Dark Souls combat fucking sucks

Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne minus the frenzy bullshit has fucking amazing gameplay.
Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 and to a lesser extent: Sekiro is worse than dogshit, however.

r1 dodge r1 dodge r1 dodge dodge r2 dodge dodge dodge r1

Why?

>roll roll attack roll roll attack
Wow 10/10 game folks

>Souls games are supposed to be hard
When will this meme end

Too slow

Tons of games are WAAAAAY harder than dark souls on the hardest difficulties
only reason why ds is known for difficulty is the normies being unable to select "easy"

Popular thing bad? Wowowowowowow you didn't just say that OP. Oh no you didn't!

>Let's make the enemies bullet sponges and make them deal 10x the damage
Great difficulty

Someone got filtered

They're all r1 the game you fucking retard.

Uncharted games are trash on the higher difficulties since you can't have any fun with the combat, I'm sure I could do it user but I don't want to

Which one?
Dark Souls 2:
>Right direction with magic
>Fucked the poise
>Fucked the durability
>Fucked the Online
>Too many weapons not fleshed out
>Some enemies too strong for their reward, and vice versa
>Lions were bullshit for no reason
>Too many gimmicky bosses

Dark Souls 3:
>Fucked magic even more
>Fucked up with Estus
>Fucked up the story
>Fucked up some weapons
>Fucked up online, again
>Fucked poise even harder
>Retroactively ruined characters and plotlines
>Three fucking swamps

Sekiro:
>Enemies will always do more damage than you will, upgrading means fuck all poise damage notwithstanding. I'm getting to that
>Most boss fights are bullshit, "tough-but-fair" has been thrown out the window for "I beat the bullshit"
>Minibosses stronger than bosses
>Headless
>Fear mechanic
>Disgustingly linear compared to literally every Souls game before it, including Bloodborne
>Guns/cannons are bullshit
>Objective tier list of useful Go-Go-Gadget devices
>Health may as well not exist, due to poise. Which is often also bullshit due to how much enemies have and how fast they recover compared to you
>Swapped character strength progression for player skill progression

There're probably more.
>Inb4
>G-get filtered Pleb!
If you enjoy these things, then I'm happy that you're happy. But I hated these things.

still better than your 2 buttons gacha shit game

>Minibosses stronger than bosses
Unironically struggled with the general with polearm much more Genichiro despite him being the spike of difficulty in mid game

ok op

DS has easy mode, it's called summoning.
Or magic.

Bonjour, pédé.

kpop eternally btfo.

DS2 and DS3 vastly improved everything about DS1 besides the interconnected world design.

>muh poise
Insane levels of DS1 passive poise broke the game in both PvE and PvP, it was a mechanic to allow slow weapons to trade with fast ones without getting stunlocking, not to be a permanent iron flesh buff that lets you shit on everything. If you want this kind of easymode shit, use cheat engine.

>fucked online
Yeah, that's why DS2 and DS3 have 4K and 14K players respectively even 5+ years after launch while DSR is fucking dead even though it released 2 years ago.
Backstabs not being instant and removing infinite stunlocks is the reason these games triumphed over DS1.

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Cool. Now tell me how much leveling does it take to be able to pull off that webm you just posted, and in turn how you go about acquiring that many souls, because YOU KNOW that that's not a typical playthrough build. You're welcome to prove me otherwise.

Based

It does. Play Nioh.

>muh poise was broken
It was also meant to simulate heavily armoured knights as opposed to flippy dippy magic swordsmen. There was a way to fix it without removing it, and using extreme examples of people minmaxing to "win" doesn't help your point. There will always people who will do the dumbest shit to win instead of having fun. It is completely fucked in 3 and may as well not exist.

>muh current players
Oh gosh, a newer game has more players? Gosh golly, sure is neaterino that we're talking only about Dark Souls 1 vs 2 AND 3, as well as ignoring remastered and modded Dark Souls 1. Newer games have a larger playerbase, whodda fucking thunk?

Fuck polearms, cheating bastards. Use a sword like everyone else. Fuck the gunners too, ranged is for cowards.

Considering he never went under 50% HP, you can pull that off at even SL30 or slightly lower but your heals have to be timed well.
You can wear Havel's regardless of level and he's fatrolling so he doesn't care about weight as long as it's not over 100 to slowwalk.
So you can probably pull it off as any base class with just meeting the min requirements to 2H the BKH, 20/18 STR/DEX and maybe a few levels into HP.
And he didn't have the 99 soft humanity crutch either, that gives an extra 99 phys def, as much as an extra Havel's chest.

>but Smouth's armor is endgame, you can't cheese the game with that from the start
Stone Armor in the forest has nearly as much poise as phys resistance as Smouth and you can get it before beating any boss.

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>Sekiro:
>Enemies will always do more damage than you will, upgrading means fuck all poise damage notwithstanding
Poise damage is the whole point.
>Most boss fights are bullshit
The only bullshit boss fight is Demon of Hatred, and that's because it punishes you for parrying of attacking poise like you've been conditioned to do by every other boss.
>Health may as well not exist, due to poise. Which is often also bullshit due to how much enemies have and how fast they recover compared to you
Health exists so that the poise of hit-and-run enemies like Guardian Ape can be worn down. You missed the point of poise entirely if you're annoyed that enemies recover it quickly; the system (and the efficacy of parrying) incentives the player to keep pressuring enemies, since they cannot recover while they're attacking or being attacked. Also, the game hands the player one huge advantage concerning poise: if you are timing your parries correctly (not mashing), your poise will never break, even when the gauge maxes out.