You can indeed polish a turd, and this game proves it.

[dontu_worry]

The whole problem with this game is that it's unresponsive. Uncancelable actions, slow, slow, slow animations, on top of the weird delay that is apparently mandated for your every request of the game. The basic engine is useless garbage, but damn if they didn't polish it up to where it's pretty. Well done. I'm going to play some more now.

[Joeycentral]

As much as I love this game, I feel DS3 will always be ahead.

[Toad]

It's not Devil May Cry; the combat animations are intended to discourage button mashing. You're supposed to slow down and consider your actions.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by Toad:

It's not Devil May Cry; the combat animations are intended to discourage button mashing. You're supposed to slow down and consider your actions.

I wish someone would tell this to some of the bosses. You know, the ones that are a blur. Zipping around like they had rockets up their a***s. :D

[Frost]

Polished is definitely not a word i would use to describe this game.

[Dr. Sinclair]

if you could cancel actions this game would be a joke lol

[dontu_worry]

Originally posted by Toad:

It's not Devil May Cry; the combat animations are intended to discourage button mashing. You're supposed to slow down and consider your actions.

So, if you're not autistic when you get the game, you will be by the time you reach NG+3?

[Senki]

If you don't like combat that doesn't allow button spamming your entire keyboard why did you ever even consider buying a souls game.

Do more research before buying something next time

[Cuchilain]

Originally posted by dontu_worry:

The whole problem with this game is that it's unresponsive. Uncancelable actions, slow, slow, slow animations, on top of the weird delay that is apparently mandated for your every request of the game. The basic engine is useless garbage, but damn if they didn't polish it up to where it's pretty. Well done. I'm going to play some more now.

The most popular, and by far most played games are probably dark souls and monster hunter games. Both are similarly 'unresponsive' and yet people love them more than anything else.

[NisseDood]

People complain buttons are unresponsive in ds2, but suddenly in er its fine and a git gud problem.
Er sure get a lot of free passes that are considered bad game design in ds2.

[Senki]

Originally posted by NisseDood:

People complain buttons are unresponsive in ds2, but suddenly in er its fine and a git gud problem.
Er sure get a lot of free passes that are considered bad game design in ds2.

I don't get the complaints in either game, The buttons are responsive in both games for me.

People see that they can't cancel every action with 5 backflips and jump straight to calling the controls ''unresponsive''. It's funny.

The complaints you're thinking about are probably about the ''double click'' feature in ds2 which is indeed garbage but it can be turned off.

[Nocturno]

Nice b8 m8

[Rastrelly]

Originally posted by NisseDood:

People complain buttons are unresponsive in ds2, but suddenly in er its fine and a git gud problem.
Er sure get a lot of free passes that are considered bad game design in ds2.

Never heard of "unresponsive buttons" in DS2 when compared to others. Direction linking - yes. Weak visual design of locations - yes. Broken hitboxes - yes. Botched lighting - yes. Overreliance on ambushes and annoying mob attack patterns - yes. Even that the gems make you "invulnerable" - yes. But not "unresponsive buttons".

[Dr.Abscondus]

Not worth a clown. Try again.

[BMN_Narrlequin]

Originally posted by Dr.Abscondus:

Not worth a clown. Try again.

this. Atleast TRY to make an effort.

[Prismatic Lollipop]

Originally posted by NisseDood:

People complain buttons are unresponsive in ds2, but suddenly in er its fine and a git gud problem.
Er sure get a lot of free passes that are considered bad game design in ds2.

this is the case for all fromsoft games.
they all get a freepass for some unexplainable reason.

yet, they never bothered with making a half decent character editor.
but 10/10 game for sure, in spite of crappy editors, broken weapon balancing, broken hit and hurtboxes and some bugs here and there.
totally a 10/10, pinnacle of gaming.