>>714992038
>But still remains as a great game. Seems so divisive
It's a matter of gameplay/story/presentation. DS2 has great gameplay and a lot of options in build variety, it had half-decent covenants that could encourage pvp, and healing methods that forced standing and fighting. It also had the arena without a dlc, but because it was patched together last minute a lot of its areas are tonally and geographically different despite not being that far from one another, and a lot of people really didnt like fighting human-like bosses a lot. So it gets shit on. DS2 is like a litmus test for who prefers gameplay or who prefers graphics/presentation.