It's a great game just not the best Souls game
it sucks
People who hate on DS2 all got their opinions from shit youtubers and never played it themselves.
sniffer of the shart fart is even worse than 3
>>719482256It's not a good game. It's a messy, unfinished, and fundamentally broken game that tries to be multiple contradictory things. It was literally slapped together in 8 months from a failed project while the lead dev of the original game was working on something else.There are lots of things in DS2 I like. A lot of the level layouts are fun, Majula is a worthy successor to Firelink shrine, and many of the bosses are decent. But all those things are mixed together with a broken combat system that wants you to go slow yet constantly throws groups of running mooks at you, and a myriad of absurd mechanics (lose max health on death! co-op/pvp relies on souls you picked up, not level and weapon progression! waste levels on adaptability or drinking estus takes 4 seconds!) that they're hard to enjoy.It deserves a remake. There is a great game in there somewhere. I just don't feel like wading through shit to find it piece by piece. I beat it once and that was enough.
>>719482256I seriously think people who feel the need to qualitatively compare games/movies within the same series in order to decide which is the best (and thus absolutely perfect and most deserving of love) and the worst (and thus absolutely abhorrent and most deserving of hate) areabsolutelyfuckingretardedDeS was great, DaS was great, DS2 was great, DS3 was great, each game had its strong points and its weak points, which is fucking great because it means it's not a fucking FIFA where nothing ever changes.Comparison is the thief of joy.Thieves are mostly niggers.
>>719482256it goes to shit after you finish drangleic castle and never goes back to having good level design. A lot of souls games have this same problem where after you finish upgrading your build or start hitting stat point soft caps you dont feel like exploring for anything except bonfires so late game stages are accepted to be boring.>shrine of amanaactually dont mind this area since you can respec to dex and use the hunters blackbow from the previous area which absolutely dunks on the knights and mageniggers with a bag of 500 arrows then respec back after beating the demon of song undead crypt is relentless bullshit that you need max brightness to clear and the ganksquad bell gimmick gets old after your third death. Aldias keep is almost a straight line. dragon aerie is a mostly linear area with boring enemies and just exists to farm and its gimmick sucks. Dragon shrine has a gimmick of honorabu duels against enemies that gank squad you if you walk too far away from the duel, the area takes like 3 minutes to complete. the giant memories maybe have lore implications but they are a pointless section of the game in terms of level design. Throne of want is a long run for no reason and on my second playthrough of ds2 i died to nashandra like 4 fucking times despite beating her first try on my first playthrough its like a minute and a half of running just to get to the fog gate. I played ivory king and it was so fucking aids that i didnt play the other dlc's that come free with scholar.
>>719483073you go from 2.5 seconds to finish the estus drink speed to 2.05 seconds at 100 agility. its really not that big of a deal and its not much longer than ds1. i ended the game with 41 human effigies in my inventory on my first file, just checked. losing max health barely affects you unless you die 3 or 4 times then you just use an effigy.>combat system is broken?? are you just bad at the game?
