'll be starting DaS3 again today.
SotFS or vanilla DS2?
I played vanilla when it first came out, this time was SOTFS since vanilla isn't available on the Xbox store. Not a fan of the new arrangements favoring larger groups when every little hit slows you down like a hand grabbing at your ankles.
Man, just overlevel by a little bit. I always play these games with the intention of building my dude into the Dark Souls boss. The only DS game that doesn't really allow this is DS3. Ergo, DS3 is the worst one in the series.
>inb4 ur a DS2gay
Nah, I like DS1 and ER more, but DS3 is just so fricking bad, idk why DS2 gets the shit instead
>DS3 is just so fricking bad, idk why DS2 gets the shit instead
Cus the vast majority of Gankerirgins are zoomers who started with 3
DaS III is almost desperately shat on for reasons not so different than how the Shazam trannies compare Elden Ring to a standard of game that litterally doesn't exist to make it dogshit.
Overall, my biggest gripe with DaS III is its choice of color pallet which I truly believe is the main reason people don't like the game. Color is important to psychology and the perpetual brown bloom even made me feel a bit "drab" with the game unlike other souls games.
Otherwise it's other sins are minor out of any other souls games. It's shit PVP started in BB. It's downgraded magic system/Duel wielding was born out of the devs rejecting the improvements from DaS II because it wasn't from the same team.
It's linear level design is only an issue if one takes the artificial cultural carryover of making a new character every run from DaS, the one installment aside from DeS that doesn't have a level reset option.
3 is my least favorite but even though the drab color palette does wear out its welcome rather quickly it does convey the state of a world where quite literally every flicker of life and color has been wrung dry
Having said that I wish they'd've gone all-out crazy. Even the Dreg Heap- far and away 3's most aesthetically evocative area- pales in comparison to what we could have gotten
Really? I fall in that category and I frickin hated it. Elden Ring really roped me in instead, and I enjoyed DS1 and 2. But no matter how much I try, I can't enjoy DS3. Might come back to cheese it some day, not likely tho
KEK
KEKL even!
its over
Good ol' ds2sisters ignoring this.
DS3folx... whats our response?
Isn't there a meme about the inferiority complex with ds3?
Ds3 troons been real quiet since this post dropped.
>DS2troony malding that xis fail at a gotcha was ignored
dickripped lunatic is so mad, kek
stay mad, stay rotting
Its called roleplaying, not actually trooning out.
why the frick is this in the game? it frick ups the face you spent several hours working on in the editor
of all the complaints I don't get the ones about adaptability. Can you REALLY not play if you don't have half a second of invincibility every time you press circle? The explorer class starts with 0.3 seconds of iframes
Yeah, you can. You either use a shield or learn to roll.
I liked DS3 level design and artstyle way more than DS2 which puts it way above 2, otherwise they are the same game.
DS3 also had the most moronic obscure npc quests out of all the games that basically forced you to look up a wiki walktrough because you'd have to locate Mackie Mchomosexual who decided to warp to some random hole in the ground in an area you already visited ten hours ago without a word and required you to talk to him there before you could progress on your current zone or he'd permadie because LORE
Shit like that is my one true fault for Soulsbourne games, the fricking goofy NPC quests that require wikis. I'm all for exploration, but it never makes any sense to have you backtrack to areas you've been through before for no reason.
More on this - I still haven't ever done Sirris' questline in DS3, look at this shit
https://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Sirris+of+the+Sunless+Realms
>go back to a bridge you never have any reason to go back on
>need a hidden item from a completely unrelated area
>need to return to one of the first boss arenas in the game, AFTER beating one of the near end-game bosses
>only in-game hint being an item that can be bought from the firelink maiden, who at that point in the game you'd never visit anyway
Sounds like your brain doesn't work.
I can't imagine anyone completing some of these NPC quests in DS3 or Elden Ring organically without guides. Unless you're autistically combing every square inch after any kind of in game event, how could you possibly know how to progress some of these quests? There are some in game hints sure, but even those are either on seemingly unrelated item descriptions or still too vague to be considered a hint.
That's nice darling.
>That's nice darling.
Don't need any pictures of you I already know what you types are like
>Don't need any pictures of you I already know what you types are like
>t. followed wiki for all quests
if your criticism about a game is “unfairness”, most commonly with ds2 criers due to roll changes, you’re just bad.
