Is the Ringed City from Dark Souls 2?

Dark Souls III: The Ringed City is the second of two downloadable content (DLC) packs for the 2016 action role-playing video game Dark Souls III. Released on March 27, 2017, the content pack was developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
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Is the Ringed City Dark Souls 1?

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The Ringed City™ is the final DLC pack for Dark Souls™ III – an award-winning, genre-defining Golden Joystick Awards 2016 Game of the year RPG.
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Are DS2 and DS3 connected?

The events in Dark Souls 2 could not have happened without all that happened in the first game. And even though there is not much impact on Dark Souls 3, there are many connections to it and the original Dark Souls.
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Is Dark Souls 3 a sequel to 2?

Dark Souls is a dark fantasy action role-playing game series developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It began with the release of Dark Souls (2011) and has seen two sequels, Dark Souls II (2014) and Dark Souls III (2016).
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Did Miyazaki work on Dark Souls 2?

Although Miyazaki had directed the first two games in the series, Miyazaki took a supervising role for Dark Souls II due to the parallel development of Bloodborne, which made him unable to direct both titles simultaneously.
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What did Miyazaki think of Dark Souls 2?

"I actually personally think [Dark Souls 2] was a really great project for us," said Miyazaki, "and I think without it, we wouldn't have had a lot of the connections and a lot of the ideas that went forward and carried the rest of the series." I don't think you can really argue with that.
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Why didn t Miyazaki do Dark Souls 2?

Miyazaki was largely busy with Artorias of the Abyss and then Bloodborne while 2 was being developed, but he still had the role of supervisor on 2. However, he was largely hands off because he wanted to see what someone else would do with the series and not stifle their creativity.
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Why is Dark Souls 2 better than 3?

Glitches and bugs plague PVP in the original Dark Souls; players exploit these regularly. Dark Souls 2 has better locations and combat mechanics compared to its predecessor. Dark Souls 3 failed to make meaningful changes to PVP, and players die too fast.
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Are all the Dark Souls games connected?

No all the Souls games are in their own separate universes. Demons Souls is separate but Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 are not. Also note that the events in Dark Souls 1 are so far back that in Dark Souls 2, those events are considered legend. Demon's Souls was a Sony Japan game.
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Do I need to play Dark Souls 1 before 2 and 3?

Definitely play DS1 first, reasons being: - DS3 is a direct sequel to DS1 and you won't even understand the intro video if you've never played DS1. Of course, a lot of people simply don't care about the story, but it absolutely won't make sense without having played DS1 first.
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Who is the soul of cinder?

The Soul of Cinder is a major antagonist and final boss of the dark fantasy role-playing video game Dark Souls III. It is the physical manifestation of every previous Lord of Cinder, those who has ever succeded in linking the First Flame.
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Are Bloodborne and Dark Souls connected?

Bloodborne is set far into the future after dark souls 1, when the chosen undead refused to link the flame. The painting woman in Ashes of Ariandein in Dark Souls 3 painted bloodborne using the Blood of the Dark Soul.
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Is DS3 and Elden Ring connected?

So the answer to whether Elden Ring is connected to Dark Souls is that, while they do have things in common, there's no official connection.
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Is Ringed City canon?

You do realize that the Ringed City is not only the canon ending of Dark Souls 3, but the entire word of the Dark Souls series, right? Only dust and ash is left, nobody else is alive.
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Is Gwyn in Dark Souls 1?

Gwyn, The Lord of Cinder, is the final boss of Dark Souls. He is the father of Gwynevere (the woman who gives you the Lord Vessel) and Gwyndolin (the optional boss in Anor Londo). This final boss is located at the Kiln of the First Flame.
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Does The Ringed City have an ending?

And to absolutely no one's surprise, The Ringed City is just as ambiguous, just as reluctant to provide answers, as any previous installment in the series. There's an ending, of a sort, but true to form From Software hid it in an area from the previous DLC.
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Is Sekiro and Dark Souls connected?

While Bloodborne is generally thought to share at least a few loose connections to the Souls games, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice seems to be completely divorced from the rest of Form Softwares works. Set in Japan during an established historical era, Sekiro borrows equally from Japanese history and mythology.
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Is ds1 and DS2 connected?

Dark Souls 3 is very much connected to Dark Souls 1. If you're into the lore it's like a direct sequel. Dark Souls 2 is also connected but it's more like expanded universe type lore and takes place in a land across the sea.
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Are Sekiro and Elden Ring connected?

Both games are highly rated and share similarities in being from the same genre, but this connection appears to be a coincidence rather than a direct reference.
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Which is harder Dark Souls 1 2 or 3?

If anything, DSIII is much harder, at least in the back half. The first game front-loads its difficulty, peaking with Ornstein & Smough at approximately the halfway point, and from there it's all downhill- none of the bosses in its latter half are anywhere near as challenging, at least once you figure out their tricks.
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Is Dark Souls 2 hardest game?

I've played Dark Souls 1 and 3, as well as Bloodborne and recently decided to get Dark Souls 2. As the title suggests, this seems to be the hardest DS game I've ever played. Dark souls 3 was pretty easy, Dark souls 1 a bit harder but also not too difficult.
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Why was Dark Souls 2 so different?

Part of the reason that Dark Souls 2 was so radically different from the first game was that they both had different directors. Hidetaka Miyazaki directed both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, and he had felt the desire to move on from the Souls games to pursue more original works.
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Why don't fans like Dark Souls 2?

What makes Dark Souls 2 bad? Here are a few things wrong with Dark Souls 2. Hitboxes - Phantom radiuses and broken hitboxes can be found in any and all Soulsborne games, but Dark Souls 2 is an entirely different level of mechanical deficit.
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Why does Dark Souls 3 ignore Dark Souls 2?

DS3 ignores DS2 because it actually takes place before DS2. Here me out here. We learned in DS2 that both endings in DS1 were canon. If we light the bonfire we only extend the world for a short while (bout 1000 years).
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Is Dark Souls 2 underrated?

Dark Souls II is unlikely to ever be as highly rated as the other FromSoftware games. While it's far from a perfect Souls experience and it's often overshadowed by other titles, it remains the developer's most underrated title and is memorable even in the absence of Hidetaka Miyazaki's direction.
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