whats the point of adding damage sponge enemies in dlcs, I think I killed this guy one time, big viking in ashes one time and just ran past all of them for the rest of the game
>>719498626some enemies are designed overwhelming on purposeyou dont HAVE to fight everything you seeif you plunge attack on them, they insta-die
>>719498626those big guys can be plunge attacked for a one hit kill if you got enough damage output. the viking guys can be parried and killed in two ripostes. they're damage sponges if you attack them without taking advantage of their weaknesses I guess.
>>719498626You just plunge attack these niggas. Use environment. They give you bridges and tree branches and shit in these levels bro... VERTICALITY. Fromsoft likes doing enemies that are just stage hazards once in a while.
>>719498825>you dont HAVE to fight everything you seeyou barely have to fight anything in huge chunk of ds3they went away with all interesting threats and encounters for about 75% of its runtime to the point youre straight up better off just running past everything
>>719499339ds3 is agame where you have to choose to actually play it instead of running away from literally everything because it's the optimal route bravo hackizaqki
>Design gorgeous weapon>Also make it statistically good>Cover it in rust, dog hair and literal shitEvery damn time
dark souls 3 is not a good gameyou ask any person who glazes the fuck out of the game what their first souls game was and they will 9/10 times say ds3
>>719499339DS3 is just a boss rush game. It's where all the effort went.
You fight them with Yhorm's greatshield, it's almost mandatory if you want to play normally.
>>719499462Nigga done pooped on he sword
>>719499567Nope I like ds3 but my first and favorite was ds1
>>719499339aren't most souls games about running away and only really fighting manageable things?
>>719498626you're supposed to exclusively kill them with drop down attacks
>>719499462I would say the game was trapped in this aesthetic but elden ring also has decaying world. I wish there was a well lit soulslike in a kingdom in it's prime
>>719499462that's what makes it cool imo. you'd get a clean one in ds1 MAYBE
>>719499462yeah I'm tired of the hobo aesthetic
>>719498825Harald Legionaires were well-designed in this regard. They had massive healthpools and damage, but well-telegraphed attacks and a weakness that could be exploited. Millwoods on the other hand are nothing but pure fucking cancer, with even more HP and HP regen, almost as much damage, attack chains that go on forever full of bullshit delayed telegraphs. There are also twice as many of them as there are Haralds and they are placed all over an important item. Rapport works against them, as I heard, but that's not accessible ot everyone, unlike plunge attacks.
>>719500715I just use hyperarmor weapons to annihilate millwood knights lol or sword and shield
>>719498626>damage sponge enemiesHave you seen the fucking size of these guys they're massive and covered in armor and corruption they're not falling over easily
>>719499462I didn't mind the weathered look GsoA got in DS3 because it seems like you're using the original from whoknows how many years back from when it was in DS1 and it still tears whelps to shreds.
>>719498825There's nothing overwhelming about them, they're just sponges.
>>719502603okay, fagot
>>719498626Git gud
>>719500715Git gud my man.
>>719500715>>719499993>>719499809>>719499605>>719499567>>719499439>>719498825>>719498626>>719498971Git gud
>>719499339DS2 is the only game where running past everything isn't always an option and even then it usually is
>>719503218???They're super-slow enemies, they're more for decoration than challenge since you can almost always just run past them.
>>719499462magma wyrms sword is the same btw
>>719500226The world of elden ring is spiritually decaying but is visually far more diverse
>>719503630That sword is fucked up because it's melted
>>719503782how does it have hair as well then?
>>719499462>statistically good>covered in shitthere's your answer, it's like jelly fish shield. miyazaki wants you to look ugly in the game if you over optimize
>>719499462It's covered in Dark you retard
>>719504126Dark in DS3 is literal poop.
>>719503362>>719503490To be honest anyone who utters these words unironically in 2025 needs to get cancer and die painfully. The series was unable to improve in any meaningful way since Demon Souls because retarded fanboys keep rimming Mitsubishi's asshole now matter what janky, poorly thought out and implemented thing he does.
>>719503717For as much as it think elden Ring is a very cynical game (open world Dark souls) and a massive step back wards from BB and Sekiro, it looks better than DS3. DS3 looks straight up ugly at times. The color palette and the lighting give the game a very muted, depressing look. It also doesnt help that the game doesnt have any real identity of its own and its basically DS1 fanfiction. Im surprised Miyazaki directed it. Elden Ring is safe, but at least it looks good.
