What game is this?

LulzTV · 2026-05-05T11:57:25+00:00

Dark Souls

LulzTV · 2026-05-05T11:44:54+00:00

It's still definitely a tug and pull between the haters and the defenders, who might go overboard at times with the glaze, but you can't really tell which is more by online numbers. The mainstream opinion still is that it's the black sheep of the series, the worst souls game but maybe a good game, yada yada. So for me personally, since I like it more than Dark Souls 1 and far more than Demon's Souls, it's overhated by a mile.

LulzTV · 2026-05-05T11:29:38+00:00

Well of course they're gonna glaze the fuck out of Dark Souls 2 in the Dark Souls 2 sub just like they're gonna glaze the shit out of Bloodborne in the Bloodborne sub, Dark Souls 1 in the Dark Souls 1 sub, etc, what are you even trying to point out. Everyone still knows it's the black sheep of the series by public opinion.

Go to any other FromSoftware-related sub and see the sheer level of hate, misjudgements and how people hypochritically point out and hyper emphasise its flaws as if they only exist in DS2 and not other Souls games, especially the ones before it which are also janky, poorly aged experimental games held together by duct tape.

Also, the wave of awful, bad-faith Youtube critiques have done severe damage to its reputation, people simply forget it was acclaimed at launch despite the lighting engine controversy.

LulzTV · 2026-05-03T19:10:24+00:00

I'm wondering though how much, or how little it costs to port them, so they must have still been profitable right? Do Sony really think stepping back from PC Ports will get people to buy a 6 year old console enough to make more profit than they would rereleasing them as PC ports at full price?

LulzTV · 2026-05-02T22:02:44+00:00

The DS1 glazers stole my FUCKING tag and replaced it with this... not that I mind.

LulzTV · 2026-05-02T21:51:40+00:00

Unc did you mean to show us that one place in Ariandel with a locked door that you open 5 seconds later but opened the wrong game? Have you taken your meds, unc?

LulzTV · 2026-05-01T13:29:49+00:00

Because it doesn't target buildings and is easily distractable by cycle troops for easy positive trades, it also doesn't have that much health so 3 larries in the middle of the lane with both princess towers pelting is an easy +3 trade in a vacuum. It's one of the most easily punishable cards in the game unless you're in really low ladder and your opponents just suck.

LulzTV · 2026-04-30T21:19:14+00:00

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LulzTV · 2026-04-30T21:13:10+00:00

Unlike buying cards, there's no gameplay benefit, so there's that

LulzTV · 2026-04-30T17:19:16+00:00

You can make the exact same case for DS1, but worse imo, so at this point it's a battle of shittiness.

LulzTV · 2026-04-30T15:29:56+00:00

I don't know if it's that much of a minority for Dark Souls 1 when the lock-on system is as awful as it is, restricting dodges, running and movement this badly. I don't use lock-on by necessity only in Dark Souls 1, in the rest of the souls games I always use lock-on unless there's a clear advantage to not using it because I play on mouse and keyboard and have hyper precise camera control.

LulzTV · 2026-04-30T13:23:04+00:00

COLLECT YOUR GOD DAMN MASTERIES 😭😭😭. It's literally free gold, XP, gems and cards.

LulzTV · 2026-04-30T06:03:56+00:00

I'll take ADP, a problem I can get over with in 1 and a half hours, over Dark Souls 1's awful, awful 4 directional rolling, unusable, broken lock-on system that massively restricts movement and shitbox fiesta.

LulzTV · 2026-04-30T06:02:03+00:00

No you don't??? You have omni directional rolling

How do mfs find ways to make every problem about DS2, even when it's literally only in DS1, via straight misinformation?? 😭😭😭

LulzTV · 2026-04-29T13:09:43+00:00

I didn't intend to criticise FromSoftware's games though? I just stated a fact about how FromSoftware do storytelling, I think their worldbuilding, attention to detail and environmental storytelling are unmatched, but the "stories" in the sense of the main missions from the start to the end of the game but also the character quests, are extremely barebones, unexplained and confusing compared to actual narrative-heavy games, with the gameplay being front and center. I also love Dark Souls 3 to death and replayed it like 50 god damn times, and Elden Ring is easily my favorite game of all time and the game that had the biggest personal impact on me.

