It's good because

>Combat is miles better
>Every enemy dies to R1 spam
>Has the best bosses
The only good bosses are Sulyvahn, Dancer, Midir, and Nameless King
>Took the best parts of the series and made them better
More like did the same thing again with a fresh coat of paint while adding nothing new at the same time.

Why is DS3 bad anyway?

Can we just get to the usual part of posting whatever prepped images everyone has, so this thread can join the previous 5 dozen from last week?

>DS2 fags now make multiple daily threads against DS3
God, the fact that this garbage IP is dead and your shitty community will die a slow, excruciating death is the best part of it all.

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no poise
rollspam
r1spam
ganksquads
linearity
rehashing old content

out of the way faggots, objective facts coming through:
1 > 3 > shit > 2

the bosses
the soundtracks
the builds
the DLC

What compels you to make this thread every hour

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Dark Souls 3 has the best bosses out of the trilogy. It also has the best graphics, the smoothest gameplay, and the levels are well designed. The art style is nice and so are the enemy designs. It also has the best DLC. It has its fair share of problems, like how the games enemies tend to be too fast at times and they're so fast that the game can't keep up with your inputs due to the shitty input delay and queuing systems. The world layout is also fairly linear. Despite this, the levels themselves are well designed and fairly open. At the end of the day it also has the best DLC (even though Ariendel is short, its quality is fine as far as these games is concerned).

At the end of the day, Dark Souls 3 feels the most complete out of all the games in the trilogy, even though it has its fair share of problems.

Twin princes, Dancer, Gael, Friede were also good

>>Every enemy dies to R1 spam
There are enemies with poise. I hope you're aware of this. I do mean actual poise, as from Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2, not DS3's player tier poise system.

You can beat every enemies with R1 and back stab in every soul game. Ds3 offer the most incentive to diversify your moveset. The lack of hard poise enemies allow that to happen. Soft poise system in ds3 allow the game to be dynamic and more engaging. Of course, if you don’t enjoy playing the game and just want to break the game by tanking through everything smashing attack button, then you’ll miss hard poise

i understand why they might not make lists, but i think armour, watchers, deacons, and dancer deserve a mention

It isn't, it's a hot new meme by the "DaS II is actually the best" contrarians with a bit of old school "NEVER EVER!" BB Snoys trying their shots at creating salt again.

The worst thing about DaS III is its pvp is worse than II and the level plan is linear. Everything else is great, it has objectively better boss fights than even DaS.

-Poise exists, its just tooled differently. You can also just turn on classic poise if you want to.
-Every game is roll spamming, DS3 is just faster so it sticks out more.
-Every game is R1 spam, this game is just faster, like before, so it sticks out more. R1 spam is a viable tactic in the other games, the difference is that the other games throw high poise enemies at the player earlier than 3 does. You can r1 spam your entire way through all of these games. More-so int he others since -DS3 has a different poise system, so you can't just stack fat armor and r1 spam through absolutely everything (bosses included)
-3 has the least amount of gank squads out of all these games. If you want ganking, look at 2.
-Valid
-Why would a direct sequel to 1 not mention things about it? Did you complain when Dark Souls used Demon's Souls content? Or when Dark Souls 2 rehashed Dark Souls content?

The enemies with ds3’s player poise actually gives you incentive to diversify your moveset. The game is designed so that you can’t spam R1 as fast as you can and get away with it. Every weapons has limited true stun lock and those enemies can either block, dodge, or super armor attack right out of stun lock to counter R1 spam.

i had an easier time in pve with high poise armor + two handed heavy weapons than when i played through on the much touted knight starter class set

>it has objectively better boss fights than even DaS.
Dark Souls has shitty bosses, so this isn't much of an accomplishment.

This. Plus it has the best atmosphere and OST of the 3.

Who the fuck talks about the particle effects in 3?

>It's good because...
Because it has the best PvP

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why are you so obsessed with particle effects

No one, it DS2fag cope.

>-Every game is roll spamming, DS3 is just faster so it sticks out more.

People bitch about DS2's tracking attacks, but in there if you fuck up the timing of your rolls, you're gonna eat dirt.

Meanwhile, everyone praises DS3's bosses, and while some of them have nice themes and look neat, also boil down to "literally spam roll without any thought while they do their 10+ chain attacks" bullshit.

It's not challenging, it's tedious.

ost i guess maybe, atmosphere absolutely not. das1 is so much better in that regard. as a case study think of the transformation of firelink from mystery to safe room to as hostile as the world around it

>People bitch about DS2's tracking attacks, but in there if you fuck up the timing of your rolls, you're gonna eat dirt.
That's because the games hitboxes are terrible and it ties iframe quantity to a fucking stat.

