This game looks better than DaS 2. Fuck you.
>it's better than the worst game in the series
How controversial, anon.
I'm currently on DS1 and just beat DemonS, which looks better imo. Do they really fuck it up in DS2 or are your just meming?
Fuck you, leatherman.
>>323144238
meant to say that DS1 looks better
Uh no. The games a blurry mess, much like dark souls. None of the souls games look good
>>323144238
Dark souls 2 is significantly inferior to the other souls games. It's playable but has more than its fair share of problems.
>>323144238
>Do they really fuck it up in DS2 or are your just meming?
DaS2's lighting and color palette are awful. It's like an over-bright cartoon. Think early WoW, but worse because you hade expectations set by DaS and DeS.
>>323144238
If you just like souls games for oure gameplay, the dark souls 2 is a much, much better game than demons or dark. It also has the best pvp
It suffers in other areas
>>323144372
Every souls games has more than its fair share of problems, get the dick out of your ass
>>323144497
>If you just like souls games for oure gameplay, the dark souls 2 is a much, much better game than demons or dark.
>>323144081
The reason, I think, that Demon's Souls still looks and feels the best out of any of the souls games (to me) is that it has the fewest flaws.
Certainly the highs might not be as high, sometimes, but in general there's very little wrong with it. Every area looks good, every area is themed properly, all enemies fit the setting and area, every boss is flavorful and enhances the general feel (with the possible exception of Phalanx), all weapons look/feel good (even the few that are kind of worthless are nice thematically), all NPCs are good, and so on.
There's minor nit-picks of course, but by and large the game succeeds at everything it does. That's a pretty rare thing.
>>323144497
>Fighting the snake boss without having stopped the poison
Man that was more interesting that any boss in 1.
>>323144238
>Do they really fuck it up in DS2 or are your just meming?
>>323144671
I like DeS/DaS combat better too but come on, are you using a laggy PvP match as an example of DaS2 combat? That shit happens in all the games
>>323144731
>lower left
>better
Wew lad
>>323144880
>>323145015
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
>>323145015
his fucking face at the end sums up my entire experience with that shitheap
>>323145015
>that fucking face
DSP would be entertaining if he wasn't such an insufferable asshole
I like Demon's Souls the best but
1) Magic is possibly the most op in the franchise with its magic meter system (though i wish it would return, being more balanced in a future souls game)
2) The blank slate class, rather than making the game harder to begin with, makes it easier (You start out with a ring that fucking regenerates your magic, along with a spell and catalyst to use it with)
Other than that though it was the most brutal of the currently existing three, so cash
>>323145350
Being such an insufferable asshole is what made him entertaining. >"I feel like watching a complete retard get mad at things that are his fault" >"Wow I fell in the lava and I fucking died! This is bullshit man..."
>>323145449
>it was the most brutal of the currently existing three
I played Dark Souls 1+2 first and practically breezed through Demon's Souls. Had great trouble with Bloodborne though.
>>323145449
>1) Magic is possibly the most op in the franchise with its magic meter system (though i wish it would return, being more balanced in a future souls game)
I think that rather than being overpowered, magic was just easy to use. For most of the game you could accomplish similar feats with a bow, just without a shield and with the advantage of aiming. Also I suppose you had to devote the weight to carrying arrows.
But to get the really powerful stuff you needed some specific combinations of gear and spells, which required you to beat maybe half the bosses in the game, and at least one or two archdemons. By the time you could use the insanity catalyst to firestorm things, you were already in the endgame and had faced down two of the three hardest bosses (flamelurker and maneaters). Even then you needed to be a high level with tons of int and magic to have the mana and spellpower to make it work, which also meant you couldn't have good supporting stats.
Even then, given how False King's (the last of the trio of hard bosses) attacks worked, magic wasn't even that helpful against him.
In comparison, with a bit of effort you could get a sticky compound longbow +5 much earlier, use it with much lower stats, and do pretty comparable damage. Just replace buying spice with buying arrows.
>>323145853
>sticky compound longbow +5
>not Lava Bow hyper mode
>>323145589
Well granted it has the easiest "tutorial" area, but bosses like the Adjudicator were just unfair to people going into the fight not knowing literally immediately what to expect imo
>>323144081
does anyone still play DeS online?
>>323145941
Lava bow has a lower potential damage and requires you to beat a later boss to get. You can get almost all the stones you need for the sticky bow in 2-1, and the bow itself in 4-1 fairly early. You literally need to beat two bosses to get it to +4, and three to get it to +5 (pure spiderstone is after Armor Spider, right?). Get to 4-2 as well and you can get Patches to sell you heavy arrows, and you're done.
