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@bernkarstel elden ring's open world really hinders its replay value because every time i want to replay it i remember the sheer amount of filler content i would have to wade through

i’ve noticed that i dislike elden ring more over time and appreciate dark souls 2 even more

@tifa_ff7_real they did in fact not fw it

locking replies yall are assholes

Do we fw this

@ShitpostRock2 Are we really praising DS3 because you can see other areas???

''Dark souls 3 has bad map design''

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Dude i actually forgot about Blueter Demon, ill be honest i dont think i ever actually beat him lol. Iron king dlc is so weird its got Fume knight and just excellent world design but also those two runbacks lmao

@HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U Yeah, i don't imagine they would be affected, as the invasions are supposed to be the point of that area Also, let's not forget that the DLCs don't have 2 terrible runbacks, but 3: Sir Forever Alone, Reindeer Fuckland, and Smelter Demon 2: This time he's blue

Notice how the runback is completely fine when you simply kill the enemies and use the environment to hide from archers? Shocking

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Yeah i think its very similar to elden ring. Both are mixed bags with extreme highs and lows, both probably an 8/10 imo DS1 is peak though the world design alone puts it above everything else

@HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U Yeah, as much as i complain about it, i don't really hate DS2. It's imo a lot better than DS1 and on par with base Elden Ring for me Even if it has a lot of really bad ideas, it also has Fume Knight, so it's hard to dismiss it outright

@bloody_poptart @biggieU_U Yes i am whats the difference? If im gonna farm a boss for hundreds of thousands of souls i might as well just cheat in the hundreds of thousands of souls. Funnily enough the games are balanced around not farming souls at all because its not fun

@HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U You’re equating farming large soul counts off an easy boss who doesn’t have a runback to cheat engine, stfu lol

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Its certainly not a good runback

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Yeah i can see how people find it annoying, although im not even sure if those npc enemies are affected by the despawn mechanic lol.

@bloody_poptart @biggieU_U Yes but its a far more niche mechanic that has consequences even in future NG+ cycles. I could also just install a cheat engine if i wanted to and give myself a billion souls, anyone can do that.

@HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U The point is anybody can use it and this method is used as a form of quickly becoming overpowered or blasting past the game, it’s not even hard to do or time consuming, argue with a rock.

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Yeah such is the nature of Dark Souls II in my opinion. Theres a lot of great stuff in the game, and where theres bad stuff, more often than not there was a genuinely interesting idea behind it. Thats why i cant hate on the game.

@HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U I mean, if it was for a much easier boss like Covetous Demon, it would be a really cool concept. A gauntlet of enemies that ask you to 1v1 and if you don't the entire area swarms you? That sounds cool! But then they put it before one of the worst bosses in the game

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Oh yeah the fight itself is shit im not disputing that. I just dont think the runback is as bad as people say

@HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U For me, i don't know what happened, but the dragon kept spamming the Rain of Fire move, which to me was nearly undodgeable, to the point where a friend who was watching me told me my game might be cursed I couldn't beat the fight until i got the broken anti-backstab ring

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Darklurker's runback is only bad because it costs humanity to enter the area (this is a genuinely bad mechanic). I wasnt really counting it since we were discussing runbacks in terms of enemy placements.

@HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U be fighting Ancient Dragon Also also, Darklurker is base game and it's at the very least comparable to Ancient Dragon as far as runbacks go

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Personally speaking i never had an issue with it, its one run up to open all the doors and speak to the dragon, and then after that just manage your stamina bar and its easy not to get hit at all. Also yes its still optional even though it makes your life more convenient

@HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U Is it easy? I remember trying it once and getting hardcore body blocked, so i just went back to massacring the guys until they despawned Also, you say it's an optional fight, but it gives you a Giant soul, so unless you like smacking Vendrick for half an hour, you will-

@bloody_poptart @biggieU_U Yeah the goal of the mechanic is dissuade casual players from trying to farm regular enemies because it breaks the intended balance of the areas. Speedrunners are not casual players lol and this mechanic wasnt intended to affect them. Speedrunning is all about breaking the game.

@biggieU_U @HooLeeShet33 “stops cheesy farming” and the speedrun tactic is to just farm the rotten for a quick high soul count, you people man

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U Ancient Dragon is also a big exception, other than two notorious runbacks in the dlcs, no other boss in DS2 has a runback thats even half as bad as Ancient Dragon

@cinansnickem @biggieU_U I will agree the runback in dragon aerie is actually pretty terrible, but its also extremely easy to run past the enemies and is an entirely optional fight I'd say its actually pretty similar to Oceiros in DS3, an optional boss with loads of tough enemies that everyone runs past

@shiraoreo @herosword_p @biggieU_U Yeah thats a pretty bad one. Another area that stood out to me was trying to get into Cathedral of the Deep. I remember being bewildered that people complain about the amount of enemies in DS2 because the outside rooftops area of the Cathedral is genuinely horrific

@herosword_p @HooLeeShet33 @biggieU_U The worst runback in my opinion is abyss watchers. It’s a very short distance, but god damn it’s actually just a gamble wether you make it trhough that horde of 15 different kinds of enemies without peeling your eyes out.

@Unlimited_Her0 souls fan distraught that there is videogame in between the bosses

" yeah if you stuck on a boss you wont be able to try it again , you have to spend 2 hours slowly killing everyone to have a chance to try to boss again. If you fail to win Redo all of that" Ds2 glazer really see the worst of the worst in the series and they are

@Buttberrypie @biggieU_U the point im making is that there should absolutely be limits on this sort of thing, the souls games are rather unique in having respawns rather than checkpoints, and the game needs to be balanced accordingly

@Buttberrypie @biggieU_U i think its a good thing that extensive farming comes with a cost, the game isnt fun or balanced if i min-max enemy drops imagine if the black knight in darkroot basin respawned like a regular enemy, everyone would farm it for the halberd and not use any other weapons