I've played through Des, Das and then BB, skipping Das2 for whatever reason. With Das3 coming out, i considered running through Das2 sotfs on PS4.
I watched a little bit of a playthrough to see if id like it, and it looks fucking horrible, what happened? i thought maybe after finishing BB again recently that the step back in graphics was throwing me off, but after watching Das and even Des gameplay, they both look so much better than most areas in Das2.
So far Majula is the only area ive seen which actually looks like a finished product. everywhere else looks like a free to play Korean MMO from 2007. Its like they just knocked up a level in some 3D model program and tiled some textures over it and released it like that, no filters, no lighting effects or even any shadows or atmospheric effects. was this even made by the same company?
B-Team etc etc
dark souls 2 looks like a ps2 game, dark souls 3 looks like a ps3 game
>I watched a little bit of a playthrough
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>>335467607
It's weird, but dark souls 2 has the most dynamic lights out of all the souls games and even using the torch casts shadows on stuff which can look super nice at some areas.
Everything else about it looks fucking terrible though.
>>335467607
The game got downgraded during development.
I wouldn't bother with it personally, its ridiculously worse in quality compared to the others.
>>335467607
hurr look guys i found this bad area
surely the whole game is like it!
Lots of places in DS2 look great. Stop being a memer you don't fit in.
>>335468084
wow, that almost looks as good as softly modded vtmb
Don't waste your time with this piece of shit.
>>335467607
development hell + namco being faggots + from software reusing assets that were built for an open world game + original director being absent and not paying any attention to the crap they were pulling without him
>>335468084
Right, so we have the Sir Alonne fight (who looks like garbage himself) and Majula, both areas blinding you with the sun. why does everywhere else look like this then?
Just the forest of giants looks bad, the rest is prettying decent
>>335467607
>still less linear than DS3
People just won't admit it yet since 3 just came out
>>335468941
>people say THIS is better than 3
Kek
>>335469045
>its good because its non-linear
excellent meme.
>why ps3/360 game looks bad
>>335469045
Who cares if the world is horrible and ugly?
>>335469142
Hey I never said it was good, just said it was less linear than 3.
>>335468369
>hurr hurr
>guys I made a meme
>hurr hurr
>>335469096
>console version
well it does run better 3 on cuckstation 4.
>>335469176
Who cares about the fucking graphics? I'm glad SotfS has 60fps. Playing Dark Souls for the graphics is kinda dumb
>>335469045
>you can go TWO PATHS from majula!
>they end up reconnecting anyway
holy shit what a wild ride
>>335469294
Doesn't matter, still less linear than 3 no matter how you put it.
>>335469345
you say that like you don't have the option to go a different route and fight harder bosses early or something
>>335469279
>graphics
What? The atmosphere and level design is horrible and ugly. That has nothing to do with graphics
>>335469345
>linearity=bad
I want neo /v/ to fucking die
>>335468084
you probably can cut yourself with that floor
>>335469448
I also never said it was bad either. Stop making these dumb conclusions.
>>335469448
I don't think you understand what makes Dark Souls good
>>335469279
This. From Soft couldn't design a pretty level if their lives were hanging in the balance anyway, and I'll take DaS2 running at a steady 60 over DaS3 dipping to sub-20 for no reason at all.
What the fuck happened?
>>335467607
This happened.
PERFORMANCE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GRAFICS
>>335469672
>muh epic adventure needs epic graphics; muh immersion!
thats what happened
>>335468084
Now go up to the window and see that 64x64 texture for a "skybox", or just go the other way and see the endless, empty halls of grey shit.
>>335469665
The combat, level design, music and bosses
Linearity doesn't matter if gameflow and game progression is good, which it is in 3.
>>335469143
more like
>why ps3/360 game looks so much worse than both previous games in the series and looks most areas are so lazily made that they look like they belong on a PS2/xboxhueg
>>335469672
>from can't design a pretty level
Uhhhhh yeah if you're strictly talking about 2, sure.