>>719504752>and a massive step back wards from BB and Sekiro,Reconsider suicide
>>719504649Git gud, secondary
OMG GIT LE GUD THIS GAME IS PURE HECKIN' SKILL, FACTZ!
>>719504840>>719503362>>719503490Why doesn't From git gud at programming and game design? Why are their navmeshes still so wonky? Why is their AI so simplistic? Why do they reuse so many assets? Can our resident loremasters riddle me this?
>>719505013Shut up you chud
>>719505150Radahndagondan and Pontiff Sillyvan... using the same moves... heroes communicating across ages... so much lore... it's too deep.......
>>719505013Git gud, shitter
>>719503952Shit like the Jellyfish or Porcine shields are fun looking at least, having your regal, painstakingly intricate looking beat stick covered in hair and shit isn't
I'm sorry but this us embarassingWho gets filtered by Harald Knights in fucking 2025
>>719500715Filtered
>>719505330Git gud at what? At overlooking the fact that the game is piss easy due to braindead AI? lmao
>>719503490jit jud
>>719504649>16 years later and he still wasn't able to git gud>left to roam /v/ and seethe endlessly in fromsoft threads for the rest of his existencegrim
>>719504649>basedjoy redditlady
>>719505714He became hollow.
>>719504649https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9Fromshit drones are basically cultists at this point, and fromshit itself is a too big to fail company like Ubisoft or Activision.Although I have to admit that their business model is pretty ingenious. They don't jsut sell their asset flips, they sell a surrogate identity of a "hardcore gamer" bundled with them, and apparently there was a demand for this type of mental masturbation.
>>719498626Wow so tanky
>>719505934Git gud
>>719506835>1 Estus flaskHow many times did you have to try and fuck up before you managed to film le epic montage of being le good?
>>719507226You're the one who thinks these braindead games are difficult. You're the one in need of guddage. LMAO
>>719507258I didn't have to
>>719507338Sure. You just drank all the Estus for fun. That's also why the first Harald is alone, even though the first batch goes as a pair (after the third parks at Filianore).Surely you did not cut minutes of trial and error fuckups, failed plunges, eating hits and such to get a video that makes you seem good and the enemies easy.
>>719498626>not killing EVERY enemy in your way
>>719507556>projecting this hardlol
>>719505714he's just a nobody now
>>719505934FS didn't hire much, they're a smaller company than Capcom.They're very conservative despite earning a lot of revenue, imo Elden Ring will be to FS what Skyrim was to Bethesda.
>>719503952then why is the greatsword one of the best weapons in the game while also looking great?
>>719507627>p-p-projecting t-this hard XDWHERE DID THE ESTUS GO, NIGGER? DID THE CURSE GRANNIES, TURTLES AND THE 3 RINGED KNIGHTS MAKE YOU DRINK 10+ ESTUS?
>>719507681not really because they already have 2 games in the pipeline with 1 more beign unannounced, meanwhile beth is moving at a snail's pace
>>719507556I don't need to edit anythingI work off 6 estus to get more castsWhen you clear Ringed City it means a sip for Harald Knight or 2 Ringed Knights
>>719507960Capcom had SF6, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and Dragon's Dogma, japanese devs work differently.
>>719507601I'm not gonna get my PB under 3 hours if I have to kill every enemy
>>719508306Tranny behavior
>>719504834No, he's completely right. Yharnam and Ashina were without a doubt From's best work as far as aesthetics and world design go. Lordran was quite good as well, but large parts of it felt unfinished.In terms of gameplay they all have their strengths and weaknesses.Bloodborne is very fast and feels great to play, but it's also very shallow by comparison.Sekiro is the deepest their combat ever got, but too many times it turns into a dance of parrying.Dark Souls, while the opposite of Bloodborne in being slow and clunky, is still quite satisfying in it's own way and has a proper balance of simplicity and complexity.Elden Ring however is a bit of a mess. The lands between's color-coded kingdoms have far too many wide-open and empty fields separating the interesting bits. And while the combat gives you a massive amount of options, it suffers precisely for it. Too many bosses are balanced around the player using exploitative strategies in summons and spells to the point of purists suffering.
