Contrary to popular belief these games aren’t really that hard, they just don’t hold your hand. They have their fair share of bullshit, but the game isn’t painstakingly difficult.
Effenhoog: Plowing through the game more easily also has something to do with the fact that you now know the areas and enemy/boss patterns. Though yes, Vig remains one of the most important stats in the game.
Removing armor upgrades just made the game less of a grind and gave the player more incentive to try out different armor. Back in DS/DS2 you’d always be thinking of upgrade materials when you thought about putting on new armor.
They share the same title and universe, and they’re direct sequels to each other. Of course they’re connected, I’m saying Bloodborne/Dark Souls connections are more inspirational on the developers part more so than legitimate universe links.
Of course Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 are linked. As would Bloodborne and Bloodborne 2 be linked.
I just finished the twin princes, I did really well for most of the fight. IMO the thing that actually made the fight challenging was not the moveset, it was not the abilities of the character, it was the teleport and random loss of lock on and then I would have no idea where character was or what he was doing. I probably had 50 deaths to the princesses until I figured out every time it unlocked to just run until I heard the sword super sound then roll. But doing that completely blind was pretty lame, and I still got killed a bunch of times until I finally got those bastards.
I miss upgrading armor.
I don’t miss it at all. being able to upgrade more weapons is nice, and not having to level up armor to find out if it’s going to be worth a damn is super nice.
I liked being able to make shit armor into something usable. I don’t tend to use too many weapons per build (only my first build really) so I end up swimming in upgrade materials and have nothing to do with them. Not a big deal or anything tho.
I’m just glad stat requirements for armor are gone.
armor upgrading was other reason people were using megamules. Maybe some people find farming for shards for hours is fun, but a lot of people didnt like it. And it didnt bother people who played bloodborne also
Scholar of the First Sin is on sale, $17 CAD. Should I get it? Never played DS2.
It’s different, the PvP is quite fun and SotfS really did make the base game better. It isn’t quite what you expect but it’s good in it’s own right.
Definitely pick up SoTFS for that cheap. For how much time you can put into that game, it’s a steal.
Dark souls 2 has a lot slower gameplay then the other souls games, most of the game is really easy also, only 2 of the bosses were really hard, Dark Lurker and Fume Knight. PvP is a mess, soul memory made a lot of people hate pvp not to mention everything has phantom range, and people spamming back steps to get I-frames, and online match making sucks also with soul memory, parrying is harder to pull off in pvp also. PvE, is really easy though.
Forgot to mention also, if you think invading in DS3 is bad, try invading in DS2, you cant even heal without spells, and its impossible to win vs gankers.
Did they fix the issue where they warn players for abnormal game saves? Despite playing legit? ( PC ver)
I think hackers will always be on the PC version.
Don’t listen to the DS2 haters. Pick up the game.
For 17 bucks, you’re getting technically the “least good” Souls game, but it’s still really damn good. Particularly the areas they added to the game in DLC form (but which are part of SOTFS) are gold, and some of the most satisfying areas in any Souls game.
Multiplayer ain’t perfect, but I spent a ton of time invading in that game. It’s definitely got better PVP than either Dark Souls 1 or Demon’s Souls.
True but the experience on PC is just much more enjoyable; I mainly play the single player aspect of the game so I don’t really care for the PVP aspect but it’s just frusturating getting the warning despite playing legit it’s the main reason why I ditched the game at launch week because I was so pissed off about the warning, lol.
Good price; pick it up.
I usually suggest people to play all the games in the series (demon souls/bb and the dank souls), play through the game and decide for yourself if it’s bad or not, it’s all about the experience you get with each iteration.
You didn’t need to farm shards for hours. If you where farming anything but slabs for hours you’re a fucking idiot and doing it wrong and deserve the shit farming time you’re getting. It was a problem in Bloodborne because Chunks where Slab Rare and you had to game the system to get multiple Rocks.
Downloading DS2 as we speak. Got time to kill before the Sony conference.
Not every armor set in Dark souls 2 used titanite, some used twinkling titanite, and farming twinkling titanite was a such a pain, and dont miss it at all.
Dark souls 1 did it right by just farming the clams. Demons souls still has the worst farming, fucking Pure Sharpstone