Most people won't even play the game because it is known as "the troon game."
If the problem is that they're a trio then no. If the problem is anything else I don't remember what is was
Played through it again a few days ago, it wasn't bad, the issue is that you can get there early enough it's massive difficulty spike and people might not have started upgrading their weapons yet. I got blown out of the water the first time and beat it the moment I upgraded my rapier a little.
Dark Souls 2? Yeah, it was fricking terrible and DaS2gays are mentally ill.
>Dark Souls 2? Yeah, it was fricking terrible and DaS2gays are mentally ill.
Yes.
No actually, I think it was worse
People here legit finished this game while also claiming to hate it. Why?
gank fights are so horrible in this game. and there's tons of them too.
>mfw there will no DS2-2 ever
I've platinum'd the whole Souls trilogy.
Still haven't touched DS2 because of what I've heard about it.
yes
Yes, I genuinely to this day there are unironic, non-trolling defenders of DaS2, the shitty sound design, artstyle, lore, music, and ESPECIALLY FRICKING LEVEL DESIGN is awful, there is really nothing good about it, anyone saying "*SNOOORT* its not a bad game... its just a bad dark souls game" either is someone that just parrots youtuber opinions, it's a bad game period.
It's trans folx trying to trick people into playing it because of
That is literally the only reason. If it was just ironic shit the threads would be on the same frequency as YIIK threads. They persist as they do because it isn't just ironic, it is idealogical.
Everyone knows the game is terrible on virtually all fronts. There is no reason to keep doing this for this long outside of it being something aligning with your world view. That is the gender swap coffin moment.
Bingo
Yep. This is the part of the troon narrative where they claim the game was loved on release and the hate is retroactive.
It isn't.
yeah, DS2 was universally considered to be dog shit by fans
I am just asking if this boss in particular was hated
Don't schizo out on me
literal schizophrenia
you really think the gender change coffin is the reason people like this game?
LMAO
No troons, hate the game because B team memes them that troons go 41% to the coffin.
How does one samegay bump their own thread so prolifically but not get banned? Do I need to buy a Ganker pass?
ip count still going up
I've never used a VPN but isn't it really easy to change your IP with one? Literally one click to randomize your IP?
I don't use vpns but I'm sure with the free ones you get tagged for it and issued a short ban
Yeah that's why OP, the ds2gay, pays for a VPN
so you're just going to pretend that everyone who doesn't agree with you is samegayging, no matter what?
I don't use a VPN. Also have a nice day you dumb troon. If you don't like the game go post in another thread.
paid ones bypass samegay filter on Ganker
>mentally ill dickripped lunatic pretends he doesn't samegay
you post the same shit over and over every time, you brainrotted troony homosexual
stay mad, stay rotting
>you post the same shit over and over every time
I have posted something like that maybe twice in my entire life
maybe, just maybe you see it everywhere because it's obvious that you have a mental problem?
Hello ds2gay, trying to gaslight somebody again you troony?
KYS DISHONEST DS2troony, YOU LITERALLY POST THE SAME SHIT EVERY SINGLE FRICKING TIME
SLIT YOUR THROAT
>DS2troony: "I-I-I d-don't samegay AAIEE I RIPPED MY WOUND OPEN IT IS KILLING ME AAA"
stay mad, stay rotting
>stay mad, stay rotting
how many times a week do you post this?
???
Take a look at the disc before you buy it then I guess, but not everyone treats a disk like a toddler so you should be fine
i am making fun of the game morono grande
>DS2troony reduced to mocking xirself to prop up shitty game with dogshit generic identityless artstyle
kek
I loved the magic system of it. But the rest was trash compared to DS1.
no? did people hate this when the game came out?
reminder that anyone who played SotFS instead of the OG DS2 is a tertiary zoomie whose opinion can be safely ignored
polcels really do the wildest mental gymnastics to make everything they don't like connect to trannies, huh
>DS2troony dilating about /misc/ for no reason
dickripped discordxister is having a bad time kek
stay mad stay rotting
why do you just say the same thing over and over again?
There is ONE (1) good boss in all of Dark Souls 2
It is cool, but using melee against it fricking sucks.
>jump fly away
>jump fly away
>jump fly away
>dive attack
>WEAPON AT RISK!
Nah, for my money it's gotta be Fume Knight
>semi-bullet hell with HUGE "dodge this" attacks
Nah, for my money it's gotta be Sir Alonne.