>>719509875>spells >exploitative >in elden ringbuddy, the sorcery meme hasn't been true since DS1, pure strength is one of the most powerful possible builds in ER, it's drastically easier than any form of magic build
dark souls 3 was a fucking slog and then for elden ring they went like HEY WHAT IF WE SLOG IT UP AGAIN BUT THIS TIME THE ENTIRE DLC AREA WILL ALSO HAVE BULLET HELL GAMEPLAY BECAUSE ALL BOSSES WILL FLY AROUND AND SHOOT LASERS AND RANDOM SHIT AT YOU AND IF YOU DON'T COLLECT ALL THE SKIBIDI FRAGMENTS YOU WILL DEAL LESS DAMAGE SO THEY WILL SPONGE UP THE DAMAGE YOU DEAL HAHA OUR PLAYERS SURE LOVE CHALLENGE AND TEDIUMlike seriously, replaying demon's souls and dark souls 1 and then ds3 and elden ring, fromsoftware seems like an entire different company that just makes these games as memes and parodies of what their fans ask for
I’d rather fight these than the ringed knight trio near the end of the swamp again. These are just omens from ER too iirc.
>>719509875>Yharnam and Ashina were without a doubt From's best work as far as aesthetics and world design go. >Idol>walk ten steps>Idol>Walk ten steps idol>Boss fight >Idol>Grapple two times>Idol>Kill 10 enemies>IdolBravo Yamamura
>>719510105DS1 is a lot more fun to replay, it's like a good movie you can rewatch once a year.Starting with DS3 there's too many variables to consistently pull a no-death run.
>>719510347Nah
>>719498626pussy
>>719510347What i like about DS1 is that it fulfills that feeling of a journey like no other. Primarily because of that lack of fast-travel in the first half. Just having to walk everywhere makes the world feel so much bigger, and ironically the game becomes far more of a boring slog after unlocking fast-travel.
>>719498825>you dont HAVE to fight everything you seeYou do if you want to explore for items. If you don't care about picking stuff up and running around like a headless chicken then sure, but if you want to clean out an area you either kill everything or do suicide runs.
>>719498626just do a drop attack on them
>>719510105Git gud>>719510347Too basic to fight enemies there
>>719503630The melted shit and hair is the best part, it would just be a boring ass dismounter without it. why would i use a dragon sword if it didn’t look like a badass dragon scale
>>719503490Post shmup 1ccs fake ass gamer
>>719504752thats the pointds3 is all about the world being cancer ridden and dying embers and ashes its supposed to look bleak. but the lighting is actual dogshit unfortunately and takes away from the overall product
>>719505714>>719504840Shadow tower would filter the fuck outta you in 5 seconds, zoomoids
>>719507879>projecting fromdrone can't fathom not chugging estus
>>719510105Dont devalue bullet hell like this
>>719511080>>719507226>>719505330Shadow tower would make a rollslopper like you piss and shit yourself
>>719498626git gud scrub
>>719504921Miquella...forgive me for not washing my balls...
bruhIf only the jannies weren't worthless, semen-guzzling trannies, this shit would have been wordfiltered so long ago..
>>719511307>>719511528Played it long agoVery easy>>719511369I have 6 estus
>>719511803G1t gud
>>719510845I hope we get another warpless game again someday, it's really the main reason behind early ds1's fun connected world layoutI like to run bonfireless ds2 for the big journeys through each branch but not having access to spells is unfortunate
>>719509875>kosmIt's Kos you retard nigger
>>719511987No bonfire is brutal, the limited homeward bones and weapon durability makes it a pain to route. Don't bother giving me hints, I want to figure it out on my own.
>>719505934Shazam lost.
>>719499567Mine was DS1 but I still prefer 3, 1 falls off near the end.
>>719498626Same dudeSo much of DS3 feels like a blur at this point but I remember clearly these fucks were not worth fightingSame with those half dinos in DS2, dont remember the name but you guys know what I'm talking about
>>719511893>I have 6 estus>1 Estus in the video and one of the Haralds is missing: >>719506835You were made to chug because you kept fucking up while you tried to show how easy they are with the first Harald. The only other option is that you drank 5 Estus fighting curse grannies, turtles, and 3 Ringed Knights that are 1v1s.Why are fromdrones such lying pieces of shit? Why do you feel the need to show cherrypicked, cut, and painstakingly rehearsed videos to show off and to "disprove" someone else's point? Every single time.>someone: XY is bullshit>fromdrone: AHCHUALLY *inserts video with his hundreds of fuckups cut out*
>>719498626Just go pyro lol.
