Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin user reviews
New Players:
- Would not recommend to new players.
- The ""Artificial Difficulty"" that the souls franchise has never reigned true, it only punished for new players.
Original Dark Souls:
- It doesnt matter if you have played the original DS2 you'll get surprised in this version quite often.
- If you haven't played the original DS2 yet, this is a must buy
- Just recently there has been a mod released for original DS2 and SotFS that fixes the durability bug completly without reducing your FPS.
- CE Modders have been a nuisance now forever in original DS2 and you still refuse to re-activate VAC? *sigh* Well there's something called Softbann.
- But, if you did fully enjoy original DS2, you will appreciate the changes they did with SotFS and have your fun. 15/20 bucks don't seem much then.
- That said, it still has a lot of the problems that came with the Original DS2 being a mediocre PC port.
- Now, this isn't the original DS2, so there are areas that are a lot harder than the original, such as Heide's Tower of Flame.
- If you played the original DS2 but still want more from it/get back into then this is worth ht money.
- April Fools?I THINK NOT.Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is a ""Directors Cut"" edition of the original Dark Souls II.
- I've been playing games from Software since Demon Souls and really enjoyed the original Dark Souls II.
- They're much more difficult in my opinion than this games predecessor and theres a lot more of them than compared to the original Dark Souls 2.
- Im rather annoyed that I bought this game and uninstalled the original Dark Souls II for this not to work.
- I highly recommend that you purchase the game no question. For everyone else who had bought the original Dark Souls 2 I still recommended upgrading.
- This game looks GORGEOUS compared to the original Dark Souls and even compared to what I've seen of the original Dark Souls 2.
- They also did a much better job on this compared to the original Dark Souls, as there is no longer a 30fps cap and there are actual video options.
NPC Invaders:
- It's a nice little effect and helps making the world more lively.- More NPC invaders.
- SotFS now adds several new NPC invaders who will invade you throughout your playthrough.
- NPC invaders that know high level spells even at low levels.
For new players:
- Would not recommend to new players.
- The ""Artificial Difficulty"" that the souls franchise has never reigned true, it only punished for new players.
New enemy placement:
- In some areas the new enemy placement is ridiculous! To a point where it is plain annoying and not really harder.
- Dark Souls II was easier than its predecessor, and the new enemy placement in Scholar addresses that problem.
- New enemy placement widely makes 0 sense.
- New enemy placements are smart, but also mean and requires you to think things out before going in blind.
- New enemy placement is minor + it does NOT include the DLCs!!!2.
- New lore, new enemy placement, hightened difficulty, and better co-op make it a much better value for money.
Level design:
- In this part of the game the level design is extremely dull which makes exploring boring.
- I fucking died because of that. this game is just not good. the level designs are just boring! The only thing I enjoyed was dlc.
- See, the level design and enemy move sets in this game make it so that you're going to be wasting A LOT of time.
Durability Bug:
- Some weapons are unplayable due to this durability bug, they melt like butter after 3-4 strikes.
- DURABILITY bug still not fixed.
- They have been well aware of the 60fps durability bug and yet have not addressed it in this release.
Base Game:
- Wait for a sale. About the game itself:400+ hours with the original base game, I can tell you I think the game is fun, but fun doesn't make it good.
- If you own the base game already, with no DLC then buy asap.
- Community of the base game is going to die out soon so there will be very few people left to play with.
- I feel they made the base game harder without any other reason than saying FU to new players.
- There are also a lot of recycled / reused Enemys and even a 1:1 boss (lol) from the base game.
- Some textures in the base game levels still look like cat vomit.
60 PFS:
- Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor and Radeon HD 6850 video card = 60 fps mostly, with drops only to around 50 fps in some places.
- Weapons still break twice as fast on 60 fps.
- The durability degredation has not been adjusted to 60 FPS.
Users like:
- However, after hopping in game and running to Majula, I noticed that the lighting/shadows were MUCH better than in dx9.
- For others who played it on PS3, or 360, I'd definitely say get it also since it runs much better if you have the PC to handle it.
- It's cheaper, and, on the next generation consoles, will support MUCH better graphics and flow, resulting in MUCH more efficient gameplay.
- Much better than the vanilla game, all the dlc areas are great.
- Dark Souls II has worse storytelling/worldbuilding/lore than the rest of the series, but has much better gameplay and build variety.
- All in all great game, worth the money to purchase and the time to play it.
- Great game! So much pain in the ass.
- It's a great game, well made.
- This is a Great game must buy that is it.
- Great game, would recommend.
- As a huge fan of the series, I say that Dark Souls 2 is a good game.
- But seriously, it's a good game, 10/10 would be bent over the table by FromSoft again.
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