I'll give you that, Sir Alonne is good it's just the shitty runback that I hate.
fume knight stunk, alonne was better
my man!
The only reason Fume Knight sucks is because of the bad hitboxes on most of his moves. Alonne is still good and fun.
After getting the blacksmith's hammer, no.
No.
The gender coffin was one of my favourite parts of the gameplay, i guess staying still for 30 seconds was too difficult for Gankerbabies lmao
>30 seconds
Maybe on the first game, but the gender coffin is pretty much instantaneous.
I have the original Dark Souls 2 instead of Scholar of The First Sin edition. What will I miss?
It underdelivered on some lighting stuff and it didn’t feel as fresh or magical as Dark Souls 1 did the first time round.
But these games thrive on being “hard” in a way that really isn’t so hard if you keep your wits about you and figure stuff out, and that keeps you interested to see what’s coming next. It still had that.
Also graphics in that stupid forest.
Seeing ds2gays and ds3gays fight is funny because the series lost its way after ds1. You both are moronic.
Isn't there a pasta about bringing up dark souls 3 randomly in dark souls 2 cope threads?
>DS2troony knowing that xhe lost the argument reverts to samegayging a DS1 fan, to try muh both sides the argument after DS2trannies were exposed as mentally ill dickripped lunatics
nope, samegayging failed
stay mad, stay rotting
This game sucks compared to any Souls game. Still one of my favorite games of all time.
10/10, I fricking hate it.
god i'm so glad i'm not a Ds2 gay, i would probably have to kill myself if i was, can you imagine not only liking Ds2 but thinking it's the best game FROMSLOP has ever made? i would kill myself
>god i'm so glad i'm not a Ds2 gay, i would probably have to kill myself if i was, can you imagine not only liking Ds2 but thinking it's the best game FROMSLOP has ever made? i would kill myself
>DS2troony goes back to mocking xirself to cope after yet another failthread
staying mad and rotting I see:)
yep that's exactly what i typed, i don't know why you showed me a bunch of troon shit saved on your computer though
>yep that's exactly what i typed, i don't know why you showed me a bunch of troon shit saved on your computer though
seriously why do you have so many troons pics to (you) me with?
>seriously why do you have so many troons pics to (you) me with?
not an argument
hayi ingxabano
The other day I did a stupid low SL run for "PvP" purposes
>start the game as knight
>avoid killing anything until I get the agape ring
>go back to majula and jump down the hole
>force my way to The Rotten
>killed him once for the souls
>killed him again with the agape ring equiped
>turn his soul into the Crypt Greatsword (The Nougat Cream-Pop according to my brother)
>invade like crazy in the forest of giants
I felt pretty fricking evil
People with good taste prefer 2.
what a shit thread
it was fine. It went to shit when the discord-gays arrived
I mean, Majula has a lot of souls laying around. He's not wrong lol
2 was the best in terms of atmosphere, story, gameplay. Even the people who "hate" it will tell you Majula has more soul than any other of the hubs
>Majula has more soul than any other of the hubs
wrong
>DS2troony copes via hyperbole
shit game is shit
stay madstay rotting
It was played more than the original and everyone loved it.
The ds1 pve tryhards that got their ass handed to them have been seething ever since. They even pretended to like ds3 out of sheer spite. Just like morrogays did with skyrim
Its so nuts to me the level of power creep thinking back
It used to be that bosses like Artorias and Fume Knight being the worst of it
Now we have Malenia and its barely a contest and with the dlc coming up its gonna have something even worse than her
That's what hit me not long ago when I was replaying DS1, Kalameet and Artorias were the defacto super hard boss, with some people never beating them and they are just so easy compared to the bosses in the later games. Now in Elden Ring every boss has some goofy ass omega attack or a super delayed move just because. When you go back to the older games it's almost comfy how simple the bosses are with their couple of moves.
Artorias feels great to fight, because all of his attacks are clearly telegraphed. So when you learn them, you can replicate the result. Only demanding enough reaction time to keep you on your toes.
All the latter bosses feels like shit. Due to bad telegraphing. Even deceptive telegraphing by reading the player's inputs and altering the timing of their moves. They also have too much RNG, so attacks can just come out of nowhere. And the reaction timing required is way too damn high. It just doesn't feel good to play.
