Why is DS2 plot/lore so bad? Feels like design by committee where they just padded out the line count and called it a day.
Why is DS2 plot/lore so bad...
Austin Rogers
Isaac White
cause mostly nobody cared about the plot/lore
Justin Cook
the original storyline got canned about 8 months before release. They originally planned to go all-in on the time travel thing
Hunter Clark
bear/seek/seek/lest
Tyler Hughes
DS2 was just a quick rehash of DS1 in practically every single way. A soulless cashgrab produced by interns, nothing more.
Thomas Brooks
It's the exact contrary though, out of everything that went wrong with II the plot ended up being good. One of the things that II did masterfully is having a story that takes place in DS1's universe yet isn't connected to it in a huge way besides stuff like the Queens being shards of Manus unlike DAE DARK SOULS 1: THE GAME aka III
Carter Martin
>yet another das3 tranny thread
yawn
Brody Moore
>Story about futility of trying to break the cycle of light-dark with desperate monarchs trying to find a cure for the curse of the undead.
>Bad
I'll take that over DS3 everyday.
Xavier Wood
>One of the things that II did masterfully is having a story that takes place in DS1's universe yet isn't connected to it in a huge way
Why aren't they ever explicit with names like Gwyn and Seath, and where does DS2 take place?
Anthony Morgan
it's basically official fanfiction. It's so detached from everything else that the events of DS2 could never have happened and nothing would be different in 3's story. Give that DS3 takes place at the true end of the world I have no idea where DS2 even fits into it.
What is the throne of want? Is it the thing vendrick stole from the giants? Was the throne of want even about linking the fire? was the fire even still a thing? If it wasn't why are there still people afflicted with the undead curse? Does everyone who comes to drangleic have to go through that whirlpool? Is drangleic the same geopgraphic location as Lordran? Why does collecting the 4 crowns of the previous kings prevent hollowing? Was earthen peak and the iron keep the seats of power of kingdoms that existed alongside drangleic or did they come before? In either case why is the entrance to the iron keep through the throne room of earthen peak? If the 4 primal souls that we need to pass through the shrine of winter are the souls of the 4 lords why are they scattered about instead having been consumed by the first flame when the chosen undead linked the flame?