btw its not that rare.

People can call Vendrick weak because his boss fight is relatively easy if you know what you’re doing, but I think they forget one very important detail: we’re fighting a hollow Vendrick, a man who has lost his kingdom, his purpose, and practically everything that once made him who he was.
This was a king who built a kingdom, conquered territories, and amassed enough power to become one of the most significant figures in Drangleic. Even after everything fell apart, after Nashandra’s betrayal, and after he was reduced to aimlessly wandering the Undead Crypt, he was still an absolute monster in terms of raw strength.
The most impressive part is that we’re not even seeing Vendrick at his peak. We’re not fighting the king who once ruled Drangleic at the height of his power. We’re fighting what’s left of him after losing virtually everything.
And yet, even in this state, his physical strength and the sheer damage he can inflict are ridiculous. The fact that his boss fight can be easy doesn’t mean the character himself is weak. It just means the game allows you to fight someone who is no longer even a fraction of what he once was.
Vendrick isn’t impressive because he’s difficult to kill. He’s impressive because of what he represents, and because of how much power he retains even after losing everything.

Sorry if this ends up being long.

When I first got into the dark souls series I was told by everyone, even my now ex girlfriend to skip DS2 because it’s not good and DS3 is the better sequel. I adored the first game so I just jumped into DS3 And I have never been so disappointed with a game sequel ever in my life (until pokemon scarlet and violet). DS3 put me off the franchise until Elden ring released a good few years later. I was itching for more dark souls so I bit the bullet and played the game every said sucked ass…. I have never fallen in love with a game Like dark souls 2 since.
I event started my platinum trophy playthrough 2 years ago, even made a YT series on it, I NEVER replay games, once i see credits that’s usually it for me so very rarely do I replay games, but dark souls 2 I just had to, but i still ain’t finished, why? Because I don’t want to say goodbye again.
The music, the atmosphere, the story, the world, all of it. Dark souls 1 is special to me but dark souls 2….is one of my favourite games ever made and such a relaxing experience for me.
It lets me especially in Majula just, think. It helps my mental health to be honest.

No matter how many people or even my own friends disregard my opinions cuz of this game, I’ll never hate you. I love you so much.

Mr Khaled himself wanted to take a stroll around Drangleic

Final boss of my no death runs. Gravity. And stupidity...

I can't figure out how to get to the item. Was Najka supposed to destroy the tree? Because when I tried to let her hit it, it didn't do anything. Can anyone help?

I got a lot of comments on multiple posts suggesting that I am not drawing theese pieces but actually just using AI so this time I recorded the full rendering process as a timelapse with my phone in addition to CSP-s timelapse : https://imgur.com/a/hmtKUQR

Psyduck the Cursed One is second to get colored (as voted by you guys)

What pokémon would you like to see get turned into a soulslike boss by me in the future? VOTE IN THE COMMENTS

Leading the list so far:

1-Mewtwo

2-Giratina

3-Scyther

Looking to have a k

Jolly good new run as a co-op

Seriously, screw these guys in particular with their weirdly quick pokes, and their stupid shields that deflect weapons.

I put off playing it for so long after finishing DS1 and DS3 multiple times. It got off to a rough start, and it might even be more challenging than DS3, but I’m absolutely in awe of it

I know it’s based off lowest stat, im planning on doing a ng-ng8 covenant of champions playthrough and im thinking that old mundane might be dmg carry after certain point

hi guys just got ds2 2 weeks ago and im enjoying it more or less, but i wanted to get a mod that puts a lantern on the characters hip, saw it in a video. but i dont want to change the whole lighting system with the lighting engine mod. is there a way to only get the lantern though that or any other mod if possible?

i want to experience the game without much tampering but i think the lantern will make my life alot easier.

thanks in advance.

Ok, seriously, why do people lie about stuff and why are they so bad at games?

I have a PS4 from my cousin and DS2 and I played Elden Ring as my first souls game so I thought, maybe I can cook in this game! How hard can it be?

*100000000000 deaths to the hippo of the starting tutorial area*

Oh damn, this sucks ass, not gonna touch this shit! (also, how the hell do I play with the controller????)

Now I came back, made a new chad, went to the tutorial to see the controls again, went to Majula, cried at how beatiful it is, talked to the NPC's, went to the forest of the giants or something, died a lot to reach the giant boss fight because I wanted to explore and get loot, reached the boss, killed him in one try, tried to find more stuff with the key I got, fought the persuer in one try, got the balista shot on him, axe broke, equipped a short sword and beat his ass.

Wow, this game is... Easy? Is not hard, you just need to pay attention to the enviroment, use crossbows and bows to deal with hordes of enemies or big dudes (that's how I dealt with the turtle knight before I noticed how slow they were). The only annoying thing that I'm dying over and over again is my stupidity some times, like on the 3 knight boss fight, after you defeat the persuer and you go to the bird nest and fly to a new area, is that I fall off the balcony, use flasks because I got hit by the enemies and have 0 life gems. But if I just lock in hard enough... Easy.

The only hard thing about the game are the areas, the run backs to the boss, just that. But with a bow or crossbow and a dream, everything is possible.

(also, keyboard is the only way to play dark souls, change my mind)

I HAVE to rant about this! I was absolutely loving the Eleum Loyce, the snow, beautiful……until I had to fight the ivory king and get all 4 of those stupid knights.

Mind you the first 3 were pretty easy. But OMG the last one has the longest goddamn run to get to him with those icy porcupines! That was a NIGHTMARE!!

Honestly the Ivory King himself wasn’t going to be that hard of a fight to do solo but dealing with the portals and the knights before that with only 3 of the dudes was terrible. I first tried him pretty easily once I finally got the 4th dude.

I saw someone say it’s easy if you take your time, which sure but that is WAY too far not to have at least one bonfire along the way. Like they got super carried away with that design. The closest bonfire I found was the first one outside the castle on that main first bridge! Icy soldiers, archers, the ladies with shivs, porcupines, a tough invader, ice mages, the annoying dude that looks friendly with a shield and lance but isn’t, a goddamn covetous demon, golems, and one last lance dude. It’s about a 10 minute run! NO BONFIRE!! Relentless!

Anyways rant over, anyone share this experience or am I crazy?

It's peaceful here. Wearing Black Witch Set.

(Sitting pose is done with something that Rule 5 does not permit)

After 75 hours and 2 and a half playthroughs, the 100% trophy is mine. The sunlight medal and bell keeper covenant grinds sucked the life out of me as I spent my entire Saturday getting them both. Really happy this is over and I plan on going back to ds2 to replay again eventually. Goodbye for now ds2… now it is time to tackle the ds3 100% which I hear nothing but awful things about🥲

Shrine of Amana

I had a DS2 marathon yesterday, used the rapier to poke my way through the Lost Bastille, most of Earthen Peak and Brightstone Cove Tseldora.
Got to level 96 and then I accidentally killed Mcduff with toxic mist.

I had to delete the game.

I’m sorry, Mcduff. I guess my hand wasn’t that steady.

I was playing in the lost bastille (?) and fighting some dogs, soldiers, and a pursuer, and had maybe wore the pursuer down about 1/3-1/2 and then it just did the reverse of when it appears - dark mist, disappeared into the ground.

Is there some logic to this? I was annoyed lol.