>>719499907No
>>719511893>shadow tower is easy...>he mapped move/look to the sticks>he played overclocked>he used save states every 3 seconds>he used magic and bowsYou Didn't beat the game. Git gud
>>719512334I won't give you any hints, but I will say that there is an easy way of handling the durability issue (and it is not punching everything with your bare hands).
>>719498626It's just how From DLC's are done. Did you bother fighting every forest golem in DS1's DLC? It's not worth it.But yeah, Ringed City definitely felt like an obstacle curse, first you have to go through the infinite archer spam, then it's these guys, then the turtle clerics, just run run run
Ringed shitty isnt even a city, its a tower, staircase, swamp, church, then wastleland outta nowhere.Wheres the CITY. Undead burgh was a better city
>>719512545The Sunken King ones? IIRC you could farm them for petrified dragon bones if that seemed like a good deal for a bit, but otherwise just sneaking around was more efficient. And I kinda remember having part of my fight with Jester Thomas take place in that area too…
>>719513361And Anor Londo is just 2 buildings and a bunch of rooftops. It's how games used to be made back then, you were supposed to use your imagination to fill in the blanks.
>>719513704>you were supposed to use your imagination to fill in the blanksbullshit, Morrowind and Gothic had cities 10 years prior, from just couldn't be bothered to design a city map
>>719513907They made an actual city in Elden Ring (Leyndell), the technology just wasn't there before.>but muh Morrowind and GothicYeah polygonal mountains and towns full of shoebox buildings, you wouldn't want that shit in a Dark Souls game
>>719514304>polygonal mountains and towns full of shoebox buildingsWhat, like in Dark Souls? You're right, it was pretty bad.
>>719498626These dudes you can take 80% of their health by drop attacking them.Also they're slow as fuck and you can just run past them.The turtles priests are the actual cancer to avoid ones.The viking dudes were light work to me, the maggot flies were x10 more annoying and so were the crow men dexfags.
>>719514417Um, Ringed City looks pretty great given that the target platform had only 8GB RAM.
>>719514428>crow men dexfagsThese are basically impossible if you're a dexfag yourself and have no hyper armor moves.
>>719514692Why is he using a torch?Is he fucking retarded?
>>719514808Astora GS R2. Use it. Dexfag-friendly.
>>719512580What the fuck are you talking about you fucking RETARDYou fight 3 dozen turtle clerics, 4 Ringed Knights, an NPC invader and 4 Herald Knights to the bottom of Ringed City
>>719514808To be fair, basically every build has one of these>fast attacks>ranged attacks>hyperarmourAnd any of them is enough to beat the crow dudes.
>>719514692Not all that impressive, considering Morrowind had exteriors with way more interactible objects ten years earlier and with one sixteenth of the RAM.
>>719498825>you dont HAVE to fight everything you seeI want everyone who thinks like this to be locked up.
>>719514808you know the deal*** ***
God damn i love DS3.Also god damn you people suck. I was playing the ringed city for the first time since it came out literally yesterday. And its great, as is the rest of this game if you dont suck. I cleared out the entire area of the second dreag heap bonfire, i must have killed like 4-5 of those heralds and took out both the angels, all the thralls aswell as desert pyromancer zoe on 10 fucking flasks. Tho im sure i got a flask or two back during the process. Still you all suck.
>>719520330I'm playing ng+ right now and it's comfy. So many fun weapons in this game desu. Aquamarine dagger is such a fucking cool weapon.
>>719516574I bet you attack every runebear and prawn you come across in Elden Ring
>>719520449God damn tell me about it. There are so many cool fucking weapons in DS3. And the truly unique stuff like the aquamarine dagger, valorheart, god damn crow quills, and ofc the fucking Farron GS. So many totally unique bespoke weapons, with their own animations and properties. Still cant belive how hard they dropped the ball in ER.
Fucking Kino Souls 3. I will never stop defending this game. BB might be my fav fromsoft game, and elden ring might be their greatest achivment as a studio. But i genuinely belive that DS3 is their best game. Its just solid all the way through. Nothings perfect tho, its no 10/10. It might not reach the same peaks as BB but it also never falls as low.
