Put tons of weapons into the game

Did you not use the spinny halberd thing? What kind of gay are you?

Before I got it I used great-axe weapons and did fine. I killed tons of invaders because I could 2 shot them.

Do you have no concept of hyperarmor?

Fuck no lmao.

>DS3 mentioned
>Somebody immediately goes out of their way to call it the word souls game
like clockwork

>losing to katanas
Niggah just stand still and parry. Weebs will most always go for the running attack

>my only strategy is to facefuck the enemy and die
Dont worry champ, You'll learn how to play video games someday

How do I use cheat engine to play as bosses and other enemies?

Hyperarmor is a meme that hardly works outside of a few select weapons. Most of the time the straight sword will fuck your asshole so hard that by the time your hit lands you're nearly dead, if it even lands at all, since straight swords can roll-cancel the ending lag on their attack.

DS3 BIG DICK CHAD HERE. I love how you nerds try your best to prove that ds3 sucks when other 2 games don't even come close. DS1 is pretty good at the start ,but the other half is trash. I don't even have to explain why ds2 is trash LMAOOOOOOOOO. Meanwhile ds3 is a smooth experience all the way through like a nice cigar. INB4 poise, poise is for scrubs inb4 muh lore. Lore sucks in all of the dark souls games and the only reason you even know about is because you watched youtube videos.Prove me wrong you can't

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2 is the worst because I cheesed my way through it with the mace and stunlocked everything

I have beaten the game using halberd, scythe and GS.
Git gud

>roll around like a retard
>spam light attack
great game

Anything is viable if you know how to read your opponent.

1 > 3 > 2

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UGS or anything tanky for that matter, only truly shined in das 1

And they're all mediocre games.

>put on havels armour
>never die
Great game

Watch this 6

They put fucking bloodborne enemies against a dark souls player character. At least in bloodborne you could fight back with your speed, even if you get hit its all alright because you’ve got a rally system. This means that your actually supposed to trade hits. When you trade hits in Fart Souls 3 however, (and this fucking happens alot) you just get pissed cos you have to heal again. Anyone who defends this can suck a big Fromsoft dick

The greatsword in DaS 2 is my favorite in the series.

Pathetic

Poise is for faggots and redditors, so no I don't agree with this.

2 is good. You just don't get it.

When did you first realize every "Dark" Souls game fucking sucks and Demon's, Bloodborne, and Sekiro are the true kino?

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Why is 3 so shit? 2 is objectively better.

Says you.
t. Regen build Master race
I don't even need a shield

who said anything about poise?

Well, to be fair, my favorite build definitely has to be Crypt black sword and dark weapon. It was incredibly fun to Guts cosplay in that thing. If das 2 SotFS ever comes to switch, I might need to pick it up.

it's hilarious how everything that was wrong (except for soul memory) with das2 is still present with the addition of removing good shit but retards still defend it saying it's the best in the series

oh yeah the scenery is prettier so that makes it up or something

user please, the adults are talking.

>Dark Souls II isn't even interconnected just lots of filler

You'd have to be braindead to put Dark Souls II above any of the souls games.

DaS1 is pretty good.

DaS1 did

Which of the following is a bigger meme in the Souls community:
>Demons' Souls is the best Souls game
>Dark Souls 1 has a bad second half
>Dark Souls 2's use of mechanics like power stance and bonfire ascetics compensate for all of its significant flaws
>Bloodborne is a masterpiece
>the only viable/good weapons in Dark Souls 3 are straight swords
>Sekiro is harder than every Souls game

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If you think about it and if you're not a total shitter, every weapon is viable in PvE.

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Have you even played the game? There's a reason for that.

>what is dodging?

>BUT THE LEVELS DON'T ALL LOOP BACK INTO ANOTHER ONE SO IT'S WORSE

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the only reason das1 is interconnected before anal rodeo is to cut off on the backtracking because you can't warp between bonfires

there's a reason all the lategame areas are linear as shit

i beat the game at sl1 with a broken straight sword get gud faggot

2 tried something new
3 is a bloodborne reskin

all of the above

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>>Demons' Souls is the best Souls game
There's enough justification for it.
>>Dark Souls 1 has a bad second half
Meme.
>>Dark Souls 2's use of mechanics like power stance and bonfire ascetics compensate for all of its significant flaws
DaS2fags don't just rant on about power stancing and ascetics, but it does border on meme.
>>Bloodborne is a masterpiece
There's enough justification for it.
>>the only viable/good weapons in Dark Souls 3 are straight swords
Meme.
>>Sekiro is harder than every Souls game
Very much a meme. It's no more difficult than any other souls games, and in certain aspects, it's even easier.

