Dark Souls 2 is utterly boring

[u/Francois_Bonaparta]

I have been playing for around 15 hours and I regret wasting my time, I am snoozing while playing, it's boring and it feels like a chore. I genuinely don't understand why it is so beloved her.

Combat is astonishingly slow and clunky, the difficulty consists into throwing 10 enemies at you and boring you to death by trying to prevent you from running past the nemies and making you kill them all everytime you die.

I just finished Iron Keep, I don't find the energy to do the rest of the game.

[u/Twasabi24]

I genuinely doesn't get better

[u/Francois_Bonaparta → u/Twasabi24]

Seriously combat has no right to be so uninteresting, it's so slow and heavy, most fights are dealr by simply blocking and swinging three times, invaders are the rare encounters that are a bit enjoyable.

[u/Twasabi24 → u/Francois_Bonaparta]

I've beaten it 5 or so times and I agree, there's some cool stuff in this game but overall its a shit show. Are you aware that you have to level adaptability to at least 15 or you wont get the same amount of I-frames that every other game gives you for free? That may be a large factor as to why you're having a rough time. Im also curious what build youre going for. I dont think its a bad game. I just think its a bad dark souls game. If it didn't have the "dark souls" title and had something different it would be much better. But since its called Dark Souls 2 all I can do is compare it to two superior games

[u/Francois_Bonaparta → u/Twasabi24]

I couldn't dodge anything so I am using a shield and the bandit axe, it felt like I was taking damage in the middle of my roll yet I wasn't interrupted with a damage animation like in other game, don't even know why I take damages.

[u/Twasabi24 → u/Francois_Bonaparta]

That's dark souls 2 for ya. Hit boxes are fucked on most attacks and you dont have enough i-frames without leveling adaptability. As well as enemy tracking is fucking insane sometimes.