Oro, this really reminds me of back in 2014 or so. I was 16 or so and I watched your videos RELIGIOUSLY. I still do. But you're mainly the person who made me the PVPer/content creator I am today. It's wild. I've got a weird nostalgic attachment to your videos and this throws me WAY back my dude. I feel like a kid again. I'm 26 and dusty af now.

There was just something about DS2 that was so aesthetic. Even the way you 2-hand a sword looks way cooler than the other games.

Slower, more methodical combat, Parry frames that actual work accounting for latency, a back step that has I-frames, being able to invade a solo player. Good times.

DS2 had the best gestures in the entire series, I wish From brought back "Decapitation" or "No way" to Elden Ring with the new DLC or something.

Man, I miss some of the DS2 fashion so badly. There were some seriously peak armor sets in that game. This also might be my favorite Oro

Don't you just love seeing that DS3 instinct to heal turning against them in the slower games? I sure do.

It's nostalgic and eery how little things have changed. When I gave it a go, Murakumo running/rolling R1 into superparry works just as well in the year of our Marika's tits 2023 as it did in 2014, and my first arena fight was against a Havel spamming Warmth and Acid Surge. We really have made zero progress as a species, huh?

I miss DS2 days so much

Boy does this take me back. The endless hours of dueling in the bridge and arenas, the chaotic belfry invasions, the hordes of meta-tryhards running moon scimitars, ice rapiers, washing poles, red iron twinblades with dark weapon, etc, only to get fucked by a naked man with a buckler shield and a dagger. So many good memories, thank you Oro.

Had to double check the upload date! Quite literally played this throughout the Christmas holidays while I had the time off. For me it's the best Dark Souls. It had so many innovations DS3 lacked and it's no coincidence they brought some of it back, like powerstancing. The fact you could infuse boss weapons and even buff them made builds so much more fun.

Ah, Dark Souls 2, the game where dual-wielding done right.

I love that oro sticks up for DS2 its just a hell of a good time

The “Buhbye..!!” plus Dark Souls 2 is hitting the right nostalgia buttons

the best thing was to find a host hiding in a closed room and then close the door, the despair the host feels when he sees that he is stuck in that room with you is priceless.

I miss DS2 PVP so much, way more fun than just one shot build after one shot build on ER

A return to the best dark souls game. A tale of salt and sourpuss eternally retold.

dark souls 2 always had the best PVP. the variety, pacing were on another level

This particular souls game will always have a special place in my heart, no matter how many years pass.

We need more of this! Bring back Santa and Friends.

NGL I unironically loved DS2 PvP the most. The choices of viable weapons, builds, and magic seemed so much broader than the rest of the series. The slower pace made it feel more chess like.

Seeing this game's PvP is so refreshing every time. Somehow, it still feels like the most balanced and well-paced duel combat in the series while Elden Ring provides quite great PvE experience but I swear, invading and dueling there is such a suffocating jump attack/ashes of war spam fest.

Corvus is a boss dude. Drops in all scary like, puts on a show

I love seeing DS2 still being recognized after all those years. Easily the most fun pvp out of all the souls games

Best PvP indeed. Ghatdamned, I missed this game.

Does anyone else feel like Dark Souls 2 had the best variety in fashion for the Souls series as a whole?

Clocked about 600 hours into ds2 pvp. Good memories. Ds2 name: Kukeduen, maybe I've met someone here.

Dark souls 2 - cool covenants, arena, great pvp system, nice parry, nice player movements, rewarding hits that feel soo good, no stunlock like ds1 but still poise matters. Great times. Oh and almost forgot - auras for winning arena fights!!

not only was that first invasion/kill/parry, but it also rolled the Engraved Critical hit effect to boot... amazing as always orobobo

I remember being so excited to PVP in DS3 because it was my first PC Dark Souls game with 60fps and a gaming monitor, and I had massively improved my internet since DS2 on PS3. I remember the EPIC duels on the lava bridge with the back and forth momentum of battle and careful spacing and stamina management. I won ~70% of my duels using just a claymore and a parry buckler. In DS3, I got fucking destroyed in almost every duel and could not beat an invader to save my life. It always felt like I was getting one shotted, stun locked, or cheesed with OP shit. I honestly thought that the skill gap had just passed me by or something. Turns out DS2 PVP was just really balanced and fair for pretty much any build, and the soul memory mechanic everyone hated did a good job filtering cancerous players from most matchmaking.

The awkward movement and turning in ds2 pvp always makes me laugh. I love this game

God this is so nostalgic, I love to see it!!

using the left hand cloak ring to hide your bucker is genius.

Brings me back to our duels on the bridge, years and years ago, you were doing caestus or bone fists at the time and I was using the curved dragon GS... good, fond memories.

