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[nenjin]

It’s the worst and least ethical form of play, taking the naturally constrained single encounters of Chess or Go into the heart of an infinity spiral rotating out from the center of a box of microprocessors built out of a grand network of exploitive labor practices around the world, creating a transfixing hallucination sublimely disassociated from the networks of labor required to produce it. The friendships formed in message boards and YouTube comment threads offset by the number of lives pinned in place by the economic conditions necessary for the creation of such hallucinatory machinery, offering the great thrill of achievement for having done nothing but press a few half-inch buttons, hypnotized by the unseen patterns passing through the screen, scrutable only to those others who’d undergone the same rite of initiation and spoke the secret lexicon.

What the actual fuck am I reading.

Fucking brilliant, isn't it? That they published it is even more brilliant. If this keeps up I may have to start reading Forbes.

[ShoesandHats]

That kind of shit makes me angry, not only because I like the game (though that also contributes to it), but also just because of the atrociously florid language he uses to describe video games. Make up your mind, either you're a practical writer and use relatively simple language to effectively communicate a point, or you use sentences the average reader has to pore over eight times before understanding you so that you can inject as much metaphorical meaning into your writing as possible. You can't be James fucking Joyce and write a review on Call of Duty at the same time.

If you want to write a commentary on how modern life is affected by the intrusion of machines into our social and private lives, don't do it under the pretext of shitting all over a good game. Especially when you never even get around to shitting on that specific game, but rather take a dump so massive that it sprays over every video game that exists and will ever exist.

[Levi]

I hated the first Dark Souls and so I decided I should learn it better than any other game. I have spent between 300 and 400 hours playing it.

Hehehehe.  Sounds like he loves it to me.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

It’s the worst and least ethical form of play, taking the naturally constrained single encounters of Chess or Go into the heart of an infinity spiral rotating out from the center of a box of microprocessors built out of a grand network of exploitive labor practices around the world, creating a transfixing hallucination sublimely disassociated from the networks of labor required to produce it. The friendships formed in message boards and YouTube comment threads offset by the number of lives pinned in place by the economic conditions necessary for the creation of such hallucinatory machinery, offering the great thrill of achievement for having done nothing but press a few half-inch buttons, hypnotized by the unseen patterns passing through the screen, scrutable only to those others who’d undergone the same rite of initiation and spoke the secret lexicon.

What the actual fuck am I reading.

You haven't seen this? One of the funniest pieces of DS2 criticism, honestly. Mostly because of the quote Levi ^ just posted.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I hated the first Dark Souls and so I decided I should learn it better than any other game. I have spent between 300 and 400 hours playing it.

Hehehehe.  Sounds like he loves it to me.

That it pretty freakin' hilarious. It's like saying "I hate racism, so I became a racist."

[WillowLuman]

More like "I hate coffee, but I must drink 7 CUPS EVERY DAY!"

[Endymion]

Well it looks like the speedrunning crowd has found another interesting bug. By using some odd combination of parrying and rolling while reposting they've managed to start walking on air. They are currently trying to figure out how useful this can be. At minimum it seems like it'll be an easier and quicker way to skip the shrine of winter.

[WillowLuman]

So, a friend came over and we decided to play this. Deprived, champion's covenant, no magic, hand the controller over on death. He's great at dodging and fighting without lockon, while I'm good at parrying/riposte. So, during my turn, we found something really really weird.

Got a riposte on a hollow, hit him with the light attack before the "fall on your ass" animation finished. At first I thought I'd screwed it up, since he teleported back up to his feet (you know how it is), but then our character proceeded to do a Dark Souls 1 style riposte animation, shanking the hollow in the stomach with a dagger.

[MDFification]

Greetings from NG+, where PvP is approximated 300% better.
There's only one problem though; get used to no summons. Co-op is basically dead once you pass a certain soul-memory bracket, except for people who forgot to do their sunbroing before hand. It's a shame, because I was hoping to use that to keep Lucatiel alive through Lost Sinner... darn pyro phantoms messing up muh game.

[Mindmaker]

It's like the further you progress, the less From tried to design good boss fights.
Ancient Dragon is a tedious mess.

[Sindain]

It's like the further you progress, the less From tried to design good boss fights.
Ancient Dragon is a tedious mess.

Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight IMO.

[Levi]

It's like the further you progress, the less From tried to design good boss fights.
Ancient Dragon is a tedious mess.

Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight IMO.

Yeah, why you beating up on the nice dragon?  Next thing you'll tell me is you beat up that confused old man who wanders in circles in the basement.

[WillowLuman]

It's like the further you progress, the less From tried to design good boss fights.
Ancient Dragon is a tedious mess.

Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight IMO.

Yeah, why you beating up on the nice dragon?  Next thing you'll tell me is you beat up that confused old man who wanders in circles in the basement.

I accidentally hit him with a lightning bolt and his door turned into a fog wall. So I went in and he 1-2-3'd me to death.

[nenjin]

It's like the further you progress, the less From tried to design good boss fights.
Ancient Dragon is a tedious mess.

Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight IMO.

I'm having flash backs to EQ, where NPC vendors and tavern owners required a full party to kill

[Aklyon]

It's like the further you progress, the less From tried to design good boss fights.
Ancient Dragon is a tedious mess.

Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight IMO.

I'm having flash backs to EQ, where NPC vendors and tavern owners required a full party to kill

How much of that party would actually survive the fight?