>taking fps over quality design
Kek. You fucking plebs
>>335469697
GAMEPLAY > PERFORMANCE > GRAFIX
>>335469792
And yet all Souls games look like garbage anyway. Why didn't anyone at From think to focus on good performance if they couldn't make a good-looking game anyway?
Souls games in general have always looked ugly. Dark Souls 2 is no exception to this.
>>335469882
I'm glad you agree that ds2 is still the best one then.
>>335469897
Because it's just the style in how they create the worlds I guess. Nothing can be done about it by arguing over it.
>>335469692
This.
You'll notice that Dark Souls 3 actually has a tonne of repetitious textures, but they just aren't as noticeable due to smart lighting.
>>335469897
Not froms fault you have zero taste. The souls series has some of the most creative\Stunning design in the industry. Excluding 2 obviously
>>335467607
the lighting is fucking awful, and the shaders don't seem to work properly, so everything thing looks fullbright all the time
and also the repeating textures don't help
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but all souls games are about 6 years behind in the grafix department. SotFS does look better than DS1 tho.
>>335469672
>DaS3 dipping to sub-20 for no reason at all.
So it's not only me. I recently upgraded my PC. It uses a lot of CPU unfortunately. At first my cpu speed was slowed down to 2.6ghz, the speed was shit. I pulled it up to 4ghz, it goes sub 30 on some open areas but steady 60 otherwise. I don't know if vsync is set on, but it's abysmal compared to other games I play.
>>335469991
>low framerate = style
>>335469990
No, sorry in my opinion DaS2 is the weakest, shit hitboxes, running takes forever, shit rolls, shockwaves, soul memory.
But hey, pvp and powerstancing were pretty good.
Also DaS 2 had the best looking dragon covenant.
>>335470120
Jesus christ das2 drones are delusional
>>335470148
I have a fucking laptop and I haven't dipped below 60 once
>>335470120
Arguably the worst area in the games + dlc for repeating textures.
>>335467607
It's because the lighting engine was removed in those areas.
>>335470225
I'm playing DaS3 on my N-Gage and I haven't once dipped under hardcore 120 FPS. You Souls haters need to git gud and stop getting stuck on the Asylum Demon. Praise Vaati.
>>335468084
hurr look guys i found this good area
surely the whole game is like it!
>>335470219
So, because I have played DS1 and 2 on PC and I think DS2 looks better, I'm a DS2 drone?
>>335469916
DeS looks beautiful to this day though - all thanks to the level design and atmosphere.
>>335470225
Post specs senpai. I'm running under win10, maybe that's why it's slow or maybe I was an idiot to buy an amd system. Hell knows.
>>335470318
>i'm allowed to cherry pick bad looking areas
>but you're not allowed to cherry pick good looking areas
hurr fucking durr
>>335469294
6, faggot. Five if you don't count Things Betwixt.
>Go back to Things Betweixt
>Run to the Shaded Woods
>Drop down into The Gutter
>Head to the Forest of Fallen Giants
>Go through the sewers to Heide's Tower of Flame
>Pay the miracle seller to rotate the tower and get into Huntsman's Copse
Meanwhile, in Dark Souls III, instead of just installing Firelink like in DS1 and having you go up a wall to get to Lothric you just warp to a fucking bonfire.
>>335470396
It's hardly cherry picking when most of it is bad like that, more like sampling.
>>335470396
>chery picking bad areas
>das2
Tip top kek pal
>>335469851
>than both previous games
lol no it doesn't look worse than DeS.
>>335470363
I've got 10 as well. I don't know my specs off the top of my head, I'm on my phone, but it's not top of the line. I just have an ASUS of reasonable quality, it's run everything pretty well and this is no exception. I dunno what the issue is with everyone else.
>>335467717
Dark Souls 1 looks like PS1 era cgi
>>335470548
It annoyed me a lot too. And yet people complain about the lack of interconnected worlds in DS2.
>>335470120
I really wanted to like this dlc, but they definitely botched how it looked and how it played. Fortunately Irithyll was everything I wanted in a sprawling snowy christmas town.
