Are these games still worth buying?
Yes. Even if the online is dead, the trilogy are fantastic single-player adventures.
I remember putting more or less 200 hours into my pirated Dark Souls just dicking around with builds.
Why? Has something changed? Have they worn out or gone rusty?
>>343134195
Apparently the online for Dark Souls is dead; that's why reddit tried that ridiculous COME BACK TO DARK SOULS day a week ago.
>>343134778
Online isn't necessary at all for Dark Souls. If you really need to summon then there are plentiful NPC summons.
The online on the PC port is fucked. having to manually connect to people on DSCM that I find on the dark souls broadcast section in community.
or else it'll finally get a node 10 hours later.
>>343134778
More alive than ds2
>>343134778
I have 20 nodes all the time. There's been a few red guy encounters too, and even a blue guy.
>>343133949
Fellow pirate here, waiting for fucking D44M
>>343135414I caved on D44m only to not touch it because I literally can't put DaS3 down
Aren't a bunch of ruskies doing progress with it?
The online component isn't necessary. It adds to the experience seeing other players and invading and shit but you don't need it.
>>343134778
I got invaded a few times yesterday, def not dead
>>343135763
And anon will avoid the embarrassment of being summoned only to die stupidly at the first mob or being OHKO by the boss
>>343133680
Yeah. 2 is a piece of dogshit so feel free to play it for an hour then refund it. Or just don't touch it at all.
>>343136812
What's so terrible about 2 exactly? I'm only about half-way through 1 so far.
>>343137097
Not him but it suffers from:
Ugly graphics
Bad hitboxes
Soul Memory (a bad replacement for SL-based matchmaking)
Some awfully-designed areas (literal lineal corridors with nothing interesting on them).
I personally like it almost as much as 1, especially with the DLC chapters, but I can understand why so many anons hate it. My advice is, don't disregard it. You can even pirate it if you aren't sure.