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Dark Souls 2 is a significantly better game than Dark Souls 3

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Extremely spicy but I can respect it

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I find dark souls 3 successfully condensed down the mechanics and gameplay of the souls games but delivered nothing in terms of exploration and world building.

The lore is DS2 is very good but the gameplay feels so horrendously unpolished and a lot of enemy placement feels really bad.

If I could play ds2 with ds3 gameplay it would potentially be able to rival the first half of DS1 for me

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the enemy placement isn’t exactly amazing in vanilla but it is atrocious in scholar of the first sin. which one did you play?

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I’ve watched gameplay for SOTFS but I played vanilla and maybe both DLC I think.

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What do you consider the first half of DS1? Before Sen’s fortress?

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Everything up to the lord vessel. Your goals and fast travel completely changes how you play the game and the new areas are less interesting imo

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I don’t know if I’d go as far with my personal tastes, but I know for sure ds3 makes me stressed out. I think the combat system is far too fast and roll centric to be enjoyable to me. DS2 is just a nice adventure and sometimes I need that despite its flaws.

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As a piece of art ds2 does some questionable things, but as a game it is a lot of fun to play and has a lot of replayability.

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Depends, just the base game or with all the DLCs? The DLCs are some of the best in the series, but the base game is about as enjoyable as fucking a fleshlight with glass shards in it. With the DLC I’d put it just above DS3 because you still need to suffer the base game to play them.

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Base game or base game + dlc, ds2>ds3

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