>R1 spam
Isn't this a thing in all games? I'm playing DS2 seriously for the first time and I find myself 'spamming' R1 just as much as the other games including DeS.

go ahead and mash roll against pontiff or the champ

>and the levels are well designed
Holy shit

Even if you level adaptibility you need to time your rolls you fucking brainlet.

>TRC
>good
>let alone the best DLC

Nigger it has two swamps, the areas themselves are horrid and the DLC is only saved by good bosses.

>"literally spam roll without any thought while they do their 10+ chain attacks"
Or block, or parry. Assuming that you're doing melee and the boss allows for it. You are aware that there is also magic/miracles/pyromancy, right? Also bows and crossbows? There are also plenty of items to use like bombs. You aren't supposed to play these games fairly and expect it to do the same back to you. The games go out of their way to be as unfair as possible at times, either on purpose or by mistake. Bosses can i-frame dodge out of combos if they can get stunlocked, but the player never can. Enemy weapons never bounce off walls, but the players does. Bosses and enemies all have infinite stamina as well. Play it unfairly if you have to. People who bitch about "cheesing" are stupid, the game cheeses against the player all the time.

>Lothric is badly designed because I say so!

>muh ds2 fags
The only time I ever see DS2 discussed on Yea Forums is when DS3fags deflect to it.

>undead settlement through abyss watchers isn’t the worst stretch of gameplay in the series because I say so

>R1 spam
I've played all the fucking games, and R1 was like 90% of attacks I used in each game during the first playthrough.

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>two swamps
>one that doesn't slow your movement and is extremely short
>the other doesn't slow your movement, doesn't poison, and is super short
weak

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The whole spam roll meme exist from a single webm of a guy manage to roll spam (though he did delay a few roll at the end if you look carefully) Gael for 2nsecond for like 5% of the last hp. Bosses in ds3 are designed to catch roll spam and all of them have vastly different pace and attack speed. Of course, there are time that you really luck out and get away with it. Even in the same webm, the guy could have roll spam and dodge everything, he wouldn’t have 0 estus left by the time he beat the Gael

ADP filters the good from the bad.
Base ADP is just fine

Are you talking about the world layout of the level design? Because I specifically mentioned that I was talking about individual level designs and even talked about how the world layout is unfortunately linear.

that's harvest valley to the end of iron keep

>defending two swamps
Like the ringed “city” (one giant staircase) is much better? Like the filler catacombs is better?
>two swamps

It's not as fun as DaS2 but it's a shitload better than DaS1 and Bloodborne.

R2 only runs is where the magic happens

Iron Keep houses the best DLC for ds2, so you btfo yourself

>a shitload better than DaS1 and Bloodborne.
Sure thing.

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In what soul game do you not spam R1. Did you bind attack to another button in the earlier games or something?

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The only people who favorite Dark Souls 3 were introduced to the series with it, through their favorite streamer.

that's not Ivory King

undead settlement itself is one of the best levels in the series, i dont get the hate for it

People have done r2 only run, no roll, no block for every bosses, miracle/magic/pyro only run for ds3 but people will regurgitate r1/roll spam meme as the truth for ds3

>>defending two swamps
neither of them are as egregious as even the base game swamps, and to focus solely on them and not the other aspects of the level means you're only looking to shitpost instead of discuss the DLC in its entirely
>one giant staircase
ah yes, how dare a level contain verticality in it, especially when it loops back in on itself and makes good use of the same bonfires

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Fact.

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Because autistically challenging yourself isn't how the game is normslly played.
I SL1d DaS3 and I think DS3 is the most lenient in regards to iframes and stamina cost per roll. I can absolutely see why people perceive the r1/roll spam meme as reality.

So good i purposely go assassin to spook skip it everytime.
Its the worst filler zone of all time. Even Valley of The Drakes was better.

>isn't how the game is normslly played.
Souls games can be played in any way you want. This is just a stupid contention to make.

No shit sherlock, but are you sure you want to argue that the majority of the playerbase play the game with extreme restrictions?

Yet the raw iframe data dictates that ds3’s iframe is generally around the same as other soul game.

But, like others have said, most people only ever use R1 for the vast majority of the time when playing any of the games.

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Weird, I started with Dark Souls 1 but 3 is my favorite. The interconnected world is neat but the gameplay itself is pretty boring.
3, BB and Sekiro are all a lot more fun.

I love all the games except Sekiro.
3 is my least favorite, but I'm always down for playing it.

Would this make a good vid with some editing?

youtube.com/watch?v=vkJepphNPYE

I didn't watch it but I'm just gonna say no.

