ITT: we laugh at Dark Souls 2

>Except it was the only game in the series with decent pvp in its final state.
kek
I love this. The game is absolutely miserable in every facet that the games are famous for, with miserable atmosphere, levels, enemies, bosses, encounters, animations, etc, but the worst reason to play the games, PvP, is praised. It's actually worse than Demon's too.

Better than Elden Ring

Souls games are very much well known for the PVP and the multiplayer aspect

Pvp was the only reason to play the games. There's a reason i never bought sekiro.

1 and 3 are peak reddit, cope harder faggot.

Why are Dark Souls 2 fags so fragile?

You are a mindbroken retard. DS2 has good atmosphere, levels, enemies, bosses, encounters, animations etc.. You are just too dumb to realize them for being a retard easily influenced by popular opinions. Yes, there are some shortcomings of it but not as exaggerated as faggots like you claim.

The PvP is miserable and there's a reason Sekiro sold a gazillion copies without it. A retarded footsies game with no blockstrings and evasion moves with like 20f invul will never be good.

iirc there's a car tire texture on the pillar

Yeah dude. Totally. Also, I've been playing Souls longer than you.

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>make point
>people refute the point
>"Why are you so fragile?"
Really, user?

Now post the Four Kings arena lit up.

>NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T COMPARE THEM LIKE THAT

Yet it's consistently ranked the worst.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZQB9WTyDJ98
i was curious and went to find it

I always read this but can you show some webm that would make me want to play it ? I've seen a few at the time it didn't look that good. I had a lot of fun with casual pvp/invasions on ds3 though

>The old king you kept hearing about is actually just a hollow husk now

nigga they'd done it TWICE by DS2, why was Vendrick special?

I remember hating DS2 for slower pqced combat at first, then it grew on me. Then bloodborne came out and I thought sick, this will be their fast-paced game and DS3 will be slower and strategic...

>t. pulls plug when invaded while playing with summons
Worst PvE surely. If they removed SM i would have nothing to complain about as there wouldn't be a reason to minmax your sm super hard and delete a character that lost 50k souls

the hero we don't deserve

>a properly textured floor
what a travesty

There's a bottle of Heneiken or something in it too

Let's see what you got bro. What's your steam? Level 1 or 125? I will light you up.

>roll roll roll roll
>r1r1r1r1r1r1r1
>chugchugchug
I played on ps3 and 4
A webm won't make you want to play a dead game

Why is this game so divisive? Lot's of people despise it, but they never have any arguments. Lots of people seem to like it, but i never see any of their gameplay footage.

No it's not.

That they lazily stretched up the walls.

the manus arena is a better comparison

Sure. I will dust off my PS4 then for BB or DS3 PvP. You pick. What's your PSN?

game didnt end with vendrick, it was just the beginning of the lategame

Weird how there's a texture at all

metacritic.com/game/pc/dark-souls-ii
>72
kek okay. Don't @ me again

and yet isn't worse than the shit you're actually supposed to see in ds2

I just wanna see how it looks. I never had a problem with ds2 btw, PVE is fine imo, I just never got around playing the pvp

I can't. It's the best souls game.

youtube.com/watch?v=dBkaZohAv3g

Basically a shitload of people who never played DS1 rode the hype train to DS2, but got wrecked day 1 and then started to complain and whine and blame the game for their failures, but to save face they pretended to be series veterans and that "this recent game just isn't as good". Yea Forums did the same shit when Sekiro came out and they're doing the same exact shit now that Elden Ring is out. Basically all the newfags who come to this series get hazed by the game, and when they can't handle it they want to complain but don't want anyone to know they're newfags. That's literally the only reason DS2 gets flak. There aren't any real arguments as to why it's worse than 1.

It's a lot slower and more about punishing rather than being aggressive or fishing for backstabs and parries

Actually looks kind of cool in a surreal way. Like a weird Gmod map.

