Boss running?

[Vex Hilarius]

Am I the only one who doesn't skip the enemies to get to a boss? I'm newer to these games but never even considered doing it until I saw so many gameplay videos of people doing it. Even if I die before a boss I don't skip enemies. I'm on bloodborne BTW now after starting with demon souls ps3

[Konno Saeko]

No you aren't the only one that fights everything on your path to the boss, I don't trust any Souls games enough to skip fighting something. Because I know for a fact it will end up getting me killed.

[NisseDood]

Except DS3. there its almost always easier to mash that roll button and run past everything than actually fighting.

[Konno Saeko]

Originally posted by NisseDood:

Except DS3. there its almost always easier to mash that roll button and run past everything than actually fighting.

But...souls? Possible loot that you might wanna use, I just can't justify skipping all the enemies. Because every time that I have it has screwed me over on every single Souls game.

[Konno Saeko]

Coming here to DS2 discussion reminds me I should really try playing it again. Idk what was up but for some reason the game had huge input delay. Like a solid 2sec delay and I don't remember it ever being like that on Xbox. I just wanna play it to experience some of the bosses again, some of my favorites in the series.

[ggsnake]

Originally posted by Konno Saeko:

Coming here to DS2 discussion reminds me I should really try playing it again. Idk what was up but for some reason the game had huge input delay. Like a solid 2sec delay and I don't remember it ever being like that on Xbox. I just wanna play it to experience some of the bosses again, some of my favorites in the series.

Do you mean with mouse? Because there's a very bad setting you should absolutely disable in the options, else you have a huge delay in mouse clicks (disable double clicking). Apart from that, I have zero issues with delays using mouse and keyboard.

[NovaKayine]

That very bad setting also seems to re activate every time you open the game on some devices.

Originally posted by Konno Saeko:

Originally posted by NisseDood:

Except DS3. there its almost always easier to mash that roll button and run past everything than actually fighting.

But...souls? Possible loot that you might wanna use, I just can't justify skipping all the enemies. Because every time that I have it has screwed me over on every single Souls game.

By the way maybe those people clear certain areas but they die and then they just gotta run to the boss since they've already grabbed everything.

[Konno Saeko]

Originally posted by ggsnake:

Originally posted by Konno Saeko:

Coming here to DS2 discussion reminds me I should really try playing it again. Idk what was up but for some reason the game had huge input delay. Like a solid 2sec delay and I don't remember it ever being like that on Xbox. I just wanna play it to experience some of the bosses again, some of my favorites in the series.

Do you mean with mouse? Because there's a very bad setting you should absolutely disable in the options, else you have a huge delay in mouse clicks (disable double clicking). Apart from that, I have zero issues with delays using mouse and keyboard.

I shall have to look into that next time I grab it, I refunded it because of that huge input delay. I was thinking it was my fault since my pc isn't like crazy good or anything like that.

[Konno Saeko]

But yeah I can understand that but what if the enemy happens to drop like a really good weapon and you don't even know it. I only run past enemies if I know for a fact that I will not get destroyed in a corner on the way to a boss. Otherwise I kill everything on the way to the boss because most of the time running past everything will normally lead to another sad death even if you grab your souls what was the point if you just die right after. That would frustrate the hell outta me.

[Myr]

For new character I kill everything on the way, for NG+ I'll try skip as much as is safe.

[Flyin' High]

I usually only skip past everything for dark souls 3 bosses since the enemies on the way to the boss fight are usually either super annoying to fight, or don't drop many souls and items
it's also easier to do so in dark souls 3 since most enemies can't hit you through fogwalls due to not having enough reach (some still can, but most can't) and the stamina usage for rolling is so minuscule in dark souls 3 so you can just spam the hell out of it and i-frame your way past everything
in dark souls 1 and 2 I usually fight everything in my way on the way to the bossfog

[eclipse]

Originally posted by Vex Hilarius:

Am I the only one who doesn't skip the enemies to get to a boss? I'm newer to these games but never even considered doing it until I saw so many gameplay videos of people doing it. Even if I die before a boss I don't skip enemies. I'm on bloodborne BTW now after starting with demon souls ps3

I may skip some enemies like 0.5% of the time, otherwise im killing everything on the way.

[AngelBird]

In my mind, the only reason not to boss run is if you are new and don't know which way to go. Other than that, Souls Games were not really designed to have the player fight everything with a health bar. Durability would be a huge problem in all of them.

If you don't know where to go, you are likely to go down the wrong path, get corned, and then mauled.

[TamTroll]

Originally posted by Vex Hilarius:

Am I the only one who doesn't skip the enemies to get to a boss? I'm newer to these games but never even considered doing it until I saw so many gameplay videos of people doing it. Even if I die before a boss I don't skip enemies. I'm on bloodborne BTW now after starting with demon souls ps3

I'm the same. kill everything on the way.

Way i see it, Dark souls 2 is designed to punish people who try to run past enemies, and rewards those who continue to fight them.

If you run past enemies, you'll get overrun and blocked at every corner.

If you fight the enemies, you'll only be facing one or two in each encounter, and after enough attempts, they stop spawning altogether, making future attempts a breeze.

I had trouble with the smelter demon in the iron keep, and because i kept killing the enemies along the way, the path towards him just got easier every time, saving me more resources and more health with each time. If i had ignored them, i'd be facing the same difficulty and the same challenges every single time with zero change. i'd always be entering the boss fight with half health and missing half my estus no matter what.


Time after time i see people complaining about things like "too many enemies, enemies track you nonstop, enemies have stupid hitboxes, enemies blocking doors" etc etc etc. Guess what they're doing every time? Ignoring the enemies and trying to run past them. That might work in other souls games, but not this one. In this one, you gotta fight.

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Konno Saeko:

Coming here to DS2 discussion reminds me I should really try playing it again. Idk what was up but for some reason the game had huge input delay. Like a solid 2sec delay and I don't remember it ever being like that on Xbox. I just wanna play it to experience some of the bosses again, some of my favorites in the series.

Yes, the input delay is defo there if using KBM, but solution is autohotkey, search on this forum for that. Works terrific, but sad it needs to be used for a PC game