>Missing the point

>only straight swords are viable
>lol i beat the game with a straight sword git gud fagit

Are you purposefully acting illiterate?

>Demons' Souls is the best Souls game
But it's true.

based retard

>Which of the following is a bigger meme in the Souls community
That 3 is anything but the bottom rung

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>>Dark Souls 2's use of mechanics like power stance and bonfire ascetics compensate for all of its significant flaws
>>Sekiro is harder than every Souls game
>>Bloodborne is a masterpiece
One of these. Everything else is true.

This. DaS3 is just a worse Bloodborne. But PCniggers need to pretend it's good cause they never played BB.

Sekiro is not souls.

>only straight swords and katanas are viable
2016 called, they want their meta back

But all the "Great"-class weapons in DaS2 are faster and more well balanced.

It is in basically every way but name.

Are you saying it's... soulless?

Why is the straight sword meme still around? It only really matters at tourneyfag level, which is for faggots. Something like 80% of the current player base could be memed to death with a fucking Composite Bow. Pure cope. I'm one of the autists who still queues for undead match, and straight swords need capable hands or you get spanked like every other retard. I've seen pretty much everything work except for pure garbage like Way of White Corona.

i beat the game with Lucerne and had no problems

>Hundreds of kingdoms have risen and fallen sonce DS1
>Astora, Catarina, Carim, Vinheim and the Great Swamp are still a thing
How?

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I thought Ultras or regular Greatswords were crutches. Did I miss out on a better class of weapons entirely in DaS3?

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What? I've beat plenty of people by my attacks taking prio over theirs because of the weight of my sword.

>Way of White Corona.
it's such a cool spell, why did they make it do fuckall damage? to make faith builds even less fun?

Bump.

No it isn't. It's a mediocre action game with an absurd number of checkpoints, healing, and instant self-rez. It's like playing DMD or Infinite Climax and spamming items, only easier and it's designed for you to spam them.

fan service

because das3 is nothing more but a shameless cash-grab using mishmash of das and bloodborne assets

Yeah, right. Still more variety in playstyle than hit and roll simulator.

It's a fucking travesty, I agree. What the fuck were they thinking. It has nothing on Lightning Arrow and never will. No reason to ever use it. Even Emit Force is better.

So it's a casualized souls game with combat revives and a faster, but weaker, parry system?

>Did I miss out on a better class of weapons entirely in DaS3?
Yes.

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>Sekiro fans
>*die because the game has no content*

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But it gets a pass from Yea Forums because it's pretty and lets you feel invincible with how broken Stamina is
Also e-celebs don't shit talk it, what a coincidence

The biggest meme of them all? Probably that DS1 has a bad second half, which would mean that this supposed modern classic is at least a 5/10

Based DS3 chad

>Profaned GS
>mid tier
What the fuck? That thing was fucking amazing, even in PvP. I need to try the other classes asap.

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ive noticed that most of the people who defend ds3 had it as their first souls game, which is interesting

i mean dont get me wrong i dont hate it or anything, its still fairly decent but glaringly the worst in the series

>putting sekiro in the same boat as DeS and BB
cringe af

>2019
>still thinks its the meta is SS

lmao

Reminder that you're trash if you can't out skill an SS shitter

After playing them all and realizing that all the Dark Souls games re overrated shit piles.

>DaS1
>Astora is land that was full of glorious knights and nobles, but has since fallen out of its golden age, likely due to the curse.
>Despite this it is legendary for the feats of its people.

>DaS2
>Astora is completely forgotten in name, but its weapons and armor live on under Vendrick, reproduced with the region's "Bradden Steel", because improving on their design hasn't yet been widely achieved.