>>719520330>>719520791>>719520990Based
>>719520791The running/backstep l1 on the crow quills always makes me smile. What a fukkin stylish weapon. Shame they didn't give corvian knight armor.
Not to even mention the fucking fashion in this bitch. It has such a good and consistent color palette that you can mix and match so much shit in this game. Yes sure its alot of browns and greys, but what the fuck do you want. Its called DARK souls. But a tasteful variety of bronze/copper, shiny plate metal, blackend metal, some red, oranges and blues along with a ton of tasteful leathers goes a long fucking way. You cant show me anything from ER this hard. >>719521438Stay Based friend.>>719521862I know right, such a fucking cool attack. 99% sure you can do it with running R1 aswell. Finishing off a fool with that move just feels good. Or better yet using it to jump over some horizontal attacks. And said attack is part of the bread and butter moveset. Its not like in ER where the only cool or unique move the wep has is tied to the ash of war. So fucking boring that all weapons are the same in that game and then they have the "press le epic button, to epic all over the bad guy" shit. Yeah sure DS3 introduced it, but it still has so many unique weapons that dont rely on it being the one cool thing. And ofc things like the Farron GS who only has a basic parry as its L2 button and all the cool stuff is baked into the core moveset of the weapon.Also idk if your the aquamarine guy, but i love how you can initiate its special stance attacks mid normal combo or from a roll/sprint if you press the L2.
>>719498626Harald Knights aren't damage sponges, your damage output is just shit.
>>719522343ffs, use a reshader instead of playing with that brown and white ass dust shit fog, holy shit, i hate how ugly DkS3 is
>>719517712> heavy infused dex weapon> doesn't even 2 handing itgrim
>>719523353Bro please. DS3 looks fucking great. What not enough contrast for you. Besides no fucking fog in that img, what is it the anti-soul gas out to play again? Dude this is a game in a bleak dilapitated world where the theme is ash. And your complaining that it doesnt look like some fuckign rainforest with a bunch of popping colors. No ill stick with vanilla homie.But since im curious, what would you reccomend and what do you use? Oh and dont unwittingly expose yourself by complaining about the "fog" in pic rel.
>>719523806look at this> https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/544?tab=posts
>sharp-infused Sellsword Twinblades>Fallen Knight armor set>Grass Crest Shieldyep, it's rolling time
>>719523952Ok you didnt show me some bullshit atleast. That does look bretty nice, i like the deepend and dark shadows around all the nooks and crannies and like the skulls in the carthus pics. Gives more depth to the world/picture. But i dont like the saturated colors, the red looks like a cartoony blood red. And not the washed out stained and batterd feel DS3 has going. This aint skyrim or some other bethesda slop where you owe it to yourself to correct their ugly ass games. This is dark souls. These games are special, and fromsoft are masters of their craft when it comes to art direction. Its not something i wanna change all willy nilly. Im tired of people just looking for angles to shit on from these days. Still, i might look into it. Ty bro.
>>719499567They're all good games but none are perfectDS1 falls off at the endJank Souls 2 and the Soul Memory shitDS3 has a lot of ugly places and too many callbacksDeS has terrible bosses for the most partBloodborne's world isn't great (as in the map, not the lore) not to mention the blood gem system is kind of rough around the edgesEmpty Ring, aka Dark Souls 2 2, aka "we delayed the attacks and increased the health pools"Sekiro is alright I guess I just don't like the Japanese
FromSoftware has never released a fun DLC.
>>719526342Impeccable bait, the DLC has been the only really good part of any of their games, barring Elden Slop
>>719526397The Old Hunters was okay, but every other piece of DLC FromSoftware has put out has been unfun garbage that made the main game worse.
>>719526718The DLC was better than half of the base game for DS1 and at least as good as the first halfThe DLC for DS2 was the only good part about DS2, in what universe was DS2 good otherwiseThe DLC for DS3 was where they finally tied up some of the plot after having a game that was nothing but callbacksThe DLC for BB is where they hid almost all of the really fun weapons and even remotely difficult bosses
>>719526342dark souls 1's dlc will forever be my favorite just because of how busted dark bead was
>>719527165And none of them fun to play unless you cheat and use co-op.
>>719498626>just ran past all of them for the rest of the gameYou didn't beat the game. Beating the game involves clearing an entire area of all enemies at least once.
