@X_CAPCOM_X said:
@airraidjet: gameplay wise, 2 was definitely the best. Some levels had some design issues, but those are also present in other souls games minus bb and demons.
But just to clarify, ds2 hate train is expired: its gameplay is regarded as the most polished by evem people that still demote it for not following lore or whatever.
Oh yeah, by people do you mean like Mitch L? Because he's a trash youtuber, who mostly just talks about feelings whenever he actually gives his thoughts on game design aspects.
The hate train was never unwarranted. At least the people who didn't like it had to go out on a limb to begin with, it's not like they were trying to just be "special" for disliking DS2. Dark Souls II is the worst objectively in more than one regard. Gameplay-wise? Yes, it does not have a full 360degree movement like all the other Souls games, hence the reason for this mod: www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/76/ Tie this in to how many tight walkways and jumps you find in DS2 and it could and probably will lead to frustration where you have to avoid dumb deadzones just to avoid falling off. Luckily, there is a mod that fixes this, but as a game, DSII gets this wrong. AGL? This was probably one of the most pointless abstractions turned stat that "gives" you i-frames....? So that means if you don't have any points put into it, your base hitbox is leaves a ghostbox behind you even if you time a dodge correctly. And even if you put points into AGL until you get 15+ i-frames, you still get hit by insanely weird collision boxes between your body and an enemy's weapon. This is verifiable, go to Heide's Tower, or Pursuer, or any grab animation in the game. It does not make sense. And other times you dodge it correctly and it's a tight rewarding dodge that shows that the game does have tight hitboxes in some cases. But since the game is so all over the place with an i-frame stat, weird untrustworthy hitboxes, and a bunch of trustworthy ones, there is still no way to be sure. Meaning nothing you see on screen, is a precise representation of what actually transpires. Gameplay IS NOT BETTER. Also turning i-frames into a stat makes that stat imperative to almost every build, because who would want to run around with a crazy untrustworthy hitbox? But this case of trashy collision between models can happen in reverse between your attacks and an enemy. The worst cases would be with Estoc weapons, you can replicate these deliberately even. But I've had multiple instances with other weapons, great swords, maces, straight swords where my attacks just miss. Not to mention lazy increases in difficulty through "mobs", and copy-pasted bosses in the early-mid areas just popping up in later areas including a 1v2 boss against Dragonrider. Just lazy, unless you tell me "yeah, but I liked Dragonrider" or "yeah, but someone out there, somewhere, like Dragonrider" I don't see how this counts in favor of the game. Just pasting random enemies unfitting to the environment or the theme thereof. I can go on with how the levels and the overall world are just badly constructed, but what I've said here isn't my subjective "interpretation" of the game, this is empirical evidence that you can verify yourself.
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