Classic trilogy vs Soulslop trilogy
they should make a Dark Souls 2 2
>>724258478both ass
>>724258564Hackazaki will never be able to replicate the ludokino
>>724258564it's called Elden Ring
>>724258478classic is better
it's all rollslop
>they’re the same picture
>>724258478Series really lost it's soul after the 7th gen
>goodDS/BB/ER>okDeS/DS2>awfulDS3simple as.
/v/ be like>DOOD this game is unpopular i LOVE IT>DOOD this game is popular i HATE IT>it's the same game
>>724258947everything except DS3 is good
dark souls 3 is the only one i've bothered to NG+in fact i did NG+, NG++ and then NG+++ with boss randomizer all one after the other because i liked the game so much, though it helped that DS3 is shorter
>>724258947>>724259003Dark Souls 3 is my favorite Dark Souls, and the 2nd best game after Elden Ring.
SOTE is when the slop got really fucking sloppy though
>>724258478Dark Sovls vs Dark soulless
>>724259114after seeing someone describe SotE bosses as "watching someone else have fun" I just kept thinking that through every fight in the DLC, i hope their next games make the difficulty more interesting
Have yet to play BB, ER, or Demon's, but finished all 3 Dark Souls this year. Demon's and DS1 have such good soundtracks, Demon's in particular surprised me, it reminds me of the old-From music (such as shadow tower abyss)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3nckWeT-m0 (in particular is like old From)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8pse0w9nk some reason is a great feel for these games. I've replayed it an awful lot in the past 24hr (since downloading the soundtrack).I hope From goes back to this sometime, more atmosphere and mood (like their older games, including Demon's and DS1), and more grounded combat.
>>724258478Reasons why Dark Souls II was maligned:>Soul MemoryIt's bad because it counts total souls accumulated, not total souls spent, so you couldn't cease its progression. Then they added the agape ring, which works, but now it consumes your souls so if you want to twink you don't get to keep souls at all.>weapon degradationIt was tied to frame rate, so on consoles it was fine, but on PC your weapons have the durability of wet paper towels. This is mitigated by consumables and spells, but I'd rather just not have the problem in the first place.>enemy despawningAfter they've been slain enough times, enemies will stop respawning. This is fine during a typical playthrough, but if you're the type to linger, eventually entire regions of the game will be devoid of anything in them at all. Empty maps. This is mitigated by joining the Company of Champions, but the covenant comes with its own changes that you may not wish to deal with>no Red Eye OrbThis is self explanatory; reds were upset because they had to farm for orbs. It's annoying busywork that could better be spent invading.>invasion timerIt puts pressure on the invader to do something, which is antithetical to the "I've got all the time in the world" strategies that people would employ, things like hiding and blending, lying in wait to ambush the host, or playing the long game by running through the level.>hosts can be invaded while hollowWhy? It renders moot the entire point of Humanity/human effigies.>abundance of healing>introduction of sublime bone dustThe first is self explanatory; there's too many healing consumables in the game that can just absorb damage. Bone dust effectively replaces Humanity, which makes no sense. There was no reason to fuck with the previous mechanics that worked so intuitively.>a bunch of other issues, i.e.>aggressive enemy tracking and bad hitboxes (got patched to some extent)>split into two versions DX9/DX11>visual downgrade from the promo materialetc.
>>724259272>watching someone else have funFunny as I felt the same with Gael and Midir in the last DS3 DLC too. And that's a big part of why I don't like those bosses, despite them seemingly being fan-favourites. Some of ER bosses look even worse than these and pretty damn unfair.
>>724258478the golden era was from Bloodborne to Sekiro
>>724258947https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xngBF-sWsLg
>>724259594i can see why you'd say that about gael but when i learned his moves I felt it became a lot more even, it feels like a good back and forth compared to SotE bossesyou're right about midir though
>>724260041Honestly that's fair. I can see Midir being much more 'wait and watch' regardless of skill, but Gael being better the better you also got. I can see that being the case. It took ~10 tries for me to beat Gael and when I did beat him I still had most of my healing left and the fights were relatively getting shorter.
>>724259486The fact that we can even have complaints about multiplayer for the original games, while Elden Ring has no covenants, a half-baked and rushed out invasion experience, and only golds, blues and reds with nobody else just goes to show how sloppy the slop has become
>>724260180>It took ~10 tries for me to beat Gael and when I did beat him I still had most of my healing left and the fights were relatively getting shorter.yeah exactly, and then if you fight him in NG+ you realize he's actually pretty "easy" while still being an engaging fight, i think that's a big part of why he's so well liked
Dark Souls 3 is closer to Dark Souls 2 than it is to Bloodborne or Elden Ring
>>724260439How? It across the board looks and feels like a BB rip-off. And I like DS3, don't get me wrong, but there's a lot of overlap and haphazard copying of BB. For example no passive poise is pretty fucked up. A lot the weird washed out plasticy look it shares with BB too. I don't recall if BB NPC have that untextured plastic look either though, this may be DS3 exclusive.
>>724260580For all that people complain DS3 enemies are too aggressive the vast majority aren't actually worse than DS1 hollows' retard flails, the difference is DS3 enemies like to lunge or take big steps
>>724260751who even complains about that these days?i thought people were presently in agreement that normal enemies, normal hazards, etc were a total joke in ds3 compared to the average of all preceding games
