>Find out about infinite lifegems AFTER I beat the gameExploit or legitimate early game strategy? I lean towards exploit. Not knowing I could replenish my supply of lifegems EASILY made it harder until I got a decent amount of estus.
>he uninstalled the gamehope you backed up your save because this game and dark souls 3 still don't have cloud saves
>>732315162wow cant wait for whatever dogshit takes that gets spammed over multiple copypasted OPs from the same mouth that thinks RE0 is better than RE7
>>732315223Why would I replay it? Yeah I know about the NG+ stuff but I don't really care.
>>732315223There's no point replaying DS2, it's a bad game.
>>732315479>RE0 is better than RE7Re0 is better than 7. Most of the criticism against 0 is bullshit>>732315162Why would it be am exploit? You start with 2 estus drinks and you ain't going to be using life gems to survive anything tjat matters
>>732316024>Re0 is better than 7. Most of the criticism against 0 is bullshitAgreed. The kinda people that complain about 0 can't even beat RE1 or Remake as Chris.
>>732315479not sure what resident evil has got to do with this threads but yes RE0 lets me skip cutscenes it's infinitely more replayable than 7
>>732315223Yeah reinstall for hecking epic return to lorderan!!!
>>732315223I reinstalled ds3 on steam and I still had my old save.
>>732315859Shut the fuck up, retard. Whose midwit take are you parroting? Matthewmathosis? DSP? ds2 is better than ds1 in every regard and only a braindead faggot would say otherwise
DS2 fags know they can't defend the game so the resort to ad hominems. Meanwhile DeS, DS1, DS3, BB, Sekiro, ER, AC6 and NR fans don't have to bring up ecelebs because their games stand on their own merits.
>>732316437>>732316178Look, I just like big freaky monsters in my games, and Dark Souls 1 had plenty, whereas Dark Souls 2 was obsessed with making me fight guys with swords and really tall knights. That's really not for me.
>>732315223Uninstalling the game doesn't delete the save files. You don't need the cloud saves unless you want them on the cloud.
>>732315162How would you not know about lifegems unless you were ignoring the merchants
>>732316546based
>>732319561Well the first time you meet her it's limited. Like they should've been.
>>732315162I used cheat engine to give myself max life gens. I'm not gonna grind just to be able to heal
>>732319668>I'm not gonna grind just to be able to healDS2 didn't remove the estus flask.
>>732319821and?
>>732315162>infinite lifegemsTell me more
>>732320000So you don't need to grind to heal. If that needs to be explained to you.
I intentionally didn't use lifegems at all because I wanted to actually beat the game.
>>732320042You can buy as many as you want, and lifegems basically mog/replace the estus flask because they made it too slow to drink, whereas you can move with lifegems and they're not slow to use.
>>732315162Lifegems were based because you could actually move around while you used them which came in clutchBut how you didnt figure that out is crazy to me. Didnt you have them in your quick items? And you didnt notice you had dozens of them to use?
>>732320130I still don't know wtf they were thinking with the lifegem system and gutting estus. It just seems completely pointless to have both? It's like there were two guys on B team who butted heads over whether the game should have grass or estus, so some other dev just said fuck it and added both.
>>732320130>you can buy healing itemsThat's not an exploit, this thread is pointless
Fromsoft has done incredible damage to the gaming industry.>bonfireSaving in video games is a solved problem. We have had quicksave/load and selectable files on PC for decades. Runbacks do not respect the player's time.>estusA terrible mechanic that removes decision making. Now you don't have to stock up or buy healing items. Inventory load doesn't matter anymore removing another element of decision-making. Healing gems were a step in the right direction but they predictably fucked up in the sequel.
>>732320490Dark Souls 1's only real healing item was the estus flask, with humanities being able to but being much harder to find. It's far better balanced than Souls 2 sloppy design of western RPG "i buy 99 health potions"
>>732320079estus flasks don't last forever
a vendor selling infinite lifegems is not an exploitit is one of the ways no-bonfire runs are completed
>>732320620This is actually fair criticism of the game. The lifegem system fucks over how interesting it is to have estus shards that mean every single bottle is something you have to find yourself, a system which every subsequent game rightly copied.>>732320509>We have had quicksave/load and selectable files on PC for decadesQuicksaving is for PC cucks who place no value on risk vs reward and accept absolute the most absolute jank conventions.>Now you don't have to stock up or buy healing itemsThis, however, is actual timewasting grind. Having an immediate, set number of healing items is vastly superior for an action game.
What's the strat for getting sl to soft caps? Currently 104 in NG. Is it just bonfire ascetics on The Rotten?
>>732315162wait how
>>732323773What do you mean how lol
