| VXIII said:
Actually, the general impresion that DS2 has better and more refined gameplay, but the bosses and the structure of the world lacked behind the others games. The "series' is known for deep and great gameplay mechanics, there are plenty of articles about this. There is no good reason to come in a sole thread about graphics to complain. |
DS2 has rather broken gameplay... The tracking and hitboxes in DS2 are absurdly bad and dodge IFrames are messed up due to the agility stat, making it mandatory to deal with delayed and bad hitboxes, which makes for rather lackluster gameplay, and the PvP is broken by Soul Memory and unbalanced armor/weapon design, the removal of kick, and easy-mode hexes. The game is certainly smoother and more refined in terms of animation but I wouldn't say it plays better at all, especially, as you mentioned, the bosses are mostly subpar outside of the rather stellar DLC. The game is built on those boss encounters and DS2 is full of boring 3-hit combo humanoids parading around as bosses and wanna-be Sif fights.
It looks great though, and its a good game but as a Souls game the only thing it can tout is pretty graphics.
