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what're some of your gaming hot takes? In regards to opinions about certain characters or plot points, etc. (lemmy.world)
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[–] LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Dark Souls 2 is a significantly better game than Dark Souls 3

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Extremely spicy but I can respect it

[–] Corr@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I find dark souls 3 successfully condensed down the mechanics and gameplay of the souls games but delivered nothing in terms of exploration and world building.

The lore is DS2 is very good but the gameplay feels so horrendously unpolished and a lot of enemy placement feels really bad.

If I could play ds2 with ds3 gameplay it would potentially be able to rival the first half of DS1 for me

[–] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the enemy placement isn't exactly amazing in vanilla but it is atrocious in scholar of the first sin. which one did you play?

[–] Corr@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I've watched gameplay for SOTFS but I played vanilla and maybe both DLC I think.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do you consider the first half of DS1? Before Sen's fortress?

[–] Corr@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Everything up to the lord vessel. Your goals and fast travel completely changes how you play the game and the new areas are less interesting imo

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if I'd go as far with my personal tastes, but I know for sure ds3 makes me stressed out. I think the combat system is far too fast and roll centric to be enjoyable to me. DS2 is just a nice adventure and sometimes I need that despite its flaws.

[–] LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

As a piece of art ds2 does some questionable things, but as a game it is a lot of fun to play and has a lot of replayability.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Depends, just the base game or with all the DLCs? The DLCs are some of the best in the series, but the base game is about as enjoyable as fucking a fleshlight with glass shards in it. With the DLC I'd put it just above DS3 because you still need to suffer the base game to play them.

[–] LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Base game or base game + dlc, ds2>ds3