Malenia is the worst offender. Waterfowl(the 1000 slash super attack) is way to random and unreadable. You just have to mash dodges until you stumble into the right dodge pattern through sheer blind trial and error.
She can wake up from hit stun and attack you before your attack animation is done. Making reaction time not only too fast, but physically impossible. Because she's faster that the game's own attack frames. She just unfun.
The games feel like they were factoring in everyone playing all of them and incrementally getting better so they have to up their ante but it went overboard fast. ER is the most current souls game and Radagon is the best fight because he feels like a balanced but hard old style boss fight. Everything else was weird.
By the time I got to Radagon, I was already using Mimic Tear, and so I completely rolled him first try. I probably wouldn't have used Mimic Tear near the end, if I didn't find many fights to be bullshit. But I was just so done with them. It's the exploration that mattered to me. Not the crappy boss fights.
just what the frick is going on around here? is Ganker really this bad at videogames now? even my older brother was talking about how tiring it was that elden ring was so difficult, and we've both been playing since demon's souls, hell, he was the one who introduced me to it. is this really the fate of all old gamers?
Fromsoft just sucks at making games, something the ds2 schizo that makes these threads uses to bait people into talking to him about his troony fanfiction
Elden Ring would be hard if the game didn't give the casuals massive crutches, Bleed being the biggest one.
Mimic tear + Rivers of blood enjoyer reporting in. Assblasted the late game and had a lot of fun doing so. Shame I did not beat it at level 1 with fists only like you did. What's it like drowning in pussy?
Let me break it down for you.
Die while having fun = keep trying.
Die while not having fun = mimic tear.
After completing about 75% of the game solo, multiple bosses have proven to be unfun. So I stopped giving them the benefit of the doubt, and just went with mimic tear every time.
It's not that I can't beat the game solo. It's that the boss design is bad now.
>It's not that I can't beat the game solo. It's that the boss design is bad now.
This reads like massive cope. It feels like everybody says this but cannot articulate WHY the boss design is apparently bad. The only boss design that was objectively bad was any fights where you had more than one boss before they fixed them in a patch.
I've already articulated why they're bad in a previous post.
Excessive input reading
Unclear telegraphs
Trick timings
Too much RNG
Too much spam
Also, they keep making giant bosses, without giving us a camera to accommodate them.
Like, I respect Hollow Knight a ton. Because their bosses are all so tight, that learning them feels really good. Every boss fight in HK feels like learning Artorias for the first time. It's amazing.
All boss except one: Zote. Fighting Zote feels HORRIBLE. For all of the reasons I said above.
Unclear telegraphs
Trick timings
Too much RNG
Too much spam
And his boss arena scrolls, so he can do stuff off camera that you can't see.
It's the worse fight in the game. Awful. Imagine a whole game of Zote Bosses. That's Elden Ring.
>excessive input reading
Never had this issue.
>Unclear telegraphs
Never had this issue.
>Trick timings
This is a good thing and makes dodging certain attacks more fun and satisfying to pull off once you get them down.
>Too much RNG
Never had this issue.
>Too much spam
Never had this issue.
>Also, they keep making giant bosses
Gonna assume you're talking primarily about Fire Giant, and I'm gonna say that I never had this issue since I don't have a problem controlling the camera to keep him in view, same with any other bigger than average boss.
>Gonna assume you're talking primarily about Fire Giant
Actually no. He's the one giant boss that I didn't mind the camera too much. Probably because I got to ride Torrent.
>This is a good thing and makes dodging certain attacks more fun and satisfying to pull off once you get them down.
Eh, in theory. It's pattern breaking, so it feels less satisfying to me, even if it creates more variety.
>Never had this issue.
>Never had this issue.
>Never had this issue.
>Never had this issue.
Well I never expected you to see what I mean. It would require that you actually care in the first place, which you don't. You're like those people who live with their smoke detector chirping. You don't care, so it doesn't bother you, despite the fact that you're experiencing it.
For me to care, it would have to affect me negatively. It doesn't. Not sure what you want me to do about it, the problems you had were never a problem for me.
oh yeah, I forgot to say, the biggest offender of the giant boss camera issue, are the Ulcerated Tree Spirits. The way they fill up the screen and wriggle around makes it difficult to see what they're about to do. And it has that one attack where it wriggles away to your blind spot, and then lunges off the wall to eat you up. It's pretty much designed to exploit your inability to see it properly.
