Dark Souls II by Distortion2 in  

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Distortion2 was so glad to see u finally to a run at GDQ. Solid run even with that technical issues u had. Keep going love ya

Distortion2 hey dude great run, but I don’t recall seeing executioners chariot, is that not part of all bosses?

@@jamesgreen6211 around 2:05:00

@@jamesgreen6211 2:05:35

2022 and here I am! great run mr Dist.

TSfish94 true scholar just forced it

@@TSfish94 currently playing scholar and never played the original ds2, what did they change about it besides graphics?

@@voidgivenfocusClassic DS2 has less enemies spawn, different enemies placement, DLC keys already placed in the inventory, no Aldia fight, different items placements. On the contrary, I don't notice any significant changes in graphics.

@@voidgivenfocus enemy placement, item placement, 1 new boss( aldia scholar of the first sin), better graphics, and more, can't remember. From my casual experience, Scholar is better for normal playthroughs, more fun but for speedruns I guess vanilla is better.

@@rianrichardson4297 @K J im stoked that people think aldia is scholar exclusive. they patched him into vanilla after the release of burnt ivory king dlc, he is in both versions

Funny thing is i think its aging better than 1 and 3 most ppl i talk to say 2 is their fav.

Exactly what makes you like ds2 more than the other games

It's my least favorite still, but I've always liked it. Bloodborne is my favorite soulsborne game, and then it's DS1, and DS3 before we finally get to DS2. I haven't played the new game yet unfortunately.

It's been a while since I played it, but really I think the only big problem I had with it was the smaller fall distance. A much smaller problem to have than 3's poise; yikes.

Burn the giant wind wheel with a torch, there's a wall borken and a grave warden guarding it, right outside the second bonfire in that area.

Blighttown never dies... it just changes form

watching the archive, i wondered what you meant by that. didn't take long to find out lol

@@sparkplug8763 now go... let the legend come back to life

This game easily has the worst blighttown. Literally 4 areas filled with poison that acts more like toxic from ds1

I ran out of things to binge for quarantine so I’m here with you

same here m8

ayeee ditto my friends

Fucking same bro, I don't mind you, I'm with you my man

Sammmeee

For speedrunning I can completely understand but I'm so glad I have scholar because the game feels so much more fleshed out

@@istvanfodor9749 if you look closely some enemies from the vinilla dark souls 2 are not in scholar some rooms in vinilla version are worse than scholar

I can't believe how calm no man's wharf was. And the path leading up to the boss in lost bastille. No invis soldiers in the forest before najka either.

Vanilla ds2 is ugly as hell

But it has better character movement

My time has gone*

The death at 38:12 was really painful, you can see him swallow his pain with that water bottle, kudos for real for powering through and delivering such a great GDQ

any% nmg is always best imo

I read this comment and missed a boss haha

I never cheesed him Still easy even on babystage

@@cheftrinker09 I don't think there is a way to beat Dragonrider that wouldn't be cheesing his AI. It's just so dumb that anything you do to Dragonrider ends up exploiting it. Poor bastard can barely turn fast enough to keep up with you if you walk around him.

He is my first boss, just run past all the enemies to him then cheese him, and if you somehow fail just kill him the normal way. He is basically the laughing stock of ds2... or close to it.

Same lol

i have to say, that persuer dodge roll to ballista beats out my parry to ballista strat hands down. :3

@@Atamosk-bu7zt it's an old strat though, nothing new

@@Atamosk-bu7zt don't you just cat smiley me without hitting me with that uwu

Yeh i played this game on a 700€ laptop from 2013. It ran so smooth and for that this game holds a special place in my heart.

the dedication

I was an idiot and didn’t even know there was a bonfire in majula until my friend said what are you doing

That's really rough Julia

Really wish I hadn't read this comment before I started watching.

I did the same thing the second before I saw this comment. You get a like.

I was just thinking the same thing! Glad I wasn't....Alonne

Yes! Every damn time

Isnt this from GoTs Patchface?

Takatschun banane No, it’s Pennywise the Clown from IT

I immediately figured out what the name means when you said it. Didn’t know it before.

