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Why would I listen to someone who didn't beat the game or who can't even beat mental illness?

Dark Souls 2 is better than Elden Ring in every single way however

Dark souls 2 is better.

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tl;dr OP (redditor) spamming his article because no one bothered reading his shit tier opinions

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soulshit is the most reddit genre I dont think its fair to call him reddit lmao

Agreed.

Stop pretending this board wasnt dickriding miyazaki until he got succesful

fpbp

Refuting common criticism:
>repeated bosses
While valid criticism, Elden Ring still has tons of unique bosses: more than any prior DS game plus DLC. The complexity of bosses is high, as they usually boast 10+ unique attack animations.
>weak second half
Consecrated Snowfield is merely a skippable part. Haligtree and Farum Azula are as good as earlier areas.
>too difficult / unbalanced
Bosses are balanced around the fact casual players use spirit summons. Boss speed and aggression are necessary for 2vs1. The completion rate for Elden Ring is high for such a long game.
>repeated mobs
While valid criticism, there are few open world games on the market with a more extensive list of mobs than Elden Ring. A comparison with prior Dark Souls, Skyrim, RDR2, Nioh or BoTW ends heavily in favor of Elden Ring.
>generic dungeons
Filler dungeons, while mediocre, are no worse than industry standards - Skyrim crypts or BoTW shrines. Some offer a decent puzzle or layout. All are optional, since main areas already offer 50+ playing hours.
>no longevity
Elden Ring has shown longevity unheard-of from single player games. Two months after release, it retains triple the player count of Skyrim at its launch.
>poor optimization for PC
Valid criticism.
>exploration is pointless
Objectively false. Getting Runes, Sacred Tears, Golden Seeds and Smithing Stones is necessary, regardless of your playstyle.
>few interactable NPCs
A design choice. Dark Souls worlds evoke melancholy, loneliness and nostalgia. Lived-in, harmonic settlements would counteract this despair, offering little more than window dressing. All the more effort went into designing, voicing and meaningfully writing the NPCs present.
>bad lore
VaatiVidya's "Elden Ring's Lore: Explained" video reached almost 3 million views within a week. More than any Skyrim lore video, 10 years after the game was released. Elden Ring lore is extremely captivating, for a large audience.
>game flopped
Elden Rings outsold DS 3 in 5 days.

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>Stop pretending this board wasnt dickriding miyazaki until he got succesful
yes Yea Forums the most reddit board on Yea Forums liked soulshit not because it was fun but because it made them feel superior over teh normies
now that souls games are as mainstream as call of duty theres no reason to keep pretending

>except dark souls 2
F I L T E R E D

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Based

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>Yea Forums's shazams are now on par with journos with their hilarious takes
Eldenchads, we won.

>Refuting common criticism:
>>repeated bosses
>While valid criticism
>weak second half
Consecrated Snowfield is merely a skippable
not reading further

BASED

Whatever, worst From's Soulsborne is still better than 85% of shit out there

>Comparing numbers with Skyrim
This is so dishonest. Player count was tracked way past its initial release. And half the other points you make are blind fanboyism.

>npc media about a game for npc brainlets
Why is ds2 bad again, because you can’t Havel flip? All souls games have the same gameplay with shitty ai and hit boxes, they all reuse bosses and have shitty gank bosses so shut the fuck up already.

Honestly, most of these refutations are as stupid as the dumber criticisms.

>tl;dr I can't beat the game therefore game bad
Why are all elden ring haters like this bros?

All are shit
Yea Forums is shit

Discordbros we need to stop him...........

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>except ds2
Man ds2 bros just can't catch a break

>Why is ds2 bad again, because you can’t Havel flip?

As far as I can tell, basically yes. People who hate 2 basically hate that the game encourages you to use a variety of strategies over expecting the same thing to be effective over and over.

Eldentrannies are the cancer of this board

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Why do you keep spamming this everywhere, you mentally ill?

What's the point of this shit? Some weird raid?

>still perpetuating this boogeyman to deflect criticism

Um...bros?

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I haven’t seen a game make Yea Forums seethe this hard since BOTW.

