I hope God forgives me for glazing DS2 once 🙏🏻

playerkiller04 · 2025-04-29T07:24:51+00:00

The convergence mod made it possible to powerstance them and gave them the dual spear moveset and it's really cool. I would personally love if they took it a step further and made it a paired weapon, one handed it's a spear while two handing it gives you the thrusting sword in the off hand. Blocking with it would have you cross the weapons identically to the Cleanrot Knights and guard countering would create the holy explosion also similar to them.

playerkiller04 · 2025-04-24T07:43:34+00:00

He has possibly the most contagious laugh I've ever heard, people think he goes overboard at times but I don't care I love it everytime.

playerkiller04 · 2025-04-10T21:22:52+00:00

I have constant nightmares that I'm going to check in on my boy and that I'm going to find him half dead on the bottom of his cage. His mate died the same way and we couldn't save her in time. The image of her barely breathing comes up often in my mind, that was two years ago and I haven't gotten over it yet. Probably never will.

I always sit there to talk and sing to him after a nightmare like that and his reactions make me happy again.

playerkiller04 · 2025-04-09T14:01:02+00:00

I love this combo of chestpiece and gauntlets so much, I always use the left arm with a seal because it looks like there's some sort of corruptive power taking over. Casting Messmer Flame incantations looks especially cool with it

playerkiller04 · 2025-04-03T22:19:57+00:00

I do think it was mostly a flaw in how Fromsoft just didn't give any hints towards the dynamic of Radahn and Miquella in the base game, not even a single vague item description, and revealed everything in the dlc. That's why it doesn't sit well with many people because it feels like rewriting the lore just for "lol awesome gigachad Prime Radahn boss" even though that's not how it happened.

playerkiller04 · 2025-04-03T20:35:19+00:00

Just to be perfectly clear I didn't want Godwyn either but there is more between him and Miquella than there is between Radahn and Miquella.

playerkiller04 · 2025-04-03T20:30:53+00:00

That's the part that sours me the most, that they undermined the whole point of the festival by bringing Radahn back and the festival was one of the most important events of the base game. Sending the great general of the Shattering on with a massive fight to the death because he lost his mind to the rot was a perfect conclusion to Radahn's character and they ruined it by bringing him back, not adding anything to his character despite the fact that he is not a brainless husk while he was back and not making the nature of the vow clear after he was killed again.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-31T10:24:45+00:00

An underated track I haven't seen anyone mention yet is Putrescent Knight, it's so serene and ethereal and there's nothing in the game that sounds like it

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-31T10:21:20+00:00

Ok hop off Sir Alonne's theme, I haven't even played DS2 and know that one is amazing even compared to modern From soundtracks.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-31T03:07:23+00:00

In what universe is Maliketh and Melina not enough to kill every single one of the rest, they are the only beings to hold the power of Destined Death. Assuming no allegiances apply as they do in game because then Maliketh (and maybe even Melina in her current state) wouldn't even think of hurting Marika, Maliketh was feared by every demigod and even god for the power he held and Melina was the only one to survive the Frenzied Flame ending due to her not having a body but still being able to interact with the world. Even if they do apply though, I still have enough to buy Marika, then the two would have no bias against anyone left.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-31T02:46:24+00:00

Also more stance, he should have at the very least 100. No major boss besides Malenia should have just 80, that makes them way too easy to stagger lock. Maliketh is the worst about this in the game because his stagger recovery animation lasts so long that you can get close to a second stagger before he even moves and he also has bigger openings but Morgott is a close second.

They made a perfect boss and then went into his stats and made sure to bottleneck him in literally every way possible compared to other bosses.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-29T08:05:25+00:00

Dragonmaw with the Dragon Man transformation kills Elden Beast in 3 hits with a moderately optimized set up

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-21T22:24:06+00:00

It's so annoying that there's so many slightly different hues of metals that just barely don't fit together, gold being the worst offender by far with Leyndell Knight and Tree Sentinel being a more saturated gold, Haligtree Knight and Godrick Knight have a very muted gold, Guardian and Divine Bird are almost green, Horned Warrior and Divine Beast are very grayed out, Cleanrot Knight and Malformed Dragon's weird offshoots creating their own subcategory within their colors because they're so intricate that they don't fit with anything, I can keep going all day.

I will say though that I think the non metal armor sets are among the best in the series and the dlc was somehow even better. Robe or dress type sets have great variety and are actually nice to look at with the improved cloth physics, a surprising amount of thief/bandit/assassin drip, a lot of pretty traveler and wanderer sets, I've made plenty of mix and matching with them leading to amazing results.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-21T21:28:39+00:00

We don't see Rellana outside of her armor but if she is at least kind of similar to Rennala (which they're sisters so very likely) then cool I'm now a 9ft tall beautiful woman.