>DaS3
>Astora is around and everyone knows about it, to the point that present characters are actually from Astora and the kingdom's weapons can be found randomly strewn about the game.

not that user but how are you supposed to properly play IF you want to use greatswords then?

Yea Forums‘s opinions on Souls has gotten so bad in recent months, what the fuck happened? It’s nonstop shilling of

>DS3 is the worst game ever made
>DS2 is also the worst game ever made
>Sekiro is a masterpiece and the best FromSoft game

Based DS3 anons who actually play the game. It's like people get button mashed in Crucifixion Woods and just give up.

No, because it's not a Souls game. It's just a bad action game with a katanafag for the MC.

>Sekiro is a masterpiece and the best FromSoft game

But nobody says that.

Based DS3 Big Dick Chad.

DS2 did it right, supposedly it takes place a fuckton off years after DS1, its natural that the old kingdoms have dissapeared or evolved into new ones, bringing them back in DS3 didnt make any sense

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lol

why do they have to fall? Catarina was still kicking in 2

The truth is, only Sony fans can comment on the entire series, but their console and online is such a shit they shouldn't be comment on the PvP of these games. So please, take a seat and shut up when people are talking about DaS3.

>>Astora is around and everyone knows about it
Astora is in ruins in 3 and only known by people that had connections to it
>Armor said to have been given to elite knights of fallen Astora.
>The mere mention of Astora invoked wistful pangs, and perhaps it was such a dream that drew Anri to this faraway home known only by name.

You hitstun is high enough that they can't attack out of being stunned fast enough to interrupt you, you dip. They can either go for a parry, which you can see a mile away and avoid, or they can roll out. Hit them twice, and then roll when you see them rear back only. Don't mash out with circle, you will be caught. Use your R2s, forces SS shitters to space you. Greatswords eat Straight Swords for breakfast, you don't even have to be good. Greatswords are also good for roll catching if your opponent panic rolls. Learn the timing, and no one can get away from you. Good poise weapon with good mid tier speed and a few tricks up its sleeve past first glance. Weapon arts, even the basic stance, all have use cases. Don't be afraid to charge that R2, and redirect it if you see them getting ready to try to parry it. Greatsword unironically are good weapons that are hard to punish.

>In DS2 the Lordvessel is shattered, laying forgotten in some random basement, a relic from a long forgotten age
>Lol jk in DS3 it's whole again

>The only people who praise it are the people who started with it
This so hard Des, Das, BB, and hell even Das2 fags are so much more chill in comparison. Thry play the game, have a good time, and move on. This shit is like the jojo fandom of gaming.

The problem with 2's story is that it has too many plot points that feel directionless and go nowhere, there's no theme
But 3's problem is that the story is riddled with fanservice, retcons, and outright plot holes, and there's no satisfying conclusion to any of the new plot points it raises.
How the hell did the Dragonslayer Armour get all the way to the Ringed City after getting slain?
What exactly were the Outrider Knights up to?
What's up with the Profaned Flame, exactly?
Why is the Profaned Capital located in the basement of Irithyll?
Among other things

I have seen that said an innumerable amount of times since it came out

Use positioning to your advantage, the sword is that big for a reason

>there's no theme

There's a theme, though I admit it's not really presented well.

go shitpost in /dsg/, nigger

there isn't only one lordvessel

i think its implied profaned flame is the smitterings of what will become the old chaos that takes elyum loyce in DS2

>grab the mace on the cliff in majula
>never worry again

According to DaS2 the only kingdom that survived into the age of the BotC was Catarina.

The fact that it's associated with at all when DaS3 is supposed to be innumerable aeons after DaS2 is retarded.

If you really get into it, 2 actually has an incredible cohesive foundation and plot. It's just that there's so much random shit that it's hard to figure it out unless you really want to look at all the pieces, which most people don't because DaS2 isn't really worth the investment to them. DaS2 just isn't presented well enough to sell its theme/story/plotpoints, but what's there is great.

how can you still ask that about the profaned capital after you've fallen to the ringed city

why did they take the domino mask from Ds2 and make it the Firekeeper mask in Ds3.

Does that make Zulie a firekeeper then?

People say this, but there's really nothing there that lines up with this theory. The Profaned Flame has too many inconsistencies, and there's absolutely nothing in the Profaned Capital that even indirectly references Eleum Loyce.

