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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin |OT| Your weapons are weak, old man
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I H8 Memes
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The textures look exactly the same. just darker. I thought they were supposed to be improved.
Chance Hale
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The big difference is there seems to be a lot more AO in the DX11 version. Adds a lot of life to the game going by those screenshots, even if it's not the best implementation.
You liked the vanilla? If yes, buy it otherwise no, in my opinion the change are not worth the price.
Oh yeah, I've loved what I've played of DS2. Gameplay is a mile ahead of Dark Souls even if the overall design is less inspired. Just wondering if it's worth it to finish vanilla so I understand the changes better.
I hope so. My 300+ hr save is on PC, but I'd love to start fresh on my big screen.
Anybody get the console versions early yet?
paperspace
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Mobs can't go through boss fog-gates, from what I've seen. I've tried aggroing a couple, but nope.
tintin1029
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I can't believe they still haven't fixed that durability bug.
I'm probably gonna have to hold off on buying this until they either fix it, or the price drops dramatically.
Or unless the coolest fucking change is there that forces me to buy it.
I'm probably gonna have to hold off on buying this until they either fix it, or the price drops dramatically.
Or unless the coolest fucking change is there that forces me to buy it.
awesome, thank you - for $20 I'm gonna jump anyway, haven't experienced any of the DLC.
tintin1029
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That's probably the best change I've heard so far. It was so annoying having to go all the way to iron keep and back for that damn thing.
I didn't mind the durability thing before as I never really had many instances of it being an issue but I got the Old Whip with my Petrified Something and man does it degrade stupid fast.
Fighting an Old Ironclad and it took it down from like 29 to 7.
One change I've noticed for sequence breakers is you can buy
Presuming you mean PC I'd get this since you don't own the DLC and it is great. Would cost you 25 bucks for the season pass anyway, so it's like a 5 dollar upgrade difference.
Fighting an Old Ironclad and it took it down from like 29 to 7.
One change I've noticed for sequence breakers is you can buy
a Fragrant Branch of Yore from the vendor lady you find in the Forest of Fallen Giants. Granted though I've already seen one new petrified NPC so I will probably use it on them instead just for curiosity's sake.
Presuming you mean PC I'd get this since you don't own the DLC and it is great. Would cost you 25 bucks for the season pass anyway, so it's like a 5 dollar upgrade difference.
u need to see it in motion, there is a difference and its immediate. its much cleaner and better looking, and some textures have been upgraded, not all of them. these shots are honestly not doing it justice.
Locked.
its def worth 20 bucks, hell, its all worth it, its a souls game.
tintin1029
Member
It also created the most immersion breaking strategy ever where you had to make sure you didn't overkill enemies or else your kitana would break because of a glitch.
It's just sooo bad.
For a 5 buck difference, upgrade.
I'd say the only people that really need to consider it are people that owned the season pass since it ain't as good of a deal for them.
If you didnt play the vanilla, yes, otherwise no.
Correction: If you didn't play the DLC, then yes, yes and yes.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The upgrade price for people interested in the season pass seems like the best value, savings-wise.
paperspace
Member
Yep, 100% this. It's definitely an upgrade, but not a major one.
Playing this in 4K 60fps with 2 sec loading times really is something else when you come from Bloodborne.
Really looking forward to a new playthrough now! Everything feels different and tougher.
tintin1029
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Considering the whole concept of the early game was to go at it at any order you like, I wouldn't really call it sequence breaking. This change is definitely an improvement.
http://www.thegamecollection.net/dark-souls-ii-scholar-of-the-first-sin-ps4.html
33.95 pounds
use code 3off30 to knock 3 pounds off to make it 30.95 !!!!!
nice price.
33.95 pounds
use code 3off30 to knock 3 pounds off to make it 30.95 !!!!!
nice price.
But I don't remember my vanilla playthrough
Maybe when I start it it will come back to me
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Well, it's out on consoles today here in Europe. Don't know why the US has to wait another week.
Still haven't gotten a solid answer on whether I should finish my vanilla playthrough first or drop it and head straight into Scholar.
I might go ahead and do it just under the premise that I didn't know I had to use activate on illusory walls instead of hitting them until I reached Iron Keep.
I might go ahead and do it just under the premise that I didn't know I had to use activate on illusory walls instead of hitting them until I reached Iron Keep.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Do you ask yourself that when we have to wait 90% of the time?
Yep!
But it's typically just a wait of 1-2 days nowadays, it's rare that we have to wait all that long like in the olden days. We even get consoles almost simultaneously now (the XBO mess notwithstanding).
tintin1029
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I say just head straight to scholar.
Man, 6h left before I leave work to play this. Only 25 euros as I didn't own the DLCs so it's a good deal for me.
Keep the impressions coming. Too bad about durability issue, but I'll just work around it with bonfires and repair powder. Recommend that you don't stick to a single weapon - there's several slots after all.
Keep the impressions coming. Too bad about durability issue, but I'll just work around it with bonfires and repair powder. Recommend that you don't stick to a single weapon - there's several slots after all.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Without spoiling anything (as I haven't played this), does the game naturally flow in a way that takes you through the vanilla stuff before getting into the additional content? That's how I would prefer to play it, I think.
Yes! Eager to see how it flows now.
