Dark Souls

Loser Nirgon

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DS2 is the best Souls game.


It is the big dawgs choice of Souls yes

This thread inspired me to read random anecdotes of people getting griefed in that game

Several pages of ppl berging about royal rat authority did me good today
 

Yaamean

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Which one let you cut the tails off bosses and get weapons, was that 1? I fucking loved that and wish they kept it in all of the other games.

I should probably replay them all at some point soon, really want to try and get the BB emulation running on my PC. It has been a LONG time since I played it. Is there an easy way to download the rom + dlc?
 
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Rajaah

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That dude is terrifying, why would you want to download him?!

Just realized that Rom was an intentional boss name to throw off internet searches for "Bloodborne ROM", just like naming the Elden Ring horse "Torrent"...
 
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Araxen

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Which one let you cut the tails off bosses and get weapons, was that 1? I fucking loved that and wish they kept it in all of the other games.

I should probably replay them all at some point soon, really want to try and get the BB emulation running on my PC. It has been a LONG time since I played it. Is there an easy way to download the rom + dlc?
1 had cutting off of tails. I always wondered why they went away from that. That was always fun to do. It added a little extra challenge to the fight if you wanted it.
 

Ambiturner

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DS2 has some terrible design choices like having to put levels into adaptability to make dodge not be shitty, and bullshit gank squads that magically appear out of nowhere to cause cheap deaths that you can only avoid by already dying to them and knowing when/where they're going to happen.

Like in DS3, you can look around and see guys hanging on a wall, or even just their hands or something which rewards you for looking around and being careful. In DS2, you'll go out on a narrow ledge and 5 guys will magically appear and fall out of the sky.

Didn't help the it has a framerate durability bug on launch where your shit would break twice as fast if you played on 60fps.

It's the weakest of the From games, but still easily better than any non-from Soulslike
 
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Rajaah

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DS2 has some terrible design choices like having to put levels into adaptability to make dodge not be shitty, and bullshit gank squads that magically appear out of nowhere to cause cheap deaths that you can only avoid by already dying to them and knowing when/where they're going to happen.

Like in DS3, you can look around and see guys hanging on a wall, or even just their hands or something which rewards you for looking around and being careful. In DS2, you'll go out on a narrow ledge and 5 guys will magically appear and fall out of the sky.

Didn't help the it has a framerate durability bug on launch where your shit would break twice as fast if you played on 60fps.

It's the weakest of the From games, but still easily better than any non-from Soulslike

Enemy placement in DS2 was really bad compared to the others, yes. Can't remember how it was in vanilla DS2. Since I played Scholar first on PS4, then went back and played vanilla on PS3, as I do with Fromsoft.

Which reminds me, is it worth playing much of the original Oblivion now that Oblivion Remake exists? The grass actually being green, and the late 2000's bloom effects, are what I remember from Oblivion, and Remake doesn't have those. Part of me wants to play through both versions when I get back to Elder Scrolls, unless it would be a grand waste of time. Playing through both versions of, say, Demon Souls was certainly worth it; they are wildly different and the PS3 version is much much moodier.

In any case, I remember very little about the PS3 original of DS2, except that I flew through it quick. Scholar, though, the enemy placement drove me nuts. That game looked amazing in 2015, at least. Sky high framerate and visuals. DS2, especially SOTFS, really is "the worst From game and yet still better than any non-From Soulslike". That's a perfect description. Lies of P is the only thing that might challenge it from the pretender companies.