Fuck me he meant ultras. Those are still good and viable though, I main them. It's about pressure and escaping their pressure. Don't worry about landing every hit, it won't happen. 4-5 hits is a kill anyway. Chase with roll attacks and running attacks, mix it up. Ultra Greatswords can roll catch panic rolls too, though the timing is different. Force the coin flip for them. If you miss but don't take damage, that's a win. Manage your stamina and don't mash or you get backstabbed. R2 is still your friend but be smart or you get fucked. High risk, high reward.

I hate small weps. Im a man of simplicity.

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This post is too based for this board. All of them are too close to call.

>Put tons of shit into the game, giving you the choice to play in different ways
>Playing it like a shitty version of Bloodborne is the way to go because that's what the core gameplay is trying to be

lol

the fact that 2 decided to do away with all the gods and countries from 1 is retarded, if anything
>bring back old armor sets
>no these are all Drangleic originals

I never saw anyone else say it, I came up with it mostly based on a few ideas and the pattering of Ds2 references in Dungeon and Capital.

It's probably bull tho, I havent given enough time looking in Ds3's story

i started with demon's souls, nigger
and my opinion is still that DaS3 is the best

I agree that Sekiro sucks but it's not at all comparable to Souls. It doesn't even have stamina, which is the core, most basic tenet of Souls combat.

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they didnt get rid of the countries and the gods dying is hardly a bad thing considering they were practically extinct in 1

>bring back old armor sets
>no these are all Drangleic originals
The fuck are you talking about? Virtually every set that's from DaS1 in DaS2 mentions something about the origin being forgotten or it being a reproduction of an order version.

>>Demons' Souls is the best Souls game
underrated by xbox-kiddies who never got a chance to play it
>>Dark Souls 1 has a bad second half
literally true, bamco slashed their dev time and they had to rush it.
>>Dark Souls 2's use of mechanics like power stance and bonfire ascetics compensate for all of its significant flaws
both of those are part of its flaws
>>Bloodborne is a masterpiece
chalice dungeons make it impossible to be a masterpiece
>>the only viable/good weapons in Dark Souls 3 are straight swords
play with what you think is fun
>>Sekiro is harder than every Souls game
sekiro plays a lot like a standard sword & shield dark souls game, but obviously with updated shield mechanics. this complaint is purely roll-babies who are upset they have to actually learn the mechanics of a souls game instead of just rolling around naked.

default knight set from 1 is retconned as Drangleic knight armor in 2

Is the Surge a good alternative to Souls games?

No where does it say that the set was created in Drangleic, and it even goes so far as to say it's been used by knights for long time.

>im a fucking retard with no argument

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>have a bunch of cool items
>put all the good ones after irithyll so you have to slog through highwall, settlement, swamp, keep, catacombs, and cathedral before you can even start a build

No

Hey welcome to the thread, nice to see you misunderstanding what an argument is, why it would be used, and what the fuck is going on
I hope you have a terrible day

UGS are amazing in PVE. They can totally trivialize certain encounters such as the Archives gank squad.

Why is it so busted, yet so underrated?

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>t. seething ds3 bab
absolute pathetic showing, contain your asshurt.

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>remove powerstancing
well fuck you too

you're mad

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>He doesn't cheat in the items and weapons he wants from the start
Just do it bro. Twinks dont give a shit anyway.

Because Frostbite and STR builds were buffed near the tail end of the game when people stopped playing.
Before Frostbite was shit and quality was better than strength so noone gave two shits about vordts hammer

Dark Souls 3 is the best because it doesn't have an area as bad as Lost Izalith or Frigid Outskirts.

undead settlement

Tried to copy Bloodborne lol

Nope.

>Frigid Outskirts is bad
How come every 3kid is a casual?
Also Dreg Heap is really unfun

>budget central yharnam with zero charm
>pointless junction between another pointless junction leading into a fork where the game actually splits
>copy pasted brain dead enemies fill the zone
>is long as fuck for zero reason
>is aesthetically boring
umm, yup

>not maining halberds

Imagine

Bloodborne fucked them up and they couldn't get back into "Souls mode" when making this after that. Bloodborne was fast paced but it worked because the game was built around it. Dark Souls 3 tried to shove Bloodborne paced combat into the inherently slower pace of Dark Souls, and all it got you was infinite stamina, constantly-attacking enemies. There was a limited number of ways for players to counter that, and so many play styles were rendered useless.

not even close

Lol wut? Literally one of the best areas.