I think she's probably related to/from Izalith (maybe even a remant of the witch herself), the sin there being the attempt to create an artificial 2nd First Flame!

I don't know how I can have 20 runthroughs on DS2 vanilla (roughly 600 hours) and not know that Aldia was on base game

They patched it in later for the vanilla game. I believe it was the last patch before scholar launched.

With exceptions! The Sinner and the Pursuer are some of the best imo, and Najka is a cool boss idea as well. DS2 just has... I'd say some of the least interesting or fun bosses... Last Giant and Vendrick (thought I like how you do more damage with the more you go out of your way) are whet come to mind more than anything else. Even the least popular bosses do some very cool, very interesting things. Ruin Sentinels are manageable if you hold your position, as they're designed to have one open to attack at the start. Flexile demands you beat it fast while also being a semi faster moving boss. Throne Watcher and Defender force you to whittle them down together or you have no chance to stop them. Dragonriders are... Just terrible. But Sinner and Najka force you to realize the environment around you is important too, and I love that shit

I never considered that the door is open. She’s powerful enough to fight the hollow knights for sure. She really is sitting in there willingly. I love the dark souls trope of “person sitting in one spot forever” like the black smith under the stairs in new Londo. Really sells the idea of a world so horrifying that it compels people to willing reduce themselves to stationary objects

Some speculate that she was the Old Iron King's pyromancer, Eygil. If that's the case, then her sin would probably be giving life to the smelter demons and ultimately causing the Iron Keep and the King to sink into the lava.

I played 2, 2AA 3 and silent like + half of 4. What scorpion are you talking about? I know dark lurker has references to the energy blades

To be fair, he's played this game over a thousand times.

Don't be! DS2 isn't easy.

Nice

celebrating yet another birthday bash

A lot of games you can get lost in because you just sort of move area to area without ever having a reason to pay attention to the level, not really the case in Souls games. DS1 specifically has a very well realized world that makes a lot of sense when you go through it and you familiarize each area as you go through because you tend to spend a while cutting your way through and return later on. DS2's world and level design is a big downgrade but still ample time to familiarize most levels.

But the frames were not lol

Shoa Mien Law of Equivalent Exchange.

Michaelkpp Bullshit.

I swear ds1 had the most broken pyro???

Press w and strong attack at the same time

Aldia isn't in the vanilla version of the game. What From Software did was they made a revamped version of the game called Scholar of the First Sin which mostly just changed things like enemy placement and came with the other dlc as well (needed to complete the dlc in order to fight Aldia). However I don't remember if you can fight Aldia if you didn't get SotFS and just bought the dlc for vanilla. I think you can but I only over played SotFS.

@@kennethandersen2730 you can indeed fight him in vanilla if you have all three crowns

Aldia got added to vanilla after SOTFS released

To fight Aldia, you need to talk to him all the times he appears at a bonfire. You must also kill Vendrick. And Nashandra must still be alive. He’ll appear as the secret final boss.

Every souls game has borked hitboxes. I swear the soul of cinder could've hit me from Irithyll dungeon I was so far from his sword

Sure. It’s the bad hitboxes. Not your skill, that is the problem. Kappa. Seriously, the hitboxes are clean.

We all do!

There are a few things that make the enemies look weaker than they are. 1 The brightbug is roughly the equivalent of heavy armor in ER alone. Damage and defense are calculated differently in Das1&2 so 20% is massive 2 Estus was slower both in animation and rate of healing and brought you to a full halt in das2. Tears in ER are lightspeed by comparison 3 in ER you just have way more tools like charge R2 and jump attacks And lastly you lose 10% of your max life each death, down to 50% unless you use an effigy to regain humanity, so the game is kinda tuned for you not having full health If you haven't played it yet I would recommend. It's really clunky by comparison now but it's a lot of fun. Sunken king dlc is especially cool

I know, I was surprised too.

Took me several playthroughs to believe Scholar of the First Sin was better than vanilla.

vanilla is way better

Yeah the iron keep on scholar instantly gives me new love for vanilla Ds2. Fuck that place

Normal in the first playthrough

I play on ps3 cause I still cannot afford ps4 and I play dark souls and dark souls 2 wish I could play 3

Best speedrunner imo playing so much games