What Happens When An Elden Ring Player Tries Dark Souls 2 For The First Time?! 

Yeah... I feel like forest first would have been a lot better

this was really cool to watch actually

There's still a boss in the tower, so he didn't beat it yet.

@@itsSpicyGaming same thing I did lol

If we had to go through this, he has to go through this. dems the rules.

But the question is... Why stop now?

Just make it a quirky title for everything, I don't mind it, keep the Great content coming dude

kid named Demon's Souls

What happens when an Elden Ring player tries a new title?

At least you had the decency to not write "Elder Rim Pro!" Like most people seem to do 😂

It's been pretty fun so far

​@@itsSpicyGamingreally? pretty fun i hate the start of the game but later on it turns to the best ds game for me same as in dark souls 1 after anor londo the real fun begins for me😅

@@adaasdfas8013 how?

@@adaasdfas8013 iron keep? Shrine of Amana?

@@yyusufsapmaziron keep is easily A tier

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exactly right !! and we'll be the witness of it all since the beginning !

I will never forgive the game for making Iron keep. Otherwise pretty fun so far

I hate it because of the general clunkiness, the slow roll, the slow af healing, the lousy hitboxes, the terrible sound design (compared to the other games), ditto with the animations.

​@@maxmaxwell343git gud👍🏽(ppl always says this so i guess I'm gonna say it)

@@maxmaxwell343or the garbage world areas, unbalanced enemies and crap gank squads

⁠​⁠@@maxmaxwell343ds1 can be clunky and u have slow roll in both with heavy armor and yeah the hitboxes rough I’ll give u that sound design is just as good as ds1

⁠@@alphadoughnut2651u can say that about the later half of ds1 also the gank squad isn’t even that bad as long as u know how to deal with them…also “unbalanced enemies” sounds like a you problem tbh

If you would allow me the question why do you love ds2 .I personally didn't really feel that way so I would be curious as to why you love it

@@timtom2284 because despite how punishing the game is on the first time experience, it rewards branching out, testing new things and even just the silly little ideas you have in the back of your head that might just work. When I play DS2 I feel like I can do basically anything and just have it work. Like blow up a wall for a shortcut or use a bow to snipe enemies into falling to their death or hit a door in frustration only for an enemy to open it for you. Little things like that made the experience so much better. And because there were consequences to dying I felt motivated to Git Gud to avoid them, to avoid going Hollow. In DS1 dying was a minor inconvenience. The bosses could win as much as they liked, I only needed to win once to proceed. In DS3 it was a waste of an Ember, but ultimately inconsequential. Third verse, same as the first. But in DS2 it felt so different, more personal. I couldn’t just throw myself into the grinder until it eventually broke down and I won, because each time I came back it was lesser. I would become less and less human. Less recognizable as me, and I wanted to avoid that. Back to exploration, the Sunken DLC rewards using bows and crossbows for exploration in a very Zelda-esque manner, which I found was quite neat. Enemy positioning, which so many people (even me, on my first playthrough) complained about, after my second playthrough stopped being agitating. Instead it clicked and made sense. And because of it, I slowed down, played smarter and saw greater success with consistency. I learnt patience and was rewarded for it. Basically, I have a lot of reason to love DS2

​​@@reaperofthingsah is see that makes alot of sense I guess I should appreciate the unique ideas of DS2 more like exploting barrels etc. For me it just always was the enemy placement and amount that really made me despise the game in my first playthrough ,but know I may give it another go this time more careful and precise, maybe then I'll appreciat it more . thanks for your insight

​@@timtom2284The enemy amount and placement is very bad in sotfs. If you play og ds2 , i hope you would have liked it

nah majula is ass u are only there bc the game forces u to bc of emerald theres nothing even remotely usefull there

Who? Tseldora? Can he trade boss souls too?

I've gotten some better clothes from that npc in Majula, not killing him was definitely the right choice!

​@@AI.innovatives-6ye the tseldora guy if you spend 1000 souls in jis shop he starts selling the equip of the beaten bosses not for boss souls just regular souls to pay

I replayed the game but the only boss armor he sold were smelter demon and sinner.I still think the soul buff tseldora set is more worth it ​@@adaasdfas8013

It's been very fun for me... up until Iron Keep. I now have a new most hated souls-game area haha

Sound like any other dark souls for me😅

@@adaasdfas8013 yeah, probably true. Perhaps having played ds1-> ER-> ds3-> sekiro, then finally ds2, made the jank stand out a bit more for me. I'm starting to get used to it though.