>>335469279
We arent talking about how technically impressive the graphics are here friendo, we are talking about why the fuck they released a game which was so ugly and unfinished or lazily made that most of it looks like a custom CSS map.
this random Minecraft cave looks nicer than many parts of DS2
>>335470548
>walk for 30 seconds through a tunnel to Heide
>look back to Majula and are out in the middle of the ocean
>go down an elevator below sea level
>a cave thats at sea level
heuheue
le interconnecting!
DaS1 definitely had a better look than DS2, even in DX11 mode. The lighting is just incredibly off in 2.
>faggots always complain about DkS2 because they have their nostalgia goggles on from babbies first souls
When will this shit meme end
>>335471249
>le "the world don't make sense" retard
>>335471249
I'd rather have some sense of exploration then none at all. I spent like thirty minutes walking around Firelink trying to find out how I get to the next area, then I'm just told I need to warp.
>Calling das2 world design ugly
lol fuck off
>>335471141
nice bait
Why do people pretend dark souls 2 wasn't a huge disappointment? Is it just shitposting or do some people really think its better than any of the others? Its EASILY the weakest souls game.
>>335471396
>it clearly doesn't
>"hurr your a fucking retard! suspension of disbelief!!!!!! its okay if it doesn't make sense!!!!!! ITS NOT LIKE IT FOLLOWS DARK SOULS OR ANYTHING!!!!!"
>>335471418
>explored to find where to go next
>complains that he explored thoroughly
????
>>335471558
It was their first souls game. They'll say it wasn't but they are just lying to not seem biased.
>>335471418
Same shit happened to me famalama, i really liked DaS3 but come on, they did that to mask loading screens right?
Ever tried looking down at the trees on both sides of the bridge going from Andre of Astora to Sen's Fortress?
Yeah, don't pretend you couldn't cherrypick ugly areas from DS1 as well.
>>335471776
We aren't cherry picking. 50% of das2 looks like pure shit bud
>>335471642
You're a retard because you think the world is supposed to make sense.
DaS2 was one of the best looking ps1 games ever though
>>335471642
>Exploring and finding fucking nothing for it besides a disappointing "Well, we couldn't fit Firelink into the world at large, so just warp to the first area".
>Well, at least you explored!
>>335471921
>haha fuck you idiot, only dark souls 1 is allowed to make sense! haha!
>>335472006
>thats a problem
>>335471558
>disappointment
Yes
>BLUNDER OF THE CENTURY 0/10 REEEEE DAS1 WAS LITERALLY FLAWLESS
No
>>335471870
>50%
Which is why the only ugly screenshots are from Forest of Fallen Giants and Shaded Woods. Literally 50% of the whole game guys.
>>335471870
Did you see the e3 footage? It looks fucking great.
>>335471921
Not the guy you are replying to but calling someone a retard doesn't invalidate their point. You need to call him a retard, then explain why he is wrong otherwise you're just back peddling into ad hominem.
>>335472112
What about? >>335472004
That looks disgusting
>>335472103
Why do you only respond in greentext, faggot
>>335472112
>BLUNDER OF THE CENTURY 0/10 REEEEE DAS1 WAS LITERALLY FLAWLESS
Never claimed that, dark souls had plenty of flaws but Dark Souls 2 only made those flaws worse a lot of the time, as well as bring along its own shitty problems like crap level and world design, and dull atmosphere.
>>335472258
>stops talking about dark souls because he got btfo
>s-stop posting in greentext!
>>335472112
sorry you have such shit taste anon
>>335472112
>introduce multiple friends to dark souls
>tell them to get it
>they all buy dark souls 2
>absolutely fucking hate it
>"I would pay them to take it back from me"
>"The only game I've ever considered trading in"
They're either normies or Dark Souls II is complete and utter shit, considering I agree with them I'd say the latter.
>>335467607
It was made by Froms B-team and they have horrible art direction and had no talent when it came to piecing the world together/
A few places look nice but only a few.
