Dark Souls II

[Gravoth_iii]

Going to try to take a picture of mine, but all i have is this shitty ps vita aka potato camera.

Oh by the way, faith builds are probably the best for invasions since there is no item to heal with now, but spells work.

[Gravoth_iii]

The duelling pvp is seriously messed up, theres 2 counter attacking rings which basically when you take a certain amount of damage they shoot out some stuff at the enemy and the other drops an orb that explodes in a small aoe, these rings can deal up to 500 damage on their own, so basically you get hit but if they proc (which they do OFTEN) you deal the same damage or sometimes more back to the enemy. I guess im going to be a spearmy old friend from now on to keep my distance..

[Tor!]

The fire ring is easily dodged, and after watching some pvp streams this certainly looks to raise the skill requirements from ds1 

Cant wait for this to hit pc 

[Gravoth_iii]

its easily dodged, but unless you have a really high damage you wont be able to hit people because after one hit you have to back off to avoid the ring.

[IR_Kuoin]

Of what I have played of PvP so far it reminds me more of Demon Souls PvP, spam to win.

[//saxon]

apart from the trailer ive watched nothing on it, its all going to be new to me.

[Gravoth_iii]

After having done some more duels i dont find the sun ring as much of an annoyance (probably because im using it myself now and it destroys people). I got oneshot by a WoG though which was half instant, not a fan... Going to try some

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invasions in drangleic castle in hope of getting summoned by the looking glass knight, will be hilarious.

[SeQuel]

Beat the game, so I'm in NG+ finally. Looking forward to it.

[//saxon]

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[Oberyn]

I once watched a let's play of the original Dark Souls, never really been tempted to play it, looks like yet another gigantic time sink, and saw this video of all the bosses in Dark Souls 2. Is it just me or are a lot of the DS2 bosses very...generic looking? They even recycle lava spider lady from the first one, kind of. I think a lot of the non-boss enemies had better character design than the bosses.

2:12 to 2:40 specifically, Yathzee once again showing he is a discerning critic and not just some fanboy crying "UURRRRHHH HATER" to any sort of constructive criticism. Like any ZP worth watching all of it, if that's your thing.

Also 4:48-4:58.

Annnnd forgot to link the video:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8945-Dark-Souls-2-Prepare-to-Die-Again

[Gravoth_iii]

I've seen a lot of critique on the game, there arent that many fanboys that play the game and dont see any negatives. But in the end its still dark souls, and it doesnt dissapoint even though some areas/bosses are similar to the earlier games. Play it then judge it i would say, if you still havent touched the first one.

[Kafein]

My main fears about this game are :

1. Loss of max HP when you die. Playing with minimum HP is presumably difficult, and you risk being stuck doing that because of point 2.
2. Finite amount of humanity available.
3. More enemies with limited respawn.

I think Dark Souls actually did the good thing compared to Demon's Souls. In Demon's Souls you were sort of supposed to play as ghost all the time, because you had to kill a goddamn boss to get your life back. Humanity in Dark Souls was much easier to come by (even though I didn't use it much, offline master race), and that was a good thing. Now, in Demon's Souls the game was not too hard to play as ghost so it was okay to never be alive, but it sounds like in Dark Souls 2 playing as hollow gets really hard if you die too much. It sounds like if you have a streak of bad luck or just explore as much as possible you can fuck your game up pretty bad.

[IR_Kuoin]

Kinda facepalm at some of the reviews I've seen, people who just finished Dark Souls (only one time) and never tried Demon Souls are making some pretty "QQ" or stupid whiny comments on the game. For the death penalty you have to die around 10 times before it actually put you down on a noticeably lower HP pool.

[Kafein]

Kinda facepalm at some of the reviews I've seen, people who just finished Dark Souls (only one time) and never tried Demon Souls are making some pretty "QQ" or stupid whiny comments on the game. For the death penalty you have to die around 10 times before it actually put you down on a noticeably lower HP pool.

Oh okay, sounds fine

[PieParadox]

dont u lose 10% of ur max hp every time u die, down to 50% (or 75% with ring?)