>enjoy a game
>half the internet is seething about it
I don't dislike this feeling

Shazamtrannies thought they were invincible after cyberpunk bombed. They tried their luck with Elden Ring but as we all know now, it's the best game in the last 5 years at least and a cultural BEAST so they are still coping with their public, embarrassing defeat.

Why is it called Soulsborne when the series had 4 Souls games and 1 BB?
It's as correct as saying Soulsring, more so even.

Who the fuck says

>X is the worst Y ever (except Z)

Just say it's the second worse one, then

It should be soulkiringborne

The people who write these articles are among that 25% of players that still don't have the magrit achievement. Proper grammar is maybe too much to ask

Meanwhile: The ER defense force

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nope that would be dark souls 3

1 > BB > 2 = ER > [POWER GAP] > 3

>"making excuses" the post
elden ring is the prime example of "more is not better"
bosses dont become better because they have 10+ moves, when most of them look janky and exist only to make the encounter more difficult.
>Elden Ring has shown longevity unheard-of from single player games. Two months after release, it retains triple the player count of Skyrim at its launch.
>comparing a 2011 game's launch player numbers to a 2022 game's launch player numbers
you do realize gaming has become much more mainstream in the last 11 years right? and with all the marketting and hype surrounding elden ring even the most basic normie will buy elden ring, all the pretty screenshots is enough to sell it.
>Objectively false. Getting Runes, Sacred Tears, Golden Seeds and Smithing Stones is necessary, regardless of your playstyle
pointing at 2% of the exploration rewards doesnt excuse the garbage thats the other 98%
>VaatiVidya's "Elden Ring's Lore: Explained" video reached almost 3 million views within a week.
there could be a lot more reasons for this; vaati's popularity, the game raised more questions than it answered, things were convoluted, none of this make the lore "good"

>Why would I listen to someone who didn't beat the game
because the biggest brain move was not to play a pile of shit
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GET FUKT SHITTER RETARDS

1 is shit.

BB > 3 > ER > Demon > 2 > 1

so this is the power of reddit

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Dark Souls 1 is by far the most "reddit" of the games you buzzword using fag

>Dark Souls 1 is by far the most "reddit" of the games you buzzword using fag

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KEK

ER > DS1 > DS3 > BB > DS2 > DeS
Ftfy

I enjoy Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin and Dark Souls 3 a lot more than Elden Shit Ring, despite them being B Team games.

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>1 is shit
true, but I guess that's why contrarians love it so much. when I played it, the entire fucking game was "that level", and I was glad when it was over so I could move on to better games. when I tried discussing the game and explained my point of view, it's only gotten me meme responses, so it's quite evident that the defence force of that game is just a bunch of sad, broken npcs that will only repeat their pre-coded lines of dialogue ad infinitum

I don't even like Dark Souls 2 but the the mindless hivemind knee-reject reaction towards it by the souls fanbase is one of the cringiest things in existence.

>Bosses are balanced around the fact that casual players use spirit summons
faggot I've been playing these games since 2011 and the bosses in elden ring are very clearly designed around spirit ashes, valiant gargoyles and godskin duo are a clear example of this, and bosses like malenia and maliketh take you up to 200 tries until you can beat them without summons if you're not using crotches like bleed and frost because of their humongous health pool, insane damage, spastic attacks and hyper aggressiveness, which all indicate to you that you're not meant to fight them solo

1 is great.

1 = Sekiro > ER > 3 > 2

I like sekiro more than all of them, but it's very different and it's unfair to compare it to the others.

I agree with this, BB is better than ds1 though

Actual souls fans unironically like ds2 at least for its pvp.

the fact he thinks ds2 is not just bad but worse than ds3 invalidates his opinion on anything

Asmongold already says 2 is the worst of the franchise.

why does that matter?

What the fuck is an assmongoloid?

No but it isn’t 10/10 it’s better than 2 and 3. It borrows some design choices from each of those games which brings it down but thankfully the world design and level design is fantastic even though there are instances where it doesn’t necessarily make sense. It is almost or maybe even as good as Dark Souls, which even though I’ve probably played it more than any other game almost every run I do ends at Anor Londo.