>he never melee'd the flamelurker

Correct.

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wut

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Yeah I played through the game with over 250 hours from when it first released and recently with SotFS. The world design is pure ass and screams generic fantasy world.

At least the PvP was good though it's offset by how much bullshit you have to go through creating new builds.

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>try to kill some rat with my UGS
>get gangraped
Nice balance you assholes

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>use slow weapon
>fighting straight sword/kat/whatever
>get a little space
>swing as they are coming up to you
>depending on the weapon and its sweet spot you trade blows, but your hyper armor kicks in while they flinch like a bitch and you smack their shit again
>congrats you just rocked his shit in two hits
>oh wait he didnt die?
>shit son you need to get your strength up it shouldnt take more than two hits from a big stick
>ok no mind take some buffs next time or something
>so they have probably sipped and are playing super defensive now because they realize they cant trade with you so they try to roll through your swings for the backstab/counterattacks
>if theyre rolling through your swings NEVER SWING if the swing will leave you with zero stamina because you will most likely get backstabbed/hit
>so you have two choices
>swing more than they can dodge and punish when their stamina is dry(you probably dont have the stamina for this you will have to be able to swing 6+ times)
>swing and when they dodge you dodge and swing again and if they dodge you dodge until they dont dodge and try to swing at you
>you trade blows with your hyper armor allowing you to get an additional hit in
>youre back at greentext #6

it sounds crazy but its all true, pvp is all just dodging and swinging timed right or wrong, its all a rhythm game mang. special thanks to borts great hammer

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Too hard.

>rendered cutscene
>rendered cutscene
>rendered cutscene
>rendered cutscene
>low end PC setting screenshot at 800x600 shrunk down

Why does combat with every random enemy in 3 feel like such a chore to carry out compared to DeS, 1 & 2? In the 3 previous games the random enemies were mostly trash with a few tougher guys sprinkled in and it was a lot more about reading the environment than quick reflexes and shit when it came to dealing with them. 3 actually mentally exhausted me super quick because every other fucking enemy seemed like a mini artorias with a super quick moveset that would deal half your health with each almost undodgeable hit, it just made me not want to play it at all. Is this a Bloodborne meme fast paced gameplay holdover or something? I haven't played BB.

>Dark Souls 1 has a bad second half
Definitely not as strong as the first half but it was still good.
>Bloodborne is a masterpiece
I love BB but it still feels short even with DLC. The world feels smaller compared to ds1 as an example.
>the only viable/good weapons in Dark Souls 3 are straight swords
Not the only viable but definitely one of the easiest and strongest choice. After 500h+ I can say that ultras and short swords are by far the most popular ones based on invasions.
>Sekiro is harder than every Souls game
Only the beginning of the game,the learning curve seems a bit more difficult at first.

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>not being INT

lmaoing at your life

>What's up with the Profaned Flame, exactly?
Its an abyssal flame

>tfw you land an Iai parry with the Uchi
>tfw you riposte an overcompensating greatswordfag

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Don't like easy mode, sorry...

Is that my mom xev?

>Demons' Souls is the best Souls game
The truth.
>Dark Souls 1 has a bad second half
Dark Souls 1 has a bad first half, too.
>Dark Souls 2's use of mechanics like power stance and bonfire ascetics compensate for all of its significant flaws
Doesn't exactly compensate, but they were some pretty cool mechanics.
>Bloodborne is a masterpiece
Again, the truth.
>the only viable/good weapons in Dark Souls 3 are straight swords
This one is definitely a meme. Straight swords are fast and reliable and stamina efficient, but there are many equal and better options out there.
>Sekiro is harder than every Souls game
This one is also a huge meme. The amount of defensive options and the mobility you have in Sekiro is insane, not to mention the cheesy one hit kill stealth mechanic.

You’re wrong. It’s nothing like a souls game.

If you could go back in time and magically change Dark Souls 2 and 3 how would you have changed it?

