Am I missing some lore or is dark souls 2 disappointingly seperate from dark souls 1?

[The Coal Man]

It feels like its about as seperate as demon souls, which I found disappointing because both ending of dark souls made it seem like there would be some sort of follow up.
Am I somehow missing some big connections or did they not try to connect them in any way? With the game changes, it actually feels more related to demon souls than dark souls.

[Argon]

There's an IGN article on "Is Dark Souls 2 a sequel" read it.

[Evertrill]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe0DNp0mKMqrYVaTundyr9w Vaati Vidya for all your lore needs.

[Netherseid]

go watch the video titled, dark souls 2 ending explained. The story this time is a lot more epic and I prefer it to the first game.

[Byakuya Kuchiki]

It's not like most items talk about DS1 or something.

[Luis]

Originally posted by Coleron2:

, it actually feels more related to demon souls than dark souls.

That is because Dark Souls 2 is literally a meld between King's Field 4 and Demon's Souls.

[Rikkore]

I liked DkS1's story better than DkS2

[The Coal Man]

Originally posted by Reekoh (BASS GOD):

I liked DkS1's story better than DkS2

yeah i never got into the ds2 story.

[Netherseid]

A lot of people give dark souls 1 way too much credit than it deserves. The story was good yes, but not well told. It wasn't until epic name bro and vaativdya started making videos that people started going "dark souls story wow!!"

It was good, but too obscure and too cryptic. That does not make a story great.

watch this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hwCGxhFOlM

And everything will make more sense.

[♔ Affable 7th Wave Teaboo ♔]

There's plenty of connection between the two games, if you look carefully enough.

[The Coal Man]

Originally posted by He8it:

There's an IGN article on "Is Dark Souls 2 a sequel" read it.

thanks for the article, that showed a bunch of possible connections. Although the constant hinting has really started to bug me over the 2 games. Hopefully 3 will finally clarify a few things, since this 1 just seemed to add more questions.

[Dan]

Only Souls could get away with alt-tabbing out of the game to find out what's going on.

[Riotguard]

Originally posted by Darksyn:

A lot of people give dark souls 1 way too much credit than it deserves. The story was good yes, but not well told. It wasn't until epic name bro and vaativdya started making videos that people started going "dark souls story wow!!"

It was good, but too obscure and too cryptic. That does not make a story great.

And everything will make more sense.

i'll sum up this game's story pretty simply

your from the future, well we don't know that because the game doesn't say but for absolutely no reason other than "well manus did it" we get a flashback to which we see our lesbian lover and adopted child, or wife and child is really a monster made out of milk we proceed to slay this monster and for some reason meet this old women


from there we take a relaxing boat ride to a gate which for some reason turns into the worlds biggest toilet and we willfully fall in as if we were in a diving contest, from before we knew we were in the future because the area surrounding this place is destroyed (and its clearly a majula), (and spoiler that old women is the emerald herald) another interesting fact is that in the reflection of the water you can clearly see the iron king doors


we teleport to the past to change the future "although again it already happened in the manus story so nothing changes"

you then proceed to some witches who mock you then you meet another witch who also mocks you by piling a huge request telling you to meet the king

the story skips a lot because there's no story until the castle in which you meet the queen, now here's the important lore


the queen tells you to meet the king so you go off killing his guards, etc till you find the king, (no point in spoiler tags) king is dead hollowed, why he's a giant isn't really explained but its assumed he took something (which the game willfully forgets to mention, i guess it trying to make it seem more deeper than it is)

from there you get the ring and go to his brothers keep, what leads you there is well, nothing really only the hutch that because the gate was closed something fun must be behind it


from there you fight your way through vendricks brother who lives with a hundred (minus 90) dragons, from there depending if you have the ring of whispers on, which not alot of people would assume would be required he'll give you some cryptic word salad and for some reason gives us a key


now most would be baffled by this but we the choosen undead (no wait wrong game) i mean the next king venture forth into the vagina tree's, why? well honestly no reason really, i guess double time travel since it seems to effect the outcome of the battle


anyway long story short you go back to the keep and fight the throne defender/watcher, which quite frankly makes no sense, there's really no throne there asides fromt he throne of want, and that's not really their job to protec that type of throne but rather the main throne room (but this is just a hyposis, nothing is explained about these two at all)


after that fight the queen of style comes in and trys the kill you, why? well because the queen can and will chop off your head

once you beat her you'll get a rather flashy cutscene in which your character willfully accepts the throne because reasons


you don't get a choice like in the first game (but we all know that by there being a second game the relighting of the age of fire is canon and the dark age an unexplainedable hypothosis)



overal dark souls 2 has some interesting plot points but honestly the game have nothing to truely reward you

[ZeroKelvin]

Connection? Yep, there's one.

Patches.

Boletaria to Lordran, he's there. The little twit went undead and probably got himself murdered by a cleric. Now he just hangs around offering free canyon tours.

He's not in Drangleic, though...must be the time manipulation, or else he's in the DLC.

Or he reinvented himself as Pate. Hmmm...

[The Coal Man]

i miss patches. He managed to heroicly cross unrelated games, braving legal issues, only to sadly disappear after possibly a 1000 years

[Empress Misery]

Originally posted by Riotguard:

you don't get a choice like in the first game (but we all know that by there being a second game the relighting of the age of fire is canon and the dark age an unexplainedable hypothosis)

Both endings to DS1 are cannon, if you don't light the fire someone else does.

Originally posted by ZeroKelvin:

Connection? Yep, there's one.

Patches.

Boletaria to Lordran, he's there. The little twit went undead and probably got himself murdered by a cleric. Now he just hangs around offering free canyon tours.

The director guy said it wasn't the same patches though. Even though he looks the same, acts the same and has the same voice. :D