Well you not feeling negative, is separate from you not being affected.
I could smear shit on your face. Most people would feel negative about it. But if you have a scat fetish, then you might get turned on. That doesn't make smearing shit on people ok.
You're still acting on the assumption that you're objectively right and not just shit at the game. I'm not shit at the game, so I didn't have the same problems you did. I can't help you anon, sorry.
I have no way of knowing if you actually died less than I have, or struggled less than I have. I only know that you don't feel negatively about your experience.
Can you actually *prove* you're better than me at the game?
For that matter: does our skill disparity, whatever it may be, matter? Even if I'm a little better or worse than you, I would still argue that the game should be designed with a general skill range in mind. And that if someone is either below that range or above that range, that their perceptions of the game design will be biased by an abnormally easy or difficult experience.
If you felt the need to play the game with Mimic Tear, and I touched the Spirit Ash system a handful of times near the beginning of the game and never again, I'd say that's a pretty good indicator of the difference in our skill levels.
And yes, I'd say the skill disparity matters, because if you're of a lower skill level, you might find certain things more difficult or frustrating, which is fine. The problem arises when you start to think that this is an issue with the game's design, rather than an issue with your skill level. The Spirit Ash system was made specifically to bridge this gap in skill.
>If you felt the need to play the game with Mimic Tear
But that's the thing. It was not a *need*. I beat every previous Souls game solo. I beat about 75% of Elden Ring solo. I could have finished the rest of it solo. The only thing that was filtered was my patience with a crappy design. Patience that had been strained since as far back as Dark Souls 2 when I first noticed them employing these shitty aspects in their design. Dark Souls 3 has no replay value to me for these reasons. The exploration is shite, and the bosses feel bad.
I didn't even know how to use spirit ashes until late in the game. I somehow overlooked the tutorial, and decided it wasn't worth bothering with. Not until I needed to summon the jellyfish for that side quest, I finally looked up how it was done. That's all the way in the snow area. So pretty late in the game.
I didn't NEED mimic tear to get that far, and I didn't NEED mimic tear to beat the remainder of the game. I was just sick of the crappy boss design.
>And yes, I'd say the skill disparity matters, because if you're of a lower skill level, you might find certain things more difficult or frustrating, which is fine.
You can't prove you're better than me. From my perspective, we have a tolerance disparity. You're able to tolerate bullshit, because you've deluded yourself that beating these crappily designed bosses is an accomplishment.
From my perspective, we have a skill disparity. Your pride makes you delude yourself into thinking that the problem is the boss design and that I'm just more tolerant of bullshit, when the reality is that I just beat it and moved on without any issues.
Your pride makes you boastful. Anyone would tell you that these games are designed to be difficult. To sit here and claim that you never experienced any ounce of difficulty, is nonsense. You just want to win a petty argument. So you don't show even a sliver of weakness. You can't admit you died once at anything ever.
For me, I'm just generally not a fan of how aggressive almost every boss is. Crazy how back in Demon's Souls the most aggressive boss was Flamefricker, now it feels like a lot of Elden Ring's bosses are outpacing even Manus by a significant margin.
When i finished elden ring i noticed in the ending credits a similar name for the co director, yep it's the same Black person who directed ds2 while myazaki worked on bb
And it made perfect sense why elden lean sucked so much ass
His design philosophy can be boiled down to "enemy spam, fast attack animation and long combos, lots of flat empty rooms"
If fromsoft makes another Zanzibar game I'll check the credits first before i pirate it, not even gonna bother wasting my time if this chink is involved
dark souls 2 and elden ring could not be any more different, just admit you dislike them because you suck ass at them
He worked on ds3 too.
there is no enemy spam
"fast animation" screams that you suck at the game. Long combo is your inability to find opening.
Based game enjoyer. The entire DS trilogy was rushed and full of flaws, yet they still are some of the best games created.
>He worked on ds3 too.
he was Miyazaki's b***h working on balancing multiplayer and shit
people think that worthless homosexual did way more than he actually did on these games, Miyazaki's co-directors are there to take away the workload he doesn't want to waste his time on, eg implementing multiplayer shit and balancing
just how much do you idolize miyazaki that you'd downplay others this much just to force his dick bit further down your throat? please anon, this shit ain't normal.