Bonus points if you make the trilogy one overarching story that connects all the games

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But Halberd is the best weapon?

>Before Anal Rodeo
>The Bat Wing Demon that takes you back and forth to Sen's Fortress
>The shortcut you unlock through the Chaos Servant covenant that allows you to skip the Centipede Demon
>The elevator that takes you from Blighttown to Lost Izalith in the Fair Lady's chamber
>The flood gates of the New Londo Ruins that lead to the Valley of Drakes, the Darkroot Forest, and Blighttown

Don't lie and say the interconnectivity stops at Anal Rodeo. You can even see Ash Lake from the Tomb of the Giants though I didn't count it since you can't travel between them. Then there's also the DLC which has plenty of shortcuts as well.

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...

>>only straight swords and katanas are viable
>when everyone and their mother is walking around with a parry tool and a dagger
how this bait thread got beyond 50 posts I'll never know.
post your favorite builds
>faith/str regen

>Not posting the updated version

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Still mad at how dogshit the "A team" made whips in ds3 after the b team made them worthwhile and fun in ds2.

Where's the third necromancer in the Catacombs in DS1? I found a Titanite Demon and a dead end with an ogre skelly there but no asshole summoner keeping these shits alive.

Cope, ds2fag.

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>ez mode
>pvp

git gud

>But Halberd is the best weapon?

Lucy would like to have a word with you.

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no comment

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>worthwhile
maybe
>fun
hell fucking no

have dex

Dual spotted whip pvp was very fun desu. My Slave Driver character (known in game as ***** Driver) was great.

>linear is inherently bad
>convoluted mess is inherently good
hate this meme

>Game from 2009 has better world building and atmosphere than one from 2014

Not to mention the textures are put to better use. The amount of repeating textures used in Dark Souls II is just disgusting. Meanwhile in Demon's Souls it's only used sparingly and you have to look to see where they are.

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>He doesn't main power stance mastadon greatswords

I got to level 2 blood brother with that build. Don't give in to meme builds because youre not instantly great at the game.

Agreed, but DS3 is linear in a bad way. The game would have greatly benefited if the first area after the Cemetary of Ash was the Undead Settlement and not the High Wall. allowing for the player to either find a hidden banner somewhere in the settlement to either go to high wall early or just follow the recommended path to Farron Keep. The game kind of just railroads the entire time.

YouTube it dude. Theres like six of them I think and the last one you kill drops the skull lantern

Demon's Souls is unironically the best souls game and I have formed this opinion unironically entirely independently from matthewmatosis even though his video literally lists off the exact reasons why I think it is. Storm ruler is fucking cool man.

I'm going through Demon's Souls again and I think I prefer the segmented levels as opposed to the open world design of the later games. FromSoft can't code for shit and pop in post Demon's Souls is so noticeable and common that it gets distracting. There's barely any pop in in Demon's Souls as far as I can see and it's probably because the individual levels aren't all connected which means only one levels loads at a time, and it loads in its entirety when teleporting to it.

post more xev

yes, the game is commonly criticized as bloodborne's retarded cousin because it has a lot of bloodbornesque enemies but the player is a slow ass dark souls character instead of a bloodborne hunter, so it doesn't work. shit's unfun garbage, I beat it twice, never again. literally worse than ds2, zoomers don't @ me

nigger the ds2 whip animations are the absolute bottom of the barrel in the game with the tap dancing falcon knights. extending arm snakes aren't a fucking whip.
it may be shit in 3 but at least it's fucking stylish. the running r2 is the tightest shit.

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It also has better animations that Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2.

>YouTube it dude.
Nah, I'll just keep exploring. This game is a lot more fun than I thought it'd be, I'm genuinely having a blast.

>Theres like six of them I think and the last one you kill drops the skull lantern
That's good to know, thanks.

>Demon's Souls is unironically the best souls game
100% agreed. Only faggots who never played the game during holiday events will disagree.

I have only a finite supply
you should see if they still have the megapack on , must be a bit old by now but it might quench your thirst

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halberd category

But dark souls 1 did have a bad second half?

nothing tops Crystal Halberd for me

Well thanks for that insight, having not played BB I couldn't make any real comparison so it was just conjecture. I literally dropped DS3 and never finished it because of the levels of mental exhaustion that game gave me, every gaming session with it just made me not want to play it so I ended up doing just that. I say this as someone with like 750hrs combined. between DeS and DaS1+2. No amount of brand loyalty or buyer's remorse could get me to continue with DS3.