The only real advantage of the lava bow is that it has some hit-stun. Also I guess it's low scaling (almost non-scaling) so you can slot it effectively into most builds, since it only requires 14/16 str/dex to use, or something like that.
Also the sticky bow only needs to get to +3 before you can start upgrading it, while the Lava Bow needs to be +7.
>>323146275
What was so hard about him? I beat him on my first try.
In fact, none of the DeS bosses was giving me any trouble.
Meanwhile, chalice dungeon Amygdala and hotdog almost broke me.
>>323144671
that's actually a missing animation, happens quite often, or almost everytime if you start spamming while getting up from the ground (after getting backstabbed)
>>323144934
its comparing that (which is from das2) with the des pic to its right
>>323146473
Well i was kinda new to the souls games at the time, and i only discovered how simple he was afterward, but still, it was like
>oh hey stairs
>This is interesting does it lead to the boss i wonder
>long ass tongue slaps you outta nowhere
>wat the fuk where did that come from
>panic, who is sniping me with their tongue
>slap
>dead
Or something like that, and the old hero was impossible for me until my friend was like" dude look at his face you know he's fucking blind right?" and then the fight apparently had to go down a bit like metal gear solid with me slapping his ankles with my sword
I don't even like soul games.
>>323144934
DaS2 is top left, bottom left, and top right (i.e. the shit ones) bruv.
Is Lava Lurker really difficult or is it just a meme?
Beat him on my first try.
>>323147949
Flame Lurker*
>>323147949
I can kill him easily but still have some trouble, It's pretty mixed with that boss. Some people can kill him while taking no damage their first time and others think its the hardest boss in the entire souls series.
>>323144497
>for oure gameplay, the dark souls 2 is a much, much better game than demons or dark
This is bait.
Even the basic character control is fucked. I don't know the word for it, but your character almost moves on a fucking grid. You can point the stick into the corner and your character will walk directly forward. It's fucked, it means all your movements are weird and inaccurate because your character doesn't mimic the stick movements.
>>323149496
have you tried unlocking?
also I think your controller might be fuk'dor maybe you're just retarded
>>323147949
He was the only boss to kill me more than once in my first playthrough (besides Dragon God) so in that sense he was the hardest boss in the game, but it really depends on what gear and playstyle you're using at the time. Still hardly compares to the majority of the bosses in the other games. DeS' difficulty came almost entirely from the levels.
>>323149496
Yeah, it is the worst, along with the retarded as fuck acceleration on the right stick. There's a fix for the movement angle deadzone shit on PC but I grew tired of the game long before that came out so I haven't tried it.
>>323149750
I think you might be retarded mate. Try moving directly forwards in DS2, then compare it to moving directly forwards in the other games. In DS2, an angle of 345° or 15° has the same effect as 0° because there's a massive angular deadzone, meaning you have to turn the fucking camera just to precisely control your character.
>>323149750
I wish I had the webm so I could prove it. Compare walking in a slow circle between Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2. In Dark Souls you spin like a normal person, in Dark 2 you walk around in a little square because of the fucking d-pad level character control.
>>323149952
umm, no. Are you perhaps playing on kb+m ?
>>323150059
No. I know for a fact this is a "feature" of the game on both PS3 and PC, and there is a fix for it on PC.
http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/76
>>323144081
It's because DeS has great lighting.
>>323150208
does not work on SOTFS, was it fixed for it or something?
>>323150410
I don't own it so I can't confirm, but I'm pretty sure it's not fixed. In the description of that fix it says you can fix it for SOTFS by using the 64-bit version of 'Durazno' with some specific config settings.
>>323150037
yeah alright, i launched the game and now realized what you meant. it's there true. but if somethings nitpicking then this, i still have great control over my character. i'm more frustrated by the fact that if i'm hugging a wall the camera auto rotates.
>>323150903
I consider the control of your character to be a pretty damn basic, important part of gameplay. If you get control of your character and it immediately feels awkward then something is not right. Character control affects any further gameplay there is.
>>323144731
This is what happens when you take a next gen engine and strip it back to make it work on last gen consoles. If Dark Souls 2 was next gen only then it would have looked like Bloodborne but they wanted to get the wider install base at the time and release it earlier in order to not compete with BB.
I just want to know what happened with the lighting in DaS2. Why did they choose to make it what it is? It's such an incomprehensible decision.
It was shit.
>>323152870
Probably couldn't run it on PS360.
I think Dark 2 was being built for gen 8 originally.
>>323144081
Of course it does, DaS 2 felt like fucking shovelware
>>323144081
Yeah, it's strange how a 720p game, probably played by most on 42/37 inches tv, still manages to look better than DaS 2 on 4k.
>>323144242