>DS2troon projects xis Tanimura dicksucking onto others
you seem upset, homosexual
read interviews homosexual, Miyazaki literally explains what his co-directors do on his projects
Nip insects do what nip insects do, how is that at all relevant? Are you pretending miyazaki is competent? Lol
he is literally one of the best game directors working right now
Elden shart is a worse Ubisoft open world with copy pasted sekiro (a game nobody remembers) combat with none of the sekiro ai. It's probably one of the most derivative cash in asset flips ever made
None of the sekiro UI*
my point is that i don't obsess this much over it. you seem to have this weird hatred for tanimura and lust for miyazaki's dick despite that all you have to go on with what exactly their duties are is some interviews.
The ds2 schizo is a well known schizophrenic spammer on Ganker. He spreads misinformation about games to try and get people to talk to him
>DS2troony burned through xis buzzwords
>reduced to repeating everything xhe was mocked with in xis failed bait threads
the dickripped lunatic is so angry, KEK
stay mad, stay rotting:)
Ds2 troony is a schizophrenic spammer that makes up misinformation about games to get people to talk to him because he's not actually intelligent enough to have interesting opinions. He does this all day every day and reports everyone he can that try and detail his narcissistic israelite troony spam on Ganker with varying results
>DS2troony ripping xis stinkditch raw for Tanimura
you can stop projecting your homosexualry, dickripped lunatic-kun, kek
you seem to have this weird mentall illness where you think cutting your dick off makes you a woman, even though it just makes you dickless
your dickripped delusions don't amount to shit, because "some interviews" with the fricking director of the game prove your delusions about muh Tanimura wrong
stay mad, stay rotting
Notice how the troony bumps the thread with what is essentially schizophrenic spam
why do you homosexuals always have to insist dark souls 2 is the best or worst souls game? i like it about as much as 3, good but not the best with some significant but also severely overblown flaws
Ignore the cum chugging homosexuals lol
they're all good games and different from one another
OP is from a shitposting discord and don't actually play games.
Base game is pretty bad, but the 3 DLCs are probably the best thing the Souls series ever had.
Dodgerolls are stupidly broken, associating them to a stat you need to level up makes perfect sense to try and limit its abuse.
This is true, its just the implementation that sucks, its should make you literally roll a little bit faster, not just inexplicably not take damage when you ordinarily would.
No, no it really doesnt.
>Dodgerolls are stupidly broken
yes
>associating them to a stat you need to level up makes perfect sense to try and limit its abuse
no
ds2 was fun but more bosses sucked harder than the other games, which is what the series is usually known for
I feel like damn near every boss in DS2 can just be strafed around, which is also funny because everyone complains about how bad rolling is when it’s the game that needs it the least.
this game is unironically better than dark souls 2 & 3
Got this on sale today after finishing and loving all the other souls games this year except for Sekiro.
Wtf is wrong with this game? I thought it might be bad but this is like cancer so far. Really feels like a indian bootleg fanfiction of Ds1. Already tried normal melee and a mage build and both suck, I know ds2gays will say "gitgud" but what fricking build will make the ganksquads tolerable?
Should I stick with it or go for Sekiro?
go for Sekiro
DS2 is a disgustingly long slog, even without DLC
Whats stopping you from just making a typical strength or quality build?
Remember to stat into adaptability. it raises your agility which allows you to roll normally.
It's bad to this day. They've made no effort to fix the game since release
>equip strike weapon because, you know, distinctly armored enemies
>they melt
who's the b***h that thought this was hard? ds2 problem is everywhere else
>This game has no weapon variety it's all the same shit
>I want to win everything with a single weapon
>noooo why is it breaking
>noooo why isn't it doing damage
>noooo why is there a different version with a different moveset
>noooo why can't i summon for this fight
i honestly don't get morons who don't experiment with different weapons
i can't possibly imagine playing something like er katana only
your build is shit if you are not 6 slotted
Dark Souls 2 GOOD
Dark Souls 3 BAD
>start the thread saying DS2 tards cant make a genuine argument about the game
>300 posts later this still rings true
lmao
Play the game and you will know.
>he didnt give her a full set of armor
how rude
it was "bad" only because it was a pretty early boss and people were still getting the hang of the game in general
after beating it and understanding the game more you realize that it was actually a shit boss
DS2 has a bunch of cool smaller details going for it, but the complete whiplash of quality you see when you are playing the game makes it hard to recommmend. I enjoyed my time with it, I probably wouldn't replay it but I still like it.