>I can't tank everything and squash it anymore this game is shit now that I have to avoid getting hit.

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Pretty much every game from soft makes is unfinished and shit.

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>what is parrying
>what is circle strafe into backstab
>what is block
You only have yourself to blame for your mistakes.

dat some nozomi?

>not using fist
pleb

Funny I never had any problems doing any of these things in dark souls 1 or 2 and yet in dark souls 3 every third enemy seemed to be like fighting a super agile boss character.

so you got filtered by the lothric knights on the high wall

I mean you can keep shitposting but it doesn't make your fave game any less of a chore compared to the alternatives. I beat cathedral of the deep and stopped playing, I don't even know how far that is in the game.

lothric knights are the only enemies in the game that fit your description and even then they have their weaknesses
fast enemies don't have much poise and slower enemies are vulnerable to backstabs, same as ds1
learn to adapt and stop blaming the game.

You talking pve or pvp? Pve almost everything could be viable. Pvp you better take a huge braindead str weapons, maybe a sword there, or youre going to be behind the curve.

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Tried not blindly swallowing from's chode from time to time? The game was literally a chore to play for me and wasn't fun enough to continue. It definitely was not just the Knights and the combat when compared to other souls games is clearly different. There wasn't even any ragequitting involved I just found it boring and tiresome because of all of the minibosses strewn about the levels between bonfires and fogwalls. I literally stopped playing after I beat a boss of an area and didn't even want to continue after that even without knowing whether or not the game magically decided to be less of a chore at some point if that's any indication. There wasn't a solid brick wall enemy that "filtered" me it was just the game as a whole making me feel lethargic and it made me want to go back to souls 1 & 2 instead.

>nah I'll just explore and figure things out on my own
I like you user. Playing it blind really is the most rewarding experience. I still remember my first ds1 playthru playing it on my brothers shitty 360. The isolation.. the legit fear I felt going into the depths and then into blighttown.. Honestly I would never trade that experience for anything.

I just killed Pinwheel and he was easier than anything else in the Catacombs so I guess I'm going the right way. Fuck those damn skeleton wheels though. The game says that Pinwheel was the necromancer who reigned over the catacombs, so hopefully that made the rest of the skeletons mortal now too.

it's fine if you don't like the faster pace, but the rules of engagement in regards to encounters is the same between 1 and 3. I don't know where you're pulling these enemies you're complaining about from because if it's not the lothric knights on the high wall, it's corvian knights in ashes of ariandel.

>but the rules of engagement in regards to encounters is the same between 1 and 3.
lolno

For a game series which has only ever achieved serviceable combat, From probably shouldn't put all their eggs in the fast paced combat basket whilst doing away with all of the old environmental tricks and player ingenuity. Hopping around tough enemies and parrying and backstabbing them is boring as fuck when you're doing it for the 1000th time in the past 3 hours of gameplay. The rules of engagement definitely are not the same as ds1 because enemies in ds1 don't have 3 different feign attack animations to throw off your roll timing for every 1 normal timed animation. You end up having to load your brain up with all this fucking junk relating to every enemy's 30 different variants of a forward thrust. Get out of my face with that shit, just because 3 bored the shit out of me doesn't mean i haven't played 1.

>Dark Souls 1 has a bad second half

I don't know what else to say to you besides we must have played two very different versions of ds3. I don't get what you're describing whatsoever because you refuse to go into any detail beyond vague sweeping claims.

I smashed my way through DS2 and DS3 with this absolute unit

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Did you try not being fucking shit? Massive strength weapons make the game easy mode. I truly believe everyone who bitches about Dark Souls 3 is a casual little bitch who had to rely on stacking 14 layers of armor in DaS1 to beat the game. Probably never played Demon's Souls either, fucking baby lotion soft cunts.

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Maybe you should attain a level of reading comprehension which is able to read posts on a Mongolian pottery forum then, shill.

