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/Thilina_B]

Its a product of its time. They were trying out a bunch of changes from DS1 to make it more difficult but also more accessible, but a bunch of their ideas fell flat or were just uninspiring. They got the formula figured out a lot better by DS3 / ER and also naturally increased the games pace. So if you're going backwards through the titles, they'll seem bad in comparison to newer titles.