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Message: [QUOTE="philthyweeb, post: 8617, member: 4497"] [B]Dark Souls II. [/B] I love soulsborne games. When i first played Dark Souls 1, I enjoyed it from start to finish. But with ds2, i have this weird love/hate relationship with it... I wouldnt normally hate it if it wasnt cuz i lost my save file TWICE at the LATE GAME (purely bad luck, computer needed to be formatted), so i had to play through it almost 3 times just for my first playthrough. I knew about its reputation compared to its 2 siblings but it was still a dark souls game, so i decided that I'd only play it once for the experience. Who knew I'd have to replay from the beginning twice. The difficulty feels all over the place. Where i would describe ds1 as "challenging", ds2 feels "frustrating". •Leveling up barely improves your stats •Boss runbacks, enemies are much harder to run past. •I think enemy count is fine, its just they're always too densely packed together that you'll almost always get ganged on. Ds1 had enemy spam spots too but they weren't THIS common. •ADP •Slower animations (yeah slower than ds1, but smoother tho :D) All these things aren't inherently bad, but they make the early to mid game unusually annoying to play. But then at the late game where im prepared for hard challenges it becomes awfully easy. The difficulty bumps back up in the dlcs tho, which are the best parts of the game imo. But recently, replaying the game again this year, I've been appreciating many things that i just didn't pay attention before. Ds2 fixes many problems with the first game, many quality of life fixes, balances to the game, new game mechanics. Some notable points i can think of are- •Pretty much every weapon is viable •Huge weapon and armor variety •BEST FASHION SOULS HANDS DOWN •Power stancing •Bonfire Ascetics •Respec'ing stats •Actually good NG+ •Beautiful graphics, i think it doesnt get mentioned often but ds2 looks better than ds3 in every way. The game is beautiful •Optimization. Another thing that needs more credit in this present UE5 age; this game is optimized ASF, even my 2012 laptop with an hd 4000 can run it smoothly. •Myriad of quality of life and technical improvements that were essential to the game that weren't present in ds1. •the ds2 community is really wholesome. I still think its the weaker of the 3 but not by any large means. It has its problems, but so does ds1 and ds3. It serves well as a sequel and also has many game mechanics that make it unique and better in parts. I would've ranked it up with ds1 if only it had a bit more lore and a more interconnected world. But i suppose it did have a troubled development. Many amazing ideas were scrapped, a shame really. But all in all, i don't think it's a "bad game" as its called around. It's not a "worth playing atleast once" game either, it has as much replayability as all the other souls games if not more. It is as much Dark Souls as the other two, and shouldn't be skipped (unless i suppose you did try it and actually dislike playing it, then i guess i understand) [automerge]1733407897[/automerge] on a shorter note, Tactical RPGs, they were always hard for me to get into. They just never appealed to me. Always seemed like a drag to play. But after actually playing through some fire emblem and final fantasy tactics advance, it finally clicked. They are incredibly fun. Much more strategic than traditional turn based rpgs too. My favorite one is probably Advance Wars. [/QUOTE]

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