>>725215672
>What were they thinking?
They made a lot of changes based on dark souls 1 feedback.

Common criticisms of dark souls 1
>you can just run by all the enemies its stupid!
>you can just circle strafe everything its stupid!
>im dodging into the attacks it looks cheesy, the game should encourage positioning and avoiding attacks!

Fixes in dark souls 2
>enemies follow you to the ends of the earth, and fog doors dont give i-frames
>way more enemies track you so you cant circle strafe them or have anti circle strafe moves
>removed natural i-frames and balanced bosses around positioning so you no longer need i-frames and can mostly use rolls for literally avoiding attacks.

>>531108197
not liking ds2 makes you the retard actually. It was mostly hated by tourists or secondary faggots who joined dark souls late and only ever learned to cheese the game.