Current Events > When am I supposed to start hating Dark Souls II?

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Watching the opening cutscene. Pretty okay.

You don't. It's my favourite one. :)
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No character creator/class option?

I hate this game.

There is. You just gotta walk into a hut or something.
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Around the fifth boss that is some sort of armored knight where you circle strafe to victory.
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When you go up and end up down
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have you played any other souls games
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It's a good game, I don't care what anyone says.

Anyone.
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I've played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls.

I hear this one is the worst because all the levels are square-room dungeons and whereas Dark Souls 1 is all about overcoming, this one beats you over the head with the git gud mentality.

Also apparently there's a frog boss is that is BS.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

armored knight where you circle strafe to victory.

those are like all of the boss fights tho
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The story isn't very compelling but it does have the best gameplay
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ManBeast462 posted...

The story isn't very compelling but it does have the best gameplay

That's what people said about Nioh and I didn't like really truly entirely like that :/

Looking at stat list. Is Adaptability the DkS2 version of Resistance?

As in I should ignore it outright?

It's my least favorite of the 5, but its not a bad game in it's own right. Best PvP of the series for sure.
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no

adaptability increases iframes on rolls
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NibeIungsnarf posted...

I've played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls.

I hear this one is the worst because all the levels are square-room dungeons and whereas Dark Souls 1 is all about overcoming, this one beats you over the head with the git gud mentality.

Also apparently there's a frog boss is that is BS.

the frog boss is one of the easiest in the game, IMO.
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adaptability was useful for me
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Quorthon109 posted...

It's my least favorite of the 5, but its not a bad game in it's own right. Best PvP of the series for sure.

I'm playing the standard version on the PS3. I think I'll be the only one online :(

Talking to a bunch of babes dressed in red. My take away is "lol u'll die a lot haha!"

I am now Nibelsnarf the cursed.

Any good classes? I favour heavy weapons over spellcasting and nimble damage.

Good gift?

Why do oh keep asking which classes are "good" if you've played other Souls games, TC? Starting class is fairly meaningless unless you're playing to a PvP "meta" level, and soul level is meaningless for matchmaking in dks2 anyway.

Don't waste your souls on anything other than leveling and improving weapons you really like. Soul Memory does not encourage early experimentation. Then again, it's probably a ghost town on PS3 anyway.
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meralonne posted...

Why do oh keep asking which classes are "good" if you've played other Souls games, TC? Starting class is fairly meaningless unless you're playing to a PvP

Starting class determines your playstyle in the early game unless you just camp the first enemies you see and farm souls from them.

That's been my experience, at least.

It's not a bad game but it's definitely in my bottom list when it comes to Soulsborne. The gameplay just feels so slow. It doesn't help the fact that I played Bloodborne before playing DS2.
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ManBeast462 posted...

The story isn't very compelling but it does have the best gameplay

Did they ever fix the bad hit detection? You could clearly avoid a hit but still get hit. Big nono for a game like Souls.

Best build variety easy. Best gameplay idk.
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It's a game fraught with one step forward, one step back. There are some good decisions that ought to be commended, and there are others that are just absolute headscratchers.
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"You'll lose your souls over and over and over hahahahah"

Jesus Christ, game. Could you be a little less subtle, please?

The lake with those 1000000 range homing projectile BS mages. Also the area with the spiders aren't so fun either.

FluttershyPony posted...

The lake with those 1000000 range homing projectile BS mages. Also the area with the spiders aren't so fun either.

They nerfed the crap out of the Shrine of Amana after all the babies cried about it being too hard.

The biggest problem with DS2 is old DS1 players who didn't want to adjust to a new game.
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Most of the enemies coming in mobs just makes the game unfun
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The Deadpool posted...

The biggest problem with DS2 is old DS1 players who didn't want to adjust to a new game.

This is what everyone says when they're butthurt that people disagree with their opinion on games.

I see it on the FF15 board all the time.

And the Mass Effect Andromeda board before it died.

NibeIungsnarf posted...

This is what everyone says when they're butthurt that people disagree with their opinion on games.

I guess that also means that it is impossible for people to not like change and have trouble adjusting to new play styles?
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I do believe that is what you guess, yes.

When you go for an R1 string and realize how slow it is compared to every other character in the series.

When you realize the game has the heaviest mob density in the series while you have the slowest character to deal with them.

When you realize every other boss and mob is an armored humanoid which makes slashing weapons a liability.

When you realize every other game in the series allows you to have viable build variety, and this one practically forces you to level up Adaptability regardless of what you want to do, wasting levels
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NibeIungsnarf posted...

I do believe that is what you guess, yes.

That would be a fallacy unfortunately
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Made it to Majula (yes it did take me this long to complete the tutorial, I did a lot of fiddling about >_>)

I'll be fucked if this isn't a pretty and solemn place.


Also wtf @ those hippo cyclopses in the tutorial area?

NibeIungsnarf posted...

Also wtf @ those hippo cyclopses in the tutorial area?

They never get less annoying >_>

And I wonder how many peoples' screenshot of the first death trophy/achievement is that first hippo gnawing their head off.
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it's been a while since I've played, but I think that you get a ring for killing the one in the tutorial area
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_Schwarzlicht_ posted...

And I wonder how many peoples' screenshot of the first death trophy/achievement is that first hippo gnawing their head off.

Mine was one appearing from behind me out of nowhere and punching me to death while I was focused on the hippo in front of me.

I do declare, that was BS >_>

Every boss is a humanoid

Every

Single

One

clearaflagrantj posted...

Every boss is a humanoid

Every

Single

One

I know for a fact there's a spider boss in every fucking one of these games.

There's litterally a Sparta hole in this town. Someone needs to say something about madness.

yea, there's a spider boss.

only game in the series that don't have one is Dark Souls 3.
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When you try to swing your weapon for the first time and it takes like 8 seconds.
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You shouldn't hate it. At most you should be disappointed it wasn't something better, but still highly enjoy it.
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It's been too long since I played DkS1 for me to note that the attack movement is slower in DkS2.

It did feel slow when I started, though.

Do I get more Estus flasks from bonfires if I feed human effigies to them? 1 fucking Estus? >_<

F the part right after the Dragon Rider where you have to make your way past like 15 hollow knights to then fight a dragon gaurding a castle

I probably spent 6 or 7 hours on that alone. Was so close to just giving up on the game. When I did beat it, it was by complete luck and 2 secs later and I would have died.

The rest of the game isnt too bad (difficult wise) but there are some awful sections
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NibeIungsnarf posted...

It's been too long since I played DkS1 for me to note that the attack movement is slower in DkS2.

It did feel slow when I started, though.

Do I get more Estus flasks from bonfires if I feed human effigies to them? 1 fucking Estus? >_<

You will get more estus, yes. But not human effigies. You need to collect estus shards (or some other collectible?). Human effigies are this game's version of humanities.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Human effigies are this game's version of humanities.

You got more estus flasks by feeding humanities to the bonfires in DkS1 >_>

God Damnit I spent all my tutorial souls on one measley level up when I could have popped the two soul items I have and bought a shield right next door >_<