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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective VIDEO Games pt. 2
MrSmartGuy 01/18/21 12:48:03 AM #87:	#54 - Dark Souls III (2016) Dark Souls 1 is awesome. Its on my list. Dark Souls 2 felt bad for me to play, but it was almost like a rubber band for the series. It stretched backwards, just so it could shoot forward in quality by a substantial amount for the next game. Lets talk a bit more about Dark Souls 1 first. The groundwork for an incredible game was laid, but there are some really bad design decisions along the way that hinder the experience here and there. A lot of close-quarter hallways ruin your day if youre using a big weapon. The Capra Demon sucks. Pinwheel is a total pushover. The Bed of Chaos is an abomination of a boss. Honestly, the bosses that arent Sif, O&S, Priscilla, and the Four Kings are really unmemorable. A lot of areas just arent interesting. More of them are an absolute pain to traverse. These all sound like the makings of a bad game, but its so solid underneath that its still an incredible game. Now lets discuss Dark Souls 3. It basically fixes all of these problems. The bosses are way cooler and even more varied. The Abyss Watchers in particular are one of the coolest fucking bosses in any video game ever made. Areas are way more open and fun to play through (most of them anyway, fuck the Consumed Kings Garden). Theyre also way more pleasing to the eyes. Take any screencap of Dark Souls 1 and youre gonna get a dull, depressing landscape no matter where you are. Take a screencap of Dark Souls 3, and you might get this. Or this. Or this. This last one is the god damn tutorial area, and its gorgeous. Nothing in Dark Souls 1 ever compares to this. Yeah, I mean, a lot of the areas are still pretty dreary, but theres still much more variety in DS3. And the game feels really good again. I honestly cant explain why Dark Souls 2 feels so bad, but something is just. off, and I cant explain why. But Dark Souls 3 is back to having exquisite combat, some of the best in any game ever. And thats really all you need to know to get why its such a great game. The only reason its only nominally above the first Dark Souls is because that game really opened Pandoras Box for me in luring me into the Soulsborne genre. --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif <cite>MrSmartGuy posted [p:949628804] in The Board ... [t:79241274]...</cite> <quote>#54 - Dark Souls III (2016) Dark Souls 1 is awesome. Its on my list. Dark Souls 2 felt bad for me to play, but it was almost like a rubber band for the series. It stretched backwards, just so it could shoot forward in quality by a substantial amount for the next game. Lets talk a bit more about Dark Souls 1 first. The groundwork for an incredible game was laid, but there are some really bad design decisions along the way that hinder the experience here and there. A lot of close-quarter hallways ruin your day if youre using a big weapon. The Capra Demon sucks. Pinwheel is a total pushover. The Bed of Chaos is an abomination of a boss. Honestly, the bosses that arent Sif, O&S, Priscilla, and the Four Kings are really unmemorable. A lot of areas just arent interesting. More of them are an absolute pain to traverse. These all sound like the makings of a bad game, but its so solid underneath that its still an incredible game. Now lets discuss Dark Souls 3. It basically fixes all of these problems. The bosses are way cooler and even more varied. The Abyss Watchers in particular are one of the coolest fucking bosses in any video game ever made. Areas are way more open and fun to play through (most of them anyway, fuck the Consumed Kings Garden). Theyre also way more pleasing to the eyes. Take any screencap of Dark Souls 1 and youre gonna get a dull, depressing landscape no matter where you are. Take a screencap of Dark Souls 3, and you might get this. Or this. Or this. This last one is the god damn tutorial area, and its gorgeous. Nothing in Dark Souls 1 ever compares to this. Yeah, I mean, a lot of the areas are still pretty dreary, but theres still much more variety in DS3. And the game feels really good again. I honestly cant explain why Dark Souls 2 feels so bad, but something is just. off, and I cant explain why. But Dark Souls 3 is back to having exquisite combat, some of the best in any game ever. And thats really all you need to know to get why its such a great game. The only reason its only nominally above the first Dark Souls is because that game really opened Pandoras Box for me in luring me into the Soulsborne genre. --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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