I really don't get what's more janky about this one than the others. Maybe the ADP mechanic, that could have been handled better

Enjoy the pain and suffering

Ivory king is far from the best

@@kaspies8150 elaborate

@ExtremeMan10 if I was a 1 on 1, I would of enjoyed it. But you drop down and fight mobs and then I beat him easily because I still had one knight left to help. I wanted a challenge

I learned that the hard way

George of Cinder is too strong. I'd never win

Well the lead director of ds2 was the art director for Elden ring I do believe

​@@TheSsjJoker no wonder the game looks shit /j

It's a terrible terrible place to be

@@itsSpicyGaming It end up spending at least 2 hours there on every character. It's such a slog.

Haha suffering=content so I'm on board

@@itsSpicyGaming you have no idea what’s in store for you :)

i like sotfs, it makes you play slow and pay attention at you surrounds, and i think that goes well with the slow combat of ds2.

The rolling, healing, etc are BS. It is far and away the worst DS game.

@@maxmaxwell343 skill issue honestly

@@bongoknight1807 “skill issue” Ah yes. The cry of the DS fanboy who can’t accept criticism of their favourite game. I’ve played every Soulsborne game - OG Demon’s Souls, DS, DS2, DS3c BB, Demon’s Souls remake - and Elden Ring to completion with multiple characters to varying NG+ cycles, but my criticism of DS2 must be a skill issue because you’re a man child and can’t accept criticism of a game you play. 😂😂😂 💩head

yeah I've been spoiled recently by some of the more polished souls games I've been playing. DS2 is still fun, don't think it'll ever be my favorite though 😅

​@@itsSpicyGamingit has the best potential of replaying you have alot of various builds becouse of dark dmg even more then in other souls games and also more items weapons the game is the biggest ds game on itself it has the most bosses secrets and hidden stuff it has the best ng+ if you finished all souls games multiple times youre gonna realize that dark souls 2 is the best of them and i hate it at the beginning too😅

Much better with sotfs ds2 vanilla is too easy

@@adaasdfas8013 You call enemy spam better? Bro, vanilla Dark Souls 2 isn't easy at all. It's still a hard game, but it's a lot more on the fair side like any souls game should be, unlike Scholar which spams the enemies everywhere because it thinks more is better.

@@waltsalemastick814 i know what you mean its shitty in the main game with the extra spawns but the dlc content is amazing and i was thinking about them they are way harder then the base game

You'll be happy to know there's another one coming out tomorrow 👀

I would say the amount of enemies need to be rebalanced

or just get good.

problem is the game doesn't tell you that outright. they didn't went into the specifics and people only found out about the estus speed way later from release.

not really, almost all the good mechanics introduced have been inherited and improved in the following games, what's left is bullshit that has no place in a good souls game. Maybe with the exception of Bonfire Ascetic, thei were horrible for balance but still fun to use.

@@manuelferrari6685 Seriously, all the DS2 fanboys talk about powerstancing like it's the greatest mechanic ever when it's the worst implementation of dual wielding I've seen, DS3 dual weapons are way better.

DS2 is the best souls game for replays, Bonfire Ascetics were a breath of fresh air. Greatly appreciate them trying new things even if lots of them were failed experiments. Adaptability was certainly a huge improvement over resistance lol. Agreed about the good mechanics being inherited or improved in the future though, like look at what they did for poise! *looks at every FromSoft game until Elden Ring* Oh right...

@@herorevali7855 "looks at every FromSoft game until Elden Ring" So... just DS3? Or do you want to complain about poise in Sekiro too? Personally, poise doesn't really matter outside of PvP.

Yeah, pretty much just DS3. Attempt at a lame joke. I'd say there's plenty of DS3 PvE where poise would have been really nice, but it really does make PvP rough for heavier builds. Always loved PvP in DS2 the best, but they're all fun in their own ways.

DS2 is not a bad game, But we can't just ignore all the Janky movements and absurd Hitboxes.

Maybe this is a hot take but I always feel like the "dudes in armor" are the best enemies to fight in any Soulsgame

what now dickstove

nvm it's forest maze

The base roll is just awful, you need to level up ADP or ATN to increase agility and that gives you I-frames (without altering the roll animation mind you). Also many hitboxes are broken or linger for too long.