Why is this game so overrated, Yas Forums?

Why is this game so overrated, Yas Forums?

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because it was a 7/10 that did something neat.

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because it's good

The only thing it did new was covenants, and most of them didn't even function properly.

The first half is god tier

I wouldn’t say god-tier, more top-tier

it's not overrated, but the difficulty is overstated to the point where it's all anyone focuses on despite it being a minor point

It has simple, yet effective combat. The world is interconnected and offers Metroid-like exploration (at least for the first half of the game before you start having to teleport everywhere). It's relatively hard and there's no easy mode, which means the player is expected to get good at the game to beat it (which is unfortunately rare these days).

>Why is this game so overrated, Yas Forums?
it's not, the only one in the series that's overrated is 3

3 is great, has excellent boss fights, more good boss fights overall than ds1 has, when you include the dlc (gael, friede)

also i think midir is a cool fight, endurance test, and the arena is awesome

>creates a new subgenre
>overrated
Kill yourself

I like the aesthetics and setting of it but from my experience the gameplay is the perfect summary of Yas Forums's "It's supposed to be shit that means normalfags can't enjoy it" elitism

It isn't

3 is worse than DS1, though. Souls games aren’t designed around or intended to be about ‘muh boss’. They aren’t Treasure games bro

the gameplay is sublime though, it's perfect and any time you die it's because you fucked up. ds1 and 3 have hitbox porn videos for this reason. ds2 doesn't count, it's b-team non-miyazaki jank

2 had better combat but you keep denying this because you're a cum-gargling Miyazaki drone

>slow paced hack and slash where the controls respond five seconds after you pressed the button
>sublime
Yeah I wish every game was like this

disagree, 2handed str builds feel shit in 2 because you can swing backwards by accident even if you're locked on. ds1 didn't have that, and ds3 had it but it was a toggle option in the menu

>hard = good

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this

bosses are a core aspect of the game and are often your reward for getting through a tough area

Because people somehow call it one of the best games ever despite the last third of the game being garbage.

Dark Souls 1 and 3 are the jankiest games by far. Dark Souls 1 has incredibly fucked hitboxes and everything goes in slow-motion. Dark Souls 3 incorporates Bloodborne mobs yet you still have input delays This isn’t true in any game except maybe Bloodborne. Dark Souls 3 has shit areas that you just run through and tries to be a discount Treasure game, only the gameplay is trash. As a result the whole game is an epic fail

>everything goes in slow-motion
no idea what you're talking about. it's slower paced than bloodborne, that doesn't mean it's 'slow motion' or whatever

Probably the most violently defensive fanbase this side of modern Naughty Dog fanboys. It got to the point where you can tell people just say it's the best game ever to avoid drawing their ire. Everything I see in these games would (and has) get any other game crucified but because it came out at the perfect time it's proclaimed as the best series ever.

Dark Souls 2 has slower gameplay yet it doesn’t look like it’s slow mo. Just play DS1 and you’ll see. It looks forced

filtered. git gud casul

>dark souls
>hard

It's a great game that just got too popular and became a meme