The fart theme music was really epic actually
It tried to make the game fast paced with shitty hitboxes, of course it would have ended badly.
Every single enemy having at least one bugged attack hit ox is pretty funny. It's like they tried to make a bad game
The best Dark Souls game everyone.
having to actually invest resources into unlocking the overpowered iframe roll isn't a bad idea to be honest
if it were tied to a ring it would be fine, even dark souls 1 had a ninja flip ring, the fact that it's tied to a stat is moronic
or better yet, instead of a ring, why not tie the iframes to equip load? why does ADP even exist?
>show gif where enemy is hitting air and the player gets damaged
>"bro you are trying to do OP iframe strat"
why are DS2trannies so mentally ill
>"I am not a dickripped DS2troony samegaygin no sir, but anyway, here's my buzzwords that only mentally ill self-mutilated DS2trannies say"
kek everyone knows DS2 is a creatively bankrupt madlib rehash of 1 you dickripped lunatic
DS3 was Miyazaki coming back and saving the series before another troony coffin game is made to pander to you homosexuals
This but unironically.
>stats mattering in an RPG
>MY GOODNESSS!!!
I can deal with most of the flaws of DS2, but the biggest issue is that it's just way too fricking long. It's like twice the length of all the other games and I haven't even done the dlc. I played DS1 four times in a row without burning out, but one playthrough of DS2 is exhausting. Elden Ring was also garbage because of this. I can't bring myself to do another playthrough.
It wasn't full on shit, but it's easily the worst of the Dark Souls games.
I miss my drumstick
would people have hated it as much if the lighting system didnt get cut?
It wouldve helped a little, but the textures still got changed alot. Theres very few areas in this game that doesnt have jarringly noticeable repeated textures.
Ganker only cares about graphics, no one plays games they just looks at gameplay footage and larp.
Its usually the favorite of the souls veterans ive talked to. No idea why normies dont like it
The only really bad thing was the 8 way movement. Older Souls games had problems with movement too but it was more limited to being locked on, for DS2 it was a constant issue.
>DS2
>lock on
>constantly miss
fricking game is moronic inb4 durur git gud no frick your stupid game, why even have lock on if its optimal to play without it?
>why even have lock on if its optimal to play without it?
You mean like it was in DS1?
at least in Ds1 you actually targeted the enemy you were locked onto
moron learn the game's mechanics. Certain weapons have momentum. Locking on with them means shit. I'm guessing the memes are true. The only people that hate on DS2 are the people who can't git good and got filtered.
I just want the bone fist back...
I don't even care if it was trash against bosses, it was beastly against mobs
it literally turned the game into a beat em up game
it's great, and you can actually string together elaborate combos with it against random enemies and style on them
>at least it *tried* to be good
it was fine, just a little uninspired (3 guys in armor) it was just a filler boss, if anyone died to it theyre basically moronic
also most soulsborne players fricking suck at video game since its impossible for them to actually play a game that doesnt have 3 years worth of i frames inside a single dodge roll, which cause them to melt and piss their pants here
>impossible for them to actually play a game that doesnt have 3 years worth of i frames inside a single dodge roll
your game isn't challenging at all, just boring really
this
how can these people defend bosses like the rotten or nashandra
what's wrong with an easy boss?
>an easy boss
I listed two major story bosses including the final boss
why does it need to be giga hard? It's fricking dark souls. The series is supposed to be about exploration in the first place. Or did you really sweat in the gwynn fight?
Yes I love exploring hideous N64 forests and entering elevators that lead me up into a volcano. Good job changing the subject.
damn, mentally ill dickripped lunatic going back to xis schizotroony narratives to try and argue xis troonycoffin game being shit
I'm going to need a translator for this
>literacy levels rapidly dropping
stop macrodosing HRT, dickripped troony-kun
then try reading again
Gwyn, one of the most iconic fights in ds1, is nothing but an input reading bat swing moron that chases you down. There's nothing impressive about the fight and it perfectly encapsulates the cognitive dissonance of perceived quality with fromsoft games versus actual good game design
>if anyone died to it theyre basically moronic
>git gud
>why does it need to be giga hard?
