Given how disapointing DS3 actually is, I have been itching to replay DS2, give me a new perdpective...

Given how disapointing DS3 actually is, I have been itching to replay DS2, give me a new perdpective. Only I hate buying games twice, and I have it on PS3. Is Scholar edition (next gen) worth the double dip, does it provide a better experience than the standard edition ?

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it just changes enemies positions and includes the dlc? Might look better I am not sure, it can't change a whole lot but its enough to warrant a rebuy. (at least for me)

not worth it, i hate DS2 but personally think its better then Scholar

Not everything next gen Scholar does is good. For example, they ruined the game with the stupid statues blocking a lot of passages early on to try and force the player to follow certain paths.

Yikes, and already played the DLCs on standard
Wtf happened with From and giving players options

If you get SotFS make sure its on PC.
In my opinion yes its worth it.

I have now played both, fairly recently actually.

imo you should play the base game first if you either aren't interested in pvp or plan on playing again for pvp (which you should do anyways because of soul memory) because scholar is the only one that has a community. The base game still has some of the shitty parts of scholar, ie no man's wharf, iron keep, and shrine of amana, but scholar is pretty much just a mob shitshow in pretty much all areas compared to the original and the enemy placement makes a lot less sense. Scholar is pretty much daughters of ash ds2, the enemy rearrangement is pretty much just there if you've played the original enough times that you jack off to the emerald herald on the daily.

The worst thing Scholar does is putting more of those statues in various places, forcing you to acquire more branches. If it's on sale, or if you can get it for cheap off Amazon or something, go ahead and get it.

>it just changes enemies positions and includes the dlc?
there's a bit more to it than that

>make sure its on PC.
I played the original DS2 and all dlcs on the PS3, then I moved to PS4 scholar and finally got it on PC. To be quite honest with you I really see no difference between PS4 and PC.

I thought that Scholar improved the fragrant branch pathing.

Its just the community.

i actually havent played it in years, so i definitely left out a lot more since i actually forgot.

vanilla DS2 is way better than scholar

DS2 is shit and only contrarians think otherwise lmao
>n-n-no D-D-DS3fag!!!

based

I like it and I’m not a contrarian, what now

DS1: SOUL
DS2: actually fun
Ds3: le hard gayme XD

I like both you shoe fungus

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NOOOOO YOU CANT LIKE BOTH IF YOU LIKE DS2 YOU MUST HATE DS3 AAAAAAAAAHHH

I tried replaying it a little bit last night and the game feels clunker compared to ds3.

3 is better and 3 is my second favorite behind 1, but only because it's the safest game imaginable. It's full of fanservice and mechanically the gameplay pretty much boils down to rolling and nothing else. Plus chain rolling, moving estus, and broken covenants make the pvp unplayable. It's almost like they went to reddit for advice while making the game. At least dark souls 2 tried new things, some failed, but others were huge successes, like all of the new magic added.

2 has more soul

I hated DS2 when it came out and I really like it after playing DS3. Not saying that DS3 is so awful it makes DS2 good, it just made me appreciate the qualities of the game more. And the slow DS1 pace was SO refreshing. I played the SOTFS version.

Almost everything DS2 does wrong is present in DS3, at times even more so.

this is it bros, the ultimate post.

Started out on DS3 and loved every second of it. Put something like 1300 hours on it on steam I think?

That said, I bought both DS1 and DS2 on steam afterwards and couldn't get into them. Probably because I was burned out from my DS3 binge. Though I do recall not liking how slow DS2's combat was.

I am preparing mentally for Elden Ring by disengaging from my friends, family, job, and social life.

PC is better because it's PC, pleb.

please do try ds1 (and ds2 if you'd like?) again, you can sink into it after beating the first 25% of it if you started off with ds3 like me.

Emerald Herald

This guy gets it. Fuck that chinese knockoff of a game

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DS3 is easy until you get to the dlc a lot of the bosses are gimmicks like greatwood and wolnir

this.

By increasing it tenfold?

>does it provide a better experience than the standard edition ?
in a "polished turd" sense, yes

>Given how disapointing DS3 actually is
Amazing thread starter

It gives context, what do you have against those 6 words?

they're objectively false

>own every single version of DSII for every platform
>ps3 was the last version I had yet to beat
>my fucking face at the absolute state of it all
>chugs like a goddamn choo choo train
>like what the fuck, the 360 version ran like butter in comparison, this is even worse than Bayonetta PS3 and every single Bethesda port combined and then some
>like holy fucking shit how could it run so bad
mfw I played it anyways
Never again. If your only experience with DasII was PS3, you never actually played the game. Seriously. What. The. Fuck.

