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Except for the co-op areas all of the DLC's are very good.
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Oh I forgot about shrine of Amana, that area was awesome before they nerfed it.
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I didn't fault it as much for "cohesion" as for abandoning the interconnected layout for more of a hub-and-spoke setup. You pick one of several paths away from Majula and follow it to the point where it ends, passing through a linear series of destinations exclusive to that path. Constantly discovering inter-area shortcuts and spatial relationships was a big part of DS1 and I missed it.
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Be posi and list things you liked about dark souls 2. For me: The sex change coffin. Lighting all the torches in the gutter and then looking back to see them. The iron keep is a castle sinking into a volcano, that's cool. The dlc was good. That's what I got right now
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the sex change coffin was cool and uh i guess that shipyard area was ok and pursuers are fun to fight
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In general I'm not fond of these games' obsession with having to talk to a boring NPC to level up. Demon's Souls was the only time it sort of was almost interesting because they straight up take her away at the end of the game.
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No man's wharf was cool, maybe dark souls 2 should've been all pirates.
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that's why ds1 was cool, you could just level up anywhere and it was a good reason to not just let you teleport to any bonfire right from the start while also removing something that just ends up being an annoying inconvenience
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That basilisk trap at the entrance to the woods was really good Their implementation of curse was cool, especially that portrait of the queen later on.
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I played them all out of order but I preferred DS2 to 1 because non of the areas in 2 were as bad as the zero effort later areas in 1 and they got rid of most of the awful crafting stuff and having five different blacksmiths that did different things and poo poo. Demons and Bloodborne are better than all the Darks though.
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Oh yeah being able to teleport to whatever bonfire whenever you wanted was cool too.
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lets hang out posted:Be posi and list things you liked about dark souls 2. It wasn't as bad as DS3
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lets hang out posted:Be posi and list things you liked about dark souls 2. For me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRTfcMeqhig
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I think they're all good games and better than like 90% of other games though, even Dark Souls 3
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Sakurazuka posted:I think they're all good games and better than like 90% of other games though, even Dark Souls 3 Same. Also pre patch Amana was hilarious.
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I wish there was an easy way to give people the experience of playing king's field without having to play it or watch it be played because watching it is boring as gently caress and playing it is only interesting if you are like me and get yourself really hooked by the game's aesthetic. KF1 was a largely "linear" game where you progressed from floor to floor, with each floor being a new open area to explore as you tried to solve its puzzles. KF2 was far more interconnected, including various shortcuts and teleporting to get around, as well as housing several secret and optional areas you never actually needed to go to but were there if you wanted to go find them. KF3 was more of a linear thing to some degree, going back to KF1's style of "you are in this hub area that branches off, when you complete all of these areas you can move on to the next hub" except you'd gain fast travel abilities so you'd move to the end of one branch and be able to move on to another branch of the path, as well as possibly discovering secret areas once you complete your main goal.
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FirstAidKite posted:I remember watching a guy named lobosjr play through the game when DS2 first came out and man, Amana at release was amazing lmao. Frigid Outskirts was one of those places that was designed to be played through co-op. I guess I can appreciate the idea but I didn't like it because I don't like Souls co-op. My favorite weapon in the whole series is from a boss soul in that place too. People complain a lot about bad area in DS2, but the bad areas in DS1 were even worse.