Damn. This just flooded me with so many memories. The best Souls for PvP and invasions by far. The arena when it was active really was the place to be. You were going to see all kinds of crazy ass shit. Oro you are a legend man and we love you.

Was recently marathoning all of your old DS2 videos and now you upload this

I am so glad that you uploaded a DS2 video; it really in a league of its own when it comes to PVP! Thank you.

Replayed Ds2 front to back recently and man is it still fun. If anything I feel it's gotten better with age.

I do find it funny how the biggest threat was magic spam in *shrine of amana*

Your ds 2 vids feels more enjoyable after many years like a wine. Thank you Oro!

Ds2: oh shit we got two Elden ring: oh nice, only two, was expecting 3

the flare and gracefulness put into the praise the sun emote on ds2 is WHY I PLAY THIS GAME

9:40 A Thymesia reference in Dark Souls 2. Absolutely based.

It's crazy how good DS2's PVP is even to this day.

Thank you for uploading this! I was literally thinking about going back to DS2 PvP like 3 days ago, I've got a SM200 using the blacksteel katana (inspired by your video) and loyce greatsword with 50 faith that I wanna have some fun with again. I probably will boot the game back up, immediately after finishing this video.

I finished else ring yesterday and went back to Dark Souls 2 Sotfs and now I know how true happiness feels like!.

Best souls PvP by a long shot

DS 2 is probably the game I spent the most time in due to being late for D's 1, and had ds3 on PS4 without plus, but could never get a hang of the parries, minus the time when the curved sword parry was a thing. I mean I'm not super great at parries in the other but decent, but I can count my DS2 parries on 1 hand.

Yes this is awesome, this is what I’ve been looking for. The others just didn’t hit the same maybe, because I felt you were making super strong builds and just running through people with no care. But here you have item switching, guard breaking and backing stabbing; I love it. There’s just so much more to the combat.

I miss Ds2 pvp, back when you couldn’t just chug estus right next to the opponent.

You know what's the most ironic thing? The combat in ds2 is a raw improvement over ds1's combat. They both (actually all "old souls", which are des, ds1 and ds2) keep the same methodical combat system, but in ds2 it's more severe, such as more dodging stamina usage (with beginning stamina you can dodge 3-4 times in a row, in ds1 you can do it like 6 times, and in ds3 you can do it like 12 times or so), more attack stamina usage, and generally getting punished more for your mistakes (such as max HP penalty upon death). Other than just being more severe, it also fixed several things that were outright bullshit in ds1's combat: instant parry and backstabbing. You're not getting teleported into backstabs in ds2 anymore (other than because of lag), while in ds1 backstabbing was so incredibly broken that it literally became the meta. Just run around the enemy trying to backstab them...

I always like how you two handed katanas in DS2. It looks way cooler than in DS3 and Elden Ring.

I been playing ds2 sotfs for the first time ever recently, And in my honest opinion as hard as it is sometimes. It's a Very enjoyable game. I get that pumped feeling when playing it like it's one of the best games I've ever played. I just best ivory king and my God was it sad but badass. Ds2 is underrated

I love your enthusiasm with dark souls pvp lol

did a quick coop session with a friend when the servers first came back and only got invaded once at the warf and once at aerie. had some fun and it brought back some great memories

Damn, this brings me back when I watched your DS1 - DS2 videos, good times

Still running the Blacksteel Katana. RIP PraiseTheSun

Mad respect for those role catches

My favorite part of DS2 combat is that your turn rate is limited by weapon and attack. You can't have a spear, R1 in one direction, then instantly snap 180 degrees behind you for your next R1 like DS3. You can actually roll behind a pike and not have it somehow turn its tip at the speed of light. If you want a weapon that can turn, use a curved sword, axe, or a slow weapon. It really helped create diverse zoning tactics for every weapon and discouraged R1 spam. Of course, the questionable netcode severely diminishes this with even moderate lag, but it's there, and also gives extra depth in PVE.

I can't believe Oro invaded every DS2 player in one video

I may be speaking from nostalgia, but this was peak Fromsoft post-DeS. Miyazaki did good bringing Tanimura back up front with Elden Ring. I feel like he knows what makes games "fun".

This game seems to just continue to age well over the years. It's the most flexible Souls game imaginable.

The original "Winners don't use Hexes"-PSA video may have been lost to time, but at least Oro is still out there spreading the word. Heh.

Ah yes, the good old times when parries and backstabs were actually usable and viable.

It's been so long since I played Dark Souls II PvP that I was legit wondering why Oro wasn't just healing with Estus.