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>no poise
i mean the poise in dark souls 1 it's really broken

yes

*ahem*

I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than enjoying Dark Souls 2. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are statting, creating, grinding and gearing a character for at least 18 hours just so he can go and get swarmed by endless hordes of boring enemies. All the hard work you put into your autistic little undead - raising his ADP to actually get iframes, sculpting his stupid face in the anime character creator, making sure he has enough life gems, fighting the same boss in knight armor over and over again, seeking estus shards. All of it has one simple result: you wasting your NEET lifestyle on a strict downgrade of a game that came out in 2011.

Built the perfect hollow? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, some random faggots won't gank squad you in pvp. They'll get to fuck you in the darksign every night. They get the benefits of lagstabbing you off a cliff covered in an ugly green MS paint texture.

As a man who enjoys Dark Souls 2, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 20 hours of your life to playing the worst From Software title since Evergrace. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

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because it's fun you shitposting faglord

based

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Well, I can't argue against that.

The combat is worse.
When you're not just hitting R1 a bunch to stunlock an enemy to death because they have no poise to deal with you getting an attack in first you're dealing with enemies that rigidly follow ways that let them get attacks off at all so you spend most of the game dealing with ambush enemies and enemies that rush at you with slightly more health than you can chip off by using your whole stamina bar and because rolls are so generous there's no reason to limit spending your whole stamina bar.

>Best graphics
Yeah the helmets are top notch. I sure hated being able to see my character's face through all of the helmets in 1 so I'm glad they put in more metal textured polygons to just completely block that off.

The fact that they strung a bunch of shit levels in a row is pretty bad. Walking out of Undead Settlement past an enemy that can't walk past the door it is guarding and which makes you invincible while you open it was an omen of things to come.
>Individual levels
Yeah Anor Londo, Demon ruins 2 electric boogaloo and Consumed Kings balcony flower pots were great.

Your hitbox doesn't update to the position of your model because they likely assumed that the player would have i-frames during that time and then added ADP later. DaS2 is held together with spit.

Oh fuck off. Literally every fucking thread when a DS2fag gets called out they start talking about 3. Even you guys' copypasta is about why DS2 is better than 3.
I don't even like 3 that much, but this level of delusion is just insane.
The only thing 2 has going for it is the PvP and the combat and gameplay "technically" being better. I say "technically", because the game controls like shit, so it doesn't matter.
While uninspired and boring on subsequent playthroughs, Dark Souls 3 was still a return to form for the series.

Brutal

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I have never seen a FROMfag this based ever before

>Yeah Anor Londo, Demon ruins 2 electric boogaloo and Consumed Kings balcony flower pots were great.
Yes, it was. Problem?

Based
and
Redpilled

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Thank you! This is exactly how I've felt but could never put it into words. Thank you

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>Anor Londo, Demon ruins 2 electric boogaloo and Consumed Kings balcony flower pots
>balcony flower pots
of all the things to dwell on

goddamn

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You can only stun lock the weakest common enemies or the glass cannon enemies of the level to death and that’s the case for every soul game. Strong enemies of the level either have hard poise or soft poise. Hard poise is limited to slower bigger enemies most of the time in ds3 and fighting them is the same as fighting similiar enemies in other soul.
Soft poise enemies are typically armored fast enemies and have the same poise as the player. Therefore, you get rewarded for hitting them before they hit you (unless they are using a superarmor move), which is good. However, you can’t stunlock them because limited true stun lock in ds3. For example, it’s typically 2 r1 for a weapon before an enemy can act again. They can dodge away, use superarmor, or block (which causes your r1 to bounce) and counter attack. You can kick the block, chase the roll, or dodge and punish the superarmor attack. Sometimes, enemies do try to smash a non-superarmor out of stun and you can beat them by pressing on your attack. It’s an AI, of course you have an advantage of finding hit on them first so they have more HP to compensate.
It’s a better system than other soul with fast enemy and hard poise. Fighting game involves circling and dodging around them into a back stab or parry bait because you don’t get rewarded for hitting them first at all due to hard poise.

>Copy/paste a Yea Forums meme
>All of the responses are "HOLY SHIT, BASED BASED BASED"
Not really dispelling the notion that 3 is only liked by kids.

holy fucking based and memepilled

> being this butthurt over copypasta
Shit has been around since forever.

>no fun allowed

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and Dark Souls 2 fags are so obnoxious about their shitty mess of a game that I can't help but be on 3's side.

name five(5) levels better than Undead Settlement. It is one of the best designed areas in 3 if not the entire series.

Assmad DS2fag detected.