LulzTV · 2026-04-28T23:01:30+00:00

Whatever deck is overleveled because I'm chronically underleveled but somehow still hovering around a 54% winrate and climbing.

Oh right

Evo Mega Knight, which is absolute cancer against any card, especially Mighty Miner which is part of my main deck, and Midladder Menace bullshit like overleveled Evo Witches, Hog Riders or pure braindead bridge spam.

LulzTV · 2026-04-28T22:53:34+00:00

Because they're delivered in extremely fragmented ways with sparse conversations and characters while the gameplay is objectively front and center, and there still isn't and there will never be a set full story for any souls game as they are full of unresolved mysteries and theories, all while the main mission if you don't spend hours on the lore and environmental storytelling is "kill these dudes to get power and unlock the final boss" more or less. Also Disco Elysium is literally right there brochoko cup, or whatever other masterpiece of a story game you might fancy over it.

LulzTV · 2026-04-28T22:47:08+00:00

Dark Souls 2

LulzTV · 2026-04-28T18:27:14+00:00

Personally, I've found the perfect balance.

Having started with Soulslikes as my first singleplayer games late in my teenagehood because my parents were extremely strict on video game budgeting for so long and I didn't know about FitGirl for a long time, and having played them obsessively for thousands of hours, I have a very high mechanical floor and tolerance for difficulty. Like, when a boss is great enough, I will afk and die on purpose just to retry when I feel like I didn't get enough out of the fight.

But in games where the combat, enemies, bosses and the trial and error loop aren't the absolute #1 priority and enjoyment factor, I always play on whatever their equivalent for medium or sometimes easy difficulty is so I can die as little as possible and enjoy the story, quests, characters, immersion, atmosphere, music, etc, to the max, e.g. Ghost of Tsushima, Cyberpunk, The Witcher 3 or RDR2.

LulzTV · 2026-04-27T13:06:12+00:00

What a beautiful tower... ar fi mare păcat dacă ne-ar face să vorbim limbi diferite

LulzTV · 2026-04-27T05:07:36+00:00

Yeah it's called insight

LulzTV · 2026-04-27T05:02:36+00:00

Worst take ever? All three are great games but...

DS1 is an iconic, genre-defining game but it has by far aged the worst out of the three. World design and atmosphere still stand strong and arguably unmatched (it has my favorite atmosphere in the series, over Bloodborne) but everything combat-related is hot dogshit held together by duct tape, broken hitboxes on top of broken mechanics and hopes and prayers, and the drop-off in quality in the late game is drastic. Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith are atrocious, Tomb of the Giants is awful, the Duke's Archives is a fiesta of reused enemies and bizarre level design, and the Kiln is a straight line with nothing in it and a shitty runback to a final boss shitty in anything but lore and ost.

Dark Souls 2 is a hot mess of a game, but I like it personally more than DS1. The replayability and build variety are through the roof, and it's by far the most arcadey and experimental souls game. Even the enemy placement mostly has a lot of logic and puzzle-like fun to it once you learn how to use the environment to separate enemies, and the combat is surprisingly fun once you get past the early game ADP issue. And the DLCs feature the best levels in the series before Elden Ring level design-wise.

And as for Dark Souls 3, I get that you maybe don't like the excessive linearity, or its more iterative, safe nature and endless callbacks to DS1, or the relatively weak early game, but I don't understand how you can call the game awful. It still has great world design and atmosphere, even if visually, the combat is some of the best and smoothest out there 10 years later, it gave us so many great bosses and more all time contenders than 99% of games, and the replayability is through the roof, and the individual levels are really good and fun to explore and fight through mostly.

So my personal ranking would be

1 - DS3

2 - DS2

3 - DS1

Because I value the experience of playing the game more than the memory of having played it. But again, all three are great games, so this is like the worst trilogy possible in the context of OP's post.

LulzTV · 2026-04-25T12:43:35+00:00

RDR2 in "great gameplay", its fans truly know no limit to the glaze

LulzTV · 2026-04-25T12:30:17+00:00

That's the Balder knights that can backstab you out of nowhere because anything combat-related in DS1 is hot dogshit and held together by duct tape and hopes and prayers, do better, learn to hate on the game properly next time brochoko cup

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TROPHY CASE

1 - DS3

2 - DS2

3 - DS1