>>335467740
I just finished the whole game and honest all it feels and looks like is a bunch of deviant Art conceptual drawings turned and thrown together in every nonsensical way possible.
>>335472238
Pro tip: any game looks bad if you turn the brightness up to max and then run it through Youtube compression.
DS2 graphics were fucking amazing
...as long as you had a torch in your hand
>>335472475
okay bud
>>335472379
>tfw you have defeated me
>>335472534
>640x360
>full brightness
>compression artifacts everywhere
Yes this is 100% what the game looked like when I played it. Fucking B-team, how do they do it?
>>335470854
There is a difference between how technically impressive the graphics can be. and how good the game actually looks. obviously ds2 will have technically better graphics. but that doesnt mean shit when 90% of the game has no effort put into the level design and has geometry and lightning effects like a ps2 game
Japanese games always look shite compared to the graphical capability available at the time, mgs4 being an exception.
But what those gook games lack in aesthetics, they always make up for it in gameplay and value..
>>335472447
Nice anecdote. None of my friends finished dark souls 1 but each did multiple playthroughs of 2. Therefore dark souls 2 is better.
>>335472647
I can tell your feelings are hurt... why do you defend trash so much? what has be team done to you? That area looks like hot garbage regardless of how bright or dark it is and a higher resolution will only make it look worse.
>>335472534
jesus fuck someone could actually it was taken from a ps2
what the fuck were they doing? so many games look miles better, including ds1
SotFS>Dark souls 3
>>335471418
The entire world of ds3 is interconnected and despite the initial warp everything after is seamless and you can see how everything connects reasonably from a distance like in ds1 rather than the garbage in ds2. Some of my favorite moments so far:
-Going up from Farron Keep and.realizing youre on the broken bridge you saw all the way back in Undead Settlement
-Standing atop Anor Londo and seeing the entire town you've been in, the great cathedral, the bridge, and lothric way in the distance
>>335472647
>Full brightness
Haha delusional fuck
>>335472726
>But what those gook games lack in aesthetics, they always make up for it in gameplay and value..
I get the gameplay part, but
>value
What did he mean by this? Are you telling me the secret ingredient is love?
>>335473008
retard
>>335473008
I have to assume that you didn't actually play the game yourself and just watched it on Youtube if you think that's what it actually looks like. You can't be taken seriously with these fucking garbage screenshots.
It comes down to lighting and shadows. Anything that's not prebaked looks fucking awful, esp the PC. DaS and DeS look like shit but that's cuz of their generation, with all respect to that they look good, and it's not like DaS looks so bad it's unplayable, darkroot garden is still the most atmospheric forest in any game I've played, and nito is still spooky as fuck, and there's a lot more than that. DaS 2 is a graphical abortion, and most of it comes down to bad lighting.
dark souls 1 cocksuckers are just the fucking worst
>>335473008
Get a load at this amazing looking room a fine reward after beating a boss look at all the detail b-team put their heart and soul into this game :^)
Scholar at least fixes SOME of the dark areas and overall makes some quality of life adjustments globally, such as upping the contrast, reducing the greyed out look the vanilla game had
>>335473145
>>335473162
BTFO
>>335473272
Sorry we have actual standards and don't just eat up mediocrity and try to defend it
>Choosing to defense force the worst game in the series
I really don't understand what makes someone so contrarian. Is it just high school kids who feel the need to be different?
>>335473008
T..too bright, this a level beyond maxim!
Looks good for me.
Aside from durability tied to a framerate, this game run flawlessly.
This DS2 defense force is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen and I thought the game was pretty good
>>335473373
and N64 woods might look like ass but it has it's nice spots.
overall I didnt mind it
>>335473003
>-Standing atop Anor Londo and seeing the entire town you've been in, the great cathedral, the bridge, and lothric way in the distance
That's easily my favorite piece of map design in the game. Super cathartic just to look down and see the shit you did.
