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Dark Souls 2 Lighting Engine Mod - Modernising And Enhancing An Overlooked Classic
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Putyouinmyoven
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On what planet is Dark Souls 2 an overlooked classic
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
Planet actual good taste. Also Planet "Giving credit for actually trying to evolve a successful formula, as opposed to lazily rehashing it like DS3 did!"
Gojiira
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While thats true, the good aspects do not outweigh the bad. The lack of cohesive world with numerous non-sensical connections just ewww.
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Gojiira
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Im sorry you only have a Xbox and cant play the objectively GOAT From Software game
Quezacolt
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Tried to evolve in the worst ways possible.
Is DS3 just doing what 1 did? Yes, but its still a great game to play.
DS2 is the only one in the entire trilogy that i don't want to replay at all.
The Cockatrice
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Gaf users: its the best Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2:
It was a decent game but calling it the best against DS1 and 3 is factually wrong. You can argue about certain things but its level design was dogshit.
Dark Souls 2:
It was a decent game but calling it the best against DS1 and 3 is factually wrong. You can argue about certain things but its level design was dogshit.
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
Hard disagree. More and more evolved in-game mechanics, more user control over difficulty with bonfires, power-stancing, various forms of arena-based PvP, sctual substantial changes based on NG+ cycle, the list goes on.
Miyazaki phoned it in. Its a fun enough to play through once, but objectively has minimal revisit value. It also felt like a contractual obligation due to its utter lack of anything resembling a new or fresh idea. All its best stuff is either straight lifted from previous games or is so under-developed it has no real value. It flatters with ideas like the Pus-of-Man transforms at the start, but then completely forgets about it for the rest of the game.
I don't argue this to be contrarian; the proof of DS2's value should be evident by how much of its influence ended up in Elden Ring.
Not that think DS2 (especially the original release) is without fault. Its certainly the roughest-around-the-edges of all of the franchise. But. Its problems -imho- can largely be traced back to it being so ambitious while still targeting PS360 as its primary platform. The uneveness of the world-design particularly being a result of them having to radically restructure to get the thing to run, and again its not an issue that's exclusive to this one game. Plenty of FROM's titles have somewhat unfinished seeming areas, its just that in DS2 it pretty much hits you in the face with it straight from the off and improves greatly in later sections.
Sentenza
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I've always felt conflicted on Dark Souls 2.
On one hand it's easily the worst game From Software put out in the last 12 years or so....
On the other one, there's still enough good things in it that frankly speaking a lot of studios could only beg on their knees they had something so "bad" in their own portfolio.
Back to the topic:
Maybe it's just the video quality, but I saw absolutely nothing in this review that made me think this mod is worth the hassle of going back to the game.
On one hand it's easily the worst game From Software put out in the last 12 years or so....
On the other one, there's still enough good things in it that frankly speaking a lot of studios could only beg on their knees they had something so "bad" in their own portfolio.
Back to the topic:
Maybe it's just the video quality, but I saw absolutely nothing in this review that made me think this mod is worth the hassle of going back to the game.
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FoxMcChief
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I’ve owned every PlayStation (handhelds too) and have played and beaten Bloodborne.
March Climber
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As usual, a positive thread about a good Dark Souls 2 development or mod becomes a battleground over whether or not the game is great lol.
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Gaiff
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It’s at the very least miles better than Dark Souls II.
Buggy Loop
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Of course they can't help themselves whenever the game they don't care about they care enough to go out from under the bridge
Gojiira
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Whatever you say chief
Sentenza
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DeaconOfTheDank
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It's a pretty great mod - higher quality ambient occlusion, shadow casting from light sources, HDR and VRR support, PCSS soft shadows, DLAA, etc. Feels kind of like a beefed up reshade.
If you're looking to build yourself an unofficial remaster then I would recommend at least these mods to max out the visuals:
If you're looking to build yourself an unofficial remaster then I would recommend at least these mods to max out the visuals:
- DS2 Lighting Engine (this topic of this thread) - https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/1146
- Scholar of the Second Sin (upscaled 4K textures for most areas) - https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/1160
- TriviaTex (upscaled textures for equipment) - https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/1197
- InfiniDetail (bumped up draw distance and higher quality LODs) - https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/1203
- Modern UI (4K resolution for the HUD, fonts, loading screens, title screens, etc) - https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/1216
- Clean UI and Bloodborne Reticle (transparent HUD elements and targeting reticle) - https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/1168
- DS3 HD Icons (icons backported from DS3) - https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/1174
NeverYouMind
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darrylgorn
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Blurry, god rays are removed and your character looks like a block of shit.
March Climber
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Putyouinmyoven
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This planet is not real. DS3 may be a rehash, but at least it’s not SHIT.