The best souls game this weekend, right?

Obviously. Life is too short not to play DS2 at every possibly occasion.

>>714564562 (OP)
OP looks ready for horsefuck valley

>>714564562 (OP)
I replayed it recently and it was fucking boring. Enjoy backstabbing 90% of enemies in Eleum Loyce over and over. Enjoy the "build variety" which boils down to lightning infused strike or high counter damage weapon + robflynn + dark weapon.

>>714566310
>Enjoy backstabbing 90% of enemies in Eleum Loyce over and over.
How do they even have health for you to backstab them "over and over"? How are 3/4 its enemies even remotely worth backstabbing?
Cant you just go ahead, slash them and murder them? Or delete them with a crossbow?

Yeah I’m playing nightreign with erg.

Over the last 10 years i lost all tolerance for unfinished games. Up until 2012/2013 the industry made games that were like 90% finished. Some small DLC over the first couple months and some patches but in essence the game was done. Maybe an expansion a year later. But the industry has shifted more and more to 'minimum viable product' system where they release a broken and half finished game and spend the next X years fixing it.

I'm the kind of guy that picks up a game, plays it all the way through once(or twice if it significantly branches/expands in a ng+ mode) and move on to the next. I don't replay games, i just don't. I don't rewatch movies or TV shows either. I expect the game to be the best it ever can be when i buy it. The games that i like are so insanely rare that i can either play it as it comes out or play nothing at all. Pic related.

I don't like Souls games or any form of ongoing/live service game. My perfect games are story driven and character focused singleplayer games (RPGs) with a grounded story, edgy tone and third person shooter or sword fighting combat.

But all the companies that used to make games for simply stopped. Ubisoft is in the shitter, Eidos Montreal is gone, Crystal Dynamics are off in lalaland, Bethesda takes a decade to make a game, Capcom is extremely hit and miss, Bioware hasn't made a good game in like 13 years.

And indies aren't any better. They keep their games in early access forever because they plan to never stop working on them. They all got the feature creep bug.

Haven't touched any vidya since late may so i think i might put the whole thing on ice until the games that i bought this year, but unfortunately are extremely unfinished, are in a playable state. Pic very related.

>>714566408
>give up the easy backstabs and mash R1 instead to waste durability
Yeah ok.

>>714566840
how the fuck do you worry about durability at that degree??? how do you even get your shit broken in eleum loyce other than that one longass side path??
how do you make backstabbing all these fodder enemies somehow easier than just swinging at them upfront??
none of your post makes sense. have you even played ds2

>>714567379
>you take significantly reduced damage from other enemies while backstabbing
>you waste less stamina for the damage inflicted
>enemy has to get up after being backstabbed so you get a free hit in
>R1 spam is an even more boring gameplan

>>714567980
>>1
okay, but how the fuck do you put yourself in a position where its easier to individually backstab most of these 88 fodder enemies rather than just deleting them in one straight swing
>>2
okay but how the fuck is that relevant for majority of the EL enemies instead of a minority
>>3
yes, any backstab = the enemy is pretty much already dead other than these big knights
>>4
how do you manage to play DS2 for so long without getting a fleshed out arsenal and different buttons to press? how are you not deleting these fuckers with running attacks, aoes, rangeds or huge swipes

youre playing it wrong nigga, give me the controlleyboard and mouse

>>714567980
i hate ds2 as much as the next guy but you're a retard

>>714564562 (OP)
>Putting Havel in Dark Souls 2
Retard

>>714566310
Retard. Anyone complains about backstabbing in 2 and praises 1 in comparison is a retard. Enemies in 2 pivot around in order to avoid getting backstabbed which isn’t a thing in 1. It’s much harder to pull off in 2. It’s also not an instant execution in 2 as well. 2haters are literal low IQ brainlets

>>714564562 (OP)
I don't like souls games

>>714568640
i thought people liked the poise
i havent tried it yet to know for myself, but while its obviously not as effective as in ds1 at base, isnt each % damage reduction relatively more effective in DS2 because of the huge ammount of passive heals you can get?

>>714568360
>okay, but how the fuck do you put yourself in a position where its easier to individually backstab most of these 88 fodder enemies rather than just deleting them in one straight swing
Sorry for playing with a weapon I like and doing NG+ and ascetics.
>how do you manage to play DS2 for so long without getting a fleshed out arsenal and different buttons to press? how are you not deleting these fuckers with running attacks, aoes, rangeds or huge swipes
Sorry for not wanting the game to be even easier than it already is. Why bother with more tools when what I'm doing already works.

