Dark Souls II

[Kafein]

While still leagues ahead of the competition, DkS 2 not a better game than DkS or DS. And in many aspects it's a downgrade, even if we forget that it's a sequel.

The only improvements I can immediately think of are very mechanical. It's the character sheet and the weapon durability. Almost nothing related to design was improved, and some critical things really stand out as bad compared to the previous games. Bonfires are probably the worst offenders in my opinion.

[Tot.]

It seems all he says is pretty much spot on. Could it be because miyazaki (or w/e his name was) isnt working on the game anymore? Anyways for some reason im still enjoying the game thoroughly, and still think its on par with DaS1 but in different aspects.

Not on par with Dark Souls, but solid and enjoyable for me. At least in PVE. PVP is a total mess. There is zero point in invading anyone since you dont get anything from it. In DS1 you got humanity. In here not only you arent rewarded with anything but also you need to waste Effigy and Cracked Red Eye Orb, and for some reason they removed non-cracked Red Eye Orbs, so in order to invade you must farm the cracked ones in arena (because there is no vendor for them), which barely even works half of the time or takes forever to find a match. Really, 10/10 invasion mechanics, and dont even get me started on hexes and things like Santiers Spear. 

[SixThumbs]

...while Dark Souls 2 has so much poor ideas and lazy implementation. A real shame.

C'mon, the three little pigs in the first area are so well designed. I start the game, think fighting them is going to be easy, panic when I find out it's not, and proceed to back pedal down into the hole

[Gravoth_iii]

Not on par with Dark Souls, but solid and enjoyable for me. At least in PVE. PVP is a total mess. There is zero point in invading anyone since you dont get anything from it. In DS1 you got humanity. In here not only you arent rewarded with anything but also you need to waste Effigy and Cracked Red Eye Orb, and for some reason they removed non-cracked Red Eye Orbs, so in order to invade you must farm the cracked ones in arena (because there is no vendor for them), which barely even works half of the time or takes forever to find a match. Really, 10/10 invasion mechanics, and dont even get me started on hexes and things like Santiers Spear. 

You forget the belltower invasions and ratacombs though i find the really enjoyable. Also getting the cracked orbs is kind if rough but atleast in ng+ you can buy them. Many things are still abuseable in the pvp such as invis weapon rings, batstaff and hexes but its still sort of fun to me.

[Tot.]

Yeah, I meant normal invasions. Still though, in Dark Souls if you beat the invader you get humanity, so its more of a fair game since the potential victim also can gain something. Here its just pure ganking for the joy of ruining someones day.

[IR_Kuoin]

Buffed Great Lances that can hit you 3 times using the follow up attack and buffed katanas, arena sure is fun ... Feel like I have to go NG+ so I can buy them instead of having to farm them vs tryhards.

[Gravoth_iii]

Yeah but getting humanity, was it really that big of a thing? i never even used my humanity only the itemized ones for healing. Getting souls and the pleasure of ruining someones playthrough good enough for me.

[v/onMega]

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[Molly]

That looks actually pretty nice. Maybe I just watched the wrong video...

[v/onMega]

Dark Souls 2 with ENB and downsampling.

Vanilla game looks pwetty shitty.

[bilwit]

Which one are you using? It's hard to find a good one.. I tried a couple but they were largely shite

[Fredom]

So I am exactly level 100 now, but for fck sake I cannot win (even with 2 phantoms) against the boss in.Iron Keep...
I already lost 120k souls at this bastard!!!
And then I bought a ladder for the hole in Majula and got to 'The Gutter' and ffs I can't see shit there, just found the way to the bonfire somehow but don't know what to do now...

[Fredom]

So I am exactly level 100 now, but for fck sake I cannot win (even with 2 phantoms) against the boss in.Iron Keep...
I already lost 120k souls at this bastard!!!
And then I bought a ladder for the hole in Majula and got to 'The Gutter' and ffs I can't see shit there, just found the way to the bonfire somehow but don't know what to do now...

[Tor!]

So I am exactly level 100 now, but for fck sake I cannot win (even with 2 phantoms) against the boss in.Iron Keep...

Dodge

And then I bought a ladder for the hole in Majula and got to 'The Gutter' and ffs I can't see shit there, just found the way to the bonfire somehow but don't know what to do now...

Torch

[Gravoth_iii]

Dodge

Torch

Dude stop giving away so many tips, youre spoiling the whole game ;)

Ugh im trying to use the gedosato but it just crashes my game on startup, sucks.. Googling it doesnt help so im fucked.