Love the game, but I also love Dark Souls 2.
Was wondering why Dark Souls 2 Is loathed by some fans and Dark Souls 3 is venerated by the those same fans?
Love the game, but I also love Dark Souls 2.
Was wondering why Dark Souls 2 Is loathed by some fans and Dark Souls 3 is venerated by the those same fans?
Yet to play them so I can't really comment. There's a great youtube video from matthewmatosis that breaks down the faults with DS2, which I really enjoy. imo, DS1 is this great self-contained story that didn't really need a sequel. In my timeline we would have jumped to bloodborne and had another armored core game instead of souls.
One of the problems with matthewmatosis' review is that his complaints about the combat all revolve around him not grasping how the game expects you to deal with multiple enemies. E.g. he complains that the Prowling Magus fight makes it so that you can't see a bunch of the congregation if you lock-on to the priests at the back of the church. A lot of the game's early encounters are supposed to teach you to turn off lock-on when dealing with multiple enemies, but a lot of people just brute force these fights by pulling individual enemies away using ranged attacks.
What? The prowling magus is like Pinwheel 2.0. Who even complains about him?
As I mentioned earlier in my comment, the DS2 review by YouTube channel, matthewmatosis uses Prowling Magus as an example of "artificial difficulty" alongside the twin dragon riders you fight midway through Vendrick's castle.
Killing Prowling Magus is borderline a hate crime though and if I have a spare aesetic I usually refight the old iron king instead so that his death doesn't weigh on my conscience. :)
Don’t know if I can agree with that fully, as I love Dark souls gameplay and love that they did some sequels. Hell, I’m one of the people that actually loved number two, but...,, you can definitely tell 2 is rushed in some way that number one isn’t and even I’ll admit my love for the game might come from the fact I played the beefed up, and mostly fixed “scholar of the first sin” version and never played the original.
Respect your timeline though soros, you’re a smart cat.
Yeah I heard the DLC fixed a lot of the problems. Anyway that's just my take. They're good games though, just not as great as DS 1 imo, but that game was kind of like lightning in a bottle in a way.