>The only Souls game I can't bring myself replaying
Like it's just the "best of" album with fanservice instead if actual new content. I am doing a yearly DeS-DaS-DaS2-BB marathon with now Elden Ring being added to the list. But DS3 is just not worth playing if I play others anyway. Maybe it's fine for someome who wants one single Souls game to replace others but when I play it and see something copy pasted from a previous Souls game I just have an urge to play that game instead. Not to mention that grey low contrast look that DS3 has. The whole package feels soulless.
yh dark souls 2 is pretty shit but at least it sets itself apart from the original
Dark Souls II is shit
the only souls games I could never replay again are Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
This but with DaS2
>anti DS2 thread stays in the catalog too long
>anti DS3 thread pops up
Clockwork isn't it?
>grey low contrast look
This.
I hate DS3 graphics so much.
At least it's not oversaturated piece of shit with depth of field and 3000% bloom washing and other bullshit effects like in todays games for kids.
Dark Souls is a game for MEN.
Looks great imo. I played the trilogy this year knowing nothing about the development and differences with DS2. Quit after a couple of hours because it looked and played like shit, loaded up DS3 and it's fantastic. Looks great and feels just like DS1
>>The only Souls game I can't bring myself replaying
For me it's Dark Souls 2. Boring easy bosses, boring nonexistant level design, awful animations and weapons weight are a killer combo and I always drop it after defeating Lost Sinner
On the contrary I love Dark Souls 3, especially with CA
Is there a mod that fixes Dark Souls 2?
I think both 2 and 3 are ass compared to DeS and DaS.
Pretty much the sole reason I rank 2 above 3 is that I prefer something new that failed over a rehash that pales in comparison to what it's rehashing.
i dont replay dark souls 3 because i kill the second boss, see undead village, and realize that the first 50% of the game is fucking boring. then i turn it off.
I don't like DS3 as well, for the same reasons as you, but I can't fathom why you'd include DS2 in that replay session when it's undoubtedly worse. It has more soul than 3, but its actual quality is way lower.
DS2’s midgame (tseldora, iron keep) is horrendous but the rest of the game is a solid fun adventure
Every FromSoft game is better than the previous one with the only exception of DS2. Elden Ring is the perfection of the formula and one of the best videogames of all time
If you reverse everything you said you are right
Play Champion's Ashes
>play a minor rebalance mod
>Which can barely port assets
>Which can barely port assets
It has fully functional Bloodborne trick weapons. You can even sidestep dodge with light equipment load. And there's tons of new gameplay mechanics, none of which feel obtrusive.
>just frames for blocks
>shield attacks and shield catalysts
>feints that consume FP (for PVP)
>guard counters
Etc.
>minor rebalance mod
You utter retard
>now Elden Ring being added to the list
Why? ER is everything bad about DaS3 turned up to 11 and repeated ad nauseum. Bloodborne was the last good Souls game.
>everything bad about DaS3
That was rehashing and referencing older titles too much. Elden Ring doesn't do this to the same extent.
DS3 has the worst combat ever, all you do is roll roll roll roll r1
Kingsfield has better combat
Skyrim has better combat
Crash bandicoot has better combat
What a failure of any engaging game design
Dark Souls 1 is the only one thats fun to play a second time.
Demon souls is too dated. Ds2 just sucked even the first time. Ds3 lacks the freedom of ds1, every playthrough feels the same. Bloodborne again just has zero variety. Even Elden Ring just feels pointless once you have explored it all once.
Agreed overall but I think DS3 also has the best endgame bosses and the DLC has some of the best level design post DS1. I replay it for that experience occasionally, although the base game is absolute shit
>doesn't like DS3
>likes DS2
I will never understand this, you can think DS3 is unoriginal but to think it is worse than DS2 is laughable. At least they finished DS3 and didn't add a bunch of retarded shit to make it unplayable (i-frame stat, non-responing enemies, wacky world design...etc). DS2 unironically plays and looks like a PS2 game. DS3 despite it's flaws is a real souls game. To me it is the actual Dark Souls 2 and DS2 is just some shit fanfic cash grab.
>i-frame stat, non-responing enemies, wacky world design...etc
How do these things make DS2 unplayable?
DS2 is turrible
Why does Ganker has this DS3 hate boner all of sudden? it's fine.
>Why does Ganker has this hate boner for a mediocre reddit tier rehash?
Hmm, I wonder
>mediocre reddit tier rehash
but enough about dog2
It has always been kind of shite
>Gael
>Midir
>Demon Prince
>Friede
>Twin Princes
>Soul of Cinder
Best bosses in the series and worth replaying for that alone
Pointless game, it's unfortunate the series went from being about adventuring/rpg to being a 3d brawler
DeS DS1 DS2 were sick ass games, DS3 ruined everything
I just don't like all the forced references to the first Dark Souls. It feels like FromSoftware wasn't convinced that DS3 could stand on its own and needed nostalgia bait to make people love it.
this but with dark souls 1 and kingsfield, reusing seath and patches and moonlightsword and crestfallen warrior, fucking nostalgiabaiting UwU
I partially blame 2 for being such a complete blunder. Most of the references in 2 are lame, like the sunlight parma and the great lightning spear description sucking off Solaire. There's not enough cool, original content that builds off of the lore of Dark Souls, like the Ivory King holding back the flame of chaos. Yet at the same time it's an inferior retread of the content of prior Souls games because of the not-lord's souls necessary for the shrine of winter.
I think they decided to play it safe in DS3 as a result. There's a lot more direct references to other games. Equipment, NPCs, even entire areas like Earthen Peak being accumulated into the Dreg Heap, and of course Anal Rodeo. It was an appropriate nail in the coffin of Dark Souls, and I'm glad they've moved onto making more original IPs.
When Flames of Old comes out
>When Flames of Old comes out
Has Stayd sudoku'd, had a mental breakdown or chuded out yet? Because from what I remember hearing of him one of those definitely seems likely
I don't know, but he's made negative progress in the past year. Like, literally, the mod just keeps getting further from release the more stupid shit he changes for no reason. Sifting through his Twitter to figure out what the fuck he's been doing is infuriating, he makes it sound like he lost his legs in an industrial lathe accident and is living out of a haunted cardboard box where ghosts call him gay every time he tries to sleep. There's no way his life is as bad as he makes it out to be.
>partially blame 2 for being such a complete blunder.
It's not 2's fault, it's the fault of the fanbase and Namco
>retread
I don't remember the part of DS1 where Gwyn married a piece of the abyss that tricked him into fighting the giants, or had a brother who created fake dragons and dragon-firekeeper hybrids. I also don't remember boarding a pirate ship or burning any giant windmills.
>why does a sequel makes references to the the previous games
>They decided to play it safe
No they fucking didn't. Everybody knows Dark Souls 3 was gutted and only 10% of what it was supposed to be.
Miyazaki is literally the least likely developer to play it safe, but the plotlines and themes Dark Souls 3 had been built on had to be scrapped. The fact that he had to reboot an unplayable mess and then asked to delay the release date and this was denied shows he was dealt a bad hand.
demon souls was the only good one since it was new, ever since dark souls it’s been ass
Archthrones WHEEEEEN
>The only Souls game I can't bring myself replaying
but enough with 2
I don’t know how someone can play the same floaty bullshit nonsense every game that is the Souls series. Literally every game is the same cryptic, unresponsive pile of shit combat and “exploration”. Unless you’re such a mess irl you need the comfort that’s brought about with the familiarity of playing games you already played. Fuck you, be better.
video games need to be better so i don't have to replay miyazaki games all the time
I love all of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring