Apologize

we already have a ds2 thread running man

you make this thread every day brainless nigger. kys

These threads are made by bots

i'm sorry Dark Souls 2

dark souls 3 is the most bland garbage game in the series.

I never said anything bad about you.

Yeah but that thread is entirely negative so we need to shill our side harder. Its not that they are right about the game, its that we aren't loud enough.
We're gonna get through this one sisters!

I'm sorry you are not the worst anymore, that'd be Eldenshit

True, it was really bland ignoring almost all of ds2 and what it brought to the table. If it had more ds2 elements instead of ds1 it would be really good.
But it didn't so its bad and boring. Its like they wanted it to fail or something.

Apologize for what? I played the game, enjoyed it, and I would only put it slightly above Dark Souls 1. Demon's Souls is still the best and the series have been getting worse and worse, with Elden Ring being the worst out of the bunch and it's not going to get any better.

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but that thread is like 80% positive about ds2

I'm not a bandwagoning retard so I have nothing to apologize for. Dark Souls 2 is a great game.

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this but without the half-hearted backhanded irony

It needs to be 100%, anything less and we've failed the movement.

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post your weaponfu

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If you like Demons, give Bloodborne a chance. Demons was my favorite until I finally tried BB a few years back. It changes things up enough that its different enough from the other games, in terms of setting and gameplay.

damn look at all those lighting effects. The depth of field effect is making those little burlap sacks around them look strange though.

>Them removing dark souls 2 from any importance in dark souls 3 was the closest we will ever get to an apology.

There are weapons and armor in DS3 thats from DS2. Some good stuff like the Hollowslayer GS though

Do you think weapons are important to what dark souls 3 is? It closes the arc of a trilogy and goes out of its way to not mention the events of 2 at all.

literally the entire point of DS2, and the reason it's so melancholy and somber, is that it's a random age of fire in an endless cycle of ages and nothing you do ultimately matters.

DS2 is the only game in the series that expanded and deepened the gameplay and mechanics. It was also the most ambitious story wise, taking the game away from the established setting and showing how a far away and different land was dealing with the curse.

DS3 was a boring rehash and a step backwards from both 1 and 2. Linear map, infinite fast rolls and instant sips with no drawbacks like stat investment, no bonefire ascetics to respawn and buff areas, no unique boss souls with more lore or different item drops in ng+. DS1 and 2 have soul, 3 was just a rushed cash grab.

>DeS
Dragon Bone Smasher

>DaS
Zweihander

>DaS2
Fume UGS

>DaS3
Farron Greatsword

>BB
Ludwig's Holy Blade, Holy Moonlight Sword, Rakuyo, Blades of Mercy, Threaded Cane, Bloodletter, Beasthunter Saif, Beastcutter, too many amazing weapons to count honestly

>ER
The Greatsword, but Royal Greatsword is also fucking awesome

KINOOOOOOOOOOO
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I'm sorry I ever played this garbage

I did and found it quite boring. Always played aggressively and was used to FromSoft's formula, so it was just another walk in the park, but without all the interesting level designs that looped in on itself, very few weapons, armour sets that didn't matter, and practically only 2 builds. I remember playing my second playthrough, wanting to do a cannon build. Fought my way through, using the bloodtinge build(or whatever it was called in BB for guns), and when I finally get the cannon, it did like 100 points of damage, and would only get 2 shots out of it. I dropped it shortly after.

You must be pretty jaded that they abandoned it all and went back to what made them money huh?
They abandoned something great to just do what they already did, it feels like failure even if it was the financially sound thing to do.

Now that you mention it, not really. Lucatiel's stuff doesn't make a huge difference. In terms of plot, you're right, DS2 is basically ignored in 3 and I think its great.

pouring one out for the only souls game with good pvp

I'm kind of messed up over it yeah I'm not gonna lie. I'm doing okay now, the last few months on Yea Forums have been hard tho.

It went from the worst game to the second worst game in the series. Not much of an achievement but still an achievement nonetheless.

there's about as much DS2 in DS3 as you'd expect given the nature of the world, no more no less.

the parting shot of a man parried by monastery scimitar a single time

Anor Londo and Demon Ruins were so fucking shit in DS3. It would have been better if they did an entirely new setting like 2 did.

>fren online tells me elden ring has 2 coffins in it
>buy elden ring
>neither coffin works right
I had to play more than 2 hours to find out, I can't refund the game now. What do I do?

...what do you mean "neither coffin works right?"

Man I don't know what you're talking about, and honestly it seems like you didn't play the game too much.

Rally makes it so that you can play more aggressive than ever, make strategic trades against bosses with trick attacks/ big weapons to gain back some and stay in enemies' faces. Or you can play super fast with Skill weapons and not trade. All the mechanics (weapon speeds, dashing instead of rolling, fast healing) lend to faster gameplay at all levels, even faster than DS3 or ER because BB makes it so you can actually keep up with these faster enemies.

The weapon variety is great because instead of having 12 greatswords with the same movesets and maybe a cool R2, you have 2 that have completely unique animations, attacks, and mechanics. Quality > quantity and BB is the best for this.

The Cannon in Bloodborne is for strength builds and does not require any bloodtinge investment. You just need to upgrade it like any other weapon and it does a shit ton of damage and stagger damage. There is a second cannon, the church cannon, which is well hidden in the DLC, which requires bloodtinge for serious damage, but I doubt you are talking about that one. It seems like you didn't upgrade the cannon.

Lastly, there are not 2 builds. There are strength builds, skill builds, pure arcane builds, str/arc builds, str/bloodtinge, skill/bloodtinge builds, arc/ bloodtinge builds. Technically you can make a skill/arc build too but it requires some work and rare gems.

It doesn't work right, it just takes you from 1 map to another in both coffins. Thats all they do in this game.
How do I return this shit?

DeS started it, so its worth playing.

BB changes the formula, makes it faster, more frantic. And I'm a sucker for the setting and aesthetic, big time.

ER is open world, which isn't great in of itself, but it is a huge, ambitious adventure that was incredibly fun. Its full of secret stuff, you will miss things no matter how thorough you think you are, and thats a good thing.

> -ACK

I know steam uses VAC but i've never heard of ACK is that something that'll get me my money back?

Sekiro is unique enough to have merit too. All their games aside from the dark souls ones feel like real effort was put in to make them interesting and unique.

>Rally means more aggro
That's not a good thing. I've always played recklessly, I have a lot of experience in playing like a fucking madman and getting away with it. In other games, it's an option to play like that. In BB, it was the only way to play it. It gave me the best results. I'm not saying it's bad and you are bad, I'm just saying that for me, it was bad. Rally is a mechanic that quickly becomes irrelevant, when enemies start doing more damage to you, than what you can withstand or earn back.
>quality
There was 12 weapons in base game? Idk if that's true, but okay. The kirkhammer and Ludvig's sword had the same animations, the mace had a "special" gimmick that infused it with lightning, but the moveset was the same as it was back in DeS and DaS1, where you retardedly fling it from side to side. The spear/rapier was boring and nowhere near as effective as it was in the enemies hands. The saw spear and saw cleaver also had the same animations and did the same thing. There are other weapons, but they are nowhere near as different as you are claiming them to be. If I had played it in recent years, I could go further.
>Cannon uses strength
Operator error then. My thought process was, "It gun. Need gun stat." Not, "It gun. Need Str to increase the damage of a projectile fired from gun.".
>Not 2 builds
But they all feel the same. The difference between str and dex? Nothing, as if any of the weapons even needed high stat investment. If I remember right, like the others, only a few spells were worth a damn and the others were borderline useless. Hyperbolic, sure, but you get it. So, if I go skill/bloodtinge, does that make the boss wildly different?

>Oh shit, user's got the gattling gun, better not use the ability the keeps me stuck in place!
No, it's just numbers. It all comes down to numbers. This isn't specific to BB, it's in every souls game and it's why I fucking hate the series as a whole.

too many characters, had to get creative.

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oh no, it thinks bloodborne is part of the souls entires.

From should apologize to me for fucking up their only masterpiece last second by releasing for PS3 instead of PS4.

After smashing my head against Maliketh for so fucking long (even Malenia wasn't this bad) I'm willing to say dark souls 2 is better than elden ring.

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You did your best, no shame going back to your comfort zone.

I got the platinum trophy so yeah my best is good enough I suppose. Doesn't make the bosses any less cancer.

>apologize.
No quarter, only death. You will be put down to the last man and it will be by thine own hands the work be done.

Dark Souls 2 will always be the retarded black sheep of the series

The point I made about Rally is that it gives you a choice in how to deal with things. Do you want to go for well-timed trades with fully charged kirkhammer r2s? Or do you want to dodge and do a dash attack into an R1 then L1 with the blade of mercy (trick attacks are good for rally)? You have the choice, which is great. You're downplaying its significance too because you don't fully understand its mechanics and use.

Idr how many weapons were in the base game, but yes untricked ludwigs and kirkhammer are the same, but tricked? Completely different. They both have unique L2 combos, and they both have unique L1+R1 attacks, aka unzip attacks. Also, Ludwig's and Holy Moonlight are the best greatswords in any souls games, period.

The electric mace doesn't have a tricked form so I'll give you that one. The spear is meh but the reiterpallasch is From's best rapier too. The saws are very similar but not completely. The saw spear is dex-oriented and has a better moveset. But why ignore weapons like the blade of mercy, burial blade, threaded cane, amygdala arm, whirlygig, kos parasite? The weapons in bloodborne are SO unique, its not even a debate.

Str builds play very different from skill builds, one is slow, can go for trades, has high base damage, the other is more focused on dodging, parrying, zipping in and out of engagements. Arcane tools (aka spells) are very good provided you know what you're doing, and Bloodtinge makes it so that your guns can do serious damage and are a main part of your playstyle. And yes, if you go skill/bloodtinge you would use the chikage, reiterpallash, and the evelyn, and just with those items alone your playstyle is completely different from a traditional skill build or a str/bloodtinge build.

Seriously, the more you reply to me the more it seems you didn't play it much and didn't go in with an open mind.

>Seriously, the more you reply to me the more it seems you didn't play it much and didn't go in with an open mind.
Thats fine, people don't all like the same things. I tried Dark Souls II trying to have an open mind and it was the biggest mistake I could have made. The only upside is it made me appreciate other games more, and thats not a real upside when you think about it.

I disagree. You should never regret going into something with an open mind, even if it sucks. At least you gave it a chance.

You can disagree all you want. Its one of the only things in life I regret exposing myself to. Playing Dark Souls II made me look into Info Hazards as a concept it was so bad.