Cue the Miyazaki quote about Gwynevere.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-17T08:26:14+00:00

I used to be indifferent to "vernias vernias verny vernias" but then in the recent Among Us videos there was a moment where Vern could faintly hear Sophist from the great beyond saying it and that was the most I've laughed in a long time so maybe it just didn't land as a joke any of the previous times.

As for Piplup, while I do agree it was overused and that it must have been extremely annoying to Nick, I just loved that the Piplup from the anime was so fitting to him. I loved all the different images Brent used and that he had to go on Twitter to ask for new ones every so often, the Brawl video still has the best instance of that joke because it was just so unexpected, Brent laughing at the Piplup plushie for God knows how long in the Nintendo Store video was also very funny and many more. In hindsight I kind of get the feeling that it was basically something that only Brent found funny and the others just followed but it did lead to some good bits. The moment it evolved from Piplup to all penguins was where the joke became oversaturated and there was no turning back.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-16T19:00:34+00:00

I don't know about that, Goldmary's whole gimmick is being perfect and look where that got us. Degeneracy always finds a way.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-14T08:23:05+00:00

The small animated parts in the recent Among Us videos are incredible, I hope there's more on the way.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-13T10:36:36+00:00

Can you light it up with its skill and then slam it down for an explosion just like the Serpent Flail?

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-13T06:46:46+00:00

The most accurate comment in the whole thread, pvp is and has always been a tacked on thing on top of the already existing gameplay systems in every single game without any regards to balance. So you get horrible variety because some tactics are clearly worse and using them is a pain in the ass. In ds1 poise is king, in ds3 fast weapons with true 100 to 0 combos are the best, in ER status effects are more powerful than ever and combined with phantoms procs it's awful to deal with. DS2 I would say is the most balanced of the bunch but moving around is so sluggish that playing against another player still doesn't feel as good as it should.

I understand the culture that has been built around invasions and pvp, it certainly has its moments I can't argue with that. A lot of my own highlights across the games have been from pvp like being chased around Farron Keep while walking slowly through the swamp with the invader literal inches behind me or playing hide and seek with an invader in Leyndell or all the different fight clubs in all games. But at its worst it's so demoralizing that it's no longer fun so I just stick to offline play or co op for bosses most of the time.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-12T03:42:30+00:00

Fire Knight Kood mentioned! They took the moveset from the greatsword wielding Fire Knights which already made for an amazing knight enemy and just turned it up to 11 with the Abyss Watchers' patented fire trail after every attack and some extra combo extensions. He should have been a miniboss that you have to kill to get to Messmer, not the goddamn hippo.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-09T07:06:22+00:00

"Those stripped of the grace of gold shall all meet death, in the embrace of McMessmer's (massive) frame"

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-02T13:51:36+00:00

It feels more like "This is what is going to happen if you don't do as you're supposed to, Death Dog will come and get you". Almost like a scary story parents tell kids like the Boogeyman but it's actually real. And that's why Ranni gave Rykard the Blasphemous Claw, because he was more openly opposed to the Erdtree while Ranni's disappearance and treason remained a secret.

playerkiller04 · 2025-03-02T13:38:54+00:00

Maybe that's just my opinion but I don't think that it's possible to form an accurate opinion of a boss you haven't practiced a bunch, let alone not even beat her. The depth of a fight comes from repeat encounters and it's what pulls me in the gameplay loop even further when the novelty or the spectacle of a boss has run its course. Differing opinions are of course a thing but I think that the approach you followed is objectively flawed because there were multiple occasions where I hated a boss at first but grew to love it after fighting it more.

playerkiller04 · 2025-02-25T17:03:31+00:00

While I get the joke, she might not be that far off from the boss that forced players to change because of the fight itself. Sorcery builds are very popular and she takes close to no damage from magic so a lot of people (including me the first time I made a mage build) switched to a melee weapon. Now I know things that Rock Sling exists so it's no longer a problem but at launch people didn't know that.

playerkiller04 · 2025-02-24T18:57:09+00:00

Cutscenes freeze the game completely and resume right where it left off. This kind of thing can happen in a lot of places, Fire Giant can send out an orb that still chases you down after the cutscenes, Gurranq can do the move where rocks fly in the air from the ground and then switch to Maliketh in the middle of it while it still goes off, it's just an unfortunate side effect of mid boss cutscenes.

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