>>722524423Play dark souls 2 if you want to experience bigger story mess.
>>722524423trvth nvke
>>722524423Once you discover that there are people that take videogame plots seriously you'll never stop wanting to beat youtuber essayists to death with your bare hands
>>722524808For anyone that hasn't played DS2: don't bother.
Just started playing this after enjoying Elden Ring, and holy fuck does it show its age. Made it past the asylum demon without a single death, but those damn skeletons shortly after managed to fuck me up hard. Gonna keep trying to git gud, but not having the option to do an actual jump is gonna take some serious getting used to. Combat is definitely more primitive and janky
The lore is simple it's literally explained in the opening cutscene.
>>722524423People take lore too seriously. It's usually just a bunch of shit the devs threw together based on vibes. They didn't really think about whether Zanzibart's awakening causing the Mottled Flamme to extinguish makes sense when you take into account that the Abject Snootlings were fueling it with humane dregges.
>>722524423I couldn't give less shit about the lore of this game if I tried. The only thing I know is the opening cutscene, which just looks like a blatant rip off of the one in Peter Jaskson's The Fellowship of the Ring. It's still one of my favorite games ever, played it for hundreds of hours, 100%ed it, etc. etc., but I never looked more into its lore. I stopped giving a fuck about lore in media by the fourth fantasy book series I read as a kid. When it comes to writing, the only thing I care about is the plot. Dark Souls's plot is palatable, but it's nothing to write home about. It's the gameplay, atmosphere, settings, repeatability, character/enemy designs, the plethora of different gameplay approaches, and so on, that make it such a great game in my eyes.
>>722524808>>722526934The DS2 defense force cope for nothing making sense in 2 is literally "you forgot" and that's why you take an elevator up into a volcano that clearly isn't there.
Lore is fine. But design and gameplay-wise, DS I is mediocre. The boss fights are forgettable and most levels are poorly designed or just unfinished.
>>722527891This the fuck is complicated about a land that has long since fallen and is haunted by the lost souls that still inhabit it. You beat the last remnants of power and can choose to end it all or become it's new ruler. Credits roll that's the entire story.
>>722524808Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 lore and story was basically the writers and Miyazaki fleshing out everything, then removing bits and pieces. 2 attempts to ape this by only ever writing half the lore in the first place so it's an incoherent mess that you can't reasonably infer anything from that the game doesn't explicitly tell you.
>>722528743What's the other one? Dragon Aerie into Dragon Shrine? Some area transitions in that game are fucked.
>>722524808Elfen ring remains unmatched
Piss Souls 1. Mario 64 has tighter controls lmao
>>722524423Lore is a meme. It's a video game. Why do the goombas server Bowser? Who gives a shit?
>>722529682Still not as tight as your ass.
Zanzibar....
>>722529717Yup. Just ask your dad
>>722524423DS1s story is pretty straight forward. Humanity exists and some old dude is keeping the world together my burning his soul.It's only in the later games that it gets retarded with shit like cycles and other contradictory nonsense. Like everything to do with ornstein post DS1.
>>722529953Actually isn't contradictory. It's apparent in DS1, the DLC made it more apparent, then DS3 (due to brainlets like you tripping over their own feet) made it obvious over and over.
