I played through DS2 without leveling adaptability, I had no idea what it did and I didn't want to have things spoiled for me so I never interacted with the community.
>>733643852How did you like the game, in general?
>>733643908Compared to DS1 I found it a mixed bag.I liked some things better, other things were steps in the wrong direction.I liked it more than DS3 which I followed it up with, because it was more interesting even if it had some things wrong.
>>733646117Ok, interesting. The typical knee-jerk reaction by DS players is: "all shit, not a DS game".It was my first Dark Souls game, so I came into it as a blank slate. And I quite liked it. I played DS1 afterwards and then DS3 when it came out. I would say that the game has some of the worst environments of the series, but also some of the best.
>>733647230there is a jank element to 2 that's not present in 1 or 3, it's not what makes it charming, but the game has charmI really loved the environment in the snowy DLC, but the game was held back by technical limitation, I think I felt it more than in DS1.
>>733647418Oh yeah, it sometimes definitely feels more dated than it should. Especially graphically.
>>733643852By the way you don't need adaptability as a spellcaster since attunement will also raise your agility and unlike adaptability attunement itself is actually useful for your build.
As someone that played and beat Demon's Souls. Played Dark Souls 1 till Anor Londo but then dropped the game...Dark Souls 2 was great. I loved it until the Shaded Woods when I dropped it, pre-DLC.Later on after beating Bloodborne, and DS3 (Vanilla), I went back and beat it with the DLC. It became for favorite of the three Dark Souls games.
>>733646117>I liked it more than DS3 which I followed it up with, because it was more interesting even if it had some things wrong.This is pretty much how I feel about DS2. It's the old, "It's better to be bad than boring," adage. DS2 has a lot of interesting ideas that weren't iterated on, were iterated on in worse ways, or were actually refined in future FromSoft games. Unique NG+ cycles returned in DS3 in a much more limited form, for example; and Elden Ring really refined DS2's emphasis on the RPG half of the ARPG formula, while also failing to iterate on DS2's immersive details.That said, I do not like DS2 or DS3 as a whole. In DS2's case, the actual content of the game - the world design, the level design, the enemies and bosses, the combat mechanics, the story, the art direction - varies in quality from inoffensive to fuck-awful. The best content is in the DLCs. Most of my memories of DS2 are of the base game, and even now I tend to play it instead of SotFS when I do get the urge to do another DS2 playthrough - which makes the base game's flaws much more apparent as I only own the DLC in SotFS.DS2 ultimately delivers on very little of what I want out of a FromSoft game, but it's interesting in its own right.
>Another episode of "I like DS2 because...it isn't like the other games!"As usual DS2fags can never mention what is actually good about DS2. Usual routine DS2 contrarian attention-seeking bait thread.
>>733649053I haven't seen the DS2 WebM-spammer in a minute. Normally he's here 24 hours a day to lecture anyone and everyone on the superiority of DS2, specifically the Scholar of the First Sin version.
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/lXE69A_7PfQNgXV-oiyx5A/Exact same image with worthless shit-post from 2024. Got no (you)s so is retrying.
>>733649170>sample size: 2>different file names
SameI go for 16 adp and no higher most times though because that puts you on par with ds1 in terms of iframes
>>733649170I got the image from google. It's a screenshot from reddit if I remember correctly.I'm not going to go into the game to take a screenshot myself, just to make a thread.
>>733643852>I never interacted with the communityReally that's the only way to play Souls games. People love to rewrite history but Souls got pozzed even before DS1.
>>733643852based, that's a valid way to play the game and emphasizes the strengths of movement and spacing
>>733646117>Compared to DS1 I found it a mixed bag.Now please tell everyone the last time you played DS1.
>>733643852Yes ADP is an absolute nothingburger scapegoat to not git gud and adaptDaS2 is still the best
>>733649143have you considered therapy?
>>733649053PVP was best in DS2. Huge amounts of builds and plenty of covenant activities too. There was plenty of goofy things that kept it memorable like popping a tree seed on an invader.
