#IN DS2 ARE GOOD

[foxgirlmoth]

I'm so heated about hbomber's video on DS2 right now the thought of sleep repulses me. Sara felt the full intensity of my negative emotions blasted into her ears for almost 3 hours. The video is half that length.

[creatureesque]

long sigh. why am i obsessed with higgs now

[chiralcrystallization]

....THEY JOKERFIED OUR BOI I-

....i-

[astrandofgold]

oh eyes like wildflowers

oh with your demons of change

[metalgeardimir]

Should I buy this fucking DISASTER I just found?

[the-fatal-impact]

Higgs gender is beyond our understarding.

[garden-of-deep-purple]

i wish one day the stupid pseudo competition between dark souls 2 and dark souls 3 discourse will die out. for whatever reason there are lots of ds2 simps who hate ds3 and ds3 simps who hate ds2. why can't we just enjoy how different ds games are and how much delicious lore stuff we have thanks to this

[jauffre]

NO-MAN'S WHARF (x)

[vandelopa-x]

Wow Higgs is looking amazing in the new Death Stranding 2 trailer!

[bunniope]

honestly ds2 still stands above elden ring for me. i thought it 2 years ago and i think it More now. partially bc ds2's dlcs do a lot to improve the experience of playing it and elden ring's. doesnt really. i enjoyed sote mostly but it doesnt really Improve the experience the way the ds2 dlcs improve it. and also like a third of the weapons in the dlc are locked behind the final boss which is like. what is even the point of that man

[tonyfinale]

what a good description.... it be like: WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S LIKE DOWN THERE IN SEWER TOWN??? HOW DO YOU THINK PEOPLE SICKENED TO SUCH A FATE WOULD END UP......

[the-punforgiven]

The faraam armor set really does a good job being simultaneously the coolest and lamest of the souls series' Face Of The Game armor sets, I think

[chiralcrystallization]

WHAT THE FUCK ...

That was a LOT.....

I need to let everything sink in, think over it, watch it again I-

Wow... Kojima you fuckinsunnovabitch , you mad bastard i-... wow..

[gorgynei]

i want to play a new souls/soulslike but im torn between dark souls 2 and lies of p

[metalgeardimir]

Calling all Higgs shirt purchasers to meet at a central point and take the world's worst group photo. I'll buy you all lunch.

[mailperson]

Replaying Dark Souls 1 one thing I noticed is that it has something in common with 2 (and to a slight extent Bloodborne and to a STRONG degree Elden Ring) that it doesn’t have in common with 3: the ability to restrategize.

If you hit a roadblock in DS1 or DS2 more often than not you can try fighting the boss in a different way, or leaving the area and fighting a different boss to get stronger, or maybe going somewhere else and focusing on a different objective altogether. For whatever flaws they have (which they have many, believe me), they’re rewarding to scrappy players that are willing to put in the time to make progress in some way even if they don’t have what it takes to win the next pressing story boss fight yet.

Dark Souls 3? Not so much. Get stuck on a boss fight? Sorry, probably no secret trick to knock down even just a quarter of their health. No later-game area you can pop into to loot some items or get a feel until you stop by later. No warp points or shortcuts to other areas. No shops with hidden helpful items. You encounter a boss? You’ll struggle to learn when to put those i-frames to use until you get past it, almost no exceptions. Even the 2nd paid DLC is strictly gated until you’ve either basically cleared the main game or beaten the first DLC’s boss, a boss NOTORIOUS for being gruelingly tough. There isn’t even a particularly efficient way to level grind until nearly the game’s final area should you feel you just don’t have the stats you need.

At the end of the day it felt like Dark Souls 3’s motto was “the only way forward is through”. That game had some STELLAR late game areas, really cool gear, and intriguing DLC sections too. I can never bring myself to appreciate them as much though because anytime I think of DS3 I just think of the awful tedious grind it is to get through most of that game.