>it's not about git gud
i hate Ds2 trannies
>it's not about git gud
ok bandai namco
>King's Field 4
>Demon's Souls
>Dark Souls 2
if you only played these you'd think fromsoft was an eastern european studio
Ganker feels like it has been exceptionally bad the past few months. Even compared to how it was the last few years
mental illness has definitely increased significantly
Yeah
There's nothing fun about essentially playing two rhythm games at once amd only pressing an input when the prompts happen to align
Despite all the complaints Dark Souls 2 keeps on providing sovlfvl kino
Broken enemies .. SOVL
love my goofy slip & sliding falconers
at least it still has relevance in people's minds
If the troony hadnt been solo keeping these threads alive for a decade people wouldn't even know the game existed
I'm just going to keep enjoying it
Sorry
I like Dark Souls 2
me too, even though I recognize the faults in the game I still enjoy the product as a whole immensely
>DS2troony samegayging yet again
mindbroken, kek
Dark souls 2 needs a remake.
Its called Elden Ring
ER is literally just openworldified DS3
like, ER legit looked like a DS3 mod internally until mid 2021
Yup. Shameless asset flip
heeheheheehehe
>Looking back was it really that bad?
It is the best FROMSOFT game. So i guess it being like 10 years old is bad because everything after it that FROM made was meh.
Imagine how mad he'll be in another 10 years
I miss old Dark Souls 2, sucks that scholar is the only one you can buy on modern consoles; I gotta get a gaming pc.
can't you just get a copy secondhand?
thanks for the insight
OP has been unequivocally busted, and every ds2 defender has been exposed
>ds2 defender
I'm pretty sure samegay spamming isn't a defense of the game
it is funny that the dickripped moron bumps xis shitty thread when it gets to page 5+ by randomly replying to posts from hours ago
xhe genuinely thinks nobody notices the blatant bump and samegayging
I don't think the troony cares if people notice he's samegayging. Actually that's the goal because he knows mods can't ban his paid vpn shuffle for shitposting so he's basically announcing he's untouchable because he pays 10 buxks a month for Ganker premium
>secondhand
>discs
LOL you're crazy. He should just get a PC.
well i wouldn't say bad, considering everything was already bad, but things certainly did get worse. parents divorced and are no longer on speaking terms, family disconnected from me because of how my parents acted, my friend of 9 years shot himself, my grandmother died due to medical malpractice. But I'm still breathing, still have a roof over my head, and still have food on the table so I guess it hasn't been that bad in retrospect if I only account for myself.
YAWL
frick off DS2troony, it's obvious you're trying to derail the thread because you're getting BTFO
Yes.
fricking moron, sage in the options field before you post
Fromdrones don't like DS2 because they only care about rollslop.
Interesting insight ds2gay
WHAT PART OF SAGE IN THE OPTIONS FIELD DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND YOU DONKEY ABORTION
>Not understanding that ds2gay will shit on ds2 in a desperate attempt to bump his threads
He's never even played the game
sage my balls gay
don't be mad
>Stop thinking about piercing my scales!
For the uninitiated here's another one of his threads
bump
have a nice day.
YOU ARE WORTHLESS. YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE IS SUPPORTED BY A WEBSITE WHERE NO ONE LIKES YOU.
DaS2chads won in yet another thread...
>wins nothing
delusional
I'm the titular ds2 defender and I'm crying tears of rage that I just woke up while the thread is ending.
No, it's not bad at all. Once you learn to enjoy the gameplay, which seems to be really hard for some, it's actually the best Souls game.
Literally just that. Don't complain about the gank enemies, don't complain about the sword swings feeling weightless, etc..
Once you like the way the game plays, it offers the absolute most and best content out of any Souls game. Best designed maps, visually interesting and most varied areas, the cooler armors and weapons (a lot of them with special attacks), dual wielding with full movesets and poweestancing, the most spells / miracles / pyromancies (and also the coolest), the most bosses so you actually get to use all this cool stuff. Best pvp as well even if I don't play it.
It's like finding a ps1 or PS2 game with janky gameplay BUT by sheer genius of the developers, it's so much better than the current games.
>I'm a Black person, a black one even
okay okay you wanted the last word, right DS2troony? you won, congrats, now please frick off
Not a single rebuttal I see. Look I can acknowledge it "feels weird" to play after DS1, but you can't deny it has the best and most content once you accept that
i dont read anything Ds2 troonys type, i don't have to, i'm not a Black person homosexual like you are
Why are you here
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