Dark Souls 2 is Pretty Good, Actually
It's the best of the series and anyone that disagrees is an actual retard
>>737164191always has been
>>737164191you been enjoying that DS2LE?
>ds2leYou didn't beat the game
>>737164223DS2 fans are so buck broken they can't praise their game without putting down another game or preemptively getting mad at anyone who thinks otherwise.
the game is horseshitpeople praise this games build variety but what does it matter when you use it on horrible pve encounters and dogshit bosses.
>the samefag thread
>>737164191>"Shit tastes pretty nice, actually!"
But a schizo autist here on /v/ replies to every thread with the same minor complaint therefore the game sucks
>>737164418>Noo you have to regurgitate the same reddit opinions that I do like a subhuman parrot or else you're buck broken No thanks retard
>>737164191The Resident Evil 6 of Souls. A masterpiece.
>>737164652>damn, the game is horseshit because people praise it while i hate itWow. No shit nigga.But the hate it receives is kind of funny to me, back when it released it was disappointing at worst, yet 12 years later people still seethe about it online and video essays about how objectively bad it is receive hundreds of thousands of views.
>>737164191DS2 actually feels like an RPG adventure more so than the other entries.
>>737164191I prefer the original Xbox 360 version. Scholar kinda sucks. Too much gank squad bullshit, and I think that gives people a bad impression of the game.
Redpill me on Dark Souls 2's development lore
>>737164191It is the best game in the whole series in fact. There is no debate about it, anyone thinking otherwise is a beta male, cuck nigger faggot mega troon.
People who hate DS2 need to stop letting jewtubers dictate their opinions
>>737165040That's just not a thing, the only SotFS exclusive bullshit you'll encounter are the new NPC invasions which technically do add more enemies at once throughout the game but they're also a random % spawn rate oddities...https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkei3Zc3mbYnpM4Jm2INKg4WZyAkeEfWQ
>>737165278>>737165040Vanilla Xbox 360 Majula
I can’t tell if I like the LE more than Scholar’s lighting or less. It’s definitely more consistent since half of DS2’s areas look bad and then the other half look good in base.
>>737165326Here is a good shot of what scholar does to the image. Saturation, Contrast and Brightness have all been dialed upSo strange that they got rid of the distant blur in SOTFSScholar tonemapper is good in some places yeah but it goes hard sometimes very complicated to control , vanilla on other hand just gets all of its color from basic post processor and scene lighting
>>737165271This, but literally.
bro converted all his webm to jpg after people called him out on his bullshit
>>737165153A complete rabbit hole with tons of stuff never archived online.I don't have it on hand but despite beta Iron Keep having a lot of info posted online, what they don't tell you is that there was a whole setpiece where you could climb the giant bull statue from the outside with multiple elevations in a completely different place from the final version.
>>737165540Dark Souls 2 scrapped maps in Nightreignhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzdYD1LzSdE
>>737165578Beta Gutter/Black Gulch/GoS is pretty well known, but stuff like beta Things Betwix, Harvest Valley/Shaded Woods (same map prior), (Past) Dragleic Castle and (Past) Undead Crypt aren't posted much if at all.There's some others too but either they don't have much like (Past) Shrine of Amana or they're a complete mess like (Present) Aldia's Keep.
>>737164652But enough about dark souls 3
>>737165783>but stuff like beta Things Betwix, Harvest Valley/Shaded Woods (same map prior), (Past) Dragleic Castle and (Past) Undead Crypt aren't posted much if at all.Tell us more?
>>737164652sounds like a skill issue. Git Gud.
i honestly can't understand why having an honest fun discussion about any of these games is so impossible on this board
>>737166013It's weird how DS2 has remained impossible to talk about for over a decade at this point. You'd think there'd be some clemency, but niggers are still SEETHING that this game wasn't a carbon copy of DS1.
>>737166013There are legitimate reasons to not like 2 but people act like its complete shit, which has caused the fans to have a On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best Bond mentality.
