• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    212·
    7 days ago

    Dark Souls 2 is the best worst game ever.

    It’s not as good as DS1 or 3 in many ways. In some it is better.

    But even if you consider it the worst in the series, it’s still miles above a lot of other games. And it’s even more amazing that it is still good with all the BS that happened in its development. They basically had to remake the entire game in like 5 or 6 months before release because of pressure from the publisher not liking what they had prior to the re-work. It also has the most content in the entire trilogy. Only Elden Ring is bigger with more stuff.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    131·
    7 days ago

    I feel like there are some games that people just shit on because that’s the “cool” thing. Dark souls 2 and DnD 4e.

    Thinking about it, that probably applies to more than just games.

        • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world
          41·
          7 days ago

          I mean, fairly major criticisms, compared to the other Souls games. I was a DS2 defender for a long time but replayed it a little while ago and it definitely hit me how frustrating aspects of the game are. The level design is a huge one, there’s a few zones in DS2 that are just a painful slog with obnoxious enemy mechanics and level design that leave basically no room for mastery and require very conservative, grinding play to get through (Iron Keep and Shrine of Amana spring to mind).

      • alphabethunter@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 days ago

        I have the exact opposite opinion, I hated how bloated 3.5 was, and how broken and unbalanced were the original classes, so my first hands-on experience with 4e left me feeling refreshed. And I was never against the more videogamey design, as the outcome of that was a game that was considerably more balanced and more tactical.

        • Grabthar@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          It really did balance martials. They were actually fun to play in 4e. Encounters were really easy to create and balance. Neither spells nor magic items were wildly overpowered. It was a well thought out and fun to play game. But it sure didn’t feel in any way like D&D.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        3·
        7 days ago

        There are reasons to not like 4e, like there are reasons to not like DS2. But I think both have people who are just bandwagon jumping.

  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    7 days ago

    DS2 is definitely my favorite. I liked the world’s concept much more than the castles that are just terribly designed in 1 & 3. 3 was also built up too much as ‘such an amazing game!’ by my friends who convinced me to get into the big boss bashers in the first time, and it just felt like the story dragged too much along the same lines as the first.

    I think, seeing as I started with elden ring and then moved through 1->2->3, that some of the game’s choices, like certain enemies eventually not respawning, just felt so strange. That and what felt like a much slower combat pace.

  • BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    71·
    7 days ago

    Sweet Shalquoir is one of the most sultry and sexy NPCs ever put into a souls game.

    “You do have a rather pleasant scent. The type I’m quite fond of. Hee hee hee…”

    A cat is fine too.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
    21·
    6 days ago

    It’s not just DS2, fuck all Dark Souls games. Dance Dance Revolution the fighting game.