>A 300 Hour Analysis on How Dark Souls 2 Is the Worst Thing Ever, Actually (2024)

Whatever you find fun

I got turned off from playing the game with the opening. Stopped when I set foot in Maluja. Is it really worth going back to? My mixed feelings from playing the network test version to that has most likely gone away by now.

It's not for you, stay away

Faith+Melee with the Rapier
Destroys every enemy in the game if you buff with sunlight blade and works especially well with enemies that are hard to stagger.

Don't forget whining about Prowling Magus and Rat Authority because "muh enemy spam" then praising Deacons of the Deep a few years later.

Literally go with the first cool weapon/spell that you find, respecs are farmable later on so don't worry too much.

hom*osexual liar

>Add QoL features and additions from Elden Ring, including jumping and crouching/stealth
>Make the game 0.20x faster
>Levels that need it should be redesigned from the ground up to have good level design
>From Sekiro, take ideas such as Hanbei the Undying (the guy you can use to practice and spar with), and Reflection of Strength, where you can refight fallen bosses on demand from the bonfire
>Make the world feel more interconnected, even if it means you have to add additional places in-between. Or at the very least, have cutscenes to better explain a more meaningful transition from point A to B
>Replace some of the bad bosses. You can keep them in the game as mini-bosses
>Keep Bonfire Ascetics

>bring back the prototype layouts for Iron Keep and Gutter, merge them with the current designs
>rework other levels to feel more natural and 'real' in setting (Lost Bastille feels much more natural with vegetation for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhldMrtV1E)
>bring over bunch of legacy gear from DaS1 where possible: maybe as additional NG+ rewards (feels really wrong that there's no Black Knight Armour/Shield to go with the rest of the weapons for example), add some additional benefits to some of the lesser used gear from that game (for example we know the Izalith Catalyst was planned for a time... let it cast both pyromancies and sorceries?)
>give combat and movement new handcrafted animations that pay tribute to the old mocapped ones in some segments but are mostly closer to the rest of the Souls series
>add missing enemy gear (Ruin Sentinel Halberd/Shield, Royal Soldier Shield, Pursuer Armour, Wheelchair Bound Ornstein's Armour, etc.)
>finish some of the quests (Lucatille was likely meant to have a cutscene with her brother for example)
>give Aldia some rewards for defeating him
>make certain Miracles and Hexes less sh*t
>change Soul Memory to a hybrid system that swaps to SL matchmaking from NG+ onward
Anything else?

Your sh*tty laptop can run ds2....

>t. ds2gay who hates ds2

>OG DB is the one that set the structure that would benefit the rest of the franchise and arguably has the most peak atmosphere/feeling but does rely on old tropes established by media before it a bit too much
>GT acknowledged as the true spiritual successor to the series by people who have a brain and can recognise what made Z so appealing and introduces a lot of cool ideas even if the execution wasn't that successful
>sh*tper is watered down garbage that relies on mindless nostalgiahom*osexualry to win the normies over but because the creator 'worked on it' (read: signed off on some sh*t suggested by his interns and went back to being a perverted old man writing gag manga one shots) it's treated as the NEW and IMMUTABLE CANON by morons who can't think for themselves
Checks out.