>>335473487
I assume with Ds1's popularity Ds2 attracted a lot of new kids to the series and it ended up being THE souls game to them.
Its honestly indefensible.
>>335473428
How can das2 drones defend this shit? It looks like an ugly ps2 game.
>>335473534
>>335473660
because it's easy to nitpick poor looking areas.
but the game overall is more colorful than even DaS3, and has some nice areas sometimes
>>335473514
>letterboxing
Kill yourself my man.
>>335473765
>>335473428
Doesn't look like that in my game. Turn your brightness DOWN, dork.
I still like DS2 the least out of all of the souls games but modded the game can look pretty decent while running better than DS3
>>335473831
>>335473675
>>335473765
>>335473514
Yeah to bad you can;t actually explore any of it and are stick on liner fucking walkways.. honestly that area looks good but its one of the worst in layout and design.
It also makes no sense how you get there from Firelink and no mans warf
>>335473765
>N64 graphics on a ps3 game is 'nit picking'
>>335473765
DS3 doesn't have color because the fire is fading. Men are turning into arch trees, dragons returning, the unkindled rising and taking the place of hollows, the fire summoning long dead cinders in desperation... its all thematically appropriate
>>335472131
LOOKED YOU FUCKING INBREAD AUTIST
>>335473765
>but the game overall is more colorful than even DaS3
That's not a good thing. DaS1 was bleak, but beautiful. The only traditionally colorful and scenic area is a complete illusion.
DaS2 failed at making the game bleak in the first release when they just made everything grey, and then completely ignored the tone of the series in SotFS.
>>335473675
Best looking area and best armor.
I approve.
>>335473908
>>335473910
>It also makes no sense how you get there from Firelink and no mans warf
No man's wharf yes. that is poorly thought out.
but from Majula? its simple. you can see majula from heide's. the distances are shortened. so what might actually be a long way worldwise, is shortened for gameplay purposes. it's a side effect i imagine, of DaS2's lost open world structure. they had to jam everything together when Bamco told them to stop
>>335473969
This.
Ds3 has a tone and actual art direction.
Ds2 just feels like a bunch of unconnected generic fantasy concepts stringed together.
>>335473882
"Y-your brightness is just too high you're not SUPPOSED to see that the game looks like garbage"
>>335474053
>Ds2 just feels like a bunch of unconnected generic fantasy concepts stringed together.
Correct. That's the point.
>Many kingdoms rose and fell on this tract of earth; mine was by no means the first.
>Anything that has a beginning also has an end. No flame, however brilliant, does not one day splutter and fade.
>But then, from the ashes, the flame reignites, and a new kingdom is born, sporting a new face.
>>335473882
>IF YOU TURN THE BRIGHTNESS SO LOW THAT YOU CAN'T SEE SHIT, THE GAME ACTUALLY LOOKS GOOD!
DaS2 apologists know no shame.
>>335474167
"It's SUPPOSED to be a generic looking lazy cash in on DS1 Anon!"
>>335474167
We are seeing one Kingdom in Ds2 and that's Dr anlaic that's not an excuse
>>335473141
Value for money. You usually get a tonne of hours out of a Rice game than a Western game that looks great but has a 6 hour campaign and a dead multiplayer.
>>335473969
thats not a good excuse. color is good. it makes for more visually engaging environments.
>>335474014
>The only traditionally colorful and scenic area is a complete illusion.
>what is firelink
>what is Darkroot with it's deep greens and blues
>what is Sen's with it's orange bricks
>what is both day and night Anor Londo
>what is blighttown with it's browns and greens
Dark Souls 1 had tons of color. it helped to make each area pop individually, while DaS3 has a serious problem with everything being the same sepia tone
you can have a dying world and still have some goddamned color.
>>335469345
People saying 3 is linear are actually meming themselves.
>>335474282
>>335471472
JESUS
>>335473882
I see they've taken on Bloodborne's aberration for Scholar?
Does DS3 do it too?
>>335474282
Every single area in DS3 is more visually engaging than anything in DS2 outside of Majula.