It's different therefore bad
But fr some of the levels/enemies are unforgivably bad even in sotfs
>alonne knights
>amana priestess
>gutter dog
>hippo grab
Etc etc

No

do ds2fags reset their goldfish memory after every thread?
It's always funny seeing them live in this little bubble where somehow nobody has pointed out every dogshit boss or mechanic.

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this reveal was stellar. Kino is the word, yes.
also
>looking glass knight followed by shrine of amana
>shulva pyramid and Sinh
>Maldron the asshole
>Ivory King
>the most RPG Souls where stats matter
>best PvP, best invasions, best coop, best covenants
>non linear progression
>best build variety, everything is viable
>best dual wielding, unique weapons, a lot of different movesets within a weapon class, can infuse and buff unique and elemental damage weapons
>bonfire ascetics, respecs, NG+ content, no death and no bonfire runs are rewarded
>best knight armors (alva, syan, royal swordman, old knight, archdrake, heide knight, aurous, royal soldier, creighton, defender, looking glass, faraam, drakeblood...)
>best curved swords, best pyromancy, best poison, best rings, strongest moonlight sword, best fist weapon ever
>best NPC invaders: Maldron and Navlaan

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Fuck off, my brother is a normalfag that loves DAS1 and played it ad nauseum, but I can't get him for my life to touch DaS2, that game has good qualities but the bad ones outweighs them

well I looked it up on youtube since you didn't post anything. God did it look awful.

Not to be "that guy" but I'm starting to think only seasoned souls veterans can enjoy ds2. The barrier to entry is too high for fans of the other games to enjoy it without immense frustration. They have to live vicariously through guys like "ymfah" who spoonfeed them every possible strat in the game, which is above and beyond what is required for any other game in the franchise.

>guys like
no one thats a veteran spoils himself watching ecelebs

>WOW THE FABLED CASTLE I WONDER IF THE KINGS IN THER- oh another Gwyn this time more dumber

yeah bro it's so hard to realize that you can buy 99 lifegems and tank through everything in the game

8 years later and still seething

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>NOOOO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS

You can feel the shittiness of the level while you're doing it even if it's damn near pitch black everywhere you go. This picture looks exactly how traversing the level feels.

I don't care I liked it more than 3 and ER.
BB>Sekiro>DS2>DS1>DES>Everything else.

I only laugh WITH dark souls 2
because of the sheer joy I experience

If we were fragile we wouldn't like ds2

the main reason by far why the game is so disliked on Yea Forums is just because it doesn't look as good as it was first presented, and it actually doesn't look good at all, a step back when compared to dark souls in several areas like including animations. That and souls memory. That's what the 99 % of complaints were always about, not the mechanics

true SOUL ludokino

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Sotfs fixed most of the presentation. Sm was unforgivably bad. Did you just lose 50k souls? Time to delete your character

>servers still down
>still charging 40 fucking dollars for Scholar of the First Sin

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That's just your own autism though. You realize that the brackets for soul memory were wide as the grand canyon, right? Literally takes millions of souls to bring you to another tier of SM. And after like 12M you cap out and everyone is in the same tier forever.

no, the shockwaves were shat on pretty fucking heavily when it came out
also recycled bosses even in the dlc and the movement and animations feel floaty as fuck
it didn't help when we found out it was made by the b-team either

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SM was bad for people like me who were expecting a proper SL system in a patch and stayed at 120 and were constantly facing level 300+ havelmages.
Once you accept SM and use your souls to level up, it's not so bad

>decent pvp
it has the worst netcode in the series. attack ranges being retarded is consistent regardless of latency. you have to roll whenever your opponent swings - even if they're far out of range, or facing the wrong direction - or it registers as a hit. I played a stupid amount of pvp in 2 and 3, and at least in 3 you can actually play footsies and read your opponent's range. 2 is laughably broken dogshit and the only people who suck off the pvp are those cringelord faggots who exclusively used hexes and buffs.