Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-25825126-20150729214135/@comment-26451215-20150730031544

I've never played DeS (I really want to though) so I can't say much about it. For me the list goes DS2 BB DS1. DS2 made it very easy to heal because of life gems. You could stack up a large amount of them and always have healing item. This made it so that you could always continue and you were never forced choose "go back to the bonfire or see if there's a short cut or another bonfire ahead". DS1 you had 5-20 estus and other healing items are much harder to come by than in DS2. Also the equip load in DS2 was super easy to manage. You can wear medium armor with 5 VIT and the Third Dragon Ring and still be under the 70% equip load. DS1 you needed and ultra light set up to fast roll or a lot of endurance to fast roll in medium armor without the FaP ring or Havel's ring.

Finally BB. People say it's one of the hardest games in the series but once you figure out that the game awards aggression over caution it's not nearly as difficult. You can rally back most if not all of your health whenever you take damage and if you can't then you can easily get out of the fight and heal quickly. With how fast the gameplay is you can dodge out, heal and get back to fighting your enemies faster than you could drink estus in DS1 or 2. Speaking of fast, there is no weight system in BB so you can use what ever weapon you want and have another in your off hand with no penalty. In DS1 I've had to deal with a weight difference as small as .2 that prevents me from fast rolling. No Shield in BB was different but I did the majority of my first DS2 play through dual wielding swords so it's not so hard to adapt.

Once again I haven't played DeS so I can't give my opinion there.