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I would probably like DaS2 a lot more and even more than DaS3 if it didn't look like shit and feel like shit to play.

I don't mind all the weird shit about it or the things most people bitch about. It just feels genuinely awful to control even leaving ADP aside. There is something wrong with how it controls and how things move and it looks so ugly. I also can't stand the hit reactions and animations.

I can handle it being ugly too but they way it controls and the animations just make it impossible for me to enjoy it. I did a run through of every Soulsborne game and I ended up quitting SOTFS after beating Wharf just because it FELT so wrong.

Anyone else know what I mean?

>another subtle dark souls bait thread
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just pirate the game from fitgirl or something if you already bought it on ps3 and feel morally wrong or something

it plays pretty closely to 1, so do you hate 1? everything aside from DeS/DS1/DS2 is just flippy rolly shit

I'll never forgive them for what they did to the backstab and riposte animations. they look like some censored pg13 version of the original.

The controller deadzone is atrocious and the animations can be janky as fuck. It just feels awful to take damage with zero visual feedback and it happens a lot in DS2. It ruins the whole game in my opinion.

3 plays closely to 1.
2 controls feel like a ps2 game.

It doesn't play closely to 1. I played DaS1 right before I played it. It was tangibly worse and I could feel the difference between them instantly.

>3 plays closely to 1
Have you never played DS1?

>fitgirl
Oh fuck off. When will this meme fucking die already?

I actually enjoyed the backstab animation for DaS2 and some of the Riposte animations.

Scholar is the only version worth playing. The enemy and item placements are infinitely better than the vanilla game, and the DLCs are better than everything in the base game. It goes on sale for $10 all the time on Steam.

Yes. Play the SotFs, don't listen to the unironic tards here recommending the vanilla

>Poorfag can't afford a decent CPU and ssd
Get a job faggot

>games malware free
>downloads fast
>large collection
are you having brain problems?
correct, some of the enemy placement in vanilla was just downright stupid. shrine of amana is the textbook, unironic definition of artificial difficulty.

He's right though. DS3 is shallow and uninspired. Definitely the worst Souls game.

Honestly Shrine of Amana is fine. I did a melee-only playthrough and just rolled/parried all the spells until I killed each caster.
Frozen Outskirts, now THAT'S artificial difficulty.
I find DaS the least fun SekiSoulsBorne game. Would rather play through any other again, including DS3 and DeS.

Wasn't even that bad negro, I managed to get all the way to 1kat and found that the snow made me fucking laggy and retarded and quit.
the ps3 even had a "hardware exploit" where you can tell if the game reset its spawns or not by listening to the disc make noises twice. It was really useful for the predator dude in the tower and his katana.

Confirmed for not having played literally any other version, even the fucking Game.com would have run DSII better

I agree. That floaty feel when youre walking or swinging with zero momentum just feels fucking off and when hopping straight off of DS1 it's really noticable. Worst of all, DS2 fags ignore this as an actual issue, and point the blame to DS1 or some deadzone issue when the problem is with the fucking animations. Honestly, compare the walikng/running animations between 1 and 2 and the difference is day and night.
Stop fucking lying.
The deadzone is an issue in the console versions but it was fixed on PC, what OP was talking about is the animations and how jank the character moves.

The fuck are you talking about? I never said anything about other versions, I'm saying this one isn't fucking terrible to play. DS2 is still fucking awful though

I played vanilla PS3 unpatched recently for Lightning Spear shenanigans, and it lagged pretty often. If it got fixed in patches you could both be right.

sotfs is worse than the original with worse enemy placement and retarded stone statues scattered about
just replay it on ps3

Disappointing is subjective though.
How can someone's subjective opinion be false?

Other way around. Deadzones are only naturally fixed on PS4 and XBone, you need to fix it yourself on PC.

Got any proof? If so I might aswell check the console version out when its on sale for like 5$

>Got any proof
I can swear I heard it somewhere but a quick google search doesn't show me anywhere saying that next-gen consoles have fixed deadzones, my bad.

>but scholar is pretty much just a mob shitshow in pretty much all areas compared to the original and the enemy placement makes a lot less sense
That is just not true.

Dark Souls 2? More like a pile of horseshit.

You obviously dont want to actually discuss DaS2. It's just another shitposting.

>t. filtered by Ruin Sentinels back in '14

I only own Scholar on PC, but I never had to manually fix the deadzones. It just worked.