>>335474372
>>335474403
scholar doesnt have abberation. neither does DaS3 thats a filter.
Demons defense force
>Not needed
DS1 deference force
>Git gud scrub
DS2 defense force
>It's SUPPOSED to be shit.
DS2 defense force
>Learn to parry
BB defense force
>Y-you never played the game!
That about size it up?
>>335474167
DaS3 has locations from different time periods all being mashed together and yet still feels cohesive and solid (for lack of a better word).
DaS2's world is among the worst I've ever explored in an RPG.
>>335474458
>>335474372
It's funny that you accuse people of cherry picking when you're the one cherry picking the best looking areas. At least 50% of the game looks like ps2 garbage. Ds2 is an inexcusable shit fest
>>335474549
>>335474562
thats wrong though. DaS2 is way behind visually, but not every area looks bad. you have to cherrypick harder to get bad shots than to get decent ones
play it with real darkness enb, you'll get the e3's atmosphere and graphics
>>335467607
Fugg u
>>335474282
>DaS3 has a serious problem with everything being the same sepia tone
What the fuck am I reading? Did you even get past High Wall?
This thread is bait.
All the screens being posted are from vanilla not Scholar of The First Sin.
>>335474562
I can also cherrypick some garbage DaS1 areas
"I can't stand a tightly interconnected world if I have to warp out of the vendor hub but its totally immersive if a map is literally physically impossible if the hub is connected! "
Lets not even try to understand how this connects to Huntsman's Copse and Iron Keep
>>335474747
>DUDE DARKNESS AND WET SURFACES LMAO
Literally any game looks good if you make it nighttime and raining.
>>335474562
>At least 50% of the game
Forest of Fallen Giants and Shaded Woods is literally 50% of the game.
>looks like ps2 garbage
If you ignore all the actual screenshots posted ITT and focus on the compressed youtube screenshots.
>>335474767
Nah. SOTFS is fucking great but it doesn't actually improve the visuals much, just makes some areas dark like The Gutter and replaces a few textures with higher resolution versions.
>>335474818
or maybe some das3 areas, where enything you arent supposed to be looking at directly looks like this
See guys? DS2 doesn't look bad in the zones that have shadows
:^)
I really hate how DS3 basically took Bloodborne's art direction. It's all colorless and full of shitty bloom. It hides the lack of details on consoles, but in DS3 it just seems very bland and boring. DS1 and DS2 can't match the graphical fidelity, but at least they had many interesting and colorful parts there were remarkable.
Bloodborne's bloom abuse is worse than Oblivion's.
>>335474657
Yes evey area looks bad out side of the scenic spots you pick the rest of the levels are just bland hallways in square dull rooms
>>335474973
DELETE THIS
>>335474818
>bass cannon
I see what you did there
>>335474973
That's literally N64 level of fidelity. That sounds like hyperbole, but I'm actually serious.
>>335474973
You know too much anon, delete your fucking post right now
>>335474991
>DS3
>Colorless
Actually play the game before complaining.
>>335474973
So I'm not supposed to be looking at FoTG and Shaded woods?
Are the faults of this game just a little bit exaggerated?
And you can actually go seamlessly into this city
>>335471309
fuck i love the atmosphere ds1 graphics creates
>>335475115you're not even supposed to play it
>>335475196
They're mostly accurate.
The lightning is the biggest problem, just look at the walls of the cave here. all of the wall, the floor, everything is perfectly lit with no shadows somehow, it should all be so much darker and have variation through it. and your character has no shadow, he's disconnected from the world. lighting is one of the most important things, its the difference between a realistic environment and an obvious room with objects placed around it and models moving around on the ground
>>335470343
yes, because that is objectively wrong.
>>335475196
No, Dark Souls 1 is literally flawless and Dark Souls 2 is worse than ET and Superman 64 put together. Based Miyazaki-san can do no wrong.
>>335467876
That's not true though Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 have more. A lot of weapons in Dark Souls 3 will even provide dynamic light like the slaver branding iron.
