User blog comment:Brutal Templar/The Giants of Lordran could possibly be very close kin of the Giants of Dark Souls 2./@comment-24783509-20140407042235

Even looking through a few pages on the wiki here, and watching a few DS2 videos, there are a lot of connections to be drawn between the two games. If I recall correctly, they're set in the same world, just in different times and areas.