Backsteps that are useable in combat, ACTUAL power stancing, SUPER PARRIES.

I will never not miss the insane damage ripostes could do in this game, hornet ring? Counter damage? Fuck that.

Having lots of fun invading yesterday and today in DS2

Similar to how the parry bait works consistently, I was enough of a pro angler with heavy weapon follow ups, that I got bored with DS2 pvp after getting as many as fifty consecutive wins at a time. Many heavy weapons, my favorite being the Mastodon Halberd, had huge lingering input windows on their R1’s, leaving an opportunity for near instant follow up attacks. My follow up button press could start after I could visually see their attack frames start, and I would still have frame advantage on the follow up. If the bait landed and got them on the reel, then one more swing on stun was usually all it took to get them in the boat. Given the nature of fighting different people every time, nobody ever anticipated or adapted to the intentional whiffs/feints, counter fishing. Has always bugged me how heavy weapons in future games do not have massively delayed follow up input windows to support this unique playstyle.

That jump attack bait is top tier

fantastic video, no wonder hidetaka miyazaki himself tipped you 5 bucks at the end

Jesus man. Don't just give me a nostalgia hart atack whit that outfit

I played the heck of of DS2 back in the day, but I can't say that I remember a finisher that looked like that. Definitely cool though.

Holy shit, I remember the first Black steel Katana vid. Gooooood times

the combat was tactical and had weight behind it because of the poise difference of armor and sweet balance heavy vs light armor builds created and low stamina so you cannot spam roll the attack animations were perfect and parrying required skill .. the movement was slow which made positioning crucial it also helped the immersion of playing as a heavy knight or a swift swordsman which far more grounded in reality.. unlike ds3 and elden ring which feels more like anime power rangers...even the visuals fit better in ds2..the grim and dirty color palet ... this vid takes me 10 years back watching some of yoyr videos and speedrunning ds2

It’s kinda crazy that with the amount of items and build possibilities in Elden Ring that DS2 still offers a more balanced and diverse range of builds. I miss DS2 PvP.

2:49 I played so little pvp in these games, I would've absolutely fallen for it

I fucking miss super parry with my blue kumo....literally my favourite weapon in any game to date, not just souls, of ALL time. In DS2, it was SO easy to punish bad players, in DS3 and Elden Ring, you could have terrible players just use some abusable BS that you had to respect and they could just end up obliterating you, but in DS2? i could dance circles around those fools any day of the week, i had an answer for everything. This game had the most poorly designed PVE out of all of the games, but the invasions specifically? holy shit...absolutely golden.

Ds2, where a naked guy with a knife is the scariest opponent.

This just turned my nostalgia meter up to 11

Oh god I just realized he had the illusory ring

The BEST Riposte, Backstab and Guard Break animations in fromsoft history. When elden ring didn't even have a hornet it bummed me out hard.

this looks so good honestly, came in on that DS3 wave and never turned back

God the fit on that build is so good. god DAMN I love Dark Souls 2

Those parrys. My God son

Ahh, how I miss the days of stamina actually mattering, and being able to make reads based off your opponents stamina usage.

I really miss some of the fashion in this game! ❤ And why is this the only game that understood duel wielding:(

A good day is when Oroboro returns to DS2.

2:50 CLASSIC

I'm pretty sure you killed me, a few weeks ago. I was chatting with my mate, and said something along the lines of, "As if Oro would invade DS2 when ER Arena just came out." Same outfit, same build, eating my words.

9:26 man seeing Dark Dance is such a surprise. even in the heyday of DS2 pvp, I remember it was such a rare thing since it wasn't the most useful for the investment (needs 2 slots and 60 FTH!!). I think most people wanting a quick close-range AoE like it were just slotting Soul Flash (which actually has a knockdown) or biting the bullet and using WotG. also a side note, but how come the left-hand illusory ring is making your shield invisible, but not your chime?

Man, hearing back the no no no brought back some memories, it raelly has been almost 10 years

It truly is the best Souls PvP

I would love to see a compilation of your toughest DS2 invasions, times where you've invaded people who really know what they're doing and gave you a run for your money or made you work for it.

Hit me right in the nostalgia with the "buh byeeeeee haha"

I miss DS2 PvP so much. I had so many builds and so many good times on that lava bridge.

seems like every time I look up your channel there's a new return to ds2 vid and it always makes me so happy

You are easily my favorite PvP content creator of all time, and you're always such a badass.

Considering Elden Ring was my first souls experience, it's weird seeing how the fights are so long

Glad to see you back in DS2!!

@oroboro I got a question for you! Out of the dark souls series from demon souls to elden ring present day which of the game would you rather play against pvp and which would you enjoy for PVE and which would you enjoy with friends?