>>335475196
A standard is place by its predecessor's and it embarrassingly fails to match them.
while it makes a lot of quality of life changes and actually runs well all I could do my first time playing the game is faceplam and cringe and the laughable attempt to create a engaging and immersive world.
>>335475196
No, if anything they're underplayed. Souls games have always walked a tightrope between being absolutely brilliant or unplayable garbage, and only a few key design choices separate the two. DaS2 is definitely the latter.
Being ugly as fuck is only part of the problem.
>>335475307
>your character has no shadow
now I know you're shitposting
There are fags in this thread who bought DS3 at launch instead of waiting for improved compacted version with DLC.
Said people played the actual prototype (aka beta tested it) and not the final product which is yet to come and got spoiled. Those people will never experience what DS3 was supposed to be.
How does it feel to be a beta tester ? Did the devs pay you to test the game and jeopardize your first real flawless bugless playthrough or did you pay them instead to spoil yourself with bugs ?
Whats it like knowing that you'll never experience the real DS3 when th DLCs come out ?
>>335474973
Lol this screenshot again. All das2 shitters can do is cherrypick.
>>335475614
DaS2 babbies everyone.
>>335475614
>bought DS3 at launch
jokes on you I did not buy it at launchI preordered it
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dB4AsHv.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
THIS IS WHAT THE CONSOLETARDS IN THIS THREAD KEEP DEFENDING
DaS1 = DaS2 = DaS3
all of them have major flaws, yet all of them are 9.7/10 for me.
and anyone who thinks otherwise, is just a little faggot.
>>335474863
all they really had to do was make that elevator go down instead of up. no idea why they didnt change that in sotfs
>>335475857
Looks like rainbow puke
at least Dark souls 2 has color
>>335475727
>>335475854
Whats it like to be a beta test fag that tested the game for people like me who will enjoy the game flawlessly ?
You sampled poop water so they could refine it properly into fresh water so I cold enjoy it.
>>335475857
nice brightness...
>>335475857
DELETE THIS THIS IS NEXT GEN
>>335475614
Feels like I got to play the game and experience it with everyone while you clock in later after the online is dead and everyone knows every secret
>>335475879
People just love to whinge about Dark Souls II because it was made by a different development team than Demon's Souls and Dark Souls I
>>335475857
>>335476130
>>335476135
>>335476213
AT CINEMATIC 20 FPS WITH 30 SECOND LOADING TIMES
Can someone create a Webm of the transition to Dranlaic castle?
The castle is literally on a huge mountain and facing you and you walk through a stright small tunnel and suddenly your on top of the giant mountain and the castle is to the complete right of you...
also lets not even get into how disgusting Dranlaic is from the inside... I mean JUST LOOK AT THIS THRONE ROOM
I can't find a batter picture but people who played the game know how it looks
>>335476051
>implying 3 has no color
The desperation is real
>>335470120
What the fuck is it about DaS2 that makes it look and feel so un-souls
There's just something about how the enemies move, how everything looks, how the animations are done, it looks completely un-souls. Bloodborne and DS3 look the way I expect a souls game to.
>>335470986
DaS1 with the fix on PC looks better than 2
>>335475934
But Iron Keep has a sky
>>335476282
Um no. It's an ugly clunky piece of shit
>>335476252
>playing DS for online play
>implying DS3 won't be as populated once DLCs and iproved version come out
>>335476252
>he plays online
you can have it buddy
>>335476130
>being this butthurt that you bought vanilla DaS2 that you think people who bought vanilla DaS3 are in the same position
The difference between the two is that people who bought 2 vanilla got a shit game, whereas people who've bought 3 vanilla have got a great game.
>>335475614
>tfw you've had no glitches
>no fps drops
Sure bud
>>335469448
Everyone bitched about 2 being linear when 3 is more linear, than both 1 and 2.
was it reshade that is used to change the lighting? does it get you softbanned?
not that it really matters thanks to soul memory, but still wondering
>>335476591
Because 2 is a bad game
>>335472396
Okay I hate dark souls 2, but that's unfair. The contrast is fucked in that picture.