>>737166159Yeah, but I don't understand why people became so addicted to participating in discussion of things they don't like just so they can rage at something, seems like very empty and pointless behavior
>>737164191my game doesn't look like that what did you do?
>>737166013It became this way after the DS1 PC port release.
>>737165846I would take screencaps for evidence, but I don't feel like installing DS2 and setting up DSMapStudio. I can give you the beta collision files of you really want to, I got them by digging up in a gay ass public Discord.For context on the time travel versions, we know next to nothing about the missing versions (outside of Past Majula narrative's purpose) besides them existing and getting axed.>Aldia's Keep and Dragon Aeria had past versions>Drangleic Castle, Shrine of Amana, Undead Crypt had present versions>Majula had both past and futureAll of those are missing from the released game despite the lack of time travel, they just repurposed the past versions to make them present.>Things BetwixThere's a section at the end where you climb a massive tree via trunks before entering Majula.>Harvest Valley/Shaded Woods First section starts close to Harvest Valley, but to the left of the windmill there's a whole ass arena with long stairs on both sides that leads into a big arena. Behind that is an exit to another area that I can't tell where it goes. Earthen Peak itself is fucked so I couldn't tell the changes it had.>(Past) Dragleic CastleCompletely different layout. Impossible to compare it to final version.>(Past) Undead CryptSame as above but even less recognizable.
>>737164191when will the PT mod be out? Game already looks great with the LightingEngine mod.
>>737166617This is what I meant with Undead Crypt. Wish I nabbed a photo of Drangleic Castle and the Iron Keep setpiece.
>>737165040Ds3 is the worst for ganksquadsLiterally the only time you're fighting less than 2 guys is minibosses
>>737165540well a lot is due to the tools just not really existing to convert a lot of formats or view them in a non fucked up state until semi recentlyplus lots of things are hidden in collision data and not as actual map pieces
>>737166754just do SL60-90 invasions with a SM of around 300.000. I get a lot of invasions without any gank squads. Shit's fun!
>>737166680I would need to connect the pieces together, but I wouldn't be surprised if that grass pathway is where the out of bounds Bird's Nest in Shaded Woods originally lead to. It's well known that maps had to be stitched be together to areas they weren't originally meant to but there's evidence that like 80% of the map connections were changed. Heide was also likely either part of another map or didn't exist at all until the director swap.
>>737165326not at that resolution
DaS2 was the last time enemies attacked in a normal fashion.Since then everything has been wind-up slop, making you more reliant on reflexes than perception. The franchise dove way to deep into dodging, parrying or guarding to the point that you dance to the enemy's ridiculous tune and not your own.
>>737166790DS1 in the middle, Sekiro and DS3 on the very top. Otherwise correct.
>>737165578>huh this blonde guy has such a cute accent and knows a bit of japanese, I wonder where he's from>brazil
>>737165578Fucking kek, their reputation of reusing assets isn't just for show.
>>737167504Life is full of surprises.
>>737164223>>737164191ds3>ds2>ds1, i so fucking tired of reddit takes
>>737164223It's objectively an unpolished turd of a game. The fact that you think it's better than 1 and 3 says more about your poor mental faculties than anything else.
>>737165271t.watched a 3h video essay from hbombertroon about why poop souls 2 is actually le masterpiece
>>737164223Nah DS1 is still best.DS2 successfuly build on some aspects like dualwielding, they improved the way estus works, mimics, difficulty, and has some of the best but also the worst boss fights in the series. But also failed to replicate some aspects if the original like cohesive interconnected world. Also anyone complaining about ADP is a bitch crying because he is mad he doesn't get iframes for free or that they can't just run past every enemy.Meanwhile DS3 is giant ass member berry.>Huehueh member Anor Londo>Huehueh member SiegmeyerDS3 does the same shit that everyone complained about in 2 like crowd bosses but it's ok when DS3 does it.The faggot DS3 apologists probably like stupid Star Wars sequels too.
