Halt. Human. Do not produce Dark Souls II. Dark Souls II, and all those who bear it, are unwelcome in this place. (2024)

Dark Souls 2 is simply too slow to really easily go back to. The estus animation is not only slower but so is the rate the health bar goes up after an estus chug. It's to the point where it's almost a turn based rpg

>After ER i find it really hard to go back to the Dark Souls games
funny because after ER I needed to boot demon's souls to rinse taste becaue ER was fricking sh*t lmao

>finish Sekiro
>want to go back to the Souls games
>make two characters to completion in DS1
>make one character to [completion] in DS2 (got to the end, but still have some equipment I wanna go for)
>reinstall and boot up DS3
>drop it after Vordt
I sure love getting gang slammed by the scrawniest level 1 characters in Ugly Ass Ashy Souls because Miyazai hates poise for whatever reason.

i genuinely don't understand this feeling. i've beat the dlc recently and will likely never boot up elden ring again, but have many playthroughs of each souls game/bloodborne/sekiro in me.
ds2 is maybe the most replayable of them all, even if it's not my favourite.

Elden ring sucks. Went right back to Dark souls 1 and it feels like home

No. Dark Souls 2 is hard enough without having its difficulty increased even more

My first playthrough was a CoC run, but i used release-hexes so everything died in one hit anyway.
I never used it for the DLCs either. sh*t like the icy hedgehogs or the big smelter golem things are bullsh*t enough as is.

The first time I ran through the DLCs was on my CoC run, but at that point it was my fourth character with an optimized build. I wouldn't stay in CoC for your first playthrough, dlcs are challenging enough on their own

The guy follows you inside the crypt and i'm pretty sure Agdayne attacks you for it

Obviously carrying on their jobs from before they were completely hollowed.
And obviously the crypt one just to mess with you.

>all DaS hollows are just wretched corpses
>all DS3 hollows are just wretched corpses
>all DS2 hollows are just wretched corpses... except for the rare ones with runes carved into them
What does it all mean?

That's Frank. He aight.

>unfinished product made for mass appeal as anything more than an unfinished cash grab
We aren't talking about Dark Souls 3 or Elden Ring thoughever.

Here's the thing anon, if it didn't mean something to the second director, why did they cut the original one and move on from his vision to the 2nd one? Miyazaki most likely did not like the direction that the first guy was heading in, going further away from DS1 and more towards doing his own thing with time travel and a more involved plotline with the main character and Shanalotte.

This "unfinished product" is the longest and biggest Dark Souls game.
And every Souls game has cut content, you fricking idiot.

>How do you reconcile that it's the only game fromsoft has ever made where they felt obliged to release a "fixed" version of the game a year after it's release in the form of SOTFS?
You mean like PTDE?
>Like, the fact that there are two versions of DS2 objectively shows how little vision or care was put into it the first time around
If you are to ignore the fact that this was the next-gen release that also had to change something in order to sell twice, you might be right.

It's the version I play. I didn't play dark souls 2 until like 2018 so I wasn't there for the....confusion? I honestly think elden ring should have a scholars of lost sin treatment. So many instances seem moronic

There's a really sh*tty version of it with a different name I think, but nobody ever used it. There wasn't a "here, have a ton of free stamina regen if you're 2-handing something" item this time.
Chloranthy Ring+2 if you actually needed stamina regen though, there were 4 ring slots in this game.

Took me a while to realize that the c**t with the lance in Brume Tower, who lures you deeper into enemy territory, is the same as the c**t who pretends to be friendly in Eleum Loyce.
Guy gets around.

I did by accident because I didn't know ADP controlled iframes. It was miserable.

yeah it's the best way to play the game. And you can put all your points into other stuff and really hypertune a specific part of your character. You can level Endurance to 100 in this game. Wild sh*t like that.

spell uses >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FP

FP is cancer. Ignoring that spell uses encourages using spells tactically while FP doesn't, FP enabled weapon arts to be implemented which turned the combat system into weapon art spam.

FP is giga-casual sh*t that obliterated any semblance of balance for magic, and also indirectly ruined melee balance via weapon arts.

>How do I get the 30 sunlight medals to get the miracle needed to get the achievement?
iron keep/smelter demon
>Im on NG++
what's your sm?

I think suffering through grinding those falconers for the rare medal drop is the most realistic way to get them all unfortunately.
I hate the covenant grinds in these games, DaS did the same thing with the Dark Moon tokens.

you can CE that sh*t offline