>>335476343
other colors exist besides red, gray and black
>>335476760
So 1 is a good game despite everything after Anor Londo being a retarded fuckfest of shit level design?
>>335476591
With 2 it's obvious they just didn't have the talent for anything more complex.
With 3 it feels like it was deliberate, and the individual areas are far more intricate than any of the other games.
>>335476496
>whereas people who've bought 3 vanilla have got a great game.
>being this deluted because of the hype.
Seen people whine and cry about crashes, getting stuck on walls, massive fps drops, PvP invasions (not really a problem but they'll problably improve it), missing textures, etc.
>>335476591
People are willing to overlook things like that when the rest of the game is compelling.
Ds2 is hot garbage so people can;t help themselves but complain
>>335476591
I would say it's as linear as 2, not more so. I have missed bits and done bosses in a different order to my friends. It hasn't completely flipped the game but it's certainly not any more linear than 2.
>>335476897
Even the worst level design in DaS (Izalith) is on par with anything in 2.
>>335476897
Everything leading up to Anor Londo is enough to make it a great game.
If someone got the Lordvessel and then stopped playing completely they would still have had a compelling experience.
>>335476476
>>335476478
>missing out on a large portion of the game
Pvp in souls is top tier because of how unpredictable it is. Mad phantoming and being a raspberry phantom in anor londo is the most fun I've had in all 5 games
>>335474482
To be fair everything that gets complained about on /v/ about ds1 literally is solved by getting good.
>>335476897
a game with an excellent first half and a mediocore second half is pretty good, especially since you don't have to slog through the mediocore stuff to get to the good stuff
>>335476946
>YOU'RE NOT REALLY HAVING FUN OH GOD WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE DAS2 PLEASE STOP HATING DAS2
never played dark souls, but why is the level design good in the first part and bad in the later parts? what changed
>>335474898
case in point MGS ground zeroes
that game looked great in daytime too though
>>335469448
the game gains nothing from being more linear but loses early game build variety and diversity in repeat playthroughs, so while it's not bad because it's linear it is worse off
>>335477229
It losses focus and becomes gimmicky and because they are meant to be done in any order are all pretty "easy"
>>335476905
nice clipping
>>335476431
DaS1 looked better than DaS2 regardless. The only things aesthetically that 2 did better was lightingand even that was pretty shit
>>335467607
because bandai namco rushed it out of the door
if they had spent time on it and released it today, it would have been great
>tfw DaS2 is your favorite in the series but also the most hated
Oh well, atleast it has the best PvP in the series.
>>335477348
>"easy"
Outright easy with pushovers for bosses despite being lords.
>>335474747
To bad the actually lvl makes no sense and that giant tower serves no purpose other then to look like a ripoff of Isengard
>>335477229
Don't listen to this faggot>>335477348
It got bad because they rushed the game out the door to meet deadlines
>>335477229
It's only one area that is noticeably bad (Izalith/Demon Ruins, but arguably two if you're not a fan of the Archives) and it's like that because they ran out of money.
The second half is still miles ahead of anything in two. People just have a bad opinion of it because the first half is GOAT material.
>>335477229
Opens up a bunch of areas all at once that are poorly balanced so no matter what order you do them in the first area will always be hard as balls and the last will be piss easy. Meanwhile the level design itself just nosedives. Izalith is a bunch of rehashed enemies, totg forces difficulty with low visibility, and thr dukes archives is a clusterfuck of more rehashed enemies but with crystals on them this time and new londo has ghosts that can only be killed under certain circumstances
>>335476772
Are you joking? Lol someone hasn't played the game.
>implying 3 is only red grey and black
So desperate
>>335470938
>>335471016
why are the proportions so fucked up
>>335477720
They wanted a cheap graphic novel look
> this thread
but DS2 has the most boobs in any souls series, emerald herald, the ore girl, the bra witch
