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Darksouls 2 is the worst Soulsborne game (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cause it's the only one that makes me motion sick. :( Why is this one different from all of the other ones?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It's the best one because it has the deepest and most Complex weapon system. The only soulsborne game I've used all 6 weapon slots in. Main handing a rapier and off handing a curved sword and switching which one you're basing the power stance on is so satisfying in PVP. I'de guess it makes you sick because of framerate scaling or motion blur or something.

I also love it because it's the only soulsborne that rewards "challenge runs" long after the PVP community fell apart I was still attempting no death no bonfire runs where weapon durability actually mattered and the only ways to repair were repair powder and completing a summon. And dying in someone else's world counted as a death so you got to live up to the item description of the small white soapstone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's the best for PvP but the worst for PvE. The art and animation quality is noticeably poorer than the other games and the level design is needlessly punitive with little room for mastery other than exploits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yep, exactly - best PVP, best DLC, every weapon has a place in a build somewhere. Doing a run-through with a weapon you've not used before is fun. Challenge runs like 'equip six elemental daggers' (or six elemental caestus!) are actually a laugh, swap between them as needed to keep your damage high. I finished an SL1 run of all the DS games in anticipation of Elden Ring coming out; Scholar is by far the most brutal, 2 is a close second. (DS3 feels like a puzzle box at SL1 to me; DS1, I hope you like casting fireballs and the hand-axe moveset.) It feels a lot more replayable than the other Dark Souls games to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Stop playing it in your car

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dark souls 2 is the worst souls game because its lore doesn't make me as sad as the other games

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

If DSII lore doesn't make you sad then you don't know enough DSII lore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's definitely the weird child of the bunch. Interesting ideas wrapped in a weird package that doesn't add up right.

[–] Ironfist 2 points 9 months ago

It has very good things, the "backstab" attacks animation with maces and axes are brutal. Poison weapons are very effective and fun too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It was made by FROMSOFT's B-team