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Sep 18, 2017 22:02
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The sex change coffin pre-patch when it didn't warn you that something had changed and you might play for hours before noticing. The boss fight that was you vs a swarm of 100 rats The guy whose quest sent you into the underworld to fight the ghosts of DS1 characters
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Sep 18, 2017 22:03
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I played Kings Field 1 (the Japanese one, with an English patch) last year and liked it a lot. I want to play kf2 (kf1 in the West) but when I emulate it it constantly swings from running way too slow to running way too fast and I don't know if it's an emulator problem or just how the game is but it sucks
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Actually, thinking about it, it's kind of interesting how the souls series mimics king's field in terms of design elements. KF1 is very hub-based with you moving from one hub to the next, solving one area before moving on to the next and from there, the next. Very similar to Demon's progression. KF2 had a far more interconnected world with you being able to find shortcuts and paths all over since the game took place on an island where all of the content was very tightly compacted. There were more than a few spots where you could look somewhere and see another portion of the level (though not to the degree of dark souls due to draw distance, and also due to so much of the game's content being contained underground within the island). It's neat how you can travel around and feel the various complex pieces of geometry of the island slot into place, similar to Dark Souls. KF3 opted for the less vertical exploration of KF2 and more horizontal exploration. You're often presented with a variety of branching paths that will take you to various hubs that will take you to more branching paths, but said paths won't meet up anywhere, so you'll just reach a point where you've explored it all and completed it and it's like "okay, time to warp back now that I've explored and looted this area and gained something to help me continue along back in the main hub" similar to Dark Souls 2, except in Dark Souls 2 you could go in any direction from the start iirc while in king's field 3, you are funneled through various mandatory dungeons before being allowed to pick what direction you'd like to go in, then after exhausting your choices, you get funneled through another mandatory area before being given free roam again. I never played King's Field 4 so I don't know how it would compare to Dark Souls 3. I also haven't played either shadow tower game so I'm not sure how they'd compare either, given that Shadow Tower Abyss was basically "what if King's Field was more about being on the offensive" so it gave you guns which certainly sounds familiar to Bloodborn's "what if Souls games were more about being on the offensive?" Shadow Tower on PS1 I think was in the same vein as the first King's Field game in that you progressed from level to level, clearing out whatever dungeon you're on before moving on. It also had a shield to block with, iirc, compared to KF1-3 having shields as just an equip item that you didn't need to worry about using. They were just for stats. FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Sep 18, 2017 |
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haveblue posted:The boss fight that was you vs a swarm of 100 rats The execution of that encounter is perfect The giant rat Sif parody was almost as cool
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Sep 18, 2017 22:37
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haveblue posted:The boss fight that was you vs a swarm of 100 rats I once did that fight fists-only, no vanquisher's seal 
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kite, you gotta play kf4 its really goodlets hang out posted:Be posi and list things you liked about dark souls 2. For me:
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let's not forget that ds2 perfected the comment system of its predecessors
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I don't have a ps2 right now or anything that can play ps2 stuff so I'd have to get a copy of the game and run it through an emulator and hope I can set up decent enough kb&m controls to get through King's Field 4 in a reasonable fashion 
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This video is still so hilariously petty. Dude is just not willing to say "I like it and other reviewers didn't" and leave it at that edit: Like imagine being so insecure in your opinion that you go out of your way to say "no this specific guy was wrong in all these ways that I am right" because you just cannot stand the thought of people listening to him instead of you
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Sep 18, 2017 23:43
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Why was that video made in 2017
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I only clicked on it by accident but it's 80 minutes long lmao
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oh its that dude, I don't like that dude
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Sep 18, 2017 23:45
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Isn't hbomberguy the name of a poster on SA?
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He has a couple good points, Dark Souls 2 is still one of the best games ever made even if it's the least good Dark Souls game, but good luck weeding out why he actually thinks that inbetween his spastic bouts of "matthewmatosis is wrong don't listen to him pepe silvia pepe silvia!!"
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FirstAidKite posted:I don't have a ps2 right now or anything that can play ps2 stuff so I'd have to get a copy of the game and run it through an emulator and hope I can set up decent enough kb&m controls to get through King's Field 4 in a reasonable fashion KF4 emulates like poo poo I'm sorry to say
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No one asked but I'm going to rank the Dark Souls games, please remember that this is all opinion, don't get angry! Dark Souls games > video games
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Dark Souls is not a game in that it does not have a lose condition. It does, however, kick rear end.
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exquisite tea posted:Isn't hbomberguy the name of a poster on SA? They are the same person, yes.
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There's not 80 minutes of things to talk about in Dark Souls 2
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I rank the entire Dark Souls series as somewhere above Dino Crisis, but below Super Monkey Ball 2.
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Dark Souls games are great but I don't really like playing them blind or even attempting bosses without summons.
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