>>714568640
This picture is bullshit

>>714568683
>Enemies in 2 pivot around in order to avoid getting backstabbed
Enemies in 2 literally run into you to get backstabbed because they are for 90% hardcoded with scripted flags that cat vate defined walk paths rather than being enemy that simply see or hear you like Bloodborne onwards

>>714564562 (OP)
I'm at around 1 million soul memory with my sign down in front of mirror knight. Any takers?

>>714568683
I didn't praise DS1 in that post. DS1 is also devoid of challenge after you know to play. Age of sunlight mod is good though.

>>714568762
>Sorry for playing with a weapon I like
you are contradicting yourself. "I like this weapon but doing a backstab animation is more fun than actually attacking with the weapon" does not fundamentally add up
If the game was trivially easy you wouldnt even be bothering with backstabs, and you would probably want to indulge in more interesting forms to attack other than "r1 spam" so you can clear out bosses faster

Either you dont actually play DS2 or youre just fucked in the head

>>714568752
>i thought people liked the poise
There's no poise in Dark Souls 2. If a dagger hits you twice you are guaranteed staggered
There's also no damage reduction

>>714567980
>Flying is faster than driving
>This means you should always fly everywhere

>>714568893
Yeah it's DS2 you don't want to waste any more time playing it than necessary.

>>714564562 (OP)
I see absolutely no reason to play these games anymore. There is no need to play them again once you've played through them. Modern games simply lack replayability. They have no scoring systems, nothing to get better at.

>>714568813
Hhhaah You are so fucking stupid and disingenuous. You can literally backstab enemies really easily in 1. It’s by far the easiest Souls game for that reason. Funny how you try to refute me with that webm but you fail to backstab since the enemy counters both of you attempts in the beginning of the clip. Retards like you not even worth arguing.

>>714568869
not if you are attacking shit
if not then people and npcs wouldnt be able to poise through my powerstance dual wields

>>714568869
who made this pls?

>>714564562 (OP)
It's mid desu

>>714568869
>not a single player trying to dodge in any direction except forward
this webm applies to literally any souls game

>>714568931
>i need a system to show me numbers rising up for my ape brain otherwise i cant grasp if i am improving or not
Retard

>>714568832
None of these games are hard when you know how to play, what’s your point?

>>714564562 (OP)
Yeah I've been replaying demon's souls on pure black world tendency

>>714568862
>you are contradicting yourself.
No. You can't just backstab everything, especially bosses. We are talking Elyium Loyce trash mobs here which has the most boring enemies out of the 3 DLCs.
>youre just fucked in the head
Said the furfag who unironically likes DS2 (is that you slow?)

>>714568962
Enemies in Dark Souls 2 can't properly fight the player from any angle and will frequently throw attacks at nothing the same exact way they do in 1. Their "solution" to shit AI was amping up their tracking in an inconsistent way, but it 't enough abd enemies embarass themselves equally

>>714569083
Elden Ring still offers challenge so I keep playing it. I've yet to master all bosses even after 1000 hours.

>>714569120
i dont know who the fuck "slow" is but you may be right about the first part of your accusation

>>714566494
>buy slop
>"wtf why is it slop"

>>714569163
lol

>>714569034
>Just dodge backwards from the far reaching r1 spamming instastagger attack
>>714568976
There's no poise. In fact NPCs are completely helpless since they have player weapons and gear

>Soulsfag retardation thread: the same arguments you’ve seen a thousand times edition

>>714569316
theres a direction other than forward and backwards
youre posting a npc with light armor, and npcs have a tendency to stare at you. Now try repeatedly attacking something like an armored tanky knight with a powerstance curved sword or whatever and see what happens
you can do the same in ds2, i liked to suddenly swap to and delete people with huge poise smelter explosions

>>714569241
No, the slop is exactly what i want. But i want fully finished slop, not half assed "come back in 5 years when it's done"-slop.

>>714569514
Can you explain how your blog post is relevant to the thread or should I just hide it and move on?

>>714569482
There's no NPC with poise because poise doesn't exist

>>714569558
This and anons talking about Nightreign.
>>714566494
>I don't like Souls games or any form of ongoing/live service game.

>>714569667
there is but it takes like 5 minutes to get enough to poise a rapier hit

>>714569787
Even if you poise a single rapier hit, you get staggered by the second, even while attacking

>>714569867
just wait 5 mins to get it back

>>714568962
The game having shit controls doesn't mean you can't get easily behind enemies

>>714569035
There is no way to improve in these games. You want to do no death runs, no hit runs? Then the gameplay becomes boring and reptitive, because the games are not designed for this. They are too slowly paced and linear for replayability.