>thinking you'll hit step 5 against any experienced player with something as slow as an ultraweapon.
There are so many ways to take down a player solely using an ultraweapon in ds3 that it's not even funny. If an ultra player is reactive, you can just spam ranged attacks against them and if they become aggressive and run up to you, your swing will connect before their hyperarmor kicks in.
Luckily, that doesn't mean ultraweapons are bad, it just means that they need to be paired with a fast weapon in the offhand to be viable. This isn't even referring to arena cancer, even in invasions you're going to lose pretty often with an ultraweapon against good players. Greatswords are a nice compromise but they are still pretty slow against something like straight swords or curved swords.
You just need to accept the fact that against a ridiculously passive player that sits back and reactive punishes you with a curved sword or straight sword, uses a crossbow, or spams fire surge, you are almost guaranteed to lose unless you match them. Luckily, 99% of people don't do these things outside of arena, so that's why pvp in ds3 is still fun.

>UGS

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I beat it as my first Dark Souls game with a pure magic build. You suck bro.

OK Yea Forums let's end with the discussion:

Having a dex build is considered "casual" or not?

You're very determined to hate the game and that's fine, but your arguments are weak.

I will never forgive ds3 for killing tank builds

Only edgy DS2 fans could think having a build be considered casul

Learn to read without just discounting everything I've said because lolurbad game is fast ecksdee, shill. You have given zero defense that isn't blind cocksucking and the outright lie that the rules of engagement are the same between 1 & 3 when they clearly are fucking not.

It's not the build that makes you a casual. It's how you play it.

Depends on the situation, but in DaS3 I'd consider it the harder build to go for because you don't really do UNGA BUNGA HULK SMASH damage to bosses like you would with a strength build. If you PvP a lot then that's entirely on your end.

That is just straight up the Dragonslayer.

>just got my RKS weapon art parried
nani the fuck

>Invade a world with the invader helping the host

Why do people even do this? They're not even summoning for a duel the host is some scrub that had a friend give him the Ringed Knight Paired GS. Thought I could get away from all the Gank City shitters if I stayed at SL 90 but I guess not. Whatever I'll be out of here once I get the Human Dregs I need.

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>play all souls games
>usually enter souls threads
>still have no fucking clue about the "lore" beyond small and obvious shit

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Some of this stuff is nutty. Like, I killed Havel very early on in my playthrough, but only recently did I find his armor and weapon.

I told you right off the bat that fast enemies don't have much poise and slow enemies have openings to backstabing and you've shown nothing to contradict that. Furthermore if the game throws a lot of enemies at you they will have low hp and poise. If there's two tough enemies in close proximity the environment is designed to give you the option to bait one if you're not confident in being able to take two. If you can't aggro one then instead the tough enemy is accompanied by low hp low poise mobs. Failing these conditions the encounter is designed to take advantage of the environment in some way. Those are the design principals behind most of ds1's encounters and it is the same in ds3. You can use the similar tactics you used in ds1 and get through the game fine.

Examples:
The settlement horde around the preacher when you enter the main area before the route split. The focus is on the high poise preacher in the middle who is slow and easily dodged, but will hit you if you're paying attention to the low hp low poise settlers. You can approach it head on with a heavy sweeping weapon like the claymore or pick off the ones on the outside before aggroing the preacher.

Corvians at the end of the road of sacrifice: taking them on from the bridge is difficult but doable, but if you're observant you can sidestep them entirely with the lower path.

Silver knights guarding anor londo: running straight up is entirely possible, the more difficult but faster option. You can also pick them off one by one by taking advantage of the environment with the blind spots in their firing zone.

Your vague anecdotes are not an argument and I will not treat them as such.

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And what is the meta then?

>viable
You PvP fags ruin these game for yourselves, weapon "viability" is supposed to be your difficulty selection, at least among melee weapons.

>They put fucking bloodborne enemies against a dark souls player character

Don't tell me you're one of those autists who refuses to use a shield out of principle, right? It's a good fucking defensive option against quick attacks.

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Who /demonscar/ here?

Not that guy but shields are very gimped in 3
>low stagger
>low reduction
>too heavy even medium shields
>little to no cool effects like 2
>greatshield bash is crappy
>infusions gimp them
>monsters got longer chains and split damage

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